Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 308

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308

The 2nd year students murmured at the mention of mock combat.

“A large-scale mock battle between dormitories?”

“So you’re saying the entire dormitory will participate in the mock battle?”

Literally a massive-scale fight with all 2nd year students participating.

“Quiet.”

With that single brief word, all the 2nd year students closed their mouths and focused on Hallind.

“This practical exam is to evaluate your capabilities in large-scale interpersonal combat.”

Hallind’s cold gaze turned toward the students.

“During your 1st year, you studied and trained for one-on-one duels, or battles against multiple monsters, magical beasts, and demons.”

The students nodded at those words.

“From 2nd year onward, you need to learn about combat against multiple humans or other races.”

Most students looked puzzled at Hallind’s words.

Chelsea raised her hand high.

“What is it, Chelsea Rwallin.”

“Is there a reason to make distinctions when it’s the same combat?”

At those words, Hallind looked around at the students with an expressionless face.

Most students seemed to agree with Chelsea’s opinion.

“Is there a student who can answer Chelsea’s question?”

Several students raised their hands at that response.

“Emio Ruchan, answer.”

Hallind gave the floor to Emio, who had raised his hand first.

“Large-scale interpersonal combat has different strategies and tactics altogether. Unlike monsters and magical beasts that tend to move extremely simply, and demons who are threatening by their very existence, large-scale interpersonal combat often involves units that have received advanced training. If you carelessly think of them as monsters or magical beasts, you might fall into traps due to the enemy’s strategies.”

Hallind nodded at Emio’s words.

“Excellent. I’ll give you 5 points for participation.”

“Thank you.”

Emio, who had bowed his head, looked at Chelsea with a smug expression.

Seeing such an Emio, Chelsea stuck out her tongue as if annoyed.

Emio, whose family was from a military background, had received military training since childhood.

That’s why he knew how fundamentally different combat against humans was from facing monsters, magical beasts, and demons.

“Is there anyone else who can present the differences?”

At Hallind’s question, the students looked at each other.

In the midst of this, Chen Xia raised her hand.

“Chen Xia, answer.”

“Whatever the reason, the difference would be that in actual combat, you have to take many people’s lives.”

Unlike usual, Chen Xia’s face was extremely expressionless.

Seeing such a Chen Xia, the surrounding students flinched.

No matter how much they were Hero Candidates, they were still boys and girls in their mid-teens.

They were far too young to grasp the weight of the act of killing people.

Everyone swallowed their saliva nervously.

“5 participation points.”

Chen Xia didn’t respond and lowered her hand.

“The greatest enemy of heroes is Tartaros. That’s like an immutable truth that never changes.”

Hallind looked at the students.

“But in the distant future, due to individual circumstances, there may come a day when you point weapons at each other and meet on the battlefield.”

Though they gathered and studied together under the name of Hero Academy Lumern.

Most Hero Candidates had their own affiliations and the interests that came with them were intertwined.

This was a place where talented individuals from all countries around the world gathered.

As such, there were many students here whose countries were in hostile relationships with each other.

The atmosphere among the students grew heavy.

“But remember this one thing. The large-scale interpersonal combat exam isn’t designed with such wars in mind.”

Hallind took a deep breath.

“It’s preparation for battles against Hero Hunters that you’ll face someday. Never forget that fact.”

“Yes!”

Hallind nodded at his students’ resounding response and said.

“Then I’ll explain the rules for this exam.”

Hallind snapped his fingers.

Then a screen was created in the void with magic.

“The battlefield for this exam is Lake Lumeria.”

The students’ eyes lit up as they looked at the scenery of Lake Lumeria.

“And each dormitory will be given a stronghold.”

Snap! When he snapped his fingers, three islands revealed themselves.

“Ooh! This is getting serious!”

“They said it was mock combat, but they’re even giving us strongholds.”

They burst into exclamations.

The other students also showed excited and joyful reactions.

“This looks fun!”

Cal burst into an exclamation.

Hallind’s cold gaze turned toward such a Cal.

“Cal Thomas.”

“Y-yes?”

“Chelsea Rwallin.”

“Yes?”

“Come forward.”

Cal, who thought he was going to get in trouble for calling the exam ‘fun,’ felt relieved inside when he was called forward together with Chelsea.

Hallind handed Cal a bracelet.

“This is a magical artifact that protects your body. Wear it.”

At Hallind’s words, Cal wore the bracelet without suspicion.

Then the bracelet glowed green.

“Ooh?”

While Cal was admiring it.

“Chelsea Rwallin.”

“Yes.”

“Attack Cal Thomas with magic.”

“Wind Storm.”

Kwaaaaaaaaa!

“Gyaaaaaaaah?!”

Chelsea blew Cal away without hesitation using her specialty high-speed casting.

Cal, who was miserably blown away and crashed into the ground, twitched and trembled.

Everyone looked at Cal with pitying gazes.

A moment later.

“Wait! Wait! Even so, how can you suddenly blow me away like that!”

“It was Professor Hallind’s order.”

“There are weak spells like Magic Arrow too!”

“Since it was an experiment, I thought a strong spell would be needed. Looking at you, it doesn’t seem to hurt?”

“It does hurt! It hurt a lot! I’m just not injured!”

At Cal’s protest, Chelsea gave a fresh and cute smile.

Hallind pointed to Cal’s wrist.

“Everyone look at Cal Thomas’s wrist. It’s glowing red, right?”

Not only that, but the bracelet’s light, which had been glowing entirely green, was now off except for the upper part.

“Red light means critical condition. This bracelet is a protective artifact that safeguards you while also displaying your life. When the bracelet’s light disappears, you’re treated as ‘dead.’ Of course, you won’t actually get hurt, but it won’t completely block out pain.”

All the students nodded.

“Is it over once we exhaust all our life?”

When Chloe raised her hand and asked, Hallind shook his head.

“No. Once all life is exhausted, you’ll respawn at the stronghold after 5 minutes, and the respawned student can rejoin the battle.”

“Ooh…!”

“However. The opposing side will be awarded 5 points for suppression.”

“Ohhh.”

“Additionally, you can create a forward base and install a Warp Gate connected to your stronghold to quickly rejoin the battlefield. If this forward base is destroyed, the team that destroys it receives 20 points.”

“Is it possible to capture the enemy stronghold?”

At Selia’s question, Hallind nodded.

“That’s right. If you capture and seize a stronghold, you’ll be awarded 300 points. And the team whose stronghold is captured can no longer respawn. It’s over if they’re wiped out. Of course, you can also recapture a seized stronghold.”

Everyone wore tense expressions at those words.

“So ultimately, the team that acquires the most points wins.”

“That’s correct, Avad Rwallin.”

At Hallind’s answer, commotion arose among the students.

“Awesome! Awesome!”

“This exam sounds like it’ll be fun!”

“We can plan various strategies!”

Watching such students, Hallind spoke.

“Besides accumulating points, there are other victory conditions.”

At Hallind’s words, the students urgently focused their attention.

“If each dormitory’s king is captured, that dormitory is immediately eliminated.”

Everyone’s eyes widened.

“Naturally, the king cannot respawn.”

***

Glory Dormitory Lounge.

“Everyone gather quickly!”

“No one’s missing, right?”

All the dormitory students assembled in the lounge.

With all the Glory House Students gathered, Chloe was reading a thick book in one corner.

“What are you reading?”

When Retdam, a Male Student from Glory’s Summoning Department, asked with a puzzled expression, Chloe smiled and answered.

“A tactical theory book.”

In the midst of this, Leo spoke.

“Now let’s begin the strategy meeting.”

At Leo’s words, Chloe closed her book.

“Before that, I’m thinking of selecting a staff officer to plan strategies.”

At those words, Iliana raised her hand.

“Me! Me! Class president! I’ll do it!”

Watching such Iliana, opposition erupted from here and there.

“Hey! If you plan strategies, you’ll only come up with charge tactics!”

“A guy who’s a charging idiot even in 1-on-1 combat wants to be staff officer!”

At the dormitory students’ opposition, Iliana crossed her arms and lifted her chin.

“Hmph! You seem to have forgotten I’m from the Raden Family! Our Family is a war hero family! We even have family mottos related to war!”

“What’s the family motto?”

At Retdam’s question, Iliana laughed haughtily.

“Overwhelming initial strike with superior force.”

“Sounds like you’d crush our own allies in the initial strike.”

The reaction from dormitory classmates was cold.

“I think Chloe would be good as staff officer.”

“Right! Chloe is good at planning strategies and tactics!”

“She’s also a chess master!”

Chloe nodded.

“Then. I’ll do it.”

“Then I’ll be deputy staff officer!”

“Rejected.”

“Class president! The kids are ignoring me!”

Iliana made a tearful face as she complained to Leo.

Chloe, who had become the staff officer, spoke.

“First, I think we need to decide on the king before planning strategies.”

At those words, all the students wore tense expressions.

“Who would be good as king? Anyone who wants to do it?”

At Chloe’s question, everyone looked around cautiously.

Even Iliana, who liked to step forward, seriously pondered this time.

King.

This was the biggest variable in this fight.

Even if you capture the enemy stronghold or accumulate suppression points through overwhelming combat, you lose if the king dies.

Therefore, it was best for the king to be as strong as possible.

But conversely, making the dormitory’s greatest fighting force the ‘king’ was also problematic.

Large-scale battles have many variables.

No matter how strong, you could lose all your life and be eliminated the moment you let your guard down.

Therefore, once you become king, it’s best not to leave the safe stronghold.

“This is more troublesome than expected.”

The Glory Dormitory students shook their heads.

“Since it’s such an important position where you absolutely cannot die, it’s good to have a strong person do it, but then our fighting power decreases.”

“But if we assign it to someone suitable for stronghold defense, that’s also worrying.”

“We can’t even carelessly engage in stronghold defense. We might need to run away if things go wrong.”

It was when everyone was pondering.

“If there are no volunteers, there’s someone I’d like to recommend.”

Everyone looked at Chloe.

Looking at her dormitory classmates, Chloe spoke.

“I think Leo is suitable as king.”

At those words, everyone’s eyes widened.

“Isn’t it too wasteful to make Leo king? He’s our greatest fighting force.”

At Retdam’s words, the students nodded.

Watching such students, Chloe spoke.

“The other dormitory kids won’t know Leo is the king anyway.”

That was true.

The king’s identity is kept ‘secret’ from other dormitory students.

Chloe curled up the corners of her mouth.

“We’ll use that to our advantage.”

“What?”

“Leo is our most powerful fighting force. Because of that, the other dormitory kids will think there’s little chance he’d be king.”

“Certainly.”

Leo stroked his chin.

“You’re saying I should become king and intercept enemies.”

“Yeah. That’s right.”

Chloe nodded.

“Rather, most kids will avoid fighting Leo. To avoid giving suppression points to Leo.”

“So you’re saying that if we make Leo the King and send him to the front lines, the enemies will actually be cautious and it’ll be safer.”

Chen Xia expressed her admiration.

“Of course, there are variables here too. Woreden, Duran, and Eliza will target Leo.”

Chloe’s eyes gleamed.

“But with Leo’s abilities, he can definitely hold off those three. Those three won’t join forces.”

The reason Woreden, Duran, and Eliza target Leo is because Leo is their goal.

That’s why joining forces was something their pride wouldn’t allow.

“In the case of Selia, Avad, and Chelsea, they’ll weigh the pros and cons and avoid fighting Leo.”

In the end, it meant hiding the most important person in the most dangerous place.

“But wouldn’t that be too dangerous?”

When Iliana spoke worriedly, Chloe nodded.

“It’s definitely dangerous. But.”

Looking at Leo, Chloe smiled slyly.

“The moment the opponents think there’s no way we’d use our strongest card like that, this mock battle will become tremendously advantageous for us.”

The Glory House Students looked at Chloe.

Her giggling appearance reminded them of a dangerous witch from a fairy tale.

“So? What will you do?”

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