Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 705

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705.

That evening.

The 3rd year members of Leo’s party who had returned to the dormitory were gathered in a room within the Clock Tower Dormitory.

“What the hell was that blizzard?”

Cal, with a pen placed above his philtrum, crossed his arms and made a puzzled expression.

The 3rd year members of Leo’s party who had returned after completing their commission mission were currently writing their mission reports.

Despite the sudden blizzard, the Orc Settlement had been completely subjugated.

“And mana freezing phenomenon too.”

Iliana spun her pen on her finger and made an incredulous expression.

The mana freezing was also a phenomenon that only Leo and Chloe had experienced.

“You really couldn’t use any abilities at all?”

At Cal’s question, Chloe nodded her head.

“Yeah. It felt like my power was sealed.”

“Leo, you too?”

Leo nodded his head instead of answering.

“What kind of situation is this really?”

Cal, who knew Leo’s true identity, made a bewildered expression.

Meanwhile, Leo, who had finished writing his report, stood up from his seat.

“You guys finish up quickly and rest too.”

Originally, they had planned to spend the entire weekend subjugating the Orc Settlement.

The idea was to give the 2nd years and 1st years real combat experience.

But due to an unexpected situation where the 3rd years actively participated, the Orc Settlement subjugation ended a day earlier than scheduled.

As such, Leo’s party was able to enjoy freedom tomorrow, one of the two weekend days.

Shortly after Leo left.

Chloe also put down her pen and submitted her report.

“I’m leaving first.”

“Huh? Already?”

“Yeah. I need to go back to the dormitory.”

“Oh come on! What are you saying! It’s a rare opportunity! We should have fun!”

At Iliana’s words, Chloe made an exasperated expression.

“It’s curfew time now.”

Once curfew time came, students couldn’t come out of the dormitory.

It was a strict rule of Lumern.

At Chloe’s words, Iliana made a meaningful expression.

“That’s exactly what makes it fun! We’re out here during a time when we can’t go outside!”

At Iliana’s words, Chloe made a pathetic expression.

“All the convenience facilities are closed anyway.”

“Oh come on! Just wandering around is fun!”

“I want to go in early.”

Watching Chloe make an uninterested expression, Iliana rolled her eyes this way and that.

If Chloe went back, it would be reported to the dormitory supervisor professors.

Leo was free from the supervisors’ attention since he used a detached house, but regular students weren’t.

What the 3rd years were allowed right now was only time to write reports.

Once they finished writing, they had to return.

Iliana’s plan was to take advantage of that short time gap to wander around the dormitory at night.

If they returned to the dormitory too late after Chloe went back, it was obvious the supervisors would come looking for them.

‘The Clock Tower Dormitory has many secrets.’

The Clock Tower Dormitory boasted an incredibly massive scale.

But compared to that scale, the areas students could go to were limited.

The professors didn’t say anything, but there were definitely secrets hidden.

‘There might be treasure chests or something hidden in secret spaces!’

The Clock Tower Dormitory itself stimulated students’ desire to explore.

That’s why during times when there were no classes, quite a few students would return to the dormitory to explore the clock tower.

But at night, there was no such opportunity.

And now such an opportunity had arisen.

Of course, unfortunately, Chloe wasn’t very interested in such things.

More precisely, her desire to follow school rules was stronger than her curiosity about the clock tower’s secrets.

For her, an honor student, school rules were something that absolutely had to be followed.

Iliana also knew well about Chloe’s tendencies.

Iliana, who had been rolling her eyes this way and that, said.

“Chloe! Did you hear that rumor? The rumor that there’s a Forbidden Library in the Dormitory Library!”

At those words, Chloe stopped walking.

“They say there are tons of forbidden magic books unknown to the world there?”

Chloe looked at Iliana.

‘Great! She took the bait!’

Iliana cheered inwardly.

Chloe, who had been looking at Iliana’s face, looked toward Cal.

“Is it true?”

“There is such a rumor.”

“How credible is it?”

“Close to zero.”

Watching Cal shrug his shoulders, Chloe left the room as if uninterested.

If Cal, the school’s information broker, said that, it was safe to assume there was no such thing as a Forbidden Library.

“You should have said it was credible!”

“I became Lumern’s information broker because of trust. How can I say something that doesn’t exist does? And Chloe would find out everything if she investigated.”

At Cal’s words, Iliana clicked her tongue.

“And what could you properly explore by exploring at night? The professors will be patrolling.”

“Seriously! You have no romance! No romance!”

***

Leo, who came to his room, pressed his forehead at the sight before him.

“Sofa. I envy you. You serve Leo-sama every single day, don’t you? Ah! I want to become Leo-sama’s sofa too. It would be so nice if I could provide comfort to Leo-sama with this worthless body.”

Because he discovered Rian sticking close to the sofa Leo often sat on and rubbing her face against it.

“Hey there. Want to switch with me? I’ll become Leo-sama’s sofa. You become the manager of Hero Record. That’s good for you too, right? Hm?”

‘I can never get used to seeing that sight.’

She was definitely god-like in that she was crazily insane rather than elegantly insane.

As someone who lived through the Age of Gods and the Age of Calamity.

He knew more about gods than anyone else in this era, but he couldn’t understand gods.

No, probably even in the Age of Gods, there was no one who could understand gods.

“Ah! Leo-sama! From now on, I’ve decided to replace the sofa! Please sit on me!”

Rian pushed Leo’s sofa away and crouched down in the spot where the sofa had been.

“Although it’s a worthless body, I’ll do my best to provide comfort to Leo-sama!”

At those words, Leo approached Rian.

And sat on the guest sofa next to her.

Rian made a sad expression.

“Ah! I’m an existence inferior to even a sofa!”

It was when Rian, thinking she had lost to the sofa, was drooping dejectedly.

“Why are you comparing yourself to something like a sofa. You’re much more amazing than a sofa.”

“Huh?”

“Managing Hero Record is something only you can do. How important is that job.”

At those words, Rian made a moved expression.

“Am I more necessary than the sofa?”

“That’s right.”

At the fact that he had beaten the sofa, Rian smiled with genuine happiness.

‘If you’re worse than a sofa, are you even human? Oh wait, this is a god.’

To quote Luna’s words, she had said that a useless god was worth less than weeds on the roadside.

While Leo shook his head from side to side.

Rian put the sofa back in its original position and then knelt down across from Leo.

And he clasped his hands together as if praying to a god.

That appearance reminded one of a devout and pious believer.

Leo clicked his tongue at Rian’s posture, which even looked sacred at first glance.

He had told him not to do this countless times, but Rian wouldn’t listen about this one thing.

So Leo had given up.

After a moment, when Rian opened his eyes, Leo asked him.

“I called you because I have something to ask.”

“Please command me, Leo-sama.”

“Can Erebos use powers of other attributes too?”

“What do you mean by other attributes?”

“Can he use attributes other than flames? For instance, freezing abilities.”

“That’s impossible.”

Rian shook his head and added an explanation.

“For that Abomination, the Primordial Evil, the unextinguishable flames are a symbol that represents the Abomination itself.”

“A symbol itself?”

“Yes. The sight of the world burning and disappearing into ashes. That is that Abomination’s dearest wish. The power that matches that wish is precisely the unextinguishable flames. In the end, its main body is the black flames themselves.”

Then using freezing abilities wouldn’t make sense.

After hearing Rian’s explanation, Leo made a serious expression.

“Why did you ask about that?”

Leo brought up the story of what happened on the mountain.

“Ice that doesn’t melt and a power that froze mana solid.”

Rian’s face turned serious.

“It wasn’t magic. That was definitely a divine authority.”

Magic is ultimately an ability within the laws of the world.

And what transcends those laws is called a miracle.

The unique authorities of Legion Commanders fall into that category of miracles.

The Overlord King possesses a fragment of Erebos.

If he could use that, granting authority to a new Legion Commander wouldn’t be impossible either.

‘Or maybe it was an ability gained through the Legion’s World.’

At Leo’s words, Rian spoke up.

“Even if the Overlord King used the Abomination’s fragment to wield power, granting an authority like ‘ice that doesn’t melt’ would be difficult.”

“Why?”

“Ice that doesn’t melt. That’s the same concept as unextinguishable flames. In other words, the same as Erebos itself.”

“The same concept?”

“Yes. Even miracles have ranks. It would be complicated to explain in detail, so to put it simply… you should think of ice that doesn’t melt as a miracle of the highest conceptual level.”

“Hmm.”

Leo nodded.

“But didn’t you say Erebos doesn’t use any power other than flames?”

At those words, Rian thought for a moment and then spoke.

“What I’m about to tell you is purely my speculation.”

An existence close to omniscience and omnipotence.

At the mention of a god’s speculation, Leo nodded.

“Even we gods cannot know the origins of the Primordial Evil. We only know that the Abomination has existed at some point and has wished for the world’s destruction since then.”

“So?”

“The Abomination possesses many authorities. But among them, the most powerful authority is precisely the unextinguishable flames.”

An authority that could be called Erebos itself.

“But it was strange. Not extinguishing means continuously burning. In other words, as time passes, Erebos’s flames grow stronger. However, while the gods remained on the earthly realm and suppressed Erebos for long ages, Erebos had nothing to burn.”

Until the gods’ power weakened.

Erebos had spent time burning himself.

No matter how unextinguishable the flames, if there’s nothing to burn, they eventually disappear.

In other words, Erebos had been burning only his own flesh for long ages.

But in the end, Erebos didn’t burn himself completely.

“He might have had the power to suppress the flames?”

“Yes.”

Rian nodded.

“Among the gods, there were those who speculated that Erebos might have devoured evil gods of similar nature to become what he is now. They said that’s the only way to explain the various authorities he possesses.”

Having heard the explanation up to that point, Leo also grasped what hypothesis Rian was thinking of.

“You’re saying he might have devoured an evil god with authority of the opposite attribute long ago?”

“Yes. Perhaps he was controlling his own firepower with the power of freezing?”

Leo stroked his chin after hearing Rian’s words.

“Right now, Erebos is split into six fragments.”

In the final battle, Leo had cut him into six pieces and sealed them.

Then there was one deduction that could be predicted from this.

“Among those six fragments, the one with freezing power has awakened?”

“In my humble estimation, that’s correct. However, as you predicted, Leo-sama, there’s also a high possibility that it’s an authority the Overlord King granted to a Legion Commander.”

Hearing Rian’s words, Leo felt a chill.

‘If it’s a fragment of Erebos as Rian suspects, this has become really troublesome.’

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