Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 624

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624.

 

‘Great Spirit of Fire?’

 

-That’s right. You also have the blood of Tengkon royalty flowing through you, don’t you? Then I can save you from this crisis!

 

Ista spoke confidently.

 

-I have studied your bloodline for ages! If you’re of Tengkon blood, I can lend you my power even without a contract!

 

The reason Ista thought to save Raina was simple.

 

‘I’m screwed!’

 

Ista immediately realized that his life as a spirit had become thoroughly twisted due to his encounter with Leo.

 

The dwelling he had carefully cultivated over long years had already collapsed miserably.

 

As if that wasn’t enough, even the subordinate spirits he had commanded all went over to Elsi.

 

Moreover, the lower spirits that went over to Elsi held tremendous hostility toward him.

 

In that situation, Ista naturally couldn’t help but recall his past actions.

 

‘I told you to gather the dewdrops that receive sunlight first!’

 

‘I’m sorry! I’m sorry!’

 

Alsia, who was the first to escape from Ista’s dominion authority, was the subordinate spirit who had served Ista the longest.

 

Even to such Alsia, he would constantly commit such tyrannical acts.

 

‘I might spend my whole life being tormented by those guys!’

 

He thought about running away from Leo.

 

Although he had lost his stronghold and subordinate spirits, the fact that he was a Great Spirit remained unchanged.

 

But he soon had to give up on the idea of fleeing.

 

‘Fire spirits are rather genteel. At least they won’t try to annihilate me. But the other Great Spirits are different.’

 

Ista had extremely bad relationships with the other Great Spirits.

 

‘Especially Undine, the spirit of the deep sea! That one will definitely try to annihilate me!’

 

Ista had once destroyed the stronghold of the deep sea spirit long ago.

 

Since then, Undine had harbored strong resentment toward Ista.

 

If such an Undine learned that he had lost not only his stronghold but all his subordinate spirits as well, she would surely try to take revenge from that time.

 

Ista trembled.

 

‘In the end, for my safety now, a pact with Leo Flobe is essential!’

 

If it were any other summoner, they would surely cling to him to make a contract with Ista.

 

A Great Spirit was an existence worthy of reverence by its very nature.

 

‘But to Leo Flobe, I don’t have that much value!’

 

Being a Great Spirit, he wouldn’t be treated like a stone rolling on the roadside.

 

But he didn’t think he would be treated particularly well either.

 

The very reason Ista had refused a pact with Leo in the first place was because he couldn’t accept that he had little value to Leo.

 

‘Leo Flobe has made pacts not only with Larel, the Great Spirit of Light, but even with that spirit of unknown identity.’

 

On top of that, even the three great divine beasts.

 

In Ista’s memory, the only summoner comparable to the current Leo Flobe was just one person: Risinass, the King of Wisdom.

 

‘If I’m going to make a pact anyway, I want to be treated well!’

 

As Ista desperately racked his brain to somehow receive good treatment, what caught his eye was Raina, who had fallen into crisis.

 

Ista also knew that Leo had come here to save his mother.

 

Conveniently, Raina was of Tengkon bloodline.

 

‘If I lend her my power and rescue her, he’ll treat me well!’

 

At the very least, he might be able to avoid being bullied by the lower spirits he used to command.

 

-This is a deal, Raina Flobe!

 

‘A deal?’

 

-That’s right! If you overcome this crisis with my power! Later, just speak well of me to Leo Flobe!

 

‘What?’

 

-Please! Let me help you! My future life as a spirit depends on this!

 

Raina also knew that the Tengkon royalty had received the blessing of the Purification Spirit.

 

And Leo was inheriting Tengkon’s legacy this time.

 

Then it wouldn’t be strange to make a pact with the Purification Spirit.

 

But to plead to be allowed to help?

 

‘Why are all the summoned creatures associated with Leo nothing but strange ones?’

 

Shaking off the momentary doubt, Raina spoke to Ista.

 

‘What you’re saying is… you can lend me power?’

 

-That’s right! Then it’s possible to escape from this crisis!

 

‘Then can you also give me the power to fight against this guy?’

 

-Fight? Against this one?

 

‘Yes. Lend me your power.’

 

-You know well what that means, don’t you? Are you prepared to risk your life?

 

In an instant, Ista’s voice turned cold.

 

Leo, who had thoroughly toyed with Joroa, was just an out-of-spec monster.

 

The fact remained unchanged that he was one with catastrophic power who had slaughtered countless Heroes.

 

To fight against such a being naturally required the resolve to risk one’s life.

 

But the resolve Ista spoke of was different from the resolve needed to face a powerful enemy.

 

The power Ista had initially offered to lend was only enough to escape from Joroa.

 

But what Raina wanted was power beyond that.

 

Among countless elements, flame had particularly rough and dangerous properties.

 

The power to burn even oneself to annihilate the opponent – that could be said to be the essence of flame.

 

-You lost your aura long ago, didn’t you? That means there’s no way to protect you from my flames. The moment you make even the slightest mistake in controlling the flames, my fire will burn you.

 

‘I know.’

 

Raina said calmly.

 

‘But right now I need the power to fight against this guy.’

 

Even if she took the risk and gained Ista’s power, there was no chance of victory.

 

But…

 

‘I can at least be of some help to those children.’

 

Raina thought of the Hero Candidates currently fighting for the Flobe Estate.

 

Last summer.

 

When the training camp was held at the Flobe Estate, Raina saw with what eyes Leo looked at the Hero Candidates.

 

Eyes that eagerly hoped for their growth.

 

Though essentially different, it resembled the way parents look at their children.

 

‘He’s been a strange child since he was young.’

 

Leo had never cried since he was a baby and was strangely mature for his age.

 

‘Sometimes he looks at me, his mother, with impudent eyes as if looking at a much younger child. Sometimes he truly looks at me as if I’m pathetic.’

 

Raina grumbled.

 

‘I can’t tell if he’s my son or my friend.’

 

Still.

 

‘Because he’s my son, I can tell.’

 

That Leo had a massive goal she couldn’t even imagine.

 

‘And those children are absolutely necessary for him to achieve that goal.’

 

She couldn’t just watch the comrades her son had chosen fall into crisis.

 

‘Most importantly, I’m their senior, aren’t I?’

 

Though she was now in a state of having lost her power and exited the stage.

 

Though she was in a position where she’d only be a burden without borrowing Ista’s power.

 

As a senior who had once walked the same path, she couldn’t let the next generation be broken.

 

Even if it meant sacrificing herself.

 

‘Helping the next generation move toward the future. That’s an adult’s duty.’

 

That’s why, once again now.

 

She was trying to forcibly climb back onto the stage she should have left long ago.

 

-The moment you make even the slightest mistake, it’ll be a dog’s death. Even if you’re lucky enough to survive, you might suffer aftereffects. Are you really confident you won’t regret it?

 

‘If that happens, I’ll definitely regret it. But….’

 

Raina’s eyes blazed.

 

‘If I run away from here… this bastard will definitely attack our villagers.’

 

Now Joroa had thrown away any pretense of righteousness.

 

She would massacre the people of Flobe Estate to vent even a little of her rage.

 

And right now, as Hero Candidates, they didn’t have the power to stop that.

 

That was something that absolutely must not happen.

 

In the end, Raina would regret not fighting at this moment.

 

If that’s the case….

 

‘I’ll choose to fight and regret it instead.’

 

Ista fell silent at Raina’s resolute will.

 

-Yes… your bloodline was always like that. It doesn’t change through generation after generation. No matter how countless times you transform. Even if the name Tengkon disappears. You remain unchanged.

 

The nobility to sacrifice oneself for others.

 

Such people had always been born from the bloodline of Tengkon.

 

-Yes. That’s why I chose you.

 

It wasn’t because they possessed the bloodline most suitable for the purifying flames she wielded that she had made pacts with them.

 

It was because of their beliefs that she had chosen Tengkon.

 

“Still smiling? You bitch…!”

 

At that moment, thick killing intent erupted from Joroa’s body.

 

“Let’s see if you can keep smiling.”

 

The moment Joroa raised her hand with a bloody smile.

 

Grab-!

 

“…?”

 

Raina’s hand seized Joroa’s wrist that was gripping her throat.

 

“Useless resistance.”

 

Joroa sneered as if it were laughable.

 

Whoosh-!

 

“…!”

 

Blue flames erupted from Raina’s hand.

 

“No!”

 

Joroa had to let out a scream of shock at the purifying flames that instantly turned her hand to ash.

 

Then flaming sword energy scattered through the air.

 

Joroa, who barely dodged the sword energy, stared at Raina floating in the void wreathed in blue flames with an expression of disbelief.

 

Small wings made of flames rose from behind Raina’s heels.

 

The flames wrapped around her entire body like light armor, and in each hand blazed a sword and spear of fire.

 

The flames clearly belonged to Ista.

 

But it was none other than Raina who was freely controlling those flames.

 

Looking at the flames burning by her own will, Raina clenched her hands tightly.

 

The sensation she had lost long ago came back to life.

 

The goal of becoming a Hero that was now impossible… that she had to let go of without achieving.

 

Another aspect of herself that she had to forget without even preparing her heart.

 

‘If this ends now, I’ll never be able to return again.’

 

That’s why she had to give her all.

 

‘Surpassing my limits… this will be the last time in my life.’

 

Whoooosh-!

 

Flames beyond her prime erupted from Raina’s body.

 

Seeing that sight, Joroa asked in disbelief.

 

“You… what exactly are you?”

 

“Me?”

 

The corners of Raina’s mouth turned up.

 

A smile somehow full of mischief like a playful child… yet also eerie and bewitching.

 

It was literally.

 

“A Witch.”

 

The smile of a Witch itself.

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