Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 587

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587.

 

Crackle-!

 

Lightning aura surged from Duran’s body.

 

Seeing Duran like that, Eiran urgently shouted.

 

“Wait! Duran! If you attack now, you might harm the others!”

 

“Grgh!”

 

Duran hastily withdrew his sword.

 

Whoosh-!

 

Black flames shot up ahead.

 

Seeing this, Eiran blocked the black flames with her aura-infused shield.

 

Just as mages have specializations, knights can also be categorized by their combat methods.

 

In the case of Selia and Duran, they were types specialized in offense.

 

Based on their powerful aura abilities, they suppress enemies at the front and protect allies.

 

And in Eiran’s case, she was a knight specialized in defense.

 

In the current situation where there was an overwhelming difference in power between enemies and allies, Eiran’s defensive specialization was shining brighter.

 

Whoosh-!

 

“Ugh!”

 

“Eiran! Are you alright?”

 

Chen Xia hastily summoned water aura to push away the black flames around Eiran.

 

Eiran, who had been pushed back by the suddenly more powerful black flames, hastily nodded.

 

“I’m fine! There’s no problem with me!”

 

Though Eiran answered spiritedly, her body was covered in burns of various sizes.

 

Currently, she was one of the main pillars of defense blocking the black flames.

 

Without her, this party would have been annihilated long ago.

 

“Eiran! You’re pushing yourself too hard! Rest now!”

 

Then Driana, who was blocking the black flames with a shield larger than herself, shouted.

 

“No! I can do a bit more…”

 

“This isn’t a situation that will improve by continuing to overexert yourself! If you collapse, it’s really over! Now is the time to recover your body!”

 

Driana, who was sharing the defensive burden with Eiran, scolded her.

 

Eiran bit her lips.

 

“But if I withdraw, you’ll be overexerting yourself alone, Driana!”

 

“Don’t worry. Am I not the successor of Dweno, who became the shield of the great heroes?”

 

Driana smiled confidently.

 

“My body is also sturdier than yours! So don’t worry and rest.”

 

“Eiran! Quickly to the rear!”

 

“Waaah! Eiran! You’ve worked so hard! Rest even if just for a moment!”

 

The Seirun students supported the staggering Eiran as she retreated, tears welling in their eyes.

 

“…Are you really alright?”

 

Chen Xia asked Driana.

 

At Chen Xia’s question, Driana chuckled.

 

“Not at all.”

 

Driana, who had been serving as the party’s shield alongside Eiran, had taken just as much damage as Eiran.

 

The reason she could stand firmly was because dwarves were physically sturdier than elves.

 

“I’ll help you too.”

 

As a balanced type in both defense and offense, Chen Xia also showed strength in defense.

 

Seeing Chen Xia like that, Driana firmly shook her head.

 

“Both Eiran and you! You’re my precious nude models! It would be troublesome if you got scars!”

 

“Seeing you say such things, it seems you still have some leeway.”

 

Driana smiled and gripped her shield even more firmly.

 

“But this is serious.”

 

Flash! Crash! Whoosh! Rumble! Bang!

 

From not far away, tremendous explosion sounds and earth-shaking shockwaves rolled in.

 

It was the sound of Lumern blocking Erebos at the very front.

 

“If Lumern hadn’t appeared midway… we would have been dead long ago.”

 

What the Hero Academy students were currently blocking were the flames that Erebos was spewing.

 

“This battle is incomparable to any we’ve experienced before.”

 

They hadn’t even stepped onto the main stage yet.

 

Yet even so, it was overwhelming for their current selves.

 

“The biggest issue is that our coordination isn’t perfect.”

 

Chen Xia showed her anxiety.

 

Currently, the students from the four Hero Academies were cooperating based on their combat experience with Erebos from last summer vacation.

 

As such, they weren’t completely out of sync.

 

But it wasn’t enough to break through the current situation.

 

Driana narrowed her eyes.

 

“We need Cal.”

 

“Yes.”

 

Currently in command was Chloe, whose leadership abilities were also outstanding among the 2nd years.

 

But Chloe’s strength was reading the flow of large battlefields and devising strategies.

 

In that aspect, Cal couldn’t dare to match her.

 

On the other hand, in battles to defeat a single powerful enemy, Cal was superior with his observational skills and moment-to-moment resourcefulness.

 

“I have no idea where he went at a time like this.”

 

It was when Driana was expressing her frustration at Cal’s absence.

 

“Aaaaaaaaahhhhh!”

 

A scream was heard.

 

Everyone looked around.

 

“Above.”

 

At Chen Xia’s murmur, everyone looked up.

 

Just before crashing headfirst into the ground.

 

Cal barely deployed a Fly spell and landed on the ground.

 

“I, I barely landed! That Eliza! Using acceleration to throw me here…”

 

“Where the hell have you been fooling around until now!”

 

Chelsea ran to Cal, grabbed his collar, and shook him vigorously.

 

“Heh. Did you miss me?”

 

When Cal spoke in his characteristic cheeky tone, Chelsea ground her teeth.

 

“Can I hit you once?!”

 

“Move aside, Chelsea Rwallin.”

 

“Why!”

 

“Because I’m going to hit him.”

 

At Duran’s murderous voice, Chelsea let go of Cal’s collar.

 

“Wait! Chelsea! Don’t abandon me! I won’t say anything cheeky!”

 

Seeing Duran who really looked ready to hit him, Cal turned pale and asked Chelsea for help.

 

“Why were you late?”

 

Even Avad, who maintained composure in all matters, asked pressingly while calming Duran.

 

To this, Cal showed the staff in his hand and said.

 

“I was late because I went to find the key item to deal with that thing.”

 

At Cal’s confident appearance, everyone’s eyes widened.

 

Whoosh-!

 

Then black flames swept over like a tsunami.

 

Screams erupted from the front line that was blocking the attack.

 

Seeing this, Chen Xia urgently ran to Cal.

 

“Cal! Please take command for now!”

 

“Huh? Is it really okay for me to do that…?”

 

“You’re the only one who can, so hurry!”

 

Chen Xia grabbed Cal and rushed to where Chloe was.

 

“Selia! Watch out on the left… Ah! Cal!”

 

Chloe, who had been supporting allies from within a magic circle that overlooked the entire battlefield, brightened up when she saw Cal.

 

“Come here!”

 

Chloe hurriedly moved aside from the magic circle.

 

As Cal stepped onto the magic circle, multiple screens began appearing before his eyes.

 

“If you speak from here, your voice will reach everyone!”

 

Cal nodded absentmindedly at those words.

 

Chloe joined the front lines.

 

“I’m not sure if I should be doing this.”

 

As Cal muttered nervously, Chen Xia said,

 

“I think you’ll do better than anyone.”

 

At those words, Cal glanced at one of the screens.

 

There, he could see the back of a man engaged in a fierce battle with the main body of the Calamity Flame.

 

‘Lord Lumern.’

 

***

 

Roooooar!

 

Lumern raised his sword while looking at the Calamity Flame burning before him.

 

Erebos was not in the form of a giant.

 

It had taken on a form similar in size to Lumern.

 

The primordial evil, wrapped in black flames all over its body, spread both arms.

 

The twilight aura emanating from Lumern’s sword slashed Erebos’s neck.

 

Whoosh!

 

Erebos’s head shot up into the sky in an instant.

 

Lumern spread his hand.

 

Flash!

 

Crash!

 

Spears of light flying from all directions pierced Erebos’s body and mercilessly tore it apart.

 

Swordsmanship and magic designed to thoroughly annihilate the opponent.

 

Despite being a magic swordsman, there was no bias toward either side.

 

He was overwhelming Erebos with truly flawless swordsmanship and magic that left no openings.

 

However…

 

Whoosh!

 

The resurrected black flames struck at Lumern.

 

Lumern quickly leaped to dodge Erebos’s attack.

 

-To continue mimicking a surviving hero. How tedious. Knight of Twilight.

 

Whoosh!

 

Erebos’s collapsed body regained its original form.

 

-You have already reached your limit. So why do you not give up?

 

Erebos sneered.

 

-Did you not give up on defeating me long ago?

 

“Yes, I gave up on defeating you. Because it’s something I cannot do.”

 

Lumern gripped his sword tightly.

 

“But I’ve never once thought there was no future.”

 

Facing the endlessly burning Calamity Flame, Lumern spoke powerfully.

 

“Those children are the future.”

 

After chasing Erebos who had escaped from Rian’s Library and coming here, Lumern had witnessed the Hero Academy students.

 

And he saw it.

 

The possibility he thought he didn’t have.

 

‘The future didn’t only hold Lord Kail.’

 

He realized that his choice to bet everything on the future had not been wrong.

 

-Your eyes have rotted too, Knight of Twilight.

 

Erebos shook his head.

 

-Those pieces of trash who struggle even against small sparks. Do you believe they can accomplish what even you could not?

 

“Experience will solve their inexperience.”

 

Lumern curled up the corner of his mouth.

 

“Those children will stand before you in the near future. And together with the Hero of the Beginning, they will defeat you. You mocked the Hero of the Beginning for being alone, but…”

 

Lumern pointed his sword.

 

“Now that person is no longer alone.”

 

-So you mean to stop me here, prepared to die for those pieces of trash.

 

Erebos raised his hand.

 

-Yes, you’ve lasted long. You were the most persistent hero I’ve ever known.

 

Flicker-

 

A hero who doesn’t give up is frightening.

 

How terrifying that unyielding will could be, he had experienced painfully through the Great Heroes.

 

Through the Hero of the Beginning, Kail.

 

And when Erebos first saw Lumern, he saw Kail’s shadow.

 

Though he failed to break himself, that figure who never gave up and found ways gave Erebos a strange fear.

 

Because he couldn’t know when Lumern, who had hit his limits, might surpass those limits.

 

But…

 

-Are you satisfied? Knight of Twilight.

 

At this moment.

 

Kail’s shadow that had dwelt within Lumern disappeared.

 

Erebos’s body soared high into the sky.

 

He curled up the corner of his mouth while looking at Lumern, who intended to self-destruct with him.

 

To the future generation who would follow in his footsteps.

 

Lumern, satisfied with entrusting everything to comrades who would replace him, was no longer an object of fear for Erebos.

 

One who has done all they can and now has no regrets even in death is no longer a threat.

 

-Just a dying flame.

 

And this was Lumern’s limit.

 

Roooooar!

 

Just as Erebos was about to breathe flames toward Lumern.

 

Whoosh!

 

Someone broke through the black flames burning everything around and reached this battlefield.

 

“Lord Arron’s successor?”

 

Seeing Ar, who had set foot on a battlefield still beyond reach, Lumern showed a shocked expression.

 

“Hyaaaah!”

 

Ar let out a fierce battle cry and kicked Erebos.

 

Crash!

 

White flames erupted from Ar’s foot, armed with Arron’s aura.

 

Crash!

 

Erebos was sent flying and crashed into the ground.

 

Ar, who had concentrated all her strength into her toes and even contained Runia’s flames at her toes, crashed to the ground.

 

Whoosh!

 

Eliza caught Ar midway.

 

“Lord Lumern! We’ve come to help!”

 

Selia urgently ran to Lumern’s side.

 

“How….”

 

Lumern asked with a dazed expression.

 

They were still immature hero candidates.

 

Though their brilliant futures were anticipated, they were woefully inadequate children to interfere in this battle right now.

 

For that reason, he thought they were still one step short of coming to this place.

 

It might be called just one step.

 

But one step at the limit is an incredibly vast distance.

 

Potential does not bloom easily.

 

‘What on earth changed to enable these children to come here?’

 

Erebos, who had been sent flying by Ar’s attack, got back up.

 

‘I merely thought of them as trash.’

 

Certainly, the potential of the hero candidates he met this time was enough to surprise Erebos.

 

But Erebos knew.

 

That potential was not power.

 

In the world, only a very small number of people awaken all of their potential.

 

‘There are plenty of worthless trash who possess excessive things.’

 

That’s why he hadn’t paid attention to the hero candidates.

 

After all, it was certain they couldn’t even handle the flames he breathed out.

 

But now they had exceeded Erebos’s expectations.

 

‘Their movements suddenly changed.’

 

Erebos’s eyes narrowed.

 

‘Has someone with insight comparable to that fool appeared?’

 

Erebos’s eyes quickly swept across the battlefield.

 

And among the hero candidates, he spotted a particularly insignificant human boy.

 

A utterly worthless human.

 

A pathetic human who fell far short even of those Erebos had called trash.

 

But….

 

‘He draws out others’ potential.’

 

Erebos’s eyes saw exactly what Cal’s ability was.

 

The Erebos of the past would have sneered.

 

He would have dismissed it, saying that the potential of mere mortals had limits anyway.

 

But now he knew.

 

How terrifying that ability was.

 

‘I must eliminate him now.’

 

Erebos’s killing intent turned toward Cal.

 

***

 

Crack-!

 

Kail gritted his teeth as he watched Dweno’s weapon melt away and disappear.

 

‘…You did well.’

 

With this, another weapon had disappeared.

 

Unable to withstand Kail’s power and Erebos’s flames, the divine artifacts were reaching the end of their lifespan.

 

Kail, who was habitually reaching his hand into his cloak, paused.

 

‘…Right, this cloak is fake.’

 

The cloak that Risinass and Luna had made for him had an extradimensional space function in addition to its powerful defensive abilities.

 

Kail had stored his weapons in that extradimensional space long ago.

 

But no matter how real it seemed, it was ultimately fake.

 

Except for its defensive abilities, all the magic imbued in the cloak was in a dormant state.

 

Naturally, the extradimensional space function had also disappeared.

 

Magic artifacts of this level could only be restored to perfect condition by their creator.

 

‘Should I use divine power?’

 

Kail fell into thought, feeling the divine power dwelling within his body.

 

Until now, he had blocked the Calamity Flame using only the abilities he had gained since his reincarnation.

 

But no matter how much he cut and cut the flames, they showed no intention of dying down.

 

Rather, they blazed even more fiercely.

 

The reason was simple.

 

‘Those flames are not the main body.’

 

Unless he invaded the interior of the Heroes’ World and blocked the rift, they would certainly continue burning.

 

‘Moreover… it’s not the power of just one fragment.’

 

There was something he had discovered while facing the Calamity Flame.

 

Erebos’s current flames were not the power of just one fragment.

 

The more flames burn, the stronger their heat becomes.

 

And the same was true for the Calamity Flame.

 

‘It’s been thousands of years since the Erebos fragment that the Heroes of the Cataclysm defeated was resurrected.’

 

And during those thousands of years, the Calamity Flame had continued burning within the Heroes’ World.

 

The Heroes’ World also had divine power as fuel.

 

If that was the case….

 

‘It wouldn’t be strange if it had gained the power of more than one fragment.’

 

Kail clenched his fist while keeping his hand in his cloak.

 

‘There’s no choice. Now is the time to use divine power.’

 

The moment Kail, having reached his conclusion, was about to invoke his divine power.

 

Clack-!

 

“…!”

 

Something was caught in his hand.

 

Kail unconsciously pulled out what he had grasped from within his cloak.

 

A shabby longsword.

 

But its blade was sharper than any famous sword.

 

And this sword was all too familiar to Kail.

 

The sword that the Divine Blacksmith Dweno had uniquely acknowledged as his work and given a name.

 

The sword that had been with him until his final moment.

 

“Posteritas.”

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