Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 46

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46

“Reinforcements?”

“That’s right.”

Leo gave a short answer to the brown-haired female student’s question and kicked off the ground.

Then he charged at the nearest demon.

The demon hastily spread its palm toward Leo.

Whooom!- Pugagagagagak-!

A black summoning circle formed in front of Leo, and human head-sized dark red leeches poured out from within.

“Ah! That’s dangerous!”

The female student cried out urgently.

‘Gorgoros leeches.’

They were magical beasts that clung to bodies to suck blood, making them poorly matched against knights who fought in close combat.

And if you carelessly cut them, acidic blood would spill out.

‘Normally they’d be troublesome to deal with, normally that is.’

Whoooosh-!

Fiercely blazing flame aura erupted from Leo’s sword.

Jerdinger’s flames instantly turned the Gorgoros leeches to ash.

The female student who had warned of danger was amazed.

“In, incredible!”

‘Seeing that it uses Gorgoros leeches, it doesn’t seem to be a very high-ranking demon.’

In the case of demons, you could tell their rank by looking at the techniques they used.

The magical beasts now were ones that low-ranking soldier-class demons favored using.

‘There’s no great danger. It’s better to attack quickly now.’

Leo, who had quickly analyzed their combat power in his head, closed the distance without delay.

Slash-!

The demon’s head flew through the air.

“To take down two in an instant!”

The brown-haired female student clenched her fists tightly.

Whooom-!

At that moment, Chloe in the sky also completed her magic.

“Ice Bullet.”

A large quantity of ice projectiles poured down toward the demons.

Pababababababat-!

The demons hastily threw their bodies to avoid the barrage of ice bullets, but this caused their formation to crumble.

“Good! I’m going too!”

This time, one of the male students who had been standing back gripped his spear properly and charged.

“Haaah!”

Crack!

“Guhek!”

The demon with its chest pierced turned to ash and disappeared.

‘Good skills.’

Leo, who was impressed watching that scene, turned his gaze toward the brown-haired female student.

She was chanting an incantation with both hands pressed together.

Zing-!

When she separated her touching hands, several small orbs of light were created there.

“Arc Ray!”

Kigigigiging!

As the magic was completed, the light orbs scattered in all directions, drawing noisy trajectories as they poured toward the demons.

Leo, who had identified the nature of that magic, was impressed.

‘Star magic.’

Even though they were both first-years, Leo with his past life memories and the female student were completely different.

‘Incredible magical sense.’

While Leo was impressed, one demon that took a direct hit from the light orbs was torn apart without a trace.

The number of remaining demons was six.

The demons who had lost their comrades began forming their ranks again.

‘Demon soldiers may be weak in strength, but their coordination is good.’

They had destroyed the formation with an initial surprise attack, but if they rebuilt their formation like that again, they’d be troublesome to deal with.

Leo took out four daggers he had prepared as backup weapons from inside his clothes and gripped them in his right hand.

Then he charged toward the demons.

“Foolish one.”

Seeing Leo attack recklessly without preparation, the demons sneered.

Whooom-!

But the moment a magic circle appeared on his right hand, their expressions changed completely.

“A magic swordsman!”

While the demons were on guard, Leo threw the daggers he was holding.

The demons who dodged those daggers prepared for magical attacks.

But when there was no sign of magic coming, they immediately switched to offense.

“Was it just a threat?”

“Using shallow tricks.”

The four demons in the lead surrounded Leo as if to encircle him.

But the movements of those who had been moving nimbly suddenly stopped as if caught by something.

“What?”

The demons hastily looked behind them.

The daggers Leo had thrown were precisely embedded in their shadows.

It was shadow magic that captured shadows, Shadow Hold.

Dark attribute magic had its power halved against demons.

Indeed, the moment the demons recognized it, the magic was immediately dispelled.

But that brief moment was more than enough time for Leo.

Whoosh-! Thwack! Crunch! Puhwak!

“Krak?!”

“Guhek!”

Leo’s sword drew trajectories of flame as it slaughtered the demons.

Shuak-!

At that moment, black blades shot up from the floor and struck at Leo.

It was dark magic used by the demons who had been in the rear.

Runic words instantly flowed from Leo’s mouth.

Then the dark magic lost its power and scattered.

“Dispelling dark magic?”

The brown-haired female student was shocked.

Kwagagagagak-!

A bone-chilling ice wind struck the defenseless demons.

Jjeojeojeojeojeok-!

Leo approached the frozen demons and gave them a light push.

Chaenggeulang-!

The demons’ bodies shattered like breaking glass and turned to ash before disappearing.

“That was excellent, Chloe.”

“…”

“What? Do you have something to say?”

“Why did you use dark attribute magic against the demons?”

“Ah, that?”

Leo laughed as if it was nothing.

“Demons rarely prepare for dark attribute magic. That’s why you can catch them off guard with simple spells.”

“You dispelled the dark magic instead of avoiding it? That could have been dangerous if something went wrong.”

“That’s true. But with that level of dark magic, it’s actually safer to dispel it if you can rather than dodge it. Dark magic may have a different magical system, but it’s still composed of spell formulas in the end. If it’s simple dark magic, you can dispel it quickly. It’s a technique you can do too.”

‘Being able to do that quickly in actual combat is a completely different story!’

What came naturally as breathing to Leo, who had fought demons to the point of exhaustion in his previous life, was an overwhelming amount of experience that a 15-year-old girl could never obtain.

‘Just how many moves ahead did he predict and act?’

It was when Chloe’s eyes wavered.

“Thank you for helping us!”

A brown-haired girl greeted them with a cheerful smile.

“You’re from the rescue squad, right?”

“That’s right.”

“I was worried because demons suddenly appeared, but I’m relieved that the rescue squad came!”

Chloe’s face hardened when she confirmed the face of the brightly smiling female student.

Chloe spoke urgently.

“Sorry, but I’d like to talk with my colleague alone for a moment.”

“Huh? Oh, yes.”

At Chloe’s words, the girl returned to where her team members were, looking confused.

“What’s wrong?”

“That female student is Allia Jereon!”

“Allia Jereon? You don’t mean?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

The Heroes’ World was something that happened in the past.

However, depending on how the challenger acts, it could create results different from actual history.

During the incident 30 years ago, several first-year parties were deployed for monster subjugation.

The first-year midterm exam assignment was to rescue those parties.

“As you know, the party that Allia Jereon belongs to is.”

Chloe gulped down dry saliva.

“A party that absolutely cannot be saved in the Chedmothers incident.”

***

“Of all parties to encounter, it had to be Allia’s party.”

Chloe stamped her feet anxiously.

There was an absolute reason why Allia’s party couldn’t avoid total annihilation.

“Dark Warrior Chubarn. He never changes his target.”

Chubarn.

During the incident 30 years ago, he was the demon who single-handedly annihilated four out of seven parties that received missions before being subjugated by Albi.

The party that Chubarn targeted first was precisely Allia’s party.

‘More precisely, he was targeting Allia Jereon.’

Chloe glanced at Allia, who was talking with her friends.

Allia Jereon.

She was a direct descendant of Jereon, one of Lumeria’s three renowned hero families, and the class representative at the time.

She was also the younger sister of Albi, the Mage of the Arcane Eye.

Thanks to her outstanding talent, she was still occasionally mentioned among professors even 30 years later.

However, that outstanding talent ended up taking her life.

The reason Tartaros caused the Chedmothers incident was precisely to eliminate the seeds of future heroes.

That’s why Allia Jereon became the very first target.

This was exactly why Allia’s party couldn’t avoid total annihilation.

In any situation, once the Heroes’ World began, Chubarn would first annihilate Allia’s party above all else.

“Do you remember what our homeroom professor said when he announced the exam assignment?”

At Chloe’s words, Leo recalled Hallind’s words.

‘With your current abilities, you absolutely cannot defeat a Knight-class demon. If you encounter Chubarn, you must flee unconditionally. If escape isn’t feasible, abandon the exam. Then I’ll at least give you special consideration. If there’s any fool who disobeys this order and fights.’

At the end, Hallind threatened with genuine killing intent.

‘Whoever it is, I’ll expel them immediately.’

“With our current abilities, he’s absolutely not an opponent we can defeat.”

“Are you saying we should abandon them?”

“I feel uneasy too! But Leo! Now is the time to think rationally. This is the Heroes’ World, and in reality, those people are…”

Chloe, who had been hesitating, opened her mouth.

“Those people are dead. We’re not in a position to help dead people right now.”

“That’s true. But Chloe.”

“Leo! Get a grip! Yes! You’re amazing! You’re great! I acknowledge it!”

Leo’s eyes widened at the sudden outburst.

Chloe glared at Leo with all her might and said.

“But now isn’t the time for reckless actions! So please listen to me! Playing hero and such can wait until later…!”

Chloe, who had been shouting as if frustrated, stopped speaking.

Before she knew it, Leo’s index finger was touching Chloe’s lips.

“You shouldn’t say such things carelessly, Chloe.”

“What? What do you mean.”

“You shouldn’t say things like ‘playing hero.'”

“Why?”

“Because you’re a hero candidate.”

Chloe drew in a breath.

“You entered Lumern because you dreamed of becoming a hero, right? So this isn’t playing hero.”

Leo smiled broadly.

“It’s the process of becoming a hero.”

Leo was right.

A hero is someone who makes the impossible possible.

But at some point, she had forgotten that goal.

‘I was too busy trying to keep up… I didn’t have time to think about such things.’

Dark emotions blazed in her chest.

“And history has already gone off course.”

“What?”

“It means a way to save those kids who absolutely couldn’t be saved has appeared.”

“A way to save them has appeared?”

“Think carefully, Chloe. The sun is already setting. Isn’t that strange?”

“The sun is setting? Ah!”

Chloe’s eyes widened as she realized something.

“That’s right. Originally, Allia’s party should have already fallen to Chubarn’s hands by this time.”

The gears of history had already gone off track.

“It’s already been 3 hours since we entered the Heroes’ World. If Chubarn had attacked other parties, it would be more than enough time for them all to be annihilated.”

If you fail to achieve the clear conditions in a Hero Dungeon, you become stranded in the Heroes’ World.

It was a crossroads of choice.

The option to take Allia’s party, who had escaped Chubarn’s target, and escape the forest to achieve the [Safety Guarantee] condition.

Or the option to look for other parties according to the existing strategy route.

Chloe, who had been conflicted, gritted her teeth.

“I’ll leave it to your judgment.”

“Understood.”

Leo looked at Allia’s party.

“Let’s escape with Allia’s party.”

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