Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 588

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588.

 

Posteritas.

 

This sword could become anything.

 

If desired, it could become a sword, sometimes a staff, and if wished for, it became a summoning catalyst.

 

This sword that held infinite possibilities was created by Dweno, inspired by Kail.

 

This sword named Future was literally a sword for all classes with infinite possibilities.

 

And it was also a sword that gifted new possibilities to the future alongside its master before disappearing.

 

‘Why is this…’

 

Kail gripped the edge of the cloak he wore.

 

‘The extradimensional space has opened.’

 

Not just Posteritas.

 

The magic imbued in the cloak had come alive.

 

As a result, he could now take out all the equipment stored in the extradimensional space.

 

As if telling him not to worry.

 

It felt like someone had helped him.

 

Suddenly, he remembered when his necromancy had awakened before.

 

Risinass’s mana that seemed to have its own will.

 

Kail, who unconsciously gripped Posteritas tightly, opened his mouth.

 

“You… are you here right now?”

 

There was no answer in return.

 

“I guess that’s impossible…”

 

It was when he was making a bitter smile.

 

Thud-

 

Something pushed his back.

 

He turned around in surprise, but there was no one there.

 

“…”

 

Kail, who had a dazed expression, looked ahead.

 

“Right.”

 

Kail fixed his gaze straight ahead.

 

“I have to move forward.”

 

Steeling his resolve, he completely drew Posteritas.

 

Wooong-!

 

The sword responded to Kail’s mana.

 

This sword was a fake created by the power of Hero Record.

 

But when he gripped the sword, the response was the same as the first time.

 

‘The weapons Dweno made are truly amazing.’

 

It gives unwavering faith.

 

Faith that it will never betray.

 

To fulfill their convictions, it becomes a support that users can rely on until the very end.

 

Kail pointed the sword toward the Calamity Flame.

 

“Once again… I’m counting on you.”

 

Wooong-!

 

Seeing Posteritas respond to his words, Kail curled up the corners of his mouth.

 

***

 

“Lord Lumern…”

 

“It’s Lord Lumern.”

 

“The Twilight Knight…!”

 

The hero candidates who gathered around Lumern looked at him with admiring eyes.

 

A great hero was right before their eyes.

 

The Hero of the Beginning Kail and the Progenitor of the Starry Skies Luna.

 

And the Hero Arron had descended to the present world.

 

Most of those here had even witnessed that scene directly.

 

But even so, the meeting with the Hero of the Cataclysm didn’t lose its significance.

 

The hero before their eyes was one of the main figures who opened a new era.

 

Moreover, he was a savior who had fought against Erebos for thousands of years within the Heroes’ World.

 

Reverence filled the eyes of the hero candidates.

 

Looking at them, Lumern said.

 

“How did you get here?”

 

“Pardon?”

 

Selia showed a slightly flustered expression at Lumern’s question.

 

“Breaking through Erebos’s flames should have been nearly impossible?”

 

Seeing Lumern’s troubled expression, Woreden said.

 

“We simply did as Lord Lumern taught us.”

 

“As I taught you?”

 

“Yes. We surpassed our limits and arrived here. Just like Lord Lumern did.”

 

At Woreden’s words, Lumern’s eyes wavered for a moment.

 

Then Eliza, who had been carrying Ar in the air, arrived on the ground.

 

“How’s that! You damn fireball! I kicked your ass!”

 

“Acting so proud when you collapsed after one strike. Healers! Hurry and treat the burns!”

 

Eliza lifted up Ar, who had serious burns all over her body, and handed her over to the healers.

 

The burns were wounds caused by Runia’s white flames, not Erebos’s flames.

 

“You stupid cat! That’s why I said it was reckless!”

 

“Heh, wounds of glory… nyaaaah!”

 

Ar, who was getting cocky at Runia’s scolding, screamed at the healers’ touch.

 

Watching that scene, Lumern showed a surprised expression.

 

“Beast transformation…?”

 

Freely using beast transformation was a unique ability that only the Hero Arron possessed.

 

A realm that even Ajonia, who was his comrade, never reached.

 

It wasn’t just Ar.

 

Lumern was even more surprised to discover the beastman students who had transformed due to Ar’s howling.

 

“The burns are treated, but her stamina is too low!”

 

“Heh, don’t worry… urp?!”

 

“What do you mean don’t worry when you’re dry heaving from exhaustion!”

 

“Go somewhere else!”

 

The elf and dwarf students were horrified and pushed Ar back and forth to each other.

 

“I’m dizzy… urp!”

 

“I said go away!”

 

Someone approached while watching Ar being pushed around frantically.

 

“I guess it’s my turn to step up.”

 

“Cal, you only know basic healing magic, don’t you?”

 

When Chelsea tilted her head, Cal got cocky.

 

“Did you forget that I learned Lord Dweno’s alchemy?”

 

“Ah. Come to think of it, you were our academy’s top pharmacist, weren’t you?”

 

“…That sounds weird?”

 

Cal squinted his eyes and rummaged through his belongings.

 

“Call me the best supporter who can provide you with perfect condition support anytime.”

 

Grumbling, Cal pulled out a large syringe.

 

Ar, whose stomach was a mess due to exhaustion from stamina depletion, flinched when she spotted it.

 

Watching Ar raise her ears and tail in wariness, Cal said.

 

“Hold her down.”

 

At those words, Driana and Chen Xia grabbed Ar’s arms.

 

“Didn’t you say that descendants of heroes have no fear? Besides, you didn’t even flinch at much worse injuries, so what’s so scary about this that you’re making such a fuss?”

 

“It doesn’t hurt if you go easy.”

 

“Let me gooooo! Aaaahhhhh!”

 

Cal thrust a large syringe firmly into Ar’s shoulder as she struggled.

 

Watching this scene, the Ajonia students turned their heads away.

 

“Embarrassing.”

 

“To think that thing is our leader.”

 

“What face can we show to Lord Ajonia with?”

 

“Lord Lumern will think we’re pathetic.”

 

Hearing the despairing murmurs of the Ajonia students, Lumern thought to himself.

 

‘…She’s exactly like Ajonia.’

 

Lumern’s gaze, which had been watching Ar for a moment, turned to Cal.

 

‘But what about this child?’

 

At a glance, he was incomparable to the students here.

 

Students from various academies gathered around Cal, who had injected Ar with a special stamina recovery potion.

 

“Your command was perfect, wasn’t it?”

 

“Without you, we would have kept struggling against those black flames!”

 

“You’re not just clever, are you? Next time we have joint classes, want to form a party with us?”

 

Everyone here had no choice but to acknowledge it.

 

It was only possible because Cal was there to get them this far.

 

‘I see. He’s a student who pushes others forward.’

 

If so, Cal was qualified to be in this position.

 

And he could imagine how many limits Cal had faced to get here.

 

‘…A student who accomplished what I couldn’t.’

 

Someone different from himself, who couldn’t overcome his limits.

 

The image of a hero he had so desperately wanted to be.

 

‘I’m envious.’

 

Just as Lumern clenched his fist tightly.

 

“Lord Lumern!”

 

Cal approached Lumern.

 

And he handed the staff in his hand to Lumern.

 

“This! It’s something Lord Rian entrusted to me! He said it’s something that can destroy Erebos’s core!”

 

“You keep it.”

 

“Pardon?”

 

“I’ll open the path.”

 

Hearing those words, Cal’s face hardened.

 

Because he realized what Lumern was trying to do.

 

“Wait! Lord Lumern!”

 

Lumern ran toward the direction where the black flames were flickering.

 

To destroy the core, it was necessary to completely break down Erebos’s current form.

 

And with Lumern’s current power, that was impossible.

 

‘He’s planning to open the path with the resolve to die!’

 

Cal’s face hardened.

 

‘I have to help!’

 

Cal gritted his teeth.

 

Lumern was too great a person for him to dare say he would help.

 

Still, the current Lumern needed help.

 

No matter how great a person is, they kneel when things get tough.

 

Because they’re great, they shoulder more burdens.

 

And once they kneel, it’s hard to get back up.

 

‘We might be able to help them stand up!’

 

Cal gritted his teeth and ran to Eliza.

 

“Eliza!”

 

“Huh? Why, why!?”

 

Eliza was momentarily flustered seeing Cal grab her shoulder and speak urgently.

 

“Take me up to the sky!”

 

“O-okay.”

 

Eliza, who would normally have roughly shaken off Cal’s touch, found herself nodding without realizing it.

 

“Everyone! I know it’s tough, but let’s fight alongside Lord Lumern!”

 

“We might be able to support Lord Lumern, but fighting alongside him would be difficult. We’d be lucky not to hold him back.”

 

At Driana’s words, Runia nodded.

 

“Right, if we make a mistake, we might hold Lord Lumern back…”

 

“Normally that would be true! But right now Lord Lumern needs our help!”

 

Cal gritted his teeth and looked at Lumern’s retreating figure.

 

‘This is the problem with people who are too great! Even knowing they can’t handle it alone, they try to take responsibility for everything!’

 

That he, who couldn’t overcome his limits, is now a person of the old era.

 

That now he must fulfill his responsibility by becoming fertilizer for the new era – Lumern must be thinking that way.

 

‘What a truly noble person!’

 

He admired such a Lumern.

 

Knowing he was that kind of person, he could respect him with all his heart.

 

But…

 

‘Now is not the time for you to end!’

 

It wasn’t simply because he would lose Lumern.

 

He didn’t want to see it.

 

The sight of the hero he so admired and was proud of dying.

 

Cal didn’t want to see him finally give up and be defeated.

 

He understood why Rian of this world had refused to help Lumern.

 

He must have thought there was no hope for Lumern, who had given up on life.

 

‘Leo, how were you able to defeat Erebos alone?’

 

He recalled the question he had asked Leo before.

 

To that question, Leo had answered like this.

 

‘Because I wanted to live.’

 

Leo had smiled.

 

‘I wanted to live and see it. The world they wanted to see.’

 

Even the Hero of the Beginning accomplished that great feat because he wanted to live.

 

‘If you’re Leo’s successor! You should live too!’

 

Cal, who had shouted inwardly, spoke.

 

“I’ll try to command somehow.”

 

He clenched his fist tightly.

 

“That’s all I can do, but… I have to help Lord Lumern somehow!”

 

Lifting up the kneeling Lumern would be impossible with just their current strength.

 

‘Only Leo would be capable of such a thing!’

 

Only someone who saved the world could understand the despair of someone who saved the world.

 

But.

 

‘We can at least hold on so he doesn’t fall!’

 

Cal gripped the staff Rian had left behind.

 

“That’s the battlefield you’ll have to stand on someday!”

 

Cal spoke strongly.

 

At those words, the students’ eyes widened greatly.

 

“That someday could be tomorrow! Will you just pass it off to someone else then too, saying you’re not qualified?”

 

At Cal’s words, fighting spirit blazed in the Hero Candidates’ eyes.

 

“Lord Lumern, who told us to surpass our limits, is fighting! So let’s show him!”

 

Cal spoke with strength.

 

“Show him that you can surpass your limits anytime! I’ll do my best to help you!”

 

“Not ‘you,’ Cal.”

 

Eliza, who was beside Cal, clicked her tongue.

 

“Us.”

 

At those words, Cal made an embarrassed expression.

 

Chen Xia, who was watching that scene, tilted her head.

 

“That’s strange.”

 

“What is?”

 

When Selia made a puzzled expression, Chen Xia smiled faintly.

 

“When did those two become so close?”

 

Just as Selia’s eyes widened at those words.

 

-It wasn’t simply mimicking a fool’s behavior.

 

Hwareureureuk-!

 

At the voice heard from behind, Cal’s body stiffened.

 

When he turned around, black flames were blazing there.

 

Erebos looked at Kail and gave an eerie smile.

 

-There was another fool.

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