Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 467
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467.
The city was burning.
This was the Tibun Marquessate, a frontier territory of the Carnel Kingdom.
Among them, it was a city located in the outer district.
Originally, it had been a fairly large-scale agricultural city.
But as the war intensified, the flames of conflict finally reached even this place.
The city and villages burned.
Places that had been people’s homes were turning to ash.
The Petimen Kingdom Army threw torches in their hands into houses, fanning the flames.
One of the Petimen knights commanding soldiers on horseback pointed his sword tip at the refugee procession outside.
“Behold, proud soldiers of Petimen! There are the vile remnants of Carnel! Don’t let a single one escape and strike them down!”
The soldiers flinched at the resounding cry of the knight at the front.
Seeing their hesitant reaction, the knight barked sharply.
“What are you doing! Hurry up and chase down those bastards!”
“M-My lord! No matter how I look at them, those are refugees, not Carnel remnants.”
There couldn’t have been any remnants of the Carnel Kingdom Army in the first place.
The Carnel Kingdom had recently been defeated in an all-out war with the Petimen Kingdom and had greatly withdrawn their soldiers.
While the Carnel Kingdom Army pulled back their forces to reorganize, the Petimen Kingdom Army was occupying Carnel Kingdom territory.
There was no reason for battle.
Even the common soldiers knew this fact.
“Foolish ones! The moment swords and spears are placed in their hands! They become an army of evil threatening our proud Petimen!”
The one who appeared to be the Knight Captain barked at the soldiers.
With bloodshot eyes, he shouted while spitting.
“In His Majesty’s name! Root out evil! Establish justice! That is your mission! You proud soldiers of the Petimen Kingdom Army! Slaughter them all!”
“B-But my lord! There are elderly and children among them…”
The Knight Captain’s eyes twitched as he saw the soldier trying to persuade him.
“You dare to disobey orders now?”
The Knight Captain dismounted and approached the soldier.
“It’s not disobedience.”
Thunk-!
“Guhk?”
The Knight Captain’s sword pierced the soldier’s abdomen.
The soldier who had been twitching and coughing blood collapsed.
“Ignorant fools who live under His Majesty’s grace yet don’t recognize it.”
Disgust rose in the Knight Captain’s eyes.
“You who have betrayed His Majesty’s grace are no longer the great Petimen Kingdom Army but traitors. Knights.”
Shing-!
Along with the Knight Captain’s ominous voice, the Petimen Knight Order drew their swords.
The soldiers’ faces turned pale at the sight.
“Execute these lawless traitors!”
“Glory to His Great Majesty the King!”
“Justice is with us!”
The knights who unleashed their aura tried to slaughter their own subordinate soldiers.
“Aaaaah!”
“P-Please don’t do this!”
The soldiers fled in terror.
They each held weapons.
But they couldn’t even think of fighting against the knights.
Having experienced the battlefield, they knew all too well.
How meaningless it was to fight against knights who wielded aura.
The Knight Captain sneered as he watched the soldiers fleeing in terror.
“Since they were once under His Majesty’s name, they should meet death reverently. What a sight, fleeing so disgracefully. Indeed, there’s no way to save such frivolous trash.”
The Knight Captain gripped his sword properly toward the soldier lying on the ground, still twitching.
“You die too.”
The moment he swung his sword to end the life of his former subordinate.
Grab-!
“From what I can see, the irredeemable trash would be you lot.”
An outstretched hand seized the Knight Captain’s sword.
The Knight Captain’s body trembled as he looked at the one who had grabbed his hand.
Cold red eyes were looking at him.
“What are you doing! Are you a lackey of the Carnel Kingdom!”
The Knight Captain roughly swung his sword and barked.
But the sword caught in Leo’s hand didn’t budge at all.
‘What kind of strength is this!’
The Knight Captain’s eyes widened at Leo’s unimaginable strength as he unleashed his aura.
“I’ll cut off your hand along with it!”
Along with that, aura exploded from the sword like a burst.
The Knight Captain’s face, which had been wearing a confident smile, turned to shock.
The sword still didn’t move an inch from Leo’s hand.
Leo applied force to his hand.
Crack-!
“Guhk?!”
The sword exploded along with its aura.
Along with that, fragments of the sword and aura scattered in all directions.
The fragments couldn’t even scratch Leo, but the Knight Captain’s body became torn rags.
Lil appeared before the knights who were trying to slaughter the soldiers.
“As knights who stepped onto the battlefield, trying to cut down your subordinates. Aren’t you ashamed?”
At Lil’s cry, the knight at the front swung his spear.
“I don’t know what kind of wench you are, but blocking our path! You must want to die!”
Along with the shout, the aura-infused spear aimed at Lil.
Whoosh-!
But Lil drawing her battle hammer and sending the knight flying was faster than the spear reaching her.
Crack-!
“Guhk?!”
The knight struck directly by the battle axe floated in the air then crashed into the ground.
“A knight sent by the Carnel Kingdom!”
Lil glanced over the ten knights surrounding her with aura-wrapped weapons, raised her battle hammer, and struck the ground.
Bang-!
Along with that, a wave of earth rose up and swallowed the knights whole.
“Kyaaaah!”
The knights’ death cries echoed.
Shortly after, the knights poked their heads out like moles with their mouths blocked.
Lil approached them with her battle hammer on her shoulder and said.
“Be grateful that I’m here as a Lumern student. If I had come here on family business, I would have smashed your heads to pieces.”
The knights trembled in fear as they watched Lil speak in an ominous voice.
Leo, who had been watching this scene, took out a potion from his chest and treated the injured soldier’s abdomen.
Then he approached the Knight Captain and said.
“I have something I want to ask.”
“You bastards… you’re not Carnel people! What are your identities!”
The Knight Captain screamed frantically at Leo’s question.
“Can’t you tell from these clothes?”
Leo spoke as if he found it annoying to even answer.
At those words, the Knight Captain’s body trembled and he ground his teeth.
“Lumern?! Lumern should maintain neutrality! Oh ho! Those evil Canel bastards have dragged Lumern into this! Have some shame! How dare those who aim to be heroes side with evil!”
The Knight Captain, whose eyes had gone mad, screamed.
Seeing this, Leo narrowed his eyes.
‘Communication won’t work.’
“Long live His Great Majesty the King! Justice will be with the Petimen Kingdom!”
Leo raised his foot toward the Knight Captain who was screaming with a crazed appearance.
“The Justice Guild will punish you bastards…!”
Crack-!
Leo irritably stomped on the Knight Captain’s head.
‘Justice Guild?’
Leo narrowed his eyes at the last words the soldier uttered before fainting.
Justice Guild.
It was a place Leo knew about too.
None other than a Hero Guild.
Among human Hero Guilds, it was ranked 3rd after Twilight and Imperial.
‘Is the Justice Guild involved in this war?’
Leo was feeling puzzled when it happened.
Thud thud thud thud thud-!
The sound of hoofbeats that shook the earth could be heard.
When he turned his head, he could see knights running at full speed, waving flags embroidered with a familiar crest.
Leo checked the commission request from his pocket.
‘The Tybun family crest.’
They were none other than knights belonging to the Tybun Viscounty that had submitted the commission to Lumern.
“Whoa whoa!”
What the young knight leading them was riding was none other than a griffin.
A knight who rode a magical beast.
Anyone could see he was a high-ranking knight.
The young knight checked Leo and Lil’s attire and made a bewildered expression.
“Lumern uniforms? How are Lumern students here?”
Looking at the young knight who wore a puzzled expression, Leo showed him the commission request.
“We are students dispatched from Lumern to solve the Hero’s Tomb grave robbing investigation commission. We would like to meet with the commissioner, Viscount Relgen Tybun.”
At those words, the young knight dismounted from his griffin and stood before Leo.
“Thank you for responding to the commission. However, the commissioner does not exist.”
“What does that mean?”
Lil, who stood beside Leo, tilted her head.
“My grandfather passed away a month ago. The current Viscount Tybun is not Relgen Tybun, but me, Esimen Tybun.”
Viscount Esimen, who removed his helmet and smiled bitterly, spoke as if troubled.
“I’m grateful that you responded to the commission. But you’ve visited at a truly difficult time, Lumern students.”
At Viscount Esimen’s words, Lil made a serious expression.
Looking at such Esimen, Leo said.
“Could you explain the situation?”
At those words, Esimen nodded.
“Understood. First, it seems we should detain the Petimen Kingdom’s knights and soldiers. I’ll explain the situation afterward.”
At those words, Lil made a serious expression.
“It feels like things are more serious than we thought, Leo.”
“…”
“Leo? Is something wrong?”
“That’s right.”
Leo, who had been looking up at the sky for a moment at Lil’s words, clicked his tongue.
‘Someone is watching this way from far away.’
Leo’s super senses detected a gaze.
“It seems something is happening.”
***
“You all know well about the history of the northeastern continent.”
“Yes. 1,000 years ago, after the Tarim Empire fell, the divided kingdoms have continued endless conflicts.”
The Tarim Empire.
It was a nation of heroes that existed in the northeastern continent.
And the Tarim Empire was the most powerful human nation after the Age of Heroes.
The one who founded Tarim was from the same era as the Heroes of the Cataclysm.
Precisely, he was a hero from one generation before the Heroes of the Cataclysm, recorded in the Hero Record as the Knight of the Underworld, Tamus.
But people knew him by a more famous epithet than Knight of the Underworld.
Hero Emperor.
He was a man who was the strongest hero of his time and had numerous heroes as his subordinates.
During Tamus’s lifetime, the Tarim Empire was called the Hero Empire because so many heroes had gathered in the kingdom.
‘Well, he must have been impressive, but by now he’s become a complete object of ridicule.’
After the fragment of Erebos was resurrected.
The Knight of the Underworld Tamus declared the subjugation of Erebos.
However, the Tarim Empire’s Hero Legion was defeated by the armies of the Monster Queen and Giant King, let alone Erebos.
Of course, even though they were defeated, the Tarim Empire remained intact.
The empire continued for another 2,000 years after the end of the Return of Calamity.
This meant that Tarim possessed such tremendous power.
However, after the first battle, the Knight of the Underworld and the Tarim Empire did not enter the battlefield to preserve their own forces.
The reason they are ridiculed in later generations is because of this.
But anyway, since it was the most powerful nation in history, the legacy it left behind was also enormous.
Based on that legacy, even after the empire fell and split into numerous countries, many heroes were born in the northeastern continent.
However, after long years of war, it was now a region where the seeds of heroes had dried up.
Recalling the history of the northeastern continent, Leo said.
“I understand that the northeast has fought for a long time, but since war has become routine in the region, they don’t cross the line?”
More precisely, they couldn’t cross the line.
It was true that wars never ceased as they claimed to be the legitimate successor state of the Tarim Empire and tried to monopolize Tarim’s legacy.
However, due to 1,000 years of conflict, bloody massacres no longer occurred.
Precisely, they had lost even the foundation to wage such wars.
For 1,000 years they had hated each other and pointed swords at one another, but now even the strength to wage war had been completely exhausted.
The wars didn’t stop due to remaining resentment.
However, the northeastern continent nations knew that mutual destruction would result the moment full-scale massacres began.
The northeastern wars had become a kind of land-grabbing situation where they would retreat at the slightest disadvantage, and the winning side would only take occupied territory without pursuing further.
Other regions even called this ‘fake war.’
At Leo’s question, Esimen let out a deep sigh.
“The political situation in this region changed a month ago.”
At those words, Lil made a puzzled expression.
“Did some external force intervene?”
“Yes.”
Hearing that answer, Leo crossed his arms.
“Is it related to the Justice Guild by any chance?”
“That’s correct.”
***
“Your Majesty. Today as well, Your Majesty’s great soldiers have brought news of victory. With this, Your Majesty’s territory has expanded even further.”
“Indeed.”
The King of Petimen curled up the corners of his mouth as he watched the woman bow her head while speaking.
“What do you think is the reason for my army’s victory, Sir Jerome?”
The King of Petimen asked the man standing beside him.
“Isn’t there only one reason why Your Majesty’s army achieves victory?”
Jerome smiled broadly.
“It’s because justice is with Your Majesty. As the true legitimate heir of Tarim, it’s only natural that all these lands become yours.”
“Hehehe! Hahahahaha! Sir Jerome’s words always lift my spirits!”
Jerome Cadium, the leader of the Justice Guild, spoke while watching the King of Petimen burst into loud laughter.
“Soon, countless heroes will be born among Your Majesty’s subordinates.”
“Really?”
The King of Petimen smiled brightly.
Jerome nodded as he looked at the King of Petimen.
“Of course. Real war gives birth to heroes.”
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