Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 45

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45

“There’s no one here. It’s just the two of us.”

“Let’s analyze the situation. Originally, we should have received Quest alerts as members of the rescue squad along with our other team members. But….”

Chloe looked at the Heroes’ World alert that only she could see.

[Objective: -]

The objective field was blank.

It was the same for Leo.

“This is an abnormal situation.”

“Right.”

After hearing Chloe’s analysis and explanation of the situation, Leo unhesitatingly brought his index finger to his right temple.

The Heroes’ World composed of Hero Record could contact the outside at any time.

“You’re going to contact the outside? But that’s point deduction.”

“This isn’t the time to worry about that.”

As he concentrated, blue light flowed from his index finger.

“This is Leo Flobe. I can’t see the other team members. What should I do?”

Despite his question, there was no answer.

“…No one’s answering?”

“What? That can’t be?”

Surprised, Chloe also urgently tried to contact the outside but failed.

“This is impossible… This isn’t even a Hero Dungeon…!”

Leo asked the panicking Chloe.

“Chloe. Didn’t you notice anything strange when we entered?”

“Something strange?”

“Like the entry message being weird.”

“No, it was exactly the same as what we learned.”

Chloe shook her head as she answered and put her hand to her head.

“Ugh! What on earth is happening.”

“We can’t just stay here like this.”

Chloe, who had been stamping her feet, flinched.

“You’re not suggesting we clear the Heroes’ World now, are you?”

“That’s right.”

“It’s impossible. This is a Heroes’ World that’s hard to clear even with a team of ten people! We won’t be able to achieve the clearing conditions!”

“You know well that staying here doing nothing is more dangerous, right?”

The reason Tartaros caused the Chedmothers incident 30 years ago was to eliminate future threats.

Currently, this entire forest was a trap set by Tartaros.

They couldn’t know when or where danger would strike.

“Then we definitely shouldn’t try to clear it! The exam will be stopped soon anyway.”

“If they could stop it, they would have stopped it already. This is a situation where it wouldn’t be strange to cancel the Heroes’ World, but we’re still in the Heroes’ World. It’s clear they can’t control the Heroes’ World from the outside.”

“No way….”

“Right. I can only think that this world has become a Hero Dungeon.”

Hero Dungeon.

A runaway Hero Record page.

“I’ve never heard of a case where a hero’s page in Hero Record became a Hero Dungeon, not a lost page.”

“But there’s no other way to explain the current situation except for a Hero Dungeon, right?”

Chloe’s face hardened.

“You know there’s only one way to cancel a Hero Dungeon, right?”

That method was clearing it.

Leo’s deduced hypothesis was very reasonable.

Yet Chloe hesitated.

No matter how excellent a student she was, Chloe was still a 15-year-old girl.

She lacked the experience to judge and act coldly.

“You and I are the best among the first years, right? If we plan our strategy well, we can definitely clear it.”

Watching Leo speak with a smile, Chloe clenched her fists tightly.

‘I thought I had caught up.’

She thought she had caught up to Leo through this midterm exam.

But when she came to her senses, Leo was once again far ahead.

‘On top of that, Leo said he even made a strategy. I was panicking and couldn’t think of anything….’

Chloe bit her lips tightly and asked.

‘What is this difference….’

“What’s the strategy?”

“It’s true that we currently lack combat power and can’t achieve the clearing conditions.”

The clearing conditions for the Chedmothers incident were two.

[Rescue the first years in crisis] and [Guarantee the safety of the first years]

This was also why Chloe said clearing was impossible.

While they could somehow fulfill the condition [Rescue the first years in crisis], the condition [Guarantee the safety of the first years] couldn’t be solved by just the two of them.

“So we need to reinforce our party’s combat power first.”

“Reinforce combat power? If this is a Hero Dungeon, entry from outside is impossible. How are you going to reinforce our combat power?”

“We’re not the only Lumern students in this forest right now, are we?”

Hearing Leo’s words, Chloe realized something.

“You want to join forces with the seniors from 30 years ago?”

“Right. If we escape the forest, we can achieve the safety guarantee condition.”

“That’s true. But there are demons ambushed throughout this forest. It’s hard for just the two of us to handle, so can we really join up with the seniors while fighting battles?”

Chloe was right.

For Leo’s strategy to succeed, they had to break through Tartaros’s encirclement.

“Combat definitely has high risks. Especially battles with demons. So we’ll avoid fighting as much as possible.”

“Is that possible?”

“It’s possible. Just trust me. So.”

Leo smiled and showed his back to Chloe as he knelt down.

“Huh?”

“Get on my back.”

“What?! Wh-what are you suddenly saying!”

“You’re a mage so your mobility is low, right? It’s much faster if I carry you and run. Besides, mages need to conserve their stamina as much as possible in situations like this.”

Magic was a game-changing card that could reverse the flow of battle.

“B-but even so, to get on your back? Then I’d be touching your back… touching!”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about, but we don’t have time to delay. Hurry.”

“….”

Chloe, who had been hesitating with a bright red face, reluctantly got on Leo’s back.

“Don’t grab my shoulders, wrap your arms around my neck. Otherwise you’ll fall.”

Chloe wrapped her arms around Leo’s neck.

“Then let’s go.”

Whoosh-!

Using Aura Step, Leo leaped at tremendous speed.

Holding Leo tightly from behind, Chloe thought.

‘In the end, I’m just relying on Leo.’

Her heart sank because she felt like she wasn’t being any help to Leo, whom she considered her rival.

Whoosh-!

Meanwhile, Leo concentrated his mind.

Originally, even with mobility, it would be difficult to break through Tartaros’s encirclement with almost no combat.

But Leo had one method that made it possible.

Aura began to burn within Leo’s body.

Blood vessels bulged at his temples and throughout his body.

Every hair on his body stood on end, and his senses were honed to several times their usual sharpness.

Thump-! Thump-!

The sound of his heartbeat echoed several times louder.

‘Super Sense.’

A technique of the great hero Arron that involved delicately manipulating aura to push all the body’s sensory organs to their limits.

Of course, compared to the original, it was incomparably crude.

‘His Super Sense didn’t just sharpen the senses—it reached the level of predicting the future.’

But it was a sufficient technique for getting through the current situation.

Crack-!

Leo stepped on a tree branch and began racing through the forest at tremendous speed.

***

A giant with a massive frame close to 3 meters tall stood idly in the middle of the forest.

It was Chubarn, a demon dispatched from Tartaros to eliminate the seeds of heroes.

He was staring at several screens floating in the air.

The Lumern first-years were visible on Tartaros’s surveillance network spread throughout the forest.

While searching for targets, one screen caught his attention.

“Has the rescue squad already arrived?”

Chubarn soon lost interest in the two people.

He had been told to eliminate those who interfered, but there was no order to seek them out and deal with them.

There was only one objective.

‘To eliminate the hero candidates who would become future threats.’

As he was about to move to carry out his orders, Leo was just entering combat after encountering monsters.

Leo and Chloe were merely obstacles.

Originally, there would have been no reason for his target to change.

But Chubarn’s gaze was fixed on Leo and Chloe.

More precisely, it was fixed on Leo, who was summoning aura, magic, and spirits.

Clear hostility and hatred burned in Chubarn’s eyes.

Chubarn, who had been glaring at Leo, spat out as if chewing his words.

“Kail!”

***

“Orc pack spotted ahead.”

“Got it.”

Even when trying to avoid combat as much as possible, there were times when fighting was unavoidable.

Now was one of those times.

Chloe chanted an incantation and completed her magic in an instant.

Three ice spikes flew in a straight trajectory toward the direction Leo had indicated.

Thunk-!

“Graaaaaaah!”

The orcs pierced by the ice spikes let out screams.

Five orcs died instantly.

But five orcs still remained.

Graaaah!

The orcs raged, swinging their crude weapons.

The orc at the very back pulled out a horn flute from its waist.

Chloe knew well what that meant.

‘I have to stop it! If I don’t, the orcs will swarm us!’

She hastily chanted an incantation.

But Leo was a beat faster.

He released his right hand that had been supporting Chloe’s thigh and drew his sword.

Shing-!

Then he gripped the sword in reverse and threw it as is.

Whizz! Thunk-!

“Guk?”

The orc’s throat was pierced along with the horn flute.

Leo approached the instantly killed orc, gripped the sword handle, and said.

“Sorry, blood might splatter.”

Swoosh!

He roughly pulled out the sword and swung it toward the back.

Slash! Slice! Crack!

Leo’s sword traced an eerie trajectory.

Where the sword had swept through, the orcs stood as if frozen.

Leo leaped forward, leaving the orcs behind.

Swoosh-!

Then the orcs collapsed, bleeding.

‘Fast.’

Nearly two hours had passed since entering the Heroes’ World.

The total number of battles during that time was seven.

‘Originally, the number of battles should have exceeded twenty.’

Of course, Leo wasn’t running the shortest distance.

But what was important for Leo and Chloe now wasn’t time, but safely joining up with the first-years from 30 years ago.

In that sense, Leo was definitely conserving his strength.

In fact, among the seven battles, there hadn’t been a single fight with demons, and Chloe never had to get down from Leo’s back.

Although they hadn’t encountered any strong monsters, Leo maximized combat efficiency with the most optimized movements.

All Chloe had done was cast magic according to Leo’s instructions.

It seemed almost impossible that this was achievable.

Chloe glanced at Leo’s back.

There was no sign of fatigue at all.

‘To think there would be such a difference in actual combat.’

Just as Chloe bit her lip.

“Found them.”

“Huh?”

Chloe turned her head in the direction Leo was looking.

There, a group of students was confronting mysterious hooded figures.

“That’s…!”

Mysterious hooded figures wearing black hoods.

“Demons?”

Chloe’s face hardened as she sensed the gloomy aura emanating from them.

“Chloe.”

“Yeah.”

“I need support.”

Leo released his hands that had been supporting Chloe’s thighs.

Chloe quickly chanted Fly, a flight magic spell.

Confirming this, Leo activated his aura without delay and descended.

The lead demon confronting the Lumern students shouted.

“Prepare yourself, detestable hero candidate.”

Whoosh-!

A silver flash gleamed above the demon’s head.

Swoosh-!

The demon, split from the crown of its head, bled and crumbled into sand before disappearing.

“It’s been a while. Hunting demons.”

The demons were flustered at the sight of Leo who had suddenly intruded.

“What the hell are you doing!”

“Me?”

Leo smiled coldly.

“I’m the person who’s going to kill you bastards.”

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