Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 625

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625.

 

Whoooosh-!

 

As Raina swung her sword, a blade of flame stretched out with a swoosh-.

 

The elongated flame blade gracefully embroidered the void like a whip.

 

Seeing this, Joroa’s figure suddenly disappeared.

 

Raina’s red eyes instantly pursued Joroa.

 

“There you are!!!”

 

The flame spear burning in her left hand suddenly snarled ferociously.

 

Kwagagagagaga-!

 

The thrown spear flew straight toward Joroa as she revealed herself.

 

Blue flames traced a trajectory through the void.

 

Whiiing-! Pububububububung!

 

Fragments of blue flame scattered in all directions.

 

The intense heat caused heat waves to rise, making the surrounding area appear distorted.

 

Raina narrowed her eyes.

 

‘That spatial movement isn’t magic.’

 

Spatial movement magic has great advantages in close combat.

 

No matter how fast one moves, movement is ultimately a connection of lines.

 

Movements can be predicted.

 

That’s why many Battle Mages utilized short-range spatial movement in close combat.

 

No matter how much magic enhances movement speed, there are limits when facing knights who use aura.

 

However, when facing knight-class opponents who have reached a certain level, close combat using spatial movement becomes poison instead.

 

Because the destination can be predicted through mana fluctuations.

 

The biggest weakness of spatial movement is not knowing what the opponent is doing during that split second of teleportation.

 

For a knight approaching hero level, that split second is enough time to deliver a fatal blow.

 

But the spatial movement Joroa just used had no magical fluctuations.

 

‘It was the same earlier.’

 

Even when kidnapping her and bringing her here, there were no mana fluctuations.

 

She literally appeared and disappeared.

 

While mana’s characteristics could be stealthy, this wasn’t at that level.

 

Just as Raina was about to attack Joroa again.

 

Joroa vanished without a trace once more.

 

Seeing this, Raina curled up the corners of her mouth.

 

‘It’s aura.’

 

Having instantly grasped her opponent’s ability, Raina swung her sword upward.

 

Kwagagagagagak-!

 

Red flames and blue flames collided, creating a massive ripple of fire.

 

Raina looked at Joroa, who had taken the appearance of her younger self, with flashing eyes.

 

“Disgusting, that appearance.”

 

“Then what will you do? You know the characteristics of your flames well, don’t you?”

 

Joroa’s flames devoured Raina’s flames.

 

“I don’t know how you’re using the Great Spirit of Fire’s flames. But at best, they’re only flames at that time’s level.”

 

Joroa smiled coldly.

 

“What difference does that little bit make?”

 

At Joroa’s question, Raina smiled brightly and then explosively released an enormous amount of flames.

 

Wharrrrrrruk-!

 

“It’s useless! I’ll devour all those flames…”

 

The moment Joroa sneered.

 

Kwaang-!

 

“Kueok?!”

 

Raina kicked Joroa straight in the abdomen.

 

Whiiiiing! Kwagagagagang-!

 

As the kick packed with tremendous force exploded, Joroa flew straight down and crashed into the ground.

 

Raina landed lightly on the ground and said.

 

“As you said, since they were my flames, I know the characteristics of those flames well too. That means I also know their weaknesses.”

 

Raina’s flames devour opponent’s flames and generate even more powerful firepower.

 

At first glance, it seems anyone who uses flames would inevitably be consumed by Raina.

 

But Raina’s flames need digestion time when devouring opponent’s flames.

 

And during that moment, they become defenseless.

 

That’s why Raina didn’t recklessly try to devour opponent’s flames.

 

“You didn’t even know that?”

 

“Eek!”

 

Seeing Raina looking down at her with a pathetic expression, Joroa shot up from her position.

 

She clearly had the advantage in power.

 

“Aunt!”

 

“Oh my? Selia!”

 

At that moment, hearing a voice from the sky, Raina smiled brightly and waved her hand toward the sky.

 

In that instant.

 

Joroa’s figure disappeared.

 

Joroa, who vanished without a trace, appeared behind Raina at some point.

 

Seeing this from the sky, Selia’s eyes widened.

 

“Aunt! Behind…!”

 

Kwak-!

 

But before Selia could warn her, Raina was already swinging her sword toward where Joroa appeared.

 

Joroa’s cleanly severed head flew through the air.

 

Joroa’s eyes, instantly returning to skeletal form, contorted with shock.

 

“How on earth…!”

 

“Certainly, that spatial movement uses aura rather than magic, making it difficult to know the destination.”

 

Raina was right.

 

Joroa’s current technique was using aura to cut through space.

 

By cutting between spaces and moving to that location, it was nearly impossible to predict.

 

Sensing killing intent and reacting would inevitably be too slow to respond.

 

But Raina accurately grasped where Joroa was moving.

 

Raina’s red eyes sparkled.

 

‘Temperature.’

 

Flame users were sensitive to temperature.

 

And Raina’s sense for detecting temperature was exceptionally superior to others.

 

Like a snake detecting prey.

 

She could check the subtle temperatures that people possessed.

 

No matter how much there was no mana movement, since a specific temperature disappeared and reappeared within her senses, she could react quickly.

 

-You’re insane!

 

Ista, who had lent power to Raina, exclaimed in shock.

 

-No matter what, how can a human be so familiar with heat! No, in the first place!

 

-How can you handle my power so freely to this extent!

 

The flame power Ista had lent far surpassed Raina’s power from her prime.

 

Despite this, Raina was handling Ista’s power freely.

 

‘It’s not impossible. Sometimes there are such people. Those whose vessel is already complete!’

 

Usually when people develop power, they grow together with their vessel.

 

But sometimes there are those who possess an overwhelmingly large vessel compared to their current power.

 

Of course, having a large vessel doesn’t mean fast growth.

 

It’s simply that the vessel is large.

 

When borrowing power from outside, the allowable range is just greater.

 

Even in Raina’s case, it wouldn’t be strange if that were the situation.

 

‘But Raina Flobe had been in a state of lost power for a long time!’

 

This was a situation where she was borrowing the power of another being, not her own.

 

There should inevitably be awkwardness in handling flames.

 

But there was no such sign in Raina.

 

As if she had been handling power for a long time.

 

She was perfectly controlling the power she had accepted.

 

This wasn’t a matter of mental strength.

 

Literally, her technique for handling flames transcended imagination.

 

“This bitch! She’s ignoring me! Kraaaaaaaa!”

 

Kwagagagagagaga-!

 

Joroa continued to lose her composure.

 

Leo had said it.

 

That she was ruining the power she had stolen.

 

Joroa had scoffed at those words, but now someone had appeared before her eyes proving those very words.

 

And ridiculously, that being was none other than the mother of the one who had spoken those words.

 

Gooooooo-! Pazizizik! Pazik!

 

Massive magical power surged.

 

Joroa, with vicious killing intent in her eyes, prepared a grand magic.

 

“Let’s see you try to block this!”

 

Seeing this, Selia said with a face gone pale.

 

“A-Aunt! You need to escape quickly…!”

 

“Selia.”

 

“Yes?”

 

“Will you look behind you?”

 

“Behind… me?”

 

Selia unconsciously turned to look back.

 

And she swallowed her breath.

 

There, she could see the Flobe Estate’s walls.

 

“If we flee, many people will die.”

 

“…”

 

Selia gritted her teeth.

 

Watching such Selia, Raina smiled brightly.

 

“Could you lend me Flame Storm?”

 

“Huh? Ah, yes…!”

 

Selia gave Raina the Flame Storm, Jerdinger’s heirloom that she had received.

 

This was a sword that Raina had wielded long ago.

 

A sword that burns without breaking as long as the will lives on.

 

“Of course, if we die together with those people, that would be nothing more or less than a dog’s death. But if there’s a possibility, fighting back is my creed.”

 

Selia hung her head low.

 

She felt ashamed of herself for thinking of running away without considering the consequences.

 

Watching such Selia, Raina gently stroked her head.

 

“You don’t need to be ashamed. You’re still a child, aren’t you? And you don’t necessarily need to become like me.”

 

“Aunt…”

 

Raina gently caressed the cheek of her niece who was looking up at her.

 

‘Sometimes this girl seems more like my daughter than Leo.’

 

A niece who resembled her greatly.

 

“You’ll definitely become a much more amazing knight than me. Create your own beliefs and decide the path you’ll take. And if I can be even a little bit of guidance for that path you must take… I think I’d be truly happy.”

 

Raina turned around and approached Joroa.

 

Hwareureureuk-!

 

Blue flames rippled from Raina’s body.

 

Step- Step-

 

The surging flames concentrated at the tip of Flame Storm.

 

Seeing this, Selia unconsciously opened her mouth.

 

‘How can she handle flames like that?’

 

Even for Selia, who had trained in Jerdinger’s aura her entire life, she wondered if it was possible to handle flames to that degree.

 

‘No. It’s not just me.’

 

Ris too… and Runia of the Runda Family too.

 

Even Leo.

 

Even with the same flames, the flames Raina used were different.

 

It wasn’t simply at the level of handling flames freely.

 

The flames that lingered at Raina’s fingertips burned even more intensely.

 

‘Father. Why was Aunt called the Flame Witch?’

 

‘Because there was no nickname that suited her better.’

 

A conversation from the past suddenly came to mind.

 

‘Ah. I see.’

 

Looking at that back, she understood immediately.

 

‘That’s why she’s a witch.’

 

Even the flames possessed by the Great Spirit of Fire, along with their characteristics, transform into Raina’s flames when they touch her fingertips.

 

Looking at the crimson flames that had concentrated at the sword’s tip, Selia murmured.

 

‘Flame itself.’

 

That intense sight captivated Selia’s eyes.

 

***

 

“You said it.”

 

Raina said, gripping the crimson flames dwelling in her sword with both hands.

 

“That after that day, I spent my entire life in regret. Yes, it’s true.”

 

Raina’s red eyes sparkled.

 

“I spent each day living in regret.”

 

Regretting the choice from that time.

 

She had longed for her lost self.

 

“Because of that foolish attachment, I couldn’t stop training.”

 

Even though she had already lost her flames, Raina never stopped honing herself.

 

It wasn’t just swordsmanship.

 

She had been refining flames in her imagination.

 

The ugliness of clinging to something lost and gone.

 

-Was that so.

 

Hearing Raina’s words, Ista clicked her tongue as if she finally understood.

 

Now she knew.

 

The reason why, despite having lost her flames for decades, she could handle her own flames so freely to this degree.

 

That foolish attachment spanning decades.

 

That time which seemed meaningless and might have looked pathetic.

 

Was being rewarded in this brief moment.

 

-You… never gave up.

 

At Ista’s words, Raina smiled.

 

“Prominence.”

 

The essence of Jerdinger’s flames was manifested at the tip of Raina’s sword.

 

The flames compressed and concentrated at the sword’s tip pierced through the magic and bisected Joroa directly.

 

“Kraaaaaaak! Foolish struggling!”

 

Joroa, who had died once again and lost her abilities, let out a roar filled with rage.

 

“Why! Why won’t you give up!”

 

“Why are you asking something so obvious?”

 

Raina answered as if looking at something pathetic while watching Joroa ramble on after losing her reason.

 

“My son will be here soon.”

 

Raina pointed at Joroa with her finger and spoke in a growling tone.

 

“Then you’re going to die. I’ll never give up until the moment I see you drop dead.”

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