Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 310

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310

Everyone looked at Tina with shocked faces.

Tina yawned lazily and scratched her left calf with the tip of her right foot.

With both hands shoved into her robe pockets and a listless expression, Tina was certainly different from ordinary elves.

“She seems like a strange person?”

Cal whispered toward Leo.

“She’s definitely an oddball.”

Leo, resting his chin on his hand, said indifferently.

“For someone like that, you don’t seem very surprised though?”

At Cal’s question, Leo chuckled.

“I’ve seen so many strange elves that I’m used to it.”

“True. Runia and Eiran are also far from the typical elf image.”

“What’s your idea of a typical elf image?”

“Hmm… Luna, Progenitor of the Starry Skies? Someone who seems benevolent and seeks harmony? How should I put it. Pure and noble too.”

“…”

Leo made a peculiar expression.

Benevolence, harmony, and purity.

‘Those are the most unsuitable descriptors for Luna. When will her true nature be exposed to the world?’

“By the way, why would someone from the Tingel family come to Lumern as a visiting professor?”

Chloe tilted her head and expressed her doubt.

The Tingel family.

The family of Seirun, the Comet Mage.

Not only are they considered the best among elves, but they’re also recognized by other races as the strongest family among all magic-related renowned hero families across all species.

It was surprising that someone from such a Tingel family came to Lumern instead of Seirun as a visiting professor.

Moreover, recently between Seirun and Lumern.

More precisely, the relationship between human magic academia and elven magic academia was very poor due to the paper “Introduction to Star Magic” that Ren published.

It was certainly unexpected that Ren, the very person who wrote that paper, had invited Professor Tina.

While Cal was also crossing his arms and pondering Chloe’s words.

“It seems there are several students curious about why I came to Lumern as a visiting professor.”

At Tina’s words, several students made awkward expressions.

Looking at such students, Tina spoke calmly.

“Don’t think it’s so strange. I’m a direct descendant of the Tingel family.”

At Tina’s words, the students’ gazes became even more peculiar.

If she was a direct descendant, it made even less sense for her to come to Lumern as a visiting professor.

“I see.”

However, Avad nodded as if he understood.

“What is it, brother?”

Chelsea tilted her head curiously from beside him.

“If she’s a direct descendant of the Tingel family, she should be famous. But have you ever heard of the name Tina Tingel?”

Chelsea, who had been pondering while looking at Avad asking with his characteristic gentle smile, shook her head.

Her distinctive light blue hair swayed.

“There must be a reason why she couldn’t make a name for herself as a direct descendant, right? Especially if Professor Ren said she’s the top expert in magical engineering, she must be someone with incredible abilities.”

“Ah.”

Chelsea exclaimed as if she had realized something.

The Lumern students also began to understand the hidden meaning in Tina’s words.

Seeing this, Tina nodded.

“The Lumern kids are smart. I spoke somewhat like a riddle, but I see you’ve reached the conclusion.”

“Heh, I taught them to develop broad thinking as mages. Reasoning is the most important element in magical theory.”

“Professor Ren. This doesn’t seem like the time to boast.”

Anna sighed deeply, but Tina nodded as if she didn’t mind.

“That does seem to be the case. Kids these days are too accustomed to activation formulas and tend to be weak at reasoning.”

Tina looked directly at the Lumern students with her bored golden eyes.

“As you all expected. I’m a member of the Tingel family, but external activities aren’t permitted for me. I can’t even work in the magic academia.”

The students began glancing at each other.

Unconcerned by the students’ reactions, Tina continued.

“I was born unable to use mana. In other words, I’m not a mage as a practitioner.”

“It’s true that Tina can’t use magic. But I don’t doubt for a moment that she’s a mage.”

Ren grinned widely.

“Speaking of Tina, she’s written incredible magical papers in all sorts of magical engineering! The most representative one is creating the [Human Body Magic Activation Inscription Technique]! This magical technique greatly helped with [Introduction to Star Magic] too!”

At Ren’s explanation, Chloe’s eyes widened.

“[Human Body Magic Activation Inscription Technique] is a paper written by a mage named Depoi.”

“Depoi is my pen name.”

Chloe didn’t know what to do.

“Why is she suddenly acting like this?”

“Oh my! It’s Depoi! Depoi! What should I do!”

Cal looked puzzled as he watched Chloe blushing like a girl in love.

“She’s an author who wrote many magical papers that Chloe likes.”

“Ah.”

At Leo’s answer, Cal nodded.

“One of her representative works was [Philosophical Considerations on Why Ice Mages Should Learn Ice Magic], right?”

“That’s right.”

“What kind of book title is that? Just hearing it makes me think it would be strange and headache-inducing.”

Cal made a disgusted expression.

In fact, most of the magic books Chloe read were difficult for Cal.

It was a difficult book not just for Cal, but for more than half of the 2nd year Magic Studies Department students.

Chloe wasn’t the only one excited upon hearing about Depoi.

Several students showed excited reactions.

“Professor Ren.”

“What is it, Cal.”

“How did you get to know someone who works under a pen name?”

Looking at Cal who raised his hand to ask, Ren chuckled.

“I’ve been impressed by Tina’s magical papers for a long time and always wanted to meet her. But I could never see her face in academia, so I wrote letters earnestly.”

Ren’s passion for magic was already famous among the students.

Hearing Ren’s words, Chloe was impressed.

“Tina must have been moved by that sincerity!”

“No. Since she kept ignoring the letters, Professor Ren was about to use tracking magic on them.”

Tina looked at Ren with an expressionless face.

“I thought if I left it alone, he would really find my location and come barging in, so I obediently met with him. After meeting and talking directly, he seemed like an interesting person, so I agreed to the invitation.”

Everyone looked at Ren with strange eyes.

Anna grabbed her head and shook it back and forth.

While all the students were making peculiar expressions, Tina spoke.

“I’ll be staying at Lumern for a while at Professor Ren’s invitation. And I plan to teach you about ‘Magical Engineering.’ Your exam assignment will be creating a familiar.”

Tina walked to the center of the lecture hall.

“Anyone want to present about familiars?”

At those words, several students raised their hands.

Tina looked around the students with an expressionless face and pointed to Emio sitting in the very back row.

“You there.”

“My name is Emio Ruchan.”

Emio, who ranked 5th in the 2nd year Magic Studies Department, stood up from his seat.

“Right. Explain about familiars.”

“Familiars are traditional assistants to mages. They receive a mage’s mana and help in combat.”

“That’s right.”

“However, it’s also a field that has now reached the stage of being nearly obsolete.”

Emio continued speaking without finishing his sentence.

Most of the Magic Studies Department students nodded as if agreeing with his words.

“The origin of familiars lies in the summoning arts of summoners. Strictly speaking, familiars are also included in the concept of summoned creatures in a broad sense. However, mages cannot form contracts with spirits and magical beasts. That’s why familiars are basically summoned creatures that rank far below spirits and magical beasts.”

Many students showed slightly bewildered expressions at Emio’s words.

Because they anticipated his next words.

“So I cannot hide my doubts about the fact that familiars are the subject of this midterm exam assignment. I would like to hear an explanation from Professor Ren about why it’s familiars.”

At Emio’s complaint-filled words, Ren smiled slightly.

“I can fully understand student Emio’s words. Familiars are certainly in a declining situation.”

Ren nodded his head.

“In the past, familiars were used to buy even a moment’s time to cast magic. But as time passed and magical formulas advanced, casting time also gradually decreased. In recent decades, there have even been research results showing that using attack magic with the mana required to use familiars is more advantageous in combat. The scope of familiar usage was limited to guardians or communication purposes. That was the trend in the magic community, and I thought so too.”

Ren smiled meaningfully.

“But after seeing Tina’s research lab, the story changed a bit. I came to think that familiars will soon become mainstream in magical academia again.”

Familiars being pushed out of magic’s mainstream was already something that happened hundreds of years ago.

At the words that such familiars might become mainstream again, the students’ eyes widened.

“Visiting Professor Tina will explain about that!”

At Ren’s words, Tina scratched her bottom and said.

“Emio… was it? You’re from a military family?”

“Don’t you know when you hear the name Ruchan Family?”

“No. I don’t know. If we’re going by that logic, I’m Tingel, though only in name. There’s no need to specifically remember the names of other families, especially those of other races.”

Watching Tina speak curtly, Emio’s face slightly contorted.

“Military mages like uselessly practical things. There’s also a strong tendency to consider recent magical trends as the best. There’s also a strong tendency to prioritize combat over research. Well, I understand since they’re soldiers.”

Tina spoke matter-of-factly.

“Fine. Then you’ll realize how useful familiars are in actual combat when you see it.”

Tina pointed outside with her finger.

“Shall we go out?”

***

The Magical Experiment Chamber in the Magic Classroom.

Tina stood in the center of it.

Watching such Tina, Emio asked.

“Should I fight?”

At those provocative words, Tina made an indifferent expression.

“No, I’d prefer a student who can make various attacks if possible.”

Tina smiled slightly for the first time.

“For instance, an All-Class.”

At those words, everyone’s gaze turned to Leo.

Leo stood in the center of the Magical Experiment Chamber.

“If I’m acceptable.”

“Yeah.”

Tina looked at Leo with interested eyes.

Life returned to her previously dull and hazy gaze.

Seeing those eyes, Leo was reminded of Luna.

‘It’s the same look she had when she first saw me.’

Eyes full of curiosity, saying it was the first time seeing an All-Class.

Recalling those eyes, Leo waited for Tina to summon her familiar.

After a moment.

Tina extended her hand.

Seep seep- Splash-!

Blue liquid flowed out from Tina’s upper body and fell to the ground.

And it began to clump together.

The students who saw this made bewildered expressions.

“What? That’s just a slime?”

“Is she trying to fight Leo with a slime?”

“I thought it would be some kind of special familiar.”

Slime.

An artificial life form made through alchemy, it was one of the most common familiars among mages.

Voices filled with disappointment here and there.

However, Leo narrowed his eyes upon seeing the slime.

‘What is this heavily modified slime?’

Leo quickly counted the number of magical formulas embedded in the slime’s core.

‘What exactly is the mana source that can activate that many magical formulas at once?’

The magical formulas typically used in slimes numbered at most five.

But the magical formulas used in this slime numbered around a hundred.

It was when Leo was looking at the familiar with interested eyes.

Seep seep-

The slime began to clump together into one mass and soon took on a specific form.

Seeing this, Leo narrowed his eyes.

‘An elf?’

What took shape was an elven mage around Leo’s age.

Then Chloe made a surprised expression.

“The Comet Mage?”

At those words, Leo narrowed his eyes and looked at the slime.

‘It looks exactly the same.’

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