Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 616

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616.

 

For a knight who wielded a sword, the arm that gripped the sword was like life itself.

 

The situation where that arm had been brutally severed.

 

Panicked, Rid could only clutch the severed area and scream.

 

The pain spreading from the cut was agonizing, but the mental shock was even greater.

 

“What should I cut off next?”

 

But at the dry, emotionless voice that reached him, Rid came to his senses.

 

He too was a knight who had been recognized by God and risen to the position of hero.

 

No matter how great the shock, he couldn’t keep screaming forever with an enemy before his eyes.

 

Rid, clutching his severed arm, put distance between himself and Leo.

 

Rid retrieved the sword gripped in his severed hand.

 

Rid’s sword was a family heirloom of the Jerdinger house.

 

It was a weapon that possessed powerful force through the sword itself alone.

 

Rid gripped the sword with his left hand and gritted his teeth.

 

‘The arm can be reattached!’

 

With the power of magic, a severed arm could easily be reattached.

 

And whether it was misfortune or luck, Leo had cut the arm off cleanly.

 

‘Then it should be easy to reattach!’

 

Rid’s eyes widened.

 

‘Right now, defeating the monster before my eyes takes priority!’

 

“Knights! Execute that lawless one!”

 

Following Rid’s command, knights appeared and surrounded Leo, pointing their swords at him.

 

Looking at such knights, Leo spoke with an emotionless face.

 

“If you’re Jerdinger Knights, step aside. I’m only trying to execute a traitor.”

 

“Foolish bastard!”

 

Rid sneered at Leo with a twisted smile.

 

“These are my loyal knights! Do you think they’ll follow your orders! And traitor? What a joke!”

 

Rid shouted in fury.

 

“I’m only trying to make Jerdinger the greatest Renowned Hero Family! The current head! Seld Jerdinger is too soft! Even though he has power! He doesn’t use it! He only wastes strength meaninglessly on the front lines against Tartaros! It’s not just Seld Jerdinger! That foolish Rwallin too! And the royal family!”

 

Rid’s eyes flashed.

 

“Why waste meaningless power on the likes of Tartaros! Rodren is not an empire that should remain in the Western Continent! It’s a country with the capacity to become a great empire that commands the world!”

 

Excited by pain, Rid passionately expressed his thoughts.

 

“Our Jerdinger must take the lead! Rise to the position of the empire’s greatest family! Assist the royal family to command the continent! Thus making Jerdinger the world’s greatest Renowned Hero Family! It’s not my personal greed! If we truly care for Jerdinger, we should have such ambitions!”

 

“Is that why you joined hands with a threat to the world that killed countless heroes in the past?”

 

“We didn’t join hands! We’re merely using them.”

 

“Everyone used to say that.”

 

Leo let his sword hang loose.

 

“Without knowing they were being used.”

 

What Tartaros wanted was just one thing.

 

The division of the world.

 

If such people moved Jerdinger, the empire would surely be shaken.

 

‘Is this also that bastard’s work?’

 

Leo thought of Hel Kaiser, the Commander-in-Chief.

 

The Commander-in-Chief was skilled at covert operations.

 

He spread poison throughout the world in this manner.

 

The Pure Blood Society of the Elves was the same.

 

They only claimed to be using their opponents.

 

But the very fact that they used their power became a ‘weakness.’

 

However, those who joined hands with Tartaros didn’t think of it as a weakness.

 

‘Because they think they can just crush everything with power.’

 

The Commander-in-Chief never used the weakness of joining hands with them for blackmail in the first place.

 

He merely pretended to let himself be used.

 

Just as he tried to gradually destroy Elven Society using the Pure Blood Society.

 

He gradually made them devour each other’s flesh.

 

“I have no interest in the empire’s history or the family’s history.”

 

“Right. For someone like you, the qualification of direct lineage is too much.”

 

“Right. But you’re not the ones to say that.”

 

“What?”

 

“The past emperors of the empire… And the heads of Jerdinger… Even extending to the heads of Rwallin.”

 

Leo’s red eyes turned toward Rid.

 

“They never invaded other countries. Do you know why?”

 

“The predecessors unfortunately lacked ambition.”

 

“No.”

 

Leo narrowed his eyes.

 

“It would have been to make this land a good place to live.”

 

5,000 years ago, the Age of Calamity.

 

The land most brutally trampled wasn’t the Eastern Continent where Tartaros had revealed itself, nor the Northern or Southern Continent.

 

It was none other than the Western Continent.

 

The most developed land.

 

Therefore, the land most thoroughly destroyed and laid waste.

 

Most of the current territory of the Rodren Empire, even during the Age of Calamity.

 

Even after the Age of Calamity ended, it was the region where Tartaros’s forces were strongest.

 

The Rodren Empire occupied its vast territory not by conquering other countries, but by driving out Tartaros that had occupied this land for long ages.

 

And now it had become the most prosperous land.

 

This land, which even Risinass had shaken his head at, saying recovery seemed impossible.

 

Now it had become the most prosperous and livable land in the world.

 

Leo, who knew the past, could understand all too well how much effort those who lived in this country had put in for this land.

 

There were the predecessors of Jerdinger who had staked everything to cultivate the devastated land and ensure those living on it could live peacefully.

 

Too noble to be evaluated as merely lacking ambition.

 

And therefore foolish reasons.

 

‘That’s why they’re a Renowned Hero Family.’

 

“The flames of Phoenix are noble. They’re the power that burns oneself to destroy evil. The reason the first Jerdinger received Phoenix’s power long ago was probably for that reason too.”

 

“Dreamlike nonsense. When you have power, why should you sacrifice for others? That’s foolish behavior.”

 

“Right, it’s foolish.”

 

Leo closed his eyes.

 

“But don’t forget. Because there were heroes who staked everything without hesitation on those foolish acts that scum like you who rot the world mock as foolish. The world has continued to exist until now.”

 

“Ridiculous. A hero is merely one who accomplished great deeds. If I’m rotting the world, how do you explain that I’m a hero!”

 

“Hero?”

 

Leo’s head tilted crookedly.

 

“Who?”

 

“A mere nameless hero! No matter how much you deny it, I received the gods’ selection…!”

 

Rid’s face, which had been sneering at Leo, hardened.

 

“You don’t even have the right to be called heroes.”

 

[Hero qualification has been revoked.]

 

He instinctively realized from the message that appeared before his eyes.

 

“You bastard… You! What did you do to me!”

 

That for some unknown reason, Leo’s judgment had stripped away his position.

 

“I merely denied that you were a hero.”

 

“Aaaaah! What are the knights doing! Hurry up and execute that bastard!”

 

“Loyalty!”

 

The Elder Council’s knights began surrounding Leo.

 

Thud-

 

Leo took a step forward.

 

At that moment.

 

Swoosh-!

 

The heads of the Elder Council knights all flew into the sky at once.

 

Watching this scene, the Northern Shadow Lord, Argus, muttered.

 

“Beautiful.”

 

Leo’s sword contained no emotion whatsoever.

 

Just mechanically.

 

As if doing what needed to be done, he fairly bestowed death upon the traitors.

 

In Argus’s eyes, that sight looked like divine judgment.

 

Thud-!

 

Leo’s gray eyes, having cut down the knights with a single stroke, turned toward Rid.

 

Thump-!

 

Rid unknowingly collapsed to the ground.

 

His body trembled violently.

 

Accordingly, chattering sounds came from his mouth.

 

Step- Step-

 

“S-spare me… spare me…”

 

“You only have two choices. Die peacefully, or die painfully.”

 

Rid instinctively knew.

 

That the being before him was absolute death.

 

That there was absolutely no way to survive.

 

“A-at once…”

 

Watching Rid squeeze out his voice with all his might to beg, Leo said indifferently.

 

“You’ve already made your choice.”

 

Stab-!

 

“Gaaaaaahhh!”

 

Leo’s sword pierced Rid’s mouth.

 

Leo’s sword, having precisely cut around the mouth and tongue, was withdrawn.

 

Rid’s left arm was severed as he writhed on the ground in agony.

 

Leaving behind Rid, who squirmed on the ground unable to even scream, Leo headed toward Elder’s Hall.

 

***

 

‘Everything is over! I need to escape from Jerdinger!’

 

Ekgerson was heading quickly toward the secret door with a hardened face, listening to the sounds of flames and screams coming from various parts of Elder’s Hall.

 

The reason he thought everything was over was simple.

 

[Your Hero qualification has been revoked.]

 

This was the culprit that had taken everything from Ekgerson.

 

It wasn’t just Ekgerson.

 

For unknown reasons, all members of the Elder Council had lost their Hero titles.

 

After that, the elders scattered in all directions to flee from Jerdinger.

 

For Heroes, the Hero title wielded unimaginably powerful influence.

 

Special beings chosen by God for the world’s safety.

 

Heroes were superior humans by their very nature.

 

And the Hero title was itself a guarantee of being a noble human.

 

The reason Ekgerson used the Hero Slayer was simple.

 

Even if this incident were exposed later.

 

Ekgerson was a Hero.

 

Having already obtained Jerdinger, as someone chosen by God.

 

He could create the justification that he used the Hero Slayer for the world’s sake.

 

Even if he were pointed at with fingers.

 

It would only be momentary.

 

History is written by the victors.

 

He was certain to remain as a noble Hero to future generations.

 

But he had lost that Hero title.

 

The elders had lost their most powerful means of protection.

 

‘Why! Why! Why!’

 

Ekgerson felt the injustice rising in his chest.

 

That’s when it happened.

 

Step-

 

Someone appeared from around the corner of the corridor.

 

Ekgerson’s face contorted upon confirming the other person.

 

“Regas!”

 

Watching Ekgerson speak while grinding his teeth, Regas said.

 

“Give up.”

 

“Don’t be ridiculous! What exactly did I do wrong to deserve this? I simply wanted my grandson to become the family head!”

 

“Having schemed behind the scenes for personal greed. You cannot be forgiven.”

 

“Tsk! Are you believing the words of those lowly Shadows! I don’t know any Hero Slayer!”

 

“Hero Slayer, you say. The Shadow Lords who have long watched over the world’s darkness are indeed frightening. To find out that much in such a short time.”

 

At those words, Ekgerson flinched.

 

Regas’s eyes grew cold as he looked at such an Ekgerson.

 

“You seem to think you control all the shadows of Jerdinger.”

 

Rustle-

 

Someone emerged from the shadows of Jerdinger.

 

Seeing this, Ekgerson’s face hardened.

 

“That’s not the case. Shadows exist in the deeper parts of Jerdinger’s darkness. All the stories you blabbered in the corridors of Elder’s Hall reached my ears.”

 

At those words, Ekgerson ground his teeth.

 

“It’s because of you! If you had just done things properly, our Jerdinger could have surpassed Rwallin long ago!”

 

“That’s right. Our family has been overflowing with talent since our generation. But is surpassing Rwallin really that important?”

 

“Tsk! Of course it’s important! Surpassing Rwallin isn’t the end! We could make Jerdinger! The greatest Renowned Hero Family! Yet you just cowered! What? Blood will be shed!? You foolish one who doesn’t understand the sacrifice of the few for the many! You and your wife! And even your children! All spouting dreamy nonsense! If I had been the family head! Jerdinger would already have become Rodren’s greatest Renowned Hero Family!”

 

“Are those your final words?”

 

“Nooooo!”

 

Ekgerson charged at Regas.

 

Watching such an Ekgerson, Regas said indifferently.

 

“You seem to have forgotten something. My father wasn’t someone who would pass the family head position to his son just because he was his son. Like our grandfather.”

 

Originally, Regas’s father, the previous head of Jerdinger, had been the second son.

 

“There’s only one reason I became the family head.”

 

Slash-!

 

Swoosh-!

 

“Gak?”

 

Ekgerson’s head flew into the sky.

 

“Simply because I was superior to you. Just as my father was superior to your father.”

 

Thud- Roll roll roll-

 

“This can’t… be…”

 

Watching Ekgerson show disbelief that the match was decided in a single strike, Regas said indifferently.

 

“Not all Heroes are the same. With that skill, you would have done well making Jerdinger Rodren’s greatest Renowned Hero Family.”

 

***

 

Leo went through the interior of Elder’s Hall, eliminating all the traitors without exception.

 

Finally arriving at Ekgerson’s office, waiting for Leo were Anyas, Kirin, and Regas.

 

“Grandfather?”

 

“The more I learn about my grandson, the more absurd it gets. To think you were holding the world’s darkness. No wonder you showed little interest in the family’s legacy.”

 

Regas chuckled heartily.

 

‘This grandfather of mine. He really is impressive.’

 

He never thought he would reach this place in such a short time.

 

While Leo was admiring this.

 

Anyas approached Leo.

 

“Leo-nim, here.”

 

Leo picked up the communication crystal orb that Anyas handed him.

 

“It’s something the Hero Slayer made.”

 

“…I should be able to track the remnants of mana.”

 

Normally, this would be impossible.

 

But Leo had been tracking and executing countless traitors for thousands of years.

 

Before being the strongest Hero, he was the strongest Shadow.

 

Just looking at how he tracked and executed the traitors here today showed overwhelming tracking abilities that even the Shadow Lords wouldn’t dare attempt.

 

That’s when it happened.

 

Wooong-!

 

The crystal orb reacted.

 

Seeing this, Leo narrowed his eyes and injected mana into the crystal orb.

 

The crystal orb’s vibration stopped.

 

After a moment.

 

[Is this Leo Flobe?]

 

The Hero Slayer spoke to him.

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