Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 66

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66

A cold silence descended.

The Lumern students looked at Leo with puzzled faces, while the Seirun students glared at Leo with hardened expressions.

“The interpretation is… wrong? What do you mean by that, Leo Flobe?”

Herdium asked with a smiling face.

However, there was coldness dwelling in his eyes.

Seeing that expression, Leo scratched his cheek and said.

“That magic won’t activate.”

“Of course. This is incomplete magic, so it’s magic that won’t activate anyway.”

“Huh?”

Leo was flustered.

And he realized that the gazes of the Seirun students, including Herdium, were not kind.

‘What does a kid whose major is aura and summoning know about magic to act like that?’

Runia also looked at Leo with an incredulous expression.

“Ha! Just because you use something similar to Star Magic, you’re getting cocky! This magic is an uninterpreted legacy of our ancestor! Countless elf mages somehow restored it to its current form, and you’re saying it’s wrong after looking at it?”

The elf male student who had been beaten by Leo shouted indignantly.

‘Ah… this was lost magic?’

Leo realized his mistake and made an awkward expression.

Meanwhile, Runia was confused after hearing that male student’s words.

‘Wait? Magic? Leo definitely used aura and spiritual power though?’

“It seems Leo has some knowledge about Star Magic. How interesting. What Star Magic looks like through human eyes, that is.”

Herdium held out chalk with a cold voice.

“If our elves’ interpretation is wrong, would you show us your interpretation?”

‘Tsk. I can’t not show this now.’

He hadn’t thought that it might not have been interpreted yet since it was basic magic among Star Magic.

‘Well, it’s possible they wouldn’t know. This magic was created when Luna established the magic system after Star Magic was created.’

What the elves used in this era was Star Magic, but its foundation was different from what Luna had used.

That was because the one who received the complete essence of Star Magic wasn’t an elf, but Kail.

‘I died before passing that essence to other elves.’

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that the orthodox essence of Star Magic ended with Kail.

The Star Magic that elves used now was merely a copy restored based on the Star Magic formulas that Berkia, who was Luna’s disciple, remembered and the magic books Luna left behind.

‘It’s amazing that they’ve implemented this much with something incomplete.’

Given such circumstances, it wasn’t strange that they didn’t know about magic considered basic.

It was only basic magic by Luna’s or Kail’s standards.

From the elves’ perspective, it was completely lost magic.

Leo blamed himself for his mistake and got up from his seat to approach the blackboard.

Meanwhile, the Lumern students who saw this were horrified.

‘Ugh! Leo, why did you do that!’

‘If you, the grade representative, get humiliated, it’ll be a disaster!’

‘Gasp! Professor Hallind’s eyes are shooting lasers!’

Hallind, who was observing from behind, also sent a murderous gaze toward Leo.

Leo’s behavior was tremendously rude.

The Class 5 students held their heads and groaned, while the Seirun students glared at Leo with expressions saying ‘Let’s see how well you do!’

Herdium crossed his arms and stepped back to watch Leo begin his interpretation.

The sound of chalk quietly echoed.

Tap-!

Leo filled in the missing parts of the broken formula.

In that process, it was natural that Star Magic formulas not passed down to current elves were used.

‘What kind of interpretation is that?’

‘It looks like Star Magic but seems like an interpretation I’ve never seen?’

‘It’s a completely strange interpretation, isn’t it?’

The Seirun students looked puzzled seeing Leo’s interpretation.

Even Runia, who boasted the best magical skills, had a perplexed expression.

‘Does such a formula exist?’

Among the current Seirun students, none understood how important what Leo was writing on the blackboard was to them.

Rather, they were getting dizzy from the increasingly complex magic formulas.

Only one person, Herdium, was trembling as he looked at the blackboard.

Tap-!

Finally, Leo put down the chalk and stepped back.

“I’m done.”

Hallind crossed his arms and stared at Leo.

Hallind, who knew little about Star Magic, couldn’t evaluate Leo’s magic formula.

Hallind turned his gaze away from Leo and looked to the side.

Then he looked at Herdium with a surprised expression.

Herdium’s body was trembling.

The ancestor’s magic that countless elf mages couldn’t interpret even after thousands of years.

Magic that was therefore considered incomplete.

And Herdium, who had researched this magic his entire life, perfectly understood Leo’s formula.

That’s why he could tell.

‘The magic has been perfectly solved!’

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“Leo Flobe. How on earth did you do it?”

Herdium brought Leo and Hallind into a small room attached to the side of the Grand Banquet Hall and asked immediately.

Hallind was also looking at Leo with surprised eyes.

Receiving both their gazes, Leo briefly pondered what to say.

‘It would be best to simply say I just interpreted it.’

Saying he was Kail.

Or that he learned magic directly from Luna – such words wouldn’t be believed anyway and shouldn’t be said.

“I have a lot of interest in Star Magic, so I’ve been researching it deeply in my daily life. That’s why I’ve been studying that magic for a long time too.”

“It’s not magic that can be interpreted just by having interest in Star Magic.”

Herdium asked sharply while adjusting his glasses.

It was Hallind who answered that question.

“Leo Flobe isn’t simply a student with knowledge of Star Magic.”

“Then what?”

“This student is actually a user of Star Magic.”

At Hallind’s words, Herdium showed a surprised expression.

“Star Magic? A human? Ah, no. It’s not that humans or other races can’t use it, but… at this young age?”

Star Magic was a magic system born through Luna.

Since it had been customized for elves over a long time afterward, it was magic that other races found difficult to use compared to other magic systems.

Even if they could use it, they needed high mana proficiency, so it was basically difficult to use at a young age, and even if used, the power would be halved.

‘But this student uses Star Magic with a human body at just fifteen years old?’

“But just being a user of Star Magic doesn’t mean interpreting that magic… Could you explain the process of how you interpreted it?”

At Herdium’s question, Leo began writing out the magic interpretation on paper.

Watching Leo’s interpretation process, Herdium’s eyes gradually filled with more shock.

‘Perhaps if the ancestor had done the interpretation, wouldn’t this kind of interpretation come out?’

Leo’s interpretation was so natural and perfect that such thoughts occurred to him.

When Leo finally finished the interpretation, Herdium received it and trembled.

“Leo Flobe… this magic… what kind of magic is it exactly? Have you ever used it?”

‘I haven’t used it directly myself, but.’

Leo scratched his cheek and said.

“It was magic that makes flowers bloom.”

“Flowers?”

Hallind and Herdium wore puzzled expressions.

“Yes.”

“My, how surprising. To think that this magic, from which countless attribute magics were derived, was simply magic to make flowers bloom.”

As Herdium muttered in a dumbfounded voice at the Progenitor’s unexpectedness, Leo used the magic.

Warm light bloomed from Leo’s palm, and soon a single flower had blossomed in his hand.

“It’s not simply magic to make flowers bloom. During the Age of Calamity, flowers had almost gone extinct.”

Herdium looked at the single flower blooming in Leo’s hand.

“To make flowers bloom, you need fire and wind, water and earth. And light.”

Leo looked at the flower that had bloomed in his hand and chuckled softly.

“Perhaps flowers were something special to the Progenitor of the Starry Skies?”

‘Look! Look! Kail! I finally completed the magic to make flowers bloom!’

‘Why would you make such magic?’

‘Why flowers? They’re pretty, aren’t they? Someday I want to restore the sight of this world filled with blooming flowers. Do you want to learn too?’

‘I don’t need it.’

Looking at the flower in his hand, Leo recalled old memories.

Though he had learned it semi-forcibly due to Luna’s insistence, there had been no occasion to use it.

‘I’m using it in this life.’

The magic Luna loved and cherished most.

Being basic magic, it was flower-blooming magic that contained the essence of all the magic she had built up.

‘I wonder what expressions the elves would make if they knew that Luna created Star Magic to complete this magic?’

As Leo reminisced about the past, recalling Luna’s bright smile, it was then.

“Indeed! This magic may contain Luna-sama’s deep intention of loving nature.”

‘No. That girl simply liked flowers.’

Leo shook his head watching Herdium interpret it as he pleased.

“In any case, Student Leo. I need to have a word with Professor Hallind for a moment, so would you mind studying on your own like the other students?”

“Yes.”

‘It passed without incident.’

Leo went outside, feeling relieved inwardly.

“Our student was rude. I apologize.”

“Not at all, Professor Hallind! Rather, we are grateful! To think that the Progenitor’s magic, which we thought was incomplete, was actually such complete magic! This is a great discovery!”

Hallind smiled bitterly watching Herdium’s pure joy.

“So this is just a question I’m asking just in case…”

“…?”

“By any chance, does Student Leo Flobe… have any elves among his ancestors?”

“In Lumern, we don’t particularly care much about what kind of people our ancestors were, so I wouldn’t know that much.”

“I see.”

“Why do you ask that?”

“Since Student Leo Flobe is Lumern’s grade representative, I know it’s presumptuous of me to say this, but.”

“…?”

“Would you consider having Student Leo Flobe transfer to our Academy?”

“…”

At this unprecedented transfer proposal, Hallind could only stare at Herdium with an incredulous expression.

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