Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 484
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484.
“Aaaaaahhhhh!”
One of the mage heroes was screaming in near agony while casting magic.
Thwack-!
However, before the magic could be completed, he died, split in half from head down by Tamus’s sword.
Jerome’s face hardened.
‘What the hell went wrong?’
Light Seeker. Jerome.
He thought of himself as a chosen human.
Jerome was not born into a good family.
He came from an ordinary commoner farming household.
But his talent was exceptional from childhood.
He formed a contract with spirits before even learning to read.
And it was a contract with light spirits, said to be the most difficult to contract with.
Everyone around him praised him as a chosen human.
After growing up, he naturally enrolled in Lumern.
Lumern Academy, where the greatest talents gathered.
Even in that place where countless people dreaming of becoming heroes gathered, Jerome’s specialness was extraordinary.
Countless descendants of prestigious families and nobility.
Even in Lumern, filled with descendants of renowned heroes, Jerome was the best.
He claimed the position of class representative and later rose to the position of student council president.
‘Jerome is special.’
Having been told he was special even in a place where special people gathered, Jerome lived with even greater conviction that he was special.
After graduation, he naturally joined the Justice Guild.
He quickly obtained the title of hero and also became guild master at a young age.
He was naturally evaluated as the hero who would succeed the Sword Saint.
Later, he researched the Hero Record and discovered the concept of karma.
He had found the method to receive God’s selection.
Jerome thought of himself as someone who always shined.
He came to believe that his thoughts were always the correct answer and justice.
He came to believe that he was the human who would drive away the darkness of this world.
‘I will guide this world full of darkness with light.’
If heroes were God’s representatives.
He believed he could become the king of heroes who leads those representatives.
But….
Kwagagagagang-!
“Kugh?!”
Jerome, who summoned a highest-grade light spirit to block the pitch-black aura covering his front, was sent flying.
‘Is this truly the power of a human?’
Jerome looked with eyes filled with shock.
“Guild Master! Help me….”
Another executive desperately shouted toward Jerome.
Crack-!
However, his head was caught in Tamus’s hand and burst pathetically.
It was too miserable a death to be considered the end of someone who had reached the position of hero.
And with him as the last, all the Justice Guild heroes except Jerome were annihilated.
Tamus and Jerome faced off.
“Indeed, did you gain tremendous power through a contract with the Overlord King?”
“That doesn’t seem to be the case at all?”
At the voice heard from behind, Jerome turned his head.
There stood Leo with Nox, the great sword made by Dweno, slung over his shoulder.
“Probably the power he had when he was alive?”
“Foolish words. Do you think it’s possible for a human to possess such power?”
At those words, Leo looked at Jerome as if incredulous.
“You, aren’t you from Lumern?”
“That’s right, but?”
“Then isn’t there something you heard sickeningly often throughout your time at school?”
“What are you talking about?”
“Surpass your limits, isn’t that our school’s motto?”
“Nonsense. Are you planning to lecture me while bringing up such dreamlike stories?”
Jerome said curtly.
“Even I find it impossible to reach such a level.”
“That’s because your level only amounts to that much.”
“What?”
“You managed to become a hero. How did you overcome the trials?”
“Trials? Hmph. I overcame them all easily.”
“….”
At those words, Leo looked at Jerome and chuckled.
“I see. You’ve never experienced a trial even once.”
“What do you know about me? I overcame countless trials and achieved great feats.”
“It might have been trials and great feats for others, but not for you.”
Trials are relative.
Just as the freshmen’s trials aren’t particularly difficult problems for Leo now.
Leo could tell that Jerome had lived his entire life in a greenhouse.
‘He would have avoided dangerous situations at all costs.’
“And yet you dare to call yourself a hero.”
“What did you say?”
“You’re not a hero.”
The moment Jerome was about to flare up at Leo’s words.
“Leooooo!”
Tamus’s enraged voice echoed upon discovering Leo, and simultaneously a massive pitch-black sword strike covered Leo.
“Huk!”
Seeing this, Jerome gasped and quickly summoned spirits.
Then he deployed Spirit Armored and fled.
‘A foolish one who doesn’t know how vast the world is. He’s courting death with reckless bravery.’
It was when Jerome was sneering at Leo, who didn’t budge from his spot.
Flash-!
As Leo deployed his aura, gray aura formed on his great sword.
Leo gripped the sword with both hands and deflected the descending pitch-black aura upward.
Boom-!
The collision of massive aura against aura caused the surrounding space to distort for an instant.
A tingling sensation transmitted through his fingertips.
Under the tremendous pressure, Leo curled up the corners of his mouth.
“Indeed, your skill alone is certain.”
Swoosh-!
Leo deflected the pitch-black aura.
He had deflected the unimaginably powerful force with technique.
Whoosh-!
At that moment, the pitch-black aura that had lost its destination headed toward the ground.
“Hm? Kuhek?”
Jerome, who had been fleeing in desperation, turned his head at the enormous force he felt from behind.
And seeing the pitch-black aura flying toward him, his eyes widened in shock.
He hastily drew up his spiritual power to create a shield with light fairies.
Crack—!
“Kugh?”
But the pitch-black aura mercilessly pierced through Jerome’s light shield as if mocking his power, blowing away Jerome’s arm.
Whoosh—!
“Kraaaagh!”
It had only grazed him.
But Jerome’s right arm was blown away all too easily.
As Jerome, clutching his shoulder blade and screaming, fell toward the ground.
[Your hero qualification has been revoked.]
Jerome’s eyes widened, forgetting even to scream at the message that appeared before his eyes.
***
“What did you do to me?”
Roooooar—!
Tamus, wrapped in pitch-black aura all over his body, asked in a voice filled with killing intent.
Looking at such Tamus, Leo said.
“Nothing much.”
Leo said indifferently, shouldering Nox.
“I happened to have a conversation with a god recently. He told me that the Hero Record was a gift the gods gave to Kail.”
“A gift given to Kail?”
“That’s right. But when the Hero Record was created, I was already dead. So it became a gift to the earthly realm.”
Leo curled up the corners of his mouth.
“In other words, the original owner is me. The gods wrote records in the Hero Record according to their preferences, but the recording authority originally belonged to me. Then wouldn’t it be natural to have deletion authority too?”
Tamus’s body trembled at Leo’s words.
“You… are you really the Hero of the Beginning, Kail?”
“When have I ever denied it?”
“Then why don’t you acknowledge me!”
Tamus shouted.
“I slaughtered countless Tartaros Demons during my lifetime! I defeated legion commanders! I also reigned over heroes! I am the greatest hero! But why! How! Why! Why don’t you acknowledge me! Why do you strip me of my hero title! I am a chosen human!”
“If you’re so great yourself, why are you obsessed with my successor position? Why are you obsessed with the hero position in the first place?”
“Because heroes are chosen humans! Because you are the strongest among those chosen humans! Because you are a unique existence!”
“Geez. That guy too, and now you really love supremacist ideology.”
Leo clicked his tongue and said.
“If you want my successor position so badly, I’ll tell you the method.”
“What is it?”
Leo pointed downward with his finger.
“Save.”
“What?”
“Save the world like I did.”
“…”
“Ah, Lumern already saved the world once first, right? And you turned away from the world’s crisis at that time, didn’t you?”
Leo curled up the corners of his mouth.
“Be honest. You made excuses about Rodia, but weren’t you actually scared?”
“What… did you say?”
“You must have known you wouldn’t be able to save the world anyway. You thought it would be a dog’s death.”
Tamus’s body trembled.
“Seems I hit the mark.”
“…I don’t need it. Your successor position or whatever.”
Roooooar—!
Pitch-black aura flowed from Tamus’s body.
“I’m not interested in the hero title either. I’ll kill you and make you serve as a spirit.”
Whoosh—!
Tamus raised his greatsword.
Seeing this, Kirran said.
—If we’re talking about pure power alone, he’s on par with a Dragon Lord?
“That’s right.”
—Can you win?
At Kirran’s question, Leo curled up the corners of his mouth and extended his hand.
Then Cometes was summoned.
“Terminus.”
As Leo chanted the incantation, powerful star magic swirled.
Then Leo raised the hand holding his greatsword.
Leo steadied his breathing.
He activated his aura with Arron’s breathing technique.
Then golden aura surged from Nox.
Seeing this, Tamus’s body trembled for a moment.
‘Ajonia and Seirun?’
It was as if he was seeing his former comrades, the great warrior Ajonia and the Comet Mage Seirun.
‘No, in this case, it’s the power of Arron and Luna!’
No matter what anyone said, the one before his eyes was the Hero of the Beginning.
Tamus, who had conquered the World of the Great Heroes several times, knew.
Kail’s true strength.
“Hmph! No matter how great you are, you couldn’t have regained all your past life’s power yet! Then I have the advantage in strength!”
At Tamus’s shout, Leo burst into laughter.
“Larel.”
At Leo’s call, the great spirit of light, Larel, revealed herself.
Tamus’s complexion changed drastically.
Larel was glaring at Tamus with eyes full of disgust.
“Larel… why are you still alive…”
[Don’t talk to me. Trash.]
Seeing Larel, who was Rodia’s covenant partner, Tamus’s pupils shook.
At that moment.
Leo crossed Nox and Cometes.
The weapons made by Dweno resonated with each other.
“Enchant.”
Leo enchanted Nox with Terminus.
Roooooar—!
The power surged dramatically due to the fusion of magic and aura.
Moreover, the fused powers were none other than the power of the Progenitor of the Starry Skies and the hero.
And that wasn’t the end.
Leo fused Larel with Nox using Spirit Armed.
“What the…!”
Tamus’s face was colored with shock at the absurd ability to fuse the strongest magic with a great spirit.
Power beyond imagination swirled.
Leo raised Nox.
“There’s something I need to correct. I’m not particularly the strongest or anything like that.”
Leo curled up the corners of his mouth.
“I’m just temporarily holding onto their power.”
The fusion of aura, mana, and spirit power.
And it was the combined strength of three Great Heroes.
Tamus’s body trembled at that overwhelming power.
‘Come to think of it, Hero Record’s ability is similar to mine.’
Leo, who lived in that era as an All-Class.
Risinass made one request to that Leo.
‘Kail, since you learn and master everything well, how about teaching others the abilities of our fallen comrades?’
The dead don’t leave behind only corpses and belongings.
The skills they honed during their lifetime also remain.
Among the techniques that those who stood together on the battlefield couldn’t pass down to future generations, Kail transmitted what he remembered to posterity.
In the case of martial arts, by learning through observation.
In the case of magic, by recording it in the Bible.
In the case of spirits and familiars, he made temporary contracts with surviving spirits and familiars to transfer the contracts to qualified individuals.
The Record System that Pibua had explained before was simply a record.
‘Pibua didn’t know about the conquest rewards either.’
Various gods combined their powers to implement a new system.
That was precisely the conquest rewards.
Leo chuckled softly, then his red eyes flashed.
“Then shall we finish this?
Your story will never be passed down to future generations, Tamus.”
-I can’t die like this!
Tamus desperately tried to escape the battlefield.
Seeing this, Leo gripped Nox in reverse and took a throwing stance.
“Where do you think you’re running?”
Leo spoke coldly and hurled Nox.
Whoosh-!
Flash!
“Kraaaaaaaaaaaaak!”
Nox, embedded in Tamus’s back, erupted with tremendous light and exploded.
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