Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 695

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Dweno let out a bitter sigh and stepped slightly to the side, pressing his hand firmly against Driana’s back.

Thud-!

“Calm down, Driana.”

“Do I look like I can calm down right now!”

Driana gritted her teeth as she exerted force.

“With your young strength, struggling is useless.”

“I know! I know, but! How can I just stay still!”

Driana raised her voice.

“Do you even know that the current Dweno-nim isn’t acting like yourself?!”

Driana screamed.

“I’m sorry to disappoint you. But this is who I am. How much do you really know about me to say such things?”

“Yes! I don’t know Dweno-nim! I only knew of Dweno-nim through stories passed down over the ages! The first time I actually met you was in the Heroes’ World! It doesn’t make sense to say I know Dweno-nim with just that much! But still!”

Driana’s voice choked up.

“This isn’t right! The current Dweno-nim is completely strange! You’re wrong!”

“Calm down.”

“You’re the one who needs to calm down, Dweno-nim! Don’t you understand?!”

Driana shouted.

“Right now, the people of Isvaldi that Dweno-nim should be protecting are in danger instead!”

“What?”

“You said you wanted to take them even a little bit into the future! You said you had to protect them! But those people are fighting for their lives on the frontline right now! Right now, they need Dweno-nim!”

“That’s… if you destroy the record… we’ll be finished…”

“Yes! But if they all die, it’s all meaningless!”

Driana didn’t understand Dweno’s feelings.

But she knew that Dweno was currently abandoning the people of Isvaldi.

Crack- Creak-

Ominous sounds came from Driana’s body.

“Stop it. You’ll die at this rate.”

“Uuuugh!”

Press-!

Dweno suppressed Driana as she tried desperately to shake off his grip.

‘I… I… what exactly do I want to do?’

His mind was tangled.

‘I just want to show the people of Isvaldi… Ennitha… a future. Is that such a great wish?’

Is it such a great wrong to grant a future to his people who had their future stolen without even seeing hope?

‘Stopping these children… it’s because these children are trying to steal Isvaldi’s future.’

His mind became confused.

‘Yes. It’s a selfish thought. But is it wrong to be selfish?’

Whooooo-

Golden flames blazed up in Dweno’s eyes.

‘My choice will lead the people of Isvaldi to death? I just… I just… want to show them the sun. What you enjoyed… I just wanted to let them enjoy even a little bit of it.’

Flicker-

The golden flames suddenly began to turn black.

“I’m… not wrong. The peace you enjoy… even just a little… even just a little…!”

Crack-!

“Kugh!”

Dweno’s grip tightened even more.

Tremendous force pressed down on Driana.

In that moment, Driana coughed up blood.

But she immediately gritted her teeth and used all her strength to push away Dweno’s arm.

Whoooosh!

The black flames blazed even more fiercely.

At that moment.

Crash-!

The Wind Wyvern rammed into Dweno.

“Dweno-nim’s condition is serious!”

“I can see that too! But he won’t budge!”

Eliza summoned her spiritual power to draw out the Wind Wyvern’s maximum strength.

“I…! I…!”

The black flames shooting from his eyes soon began burning all over his body.

“Kyaah?!”

“Eliza!”

Screeech-!

The black flames instantly transferred and engulfed the Wind Wyvern.

The Wind Wyvern disappeared as its summoning was instantly canceled.

As the black flames rushed toward them, Cal instinctively pulled Eliza into his arms and threw his body.

Eliza fainted from the shock of the summoning cancellation.

At that moment.

‘What should I do…!’

When Cal’s face turned pale.

“Get… a grip…”

In Cal’s field of vision, he saw the unconscious Artion behind Dweno getting up.

“A-Artion Professor! We need to save Driana…!”

Suddenly Cal noticed that Artion’s opened eyes were black.

“Get a grip! You perverted dwarf!”

Crash-!

Artion’s fist struck Dweno.

Dweno was sent flying and sprawled on the ground.

Cal gaped in bewilderment.

That person right now is not Artion.

Of course, it was routine for Artion to lend his body to spirits, but a spirit who would use such a title toward the Divine Blacksmith.

And with black magic power…

“…Rishi… nas-nim?”

Cal called out that name in a daze.

Thud-!

But Artion fainted again.

Seeing that, Cal snapped back to his senses.

“Driana! Are you okay?”

“I’m… not… okay.”

Retch!

Driana coughed up blood as she got up.

Cal hastily pulled out a potion from his pocket.

Then…

Dweno got up.

“You… are you denying my choice!”

Dweno screamed toward the unconscious Artion as if in rage.

“Kail! Kail understood me! So why won’t you understand me! Weren’t we comrades!”

The burning black flames on Dweno’s body blazed even more fiercely.

Looking at such a Dweno, Cal felt goosebumps all over his body.

‘Right now, Dweno-nim is not in his right mind.’

lost his reason.

Leo had said that among the Great Heroes, Dweno was the one with the strongest mental fortitude and was the pillar of the Great Heroes, but that Dweno was nowhere to be found now.

‘That black flame.’

From Dweno’s body, instead of his original golden flame, the Calamity Flame was burning.

‘But why?’

A single thought flashed through Cal’s mind as he wore a shocked expression.

‘Dweno must have been the original owner of this world.’

Though it had become The Legion’s Records, the original owner of this record was Dweno.

That record had been overwritten with Gias’s record by Erebos’s power.

‘If that influence… has reached even Dweno?’

It would explain why Dweno wasn’t in his right mind.

It would also explain why the black flame was burning now.

“Why can’t you understand me! Was what I wished for such a great desire! Answer me! Risinass!”

Just as the black flame blazed even more ominously.

“Dweno.”

A voice came from behind.

Dweno turned his head toward where the voice came from.

“Ennitha.”

“…I came to get you.”

At Ennitha’s words, the black flame subsided.

“No, there’s no need for that.”

Dweno smiled gently and shook his head.

“Just trust me. I’ll take the people of Isvaldi… I’ll take you to the future.”

“…If we can’t defeat Gias, there won’t be any future or anything, right?”

“Don’t worry about that! Kail is here! Kail is a friend who will defeat even Erebos in the distant future! He can definitely defeat someone like Gias!”

Dweno smiled brightly.

“So don’t worry about the Giant King’s Legion. You said you wanted to draw the sun, right? I’ll show you the sky where the sun rises again…”

“Dweno.”

“Yes?”

“We really are a burden to you, aren’t we.”

Dweno’s face contorted.

“What do you take me for! Do you think I would have such thoughts! Get a grip! Ennitha!”

“Oh, really?”

Ennitha grinned.

Then she pulled her arm back.

Crack-!

In an instant, Ennitha’s fist, swung with all her might, struck Dweno’s face hard.

Dweno’s head turned.

“Aaaahhhhh!”

Ennitha clutched the hand that had struck Dweno’s face and rolled on the ground.

“He’s really damn hard!”

Her finger joints, bent in strange directions, were clearly shattered beyond recognition.

“E-Ennitha! Your hand!”

Knowing that Ennitha, who drew pictures, treasured her hands, Dweno hurriedly approached her.

Ennitha, who had been rolling on the ground, kicked at Dweno.

Crack-!

Dweno was sent flying, and an equally disturbing sound came from Ennitha’s shin.

“This really hurts!”

Ennitha gritted her teeth and got up.

Since her shinbone was also shattered, she unconsciously limped as she approached the dazed and fallen Dweno.

“You’re the one who needs to get a grip. Damn dwarf.”

“What did you say?”

“Right now you’re treating us as nothing more or less than baggage!”

“That’s not true. I…”

“You’ll take us to the future? Without even asking us, just as you please? If that’s not treating us like baggage, then what is it?”

“What’s wrong with taking you to the future? You all deserve to enjoy the future.”

“Right. We probably do.”

Ennitha said coldly.

“But if we have to put that future at risk for a moment’s time. None of the people of Isvaldi would welcome that. Except for you.”

“…”

“Dweno. Our time ended long ago. And my time ended much, much earlier than yours.”

Dweno bit his lips tightly.

“The people of Isvaldi… everyone knew what kind of end they would meet. So we gave up long ago on being able to go to the future. We gave up, but… everyone thought you were different.”

Ennitha smiled.

“When you were freed from the burden that is us. You could go to a future farther than ours. So in the end…”

Ennitha knelt down and met Dweno’s eyes.

“We believed you would bring peace back to this world. That’s why we didn’t break.”

“You all… are not a burden.”

“Right. We’re not a burden. We’re your comrades. You just carried the hopes we entrusted to you.”

They had given up on life, but they hadn’t given up on hope.

They simply couldn’t find it.

While looking at that reliable back that protected them.

They believed that someday that back would become a shield for others who dreamed of hope.

That was the wish of the people of Isvaldi, and Dweno ultimately fulfilled that wish.

Looking at it now, it might not seem like such a great wish.

But at that time, it was the greatest wish the people of Isvaldi could dream of.

“Just as we are your comrades. You have other comrades too, don’t you?”

“…”

“We weren’t a burden, right? So are you planning to become a burden?”

Dweno closed his eyes.

“Just as we believed in you.”

Whoosh-

The burning black flame slowly changed to a brilliant golden color.

“A comrade who believes in you is waiting for you.”

Dweno clenched his fist.

“The hopes we entrusted to you were eventually passed from you to that guy, right?”

“That’s right.”

“Then Leo must be carrying much more than we can imagine. So…”

Ennitha said firmly.

“Don’t pass it on anymore.”

At those words, Dweno turned around.

Thud- Thud- Thud-

“Ugh…”

“Dweno?”

“How…?”

The Hero Candidates began to regain consciousness one by one.

Leaving the Hero Candidates behind, Dweno entered the workshop and came out shortly after carrying a huge box.

Thunk-!

Dweno placed the box in front of the Hero Candidates.

“It’s a gift.”

Dweno spoke calmly as he shouldered Brave and approached Driana.

“Sorry for disappointing you.”

“N-no! I wasn’t disappointed at all.”

“I see.”

Dweno patted Driana’s head and took a deep breath before speaking.

“I made a disgraceful display. I don’t know if I have the right to say this, but. You all should head toward the center of Legion’s World.”

“You have more right than anyone to say such words.”

Artion, who had regained his composure, spoke in a solemn voice.

Dweno looked at Artion and opened his mouth.

“Thank you.”

Dweno conveyed his gratitude even to those it wouldn’t reach and began to move.

Thud- Thud-

One step, one step.

Dweno stopped walking when he reached Ennitha’s side as he moved forward.

“Ennitha. I have a favor to ask.”

“What is it?”

“If I defeat Gias. Be my model.”

“That much is easy.”

“Look forward to it. After seeing my work as an artist far superior to you, you’ll fall into despair.”

“You damn dwarf!”

Ennitha flared up but soon let out a deep sigh.

“Fine. I’ll be your model or whatever, so hurry up and go deal with that damn Giant King.”

At those words, Dweno burst into laughter.

Whoosh-!

The flames burning from Dweno’s body turned completely golden.

And at that moment, the world changed.

“Huh?”

Cal’s eyes widened.

[Strategy objective has been changed.]

[Strategy objective: Keep Dweno alive.]

[Strategy objective (Hidden): Save Isvaldi.]

[Strategy objective (Hidden): Defeat Giant King Gias.]

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