Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 49

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49

Flutterrrr—!

Chloe held up the Black Grimoire with her right hand, opening it wide.

The array of magical formulas came into view.

Holding her staff in her left hand, she concentrated and began chanting the spell.

Massive magical power began to surge according to the formula.

“Gasp!”

Chubarn’s eyes widened.

He instinctively felt that Chloe’s magic was dangerous.

“Get out of the way! Remnants of the Great Hero!”

“You seem impatient!”

Leo sneered.

Whoosh! Crash—!

Leo gritted his teeth and endured the axe flying toward his waist.

Bang—!

But soon he couldn’t hold on and was sent flying.

It was an attack he would normally have dodged, but he deliberately endured it to buy time.

Leo looked at his grotesquely bent left hand with a fierce smile and gripped his sword with his other hand.

And once again, he stood in Chubarn’s way.

“You bastard!”

“Sorry, but this is the end.”

Simultaneously with Leo’s declaration.

Whoooosh—!

The flames Chloe shot out engulfed Chubarn.

‘Not ice, but flames?’

“Graaaaaaah!”

Chubarn, hit directly by the flames, began writhing in agony.

“No matter how strong the nullification curse is, it’s useless against unextinguishable flames!”

Chloe was right.

Chubarn’s body infinitely repeated the cycle of burning up and returning to normal.

Eventually, the [Nullification] curse exhausted its power.

Whoosh—! Thud—!

Chubarn collapsed.

Around that time, the Alia Party had also defeated all of Chubarn’s subordinates.

Unless it was a demon of Chubarn’s caliber, there was no way the Alia Party would lose.

When Chubarn fell, Chloe excitedly ran to Leo.

“Leo! We defeated Chubarn! We actually defeated Chubarn!”

Chloe hugged Leo tightly in joy.

Then, when she raised her head and found Leo’s face at breathing distance, she made a startled expression.

“Chloe, sorry, but… I broke my left wrist…”

“Ah! S-sorry!”

Chloe’s face turned red as she hurriedly stepped back.

Leo held his broken wrist and looked toward Chubarn.

“Anyway, your original magic is quite impressive.”

“Uh, y-yes… my original magic…”

Chloe trailed off.

Just as Leo was making a puzzled expression at her reaction.

Flare—!

The flames on Chubarn began burning fiercely.

Leo’s eyes twitched.

Roooooar—!

The red flames that had been burning Chubarn’s body gradually began turning black.

Crack—!

“Huh?”

Chloe looked down at her staff in confusion.

There was a crack in the staff’s orb.

“Chloe! Cancel the magic! Quickly!”

At Leo’s shout, Chloe hurriedly tried to cancel the magic.

Whoooooosh—!

Crack crack! Pop—!

“Eek?”

But the orb soon shattered, and the magic began burning even more fiercely.

“W-why?! I can’t control the magic!”

That wasn’t all.

The Black Grimoire in her right hand began drawing on Chloe’s magical power on its own.

Seeing this, Leo tore the grimoire away from Chloe and threw it aside.

Stagger—!

Chloe, drained of her magical power, swayed.

Leo quickly supported Chloe and turned his head toward Chubarn.

“Grooooooooar!”

Chubarn, engulfed in black flames, let out a roar.

“We didn’t finish him off?”

“Chloe.”

“Yes?”

“Tell me the truth.”

Leo looked at Chloe with an expressionless face.

“Your unextinguishable flames. Is it really original magic you created?”

Chloe flinched.

After struggling internally, Chloe looked at the magic running out of control and gritted her teeth.

“No.”

Chloe squeezed her eyes shut.

“It’s actually a magical formula that was in that grimoire.”

‘So it really was Erebos’s flames.’

Everything made sense now.

Why Chloe had been acting strange.

How she had created unextinguishable flames.

“Listen carefully, Chloe. That magic is black magic.”

“What?”

“Originally, it’s magic you can’t use. You knew it too, didn’t you? That the magic wouldn’t activate with just your power.”

“W-what exactly is that grimoire?”

“That’s a demon artifact.”

It was an item that became a powerful weapon when used by demons, but gradually caused humans to lose their sanity when handled by them.

‘I used black magic? And I even presented it as my original magic?’

Chloe’s face turned pale.

“Ah! Ah!”

Chloe wrapped her arms around herself, her face filled with despair.

Watching such Chloe, Leo stepped forward.

“Chloe. I’m counting on you to watch my back.”

“Huh?”

“Nothing has changed. What we need to do is still the same.”

Leo gripped his sword firmly with his intact right hand.

“We’ll deal with that damn demon bastard and conquer the Heroes’ World.”

Leo smiled.

“Thanks to your magic, the nullification curse has disappeared. Right now, that guy is just going berserk in response to dark magic. Now it’s time to deal with him.”

Leo stepped toward Chubarn.

“You know that the final decisive blow is the mage’s job, right?”

Leaving those words behind, Leo walked toward Chubarn.

“W-we’ll help too!”

“That’s right! If we combine our strength!”

Teyad and Dina approached and spoke.

“You’re exhausted. If you mess up, you’ll only get in the way.”

Leo’s ability to hold off Chubarn was only possible because of his overwhelming combat experience.

A battle of wits where he predicted the opponent’s attacks, defenses, and counterattacks while preparing his next move.

That dangerous tightrope walk wasn’t something just anyone could do.

Seeing them grit their teeth, Leo smiled.

“Guard the rear.”

Watching his retreating figure, Chloe stared as if entranced.

A hero meant someone who doesn’t give up when faced with limits.

‘Get up, Chloe Muller!’

Chloe’s eyes, urging herself on, regained their composure.

‘That magic is the only way.’

It was the original magic she had originally conceived but had given up on creating midway.

‘I’ll complete it now!’

Completing an unfinished magic in actual combat was utterly reckless.

But right now, she had to pull it off.

As Chloe reached for her staff, she hesitated upon seeing her destroyed wand.

“Here, Chloe.”

Allia smiled and handed over her own staff.

“Please.”

Taking Allia’s staff, Chloe closed her eyes.

‘I wanted to catch up to Leo somehow.’

But seeing that back silently moving forward, she realized how foolish she had been.

‘To feel something like jealousy… he’s too cool for that.’

Just like the heroes in fairy tales.

That figure boldly challenging his limits was so dazzling.

‘I’ll surpass my limits too, Chloe Muller.’

So as not to shame that back that believed in her.

She began combining the formulas floating in her mind.

Runic words began flowing from Chloe’s lips.

Chloe was combining spell formulas on the spot.

Hearing that incantation, Leo smiled.

‘How amazing.’

He strode forward without hesitation.

‘Why does a pure mage’s runic language give such courage?’

He remembered the old days when he had entrusted his back to Luna.

Leo coldly assessed Chubarn’s remaining strength.

‘Thanks to the dark magic Chloe fired, the most troublesome [nullification] curse has disappeared. Plus, she dealt massive damage.’

Though it led to a rampage, Chubarn wasn’t in perfect condition either.

Leo ignited his aura.

‘I can buy time for the spell to be completed.’

“Graaaaaah!”

An axe blade surrounded by black flames struck down at Leo.

In response, Leo swung his sword filled with red flames upward.

Clang clang clang! Crash!

Leo’s sword deflected Chubarn’s axe blade.

Leo jumped onto the axe embedded in the ground, readied his sword, and charged at Chubarn.

Whoooosh!

Black flames wrapped around Leo, trying to turn him to ash.

Leo wrapped his own flames around his entire body and pushed back the black flames.

Whoosh!

The two flames intertwined.

However, the black flames gradually devoured Leo’s flames, encroaching on his territory.

Seeing this, Leo increased his firepower.

Whoosh! Sizzle!

His flesh burned from the flames he himself emitted.

But Leo didn’t care.

‘Turn it up more. More! More!’

Leo’s red eyes flashed as he shouted.

‘Until I completely burn away these damn flames before my eyes!’

Whoooosh!

Leo’s flames completely pushed back the black flames.

“Graaaah!”

Instinctively sensing danger, Chubarn gripped his axe handle with both hands and swung it toward the sky.

Whoosh!

Leo’s body rose into the air.

Chubarn swung his axe down at Leo.

Leo concentrated his maximized firepower at the tip of his sword.

Clang!

Sword and axe crossed.

And…

Crack!

Leo’s sword cut through the axe.

Swish!

“Graaah!”

Leo’s sword struck the now defenseless Chubarn’s neck.

Thunk!

Chubarn’s head flew through the air.

Leo, who had landed on the ground, looked at Chubarn, whose movements had stopped.

Whoooosh!

The black flames didn’t extinguish but burned even more fiercely.

‘It’s going to explode!’

Just as Leo widened his eyes and braced for impact.

Chloe’s spell chanting stopped.

“Ice World.”

Crackle!

The surrounding area instantly froze solid.

Hiss!

The black flames that had been burning along with Chubarn’s body vanished without a trace.

Crack!

Cracks began to appear on Chubarn’s body.

Saaaaaaah-!

And soon it crumbled into dust and scattered.

[You have rescued the first-year students in danger.]

[You have defeated Chubarn.]

Two notification windows appeared before his eyes.

After confirming them, Leo withdrew his aura.

“Leo!”

Chloe rushed over urgently.

“Are you okay?”

“Thanks to you.”

Leo smiled and pointed to the Black Grimoire scattered on the floor.

“Chloe, you have such amazing magic, so why did you rely on this shitty grimoire?”

“I… I wanted to win somehow.”

Looking at Chloe speaking in a crawling voice, Leo burst into laughter.

“Your real original magic is way more amazing than the magic in this kind of grimoire?”

Leo looked at the frozen area around them.

“Field magic, no less. That’s magic I could never imitate.”

Field magic that turned the surrounding area into one’s own domain was magic that couldn’t be implemented with the Bible.

“I’ve always been most envious of mages who use this kind of magic.”

Chloe looked at Leo, who was clicking his tongue, and said.

“I’m planning to tell the Academy everything about this incident.”

“Huh?”

“About cheating during the magic practical exam presentation. And about what I presented being black magic.”

Chloe lowered her head.

“I might get expelled. But it’s still something I have to do.”

Hearing those words, Leo chuckled.

“You probably won’t get expelled.”

“Huh?”

“Where else would they find another hero candidate like you to expel you?”

Leo raised his right hand and patted Chloe’s head, smiling.

“You’re going to become a hero. I guarantee it.”

Chloe’s face, which had been blankly staring at Leo’s gently smiling face, turned bright red.

“Y-yeah. Th-thank you…”

She lowered her head deeply and answered in confusion.

“Amazing!”

“You really looked like a hero!”

Just then, the Allia Party gathered around and let out cheers.

Looking at them with sparkling eyes, Leo said.

“Talk among yourselves for a moment. I’ll finish up and come back.”

Leo approached the Black Grimoire.

Though faint, it was still emitting an ominous aura.

‘Sen Liu too… and Chloe too. It seems Tartaros is definitely up to something. Now I understand why Albi’s World went berserk and became a Hero Dungeon.’

Leo raised his sword and struck down hard on the Black Grimoire!

Glug! Glug!

Then black blood began flowing out steadily.

The demonic energy was a fragment of Erebos.

It was a part of that enormous being.

When Leo put force into his sword, it soon turned to sand and disappeared.

Leo sheathed his sword and brought his right finger to his temple.

“This is Leo Flobe. Can you hear me?”

-Gasp? Student Leo? Is that Student Leo! Ah! You’re alive! Thank goodness! I’ll release the Heroes’ World immediately.

A panicked voice could be heard from outside.

Since communication was working, it seemed the Heroes’ World had been normalized.

“No, the conquest is almost finished.”

-Excuse me? Conquest?

“It took a while, but please take that into consideration.”

Leo looked at the Allia Party and smiled.

“Leo Flobe from Class 5 and Chloe Muller from Class 1. We defeated Chubarn and rescued the Allia Party.”

“Over here!”

“There are survivors here!”

Just then, urgent voices could be heard from afar.

It was the rescue squad dispatched from Lumern.

“They’re alive!”

“I really thought something was going to happen at one point!”

When Leo cut off communication with the outside, Chloe and Allia approached.

Allia bowed her head to the two.

“Thank you for saving us. Leo-nim, Chloe-nim. I thank you as the party representative.”

“Oh, no. We’re the ones who received a lot of help, right?”

Chloe waved her hands dismissively.

“Allia!”

Just then, a boy wearing glasses urgently shouted from among the rescue squad.

“Brother Albi?”

Allia’s eyes widened as she approached Albi.

“Professor Albi looks completely young.”

“It’s 30 years ago, after all.”

[The safety of the first-year students in danger has been secured.]

[Albi’s World: Prologue – The Chedmothers Incident has been conquered.]

At the message that appeared before her eyes, Chloe slumped down in her spot.

“Really… we succeeded in conquering it with just the two of us.”

“Good work.”

Just as Leo was chuckling.

“Leo-nim! Please accept this! It’s a token of our gratitude!”

“This is all we can give you right now. But this is quite a good magic ring.”

“Thank you for saving us!”

“We’ll definitely repay you properly later!”

The Allia Party members gave accessories they had as tokens of gratitude for the rescue.

Being Lumern students, they were considerably expensive items.

“I’ll give you this. It’s quite a valuable item from our family.”

Allia gave her the staff she had lent to Chloe earlier.

“I don’t need things like this.”

“No. You saved our lives, didn’t you?”

Allia smiled brightly.

At the same time, the world was enveloped in bright light.

The collapse of the world.

It signified the conquest of the Heroes’ World.

In the disappearing world, a message appeared before Leo’s eyes.

[Conquest Reward: Relic]

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