Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 393
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393.
Risinass was walking through the study.
Then he heard an unfamiliar voice.
“The final expedition is about to begin soon.”
Enchanted by the woman’s voice he was hearing for the first time, he headed toward where the voice was coming from.
And at the place he arrived, he saw the figure of an elven woman.
Light silver hair and golden eyes.
She was more beautiful than any woman Risinass had ever met.
Shadows were cast across her face.
“Can we pull it off?”
Her face, with ears drooping as if worried, was filled with anxiety.
The moment he thought that appearance seemed somehow familiar.
“It’s natural for you to worry.”
“Huh?”
At the voice that followed, Risinass unconsciously let out an exclamation.
“But we’re the only ones who can do it.”
The owner of the voice comforted the elven woman with a gentle voice.
“I believe in you, who overcame all the things that were close to impossible.”
The dark-haired woman was smiling more trustworthily than anyone.
“Believe in us, who have shared that great journey together.”
She spoke with a tone full of conviction.
“We will subjugate the primordial evil and surely save the world.”
Risinass opened his eyes wide.
“Me?”
***
The desperate night passed.
An ominous dawn was breaking.
Risinass opened his eyes.
‘A dream?’
It was a vivid dream that remained strongly etched in his mind.
‘What kind of dream was that?’
He got up from his spot while recalling the elf he had seen in the dream.
‘She was a woman I’d never seen before.’
It wasn’t something that had happened in the past.
‘A prophetic dream?’
He had that thought but soon shook his head.
Among those with special mana characteristics, there are some who foresee future events.
The most representative form among them is prophetic dreams that appear in dream form.
Risinass also possessed special mana characteristics, but not the ability to see the future.
‘Through spiritualism, I see things that have already happened in the past.’
He was born with the talent of a spiritualist, which only a very few among those with summoning talent possess.
Spirits come in various forms.
But the essence is one.
‘Fragments of memory that mana possesses.’
The stronger the soul’s power in life, the stronger the resonance it leaves in the mana it possessed.
Spiritualists manifest that mana as spiritual power to recreate that person’s abilities and memories from when they were alive.
‘Just a strange dream.’
Risinass came to that conclusion.
And he approached the expedition members who were eating breakfast.
“I say, Risinass. I heard you acted alone last night. Was there combat? According to Kail, it was just reconnaissance, but I’m concerned.”
At Alocks’s question, Risinass looked at Leo, who was eating jerky.
‘Did Kail not say anything?’
He recalled the incident of executing the traitors last night.
For Risinass, he had simply done what naturally needed to be done.
‘But even so, Kail had a shocked expression.’
If Kail was the hero who would save the world.
If he was the hero who would fulfill his cherished wish, he was prepared to gladly sacrifice for him.
“I felt a suspicious presence so I went on reconnaissance, but I didn’t discover anything.”
“Is that so?”
Alocks nodded and turned around.
He took a seat for breakfast.
Rodia approached such Risinass and chatted happily.
‘Why did Risinass choose the path of shadows?’
Watching that scene, Leo was lost in thought inwardly.
‘Was there some change of heart from seeing me?’
Things were flowing in a different direction from the memories he knew.
‘It’s not like I know everything about Risinass either.’
Just as everyone has things they want to hide.
Risinass would be the same.
During this time, Risinass led Kail toward hope.
But surely there were also anguishes and pains he didn’t tell Kail about.
‘I wanted to ease that even a little.’
From Risinass’s perspective, he had now taken one step.
But…
Leo knew the end of this journey.
Risinass, who had now begun the story, and Leo, who had already completed the story.
Their starting lines weren’t the same.
‘Just as I was captivated by the light that Risinass showed me. This time, is it Risinass who’s been captivated?’
That’s why Risinass might have made the choice he had made instead.
This is the past, a story of bygone days.
Even if it changes now, the future won’t change.
Anyway, the Heroes’ World is fake.
And whether leading people to hope in the light or delivering despair to traitors in darkness.
In the end, it’s all Risinass.
But.
‘…Is leaving Risinass like that really the right thing to do?’
Leo looked at Risinass with somewhat confused eyes.
***
“They’re coming!”
“Mages and summoners! To the front!”
Kioooooooooo!
Seeing the pack of supreme magical beasts, Pafnir, that revealed themselves before their eyes, tense voices echoed through the expedition party.
Pafnir.
They were among the most dangerous magical beasts during the Age of Calamity.
The Great Heroes made a determined effort to subjugate them, and by the end of the Age of Calamity, they went extinct and disappeared from later generations.
The most terrifying aspect of Pafnir was that they were strong in aerial combat.
Nothing was more horrible than supreme-grade magical beasts on par with wyverns dominating air superiority.
While everyone had tense expressions.
Leo stepped forward.
“Mages, prepare your magic.”
Leaving those words, Leo bent his knees.
Aura gathered at Leo’s feet.
Kwaaak-!
As he leaped, Leo shot up into the sky at tremendous speed.
Seeing this, the elf mage Perik’s eyes twitched.
“What technique is that? Is it magic?”
“No, that’s… aura!”
Alocks shouted in admiration.
Aura Step.
A future technique created through research into aura techniques.
After Aura Step was developed, knights’ battlefields expanded beyond the ground to the sky and even over water.
It was literally a revolution in aura studies.
‘Even during the Age of Calamity 5000 years ago, there were those who could run through the sky using aura, but it wasn’t a technique that could be commonly performed like now.’
What any 2nd year student at Lumern’s Knight Academy could do was something that even those worthy of being called heroes in this era couldn’t easily accomplish.
Running through the sky, Leo drew his sword.
‘Of course, just because they couldn’t use Aura Step doesn’t mean the knights and warriors of this era were weak.’
Kuguugugugugung-!
The earth’s axis shook.
Kwagagagang-!
Breaking through the earth’s axis, giant centipede monsters revealed themselves.
“Great Worms! Alene and I will handle those ground crawlers! You take care of the flying insects in the sky!”
Alocks grinned wickedly.
Great Worms with their tough shells were calamitous monsters that could turn the surrounding area into ruins with just one of them.
Not just one, but five Great Worms had revealed themselves.
This place was in the middle of the Age of Calamity.
It was a place where such massive threats never ceased.
But no one yielded to this level of threat.
No, rather, they didn’t even bat an eye.
Woong-!
As Alene took a step forward, a pure white summoning circle formed around her.
Flash-
With brilliant light, the pegasus Arpeia revealed herself.
-Did you call, pact maker?
“Please, Arpeia.”
-Leave it to me.
Hwaak-!
The female knight riding the pegasus shot up into the sky.
Hoong-!
A spear was summoned into her white hand.
As a Pegasus Knight, she was the vanguard taking the frontline.
Woong-!
White aura surged from Alene’s spear.
“Hoip-!”
Alocks followed behind Alene.
Gripping the massive battle axe that had been strapped to his back with both hands, he began spinning it with whoong whoong whoong-.
A whirlwind blew through the surrounding area.
“Here I gooooooo!”
The bear beastman Alocks roared and stomped the ground.
Jjeok-!
His footprint remained on the earth and the surroundings cracked.
Hwaak-!
Becoming an invisible mass of physical force, Alocks swung his axe blade toward the Great Worm at the front.
Kwagagagagagak-!
His axe blade mercilessly split the Great Worm’s body.
Puhwak-!
Green blood splattered in all directions.
Chiiiiik-!
The Great Worm’s blood, with its powerful toxicity, melted the ground.
“Kahahahahaha!”
Despite being drenched in acidic blood, Alocks laughed heartily as he slaughtered the Great Worm’s body.
As for the other Great Worm, a massive hole was pierced through its body by Alene’s thrust.
While the Great Worms’ assault was being stopped by the two.
In the sky, Leo was blocking Pafnir’s aerial assault.
Puhwak-!
Cutting off the neck of a Pafnir trying to bite him, Leo ran through the air as if it were ground.
Quickly and surely.
The Pafnir squad was held back by Leo alone.
Watching this scene, Perik, who had been chanting spells, clicked his tongue.
“He’s gotten stronger!”
At those words, Rodia, who had been watching Leo’s battle, shook her head.
‘No, if compared to Kail from this time period, the current Kail would probably be much weaker.’
Kail from this time, who marked the beginning of the great journey, was also a possessor of overwhelming force.
He was a strong fighter at a level incomparable to Leo, who was now barely in his mid-teens.
But despite that, the reason others thought Leo had become stronger was simple.
‘Experience.’
The experience of ending the Age of Calamity and saving the world made this overwhelming battle possible.
Meanwhile, Perik completed his magic.
“Saint Arrow.”
Flash-!
Countless arrows of light were created in the sky.
As Leo quickly escaped from the magic’s range, the arrows of light struck the Pafnirs.
Befitting an elf that Risinass had tried to recruit for the expedition, he was a mage with tremendous skill.
Watching this, Rodia clenched her fist tightly.
‘We can clear it.’
This Heroes’ World that had failed countless times.
Its completion was right before them.
***
Kuguugugung-!
The earth’s axis shook.
A giant serpent was devouring everything on the ground.
Kwadeuk-!
The hideous monster that had been crunching on the head of the giant beast Gigantes raised its head.
Kurururururu-
Six eyes mounted on its head.
Powerful killing intent poured out from there.
The Devouring King, Jormungandr, twitched its nose.
-Strange.
With a voice somehow mixed with irritation, Jormungandr slithered across the ground.
It was a monster that devoured everything.
Living creatures.
Sturdy city walls.
Verdant forests.
Even bright light and hope—he devours it all and scatters darkness across the world.
That’s why he’s evaluated as specially as the Overlord King among Tartaros’s legion commanders.
The places where he devours everything and scatters darkness become Erebos’s domain.
In other words, Erebos manifests wherever he has passed.
Kuguugugung-!
His body moved.
His transcendent sense of smell caught an utterly sinister scent from afar.
-I smell the blood shed by the Great Calamity.
All legion commanders drink the blood shed by the Calamity.
It is both baptism and glory.
That’s why Jormungandr had also smelled Erebos’s blood before.
But this blood scent was different.
It was like the scent of one drenched in blood that had flowed endlessly from cutting a god’s body.
-Yes, it’s like….
He had never smelled it before.
But if such a hateful existence existed.
It would give off this kind of scent.
Jormungandr uttered those blasphemous words.
-Deicide.
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