Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 503

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503.

 

Jolt-

 

Runia, who had awakened from sleep, blinked her eyes several times before hastily sitting up and looking around.

 

Last night.

 

Runia, who had fainted from the shocking scene, had fallen asleep at some point.

 

“Ugh…”

 

Runia let out a groan as she got up and approached one side of the room, where a memo was placed.

 

It was a memo left by Eiran saying she would go attend classes at Lumern.

 

‘Leona Cal… and that child called Chen Xia must have gone to Lumern too.’

 

Then the one remaining here now would be.

 

‘Lady Luna.’

 

Feeling complicated emotions, Runia left the room and headed to the first floor.

 

Unlike the night, the first floor was quiet, perhaps because it was morning.

 

Creak- Creak-

 

As she went down the stairs, the characteristic friction sound of old stairs echoed.

 

And the moment she reached the first floor.

 

“Ah…”

 

Runia unconsciously let out an exclamation.

 

On the first floor of the tavern, several customers were having breakfast.

 

But what caught Runia’s attention was the elf sitting by the window among them.

 

Silver hair sparkling in the morning sunlight and golden eyes shining intelligently.

 

It was the appearance of Luna, the Progenitor of the Starry Skies that Runia knew.

 

‘I knew yesterday was just a hallucination!’

 

Just as Runia was sighing in relief and approaching Luna.

 

Luna looked at the contents of her glass and muttered.

 

“Ugh- Wine is just expensive and not to my taste after all. What did Risinass and Dweno find so delicious about this?”

 

Seeing Luna grumbling with an expression like a laborer from some construction site, Runia unconsciously tripped over her own feet and fell.

 

Crash-!

 

Seeing the elf with brilliant red hair fall by herself from the morning breeze, the customers having breakfast began to murmur.

 

“Look at that elf.”

 

“She seems like she hasn’t sobered up yet.”

 

“That elf drinking from the morning too… my fantasy about elves is being shattered.”

 

Runia raised her head, glared, and looked around menacingly.

 

The people around her, feeling guilty, quickly turned their heads away.

 

Runia took a deep breath, got up from her spot, and approached Luna.

 

Standing in front of Luna, Runia straightened her clothes and cleared her throat with a “Ahem-!” before starting her introduction.

 

“Nice to meet you. My name is…”

 

“Yeah, I know. Runia, right?”

 

Luna said while writing something with a quill pen.

 

“Pardon?”

 

“We met twice in our Heroes’ World. No, once, right?”

 

“You remember what happened then?”

 

“Yeah. We fought against Erebos together, didn’t we?”

 

Seeing Luna look up from her book and smile at her, Runia showed a surprised expression.

 

It was already surprising that Luna had come to the present world, but to remember the events of the Heroes’ World!

 

Seeing Runia’s bewildered expression, Luna rested her chin on her hand.

 

“So? You’re supposed to be my successor?”

 

“Pardon? Wh-what do you mean?”

 

Runia’s face turned red.

 

“I heard everything from Leo.”

 

Seeing Luna burst into mischievous laughter with “Hehe-“, Runia didn’t know what to do.

 

It was true that she wanted to follow in Luna’s footsteps.

 

But since she had been designated as a successor without Luna herself knowing, Runia found this situation embarrassing.

 

‘Ugh! Why did he say such things!’

 

Just as Runia was fidgeting while thinking of Leo.

 

“How reassuring? Having a successor like you.”

 

Runia’s eyes widened.

 

“Aren’t you displeased that I’m your successor?”

 

“Hm? Why should I be displeased?”

 

“You don’t know me well.”

 

“Yeah. I don’t know you well.”

 

Luna smiled brightly.

 

“But I can tell what kind of elf you are.”

 

“Pardon?”

 

You can know a person’s nature by looking at their mana.

 

In Luna’s eyes, Runia appeared as a white flame.

 

“You’re an upright child overflowing with talent. That’s why you completed the Flame Emperor technique, right?”

 

That alone was enough, Luna muttered to herself.

 

“It’s not something I accomplished alone, you know? Lord Katariou’s help was significant too.”

 

“That damn chicken-brain?”

 

“Ch-chicken-brain?”

 

Seeing Luna refer to the Phoenix King with such a shocking term, Runia made a stunned expression.

 

“I should have caught and boiled him to eat sometime.”

 

Runia, who had been staring blankly at Luna clicking her tongue with “Tsk-“, suddenly burst into laughter with “Pfft-!”

 

“Hm? Why?”

 

“Oh, no. Hehe. How should I put it. Yesterday’s appearance and today’s appearance too… it’s very different from what I imagined.”

 

“The me you imagine. No. What do people of this era imagine me to be like?”

 

“Beautiful, benevolent, and pure image. The perfect elf itself.”

 

“What? That’s exactly me, isn’t it?”

 

Luna spoke with sincerity.

 

Seeing such Luna, Runia pondered what she should answer.

 

She felt like she’d get hit if she objected.

 

‘Is this how Ar felt?’

 

Runia thought of Ar, her suin friend.

 

The cowardly Arron was completely different from the hero people imagined.

 

But despite that, Ar respected him without giving up.

 

‘I’m embarrassed that I was so shocked seeing Lady Luna yesterday.’

 

Runia took a deep breath and looked at Luna with clear eyes.

 

“But Lady Luna. What were you doing from the morning?”

 

“I was creating magic.”

 

“Magic?”

 

“Yeah! The current world is amazing!”

 

Luna said with an excited voice.

 

“Magic has developed incomparably more than 5,000 years ago! It’s possibility itself!”

 

Originally, Luna was also supposed to attend classes since she was known as an exchange student at Lumern, but today Luna decided to stay here and conduct magical research.

 

At Luna’s words, Runia perked up her ears and listened attentively.

 

And she exchanged stories about magic with Luna while admiring.

 

At Runia’s attitude, Luna also continued the conversation enjoyably.

 

While having a heated discussion about magic.

 

Time had already passed well beyond lunch.

 

Luna leaned back in her chair and smiled as she ordered lunch.

 

“Both Chloe and you have such wonderful ideas about magic!”

 

“I’m so happy to receive your praise.”

 

“Berkia secretly disliked studying, so it wasn’t easy to have discussions like this.”

 

Runia smiled shyly as she watched Luna humming a tune.

 

“You too. Eiran, Chelsea, Chloe, Avad. Even that girl named Iliana. Watching you all makes me truly happy. You’ll become amazing mages. Ah, though that Iliana girl is a bit like Berkia.”

 

Luna thought of the promising mages she had met in this era.

 

She had already had many conversations with Lumern’s 2nd year honor students.

 

And meeting Runia like this made her truly happy.

 

Runia, whom Leo had evaluated as his successor, also held infinite possibilities.

 

Just watching her brought magical inspiration.

 

“Ah~ I don’t want to leave.”

 

At those words, Runia’s shoulders trembled slightly.

 

Then she moved her lips hesitantly.

 

“Luna-nim.”

 

“Yes?”

 

“Couldn’t you stay in the present world forever?”

 

Luna’s eyes widened greatly.

 

“Though it may be presumptuous of me to say… Arron-nim saved the world once more last time.”

 

The subjugation of Erebos’s fragment.

 

The great deed the world had so desperately yearned for.

 

With this, the world had taken one more step toward complete salvation.

 

And through her conversations with Luna, Runia became certain.

 

‘If Luna-nim stays in the present world… the history of magic will change once more.’

 

“Just by Luna-nim remaining in this world, the world will surely be saved.”

 

Runia could easily tell that the magic Luna was creating was unique magic.

 

That magic, combining Luna’s magical knowledge with current magical knowledge, was enough to make Runia tremble with excitement.

 

She could instinctively tell.

 

By Luna existing in this era, magic would achieve tremendous progress.

 

And…

 

‘I want to talk with Luna-nim a little more.’

 

Runia felt sorry for Luna.

 

Even during their conversation, Luna looked at the peaceful scenery visible outside the window and smiled happily.

 

The sight of countless people moving busily and the chaotic streets.

 

It was literally nothing special, just everyday life, but Luna looked at that scenery and was genuinely delighted as if she had seen something amazing.

 

Seeing that, Runia realized.

 

‘This person… hasn’t been able to enjoy anything.’

 

She had risked everything to save the world but couldn’t enjoy a single thing.

 

A fact that Runia, who had only seen her noble image in stories and history, could never have known.

 

She was a person before she was a great hero.

 

“How strange.”

 

Luna smiled.

 

“Everyone who learned my identity revered me. You’re the first to look at me with pity.”

 

“I’m, I’m sorry.”

 

“There’s nothing to apologize for. It means you understand me that well.”

 

Luna reached out and gently patted Runia’s red hair.

 

“Thank you.”

 

Runia’s face reddened at Luna’s gentle touch.

 

“I’m curious. What kind of hero you’ll grow into.”

 

“I want to become like Luna-nim.”

 

“Of course you should!”

 

Luna giggled and stood up.

 

“Now then, let’s go out together with this big sister.”

 

“Go out?”

 

“Yes. We should enjoy the festival, shouldn’t we?”

 

Luna grabbed Runia’s wrist, helped her stand up, and strode confidently out the door.

 

Just as Runia was about to burst into laughter while following behind her.

 

“Stop right there.”

 

As soon as they left the restaurant and walked a few steps down the alley, a group of elves blocked their path.

 

Seeing this, Luna tilted her head in confusion while Runia frowned.

 

“The Purebloods.”

 

“Purebloods? What’s that?”

 

Luna tilted her head.

 

“They’re elf supremacists.”

 

“Elf supremacists, you mean…”

 

At Runia’s answer, Luna narrowed her brow.

 

“Like High Elves?”

 

***

 

“All the Pureblood elves who had connections with us have been annihilated.”

 

At the report from Atkan, the Grand Duke of Funeral Songs, the Overlord King rested his chin on his hand and exhaled.

 

“They seemed to be searching for a long time. So Berkia finally made her move.”

 

The Elf Purebloods.

 

Previously, due to Leo’s activities, most elves who had connections with the Overlord King had died or fallen from power.

 

But that didn’t mean the connections were completely severed.

 

“Elves truly never change their racial characteristics. That’s what makes them convenient though.”

 

5,000 years ago.

 

During the Age of Calamity, it was also the Overlord King’s scheme that brought down the great elf forces so futilely.

 

Most elves trapped in racial supremacy had rigid minds.

 

Their arrogance in believing themselves superior gave them firm faith that they could control everything.

 

Even if it was the power of Tartaros that would strangle their own necks.

 

Even though all the Pureblood elves with connections had died, the Overlord King felt no great emotion about it.

 

Because he was confident that elves who would contact them again would appear someday.

 

The Grand Duke of Funeral Songs bowed his head to the Overlord King.

 

“I still don’t understand Hel Kaiser-nim’s intentions in reviving the Fairy Knight.”

 

Fairy Knight Berkia.

 

She was the most powerful hero that Hel Kaiser, the Overlord King, had revived with his authority.

 

But even the Grand Duke of Funeral Songs, who had existed as the Overlord King’s close aide for long ages, found it difficult to gauge his intentions this time.

 

No matter how much the Overlord King’s authority had been strengthened by Erebos’s power, there were limits to that authority.

 

And reviving Berkia as an undead was something that consumed enormous power.

 

But Berkia, revived as the dead, had escaped the Overlord King’s control.

 

“If you had used that power to awaken the other legion commanders instead…”

 

“If I had awakened my old friends, they might have been of great help immediately.”

 

The Overlord King spoke leisurely.

 

“But unfortunately, Tartaros was defeated by the great heroes of the past.”

 

During the Age of Calamity.

 

Tartaros’s forces had suffered devastating damage at the hands of the great heroes.

 

“Even if revived, there’s a high probability they’d become sacrifices to the youngsters raised by the surviving heroes.”

 

“But the Fairy Knight is a monster stronger than the Heroes of the Cataclysm. If she, who cannot be controlled, were to point her blade at Tartaros…”

 

“If that happened, it would be unbearable. But Berkia will never point her blade at Tartaros.”

 

“Why is that so? Please bestow your teachings upon foolish me.”

 

“Because it wasn’t our fault that she became consumed by hatred.”

 

The Overlord King curled up the corners of his mouth.

 

“She will never be able to tolerate it. The current world.”

 

In some ways, it’s a world that has become more twisted and uglier than 5,000 years ago.

 

Berkia will never tolerate that.

 

Countless forces would be annihilated by the rampaging Berkia.

 

“But if she were to meet a surviving Hero…”

 

“His voice won’t reach her. The sins she has committed will block her ears.”

 

Even the Overlord King who revived Berkia cannot control Berkia.

 

But the same goes for the other side.

 

Literally chaos that destroys everything.

 

That is what Berkia is now.

 

“I’m curious. What kind of reaction would a surviving Hero show if they saw their fallen disciple.”

 

The Overlord King’s lips twisted.

 

“And what expression they would make if they learned that there had been bloodshed between disciples.”

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