Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 347

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347

The Castle of Beginnings’ training ground where almost all students had gathered.

Runia was sitting in the spectator stands of the training ground with her arms crossed, watching the freshmen.

“Runia El Runda.”

At the voice from behind, Runia turned her head, uncrossed her arms, and stood up.

“Senior Marven.”

The one who called Runia was none other than Marven, the 5th year valedictorian and top student of the entire academy.

Runia smiled brightly and spoke as if finding it curious.

“To think you’d show yourself at an official academy event, how unexpected?”

“Even though I’m graduating this year, I’m still curious about what kind of freshman underclassmen have enrolled.”

Marven laughed and pulled over a chair to sit next to Runia.

“How is it? Are there any underclassmen among the freshmen who catch your eye?”

“If we’re talking about the most eye-catching student, it would definitely be that one over there.”

At Marven’s question, Runia pointed to Rea.

“Rea Tingel. She’s certainly the best among this year’s new students.”

Marven rested his chin on his hand.

“She has that diligent honor student image, so she seems like she’d be boring. Just like Hadin’s type.”

Watching Marven make a slightly bored expression, Runia smiled slyly.

“If you actually experience it, she’ll be interesting.”

“Huh?”

“That kid is also secretly not quite right in the head, you know?”

Runia made a troubled expression as she recalled the incident in Leo’s room from before.

“You mean like Senior Riennia?”

“…Saying I’m like Senior Riennia isn’t a compliment, is it?”

“Of course it is.”

“This old man…!”

Marven chuckled.

Runia, who had been getting worked up, sighed and asked.

“What about Senior Evertoon?”

“Our young master was called by the acting principal.”

Marven chuckled as he thought of Evertoon, the 5th year runner-up.

“Since he’s from a prestigious family, the Purebloods are coveting him.”

“Senior Evertoon has tendencies close to the Purebloods, so aren’t you worried about staying close to him?”

When Runia asked cautiously, Marven chuckled.

“It’s true that guy has strong pride as a Seirun student, but his tendencies are a bit different from the Purebloods. He has strong self-respect as a Seirun student, but he’s not the type to blindly think elves are the best.”

‘Isn’t that similar?’

Runia tilted her head.

“Oh right, Senior Marven. The Hero Record of Lord Seirun that was discovered this time, is it really Lord Seirun’s Hero Record?”

“Well, the records were definitely Lord Seirun’s records. But who knows. There are so many fake Hero Records.”

In this mission, Marven had retrieved the Hero Record.

“If the vice principal were here, we could quickly determine its authenticity… but she’s absent at the worst time.”

Seirun’s vice principal, Nergzia, who had actively encouraged Seirun students to conquer the Heroes’ World.

Currently, she was attending the Elf Council for the selection of the next principal.

Thanks to that, she had been away from the academy since the beginning of this semester.

“If the vice principal were here, would the academy have been a little better?”

“Well. The vice principal never participated in academy management or personnel matters. Still, the acting principal and Purebloods wouldn’t have been able to run wild like they do now.”

Marven, who had been clicking his tongue while watching the freshmen, suddenly spotted someone.

“Wait. That freshman…”

Just as Marven narrowed his eyes and made a surprised expression.

“Runia! Runia!”

Someone urgently called Runia’s name.

There, the fraternal twin siblings, Garin and Aris, came running frantically toward Runia.

“Leo Flobe was among the freshmen!”

“How on earth did he come? Could he have secretly infiltrated to find out our Seirun’s secrets?”

“He came as an exchange student.”

“Huh?”

“The Pureblood teachers apparently assigned him to the freshman lower class on their own.”

At Runia’s answer, Aris made an embarrassed expression.

While running to Runia, she had been spouting all sorts of speculative claims to Garin about Leo being a spy who had secretly infiltrated Seirun.

“What spy.”

When Garin looked at his sister with a pathetic expression, Aris flared up.

“You were also intrigued, saying it sounded plausible!”

“I never did that? I figured it out from when you started writing that delusional novel about forbidden love between a Seirun student and a Lumern student…”

“Die!”

Aris earnestly jabbed Garin’s temple with her elbow.

Watching Aris drag away the unconscious Garin, Marven laughed quietly.

“Interesting kids.”

Then he turned his gaze toward Leo.

“I’ve never heard of an exchange student system before, and of all people, Leo Flobe in the freshman lower class… They’re not in their right minds.”

Marven narrowed his eyes and looked at where Seirun’s teachers were gathered.

Watching such a senior, Runia said.

“This test will probably be quite interesting.”

Runia smiled slyly.

“The test will begin shortly.”

Geras, the homeroom teacher of Upper Class 1, bowed his head to acting principal Rhagen and spoke.

Watching such Geras, Rhagen narrowed his eyes.

“The preparations are perfect, right?”

“Of course.”

Geras smiled deeply.

“Looking at the roster, I see the class representative was assigned to the same group as the lower class dropouts. What’s this about?”

“Student Eclaire doesn’t deserve to be in Upper Class 1.”

“Hmm?”

“With the test not far away, she was hanging around with lower class dropouts. I judged it as behavior that lowered the dignity of the upper class, so I assigned her to the same group as the lower class. Well, seeing how she associates with such dropouts, she was probably destined to fall from Upper Class 1 soon anyway.”

Geras clicked his tongue.

“Student Eclaire was excellent at enrollment, but has barely grown since entering. Her mana capacity is almost no different from when she enrolled. Moreover, her spell casting speed is exactly the same as when she enrolled. She’s currently below the upper class average.”

“Hmm.”

“Through this test, it will be clearly determined whether she has the qualifications as a hero candidate and Seirun student or not.”

Rhagen smiled with satisfaction.

“Good, then shall we begin the test?”

“Yes.”

Geras stepped up onto the platform.

– We will now begin the 1st year, 1st semester midterm practical exam. Groups that are called, please come forward.

All the freshmen made tense expressions.

“Upper Class 1’s Yoinya group, please come forward.”

With Geras’s call, a group of 10 people led by a female student from Upper Class 1 came up to the training ground.

– And the lower class’s Berus group.

At that call, Berus made a startled expression.

“Teacher Geras! Why was our group called?”

– Didn’t you hear the announcement?

Geras clicked his tongue.

-This test is a team competition where the side that defeats monsters faster wins?

“What?”

Not only the Lower Class but also the Intermediate Class and Upper Class showed surprised expressions.

The test content had completely changed.

All students had practiced effective tactics, strategies, and teamwork to efficiently hunt monsters.

But if competition was added to that, the story would be completely different.

From the point where they had to defeat monsters faster than their opponents, the strategy would completely change.

The Lower Class students were flustered, but the Upper Class and Intermediate Class students’ eyes lit up.

Especially the students in Yoinya’s group from Upper 1st Class had smiles that almost reached their ears.

If they had to defeat more monsters faster than their opponents…

‘Obviously it’s advantageous to face the Lower Class, who are the weakest, right?’

Seeing the Upper 1st Class students looking at them with gleaming eyes, Berus showed a tense expression.

“Berus, what should we do?”

“Can we really beat Upper 1st Class?”

Seeing his team members with worried expressions, Berus took a deep breath.

“Let’s do our best. You know too. Our skills have improved a lot.”

“Still… our opponents are Upper 1st Class.”

Seeing the Female Student with drooping ears, Berus said.

“We worked hard even risking expulsion. It would be unfair if we shrink back and can’t even show our skills, right?”

Berus showed a determined expression.

“Even if we can’t win, let’s show them that we’re not to be underestimated!”

At that shout, laughter burst out among the 1st year Intermediate Class and Upper Class students.

It was when the Lower Class students were gritting their teeth.

“What nonsense is he spouting right now?”

Leo showed an incredulous expression.

“Don’t you understand Berus’s feelings, Kail? We have to compete with the Upper Class. So Berus is sensing defeat and steeling his heart! Ugh!”

When the Lower Class Male Student showed a frustrated expression, Leo said calmly.

“So why are you sensing defeat?”

“Huh?”

The Male Student showed a blank expression.

“This is perfect.”

Leo smiled broadly.

“We can show the seniors how the Upper Class gets mercilessly crushed by the Lower Class, right?”

***

At opposite ends of the Training Ground.

With the two teams facing each other in their positions.

Whooom-!

A magic circle was created in the center of the Training Ground.

Kigigigigigik-!

At the same time, monsters poured out.

These were monsters that Seirun had captured for the test.

“Hmph, goblins. How simple.”

Yoinya snorted and drew her staff.

Yoinya, who had the most powerful magic power among them, began chanting a spell.

‘A mere goblin horde with one big spell…’

It was when Yoinya was preparing her magic.

Flash! Kwagagagagagagang!

Brilliant magic poured forth.

Seeing that, Yoinya’s face hardened.

“What is this…!”

Yoinya’s eyes widened at the unexpected situation as she turned her head.

“You guys! What are you doing! You’re supposed to be on defense!”

It was none other than Yoinya’s own teammates who had cast attack magic and instantly cleared the goblins.

Yoinya was an orthodox mage who could freely use powerful large-scale magic.

She was renowned among teachers as a promising mage, and in terms of magic power alone, she was outstanding enough to be in the top three of the Upper Class.

She was actually an excellent student who had ranked 4th in the entrance exam.

That’s why she was assigned to attack in this test.

But the nine students on her team who were supposed to handle defense had started wildly casting magic.

At Yoinya’s shout, the Seirun Student using fire magic laughed.

“This test is about defeating monsters faster than the opponent, right? What if those guys finish all the monsters first while you’re chanting?”

“There’s no way those Lower Class kids can handle that many goblins quickly! Stick to the plan!”

When Yoinya shouted angrily, another Female Student giggled.

“That won’t work, don’t you see? Yoinya.”

“What?”

“There’s no way we’d lose to those Lower Class kids anyway, right? This isn’t a fight between the Lower Class kids and us. It’s competition among ourselves.”

Sparks flew in Yoinya’s eyes.

“You’re going to compete with me in magic now? Know your place.”

“Yeah. I acknowledge that you use more powerful magic than us. But… you only know a bunch of high-level attack magic, don’t you?”

“…!”

Since enrollment, Teacher Yotren had made Yoinya study mainly high-level magic.

She was literally trained as a Star Magic user specialized in casting powerful magic.

Of course, Yoinya didn’t not know lower-level attack magic.

But since enrollment, she had never once researched or trained in lower-level attack magic to achieve results.

“You, you guys…”

Yoinya’s shoulders trembled.

And she looked up at the sky.

A scoreboard showing the defeat count was floating above.

Seeing those numbers, Yoinya’s eyes widened greatly.

‘Huh…?’

Only a few minutes had passed since the test started.

Even so, lower-level monsters like goblins posed no threat whatsoever to the 1st years.

Accordingly, over a hundred goblins had been instantly defeated by the Upper Class students.

But what made Yoinya’s eyes widen wasn’t the Upper Class score.

The Lower Class had also defeated goblins at a similar speed to the Upper Class students.

‘No… they’re actually subtly faster?’

It was when Yoinya was looking toward the Lower Class with a flustered face.

Kuooooooo!

A roar echoed.

Before they knew it, an ogre had appeared from the Summoning Circle.

Seeing that, the Upper Class students hesitated.

“Yoinya! It’s an ogre!”

“What do you want me to do about it?”

Yoinya showed a malicious expression.

“What?”

“Handle it yourselves with your amazing magic!”

“Hey! You…!”

“Ugh! You think we can’t do it?”

The Upper Class students got angry.

Saying that, Yoinya looked up at the sky again.

Goblins were one thing, but now that a powerful upper-level monster had appeared, the Lower Class’s momentum would surely falter.

‘…They’re still faster than us!’

Yoinya chanted a spell with an urgent expression.

She realized this wasn’t the time for petty power struggles among themselves.

Yoinya blasted the ogre away with magic.

“You guys! From now on, follow my orders….”

“The ogre is down!”

“Attack!”

“Don’t let Yoinya get the points!”

“I never liked her from the beginning!”

The Upper Class students, fired up with competitive spirit to climb higher, began acting on their own again.

“Listen to me!”

Yoinya clutched her head as she watched them.

***

Runia’s jaw dropped.

Not just Runia.

All of 2nd Year….

No, every grade wore expressions of disbelief.

Everyone fell silent as they watched the exam.

Even the faculty looked at the exam results with stern expressions.

“Hmph.”

Then an irritated sigh escaped.

5th Year Vice-President, Evertoon Revem.

He was a student completely wrapped up in pride and authority as a Seirun student.

Moreover, he was the son of Evratin, the Elf Council Chairman.

He was one of the elves with the highest authority in Elven Society.

As someone who revered Luna and Seirun, he was also a talent the Pureblood Society was targeting.

That’s why he was watching the exam close to Rhagen during this observation.

He spoke coldly.

“Acting Principal.”

Evertoon crossed his legs and rested his chin on his hand.

“You told us to expect the new face of Seirun, so I had expectations about the freshmen’s abilities.”

Evertoon smiled coldly.

“Are these freshmen subpar? Or is the new Seirun system you introduced the problem?”

“Student Evertoon… this is….”

“Not worth watching.”

Just as Evertoon spoke coldly and was about to stand up.

“Oh my, what’s our young master complaining about now?”

A hand suddenly shot out and pressed down on Evertoon’s shoulder.

“Get off me, Marven.”

Evertoon glared irritably at Marven, who had forcibly made him sit down.

Watching Evertoon, Runia, who had followed Marven, said.

“Senior Evertoon, watch until the end. The really interesting part is just beginning.”

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