Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 525

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525.

 

“Leo-nim. Please look at this. This is a sculpture of Kail-nim holding a sword that I carved by hand myself. After the Age of Calamity ended, I’ve been carefully carving one each year! I’ve been devotedly carving sculptures of Kail-nim every year. This is Kail-nim using magic! The one here is using summoning arts…”

 

The god brought over sculptures displayed on one side of the bookshelf and showed them to Kail.

 

The statues carved from gems were so lifelike they seemed ready to come alive and move at any moment.

 

Leo picked up one red Kail sculpture posed holding a sword.

 

A smile with the corners of his mouth curled up.

 

It was what Luna would call an ‘annoying smile.’

 

“This is the smile Kail-nim wore when annihilating enemies! A charismatic smile as if looking down upon everything in the world! Ah! Could you not give me the opportunity to receive that smile as well?”

 

Kyaa-! Kyaa-! The god screamed small screams from the side.

 

At that reaction, Leo’s face crumpled and without hesitation he threw the sculpture in his hand to the ground.

 

Clang-!

 

“My work of art!”

 

The god who let out a shrill scream crawled over and clutched the scattered fragments, shedding tears like chicken droppings.

 

The despairing god soon lifted his head with a start and shouted.

 

“Right! Destruction is a new beginning! This destruction now means that Kail-nim has been reincarnated as Leo-nim! These fragments themselves have meaning!”

 

Crunch! Crackle crackle! Crackle-

 

Leo trampled the fragments and rubbed them roughly on the ground, turning them to powder.

 

The new beginning had become powder.

 

Seeing this, Leo spoke coldly to the god who knelt again and touched the ground in despair.

 

“I know gods are idle folk, but why the hell do you make things like this?”

 

“Making these helps my work efficiency go up.”

 

“Work?”

 

“My introduction was late.”

 

The god who stood up looked at Leo and greeted him politely.

 

“My name is Rian. I’m responsible for being the librarian and recorder of Hero Record.”

 

“Librarian and recorder? Does that mean you have authority over Hero Record?”

 

“To be precise, it’s proxy authority. This Record System belongs to your… no, to be exact, it belongs to the Great Heroes.”

 

“I see, so that’s how Luna was able to record Runia in Hero Record?”

 

“Luna? Has Luna Rubinance also been reincarnated in the present world?”

 

Rian’s eyes widened.

 

Those eyes held uncontainable excitement.

 

“She stayed in the current world briefly as a spirit not long ago.”

 

“Ah.”

 

Rian let out a sigh filled with regret.

 

“From your reaction, it seems you know that you’re the owner of Hero Record.”

 

“I met Pibua in the Heroes’ World before.”

 

“Pibua? I see.”

 

Rian nodded as if understanding.

 

Looking at such a Rian, Leo asked.

 

“By the way, wasn’t it that gods could no longer remain on the earthly realm due to the incident 5,000 years ago?”

 

“Yes, gods can no longer come to the earthly realm.”

 

“Then how are you on the earthly realm? If you’ve been managing Hero Record, that means you’ve been on the earthly realm for 5,000 years?”

 

“Yes, the reason I can exist on the earthly realm is thanks to Hero Record.”

 

“Thanks to Hero Record?”

 

“Yes. To explain that reason, I think I need to first explain how Hero Record came to be.”

 

Rian clapped his hands lightly.

 

Then suddenly a chair and table appeared with a pop!

 

An ordinary mage would have been shocked at the phenomenon just now.

 

He didn’t simply call the chair and table through extradimensional space.

 

As if they had been here from the beginning.

 

Not intervening in or twisting the laws of space, but just changing the laws.

 

A phenomenon that could never be achieved through magic.

 

But Leo was calm.

 

‘This guy is an omnipotent god after all.’

 

Of course, gods cannot properly use that omnipotence on the earthly realm.

 

The role of gods is at most that of administrators, or more precisely, observers.

 

What they manage is maintaining the world so it doesn’t perish.

 

In other words, they’ve been suppressing Erebos.

 

Other than that, they’re restricted from exercising power on the earthly realm.

 

That’s why gods are omnipotent yet incompetent.

 

Moreover, having lived for eons, they have strong desires to simply satisfy their own urges.

 

This was the reason Luna distrusted gods.

 

‘Good gods like Pibua are extremely rare.’

 

Leo glanced at Rian.

 

‘This god is crazy too, but seems to be crazy in a relatively nice way. If I had to categorize, he’d be a good god.’

 

A good god.

 

Meaning a benevolent deity.

 

Of course, it’s not that other gods bring harm to the world.

 

At most they cause trouble and give headaches on the earthly realm.

 

‘Well, since they’re gods the scale is big so it’s annoying.’

 

There are also those who are disgustingly crazy.

 

Just look at the heroes recorded in Hero Record.

 

Though he didn’t seem quite sane, Leo knew that someone like Rian was a very decent god.

 

“Long, long ago. There was the primordial evil and five Great Heroes.”

 

Rian put puppets shaped like the Great Heroes on the fingertips of his left hand, and an Erebos puppet on his right hand.

 

“The evil roared. Kyao!”

 

“…”

 

Rian who started the puppet show began incredibly clumsy acting with an endlessly serious face.

 

Watching this, Leo muttered to himself.

 

‘Correction, he seems pretty damn crazy.’

 

“But the evil was defeated by the Great Heroes.”

 

Rian moved his left fingers gracefully and pounded his right hand roughly.

 

“How long do I have to watch this pathetic play?”

 

“Please wait just a little, this is my favorite scene.”

 

Rian, who had been relentlessly pounding the Erebos puppet with the Great Hero puppets on his left fingers, then grabbed the Erebos puppet with his left hand and tore it apart mercilessly – rip rip – throwing it into the void.

 

Black cloth pieces soared into the sky then fell down.

 

“Cool, right?”

 

Looking at the fanatic whose eyes sparkled as he asked, Leo answered reluctantly.

 

“Sure.”

 

“Yay~”

 

Rian, who held his cheeks with both hands and rejoiced once, completely changed his expression again and said.

 

“Thus peace came to the world. The gods decided to create a completely different Record System from before, to eternally praise the achievements of the Great Heroes who accomplished impossible feats, and also to prepare for the return of the evil that wasn’t completely finished yet.”

 

“A completely different Record System from before?”

 

“Yes.”

 

Rian spread both arms.

 

“Akasha Record. A Record System that records the world itself. It’s a system completed by all gods who returned to the Godly Realm pooling their omnipotence. This library is that Akasha Record itself. There’s a copy library like this in the Godly Realm too.”

 

“What exactly does recording the world mean?”

 

Looking at Leo who expressed doubt, Rian smiled.

 

“It means recording everything that happens in the world exactly as it is from 5,000 years ago. From small movements of bugs in specific places to what kind of mountain breeze blew in those places… It was a massive collection of information that even gods couldn’t handle. The gods who created the world long ago and entrusted us with managing the world… even the Creator, whom we’ve never met, probably never expected something like this would be made.”

 

“I understand it’s amazing. But what was the reason for creating such a system?”

 

“Because what the gods wanted to create was the ‘world’ itself.”

 

“The world itself?”

 

“Yes. To create a world, albeit limited. To reach the authority of creation, though fragmentary.”

 

Rian closed her eyes and smiled pleasantly.

 

“To implement events from the past as if they were ‘real’ in the present time.”

 

At those words, Leo’s complexion changed drastically.

 

“Heroes’ World.”

 

“Exactly! All of this was foundational work to create Hero Record. Akasha Record is essentially the basic base system that comprises Hero Record.”

 

Rian placed her hand over her chest.

 

“Among the figures recorded in that Akasha Record, those worthy of being called ‘heroes’ were selected and recorded in Hero Record. So that the children of the earthly realm could follow the records of the past and inherit the power of the previous heroes. However, Hero Record required a selection process, and there was no one who could record in Hero Record. And a source of power to constitute Hero Record itself was also needed.”

 

“That’s you?”

 

“Yes. I am both the librarian of Hero Record and a part of Hero Record itself.”

 

“You sacrificed yourself, didn’t you? Is there value in a being equivalent to a god becoming part of Hero Record while sacrificing their own existential worth?”

 

“Not for the other gods. I was the only one who volunteered.”

 

“Why?”

 

“…”

 

Rian opened her gray eyes and looked up at Kail.

 

“I hated gray. It’s a color like ash that has burned up and become useless.”

 

Rian fidgeted with her hair.

 

“So I hated you too. No, to be precise, I mocked you. First, I disliked you for having gray hair and eyes. And I thought you were truly futile, living unable to die while having nothing you wanted. So during the Age of Calamity, I was certain the world would perish. All gods would have thought so, but… I was more on the mocking side. However, though I had given up on everything, I still disliked extinction.”

 

The extinction of the world also meant the extinction of the gods.

 

“But you never gave up in the end and saved the world. I couldn’t help but worship you.”

 

Rian smiled faintly.

 

“So I hoped your will would be passed down to future generations forever. From my position of having already given up everything, there was no reason to regret my existence.”

 

“Anyone with power like mine would have done the same.”

 

Rian shook her head.

 

“Please don’t belittle that feat which even omniscient gods deemed impossible. Please don’t belittle the faith of the comrades who believed in you until the end.”

 

Rian opened her gray eyes straight and looked at Leo.

 

“It was possible only because it was you. This is an absolute and immutable truth.”

 

“…”

 

Leo scratched his cheek.

 

‘A god is indeed a god.’

 

Leo, who muttered inwardly that she really couldn’t be taken lightly, asked.

 

“Did you know about my existence itself from when I was reincarnated?”

 

“No. Because of that damn abomination, Akasha Record was also damaged. It’s causing errors. Also, since Akasha Record is so vast, even gods don’t know all the records.”

 

Rian shook her head repeatedly.

 

“Moreover, everyone is desperately trying to record their desired heroes in Hero Record. So the discovery was late.”

 

“Aren’t you the one who does the record recording?”

 

“Yes. But since I can’t grasp all heroes either, the gods regularly hold meetings to select heroes to record. But as Leo-nim knows, the tribe called gods is screwed up, right?”

 

Rian frowned.

 

“Through meetings, even things that aren’t hero-like get recorded.”

 

Annoyance appeared on her face.

 

“What was the reason for sending the Heroes of the Cataclysm outside?”

 

“Ah, that was to open the Hero Dungeon after realizing Leo-nim’s existence and make Leo-nim come to this place… but because of the abomination, it went berserk and the dolls created by my power went out to the present world.”

 

“Indeed omnipotent yet incompetent.”

 

“Aah!”

 

“Why are you happy? It’s not a compliment.”

 

“If it’s something Leo-nim gives me, even curses are good. No, if you would spit on me, no, holy water on me, I would gladly receive it!”

 

“…”

 

“Leo-nim, this hair! After I came to worship you, I pulled out all my existing hair and planted new ones! The eyes are the same! I pulled them out and put in new ones! Aah! Now that I have red eyes too, I should pull out one side! Which one to pull out! Left? Right?”

 

‘She’s just damn crazy.’

 

His improving perception of Rian crashed to the ground again.

 

Leo clicked his tongue and said.

 

“If you’ve been recording Hero Record, let me ask one thing.”

 

“Yes. Please command me.”

 

“About Berkia and Bihar.”

 

“You knew about them.”

 

Rian let out a regretful sigh.

 

“You might feel uncomfortable.”

 

“Correcting what’s wrong is also a teacher’s job.”

 

“Then…”

 

Rian closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

 

“I’ll start by telling you why the Fairy Knights became that way.”

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