Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 553
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553.
“Then let’s begin the 2nd Year Combat Studies class, Bastera match.”
Ripen, the Combat Studies professor, placed the Bastera-specific ball in the center of the arena.
To secure the first attack, they had to claim that ball.
“One, two. One, two.”
Chelsea bent and straightened her knees, warming up her body.
The fastest person on Chelsea’s team was none other than Chelsea herself.
‘On their side is Duran. And the one supporting that Duran would be Iliana.’
Chelsea looked at the fastest individuals on the opposing side with wary eyes.
Duran Moira.
As a user of lightning aura, excluding Leo, he competed for first place in speed among classmates alongside Chelsea and Eliza.
In Eliza’s case, using summoned creatures would make her an easy target, so she was excluded from the first attack competition.
‘Anyway, I need to claim the ball faster than Duran. Quickly claim it and.’
Chelsea’s eyes rolled around before fixing on Iliana.
‘I’m going to throw it right at Iliana’s face.’
Chelsea, wearing an expression like a fierce beast, recalled the earlier words.
‘But the Class President isn’t going to stay out overnight today too, is he?’
Ever since hearing that Leo had skipped class for a date with Elena, it had been constantly bothering her.
‘Of course, I heard it was a condition for Elena Jeron accepting the Vice Student Council President position.’
Still, what bothered her bothered her.
It was like watching the love letters that flew to Avad almost daily from the noble ladies of the Rodren Empire when they were young.
‘No, it bothers me even more than back then!’
Leo being popular was nothing new since their first year.
But this time, for some reason, it bothered her too much.
So she had been trying hard not to care.
In such a situation, Iliana had succeeded brilliantly in provoking Chelsea.
‘She’s annoying, so just once, just once!’
Chelsea ground her teeth.
Meanwhile, Professor Ripen put the whistle to his mouth.
Seeing this, Chelsea tensed all the muscles in her body.
Tweet-!
Whoosh-!
Creating a tremendous gust of wind, Chelsea sprinted toward the ball.
Crackle-!
Duran also ran toward the ball, emitting lightning.
The moment both were reaching for the ball at neck-and-neck speed.
Flash-!
Along with a bright light, someone snatched the ball.
Both Chelsea and Duran stared wide-eyed at the one who had snatched the ball.
Even Iliana, the very person who had gotten the ball first, looked back and forth between the two and the ball with a “Huh?” expression.
“Why are you guys so slow?”
Crack-!
Crack-!
Without any malice, Iliana succeeded once again in provoking not only Chelsea but also her teammate Duran.
“What? Iliana just caught the ball before Chelsea and Duran?”
“Even though Iliana is fast, she was no match for Chelsea and Duran, right?”
The speed of Chelsea and Duran was well-known throughout not just the 2nd year but all of Lumern.
When Iliana overwhelmed those two with speed, the entire 2nd year had no choice but to fall into confusion.
“Did Chelsea and Duran maybe run half-heartedly?”
“Those incarnations of competitive spirit? No way?”
“They’ve been competing for the fastest in our grade since first year.”
“Right, they’ve been grinding their teeth trying not to lose to each other as rivals, so there’s no way they’d go easy.”
The murmuring 2nd years soon began reaching one conclusion.
“Hey, when was the last time we had a grade-wide speed test?”
“Mid-first semester.”
“Hasn’t Iliana been practicing acceleration magic or something recently?”
“If that’s the case…”
Everyone looked at Iliana with surprised eyes.
“You’re saying Iliana became faster than those two in the meantime?”
***
“That’s right!”
Iliana grinned.
“The results of the new magic I learned recently are showing now!”
Iliana wore a triumphant expression, looking quite pleased with herself.
“It must be because of Luna’s magic. I’ve become incredibly fast.”
“Hmph. Indeed. So you’ve become somewhat useful?”
“Hohohohohoho!”
Hearing their conversation, Iliana covered her mouth and burst into laughter.
“The era of Light-Speed Swift Sword, Lady Iliana has begun!”
“Terrible nickname.”
While Chelsea furrowed her brow, the excited Iliana pointed at Chelsea and Duran with her finger.
“So you two are now ‘slowpokes’ compared to me? Hohoho!”
“…”
“…”
Chelsea and Duran looked at Iliana with terrifying eyes.
Cal, who was watching this scene, clicked his tongue.
‘She’s so excited she doesn’t even know she might die.’
“Eliza is also slower than me!”
Pop-!
“I understand what you mean. I want to go beat her up right now.”
Eliza, with veins bulging on her forehead, pulled her whip taut.
She looked ready to rush at Iliana immediately.
“Hey, hey, hey. Control yourself. Guard the formation.”
Cal broke out in a cold sweat.
Then Chelsea lunged at Iliana.
“Give me the ball!”
“No way! With such slow movements, you can’t catch me…”
Crackle-!
“Hand over the ball! Iliana Raden!”
“W-wait! We’re on the same team… Kyaaaaaaah?!”
Iliana looked terrified at Duran charging at her with a frightening momentum and ran away.
“Why are you running away! Hurry up and give me the ball!”
“You’re charging at me like you’re going to beat me to death!”
It was when Iliana was screaming.
“What are those idiots doing right now?”
Selia frowned and moved toward Iliana using aura step.
“Iliana! Pass!”
“Ah, got it! Pass!”
“I can’t let that happen.”
“Ah?!”
Chen Xia, who had somehow approached right in front of Iliana, smiled brightly.
Close enough for their breaths to touch.
“Sia, how did you!”
“No matter how fast you are, if I can read your movements, I can predict your path. Hup-!”
Chen Xia, grinning, swung her leg.
Whoosh-!
“Ah! The ball?”
Chen Xia performed acrobatics, placing her hands on Iliana’s head and doing a handstand on top of her.
Then with fluid movements, she kicked the ball away from Iliana’s hands.
The ball stuck to Chen Xia’s foot as if glued there.
Crack! Whoosh-!
“Ugh!”
As Chelsea and Duran closed the distance, just as Iliana reached out to snatch the ball from Chen Xia.
Chen Xia pressed down on Iliana’s head with force, using the recoil to create distance between herself and Iliana.
Whoosh-!
And before Duran’s hand could reach it, she kicked the ball up into the air with all her might.
Thud-!
At that moment, Eiran caught the ball in midair.
Seeing this, Avad shouted toward the goal.
“Woreden!”
The goalkeeper was none other than Woreden.
Woreden activated his spiritual power.
Along with that, Eiran threw the ball with tremendous force.
“Oh my?!”
The ball plummeted straight toward Iliana, and Iliana screamed as she threw herself aside.
Crash! Rumble rumble rumble!
The ball drilled into the ground, creating a massive crater.
Iliana, who barely dodged the ball, gaped in shock.
“Why did you do that! You should have aimed for the goal!”
Taide shouted urgently.
“S-sorry! I couldn’t help myself…! I thought I should send Miss Iliana away…!”
“S-send away?!”
“It’s a good strategy. Woreden is guarding the goal solidly after all.”
Chen Xia intercepted the ball stuck in the crater and said with a bright smile.
“Since it’s hard to break through Woreden and score, I think it’s better to go with a strategy of reducing the opposing forces first.”
“Y-yes! That’s right! That was the strategy! It’s absolutely not because I find Miss Iliana annoying or anything!”
Eiran clenched her fists and smiled brightly.
“So, Miss Iliana. Please prepare yourself.”
Her face was smiling, but somehow it felt chilling.
Seeing this, the students in the spectator stands trembled.
“S-scary.”
“I thought only Runia El Runda was scary, but Eiran is terrifying too, isn’t she?”
***
After that, it was Chelsea’s team that continued to seize the initiative in attacks.
And Chelsea, Chen Xia, and Eiran focused their target on Iliana.
Iliana’s movements as she narrowly dodged attacks using acceleration were almost miraculous.
And somehow, Iliana’s movements continued to provoke the three of them.
“She really dodges well.”
Cal let out a hollow laugh.
Taide approached such Cal.
“Cal! Is this okay? We’re not specialized in offense, are we? If we get caught up in Iliana’s strategy like this and lose the ball, it’ll be terrible!”
“It doesn’t look like a strategy, does it?”
“That’s true.”
Cal and Taide shook their heads looking at Iliana, who was busy running around shouting ‘Save me!’
“Well, it’s certainly advantageous for our team to defend.”
“Right? It would be troublesome if they even scored the first goal!”
“Yeah. But it won’t be easy for them either.”
“What?”
“You know, getting hit with a shield really hurts.”
Cal grinned wickedly.
“With those three running wild like that, they’ll be too busy defending to turn to offense. And we have the best goalkeeper on our side.”
Cal gave a thumbs up toward the back.
Seeing Cal like this, Chloe smiled brightly.
“Cal, I’m going to the frontline too.”
“Hold back at times like this! Please!”
That’s when it happened.
“Stop the chatter.”
Whoosh-!
Eliza, who had been providing support from the air riding a Wind Wyvern, approached.
“The attack has switched sides.”
Selia, who had somehow succeeded in stealing the ball, was waving her hand holding the ball and generating a flame aura.
Seeing this, Chloe activated her magic power.
Crackle-!
An Ice World activated around the goal area.
At that moment.
Crack!
‘Dispel using spirit magic.’
“…!”
Earth spirits covered the ice.
Chloe looked at Woreden with a cold expression.
“Chloe, will you be okay?”
“No problem.”
“Taide! Help Chloe! Eliza, keep Avad in check from the air!”
“Got it!”
“Hmph! Don’t order me around.”
Taide headed to the back line and Eliza flew into the air chasing Avad.
‘Selia’s attack power is lethal enough to break through Chloe’s defense in one blow.’
Being specialized in offense, Selia’s attacks were at a level that could overturn the game in a single strike.
‘We absolutely cannot let the ball go to the opposing team.’
Being specialized in defense meant that their ability to keep possession of the ball was also superior.
In reality, it wasn’t easy to steal the ball from Chelsea, Chen Xia, and Eiran, who were the axis of offense.
‘And we should try to score the first goal ourselves!’
‘Just because our allies are specialized in defense doesn’t mean they can’t attack, and likewise, if the opponents seriously defend, it becomes difficult for us to break through too. If we get counterattacked on top of that, it becomes even more troublesome. Anyway, stopping their attack comes first.’
Cal narrowed his eyes.
‘Using Iliana as provocation definitely wasn’t Selia’s, Avad’s, or Duran’s idea.’
All three of them were from prestigious families among prestigious families.
So while they were smart, they were weak at this kind of surprise attack.
There was no need to catch them off guard.
The three had the ability to break through everything head-on.
‘…Is it Woreden?’
Cal’s gaze turned toward Woreden positioned in the rear.
Woreden boasted the largest build among the 2nd Year students.
Along with his overwhelming strength that brought opponents to their knees, most students thought of Woreden as a taciturn warrior type.
But….
‘He’s a complete schemer too, that guy.’
Cal clicked his tongue.
‘If Leo hadn’t been here, that guy would have been the strongest in our year.’
Not only his strength, but his brains weren’t to be underestimated either.
‘First, I need to read the flow of battle. Read it and find an opening….’
Cal was observing the movements of allies and enemies when it happened.
“Cal!”
“Huh?”
Taide’s urgent voice reached him.
In that instant, Cal realized that the ball Selia had thrown was right in front of his face.
‘What? She’s wasting one attack opportunity to target me first?’
Cal made an expression of incomprehension.
‘Why?’
Kwagagagagagang-!
***
Looking at the enemy camp swept up in flames, Woreden muttered.
“Checkmate, Cal Thomas.”
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