Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 436

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436.

 

Leo silently stared at Arron.

 

Arron raised his fist toward Leo.

 

The atmosphere was quite different from when he had faced the other students just moments before.

 

“Why aren’t they moving and just standing still?”

 

“Heh. As expected, a mage is still a mage.”

 

Borman wore a smug expression.

 

“This is what a fight between warriors who have reached a certain level looks like! It may look like they’re doing nothing, but they’re engaged in an intense battle of wits! Since the one who moves first shows an opening, the more skilled the warrior, the more they absolutely refuse to move first! This is a battle of patience! They’ll probably continue this standoff for dozens more minutes!”

 

Whoosh—!

 

Before Borman could even finish speaking, Leo closed the distance with Arron.

 

When Chelsea looked at him as if he were pathetic, Borman made an embarrassed expression.

 

Ar widened her eyes and focused on the sparring match between the two, as if she wouldn’t miss a single moment of Leo and Arron’s fight.

 

‘Black Rabbit’s skills are incredible.’

 

Ar knew it too.

 

That there was an enormous gap between Leo and herself.

 

Leo’s martial arts were too deep for Ar to fathom.

 

‘But even Black Rabbit’s skills probably can’t reach Lord Arron.’

 

His opponent was Hero Arron.

 

The absolute possessor of martial power, praised as the God of War.

 

It wasn’t simply because he possessed great strength.

 

Last time in Dweno’s World.

 

And just moments ago in the sparring match, Ar had clearly realized just how unreachably high Arron stood.

 

‘Lord Arron seems even stronger now than when I saw him in Lord Dweno’s World.’

 

She thought it would be nearly impossible for Leo to match such an Arron.

 

‘But wouldn’t it be possible to make Lord Arron reveal some of his skills?’

 

She thought that with Leo’s endless reserves, it might be possible to draw out Arron’s true abilities.

 

That’s why Ar didn’t want to miss even the smallest detail of this current sparring match.

 

‘If it’s Black Rabbit, he’ll surely aim for Lord Arron’s flank…’

 

Swish—!

 

“Head-on?!”

 

Ar’s eyes widened.

 

Because Leo had charged straight at Arron’s front without hesitation.

 

‘Arron has no blind spots anyway.’

 

Arron’s super-senses that could even foresee fragmentary futures in combat situations.

 

As long as he had that, Arron had no blind spots.

 

No matter how fast Leo moved to disrupt Arron’s vision, he couldn’t escape Arron’s range of perception.

 

Swish—!

 

Leo’s sword thrust toward Arron.

 

Arron’s eyes narrowed as he saw the sword.

 

‘Blocking won’t work.’

 

He thought about deflecting the sword, but the moment he did, Leo would surely slip into his embrace.

 

Arron’s senses detected the dagger hanging at Leo’s waist.

 

In pure close-combat ability, Arron surpassed Leo.

 

But in irregular tactical exchanges, Leo held a slight advantage over Arron.

 

If Arron’s strength was created through innate senses, reaction speed, and overwhelming dynamic vision, then Leo’s strength was honed through experiencing countless battlefields.

 

Arron had also experienced numerous battlefields.

 

But Leo. The surviving hero Kail had crossed a different number of battlefields.

 

‘Kail stood on battlefields long before I ever set foot on one.’

 

Moreover, Arron wasn’t the only one capable of precognitive-level tactical reading through super-senses.

 

Though not quite to Arron’s level.

 

Leo was also a warrior who had stepped into the realm of super-senses.

 

Arron, who dodged Leo’s sword, reached toward Leo’s abdomen.

 

Leo twisted his body in mid-air to evade Arron’s attack.

 

Thud— Shing!

 

At that moment, Arron drew the dagger that was Leo’s secondary weapon hanging at his waist.

 

Along with that, Arron’s blocked vision returned.

 

His sight activated and his closed hearing and smell began transmitting information.

 

Whoosh—!

 

Arron moved his feet.

 

Arron, who hadn’t moved even when eight people attacked him with his senses sealed, now moved with all his senses liberated.

 

Even Hero Arron couldn’t gain the upper hand in a sparring match against Hero of the Beginning Kail while under restrictions.

 

Clang—! Krrrrrrrrak—!

 

The short blade of the dagger crossed with the blade of the long sword.

 

Arron, gripping the dagger in reverse, struck the sword upward.

 

Sparks flew between the two blades.

 

Leo’s right hand holding the sword was lifted upward.

 

Whoosh—!

 

With his right hand raised, Leo exposed his stomach.

 

Complete defenselessness.

 

Seeing this, Arron immediately unleashed a kick.

 

Boom—!

 

Leo’s body was sent flying.

 

Scrrrrrape—!

 

The soles of Leo’s shoes scraped against the ground, raising dust.

 

Leo, who regained his balance, quickly moved away from his position.

 

Boom—!

 

Arron’s fist struck where Leo had been.

 

The ground caved in and dirt flew in all directions.

 

“How does such destructive power come from those movements?!”

 

Selia’s eyes widened.

 

Not only the kick that had hit Leo moments ago, but even the current attack—Arron showed no sign of drawing out great power.

 

Yet destructive force far beyond expectation erupted from Arron’s fingertips and toes.

 

“He concentrated a handful of power into one spot.”

 

Chen Xia, who had been watching the two’s exchange with unusually sharp eyes, answered.

 

“He compressed his aura in an instant and released it. At a speed too fast to easily perceive.”

 

“At that level, wouldn’t even Leo oppa have taken significant damage?”

 

“I wonder.”

 

Everyone focused on Leo.

 

‘I couldn’t deal significant damage.’

 

Arron looked at Leo.

 

In that instant, Leo had quickly compressed his aura to offset Arron’s attack.

 

‘You’ve gotten stronger.’

 

This wasn’t the Kail that Arron knew.

 

If compared by total amount of power, Leo’s strength didn’t match the strength of the Kail that Arron knew.

 

‘Kail is still recovering his power after all.’

 

What made Arron think Leo had grown stronger was his skill.

 

The Kail that Arron knew couldn’t have blocked the previous attack so perfectly.

 

He realized anew that the friend before his eyes wasn’t the friend he had known.

 

‘Even in this age of peace, you… haven’t stopped, have you.’

 

Even while living in an age of peace, seeing Kail who hadn’t dulled even slightly, he could tell.

 

That he hadn’t had a moment’s peace of mind.

 

To pass on this peace they had risked their lives to protect intact to future generations.

 

How much effort his friend was putting in.

 

Arron looked at the students who were focused on their sparring.

 

‘In that case.’

 

He gripped his dagger properly.

 

‘So I can pass on even a little. I must make an effort.’

 

He wanted to pass on even a little of his skills to future generations.

 

Arron lowered his stance.

 

Seeing this, Leo brushed off his hands.

 

‘Looks like he’s getting serious.’

 

He shook off his left hand that had blocked Arron’s kick, dispelling the numbness.

 

Whoosh-!

 

This time, watching Arron attempt the first attack, Leo gripped his sword properly.

 

Clang-!

 

Sparks flew as sword crossed with sword.

 

***

 

“How was it?”

 

After the sparring ended.

 

Arron looked at the students lined up in front of him and smiled brightly.

 

“It was amazing!”

 

Borman shouted with a moved expression.

 

“I felt that Instructor Akan’s skills are at an unfathomable level! Was all of that because of Super Sense?”

 

“Super Sense is a technique that pushes your senses to the extreme. The techniques I used in that battle are from a different domain.”

 

“Ooh!”

 

“If you’re curious about my techniques, I’ll teach them to you together.”

 

All the students’ eyes widened.

 

For a warrior, techniques are like a mage’s core magical formulas.

 

Even mages who publish countless magical papers don’t reveal the core magical formulas when they disclose the principles of their secret magic to academic societies.

 

Not easily sharing the results of one’s long research with the public is natural for a researcher.

 

The same goes for martial artists.

 

Sharing the results of long training with others is absolutely not an easy matter.

 

Yet the instructor before them said he would readily teach techniques that had reached an immeasurably high level.

 

“First, I’ll teach you how to activate Super Sense.”

 

“Yes!”

 

The students answered enthusiastically.

 

“Since you’ve learned Hero’s Breath, you should be able to master Super Sense quickly.”

 

“Is it a derivative technique of Hero’s Breath?”

 

“Something like that.”

 

More precisely, it was a technique Arron naturally used while employing breathing.

 

‘I had quite a headache learning that guy’s techniques too.’

 

Leo clicked his tongue inwardly.

 

Arron’s breathing and Super Sense had difficulty levels that transcended imagination to master.

 

Since they were originally Arron’s unique techniques, it would have been impossible to learn them without Leo’s mana characteristics.

 

But what was more difficult than that in learning Arron’s techniques was.

 

“First, breathe in and feel the mana.”

 

“Yes.”

 

“Then spread the mana throughout your body.”

 

Arron taught the mana manipulation method for using Super Sense.

 

“What’s next?”

 

“Stimulate all your body’s sensory organs with the mana spread in all directions.”

 

“…What?”

 

The faces of the students who had been listening to Arron’s lecture with bright eyes suddenly stiffened.

 

“You get the feeling, right?”

 

Looking at Arron whose eyes were shining, Dion raised his hand.

 

“Instructor Akan.”

 

“What is it?”

 

“Isn’t there a more specific explanation? The explanation is too difficult.”

 

“Hm? Was the explanation too abstract? Well, true. All the kids I taught found my explanations difficult.”

 

Arron, who had been pondering with his arms crossed, hit his palm with his fist and said.

 

“Right! It’s the sensation of making mana like grains of sand, then putting them in a glass bottle and shaking it!”

 

“…”

 

“…”

 

At Arron’s innocent explanation, the students’ faces became even more peculiar.

 

“Is it difficult? Hmm… Then.”

 

Arron tried to explain in detail somehow.

 

Things like the feeling of manipulating mana or the timing of breathing.

 

He tried to explain the sensation of using Super Sense with words somehow.

 

But the more he did so, the more peculiar the students’ faces became.

 

“Let’s take a break. I’ll try to explain it better.”

 

Eventually Arron gave them a break time.

 

“Leo-nim. Thank you for your hard work with the sparring!”

 

Eiran approached Leo and took out a towel from her extradimensional space to hand it to him.

 

Thanks to the hot weather and intense movement, Leo’s body was drenched in sweat.

 

“Thanks.”

 

Leo smiled and wiped his face with the towel Eiran handed him.

 

Then he pulled at his shirt collar to let air flow inside his clothes.

 

Watching this, Eiran’s face turned slightly red.

 

The glimpses of his collarbone were quite stimulating for an adolescent girl.

 

While turning her gaze away yet stealing glances at Leo’s appearance.

 

“As expected of the Black Rabbit! Even though Arron-nim’s senses were blocked, to hold out against Arron-nim!”

 

The other students thought Arron maintained sensory restrictions when facing Leo.

 

“Hiiiiik? I, I wasn’t peeking at anything!”

 

At Ar’s voice heard from behind, Eiran screamed in shock.

 

“Huh? What are you talking about?”

 

“N-nothing at all!”

 

To Ar who didn’t understand, Eiran frantically shook her head.

 

“Anyway, Arron-nim is still the same. His explanations are too difficult.”

 

“I guess it’s because he sees things differently.”

 

When Ar sighed softly, Eiran smiled awkwardly.

 

The two had already received training from Arron in Dweno’s World.

 

Even then, Arron’s explanations were hard to understand.

 

So they had training focused on sparring.

 

“This time it’ll be even more difficult since we can’t make up for it with our bodies.”

 

“M-make up with bodies?”

 

At Ar’s words as she crossed her arms and sighed deeply, Eiran perked up her ears and felt embarrassed alone.

 

Then she made eye contact with Leo, got startled, and cleared her throat.

 

“Does Leo-nim also find Arron-nim’s explanations hard to understand?”

 

“I can grasp it to some extent.”

 

“What?”

 

“What?!”

 

Eiran and Arga were startled by Leo’s answer.

 

Arga, with his tail standing straight up, asked.

 

“Really? You’re not lying, right?”

 

“Why would I lie?”

 

“As expected of Leo-nim!”

 

Eiran smiled brightly.

 

“I’ll give you advice too once I fully get the hang of it.”

 

After that.

 

When break time ended, the students spent the entire day listening to Arron’s explanations.

 

In the middle, Leo also gave the students much more detailed explanations than Arron.

 

By the time the sun was setting, the students were finally able to understand the basic steps of activating supersenses to some degree.

 

“Everyone’s amazing!”

 

Arron clapped his hands with genuine joy.

 

Seeing Arron genuinely proud, the students felt truly happy.

 

“Akan-nim must have made tremendous efforts to use this technique, right?”

 

Selia asked with a slightly flushed face.

 

To this, Arron answered with a cheerful voice.

 

“No, it just came naturally to me from birth.”

 

The students’ faces changed strangely.

 

And Arron’s following words were enough to make them despair.

 

“How is it? Now that you’ve got the feel for it, it’s pretty easy, right?”

 

‘It’s not easy.’

 

The students screamed inwardly.

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