Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 410
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410
Thud- Thud-
Following the bright light and exiting the long corridor, his vision opened up completely.
Rement stood on the opposite side of the arena, and the spectator stands surrounding the arena in a circle were packed with people.
-The two students have just entered the arena! Please welcome both students with a big cheer!
Runba Tes, who invariably handled commentary during major events, spoke to liven up the atmosphere.
At those words, the students sent up cheers.
At the students’ enthusiastic cheers, Luke climbed onto the arena with an even more tense expression.
There stood Mel, a first-year Magic Studies Department professor serving as referee.
Mel gave both students a gentle smile before speaking.
“I hope this will be a time without regrets. Any attack is permitted, so fight to your heart’s content.”
At those words, Rement narrowed his eyes.
“Any attack whatsoever?”
“Yes. Even lethal attacks that could take a life are possible. Of course, if it’s truly a dangerous attack, I will intervene.”
No matter how impressive they were, there was no way the faculty couldn’t stop an attack made in earnest by a first-year.
Especially if it was Mel.
At Mel’s answer, Rement smiled and nodded, and Luke also nodded with a tense expression.
“Then go to your respective positions and wait. When the signal is given, it will begin immediately.”
Mel stepped away from the arena.
Before going to his position, Rement spoke.
“I’ll praise you for not running away. Though if you had run, you wouldn’t have the face to see the Student Council President.”
“….”
Rement narrowed his eyes.
“I didn’t like it. Someone like you receiving private tutoring from someone like Professor Ren. Did it feel good getting special treatment as the Student Council President’s mentee?”
At those words, Luke recalled his lessons with Ren.
In fact, the one who had taught Luke magic was none other than Ren’s Associate Professor Anna.
Ren was a heavenly mage.
What he was interested in was solely Luke’s mana characteristics.
Aside from that point, Luke was rather ordinary as a mage.
Since he hadn’t even built the basics of magic yet, he was even more out of consideration for Ren.
There was only one time he showed interest other than when researching Luke’s magical characteristics.
‘Associate Professor Anna.’
‘Yes, Professor Ren.’
‘What do you think about dissecting student Luke?’
‘Please shut up.’
Ren claimed it was a joke, but his eyes were endlessly serious.
Recalling that moment, Luke shuddered and spoke.
“It wasn’t particularly good.”
“Hmph, a guy who doesn’t even know how amazing the glory he enjoyed was.”
Rement snorted and returned to his position.
Luke, who had returned to his position, took a deep breath.
‘How much will what I’ve done up to now work?’
Past times came to mind.
After classes, he always did physical training.
It was literally hellish days.
What Leo had taught Luke was only physical training and combat-related training.
He had countless times questioned himself for making no progress at all.
He always sensed his own limits.
Whenever that happened, Leo would say:
‘Hitting a limit means you’ve encountered your own boundary. Continuing that means you’re constantly surpassing limits. Believe in yourself who has endlessly overcome limits, Luke Elda.’
Luke, who had turned around, was smiling.
‘How much can I do? It’s a challenge.’
“You’re smiling?”
Rement scowled.
Mel looked at such a Luke and muttered inwardly.
‘There are occasionally people like that. People who smile in crisis.’
Having such thoughts, Mel flicked the coin in her hand.
Ting-! Whirrrrr-!
The coin began spinning round and round.
The coin that flew while rotating soon fell to the center of the arena.
Ting-!
The moment it hit the ground, Rement struck the floor with his palm.
“Earth Wave.”
He completed the magic instantly with high-speed casting.
Rummmmmble-!
The arena began to undulate.
The arena rippled like water, but this wasn’t the hard ground becoming soft.
The moment one got swept up in this undulation, it meant colliding with the ground.
Luke manifested his aura.
Silver aura gathered at his feet.
Whoosh-!
Luke quickly charged toward Rement.
“Stupid fool. Do you think you can close the distance?”
Rement sneered.
Luke’s eyes followed the undulation of the ground.
And instantly grasping that pattern, he lightly stepped on and kicked off the edge of ground that had risen high.
Rement’s eyes twitched.
Luke went hop- hop- finding safe zones to step on while quickly closing the distance with Rement.
The moment he closed the distance with Rement, Luke saw Rement’s lips curl up.
Crash-!
“Urgh!”
A fist that shot up from the ground struck Luke.
Luke, who barely managed to draw up his aura to block the attack, was sent flying.
“Not bad. But you didn’t think I’d just let you close the distance, did you?”
Mana rippled around Rement.
“I’d like to play around as much as possible, but the audience would be bored.”
Rement curled up the corners of his mouth.
“I’ll end it here.”
Whooom-!
As if responding to Rement’s magic, the surrounding land began to shake.
Crash-!
Around Rement, rock spikes began shooting up from the ground at tremendous speed.
An indiscriminate attack that would tear the opponent apart.
Crashhhhhhhh-!
In an instant, the spikes that shot up from the floor filled the arena.
Thick dust clouds rose up.
The only place to escape was the sky.
But even jumping, there was nowhere to flee.
Anticipating this, Rement had already dominated the skies above the arena with wind-type magic.
‘If he had jumped to avoid it, his body would have been sliced to pieces by wind blades.’
“How boring indeed.”
Just as Rement was about to leave the arena with a snort.
Swoosh-!
A sharp sound cutting through the wind was heard.
“What?”
Luke, who had broken through the spikes, was swinging his sword toward Rement.
Rement barely rolled on the ground to avoid the attack.
Slash-!
Blood spurted from the back of Rement’s neck.
Thud-!
Luke landed on the ground.
If it had been just a little deeper, the match would have ended with Luke’s victory.
“You bastard! What kind of trick did you pull!”
“You dodged.”
Luke said as he wiped off Rement’s blood from the tip of his sword.
“Don’t be ridiculous. You dodged that attack?”
Veins bulged on Rement’s forehead due to extreme anger.
Then jeers poured from the freshman spectator stands.
“You allowed an attack from such a failure?”
“Rement, you’re nothing special either?”
At the snickering sounds, Rement’s eyes rolled back.
“Good eyes. To think of dodging after seeing that.”
Chelsea muttered from the 2nd year spectator stands.
“He became Leo’s mentee because of his good eyes in the first place.”
Selia crossed her arms.
“Of course, the attack succeeded because the opponent was careless. But now that the attack failed, it’s over.”
At those words, Chelsea rested her chin on her hand.
“Won’t he show his real skills now?”
“I’ll finish you! Damn failure!”
Rumble-!
The ground began to shake.
Crash-!
The ground attacked Luke like slime.
Smack-!
“Guh?”
The ground, spread out like a palm, struck Luke.
Luke was sent flying from the hit.
Bang-!
“Ugh?!”
A fist made of ground struck Luke’s back.
Luke collapsed on the ground after being beaten by the physical attacks emerging from the ground.
His whole body screamed in pain.
When the attacks stopped, Luke got up.
“As expected, it’s no good.”
“Ha, did you think you could win?”
Rement growled contemptuously and kicked the ground.
Bang-!
“Gah?”
The ground shot up and sent Luke flying into the sky.
His mind became hazy from the impact.
Whoosh-!
Luke, who had risen to an unimaginable height, looked at the bracelet on his hand.
‘As expected, this is my limit in this state.’
He looked down at the arena below.
‘The way to release the seal is simple. Just sincerely say “release” in your heart and it will be undone.’
Releasing the seal was easy.
But he had endured.
Throughout the first semester, he endured being despised and ignored as a failure.
For this very moment!
‘Release.’
The moment he thought that.
Ting-!
The bracelets and anklets restraining Luke came off and flew away.
At that moment.
‘My body feels light.’
Luke looked at his palm with a surprised expression.
‘With this.’
Luke gathered all the mana in his body.
Whooom-!
In an instant, aura swirled around his feet.
Luke used Aura Step to kick off the void.
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“It’ll be over once he crashes into the ground.”
“Ah, I thought a giant killing might happen.”
“Hey! You should curse at Rement instead.”
“Ah, was that too harsh?”
It was when the freshmen were giggling and laughing.
Flash-! Bang-!
A silver flash flickered from the sky and struck the arena.
“Wh-what?”
“Just now something from the sky…”
The freshmen were confused by the thick dust.
“This is… what…”
Just as Rement was also confused.
Flash-!
Something flew along with a silver flash.
Smack-!
“Guh?”
Rement, kicked in the abdomen, rolled miserably on the ground.
Thud-!
Luke, who landed on the ground with silver light wrapped around his entire body, said.
“From now on.”
Luke said powerfully toward Rement.
“It’s real.”
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