Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 600

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600.

 

Late dawn.

 

“Raina? Are you really okay?”

 

“Yes, Daid. I’ll feel better soon since I’m soaking in hot water.”

 

When Raina’s bright voice came from beyond the bathroom door attached to the room, Daid looked at Leo with a worried expression.

 

“It’s because she used mana with a body that lost its aura. She’ll be fine once she relaxes her body with hot water.”

 

Leo smiled bitterly.

 

“Sorry for calling you so urgently at dawn.”

 

“I’m the one who should be sorry for not paying attention when I was with her.”

 

Raina, who was listening to the conversation from inside the bathhouse, submerged herself up to her mouth in the water.

 

‘I should restrain myself from now on.’

 

A chill had risen throughout her body as a reaction to unleashing her aura in the Elder’s Corridor earlier.

 

Daid, who was flustered by that sight, had hurriedly woken Leo.

 

Raina suddenly touched her right chest.

 

The scar from when she was pierced long ago when she lost her aura still remained clearly visible.

 

Bubble bubble-

 

When she let out a small sigh, air bubbles formed.

 

***

 

Click.

 

“She seems to be overexerting herself.”

 

Leo, who had returned to his room, let out a small sigh.

 

Leo, who was about to get into bed, suddenly looked toward the terrace entrance attached to the room.

 

Whooooooo-!

 

Though he couldn’t see it because the curtains were drawn, a snowstorm was raging outside.

 

Leo, who had been looking toward the terrace for a moment, approached the terrace and drew back the curtains.

 

Swish-!

 

He could see someone kneeling right in front of the terrace door.

 

Snow had piled up softly on her blue hair.

 

Yet seemingly unbothered by the cold, the woman was closing her eyes and clasping her hands together in a reverent posture.

 

Seeing a sight that reminded him of a priest from the age of gods, he couldn’t help but let out a sigh.

 

‘She’s doing this again.’

 

Her identity was none other than Anyas, the half-elf who was the daughter of the Northern Mage Tower Lord and successor to the Elf Shadow Lord.

 

Leo opened the terrace door.

 

Whooooooo-!

 

The snowstorm came pouring in.

 

“What are you doing?”

 

“I was offering prayers to the great god.”

 

“I think I told you not to create religions or anything like that?”

 

“I have never created a religion.”

 

“Then why are you praying to me?”

 

“Because I joined a religious order that was already established.”

 

“What?”

 

Anyas, who opened her eyes, handed Leo a neatly folded paper from her bosom.

 

When Leo unfolded it, he felt a headache coming on.

 

The paper was a club recruitment poster from Lumern Academy.

 

【Join the Kail Religion.】

 

Club Name: Kail Religion.

 

Club Activities: Research on the deeds of Kail, the Hero of the Beginning.

 

President: Iliana Raden.

 

Vice President: Chen Xia.

 

Treasurer: Cal Thomas.

 

‘These guys really.’

 

During the Festival of Heroes, he had saved Iliana while in Kail’s form.

 

He also knew that because of that incident, Iliana had developed a deep interest in the Hero of the Beginning.

 

‘Right. Iliana has her eccentric side, so that’s understandable, but what are these guys thinking?’

 

To create a club at Lumern, you need at least three people.

 

‘Cal probably joined because it seemed profitable. Sia. What’s really up with that girl?’

 

Whatever it was, she probably didn’t think deeply about it.

 

‘How did they pass the document review with a name like this?’

 

Leo, who had been pondering, quickly thought of the culprit.

 

‘It’s obviously Elena. She must have approved it because it looked interesting.’

 

Though they called it research on Kail’s deeds, considering that Iliana was the president, it was essentially a fan club concept.

 

“Indeed, Lumern’s students are excellent. To think of creating such a wonderful organization. Princess Sia happened to tell me about something like this?”

 

Anyas was busy praising Lumern until her mouth went dry.

 

“If this were a wonderful thing, the world would have perished long ago. And I’m not Kail. So why are you praying to me?”

 

“Leo-nim is the successor to the Hero of the Beginning recognized by god! As such, Leo-nim is included among the objects that the Kail Religion should worship!”

 

“This is a club. You’re not a Lumern student.”

 

“What does status matter when it comes to faith?”

 

‘There’s no reasoning with her.’

 

Leo clicked his tongue while looking at Anyas, whose eyes had already gone mad.

 

Since enrolling at Lumern.

 

Leo had seen many people who gained strength by shouting the names of great heroes.

 

‘Among us, the only one who would like such embarrassing things is Luna.’

 

Except for Luna, who used to boast about being worshipped for generations, none of the great heroes liked being revered like that.

 

‘I’d rather not see such embarrassing sights.’

 

Leo sighed and scratched his head.

 

‘I already have a headache because of that Rian guy.’

 

Thinking of the fanatic who was busy praising him, Leo said.

 

“Come inside for now.”

 

“Ah! How could I share the same space as Leo-nim!”

 

“Then you want me to keep getting hit by the snowstorm?”

 

“Gasp! To think I was committing such rudeness! I didn’t realize!”

 

Looking at Anyas, who was bowing to him in shock, Leo spoke in a whatever-happens-happens manner.

 

“It’s fine, so come in.”

 

“Ah, I don’t know what to do with Leo-nim’s merciful forgiveness. But I received too easy a forgiveness compared to the sin I committed! I cannot accept it! So I will punish myself instead of Leo-nim!”

 

Anyas, whose mind had snapped, immediately began loosening her robe.

 

Inside the thick robe was a thin white dress.

 

Anyas pulled out a short whip from inside her robe, gripped it, took position, and tried to strike her own back.

 

Leo snatched away the whip and thought.

 

‘Once the academy opens, I need to disband that damn club immediately.’

 

***

 

-I don’t know what this commotion is about at dawn.

 

Click- Click-

 

Elsi, who brought out tea, spoke with a troubled smile.

 

“Haa… Haa… Look at this whip. Isn’t it wonderful? If master hits me with this…”

 

In the corner, Ati was rubbing her cheek against the whip that Leo had confiscated.

 

Seeing that sight, Leo made a serious expression.

 

Seeing Leo like that, Kirran asked.

 

-Why are you making such a serious expression?

 

“I’m wondering why there are always so many strange things around me.”

 

It was the same in my previous life, and it’s the same in this life too.

 

Somehow, the things that gather around me are far from normal.

 

-That’s because Leo is strange.

 

Chirp. Chirp.

 

At Kirran’s words, Fiora in her phoenix form flapped her wings in agreement.

 

Seeing the two familiars who got along so well, Leo made an expression of exasperation.

 

‘I guess they don’t think they’re included in those strange things.’

 

A fairy princess who got her power sealed and was banished for playing pranks.

 

Fiora, who once became a fat phoenix while making chick sounds.

 

Obviously, these two aren’t normal either.

 

‘Even in my previous life, my companions were a con artist lizard, a foul-tempered elf, a perverted dwarf, and a cowardly suin.’

 

Leo clicked his tongue as he recalled his companions.

 

‘I guess it’s just my fate.’

 

Leo shook his head and said.

 

“So, what brings you all the way here?”

 

Anyas hadn’t come here through an official invitation, but had secretly come to meet Leo.

 

And this place, being the center of Jerdinger, was where countless excellent knights were stationed.

 

No matter how much she was the successor of the Shadow Lord, infiltrating secretly would be difficult.

 

The fact that she came here despite such risks meant she had important business with Leo.

 

At Leo’s question, Anyas lifted her teacup to moisten her throat and said.

 

“I came to report to Lord Leo about what we discovered regarding the Hero Dungeon rampage incident at this Hero Festival.”

 

“That was fast.”

 

“We immediately took custody of the culprit.”

 

The incident during the Hero Festival when Lumern’s Hero Record went berserk in the middle of Lumern Academy.

 

As a result, the tremendous disaster of Erebos’s flames appearing in the heart of Lumern occurred.

 

‘Rian said that the page of Lumern that went berserk at that time couldn’t be used by Erebos as an exit, right?’

 

A page that Erebos couldn’t corrupt and therefore couldn’t use as an entrance.

 

Unless someone secretly brought it in, it would be impossible for Lumern’s page to be inside Lumern Academy.

 

‘There’s only one group that would do such a thing, targeting the Hero Festival when outsiders frequently come and go.’

 

Tartaros.

 

Leo had ordered Mel to pursue whoever brought Lumern’s page.

 

No matter how skilled the culprit was, there was no way to escape the pursuit of a Dragon Lord.

 

That night when the incident was settled.

 

Mel brought the captured culprit before Leo.

 

He was a royal from a small kingdom called Karm located in the northern continent.

 

‘What should we do?’

 

‘The culprit probably isn’t directly connected to Tartaros. He’s just a chess piece that could be discarded at any time. Send him to the Elf Shadow Lord and have him thoroughly investigated.’

 

Just as the Elf Pure Blood Society had connections to Tartaros.

 

Human society too must certainly have Tartaros’s influence extending throughout it unknowingly.

 

For Leo, who had been involved in the darkness since the Age of Calamity, interrogating people was nothing.

 

‘But the information you can get from interrogating one person is limited.’

 

To uproot everything would require many people and time.

 

It would be much more efficient for the Elf Shadow Lord, who dominated the underworld of the northern continent, to pursue the connected forces.

 

“So? Did you find out about the connected forces?”

 

“We couldn’t identify the connected forces. However, we succeeded in finding out who gave the culprit Lord Lumern’s page.”

 

“Who?”

 

“The Hero Slayer.”

 

At Anyas’s words, Leo paused.

 

Hero Slayer.

 

The traitor who killed countless heroes 500 years ago.

 

He was an existence like the very incarnation of evil that had plunged the world into terror.

 

“Come to think of it, didn’t you say before that you found traces of the Hero Slayer making contact with the Elf Pure Blood Society and were pursuing him?”

 

At that time, he had wondered about a figure who had disappeared 500 years ago suddenly appearing, but now that doubt was resolved.

 

This was an era where even heroes were revived as undead by the power of the Overlord King.

 

It wasn’t particularly surprising for a traitor who had once plunged the world into terror to be revived as undead.

 

“How did you find out that he was connected to that kingdom?”

 

“In the basement of the royal palace, we discovered the corpses of heroes who had been missing for decades.”

 

Anyas’s eyes grew coldly serious.

 

“All of them were victims of the Hero Slayer.”

 

“Then does that mean this Hero Slayer has been active not recently, but for decades?”

 

“It seems that way.”

 

Hearing Anyas’s answer, Leo stroked his chin.

 

“But how did you figure out they were killed by the Hero Slayer?”

 

He suddenly felt puzzled.

 

It wouldn’t be easy to identify the work of an evil person from 500 years ago just by looking at corpses.

 

At Leo’s question, Anyas pointed to her right chest with her finger.

 

“The Hero Slayer drives his finger into the right chest of the heroes he kills.”

 

“What a crazy bastard with unique tastes.”

 

“He’s not simply crazy. There’s a reason he does that.”

 

“A reason?”

 

“Yes. The power to steal others’ abilities. That is precisely the Hero Slayer’s ability.”

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