Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 530

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530.

 

Leo looked at Roon, who was politely bowing toward him, and opened his mouth.

 

“How did you know?”

 

A voice tinged with slight curiosity.

 

Seeing Leo not deny his words, Roon smiled brightly and answered.

 

“As the Hero of the Beginning would know, experience shows you many things.”

 

“Unfortunately, I haven’t lived as long as you. Well, I understand what you mean though.”

 

Watching Leo shrug his shoulders, Roon smiled bitterly.

 

“I had been thinking it was a bit strange.”

 

From their first meeting, Roon had sensed something in Leo’s eyes.

 

It was far from simply being intelligent or having a bright future like someone who would grow into a great figure.

 

Eyes like those of someone who had experienced all of life’s ups and downs.

 

Absolutely not the eyes a Hero Candidate, especially a first-year, should have.

 

Leo’s actions were also surprising.

 

The most surprising thing was that he had restored the ‘flower-blooming magic’ left by the Progenitor of the Starry Skies.

 

And it wasn’t an ordinary restoration either.

 

Roon was also an elf who had spent his lifetime researching star magic.

 

In terms of depth of understanding of star magic, he was an authority who ranked among the top five existing mages.

 

From Roon’s perspective, the flower-blooming magic that Leo had restored was at a level that couldn’t be called restoration.

 

“It was as if someone who originally knew the flower-blooming magic had simply written down the technique they already knew.”

 

It’s common for lost magic that only left traces to be restored by later generations and reappear in the world.

 

But unless you’re from that era, even if restoration succeeds and activation works, it can’t be perfect.

 

Moreover, the flower-blooming magic is complex magic that still can’t be properly interpreted even now, over a year after its perfect restoration.

 

That’s why Roon found Leo’s existence puzzling.

 

Leo’s subsequent activities as a Hero Candidate were also extraordinary.

 

He went from being an outstanding student who stood out to displaying achievements unsuitable for a Hero Candidate at some point.

 

While admiring Leo’s achievements and harboring doubts, his granddaughter who had conquered Dweno’s world said with a smile:

 

‘Grandfather! I met Lady Berkia. And you know what! About Leo-nim!’

 

From when he heard Eiran’s words as she spoke with sparkling eyes about the heroic tales of their ancestor and Leo.

 

And especially after hearing news of Seirun’s return and Luna’s descent, he thought even more about Leo’s existence.

 

After unraveling the complexly tangled clues one by one, he reached a conclusion.

 

That conclusion was the fact that Leo was Kail, the Hero of the Beginning.

 

“When I thought about it, I realized there was nothing strange about it. Hero of the Beginning Kail-nim was an unprecedented All-Class. And in world history, there have been only two people who were All-Class.”

 

Kail and Leo.

 

“You also didn’t receive a title despite having your name recorded in the Hero Record. When I thought about it, if you ‘already’ had a title… I thought you wouldn’t need something like a new title.”

 

“Indeed.”

 

“Besides, there’s no such thing as absolute. Anything can happen in this era.”

 

The appearance of Legion Commanders who had been defeated in the Age of Calamity.

 

And past heroes had also come back to life as undead.

 

There are those whose names are erased from the Hero Record.

 

Furthermore, great heroes like Luna the Progenitor of the Starry Skies, Hero Arron, and Seirun the Comet Mage have revealed themselves in the present world.

 

“In such a situation, I thought it wouldn’t be strange for the Hero of the Beginning to be reborn in this world. You were always there in moments of miracles.”

 

Moreover, Leo himself continued to achieve great feats that others would find difficult to accomplish in a lifetime.

 

Among them were things that could be called miracles without shame.

 

“Even so, it couldn’t have been easy to guess?”

 

“Magic starts with not excluding possibilities. Those are words Lady Berkia left for our family.”

 

“That’s what Luna nagged Berkia about endlessly.”

 

Leo recalled old times.

 

“Even until the moment of departing on the final journey.”

 

“It seems Luna-nim’s magical philosophy was passed down to Lady Berkia.”

 

“Not at all. Luna was someone who had ‘nothing is impossible, if it doesn’t work, make it work’ embedded in her head from birth. She never really had a magical philosophy. She just nagged until the end because Berkia was so utterly disobedient.”

 

Watching Leo speak indifferently, Roon smiled brightly.

 

‘Just let me be moved.’

 

If it was the last advice and request a master left for their disciple, how beautiful would that picture be?

 

“Leaving nagging that made ears callous for descendants? He really didn’t come to his senses.”

 

Of course, Leo completely shattered any sense of emotion or sentiment.

 

Looking at Roon’s warm smile, Leo plopped down in a chair.

 

And he leaned his body toward Roon.

 

“Did you meet Berkia?”

 

“Yes.”

 

“…”

 

Leo closed his eyes.

 

‘He must have been disappointed.’

 

No matter how understanding Roon was, it must have been shocking to see the ancestor he revered become undead.

 

And it was definitely Berkia who had defeated Roon.

 

Who wouldn’t be disappointed by an ancestor going mad and rampaging?

 

It was when Leo was biting his lips.

 

“I can guess what the Hero of the Beginning is thinking. But you don’t need to worry.”

 

“What?”

 

At Roon’s calm words, Leo looked at Roon with slightly surprised eyes.

 

Seeing such Leo, Roon smiled slightly.

 

“I was not disappointed in Lady Berkia. No one from the Ersarr Family would be disappointed in Lady Berkia.”

 

Leo silently looked at Roon.

 

He couldn’t sense any falsehood from Roon.

 

“As the Hero of the Beginning would know, I am in an old body.”

 

Roon, who got up with a groan, tapped his back.

 

Though his appearance might be that of a handsome young man, Roon’s body was old.

 

Experience could be felt in his eyes, and the depth of years could be sensed in the mana he unconsciously emanated.

 

“Having lived long enough, I know that the world is not simply beautiful. And that there are no perfect people in the world either.”

 

Roon’s eyes grew heavy.

 

“I’m simply sad. The Lady Berkia I met had very clear eyes.”

 

As the head of the Ersarr Family, Roon had once conquered Berkia’s world.

 

And there he had met Berkia.

 

That’s why Roon knew.

 

How great a person his ancestor was.

 

And also how warm a person she was.

 

Feeling terrible sadness, Roon spoke.

 

“Hero of the Beginning-nim, do you know what happened to my ancestor?”

 

Leo approached the portrait of Berkia hanging on one side of the office.

 

Berkia in the painting was expressionless.

 

Though she was originally rather expressionless… somehow she looked sharp.

 

‘This must be a painting drawn after that tragedy.’

 

Looking at his disciple in the painting, Leo opened his mouth.

 

He told the truth that wasn’t passed down even to the Ersarr Family, which he had seen through the Akasha Record.

 

Roon’s hands trembled after hearing the story to the end.

 

Roon, who had closed his eyes tightly, spoke.

 

“If I could, I would want to ease that person’s sadness and pain.”

 

Roon bit his lips hard.

 

“But my voice won’t reach Lady Berkia.”

 

Roon clenched his fists tightly.

 

Probably no one in the world would be able to do it.

 

Except for the one person standing before him.

 

Roon bowed his head toward Leo.

 

“Hero of the Beginning, I know this is a shameless request from a descendant. But I beg of you. Please… save Berkia-nim. Please embrace his pain.”

 

‘Your descendants, even after 5,000 years have passed… they don’t know you well and have suffered harsh treatment because of you, yet they still respect and love you, Berkia.’

 

He could feel Roon’s unwavering respect for Berkia.

 

Not simply because Berkia was the progenitor of the Ersarr Family.

 

But because he knew all too well that Berkia was someone who deserved respect regardless of that.

 

The world had forgotten the great achievements Berkia had accomplished.

 

Those achievements of rebuilding the world following the Great Heroes and saving the world once again when it faced the crisis of despair.

 

It wasn’t particularly because the world had turned its back on Berkia.

 

As time passes, everything naturally gets forgotten.

 

But the people of the Ersarr Family had never forgotten that fact.

 

Generation after generation.

 

They had passed down the achievements Berkia left behind to their descendants.

 

‘With the Ersarr Family’s power and history, they could have ensured Berkia wouldn’t be forgotten by history, but they didn’t do that.’

 

Not a single person among them had done such a thing.

 

‘They must have wanted to carry on Berkia’s will.’

 

A noble life of silent sacrifice for the world.

 

They probably thought it didn’t matter if no one acknowledged it.

 

Because the world itself was valuable just as it was.

 

The people of the Ersarr Family had stubbornly respected their ancestor’s will and followed in his footsteps.

 

‘I’m proud of you. If I had left descendants, they wouldn’t have been able to become like your descendants, but.’

 

Leo gritted his teeth.

 

‘But it would have been okay to be selfish just once, wouldn’t it?’

 

In Berkia’s life that Leo had witnessed, Berkia had never once lived for himself.

 

He had never once considered what he accomplished to be special.

 

He had always maintained an attitude of humbling himself and striving to improve further.

 

That image he had seen through the Akasha Record was still burned in his eyes.

 

If Berkia’s personality had originally been like that, it wouldn’t have been this heartbreaking.

 

‘Just you wait and see. When the peaceful era comes, I’ll become more famous than Teacher Kail and overshadow Teacher Kail’s reputation. I’ll make future generations say that Kail is inferior to the other Great Heroes. Bleh-!’

 

The annoying image of him sticking out his tongue and constantly being cheeky came to mind.

 

‘He used to say like a habit that when the era of peace came, he would become a great person and like Luna, become a great figure whose name would be remembered by future generations for life.’

 

But despite achieving great deeds that should have been widely known to posterity, he couldn’t lift his head as if he had done something wrong.

 

As if apologizing to someone.

 

He couldn’t fully enjoy what he should have enjoyed and constantly whipped himself without rest.

 

As if being chased by something.

 

He dedicated his life to the world.

 

It would have been the same for Bihar.

 

‘We passed our burden onto you.’

 

At that moment when he defeated Erebos and closed his eyes for the last time.

 

Leo hadn’t worried about the world.

 

Because he trusted his disciples.

 

He had no doubt that even without him, they would be able to restore the world to its former state.

 

And the two of them had put the world on solid ground, one in the light and one in the darkness.

 

For their entire lives.

 

Leo, of course, hadn’t anticipated that the two of them would never be able to escape from the sense of mission that they had to take responsibility for the world the Great Heroes had saved for their entire lives.

 

Like Risinass.

 

Like Luna.

 

Like Arron.

 

Like Dweno.

 

Like Kail.

 

They thought they had to live lives devoted to the world.

 

‘You didn’t need to live like that too.’

 

Leo gritted his teeth and clenched his fists.

 

If the other Great Heroes except Arron were a generation that had been robbed of what they enjoyed.

 

Berkia and Bihar were a generation that couldn’t even enjoy it.

 

They were desperate because they had experienced being robbed.

 

If the Great Heroes had survived.

 

Even that Risinass wouldn’t have been able to live as desperately as Berkia and Bihar.

 

He had overlooked that the world that was natural to Kail was an unknown world to those two.

 

That you don’t need to take responsibility for everything.

 

He should have taught them that they could live while finding their own lives as well.

 

The lives of the two people who couldn’t learn that were too harsh.

 

‘We took away your lives.’

 

And the descendants of his disciples were carrying that heavy burden.

 

Bihar’s descendants had lived their entire lives in darkness.

 

Berkia’s descendants had lived their entire lives in humility.

 

Berkia and Bihar.

 

Were these two people inferior to the Great Heroes?

 

Could they be said to be inferior to the Heroes of the Cataclysm?

 

“There’s one condition.”

 

“Please tell me.”

 

“Don’t live like Berkia.”

 

“Pardon?”

 

Roon, who had been bowing his head, looked at Leo with surprised eyes.

 

“I can roughly guess how the Ersarr Family has lived for 5,000 years.”

 

Leo’s eyes grew heavy.

 

“You’ve existed as the cornerstone supporting the world… the Elves as a race.”

 

Leo, who had been looking at Roon, looked at Berkia again.

 

“I never taught you to sacrifice everything. Your family has done its best. You… the Ersarr Family… is a more magnificent renowned hero family than anyone else in the world, so.”

 

Leo spoke as if making a declaration.

 

“You don’t need to humble yourselves anymore.”

 

“…”

 

Roon bowed his head.

 

For some reason, his eyes were red.

 

‘How foolish of me at this old age.’

 

But his heart trembled at the fact that the things they had silently done for 5,000 years.

 

That their history had been acknowledged by someone other than themselves.

 

“Berkia would surely want that too.”

 

‘Previous family heads, could there be anything more glorious than this?’

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