Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 638

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Crunch- Crunch-

The 2nd year students forming a party were walking through the darkness-filled forest with tense faces.

“Haah~ It’s really dark.”

At that moment, Shasha, who stood at the center of the party, folded her fan with a sharp snap and let out a deep sigh.

The place where the 2nd year party was currently walking was dark as night.

No, it was darker than night.

At least night had moonlight and starlight.

But this dense and thick forest didn’t allow even a bit of sunlight through.

What the party currently relied on was the light magic of the mages.

Before entering the forest.

Some students had argued that they should cut down trees to secure visibility.

But such arguments were buried by the Summoning Department students.

“If we do that, what we’ll have to face might not be Senior Sia, but the Great Spirit of Darkness.”

The forest existing on Island 6.

This forest, named the Forest of Darkness, was a sanctuary for the spirits of darkness.

And before the current 2nd year students enrolled.

Ignite, the Spirit of the Abyss, had settled in Lumern.

Ignite, who was invited to Lumern to strengthen Lumern’s defenses at the time, ended up establishing itself in this Forest of Darkness and it became Ignite’s domain thereafter.

Entering and exiting was fine.

But if they carelessly damaged this sanctuary of the darkness spirits, it was obvious they would incur Ignite’s wrath.

In the end, the 2nd year students had no choice but to explore the forest while relying on magic.

“Aina. Are there any suspicious signs?”

“Not yet.”

At Aina’s dry response from the very front, Shasha opened her fan again and fanned herself gently.

The 2nd year students were currently divided into a total of 4 groups, and Aina and Shasha were in the same group.

Then El Jane, who had gone scouting beyond the darkness, revealed herself.

“How are the surroundings?”

“Nothing there.”

“This is going to take quite a while, isn’t it?”

Shasha let out a small sigh.

El Jane, with her hands on both hips, let out a small sigh.

“Finding the Princess is definitely not an easy task.”

“Yes, yes. I’m getting sick of hearing that story.”

Shasha said primly.

“Finding Senior Sia will certainly be difficult. But she won’t simply be running away from us, right?”

“That’s true, but.”

El Jane shook her head back and forth.

Aina tilted her head for a moment while looking at El Jane.

That’s when it happened.

“Guys!”

Another Shadow-origin student who had finished scouting returned with a serious face.

“There was a battle.”

“What?”

The 2nd year students’ eyes widened.

This forest is quiet.

But that doesn’t mean sound is completely blocked.

No matter how dark it is, you can hear fighting sounds from afar.

All the more clearly because it’s so quiet.

But there was a battle?

The 2nd year students who were guided to the battle site had no choice but to fall silent.

Threads hanging here and there on the trees glittered in the light magic.

A Magic Studies Department student who saw that gulped down dry saliva.

“That’s definitely the ‘Thread Knife’ that Senior Chen Xia used during last year’s first semester midterm exam, right?”

A blade in the form of thread.

Chen Xia had shown how she used Thread Knife to create her domain and hunt her opponents.

Like a spider.

The sight of Emio, who was among the top students in the 2nd year Magic Studies Department at the time, being helplessly hunted was strongly etched in the freshmen’s minds.

“It seems like they were completely wiped out?”

“Wow. How could there be no sound?”

The 2nd year students shuddered while looking at the traces of battle.

“Mages, deploy search magic.”

Shasha quickly gave orders.

“El Jane, guard me just in case.”

“Leave it to me!”

Even with light magic, Chen Xia might be able to approach Shasha.

Since Shasha was currently this party’s main dealer, guarding Shasha was essential.

Moreover, Shasha was this party’s commander.

In Aina’s case, she was skilled at fighting alone but clumsy at leading people.

Without Shasha, the command system would fall into chaos.

So El Jane stood behind Shasha.

The 2nd year students guard the surroundings.

The moment El Jane raised her hand from behind Shasha’s back.

Flash-!

A golden flash blazed.

A brilliant golden aura aimed at El Jane.

Crash-!

“Eek?”

Shasha involuntarily screamed at the slash that passed by her, just barely missing her.

El Jane hastily dodged Aina’s slash and shouted.

“What are you doing! Aina!”

The other party members also gaped.

When everyone couldn’t grasp the situation, Aina said briefly.

“It won’t work. Senior.”

“What are you talking about!”

El Jane got angry.

Looking at El Jane, Shasha said.

“Aina. Are you saying that Jane is Senior disguised right now?”

“Yeah.”

“What? That’s ridiculous!”

“El Jane and Senior Sia have different builds to begin with.”

“Right! Exactly! To make such a disguise would be impossible without the power of magic or summoning arts.”

“I don’t sense any mana or spiritual power though?”

El Jane usually admired Chen Xia, so she tried to resemble Chen Xia.

Not just her hairstyle, but even how she dressed.

To that extent, she was perfect for Chen Xia to disguise as.

However, El Jane was taller than Chen Xia.

The current El Jane looked exactly like the usual El Jane no matter how you looked at her.

But the 2nd year students definitely began to be wary of El Jane.

Because Aina wouldn’t say nonsense.

“What’s your evidence?”

Shasha also asked without taking her eyes off El Jane.

No matter how she looked, she seemed no different than usual.

To that question, Aina spoke.

“Chest.”

“Huh?”

“The chest size is different. Bigger than El Jane’s.”

“….”

“….”

At those words, the students’ gazes turned to her chest.

“Oh no. I tried to compress it as much as possible.”

El Jane. No, Chen Xia made a troubled expression.

And with a slight smile, she spoke to the male students.

“How long are you all going to keep staring?”

At those words, the startled male students’ gazes scattered in all directions.

Seeing this, Shasha screamed in horror.

“You idiots! What are you doing turning your heads!”

Daggers flew from Chen Xia’s hands like bullets.

Pububububung-!

In an instant, with explosive sounds, daggers flew in all directions and embedded themselves.

A sound that couldn’t possibly be from deflecting daggers with a sword echoed.

Kiing-!

The sword tip trembled finely.

Aina gripped her wrist holding the sword.

The daggers weren’t just fast.

The destructive power contained in each one was tremendous too.

The male students who had turned their heads for a moment gulped down dry saliva.

If it hadn’t been for Aina, they would have been judged combat incapable.

While the male students trembled.

Flash-!

Aina closed the distance and mercilessly swung her sword toward Chen Xia’s neck.

“Hmm. As expected, Miss Aina is merciless.”

She might have been a bit intimidated since she was a senior, but Aina showed no such signs.

The moment she judged someone as an enemy, she struck without hesitation.

As a knight.

The finest quality of a swordsman who handles a sword.

And this was the reason Aina could be the strongest among her peers.

Chen Xia smoothly moved her palm to deflect Aina’s sword.

However, Aina’s sword sharply changed direction and pursued Chen Xia.

The sword’s movement was like a snake.

‘The year representative is still Luke. But….’

Aina hadn’t come down from the position of strongest 2nd year even once since last year.

Luke, who had caught up to Aina in an instant with terrifying growth speed during the first semester finals, succeeded in taking one step ahead in his duel with Aina by surpassing his limits.

But Luke hadn’t completely surpassed Aina after that.

Luke’s power was the ability to take one step forward when facing his limits.

He could become equal to Aina for brief moments, but couldn’t completely surpass her.

Yet the reason Luke was the year representative was simple.

Aina had lost her fighting spirit.

‘More precisely, her killer instinct had disappeared.’

Due to Luke’s influence, during the second semester, Aina chose the path of looking around her rather than aiming to be the best in her year.

The Sword Saint’s successor, who had always been isolated, naturally assimilated with her surroundings.

And as a result.

‘She definitely moved forward.’

The other 2nd years hadn’t realized it.

But it was clearly visible to Chen Xia’s eyes.

She had returned to her freshman days.

Aina’s skills were now at a level one dimension higher compared to other 2nd years.

Though expressionless, a single will could be felt in her eyes.

A firm will that she would soon go to reclaim her position.

Aina wasn’t going easy on Luke or anything.

She had honed herself to the point where she could definitely win.

Chen Xia’s eyes followed the sword’s trajectory that dizzily disrupted her vision.

Terrifying speed.

‘But it’s not simply fast.’

The representative students among 3rd years who used swift swordsmanship were Duran and Iliana.

And the characteristic of such swordsmanship from Duran and Iliana was just one thing.

Overwhelming power using speed.

But Aina’s sword had a different quality.

Fast, ever-changing, and complex.

The noble Sword Saint’s sword.

Swoosh-

Aina’s sword lightly grazed Chen Xia’s cheek as it passed.

Tap-

Chen Xia touched her left cheek with her index finger and smiled slightly.

“Wooooah!”

“As expected of Aina!”

“She’s not being pushed back even against Chen Xia senior!”

Cheers poured out from here and there.

But Aina bit her lips tightly.

“No.”

“Huh?”

“Sia senior… hasn’t even started yet.”

Aina tensed all the muscles in her body.

This very moment was the only chance Aina had to defeat Chen Xia.

Crack- Crackcrack-

Joint sounds came from Chen Xia’s body.

In rhythm with the sounds, Chen Xia’s body gradually- gradually became smaller.

When she lightly brushed her face with her palm, her face also returned to its original state.

El Jane’s somewhat loose uniform.

Chen Xia massaged her shoulders and let out a small sigh.

“This technique is all good, but it makes my body stiff.”

That wasn’t all.

As the skeletal structure changed, the flow of aura wasn’t smooth either, and her body couldn’t properly exert its original strength.

“Hngh-!”

Chen Xia stretched.

Crack crack crack-

After refreshing bone sounds echoed.

She shook her feet to remove the ill-fitting shoes, then simply threw off- El Jane’s uniform.

El Jane’s uniform top and skirt fluttered and swayed in the void.

Seeing this, the horrified male students turned their heads away.

Seeing that, Shasha pounded her chest with her fists.

“Ugh! Seriously! How many times do I have to say it! You damn idiots! Don’t turn your heads away! Are you stupid? She’s not undressing, so stop having embarrassing thoughts!”

Kyaa-! Shasha shouted as if she might breathe fire from her mouth.

Usually Shasha spoke politely and displayed elegance, but when she got angry, her personality and language became rough.

“One, two, three, four.”

Chen Xia, neatly dressed in her school uniform, was doing warm-up exercises barefoot, loosening up her body.

The 2nd year students showed bewildered expressions at her relaxed appearance.

Time was on the 2nd years’ side.

That’s why they had expected Chen Xia to rush at them instantly.

But such expectations were spectacularly wrong.

Chen Xia was overflowing with leisure.

She looked as if she was waiting for someone.

“Sia senior…!”

“Form an encirclement!”

As other parties arrived, Chen Xia soon found herself surrounded by the 2nd year students.

Excluding the party that was first annihilated by Chen Xia, this amounted to three-quarters of all the 2nd year students.

“Sia senior. Aren’t you being too leisurely?”

Then Shasha covered her mouth with her fan and furrowed her brow.

Anyone could see that Chen Xia had been waiting for the 2nd years to gather.

‘Does she have some scheme?’

“There’s no scheme or anything like that.”

Chen Xia smiled brightly.

“I’m just confident.”

At those words, Havedon’s eyes twitched.

“Senior. I respect you. But no matter how much of a senior you are, this is looking down on us too much.”

“If it’s Hero Candidate Chen Xia, I suppose it might look that way.”

“Pardon?”

Chen Xia nodded as if she understood.

“Everyone, do you know something? You see, in the darkness.”

Chen Xia smiled brightly.

At that moment.

The eyes of the Knight Department students who had been surrounding Chen Xia from the front were colored with shock.

Swoosh-

Chen Xia’s body was gradually disappearing.

“Except for one person.”

Chen Xia smiled sweetly.

“I’m the strongest among the 3rd years, you know?”

With those words, Chen Xia vanished without a trace.

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