Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 657

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657.

Early dawn.

The Summoning Department dormitory of the Clock Tower Dormitory.

In that building, there existed a vast garden that only Summoning Department students could enter.

Rustle- Rustle-

‘It’s incredibly vast for a garden though.’

Eliza, who had stepped barefoot into the garden, took a deep breath.

Though it was spring, the dawn air just before sunrise was still cold.

Eliza opened her eyes after breathing in the early morning spring air.

A vast expanse of nature spread out before her.

Though it was called the Summoning Department dormitory’s garden, this place was actually one of the islands in Lake Lumeria.

Originally one of the islands where student access was prohibited.

This place had been assigned as the dormitory garden.

The Summoning Department wasn’t the only one with such a space.

The Knight Department and Magic Studies Department were also each assigned an island as their garden.

The assigned islands each had different characteristics according to their departments.

The Knight Department students’ island was a good place for training, and if the island given to Magic Studies students was good for magical experiments, then the Summoning Department students were given a place with a well-maintained natural environment.

Summoners are those who live alongside spirits and magical beasts, beings of great nature.

As such, an environment where they could feel nature up close and absorb its energy was essential.

Here they would commune with their summoned creatures and hone their skills as summoners.

And Eliza was one of the students who started her mornings earliest among the Lumern Summoning Department students.

“Oh! Eliza! Good morning!”

“Good morning, Lil-senpai.”

Seeing Lil waving with a bright smile, Eliza lightly bowed her head in greeting.

After exchanging greetings with Lil, Eliza walked to one side of the garden.

And there she began organizing the cultivated land.

It was a small hobby of Eliza’s, who was also a member of the Horticulture Club.

In fact, during her 2nd year, Eliza had also tended to Noble’s garden.

“Ooh…! So that was Eliza’s vegetable patch!”

“Vege… table?”

Watching Eliza tend to the land, Lil exclaimed in admiration.

“What kind of crops are you going to grow?”

Lil’s eyes sparkled.

“I’m thinking of making it into a flower bed, not a vegetable patch.”

“What? A flower bed? You mean you’re growing flowers?”

“Yes.”

“Miss Eliza? Flowers?”

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

Seeing Eliza suddenly getting worked up, Lil panicked.

“But you can’t eat flowers, right? Wouldn’t crops be more efficient?”

Eliza felt her head starting to throb.

‘This is why people from military families are…’

Seeing the typical behavior of someone from a military family who overly emphasized efficiency, Eliza said.

“It’s a hobby.”

“That’s a good hobby.”

“Leo Flobe, I didn’t know I could have a conversation with you.”

“Though it doesn’t suit you.”

“You really!”

Eliza rolled her eyes and turned her head, then suddenly jumped in shock.

“H-hyung-nim?”

“Wait, where did you pop out from!”

Even Lil, who didn’t bat an eye at most things, looked at Leo with very surprised eyes.

“There’s a door in my room that can go anywhere within the dormitory.”

The door in the student council president’s room randomly goes anywhere when opened without thinking.

But Leo had confirmed through experimentation that if you think of a place and then open it, you can go to your desired location.

“Ooh! That’s the student council president’s privilege!”

“That must be convenient… Wait. You can go anywhere?”

Eliza’s face hardened.

“That doesn’t mean you can go to bathrooms or other people’s rooms, right?”

“Hey. Even if this is Lumern, they wouldn’t go that far…”

“Senpai, you know too. This school is the kind that would do exactly that.”

“…”

Lumern was one of the world’s premier educational institutions, but it was also a school that sometimes showed equally insane and outrageous management.

“Don’t worry, I have no intention of misusing it in strange ways.”

“This school really is crazy.”

Eliza made an expression of disbelief.

She thought about protesting to the school immediately, but knowing it wouldn’t work at all, Eliza let out a small sigh.

‘Leo Flobe. This person isn’t the type to do anything underhanded either.’

Having targeted him and struggled so much, Eliza also understood Leo as a person well.

And because of that, she also had trust in him.

“By the way, hyung-nim. What brings you here at this late hour when the sun hasn’t even risen?”

“I have business with Eliza.”

“With me?”

Eliza crossed her arms and made a puzzled expression.

“Yeah. I received a request this time.”

“And so?”

“I want to put you in the party.”

“Who made the request?”

“Demian.”

“…”

Eliza’s face became slightly serious.

Lil, who had been listening to the conversation, was the same.

Both of them intuited that it was a big incident upon hearing that the place that requested the commission was Demian.

“Hyung-nim. Don’t you need my help?”

“You’re going out on a mission soon too.”

“Ugh! I wanted to be of help to hyung-nim!”

Lil made a slightly frustrated expression.

“Let’s hear the detailed story.”

“Good. Then let’s go to my room now.”

“Your room?”

“Yeah. We depart tomorrow.”

“I see, there’s only one day of preparation time. But it’s still curfew time, isn’t it? Leaving the dormitory at this hour would be a violation of school rules.”

“School rules exist to be broken, don’t they?”

“Hmph.”

Eliza snorted.

“Lil. Keep it secret.”

“Of course!”

Lil clenched her fist and nodded her head.

After Leo opened the garden door, he stepped back one step from in front of the door.

Eliza went inside.

Whoosh-!

Eliza, whose vision had changed, realized she was in a vast room that felt desolate.

“Sit on the sofa and wait. I’ll bring the other kids.”

The reason Leo brought Eliza first was simple.

Among the third-years, Eliza woke up the earliest.

Eliza sat on the sofa with her arms crossed and legs crossed, eyes closed, waiting for all the party members to gather.

Shortly after, Chelsea appeared with Leo.

“Chelsea, wait a bit.”

“Okay!”

When Leo disappeared, Chelsea looked at Eliza and said.

“What’s up, Eliza?”

“Are you dissatisfied?”

“Not particularly.”

Chelsea lightly sat on the sofa.

“The fact that you and I were chosen as party members means the next one will be that guy too, right?”

“Yes. Only that person.”

Chelsea and Eliza, who had predicted Leo’s chosen party member, waited for Leo to come.

But when there was no sign of him coming even after time passed, they made puzzled expressions.

Creak-

“What~ I need to sleep. Where is it proper to suddenly drag a lady at this early dawn hour? Can’t you tell me later?”

“Be quiet, Iliana Raden.”

Iliana’s whining voice and Duran’s irritated voice could be heard.

Leo, who entered behind the two, closed the door.

Duran, who was in training clothes as if he had been doing morning training, grabbed Iliana by the back of her neck and headed toward the sofa.

“What? Why is Iliana here?”

“There’s an impurity mixed in.”

Chelsea, who was leaning on the sofa with wide eyes, and Eliza, who was frowning.

Whoosh-!

Duran, who roughly threw Iliana next to Chelsea, sat on the opposite sofa with a thud.

“Don’t ask me. It’s Leo Flobe’s choice.”

At Duran’s words, Chelsea nodded and sat properly on the sofa.

“Sorry for calling everyone so early in the morning.”

“Tell us the request details first, Leo Flobe.”

When Duran immediately asked about the main point, Leo scratched his cheek.

“First, I think we need to wake up Iliana.”

Duran, seeing Iliana nodding off drowsily, snapped his fingers.

Crackle-

Iliana’s eyes snapped open.

Iliana, whose hair became disheveled as if static electricity had occurred, looked around with bright eyes.

It was a delicate electric shock applied just enough to clear her mind.

‘Oh? When did he become able to control his power to this extent?’

Leo inwardly admired Duran, who was finely controlling his aura.

In the midst of this, Leo spoke.

“The frequency of monster appearances has recently increased in the border region with Tartaros in the eastern continent. Demian dispatched an investigation team to investigate this.”

Leo talked about the request details.

“So it’s a reconnaissance mission to confirm the survival of the investigators and the presence or absence of a Hero Dungeon?”

At Chelsea’s question after hearing the story, Leo nodded.

“Right. That’s why I chose you guys with good mobility as party members.”

“I understand everything, but why did you choose Iliana Raden?”

“Because I’m faster than you guys!”

Iliana, who had come to her senses, said as if it were obvious.

“Oh?”

When Duran smiled with a menacingly competitive expression, Iliana quickly hid behind Leo.

“I chose this because I think this member composition is the best.”

Indeed, these were the four people who boasted the best mobility among the third-years.

“What do you want to do?”

“Hmph. Is there any reason not to go?”

“It would be good experience.”

Duran and Eliza answered immediately.

“I’m definitely going!”

Chelsea also nodded as if it were natural.

“Hehe. Of course I have to go when the Class President needs me!”

‘If things go well, I might be able to easily fill my mission points. Hehehe.’

Although Iliana made a slightly sinister smile, she readily nodded.

“Good. Then everyone prepare to go on the mission today.”

Lumern students needed various processes to go on missions.

First, they had to write a reason statement since they would be absent from classes, even for later supplementary lessons.

Then prepare supplies to be used for the mission.

“Leo oppa, if we’re moving as a party unit, we need to write a party name too. What should we write?”

Chelsea, who was writing the reason statement, asked.

“Is it okay if I decide?”

“Hmph. Since you formed the party, you decide.”

At those words, Leo glanced at the coat hanger in one corner of the room.

And after looking at the black cloak hanging there for a moment, he opened his mouth.

“Arhee. Write the party name as Arhee.”

At those words, Chelsea’s eyes widened greatly.

“This means ‘beginning’ in dragon language, right? Come to think of it, Class President. You said you’d change the name of the country you’ll inherit to this too, right? You decided to go with this for the party name too?”

“That’s not the reason.”

Chelsea shook her head.

“Huh?”

“Arhee is the party name of the Great Heroes that Risinass-nim led.”

“What?”

At Chelsea’s words, Iliana’s eyes widened.

Duran and Eliza also made surprised expressions at this unknown fact.

“Chelsea, how do you know that?”

“That’s…”

“Luna-nim told us when she came to the present world before.”

It was Leo who answered instead.

“She said the Great Heroes’ party name was Arhee.”

At Leo’s words, Duran made a serious expression.

“Is it okay for us to use such a name carelessly?”

Using the party name that the previous generation heroes used was the same as saying they would inherit their will.

And to those living now, the Great Heroes were a kind of sanctuary.

They hesitated whether they, who were still hero candidates who hadn’t even taken their first steps as heroes, dared to use that name.

Not only Duran, but Eliza and Iliana felt the same way.

Looking at them, Leo said.

“I’ve obtained permission, so it’s fine. But if you’re still concerned.”

Leo looked at his party members.

“We’ll become heroes worthy of that name as quickly as possible.”

“…”

The four people who had been silent at Leo’s words wrote their party name in the blank space with determined expressions.

Dawn was already breaking.

Leo gazed at the sunlight streaming in through the window and murmured.

‘So it begins now.’

The dazzling sunlight that remained completely unchanged from the morning sunlight he had barely managed to reclaim in the past.

‘I will surely pass on your will to future generations.’

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