Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 498
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498.
As the Twilight Festival period approached, all of Lumern was bustling with a festive atmosphere.
The Twilight Festival was a festival to honor Lumern.
Therefore, the Lumern students also made various preparations for the Twilight Festival.
Some clubs even prepared special performances for the Twilight Festival.
“Clubs? This school really is lively.”
Luna smiled brightly as she watched Lumern bustling with club activities.
“It’s completely different from the school I attended.”
“Did you also attend school, Luna?”
Chen Xia’s eyes widened.
“Yes. I attended a school called Barharlun that was for training elves.”
“Barharlun! I’ve heard about it from Runia!”
“Runia? Ah, that red-haired one?”
At Eiran’s words, Luna nodded as she recalled Runia.
The memories from the Heroes’ World had already been passed on to Luna.
Therefore, she also had memories of Runia, who had fought against fragments of Erebos from her past timeline.
“What kind of school was Barharlun?”
Chen Xia asked with curiosity sparkling in her eyes.
Looking at Chen Xia, Luna said,
“It was a school for selecting High Elves. Among them, it was a school established by a god to choose the Elf King.”
“A, a god?”
“It really is different from the current era.”
Eiran’s eyes widened while Chen Xia exclaimed in admiration.
A school established by a god.
It was unimaginable by today’s standards.
“Have you ever seen a god directly, Luna?”
“Yes, I have.”
“Wow. That’s amazing. To have actually met a god.”
“It’s not just me. He’s probably met one too, right?”
Luna pointed to Leo, who was walking behind them looking uninterested.
“Among those who made a name for themselves during the Age of Calamity, there’s no one who hasn’t met a god.”
Luna treated gods as if they were stones rolling around on the roadside.
Seeing Luna’s indifferent attitude, Eiran and Chen Xia looked at Leo with admiration.
“Gods are wise beings, right?”
“Are they truly omniscient and omnipotent?”
At their questions, Luna smiled brightly.
“Gods are stupid, perverted, and incompetent trash.”
At Luna’s unimaginable words, Eiran and Chen Xia froze completely.
“Not all gods are like that.”
“Yes, there are occasionally proper gods, but most of them are useless.”
Luna, being a non-believer, spoke harshly.
Leo also agreed with that opinion.
Gods who had lived for eons were mostly hedonists.
‘You can tell just by looking at the state of those who get their names on the Hero Record.’
They put up those unworthy of the name “hero” simply for the reason of “fun.”
They didn’t care what happened to the lower realm as a result.
They did such things because they found it entertaining.
Therefore, once you realize the true nature of gods, you come to understand they’re not really trustworthy beings.
At the testimony of two great heroes who had experienced gods, Eiran made a tearful expression.
“It’s completely different from fairy tales and story books.”
“Yes. Reality is originally harsh. Most of what’s passed down in stories is lies. As you realize reality one by one like this, you become an adult.”
Luna patted Eiran’s head.
To such Luna, Leo said,
“Right, just like you.”
“Just like me? What do you mean by that?”
Luna’s eyes narrowed.
Leo took out a great hero story book from his pocket.
It was a book familiar to everyone except Luna.
A fairy tale book called [Heroes of the Beginning].
The hero story that almost everyone in this world encounters first.
Leo opened the fairy tale book to the character introduction section.
There, a picture of Luna with a smile that seemed to embrace spring was drawn.
“Benevolent Elf, Progenitor of the Starry Skies Luna? What is this?”
“You’re an elf who has nothing to do with benevolence.”
“I am benevolent.”
Answering shamelessly, Luna snatched the fairy tale book from Leo’s hands and swung it around.
While avoiding Luna’s attack,
Chen Xia asked,
“Then you were a candidate for Elf King, Luna?”
“No. The elves of that time were rotten in many ways.”
Luna said listlessly.
“They would never make someone of lowly birth like me their king.”
“There was a similar incident in elven society recently too.”
“As expected, elves are a hopeless race.”
At Chen Xia’s words, Luna clicked her tongue.
Seeing such Luna, Eiran made an embarrassed expression and Leo shook his head.
“That’s not something you, an elf, should be saying.”
While elves were a race with tremendous racial pride, Luna, who had seen dirty things since childhood, was far from such sentiments.
“It’s the truth though.”
Luna playfully pulled at both ends of her ears and grinned.
“But I don’t hate all elves!”
Luna hugged Eiran and rubbed her cheek against Eiran’s head.
“Aww, our cute Eiran.”
Seeing Luna doting on Eiran as if she were Berkia, Leo chuckled.
Eiran also smiled bashfully, not seeming to dislike it.
“Anyway, I don’t know how it was in the early days, but Barharlun was a terrible school. That’s why I like Lumern much better.”
At Luna’s words, Chen Xia nodded.
Meanwhile, the four arrived at the club area.
The reason for coming to the club area was simple.
It was because Luna wanted to take a look around.
As the four entered the club area,
“Eek?!”
“Le, Leo Flobe!”
“It’s the student council president!”
The students who had been moving busily screamed as soon as they saw Leo and Chen Xia.
And they ran away without even making eye contact.
Seeing this, Luna made a bewildered expression.
“What? Why does everyone run away as if they’ve seen a plague patient the moment they see you?”
“Young Master Leo is like the grim reaper among the clubs.”
“The grim reaper?”
“Yes.”
Chen Xia giggled as she explained.
When Leo first became student council president and went on his rounds to various clubs, cutting their budgets was a very famous incident.
It wasn’t just random cuts, but a thorough audit.
Since then, club presidents would cower whenever they saw Leo.
“Which club would you like to visit first?”
“Probably one related to magic, right?”
“Then the Magic Engineering Department it is.”
Leo headed toward the Magic Engineering Department.
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“Kyaaaaaaaaaah?!”
5th year Magic Studies student.
Jeim Dect, the former head of the Magic Engineering Department who was in his graduating class, screamed the moment he saw Leo entering and hid behind a curtain, trembling.
Luna made an intrigued expression at his terrified reaction, as if he’d seen a demon.
She took Leo’s hand, positioned him in front of Jeim, and pulled back the curtain.
“Kyeeeeeeeeeek!”
Watching Jeim cover his face and writhe in agony like a vampire exposed to sunlight, Luna drew the curtain again.
When Jeim stopped convulsing, she pulled the curtain back again.
“Kyaaaaaaah!”
Swoosh—!
“This is really fun, isn’t it?”
Leo pushed Luna, who was grinning mischievously with sparkling eyes, toward Eiran and said,
“I’m not here about budgets today, so stop that.”
“R-really?”
Jeim cautiously peeked his face out from behind the curtain with terrified eyes.
“Yes. And since you’re a graduating senior, it doesn’t matter if your budget gets cut anyway, right?”
“It does matter! Even after I leave, the Magic Engineering Department’s research will continue!”
Jeim said firmly.
“Yes. That’s why I won’t cut the budget.”
Only then did Jeim feel relieved and fully emerge from behind the curtain.
“Then why are you here?”
Looking at Jeim’s puzzled expression, Leo pointed toward Luna and Eiran.
“We have some people who want to tour the facilities.”
“Are they exchange students from Seirun?”
Jeim adjusted his glasses.
Looking at Jeim, Luna smiled brightly and asked,
“What kind of magic is the Magic Engineering Department researching?”
“If you’re talking about our recent research project, it’s [Flower Blooming Magic].”
“What?”
Luna’s eyes widened.
Looking at Luna, Jeim said,
“As a Seirun student, you’d know that Leo here restored the flower blooming magic formula and returned it to Elven Society.”
Jeim brought over a blackboard from the corner.
The flower blooming magic formula was drawn on it.
“And it was also revealed that flower blooming magic was the magic that the Progenitor of the Starry Skies Luna wished for.”
Last summer vacation.
This was a fact that became known to the world while conquering Luna’s World.
“Well, even though the formula was restored, it hasn’t been perfectly interpreted yet, so Leo is still the only mage who can use flower blooming magic.”
Jeim looked at Leo with envy.
The magic a mage yearns for represents that mage’s very essence.
And being able to use the magic that mage yearned for also meant understanding that person’s heart.
In that sense, Leo was also the only mage in this world who understood the heart of the Progenitor of the Starry Skies.
“We want to understand the Progenitor of the Starry Skies’ heart too. That’s why we’re researching how to use [Flower Blooming Magic] through the [Star Magic Primer].”
‘Star Magic Primer?’
Luna, who had looked puzzled for a moment, asked,
“Why do you want to understand the Progenitor of the Starry Skies’ heart?”
“That’s a strange question for an elf to ask.”
Jeim looked at Luna with a confused face and laughed.
“Because Luna is magic itself.”
“…!”
“Every mage in this world respects her.”
Luna’s footprints in magic weren’t limited to just star magic.
She organized all the magic from before the Age of Calamity and left countless foundations for future generations so that magic could firmly take root and flourish even after the end of the calamity.
“Elves think they’re the only ones who truly respect Luna, but every mage regards her like a star.”
Jeim grinned.
“That’s why we want to understand her heart. Does that explain it now?”
Jeim smiled brightly at Luna, who seemed frozen in shock.
“Former head! Come here for a moment!”
“I told you to call me honorary head!”
Jeim glared and walked away.
Luna watched them.
Young mages.
From Luna’s perspective, they were distant juniors.
Since coming to this era, she had realized.
That they were revered beings.
So she had been quite proud.
But it was only now that she specifically learned what kind of existence she was to mages.
Her heart was pounding.
This was what she had always hoped for.
She had always been confident that she would definitely become like this.
But now that it had actually happened, she felt somehow embarrassed and shy.
“How is it?”
Then Leo smiled and said,
“How does it feel to be a shining star in the night sky?”
“What?”
“Every mage existing in this era is a descendant of the Progenitor of the Starry Skies, Luna Rubinance.”
Leo also looked at the mages of the Magic Engineering Department.
“To mages, you’ve literally become their great master and goal. Like a shining star in the night sky, you’ve become a signpost showing the way.”
Luna had a dazed expression.
“Only you could have achieved this, Luna.”
Leo turned his gaze to Luna.
“I’m so happy that you can see this scene.”
At his gentle smile, Luna’s face turned bright red.
As if she might explode at any moment.
Luna covered her face, which had turned so red it looked like steam might come from her head, and hung her head low.
“You’re being embarrassed so uncharacteristically.”
Luna internally screamed at Leo, who was chuckling.
‘This is all because of you, you idiot!’
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