Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 541

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541.

 

Leo kicked off the ground.

 

He closed the distance with Berkia at tremendous speed.

 

A movement that seemed to transcend the simple concept of being fast.

 

Clang-!

 

At that moment, Leo’s sword was blocked by something.

 

Leo’s eyes narrowed.

 

Before he knew it, a sword was gripped in Berkia’s hand.

 

Clang clang clang-!

 

Sparks flew between sword and sword.

 

At that moment Leo’s pupils dilated.

 

‘Hypersense.’

 

Leo instantly entered the realm of hypersense.

 

Along with that, he activated the aura throughout his entire body.

 

Clang clang clang clang clang clang clang clang clang-!

 

In a split second, ten sparks burst forth as Leo and Berkia’s swords were simultaneously repelled.

 

Leo narrowed his eyes.

 

Ten exchanges of offense and defense had occurred in that brief moment.

 

Thud-!

 

As soon as Leo planted his foot on the ground, he immediately charged toward Berkia.

 

With his sword aimed, Leo launched a thrust.

 

Without even looking at Leo, Berkia used his foot that had landed on the ground as a pivot and spun rapidly counterclockwise.

 

The blade flew precisely toward Leo’s neck.

 

Thud-!

 

At that moment Leo placed his palm on Berkia’s sword surface and applied force.

 

The sword didn’t even budge, as if pressing against a massive boulder.

 

But Leo wasn’t flustered.

 

It hadn’t been an action intended to twist the sword’s path from the beginning.

 

Whoosh-!

 

Leo’s body shot upward rapidly.

 

He used the force contained in Berkia’s sword to lift his body and evade the blade.

 

Clang-!

 

Berkia twisted his wrist trying to cut Leo’s palm.

 

Leo pushed away Berkia’s sword and created distance.

 

Whoosh-!

 

Berkia didn’t miss the chance and closed the distance.

 

Swish-!

 

The sound of the blade cutting through the wind.

 

‘I can’t feel anything.’

 

Nothing could be felt from the swinging sword.

 

No passion, no anger.

 

He couldn’t even feel killing intent.

 

It was natural.

 

The current Berkia had lost his reason.

 

All that remained was the instinct as an undead to make the living share his same fate.

 

It was natural that no killing intent could be felt.

 

Leo pulled the sword’s handle inward as he gripped it.

 

Close enough that moving his index finger and thumb would touch the blade.

 

So that the remaining handle would be longer.

 

Thud-!

 

Leo charged head-on toward Berkia who had reached close range.

 

Clang! Clang!

 

Sword and sword crossed endlessly as sharp sounds echoed.

 

Clang clang clang clang clang clang-!

 

The sharp friction sound of blades.

 

Sword energy scattering through the void.

 

The surrounding area was devastated by those fragments.

 

Slice- Slice-

 

Fragments of sword energy cut Leo’s body.

 

Blood seeped out from various parts of his body, but Leo didn’t care.

 

At that moment.

 

Leo relaxed the strength in his hand and loosened his grip.

 

The sword slid across his palm.

 

Leo’s attack interval became slightly.

 

Just slightly longer.

 

It was an extremely dangerous action.

 

In the midst of the relentless exchanges, one wrong move could have caused him to lose his sword to his opponent’s blade, but Leo remained calm.

 

The brief but definite increase in attack interval confused Berkia’s sense of distance.

 

The idea was simple.

 

But it was an irregular move that allowed not even the slightest mistake.

 

Failure would mean a fatal wound, but the effect was just as certain.

 

Slash-!

 

Leo’s sword cut Berkia’s wrist that held the sword.

 

Normally, this would have decided the victory.

 

But Berkia didn’t hesitate and closed the distance with Leo even further.

 

Bang-!

 

With his uncut hand, he struck the back of Leo’s hand that gripped the sword.

 

Leo blocked the attack using his armor.

 

However, he felt his left hand that held the sword being crushed.

 

For an ordinary swordsman, this would be a fatal injury.

 

But Leo didn’t even blink as he drove his fist into Berkia’s abdomen who had closed in.

 

Crack-!

 

With an ominous sound, Berkia was sent flying.

 

Even while doing so, Berkia caught his severed hand that had been floating in the air and kicked Leo’s arm.

 

Crack-!

 

The bone in Leo’s right arm broke and dangled limply.

 

Crash crash crash crash crash-!

 

The flying Berkia crashed straight through, collapsing several buildings.

 

Eiran and Chen Xia widened their eyes at the battle unfolding before them.

 

“They’re on a different level.”

 

Runia muttered with a trembling voice.

 

She wasn’t a knight.

 

But she could tell how absurdly high-level the battle unfolding before her eyes was.

 

The fight reflected in Runia’s eyes was literally on a different level.

 

“It’s not just a matter of being on a different level.”

 

Eiran gulped down dry saliva.

 

“That’s a completely different dimension.”

 

“Yes, that’s right.”

 

Chen Xia continued Eiran’s words.

 

Her fists were clenched tight.

 

“They live in different worlds.”

 

‘This is a fight between those who had to survive that era.’

 

She understood why Leo had left those words behind.

 

She knew their experiences were different.

 

It had to be.

 

‘Because they lived through different eras. The battlefields they experienced and the number of times they had to risk their lives were different too.’

 

There are plenty of strong people in this world.

 

But battlefields are places where endless variables exist.

 

In a way, they’re like living creatures that constantly devour people’s lives and change.

 

Being strong doesn’t guarantee survival on a battlefield.

 

Conversely, being weak doesn’t mean you’re destined to die on a battlefield.

 

But those who have transcended battlefields are strong.

 

‘This is an absolute and immutable truth.’

 

That’s why Chen Xia thought she could someday approach Leo’s side.

 

He just seemed to be ahead at an unreachably distant distance.

 

But…

 

‘That’s a wall.’

 

Chen Xia bit her lip.

 

It couldn’t be reached just by experiencing battlefields and risking one’s life.

 

She realized that only by leaping over that wall could she finally approach him.

 

Chen Xia and Eiran had seen Leo wield his sword many times before.

 

Each time, they admired Leo’s technique.

 

Even when it looked like he was simply swinging his sword, tremendous strategy was hidden within.

 

But seeing Leo’s sword today, they realized that wasn’t the end.

 

‘It’s because his opponent is Berkia.’

 

This was different from the sparring match with Arron.

 

Back then, neither Leo nor Arron were aiming for each other’s lives.

 

But now it’s different.

 

Leo’s sincerity is contained in his sword.

 

The sword wielded by those who had to survive that era to take each other’s lives.

 

‘That’s not a concept of variables and irregularities…’

 

Didn’t Arron say he sees the future through his supersenses during battle?

 

From Eiran and Chen Xia’s perspective, Leo was the same.

 

He makes his opponent act as he wants through variables and irregularities.

 

Literally, in a split second, it’s no different from knowing what lies ahead.

 

If there’s a difference from Arron, it’s that Arron’s foresight is an innate ability developed through extreme training.

 

Leo is merely forcing an imitation of something he doesn’t have.

 

‘I understand why Leo said he could never defeat Arron.’

 

Arron could just see the future through his supersenses and avoid it.

 

Before Arron, who could be called the original, Leo’s ability would be powerless.

 

But what does that matter?

 

Eiran and Chen Xia were even more thrilled by Leo’s ability to approach something innate through effort alone.

 

And another person.

 

Berkia also has a foot in the same realm as Leo.

 

“But is that even possible?”

 

“…It’s already beyond common sense.”

 

“What do you mean?”

 

At Runia’s question, Chen Xia spoke.

 

“Currently, Berkia’s ego has collapsed.”

 

“I know.”

 

“That means only the instincts of the dead remain.”

 

“Right. She’s in a berserk state.”

 

“Yes, that’s correct. But even in that berserk state, she’s not attacking randomly but fighting with swordsmanship comparable to Leo’s.”

 

That was exactly right.

 

A berserk undead destroys its surroundings like mad.

 

If it’s a mage, it would devastate the surroundings with mana bullets that barely qualify as magic.

 

A hero of Berkia’s level could erase several countries from the map with that alone.

 

Yet Berkia is currently using precise swordsmanship as if she has will.

 

She’s even fighting Leo on equal terms.

 

Runia had never seen this before either.

 

Until now, Leo had defeated those with more powerful mana than himself through ‘technique and experience.’

 

But Berkia, who had lost her reason, was displaying swordsmanship on par with Leo’s.

 

That means Berkia’s instinctive fighting itself is of this caliber.

 

“Is that… possible?”

 

“It’s possible because she’s fighting like that.”

 

Chen Xia clenched her fist tightly.

 

She couldn’t fathom how much one would have to refine themselves to reach that level.

 

It was a realm close to divine skill.

 

‘I thought I had gotten a little closer.’

 

It was ridiculous that she had thought such a thing.

 

But…

 

‘I won’t give up.’

 

Chen Xia’s eyes widened as she looked at Leo’s back.

 

It wasn’t just Chen Xia.

 

Runia and Eiran also watched the fight between the two heroes who had lived through the Age of Calamity.

 

Dreaming of the day when they could support that firm and lonely back.

 

“How’s the current situation?”

 

“…If Berkia weren’t undead, this exchange would have been slightly more advantageous for Leo. But the current Berkia is…”

 

“Mmm…!”

 

Runia bit her lip tightly.

 

“Isn’t there anything we can do to help?”

 

“As of now…”

 

It was when Eiran was making a frustrated expression.

 

“It seems. Intruders have appeared.”

 

“What?”

 

At Chen Xia’s words, Runia and Eiran’s eyes widened.

 

And they looked in the direction Chen Xia was looking.

 

It was the sky.

 

Heavily armed knights and mages were descending from the sky.

 

Seeing this, Runia’s face contorted.

 

“Templars of Eldon.”

 

Having seen the darkness of this city in Eldon’s underground, Runia found them disgusting.

 

It wasn’t just Runia.

 

Disgust naturally appeared on Eiran and Chen Xia’s faces as well.

 

It was when Chen Xia was looking at the sky with cold eyes.

 

Wooong-!

 

Once again, Bihar’s dagger resonated from within her clothes.

 

Chen Xia grabbed the dagger with a somewhat flustered expression.

 

At that moment.

 

-Teacher… Berkia…

 

Chen Xia’s face was colored with bewilderment at the voice that came through the sword.

 

‘This voice, could it be…’

 

“Ancestor?”

 

-Don’t call me ancestor.

 

The voice answered heavily.

 

-I am not someone who deserves that.

 

***

 

Leo tightened his grip on the sword.

 

Tremendous pain was assaulting him.

 

‘The bones are definitely crushed.’

 

Leo, who had been looking down at the hand holding the sword, looked at his opposite arm.

 

He felt pain no less than in his left hand.

 

His right arm dangled like a broken tree branch.

 

‘This is definitely broken too.’

 

Leo activated his aura.

 

Crack! Creak! Crack-!

 

The muscles strengthened by aura forcibly held the broken bones together.

 

Healing magic wasn’t his specialty, but given some time, he could somewhat mend the bones.

 

But Leo didn’t do that.

 

In the instant he used magic, Berkia would pounce on him.

 

And the alien sensation felt during the bone-mending process would interfere with fighting.

 

Of course, using aura to forcibly fix bones like this also brought tremendous pain.

 

But for Leo, pain wasn’t a factor that hindered mental concentration.

 

Rather, it was something very familiar.

 

The path Leo had walked was too rough for his movements to be hindered by pain.

 

Rather, injuries were like friends.

 

In the midst of this, laughter flowed out.

 

Not because pain was welcome.

 

This sharp battle that didn’t allow even an instant’s respite made Leo’s heart tremble.

 

“You’ve become amazing.”

 

It was a sentiment that didn’t match the current situation.

 

But he was happy to see his disciple who had grown this skilled.

 

‘Others would think I’m completely insane.’

 

But it didn’t matter.

 

If he hadn’t gone mad in the first place, he wouldn’t have been able to overcome that era.

 

“I wanted to stand on the same battlefield as you when you became stronger, Berkia.”

 

He conveyed words that couldn’t reach now.

 

“I wanted to stand on the same battlefield with Bihar too, not as shadows, but as heroes.”

 

Conveying a wish that could no longer be fulfilled, Leo pointed his sword.

 

“This won’t be the end.”

 

Whooooooo-!

 

As if responding to Leo’s words, aura and mana began pouring out from Berkia’s body as she reattached her severed wrist.

 

Watching that sight, Leo said.

 

“I’ll take it all.”

 

The moment Leo was about to activate his mana.

 

“Oh my, oh my.”

 

A voice mixed with sighs was heard.

 

“To think a great elf hero has become a filthy undead.”

 

Leo turned his head.

 

There, an elf young man dressed as a scholar was walking over.

 

“What a tragic thing.”

 

The elf with a bitter expression, Ulein, spoke to Leo without even giving Berkia a glance.

 

“I wanted to meet you, Leo Flobe. My name is Ulein. I am the council chairman of this city…”

 

Thunk-!

 

In an instant, Leo’s sword flew toward Ulein’s head.

 

Leo’s sword, which had pierced through the barrier, stopped right in front of Ulein’s nose.

 

Leo, who had thrown the sword, spoke with an expressionless face.

 

“Tell me, who did you call filthy?”

 

Ulein made a troubled smile and pointed at Berkia.

 

“I said this person was filthy.”

 

A chilling murderous intent settled in Leo’s eyes.

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