Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 697

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697.

Bright light illuminated the entire world.

It looked as if the sun itself had risen.

The gaze of everyone on the battlefield turned toward the light.

At its center stood Leo.

The light pouring from the tip of Leo’s sword struck Gias.

Gias, hit directly by Leo’s unique magic, Zero, widened his eyes.

‘My existence…!’

Gias’s existence was fading away.

This wasn’t simply a physically powerful magic.

It was literally a power that denied evil.

Neither strong defense nor overwhelming regeneration mattered.

It was magic that erased existence itself.

“Graaaaaaaaaah!”

Gias drew his dark magic power to its maximum.

He had to resist this power somehow.

As Gias struggled desperately.

“You won’t survive this time.”

Dweno jumped.

At that moment.

The hammer Dweno held grew as large as Gias’s head.

“Hryaaaaaaah!”

Whoooosh-

Golden flames blazed forth.

The moment the massive hammer was about to strike his face.

Gias howled toward the sky.

“To the great Erebos! Infinite glory! According to his will! Victory…!”

Crack-!

Dweno’s hammer completely blew away Gias’s head.

Whoosh-!

Gias crumbled to dust along with the light.

[Divine Blacksmith Dweno has survived.]

[Giant King Gias has been defeated.]

Ar’s eyes widened greatly.

“Wow!”

She raised both hands and bounced up and down in place.

Whoooooooo!

The Giant King’s legion that filled the battlefield began to crumble to dust and disappear.

However, the Giant King’s legion that had invaded from the present world did not disappear.

Even so, their numbers weren’t that many.

The Isvaldi warriors began switching to offense and started subjugating those remaining forces of the Giant King’s legion.

“We won! We won! Black Rabbit!”

Ar made a bright expression and turned her head toward the remains of the city wall that stood like a tower.

Leo, who had been swaying on top of the wall, lost his balance and fell.

“Aaaaah!”

Ar screamed in shock and ran toward Leo, barely catching him with both hands.

Thud-!

“Are you okay?!”

“How could I be okay? I’m out of mana.”

Leo let out a deep sigh.

Dweno, who had delivered the final blow to Gias, also fell from the sky.

Ar was about to run to catch Dweno, but Ennitha, who had rushed over, successfully caught Dweno safely.

Seeing this, Ar let out a sigh of relief and spoke in an excited voice.

“That was amazing though! What kind of magic was that?!”

“It’s a new unique magic I created. It’s incomplete though.”

It wasn’t perfect magic yet.

During his time as Kail, he couldn’t deliver a decisive blow to Erebos and ended up sealing him instead.

Not forgetting that memory, he had steadily researched magic to defeat Erebos, and only recently became able to implement it.

But there was still a long way to go.

Meanwhile, the Isvaldi warriors succeeded in subjugating the remaining forces of the legion.

“Waaaaaaaaaaaaah!”

“We won!”

The Isvaldi warriors let out joyful cheers.

Seeing this, Leo muttered.

“We won.”

“Yeah, we won. Black Rabbit.”

“Put me down now.”

“Huh? If you’re out of mana, shouldn’t you rest more comfortably? And you’re quite cute being held obediently like this?”

Ar’s blue eyes sparkled as she looked down at Leo.

Her white tail swayed gently.

Leo, who had been looking up at the white cat teasing him with a sideways glance, reached out and firmly grasped the swaying tail.

“Aah!”

“Where do you get off teasing an adult?”

“That’s why! My tail!”

With a reddened face, Ar screamed and barely managed to pull her tail from Leo’s grasp.

Meanwhile, Dweno, who had approached with Ennitha’s support, burst into laughter.

“What a sight you two make.”

“Look who’s talking.”

Leo, who barely stood with Ar’s support, looked up at the sky.

Dweno also looked up at the sky.

Stars were shining in the dawn night sky.

“Ennitha.”

“Yeah?”

“There isn’t much time left.”

“…”

Ennitha gave a bitter smile.

“So let’s start the festival.”

Dweno grinned.

“As grandly as possible.”

“…Yeah.”

Ennitha nodded and ran to the warriors.

“Let’s have that drink as promised.”

“Yeah.”

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“Let’s raise our victory cups!”

“It’s a festival!”

News of the Giant King’s defeat soon spread throughout the entire city.

The residents who heard the news came out of the shelters with joyful faces.

They couldn’t contain their joy.

Though it was late dawn, even the children came out to the open field to prepare for the festival.

In the midst of it all, Leo and Dweno were having a conversation.

“Leo oppa!”

A bright voice could be heard from afar.

“You won!”

They had seen the Hero Record Gias subjugation message.

Coincidentally, that moment was when Arhee’s party had reached the center and succeeded in reclaiming the Hero Record.

Once the conquest objective was achieved, Arhee’s party stopped destroying the Hero Record and immediately returned.

“We won. But you’re wearing nice shoes?”

“Ah, these?”

Chelsea lifted one foot to show.

Chelsea smiled brightly as she proudly displayed the shoes decorated with wing ornaments.

“A gift from Dweno!”

It wasn’t just Chelsea.

Luke had a sword.

Havedon had a spear.

Aina had wrist guards.

Iliana had light armor that could enhance mobility.

In Eliza’s case, she had earrings.

Cal was holding a bracelet and Artion was wearing a necklace.

It wasn’t difficult to figure out who had made those items.

“I made them in my spare time. They’re not perfectly crafted, but they’re decent enough to use.”

Despite the items being of a quality worthy of being called divine artifacts, Dweno spoke casually.

“You certainly found the time.”

“Repairing weapons itself wasn’t difficult.”

Certainly, with Dweno’s skills, he would have had time left over after easily fixing the commissioned weapons.

“Student Leo.”

Then Artion approached and carefully handed over something.

It was a charred Hero Record fragment.

There was still a slight ember remaining at the end of the Hero Record fragment.

It was burning.

This meant that this world itself didn’t have much time left.

There was no telling when this world would meet its end.

It was when Leo, who had received it, fell silent.

“You all. Shouldn’t we raise a toast to victory?”

At Dweno’s words, Arhee’s party hesitated.

“Come now, everyone take a drink!”

They couldn’t refuse the great hero’s alcohol.

Arhee’s party took their seats and raised their cups.

“Thank you! For fighting for us!”

“Not at all, we only did what we had to do.”

Artion spoke in a solemn voice.

Dweno stared intently at such an Artion.

“Is there… something on my face?”

“It’s nothing.”

Dweno smiled slightly and poured alcohol for the other students as well.

The atmosphere ripened in this way.

Dweno laughed heartily and endlessly poured alcohol for the hero candidates.

Eventually, those who had formed connections gathered together and chatted excitedly.

“Dweno!”

Driana spoke with a serious face in front of Dweno.

“I learned so much again this time! Ever since then, I’ve been striving to become a smith who carries on Dweno’s legacy!”

“Excellent. I have a gift for you too.”

Dweno took out a small hammer.

It was the weapon that had blown off Gias’s head earlier.

“A hammer I made with all my strength, Eternus. It will help you both in battle and when doing smith work.”

“Ah! I could make sculptures with this too!”

“Sculptures…?”

“Yes! I’ve been striving as an artist as well!”

Dweno nodded as he looked at Driana, whose eyes were sparkling.

“Hmm, come to think of it, I’ve had something I really wanted to say ever since I met you again.”

“What is it?”

Leo, who saw this, spoke.

“Get up.”

“Huh? Why?”

Cal, who was drinking beside him, tilted his head.

“Take cover.”

Leaving those words, Leo calmly sipped his drink.

Among the companions who didn’t understand, Cal, with his excellent crisis detection ability, quickly fled.

“I told you to quit art! Why don’t you listen to what people say! Are you rebelling! I’ll just smash your head to pieces!”

“Hiiiiiiiik!”

Dweno swung Eternus menacingly toward Driana’s head.

“Quit art! Quit it! Don’t desecrate art!”

All sorts of things around were destroyed by Dweno’s hands, and the fragments flew in all directions.

The party was swept up in the commotion and fled screaming.

Leo calmly drank his alcohol and avoided the fragments by sharply turning his head left and right or leaning back.

After a bout of commotion.

Dweno pressed his temples firmly and handed Eternus to Driana.

Driana had a delighted expression on her face.

With the party scattered in different directions.

Only Leo, Dweno, and Ennitha sat in front of the campfire.

Then.

“Um…”

Dit approached Leo.

Leo looked at such a Dit and said.

“You’re just like your father.”

“Huh?”

“Just as the weapon your father made saved my nameless life. The weapon you made surely saved some nameless person on the battlefield.”

The weapons of the Isvaldi craftsmen were like that.

Even after Isvaldi’s destruction, they flowed into Gardstron.

And lent their strength to the long journey of saving the world.

Even if neither the creators nor the crafted weapons left their names in history.

The weapons made in that way would have fulfilled their duties in their respective places.

In this way, invisible lines connected to other lines, ultimately leading to the result of the world’s salvation.

‘As long as someone doesn’t stop moving forward, the will won’t be severed.’

“Be proud.”

At Leo’s words, Dit nodded with an excited face.

“Yes!”

Leaving behind a spirited answer, Dit departed.

“You’ve become quite talkative. You reminded me of Risinass.”

“Is that so?”

“You’re not even married, yet you resemble each other so well.”

Dweno chuckled and gulped down his drink.

Seeing this, Leo clicked his tongue and poured all the remaining alcohol into his mouth.

Then he floated his cup in the oak barrel.

Having already drunk an enormous amount of alcohol, he was extremely intoxicated.

“We were married.”

“What are you talking about?”

“Me and Risinass.”

“Pfft!”

Dweno spat out the drink he was drinking.

“What?!”

“That damn lizard pulled a marriage scam on me. I only found out recently too.”

“You. Do you happen to know what feelings Risinass harbored for you?”

“I know that damn dragon’s heart too.”

“Surprising. Were you deliberately pretending not to know?”

“I found out after reincarnating.”

“Good thing. You’re still the same idiot.”

“You perverted old man.”

Leo grabbed Dweno by the throat.

However, Dweno just calmly continued drinking.

Meanwhile.

“Ugh, I drank too much.”

Not far away, Cal shook his head back and forth.

Perhaps from drinking too much, his mind was fuzzy.

“Hmph. How ignorant. Drinking beyond your limit.”

When Eliza laughed and spoke, Cal raised his cup and said.

“We should drink at times like this!”

“Right on!”

Kanea, who was beside him, raised her cup in response.

Clink! The two cups collided and they drank.

Watching this, Eliza shook her head.

Shortly after, Cal’s head drooped down.

He had fallen asleep from the alcohol.

Kanea, who had been staring at this sight, approached Eliza.

Then she gently lifted Eliza.

“…?”

“Heave!”

Kanea pushed Eliza toward Cal’s embrace.

Eliza, who ended up in Cal’s arms unintentionally, opened and closed her mouth.

“You look good together.”

“What!”

Eliza glared at Kanea, who was giggling with a bright red face.

“But you’re not pushing him away?”

At Kanea’s words, Eliza frowned and broke free from Cal’s embrace.

“Huh? What?”

Cal, who had woken up, looked around.

The festive atmosphere continued.

And before they knew it, it had become dim dawn.

“Come to think of it, Ennitha.”

“Hm?”

Ennitha, who had been laughing and chatting with Dweno, tilted her head.

“The promise to be a model. Keep it.”

“Yeah. I will.”

“Then take off your clothes.”

“What is this crazy dwarf saying!”

“If you’re a model, shouldn’t you naturally be nude?”

“Don’t be ridiculous! Who would think such a thing.”

“I learned it from you though?”

“When did I ever say that!”

Ennitha struck Dweno’s head with her elbow.

But Dweno didn’t even blink an eye.

‘They’re a perfect match made in heaven.’

Leo clicked his tongue.

In the midst of this, Ennitha, who barely managed to avoid becoming a nude model, sighed and asked.

“What pose should I take?”

“Draw a picture.”

“A picture?”

She tilted her head but soon brought a canvas and easel with a serious expression.

Then, as if remembering something, she began to draw.

Dweno also sat in front of a canvas and easel and began drawing her.

Dweno, who had been concentrating and drawing for a while, put a pipe in his mouth.

It was none other than Ennitha’s pipe.

“Huh? Dweno? You don’t smoke, do you?”

“In the future.”

As Leo remembered, Dweno had been holding a pipe from their first meeting.

And he held the same pipe until that final moment.

‘It was Ennitha’s.’

He watched the painting being completed from beside Dweno.

‘There’s not enough time.’

Leo had an intuition.

That there wasn’t enough time to complete the painting.

He looked at the Hero Record fragment in his hand.

It was burning more and more.

Looking at the fragment that had only a little left, Leo opened his mouth.

“Dweno.”

“If you’re going to say something stupid about using divine power to extend the time granted to me, I’ll smack your face right now.”

Dweno, who had read Arron’s memories through Brave, spoke firmly.

“Save that power.”

“….”

Leo closed his eyes.

“And my artistic work is beauty itself from the moment I lay hands on it. There’s no such thing as completion or whatever.”

“…You’re right.”

“Isn’t it beautiful?”

The image of the elf drawing with deep thought on the canvas was certainly beautiful.

“It’s beautiful.”

“Right. As I said, comparing her to Luna would be rude.”

“I don’t know about personality, but Luna seems prettier in terms of looks?”

“You, are you hitting on other women despite being a married man?”

“I told you I was scammed. And I was just stating facts.”

“You have no eye for beauty.”

Dweno clicked his tongue as if pitying them.

“How about over there?”

At that moment, Ennitha asked as if she couldn’t hold back any longer.

“Shall I take a look?”

Seeing Dweno’s grinning face, Ennitha approached him.

“Wow.”

Ennitha’s mouth fell wide open.

“Is, is this me?”

“That’s right.”

“It’s beautiful. But isn’t it too idealized?”

“My eyes as an aesthete are more certain than anyone else’s. Ennitha. You are this beautiful.”

Dweno smiled warmly.

“Surely thanks to the beauty you showed me, I was able to keep going without breaking until the very end.”

“….”

“Thank you, Ennitha.”

Whoooosh-!

All the Hero Record fragments burst into flames.

The moment Leo clenched his fist watching them turn to black ash and scatter away.

[The people of Isvaldi have been saved.]

[Dweno’s World: Prologue – Battle of Isvaldi has been conquered.]

The Heroes’ World had been conquered.

Along with that, a brilliant light enveloped the world.

Everyone closed their eyes.

The Hero Dungeon disappeared.

This space that had been at the boundary between the Heroes’ World and reality had somehow become reality.

The moment Leo, with his eyes closed, took a deep breath.

“Ah.”

Exclamations filled with amazement could be heard from here and there.

The Arhhi Party, including Leo, who had their eyes closed, hurriedly opened them.

The people of Isvaldi were looking toward the east.

“…The sun.”

Dawn was rising.

Brilliant light illuminated the people of Isvaldi.

Those who were seeing the sun for the first time in their lives.

Those who were witnessing this scene again after decades.

Everyone looked at the saved world with moved faces.

Ennitha, who had been gazing at the sun, trudged over and brought her canvas.

“I drew it well, didn’t I?”

And she showed the painting to Dweno with a bright smile.

Dweno, taking the painting, muttered.

“You drew it well.”

“Right?”

“Though I drew it better.”

At those words, Ennitha burst into laughter.

And she said.

“I’ll go first.”

Leaving behind the same words she had once left for Dweno, Ennitha became particles of light and disappeared.

It wasn’t just Ennitha.

All the people of Isvaldi became light and vanished.

Watching this scene, Dweno, who had been silent, handed the painting to Leo and spoke.

“Thank y…”

Dweno stopped speaking.

His time had ended, but Leo’s time was still continuing.

It was still too early to say thank you.

After a moment of silence, Dweno opened his mouth.

“I’m counting on you.”

To his comrade who still had to move forward.

The one who had been a reliable pillar of the party conveyed a single phrase filled with apology, gratitude, and encouragement to the one left behind.

Leo, receiving the painting, nodded his head.

“Leave it to me.”

At those words, Dweno smiled and became particles of light, disappearing.

“….”

Amid everyone’s silence, Leo looked at the paintings.

‘I want to preserve them.’

Dweno had wanted his artistic works to remain for future generations.

Originally, these paintings left by Dweno should have disappeared.

However.

[Conquest Reward: Paintings]

The conquest reward was determined by Leo’s wish.

Breathing a sigh of relief, Leo carefully placed Ennitha’s painting next to Dweno’s painting.

Amid the pouring dawn light.

The image of Ennitha painting and the image of Dweno painting were displayed side by side.

The Arhhi Party gathered around.

“Wow, they’re beautiful.”

“These are amazing paintings.”

Watching his companions burst into admiration, Leo spoke.

“Of course they would be.”

Because.

“These are paintings drawn by the last artists who lived in this era.”

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