Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 445
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445.
Leo was sitting on the hotel rooftop, looking up at the night sky.
The stars filling the night sky seemed to shine particularly brighter tonight.
Leo, who had been silently gazing at the stars, lowered his head.
He could see Chelsea sitting alone in the hotel garden, lost in thought.
That’s when it happened.
“Huff! Huff!”
Arron appeared beside him, breathing heavily.
“Did Ar chase after you or something?”
“It, it was scary!”
Arron trembled at Leo’s question.
“How long are you going to shake like that whenever her eyes go wild?”
“B-but…! Just now was incomparably scarier than anything before!”
“What, did you tell Ar that you’re thinking of her as your successor?”
“Yeah.”
“Then it’s understandable she’d make a fuss.”
Leo clicked his tongue, anticipating Ar’s reaction.
Arron, who had been making a tearful face while watching Leo, spotted Chelsea lost in thought in the garden.
“Oh, that’s Chelsea?”
Arron said with a pleased expression as he sat on the roof.
“Leo, it seems like Chelsea is…”
“You mean she seems to have noticed something?”
“You knew after all.”
“She’s been acting strange since this afternoon.”
Leo said, recalling how Chelsea had suddenly started watching him carefully.
“I did treat you too casually.”
“Should we have been a bit more careful?”
When Arron scratched his cheek, Leo answered with an indifferent expression.
“Even if we were careful, you’re terrible at acting and such. It would’ve been even weirder and she would’ve looked at us more strangely.”
Leo could easily treat Arron as a hero.
But if Leo acted that way, Arron would definitely make mistakes.
‘He would’ve felt burdened and embarrassed, then rambled incoherently.’
Arron scratched his head at Leo’s words.
And looking at Chelsea, he said,
“Do you think she figured out Kail’s identity?”
“She probably isn’t completely certain. It’s impossible by common sense.”
The god they met in Luna’s World.
Even Pibua found Leo’s reincarnation fascinating.
Even in the current situation where countless miracles are happening, reincarnation is hard to imagine.
Arron said in response to Leo’s words,
“I actually wish Chelsea would realize that you’re Kail.”
“Why?”
“If she learns that you’re Kail, that child will become a strength for you.”
“A strength.”
“The current Kail, you’re like Risinass.”
“Risinass?”
“Yeah. You’re carrying the world on your shoulders.”
Arron took his eyes off Chelsea and looked up at the night sky.
“But even Risinass back then didn’t carry everything alone. You, Luna, Dweno. Many people drawn to Risinass’s light supported him.”
“Why are you leaving yourself out of the story?”
At Leo’s words, Arron smiled bitterly and continued,
“Right now, you’re trying to take responsibility for everything alone, aren’t you? Mellina knows your secret, but I think you need more people to support you for now.”
Arron grinned.
“Chelsea is smart and kind. She’ll definitely be a great strength for you.”
“She would be.”
Leo let out a small laugh.
“But not now.”
“Why? Don’t you trust Chelsea?”
“No, I trust her. I got an earful from that old man in Dweno’s World.”
“From Dweno?”
“Yeah. He told me to trust the future I chose.”
“That’s so like Dweno.”
Arron nodded.
“So I decided to trust. But she’s still young. Learning about me can wait until she’s ready to stand on the same stage.”
At that answer, Arron looked at Leo silently.
“What?”
“No, it’s just that Risinass once said something similar to me.”
“Risinass did?”
“Yeah. The night after my first battle when I joined the party.”
“That guy’s face was worth seeing back then.”
Leo chuckled.
In the first battle, Arron, who was still a young boy, was terrified and hid behind Risinass.
He certainly had great power, but Arron was inexperienced at the time.
“Did Risinass look strange back then?”
“Don’t you remember?”
Leo chuckled.
“Risinass had high expectations for you back then. I was cynical even before joining, so he didn’t expect anything from me. And Luna, whom he recruited, was a troublemaker.”
Risinass had very high expectations for the boy who joined on the recommendation of the noble hero, the Guardians of the Starry Skies.
“But when you got scared and hid behind him, his expression was almost on the verge of tears.”
It was the first and last time Leo had seen such an expression.
“So that’s why Luna was laughing so much.”
Arron scratched his cheek, recalling Luna’s giggling laughter.
“What did you talk about with Risinass that night?”
“I apologized. Said I was sorry for running away. But Risinass said this to me:”
‘It’s okay. You’re still young. Finding courage can wait until after you’re ready to take the stage.’
Arron said, recalling Risinass who had encouraged him with a gentle smile.
“Those words gave me great courage.”
“That’s just like him.”
“Right?”
Arron burst into laughter.
“I never got fully prepared until the end though.”
“Hey, Arron. You keep…”
Leo was about to speak with a frown when,
-Leo-nim. Arron-nim.
Mellina’s voice echoed in their heads.
“What’s wrong?”
-An abnormal situation has occurred at the training grounds.
“Abnormal situation? What kind of situation?”
Leo asked, narrowing his brow.
-Large numbers of demons and monsters have started appearing.
***
Whoooosh-!
Ris raised his sword.
Intense flames erupted from the sword, wrapping around it.
Ris held the sword high and plunged it into the ground.
Whoosh-!
A ring of fire formed around Ris, expanding into a massive circle that swept in all directions.
Grooooooooo!
Graaaaaaah!
Agonized screams of monsters echoed through the air.
Ris withdrew his sword after burning all the monsters in the surrounding area.
‘The presence of monsters is still overwhelming.’
Despite sweeping away monsters with area attacks, there was no sign of the monster appearances diminishing.
‘What exactly is this situation? Has a legion commander invaded?’
The appearance of monsters was far from normal.
At first, only low-grade monsters and demons appeared.
But the grade of the appearing creatures kept rising.
The atmosphere was ominous.
‘At this rate, it wouldn’t be strange if Demons appeared.’
It was literally believable that Tartaros had moved on a large scale.
However, that didn’t mean Demons had revealed themselves.
‘Could it be that Hero Records in the surrounding area have gone berserk?’
Not long ago.
There had been a massive Hero Dungeon rampage.
So such suspicions arose.
Ris, who had been pondering for a moment, shook his head.
‘No, this surrounding area is managed by the Dragon Lord.’
As long as Mellina was here, Hero Dungeons would have been detected long ago.
‘On top of that, Arron is also here.’
Ris gripped his sword firmly.
‘Anyway, stopping these monsters is the priority right now.’
“Ris!”
Then Torua’s voice was heard.
“Over there!”
Torua urgently pointed to the sky.
And upon seeing the wyvern-like magical beasts that revealed themselves, his eyes twitched.
Dragon-type magical beasts with black scales.
This was Ris’s first time seeing them in person.
But he knew what they were.
‘Pafnir.’
The most threatening magical beasts during the Age of Calamity.
Magical beasts that had been completely exterminated by the great heroes.
However, they were magical beasts currently being researched since they had appeared in the Present World several times recently.
Even such Pafnir had appeared.
“It’ll be terrible if they attack the freshmen! Torua!”
“Leave it to me!”
Torua summoned his magic staff, rode on it, and quickly flew up into the sky.
Whooom!
Magic circles formed around Torua’s entire body.
Runic incantations were chanted non-stop from his mouth.
Eventually, Torua reached the front of the Pafnir squadron and released his spell.
“Terminus.”
Flash-!
***
“Terminus?!”
“Could it be graduated seniors?”
“To use terminus magic of that scale. Amazing.”
The Seirun students who were blocking monsters showed expressions of awe at the magic that brightly illuminated the surrounding area as if it were broad daylight.
Meanwhile.
Juwen, who had been hunting magical beasts by shooting magic bullets, paused and muttered.
“Doesn’t seem like an elf?”
“It’s not an elf.”
Rea, who was casting magic beside Juwen, also perked up her ears.
“It’s star magic used by a human.”
“Hmph, then there’s only one mage capable of using magic of that level.”
Juwen grinned.
“It’s Torua!”
“Amazing.”
Rea was genuinely impressed.
Other Seirun students who heard the conversation also widened their eyes.
“I’d like to hear about star magic from her next time.”
Just as Rea was expressing admiration.
Grooooooooo!
A giant ogre roared and charged forward.
Just as Rea was about to use magic upon seeing it.
Whoosh-!
Along with a golden flash, Aina severed the ogre’s head.
Thud-! The severed head shot up into the sky.
A chillingly fast and sharp sword strike.
However, the ogre with its tenacious vitality charged toward the freshmen as if to kill at least one more person before dying.
“As expected of an ogre. Persistent.”
Just as Rea was about to unleash magic.
Flash-!
This time a silver flash flew in and bisected the headless ogre at the waist.
“Wow, incredible.”
“Small but strong.”
“As expected of Lumern’s student representative!”
While other students looked at Luke with admiration.
“Luke Elda! Who told you to steal my kill?!”
“Eek?!”
Rea glared and shouted “Wah-!”
“Why do your eyes go crazy whenever you see Luke?”
“Because he dared to have Leo as a mentor! Before me!”
“You’re dying to devour Luke over such a trivial reason?”
Just as Juwen made an exasperated expression.
Rummmmmmmmmble-!
The ground shook violently.
The freshmen staggered.
“This earthquake is quite severe compared to the last one?”
Juwen showed a surprised expression.
***
Leo narrowed his eyes as he arrived at the Flobe Family territory through the warp gate that Mellina had opened.
Arron lightly waved his hand at the monsters that were roaring and charging toward them.
Whoosh-!
Golden aura burst from Arron’s fingertips, tearing the monsters apart.
“Arron, do you smell any demons?”
Arron shook his head at Leo’s question.
“No. I only smell magical beasts and monsters.”
“What the hell is going on?”
‘After hearing Mellina’s story, I wondered if the Overlord King had made a move. But apparently not.’
It wasn’t any other legion commander either.
There was no way demons could evade Arron’s sense of smell or perception.
Rumble rumble rumble-!
That’s when it happened.
The earth began to shake violently.
‘An earthquake?’
The earthquake was powerful.
Crack-!
The ground shook violently.
It was so intense that the ground began to split open.
‘The Flobe territory isn’t a region where earthquakes of this magnitude occur, is it?’
The crust of the Delard Kingdom is extremely stable.
Both the earth spirits and the fire spirits dwelling in the magma flowing beneath are gentle.
It was strange for an earthquake like this to occur.
Rumble rumble rumble-!
The shaking of the crust stopped.
‘Could this abnormal situation possibly be related to the earthquake?’
That’s when Leo frowned.
“Huh?”
Arron’s bewildered voice was heard.
“What?”
“I smell something.”
“A smell?”
“It’s a stench I’ve smelled before.”
Arron looked down at the ground with a hardened expression.
A foul odor that stimulated his sensitive sense of smell.
It was like burnt ash remnants.
“…The same smell that the fragments of Erebos gave off…the one I smelled in Fairy Land.”
“What?”
Leo’s face hardened.
“But…it’s not completely the smell of ash. Kail.”
Arron’s face turned pale.
“It’s burning.”
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