Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 671

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671.

“I want to go back to the Academy. No, I just want to go home.”

“Fire! I hate it!”

Iliana sat in the corner of the tent with her knees hugged to her chest, muttering blankly, while Driana looked terrified at the campfire visible through the open tent entrance.

Chelsea crossed her arms and made an exasperated expression at the sight.

“What on earth happened to them?”

“Leo Flobe took those two for morning training.”

“Leo did?”

Chelsea clicked her tongue at Eliza’s words.

“Then it makes sense they’d be this broken. Leo’s training is pretty harsh.”

When she poked Iliana with her toe, Iliana suddenly grabbed onto Chelsea’s school uniform skirt.

“Chelsea! The Class President is here! The Class President is here!”

“Let go! You’re pulling my skirt down!”

Chelsea panicked and shook Iliana off.

“The Class President tried to kill meeeee!”

“You won’t die from that much.”

“You demon!”

Iliana shouted at the voice heard from the tent entrance.

“Seeing how energetic you are, I guess we can increase the intensity for afternoon training?”

“Demon! The Class President is a demon!”

“Didn’t you used to call Leo a representative of God or something?”

“What’s that about?”

When Leo asked with an incredulous expression, Chelsea shrugged her shoulders.

“The name of the Kail research club this girl made is ‘Kail Religion.’ This idiot is now trying to act like a cult leader. She needs to be put in shackles to come to her senses.”

“A cult! Kail was a real person! And it’s not even a religion in the first place! It’s just a fan club!”

Of course, Leo knew someone who had genuinely mistaken his fan club for a real religion and tried to join.

Even though he was a former one, that guy was actually a real god.

Iliana, who had received help from Kail during last year’s Festival of Heroes, became completely infatuated with the Hero of the Beginning from that day.

She researched records related to Kail and collected Kail-related merchandise.

She enthusiastically learned about Kail, and eventually reached the point of half-jokingly worshipping Kail as a god.

In the process, it seemed she had once called Leo, who was the same All-Class as Kail, a representative of God.

“Anyway, Kail and the Class President are completely different! Kail was incredibly kind and gentle! He’s totally different from the wicked Class President!”

‘I am Kail and I was the one who saved you back then.’

Leo let out a short sigh at Iliana’s outcry.

Then he noticed Chelsea covering her mouth and giggling, and asked.

“Is it funny?”

“Ahem! Cough!”

Chelsea cleared her throat and turned her head away.

“Come out and eat.”

At those words, the female students came out of the tent.

On one side of the open field where the tent was located, Duran was sparring with the three 2nd year Knight Department students.

Flash—

Aina’s golden aura pressed Duran from all directions.

“Fast.”

Duran gripped his longsword.

“But that’s all!”

Clang clang clang clang clang—!

“…!”

Duran deflected all of Aina’s sword strikes and immediately thrust his sword toward Aina’s neck.

Whoosh—! Clang!

Havedon flew in like a gale and tried to knock away Duran’s sword.

‘It won’t budge?’

Havedon’s eyes widened.

He had tried to deflect Duran’s sword with a speed-enhanced strike.

But Duran’s longsword didn’t budge at all.

It only slightly—just slightly changed the trajectory of Duran’s sword aimed at Aina’s neck.

Swoosh—!

That small deviation in trajectory was enough for Aina to dodge the attack.

‘Just how strong is he!’

The moment Havedon gritted his teeth and tried to distance himself from Duran.

Flash—!

With a flash of light, Duran’s sword swung toward Havedon like lightning.

Clang—! Crackle crackle crackle—!

“Urgh?!”

“If you retreat half-heartedly, you’ll just become prey.”

As Duran spoke, Aina closed the distance with Duran to help Havedon.

Crackle crackle crackle—!

“Aura manifestation…!”

The moment Aina saw the lightning aura swirling around Duran’s body and gritted her teeth.

“Haaaah!”

Crackle crackle crackle!

“Luke!”

Luke charged into the storm of lightning that Duran had unleashed.

“Uggggh?!”

A scream burst from the electrocuted Luke’s mouth.

But Luke didn’t stop his charge.

Instead, he accelerated.

Whoosh—!

A silver flash threatened Duran.

Duran dodged Luke’s sword.

“Oh? You’re tough?”

“Thanks, Luke.”

“Save the thanks for later!”

Duran’s aura was famous for having tremendous power comparable to grand magic, along with Selia’s.

“I felt this before too, but Luke Elda. Your fighting style isn’t refined.”

“Haha, well… Compared to Aina and Havedon, I do fight a bit roughly. I should fix it to fight more efficiently.”

When Luke smiled awkwardly, Duran curled up the corner of his mouth.

“Do you really need to fix it?”

“Huh?”

“There’s no safe place on the battlefield, but it’s true that we fight in even more dangerous places.”

Knights are the class that fights enemies head-on at the frontline, creating time for mages and summoners.

Occasionally, there are those who possess aura with overwhelming firepower.

Duran was a prime example of that.

But that didn’t mean Duran could replace the role of a mage.

“Knights fight breathing down the enemy’s neck at the closest range. There’s no need to fight while getting injured, but it can’t be helped. However, depending on the situation, there are plenty of times when you have to accept injuries.”

Crackle—

Duran withdrew his aura.

It signaled the end of training.

Accordingly, the 2nd years also put away their respective weapons.

“You mentioned efficiency, but what’s efficient depends on the situation. Sometimes you need to be able to deal a fatal blow to your opponent even if it means sacrificing your own life.”

Duran’s gaze turned to Aina and Havedon.

“You’re certainly rougher and cruder compared to Aina and Havedon. The high risk of injury is definitely a fatal flaw. But you also have advantages that are distinctly different from those two.”

“Advantages?”

“Yes. You catch opponents off guard.”

Aina and Havedon had been thoroughly educated as knights since childhood.

As individual warriors, they were bound to have higher completion than Luke.

But because they were so refined, they were also easy to predict.

Conversely, Luke had only seriously taken up the sword after entering Lumern.

During his first year, Leo had shown him the way, but it was just a path after all.

He had refined what he saw and learned at the Academy in his own way.

“Wild, you could say.”

Duran chuckled softly.

“Aina, Havedon. You two should observe Luke’s movements as well.”

“Yes.”

“Yes sir.”

Duran nodded at Aina and Havedon as they stood at attention, then sheathed his longsword.

Watching this scene while chewing on grilled meat, Cal said,

“The Knight Academy kids have good energy too. Training on an empty stomach first thing in the morning.”

“Hehe. They’re diligent.”

Artion smiled broadly.

“Student Driana and Student Iliana were also training hard from early morning, weren’t they?”

At those words, Cal looked at the two suffering from trauma and let out a hollow laugh.

“Why can’t Driana even look at the campfire?”

“Dweno threw her into the furnace.”

At Ar’s answer, Cal made an incredulous expression.

“…What kind of training is that?”

“He says to control strong fire, you need to build resistance first. He was going to make the black rabbit do that training too.”

“Water torture and electric torture… now fire torture. I’m scared he might do live burial next.”

Cal muttered quietly.

“But does that stuff actually work?”

When Cal asked Leo, Leo nodded while eating his stew.

“It works. I saw it with my own two eyes.”

It wasn’t like Leo had recklessly tried to push Driana into a fire pit.

He had already confirmed that this training had tremendous effects on building fire resistance.

The test subject was none other than Arron.

‘I consulted with Dweno because I thought fire resistance would be necessary since he’d be standing at the front lines with Dweno.’

Luna, who learned about this at the time, got angry asking why he would consult Dweno about such things.

But having experienced Luna’s howling training before, Arron’s trust in Luna regarding training was already crawling along the floor.

Besides, among the party members, Dweno was the top expert when it came to ‘fire.’

So Dweno accepted Arron’s request and forcibly pushed Arron into the furnace to build his fire resistance.

‘After that, he started distrusting Dweno too.’

Thinking that far, Leo looked at Ar.

Ar was waving a burning piece of firewood in front of Driana, giggling with laughter.

‘Come to think of it, that Ar needs Dweno’s training too.’

The moment he thought that.

Suddenly Ar flinched and trembled, then raised her head and looked around.

Her bristled tail and perked ears looked like a cat sensing danger.

Leo quietly averted his gaze from Ar.

‘Since learning supersenses, her senses seem to have gotten unnecessarily sharp.’

In that state, she might scream bloody murder refusing to enter the furnace.

But Leo really wanted to make Ar undergo this training too.

‘In the end, Arron couldn’t withstand Erebos’s flames.’

Of course, there were limits to the fire resistance that could be built through Dweno’s training methods.

But completing Dweno’s training was one of the minimum conditions for Ar to stand shoulder to shoulder with Arron.

‘How should I coax her to willingly walk into the furnace on her own?’

Leo was pondering when.

Clang clang clang clang-

Suddenly the bell atop the watchtower began ringing frantically.

Hoooooooo-!

At the same time, an ominous horn sound echoed out.

“Air raid! Air raid!”

“It’s a Tartaros air raid!”

Commotion began to be felt from atop the city walls.

Kiiiiiiiak!

Countless Pafnir appeared above the sky, shrieking.

“It’s Pafnir! Activate the barrier above the fortress!”

***

Upon hearing news of the invasion, Dweno immediately emerged from his workshop.

The Gigantes unit invasion had been just recently.

But now there was another large-scale invasion like this?

“What’s the enemy’s scale?”

At Dweno’s question, Ennitha said urgently,

“We can’t tell exactly! But… the numbers are so tremendous it seems like the Giant King’s entire legion!”

At those words, Dweno narrowed his eyes and looked outside the city walls.

“…It’s certainly the same as that time.”

“What?”

“What about Gias the Giant King? That massive bulk would be hard to hide.”

“He hasn’t shown himself!”

“Hmm.”

“Such a scale… I wonder if the city walls can hold.”

“Don’t say such weak things.”

“B-but… Dweno! Seeing that overwhelming force, surely the soldiers’ morale will…”

“This place won’t fall. Isn’t that right?”

“Why are you asking me that?”

Leo, who had been watching the Giant King’s forces with his arms crossed from atop the city walls, snorted and said.

“What…! When did you!”

“Outsiders can’t just climb up the city walls!”

“Get down!”

The surrounding Suin and Dwarfs were wary of Leo.

Though they had accepted him into the fortress, this was the Age of Calamity where traitors ran rampant.

They couldn’t let an outsider climb atop the city walls, a key point of the fortress’s defense.

Especially not in the current situation where the Giant King’s legion might be launching a full offensive.

“Leave him be.”

“B-but Dweno.”

“He won’t betray us.”

“Why are you so certain?”

At the Dwarf’s question, Dweno glanced at Leo.

“Intuition.”

Having said that much, Dweno spoke to the Suin adjutant.

“We’ll need help from this friend’s companions too. They’ll surely be of great help.”

“Yes! I’ll bring them right away.”

The City Wall moved busily.

Even during all this, Leo stood on the City Wall without budging an inch.

Dweno stood beside him and opened his mouth.

“What do you think will happen?”

“Why do you keep asking me that?”

“Because I feel like you know the answer.”

Leo chuckled as he watched Dweno laugh heartily.

“We’re going to win.”

***

“Wow, this is insane. There are really so many.”

Cal stuck out his tongue at the sight of the endlessly spread army.

“It’s almost the same scale as Lord Dweno’s world last time.”

Driana also clenched and unclenched her hands.

“We weren’t allowed to fight on the front lines back then.”

Because we were still inexperienced.

But now it was different.

Then Iliana spoke with a slightly trembling voice.

“But in actual history, this place fell, didn’t it? If this is a general offensive… will we be able to stop it?”

At those words, Cal chuckled.

“I don’t know if it’s a general offensive or not. But this place will never fall.”

“How can you be so sure?”

To Iliana’s question, still filled with anxiety, Cal turned his head to look toward Leo and Dweno and said.

“You said Kail was a god, right?”

“Huh? Well, that’s…”

“We have a god with us now too, don’t we?”

“Are you talking about Lord Dweno?”

At those words, Cal smiled and shrugged his shoulders.

‘If Leo is a god, then Lord Dweno is also a god. So right now we have two gods with us! And.’

“We’re here too, aren’t we?”

Cal glared at the Giant King’s army.

“I don’t know what happened in the past. We may know the results of that history, but we don’t know the process. So let’s not dwell on past results.”

At those words, everyone’s gaze turned to Cal.

“History we don’t know. We can just rewrite it. So let’s only look forward now. From now on.”

Cal grinned.

“This will be the beginning of newly recorded history.”

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