Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 329

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329

“Dara who surpassed her limits and accomplished the impossible…”

Leo said while looking at Chelsea who was staring straight at him.

“You know that’s not as easy as it sounds, right? Chelsea.”

Leo burst into laughter.

It was different from his usual gentle smile.

A sharp laugh.

An absolute atmosphere that overwhelmed everything.

Just facing it made one’s hair stand on end.

However.

‘I can’t just keep acting spoiled!’

She resolved not to give up in order to be recognized as a comrade.

As if trying to tear herself away from it.

She had made up her mind to chase after Leo who was running so far ahead.

Whoooooo-!

Wind blew around Chelsea.

Leo, who had been watching Chelsea armed with wind, tightened his grip on the reins.

Crackle-!

Ati reared up while emitting massive lightning bolts, then charged toward Chelsea.

Embroidering white flashes across the sky, Leo instantly closed the distance with Chelsea.

Chelsea aimed her staff at Leo.

“Wind Sickle!”

As Chelsea released her spell, countless wind scythes struck at Leo.

Crash-!

Leo controlled Ati to easily dodge hundreds of wind scythes.

Leo’s evasive maneuvers, seasoned in pegasus control, were at a nearly divine level.

Seeing this, Chelsea gripped her staff tightly.

‘I already expected this much.’

No matter how much Chelsea unleashed magic, subduing Leo would be difficult.

Her opponent was Leo Flobe.

The possessor of overwhelming force.

Chelsea chanted a spell.

Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh-!

Chelsea’s body multiplied into several copies.

‘Wind Clone.’

Magic that creates clones using one’s main attribute.

Among the 2nd Years, the student best at clone magic was Chloe, and Chelsea was right after her.

Ten Chelseas charged at Leo all at once.

Leo’s eyes narrowed.

‘Her clone magic level has improved even more.’

Leo was also aware of Chelsea’s specialty magic.

Using clones to shake opponents in close combat was Chelsea’s main forte.

‘I can’t distinguish real from fake through mana flow.’

The magic had become even more refined.

Leo glanced at the Chelseas.

“Wind Boom!”

As Chelsea’s spell completed, ten magic attacks flew toward Leo.

Leo’s red eyes flashed for a moment.

Whoosh-!

Just before reaching Leo, Chelsea’s magic transformed into a gentle breeze.

He hadn’t blocked it nor dodged it.

He had nullified the magic itself.

Chelsea’s specialty was high-speed casting.

The advantage of high-speed casting that completes magic at tremendous speed was naturally the quick completion of spells.

But proportionally, the disadvantages were also clear.

Namely, that the magic formulas used were simple.

Of course, even so, they weren’t simple enough to analyze and nullify in an instant.

Especially for a mage of Chelsea’s level, even formulas used in high-speed casting were complex.

‘But my opponent is Leo.’

Chelsea gritted her teeth.

In combat, their ‘capabilities’ as mages were fundamentally different.

She knew that fact.

Flash-! Crash-!

Leo charged toward Chelsea while emitting white lightning.

Chelsea took a deep breath, widened her eyes, and scattered her clones.

“Wind Chain.”

Clank-!

Wind chains extending from Chelsea’s staff wrapped around Leo’s body.

Leo, with his body restrained, looked at Chelsea.

Chelsea’s role wasn’t to defeat Leo.

It was merely to hold him until Woreden’s attack preparations were complete.

She just needed to delay Leo a little.

So this time-stalling approach wasn’t a bad choice.

“If it were a normal case, that is.”

Clank-! Snap-!

Leo forcibly broke free from the Wind Chain that had been restraining his left arm.

Then he grabbed the Wind Chain and pulled one of Chelsea’s clones toward him.

Whoosh-!

Chelsea’s clone, dragged by Leo’s brutal strength, flailed in midair.

Pop-!

When Leo swung his hand, the clone exploded like a balloon and disappeared without a trace.

Leo’s emotionless eyes turned precisely toward one among the nine remaining Chelseas.

‘I’m caught!’

Chelsea’s complexion changed.

“No matter how perfect the clones are, finding the real one is surprisingly easy.”

Grip! Whoosh-!

Leo grabbed Chelsea’s Wind Chain and pulled it straight toward him.

Chelsea was instantly dragged over by the tremendous force.

Grab-!

“Gah!”

Leo’s hand seized Chelsea’s nape.

“You can tell by watching the movements.”

Squeeze-!

“Urgh!”

Leo applied pressure to the hand gripping Chelsea’s neck.

Chelsea made a pained expression as her neck was choked.

“It’s over.”

Looking at Leo who spoke matter-of-factly, Chelsea curled up the corners of her mouth.

“Hah, hmph! Did you think I’d give up… that easily?”

Whooom-!

Magic formulas appeared all over Chelsea’s body.

Leo’s eyes twitched at the sight.

Powerful mana swirled violently.

‘Self-destruction?’

“Only you will receive a death judgment and that’ll be the end, won’t it?”

“Isn’t it natural that I have to make this kind of gamble against Leo?”

Chelsea grinned wickedly.

Somehow, he thought her smile resembled his own.

Looking at such Chelsea, Leo said.

“Excellent.”

Flash-! Boom-!

Leo was swept up in the flash that burst from Chelsea’s body.

An explosion that burned up mana in an instant.

Leo felt his head spinning from the powerful explosion that occurred at close range.

The bracelet indicating life glowed orange.

Leo looked at Chelsea falling to the ground.

‘I barely avoided a death judgment.’

A magic that burns up all mana to cause a magical explosion.

Though it’s a risky magic, it’s the most certain method Chelsea could use to deal damage to Leo.

Leo raised his head.

Rumble-!

The massive earth summoned by Woreden instantly covered Leo.

Whoosh-!

Avad, who had released his wind magic, descended urgently to save Chelsea.

Splash-!

Eliza’s Delpinus spread a water barrier to block Leo’s escape.

The ‘one shot’ they had prepared while struggling somehow struck Leo.

“Why do these kids grow so fast?”

Leo burst into laughter.

Just a year ago, they were green rookies.

‘Well, they’re still rookies now… but.’

In just one year, they had grown enough to face trials with dignity.

Today would have been the worst for them.

Leo’s classmates are different from Leo.

Himself, who had experienced endless trials and countless despairs, lost everything, and barely managed to defeat Erebos.

And these young boys and girls in their mid-to-late teens who haven’t even bloomed yet.

‘The starting line was different from the beginning.’

For Leo’s classmates, Leo was an insurmountable wall.

That’s why he had been considerate until now.

But…

‘There are things you can only learn by falling down or bowing your head.’

People call that trials.

‘The way to stand up and raise your head… can only be learned by falling down and bowing your head.’

Leo thought it would take them more time to stand up.

The difference Leo had shown was at a despairing level.

But they overcame it in the blink of an eye.

Whether it was the fearless spirit typical of teenagers.

Or simply childish rebelliousness, he couldn’t tell.

But more than Leo thought.

His classmates were strong and knew well how to fight against trials.

Looking at the earth that had reached right before him, Leo muttered.

“…I have no intention of falling down gracefully though.”

Crash-!

The earth struck Leo.

***

“Cl, Class president…”

Iliana collapsed with a thud.

The other Glory students were the same.

The Harmony and Noble students, who had been swept up by the tsunami and put in a position of being attacked instead, clenched their fists and let out cheers.

“It, it’s over!”

“This means Glory is finished, right? Right!”

“Wooooo!”

Selia and Duran also stopped fighting.

Chloe sighed and Chen Xia smiled slightly.

Splash-!

The water of Lake Lumeria, which had been under Leo’s control, slowly drained away.

It wasn’t at the level of a landslide.

An attack as if an entire mountain had struck.

“It’s not even Mountain Attack, what the.”

Cal, who had planned the strategy, made a disgusted expression.

“It was a good strategy.”

Avad, supporting the unconscious Chelsea, came before Cal with his characteristic smile.

“Ahem! If we give Chelsea a death judgment at this opportunity, does our dormitory win?”

“That’s true, but… Duran and Eliza won’t forgive you, will they?”

“I’m joking. Chelsea and Selia would try to kill me too, right? What’s the point of winning the exam if I die?”

Cal collapsed onto the spot with a thud.

“My legs are all weak.”

Woreden and Eliza also approached Cal.

“Really… we barely won with almost half luck. It was only because Leo insisted on a frontal battle to completely crush us with force.”

At Cal’s words, Woreden looked at the place where Leo was buried.

“…There won’t be such a thing next time. Win or lose, I’ll face him alone.”

“Hmph, I agree.”

“Hey, it was excellent teamwork, but you’re being too harsh!”

Cal made his characteristic cheeky smile.

But Woreden used wind spirits to snatch Chelsea from Avad.

Avad and Eliza protected Cal.

“Now that we’ve defeated Leo Flobe, you’re next.”

“Hmph. Since we’ve defeated Leo Flobe, there’s no reason to cooperate with you.”

Woreden and Eliza said simultaneously.

At those words, Cal muttered.

“…I was deliberately not saying that.”

“What?”

When Avad asked with a puzzled face, Cal said.

“You know, there’s that thing in novels? When you say you’ve defeated them, the enemy always doesn’t fall…”

Rumble-

“…and appears again…”

Rumble! Crash-!

The earth that had struck Leo shot up.

And Leo revealed himself above it.

Cal’s face turned white at the sight of Leo emerging from the pile of stones with a cold smile.

Woreden, Avad, and Eliza instinctively took combat stances.

But seeing Leo appear with such murderous intent, they couldn’t help but show expressions of being overwhelmed.

“Good? So, is there anything more?”

Leo smiled and raised his hand.

Whoooosh—!

He unleashed tremendous flames.

But this was his limit.

Woreden, Avad, and Eliza—all three had squeezed out all their strength in their previous attack.

Leo’s bracelet indicating his life was also glowing red.

However, the three of them now had no strength left to protect the unconscious Chelsea and Cal, who had low combat ability, from Leo’s flames.

Swish— Leo looked at his friends coldly and spoke.

“If there’s nothing more, shall we end this?”

At that thrilling sight, Cal muttered in a voice filled with despair.

“…At that level… he’s practically a demon lord.”

KRAAAAAAASH—!

Leo’s flames covered everything around them.

***

Chelsea opened her eyes.

‘The infirmary…?’

Chelsea blinked her eyes, then suddenly shot up.

“The competition! Aghhhhhhh?!”

Chelsea, who had been shouting urgently, screamed as pain engulfed her entire body.

“Are you awake now?”

Selia, whose eyes were slightly red, asked.

Chelsea urgently asked her.

“What happened to the competition?”

“…”

Selia let out a small sigh and turned on the magical communication device installed in the infirmary.

Wooong—!

—Now then, we will have the MVP award ceremony for this dormitory competition. The award will be presented directly by Professor Sedjen, the supervising professor for 2nd Year students, who will present the plaque and trophy. MVP, student Leo Flobe, please come forward.

Along with Runba’s words, Leo could be seen walking up to the platform.

—Congratulations on your victory in the competition.

—Thank you.

“…We lost.”

Chelsea smiled bitterly.

Seeing this, Selia got up from her seat.

“Now that I’ve confirmed you’re awake, I’ll be going back.”

“Yeah.”

Chelsea answered without taking her eyes off the screen.

After Selia left the room, Chelsea clenched her fists tightly.

Whenever she saw Leo’s achievements, she was always happy as if they were her own.

But today…

Even though she did her best, she couldn’t win.

She knew the gap between her and Leo.

Even so…

‘It’s frustrating.’

Chelsea hung her head, gritted her teeth, and held back her tears.

In the corridor, Selia slapped her own cheek.

‘Don’t cry. Crying won’t change anything.’

Selia took a deep breath and straightened her back.

Now was the time to congratulate Leo, her cousin, as a direct descendant of Jerdinger.

Noble Dormitory.

“Du, Duran. I told you not to overdo it, so why are you like this?”

“Shut up.”

Duran was training his physical strength in the training room.

He answered coldly to the dissuading words of his fellow dormitory student.

“Avad~ There’s a party today, aren’t you going to prepare? You’ve been reading magic books since earlier. I know losing is frustrating… but the exam is over, so we should have fun.”

The Noble female students whined while looking at Avad, who was reading magic books in Noble’s library, but Avad only showed his characteristic smile.

Eliza was at the top of the Noble Dormitory with her eyes closed, refining her spiritual power.

Woreden was communing with spirits at Harmony Dormitory.

Central Lumern.

Standing on the rooftop of the Tower of Heroes, Mel looked down at the scenery of Lumern, now dyed in twilight as the sun had set.

“You wanted an indomitable hero who could stand up even when frustrated… fallen… and hitting their limits, didn’t you?”

The great hero who blamed himself for not being able to stand up.

He wanted students to walk a different path from his own.

That’s why he left the words ‘surpass your limits’ for future generations.

“Your will is still being passed down well to future generations. So please hang in there a little longer.”

Mel clenched her fists tightly while looking at Lumern dyed in twilight.

“The person you admired… will save you.”

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