Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 61

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61

“A quick-witted brat.”

The Death Knight laughed with a sound like scraping metal and gripped his greatsword properly.

“My name is Kargor! A knight who serves the great Overlord!”

Kargor pointed his greatsword at Leo and charged at tremendous speed.

Leo swung his aura toward the front.

“And I am the one who will guide you to death! Huhahahaha!”

Whoosh-!

In an instant, Kargor scattered into black smoke and revealed himself behind Leo.

‘Wraith form!’

Clang-!

He hastily blocked Kargor’s greatsword that swung aiming for his waist.

He felt tremendous pressure in his hands.

Thwack-!

Leo’s body was sent flying at tremendous speed.

Crack! Snap! Rumble rumble rumble! Thud!

Leo’s flying body collided with two trees.

As the broken trees fell, Leo got up and loosened his stiff body.

“Did you deploy an aura shield in that short time? Not bad.”

Kargor grinned and charged again.

Leo blocked the sword that swung down to cleave his head in two.

Clang! Crash crash crash!

Leo was crushed by the pressure he felt throughout his body.

His soles dug deep into the ground with a thud!

Dark red aura in the shape of a skull rampaged wildly.

Leo frowned and put strength into his body to try to shake off the greatsword.

“Useless struggling!”

As Kargor applied more force, the pressure became even stronger and Leo’s knees wavered accordingly.

“Huhahahaha! You too shall go to the World of Death!”

[Leo! I’ll help you!]

Kirran charged at fierce speed, aiming for Kargor’s opening.

“Annoying.”

Thwack!

[Gah!]

As Kargor raised dark aura, Kirran was sent flying.

Even though he was a Fairy Prince, Kirran’s power had limits after losing his wings.

Seeing this, Leo opened his mouth.

“I call upon you in the name of the Pact Maker.”

“Hehehe? Summoning a beast now? You seem like a Fairy Pact Maker, but no matter what beast you call, it will be useless against me!”

“Answer my call!”

A summoning circle formed around Leo.

Whoosh-!

Flames flickered from the summoning circle, and those flames burned even more fiercely in response to Leo’s spiritual power.

Kargor’s dark red eyes widened.

“This is!”

Crimson wings fluttered behind Leo’s back.

A beautiful firebird soared high into the sky, then descended aiming for Kargor.

“Phoenix!”

Whoosh-!

Fiora pierced straight through Kargor’s chest.

Kargor’s body crumbled into powder.

Fiora gracefully flapped her wings and perched on Leo’s shoulder.

[Leo, you were a Phoenix contractor?]

“But.”

[I, I can’t believe it!]

Since Kirran wasn’t an old fairy, Leo was the first one he had made a contract with.

Even that contract wasn’t Kirran’s will but was forcibly made due to his father Silorod’s pact.

So he had been secretly looking down on Leo and not acknowledging him.

But seeing him contract with a Phoenix at just his teens changed his mind.

[Well then! If you’re my contractor, you should be at least this much! Now you’re finally worthy of being my contractor!]

“So until now you thought I wasn’t worthy of being your contractor?”

[Of course! You’re human! Your spiritual power is terrible! You’re even rude and violent on top of that, and you think you and I are a good match? Guh?]

Kirran, who had been speaking thoughtlessly, was caught in Leo’s hand.

“Fiora, eat him.”

[S-save me!]

It was when Kirran turned pale and struggled.

Rooooooo-!

Dark red energy swirled violently.

“Hehehehehe.”

With a chilling laugh, Kargor returned to his original form and glared at Leo.

“A Phoenix and a fairy! You’re a brat who absolutely must not be left alive!”

Thud-!

Kargor raised his greatsword and stabbed it into the ground.

Gush! Dark red blood spurted from the greatsword and soaked the earth.

Leo’s face hardened.

‘Death Ground.’

It was a curse that brought down the curse of death over a certain range to endlessly summon undead.

Crack! Crash crash!

White bones broke through the snow and revealed themselves.

Skeletons began endlessly popping up around them.

Clatter- clatter- click click click-!

They clacked their joints as if letting out battle cries.

“Army of death! Kill that brat!”

With Kargor’s command, the Skeleton Army charged aiming for Leo.

Seeing this, Leo gripped his sword properly.

The flame aura dissipated.

“Are you going to humbly accept death?”

At Kargor’s words, Leo made an indifferent expression.

“Am I crazy?”

Whooom-!

Gray aura formed on Leo’s sword.

Kargor’s eyes twitched.

‘Another type of aura?’

It was Kail’s aura, not Jerdinger’s aura.

‘Jerdinger’s swordsmanship consumes too much aura.’

It was powerful and flashy, but burdensome to use for long periods.

‘It’s been a while since I used this?’

Leo lowered his stance.

He supported himself with his left foot and kicked off the ground with his right foot.

Whirrrrr-!

He began spinning in place using the power of his aura.

“Have you gone mad from the fear of death?”

Kargor sneered.

Leo spinning in place looked like nothing but meaningless flailing to anyone watching.

However, Leo’s rotation grew increasingly powerful.

Soon.

Kwagagagagagagak-!

A whirlwind began to rage.

Like a spinning top, a whirlwind of aura struck.

Kail Style – Vortex.

Kwagagagak!

The whirlwind of aura charged toward the Skeleton Army.

Bone dust scattered in all directions.

The skeletons that approached Leo’s vicinity began to be pulverized at tremendous speed.

In an instant, Leo broke through the encirclement, withdrew his technique, and began running at incredible speed using Aura Step.

Seeing his retreating figure, Kargor roared and began pursuing Leo.

The Skeleton Army also swiftly chased after Leo.

[That’s incredible! With that technique, you could sweep away all the skeletons, so why are you retreating!]

Excited Kirran asked with gleaming eyes.

In Kirran’s eyes, the swordsmanship from moments ago looked very impressive.

Chirp- Chirp-

Fiora seemed to share the same sentiment, showing a puzzled reaction.

“This technique has a fatal flaw.”

[What is it?]

“It’s a powerful technique, but if you use it for too long, you get dizzy.”

At such a pathetic reason, Kirran muttered.

[I take back what I said about it being cool.]

Chirp-!

“They said the same thing.”

Leo burst into laughter, recalling his past life.

“Stop! If you’re also a knight, face me honorably in battle!”

“What’s a guy who summoned a bunch of subordinates saying?”

At the angry shout coming from behind, Leo made an expression of disbelief.

Woong-!

The flame aura gathered at his feet exploded outward.

Along with it, he created tremendous acceleration.

[So faaaaaast!]

Kirran, clinging to Leo’s shoulder, shouted excitedly.

Fiora, who had returned to her original form, also chirped happily as if excited.

Gwoooooooo!

The wails of the dead could be heard from all directions.

Seeing skeletons bursting from the ground to form an encirclement, he chanted a spell.

Kirran was startled by the runic language flowing from Leo’s mouth.

[Wait! Leo! You can use magic too?]

“So what?”

[You’re a knight and a summoner!]

“First time seeing an all-class?”

[All-class? The same all-class as the legendary Kail?!]

Being Silorod’s son, Kirran knew about the Great Heroes.

Among them was naturally knowledge about the forgotten Great Hero, Kail.

Smiling at the surprised Kirran, Leo completed his spell and lowered his stance while running.

“Earth Wave.”

The ground began to undulate with Leo at the center.

Accordingly, the Skeleton Army also swayed, unable to maintain their balance.

Leo, who had penetrated into the center of the skeleton horde, swung his sword.

Slash!

A skeleton was miserably cut down by Leo’s sword, which didn’t even have aura wrapped around it.

[That’s nothing special?]

“Skeletons are low-grade undead after all.”

Skeletons themselves weren’t threatening.

The problem was that they became difficult to handle when combined with high-grade undead like Death Knights.

After running for a while, Leo landed on the ground and took a deep breath.

Kargor’s presence could no longer be felt.

‘It seems I’ve escaped from him.’

“Fiora, go back.”

After sending Fiora back, Leo fell into thought as he exited the forest.

‘So there’s a Death Knight here?’

Death Knights were high-grade undead that were rarely seen under normal circumstances.

‘Is there something in Fairy Forest that Tartaros is after?’

Silorod sealing Kirran’s wings and activating the previous Fairy King’s magic was certainly no coincidence.

Whoosh-!

At that moment, something approached Leo at tremendous speed.

A silver blade reflected in the sunlight was already touching Leo’s nape.

Leo glanced at the elf boy who had a sword pointed at his neck.

“What are you doing?”

“Human. What exactly are you doing in this forest?”

Looking at the elf asking with an expressionless face, Leo answered calmly.

“I was gathering medicinal herbs.”

“Don’t lie! How did a human enter this place? And evil undead have been discovered in this forest! I suspect you’re connected to them!”

Looking at the elf raising his voice, Leo furrowed his brow.

The elves of Berkia already knew that students had come from Lumern.

Yet to have such suspicions meant.

‘An elf from outside. And these clothes.’

He carefully observed the design of the clothes the elf was wearing.

‘The design resembles Eiran’s uniform. A Seirun student?’

“How about calming down first?”

“Just answer my question! What is your identity and what were you doing in this forest!”

Looking at the Seirun student who had no intention of listening, Leo let out a deep sigh.

“I’m a student from Lumern. I was just gathering herbs after receiving a request from Berkia residents to collect medicinal herbs.”

“Lumern?”

The Seirun student showed a slightly surprised expression.

But soon he narrowed his eyes.

“That makes even less sense. Do you think it makes sense for a Lumern student to be here?”

“What’s so unreasonable about it.”

Leo grabbed the elf’s sword pointed at his neck with an indifferent expression.

“You little!”

The Seirun student tried to swing his sword as it was.

‘No way…! It won’t budge?’

But his eyes widened at his sword that wouldn’t move even slightly.

“If you take me to Berkia, you’ll know whether my words are lies or not.”

As Leo pushed away the sword, the Seirun Student’s face contorted.

“How dare you refuse the orders of me, a student of Seirun?”

“What kind of nonsense is that?”

“Seirun students have the right to arrest and detain criminals!”

“But I’m not a criminal.”

“We can also arrest suspicious individuals. As a proud student of Seirun, I will use my authority to classify you as a dangerous person.”

Leo placed his hand on his waist and sighed.

“There’s no reasoning with you.”

[His head seems empty.]

‘I agree.’

“What are you going to do after classifying me as dangerous? Try to take me down?”

“Exactly!”

Leo smiled coldly as he watched the Seirun Student shouting with a stern face.

“I treated you as gentlemanly as possible as a fellow hero academy student?”

“Hmph. Even if you’re a Lumern student, do you think you can surpass me, a student of Seirun!”

The Seirun Student arrogantly shouted and charged forward with his sword pointed.

Seeing this, Leo clenched his fist.

“Then let’s see.”

Whoosh-! Bang-!

Leo’s fist wrapped in aura flames clashed with the sword.

“Kugh?”

“Shall we take a look at Seirun’s skills?”

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