Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 411

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411.

 

“This bastard…!”

 

At Luke’s words, sparks flew from Rement’s eyes.

 

“Now it’s getting real? Where do you get off spouting such arrogant nonsense!”

 

His opponent was a Lumern 1st year failure.

 

Originally, he should have been a worthless nobody who couldn’t even stay at the Academy and would have been expelled.

 

Just being struck by an unexpected blow from such a Luke and rolling on the ground was enough to make his insides burn with rage.

 

On top of that, seeing Luke talk as if he was about to counterattack from now on made him feel like his sanity was about to snap in half.

 

Rumble rumble rumble—!

 

As the ground began to shake, Luke readjusted his grip on his sword.

 

Crack crack crack crack crack—!

 

A wave of earth struck Luke like a massive tsunami had risen.

 

The power and scale were different from the magic Rement had used so far.

 

Luke lowered his stance and readjusted his grip on his sword.

 

‘There’s no room to dodge!’

 

This was clearly different from the attacks up until now.

 

An attack definitely meant to annihilate him.

 

Luke put strength into the hand gripping his sword.

 

‘If there’s no opening, I have to make one!’

 

He concentrated his aura into a single point at the tip of his sword.

 

Flash—!

 

Swoosh crack crack crack—!

 

As he swung his sword, a silver flash gleamed.

 

Crash crash crash crash crash—!

 

Along with it, the tsunami of earth swallowed Luke.

 

“Nothing special.”

 

It was when Rement was scowling.

 

Whoosh—!

 

“What?”

 

Luke charged toward Rement, breaking through the thick dust that had risen.

 

Clang! Crackle crackle—!

 

Luke’s attack, armed with silver aura, struck Rement’s shield magic.

 

Thud—!

 

Luke was knocked back.

 

“You bastard! What kind of trick did you use!”

 

Rement began frantically casting magic while shouting in excitement.

 

Bang! Crash crash crash crash—!

 

***

 

“This is impossible.”

 

“That guy can use that kind of aura?”

 

“What the hell is going on with this situation!”

 

The entire 1st year was stirring at Luke’s unexpected movements, whom they had always looked down on.

 

“Wow, he was hiding something like that?”

 

“Hmm. As expected, he had a trump card.”

 

Juwen’s eyes widened while Shasha covered her mouth with her fan and narrowed her eyes.

 

Havedon, who had his arms crossed, snorted.

 

“That much is only natural.”

 

Aina just stared blankly at Luke with an expressionless face.

 

“Wow, since he’s the Class President, I didn’t think it would end easily. But to think he was hiding such a trump card.”

 

In the 2nd year spectator stands, Iliana exclaimed in admiration while eating popcorn.

 

“But he’s quite clumsy at using his power.”

 

“He has no choice but to be poor at controlling his strength. It’s his first time using that much power.”

 

“Oh! Class President!”

 

Iliana waved her hand at the answer she heard from behind.

 

Leo reached for Iliana’s popcorn.

 

Though Iliana desperately defended against the sudden raid, she made a tearful face after Leo stole a handful of popcorn from her.

 

As Leo sat down, Chloe tilted her head.

 

“If he had that much power, was there any need to make him carry the label of a failure?”

 

“Due to the special nature of his training method, he needed to suppress his power for a long time.”

 

Leo said while bringing the stolen popcorn to his mouth.

 

“Luke’s growth background is unique compared to other Hero Candidates. He learned everything through self-study.”

 

“In that respect, he’s somewhat similar to Young Master Leo.”

 

‘He’s completely different from me.’

 

Leo had been born with everything complete except for his vessel.

 

But Luke was different.

 

Literally pure white.

 

He couldn’t even properly handle his vessel.

 

It was only after coming to Lumern that he learned proper aura cultivation methods.

 

No matter how special Luke’s mana characteristics were and how outstanding his talent was, in a situation where his vessel wasn’t complete, his starting line had to be different from other Lumern students.

 

‘Even if he had trained using conventional methods, he would have shown remarkable growth. But he wouldn’t have achieved the explosive growth like now.’

 

That’s why Leo focused on creating Luke’s vessel through extreme methods.

 

That method was certainly a very difficult path for Luke himself.

 

‘Already starting from a much more disadvantaged position, while the surrounding students were running fast, if only he was stuck in place… it would be understandably despairing.’

 

Of course, if Luke had wanted, he could have taken an easy path that would allow rapid growth.

 

But it was Luke himself who walked the difficult path to the end.

 

“He’s only just acquired a vessel now.”

 

Leo chuckled while looking at Luke.

 

“Even the current 1st year strongest students might get hurt if they underestimate him?”

 

‘He always had good eyes. Good observation skills too. Plus he had combat sense.’

 

Leo had merely created a large, white canvas.

 

Now it was Luke’s responsibility to decide how to fill that white canvas.

 

***

 

Bang! Bang! Crash crash crash crash—!

 

“I’ll finish this!”

 

Rement, with bloodshot eyes, shouted.

 

Rement, having half-lost his sanity, was frantically casting magic.

 

But despite the countless magic spells pouring down, not a single one hit Luke.

 

Luke’s pupils moved rapidly, tracking the trajectory of the magic.

 

‘My body feels light. And I’m not getting tired.’

 

What Leo had sealed wasn’t just mana.

 

Luke’s physical abilities had also been sealed.

 

In that situation, he had been training every single day, pushing his body to its limits.

 

He had run like crazy every single day, but was always stuck in place.

 

Days when he couldn’t make even a bit of progress and remained stagnant.

 

But as if that stagnation was saying it was all for this moment.

 

Luke’s body didn’t stop progressing even while moving right now.

 

As if all the hardships of the past days were for this very moment.

 

Everything he had trained diligently without stopping for a single day was being rewarded at this very moment.

 

Thud—!

 

Luke stepped on a massive rock spear flying toward him and leaped.

 

Spinning through the air, he deflected the stone arrows flying down from the sky.

 

Clang clang clang-

 

Rement’s attacks were relentless.

 

Veins bulged on Rement’s forehead as he watched Luke evade and block every attack.

 

“Ha! Are you trying to drag this into a prolonged battle with me?! You’ll either get exhausted or hit by my magic before that happens!”

 

He was right.

 

No matter how tireless Luke was, and even if he could read the trajectory of magic.

 

Rement wasn’t just standing idle either.

 

Just as Luke read Rement’s magic trajectories and moved accordingly, Rement was also analyzing Luke’s movements and patterns, launching increasingly complex attack sequences.

 

Rement Morlak.

 

He came from a prestigious magic family and ranked 3rd in the first-year Magic Studies Department.

 

He possessed an overwhelming amount of mana compared to other students.

 

‘A prolonged battle would be disadvantageous for me.’

 

Though he had unsealed his power and gained incomparably more mana than before, Luke’s mana reserves weren’t at an overwhelming level.

 

For a knight, aura was the fuel to be burned.

 

The moment all mana was consumed, physical abilities would drastically decline.

 

‘Closing the distance with Rement isn’t easy either.’

 

He had tried to close the gap several times, but failed each time.

 

Rement was blocking his approach with countless protective spells.

 

Rement hadn’t claimed the 3rd place position in Lumern’s Magic Studies Department through luck either, where only the most talented gathered.

 

He was skilled not only in magic but also rich in combat experience.

 

He was already well-versed in battles against aura-wielding knights.

 

‘If I get even slightly grazed by an attack or get tired, it’s my defeat.’

 

Luke’s silver eyes turned toward Rement.

 

Luke’s eyes glowed with silver light.

 

Whoosh-!

 

Seeing Luke suddenly change direction and charge at him, Rement curled up the corners of his mouth.

 

‘Foolish bastard!’

 

He had been momentarily flustered seeing Luke’s abilities suddenly improve dramatically.

 

He was also angry that Luke had managed to land an attack on him, even if briefly.

 

But Rement was quickly regaining his composure.

 

‘There’s no way I could lose to Luke Elda!’

 

Rement’s attacks were overwhelming Luke.

 

‘He’s quite fast, but that’s all!’

 

Rement was also aiming for the class representative position.

 

As a traditional mage, his most troublesome enemies were Havedon and Aina from the Knight Department.

 

Both were knights who overwhelmed opponents with tremendous speed.

 

Rement had anticipated battles with such opponents.

 

The magic attribute he specialized in was earth.

 

And an earth attribute mage’s specialty was defense.

 

‘The moment you enter my domain, you’re finished.’

 

Rement’s eyes flashed.

 

Thud-!

 

At that moment, Luke broke through countless defensive spells and entered Rement’s domain.

 

Rumble rumble rumble-!

 

Rement’s magic activated, targeting Luke.

 

Swoosh-!

 

In that instant, Luke quickly created distance from Rement.

 

Clang clang clang clang-!

 

Magic erupting from the ground targeted Luke, but he swung his sword and deflected all the spells.

 

Thud-!

 

Luke kicked off the ground and instantly circled behind Rement.

 

Whoosh-!

 

And he launched an attack from outside his field of vision.

 

“It’s useless! This magic has no blind spots!”

 

As soon as Rement shouted, the magic activated again, targeting Luke.

 

Luke once again escaped from Rement’s domain.

 

A situation where attack was impossible and he could only evade and defend.

 

It felt like being trapped in a swamp.

 

It was when Rement was wearing a confident smile.

 

Stop-!

 

Luke’s movement ceased.

 

Rement, who had been unleashing magic spells, momentarily hesitated seeing Luke suddenly stop.

 

Then he curled up the corners of his mouth.

 

“Have you given up? Sorry, but I have no intention of giving you a quick end after the humiliation you put me through…”

 

“Here I come.”

 

Taking a deep breath, Luke readjusted his grip on his sword and lowered his stance.

 

“What?”

 

The moment Rement frowned.

 

Thud-!

 

‘He disappeared?’

 

The moment Rement was shocked.

 

His detection magic caught Luke’s movement.

 

‘No, he’s moving even faster!’

 

Rement concentrated mana into his defensive magic and expanded his domain further.

 

Zing-!

 

The moment Luke set foot in Rement’s domain, the mana reacted.

 

Rumble rumble rumble rumble-!

 

All sorts of earth magic erupting from the ground struck at Luke.

 

While deflecting and evading all those spells, Luke quickly closed the distance with Rement.

 

“Foolish bastard! Do you think you can reach me just by increasing your speed a little more!”

 

Rement sneered.

 

At that moment.

 

Whoosh-!

 

Luke broke through Rement’s first line of defense.

 

Seeing this, Rement’s face hardened slightly.

 

‘No, he won’t be able to reach me.’

 

Rement drew up even more mana.

 

Rumble rumble rumble-!

 

The rising earth tried to grab Luke.

 

At that moment.

 

Flash-!

 

Luke’s silver eyes flashed and silver light danced wildly.

 

Slash-!

 

Sharp sword energy cut the magic in half.

 

Rement’s face was colored with shock.

 

During the past semester, Luke had made maximum use of his almost non-existent mana.

 

Thanks to that, he had acquired delicate mana control abilities, and that control maximized mana efficiency.

 

He had constantly practiced methods to achieve maximum effect with minimal amounts.

 

Seeing Luke break through even the second line of defense, Rement squeezed out all his mana.

 

“Not yet!”

 

Whooom-!

 

A massive magic circle formed around him.

 

All the magic he could use manifested and targeted Luke.

 

At that moment.

 

Whoosh-!

 

‘He’s… getting even faster?!’

 

The silver flash reached right in front of Rement’s nose.

 

Thud-!

 

Luke stomped the ground with his left foot.

 

“Wait…”

 

Using his left foot as support, Luke kicked Rement’s abdomen with his right foot.

 

“…a…”

 

Crack-!

 

“Guhek?”

 

The aura concentrated at Luke’s foot tip instantly pierced through all of Rement’s shield magic.

 

Bang-!

 

Rement, who took Luke’s attack head-on, flew back and crashed straight into the wall.

 

Thud thud thud-! Thump-!

 

Rement, with his eyes rolled back and unconscious, collapsed sprawled on the ground.

 

“Phew.”

 

Luke exhaled and stood in place.

 

“Victory, Luke Elda.”

 

Mel smiled broadly and declared Luke’s victory.

 

“Ooooooh!”

 

Cheers erupted from among the upperclassmen.

 

“Reading attack trajectories and evading is almost like art, isn’t it?”

 

“He has excellent eyes. I like him.”

 

A completely unexpected victory.

 

Moreover, the process of Luke conquering Rement was quite a spectacle.

 

Applause poured out from among the upperclassmen.

 

In contrast, most of the freshmen looked at Luke with disbelieving faces.

 

“Th-that’s impossible.”

 

“That failing student…”

 

“Wait. If he defeated Rement, doesn’t that mean he’s one of the top fighters among the freshmen?”

 

“I’ve been openly ignoring and mocking him all this time… How?!”

 

Among them, several freshmen’s faces turned pale.

 

“That’s not the end for him.”

 

“That’s right. He hasn’t used ‘magic’ yet.”

 

At Juwen’s words, Shasha narrowed her eyes.

 

Then Juwen stood up.

 

“Do well, top student of the Magic Studies Department.”

 

“I’ll come back victorious.”

 

Juwen snorted and headed to the waiting room.

 

Meanwhile, Aina also stood up.

 

Havedon, who was nearby, said.

 

“Luke Elda seems to be bothering you?”

 

Aina still hadn’t taken her eyes off Luke.

 

“Not at all.”

 

Aina answered briefly and headed to the waiting room.

 

Watching her, Havedon snorted and muttered while looking at Luke.

 

“He’s become worth defeating.”

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