Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 708

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708.

The morning after Leo opened the curtain on the historic first inter-department war.

The morning at Clock Tower Dormitory, which should normally be full of energy, was flowing with an awkward atmosphere.

Leo fell into thought as he looked at the dormitory students who were completely divided into three groups.

‘Cooperation between different classes is definitely necessary.’

Even Leo, an All-Class who could do anything, needed comrades to fight alongside.

‘I can’t do anything alone.’

He needed comrades who could do what he couldn’t do in his place.

That’s why Lumern places importance on joint classes.

But yesterday, Leo had broken that harmony.

He had intensified the competition between them.

‘There are things you learn through fighting.’

Those with the same abilities as oneself band together to defeat those with different abilities.

Through that process, one can more clearly understand what one lacks and what the opponent’s weaknesses are.

Making them feel many things and ultimately helping them take one more step forward is

‘That’s why Lumern encourages competition between departments while also emphasizing harmony.’

But from today on, they would focus thoroughly only on bringing down the opposing departments.

It was when Leo was about to head to the dormitory cafeteria.

Thud-!

“Leo.”

Cal came over and put his arm around Leo’s shoulder.

“Give me a break, at least give me a heads up next time. I’m having a hard time. Really.”

Looking at Cal whining from the morning, Leo made an apologetic expression.

“If I gave you a heads up, it wouldn’t have had any meaning.”

“Tsk.”

Cal scratched his head.

Since full-scale competition between departments had begun, the Student Council had a lot of work to do.

First was establishing new school rules regarding the use of public facilities.

Combat between students was permitted during late night hours.

But there was no law saying fights would only happen at night.

There would be cases where emotions ran high and they’d fight during the day too.

Especially in public convenience facilities that all students use.

That’s why the Student Council needed to quickly organize traffic control.

Particularly since Cal was in the same department as Elena.

“Well, still, since you roughly set the guidelines, establishing the school rules wasn’t as difficult as expected.”

The general framework for school rules to be applied during the department war period was all set.

Leo had sent that to the Student Council.

“By the way, Leo. You made quite a big bet, didn’t you?”

“Big bet?”

“You said you’d grant a wish if someone becomes MVP, right? Seems like there will be many people aiming for it?”

Cal grinned slyly and patted Leo’s shoulder.

“Only within the range of what I can do.”

At Leo’s answer, Cal chuckled.

“Lord Leo, Cal.”

Then Chen Xia’s voice was heard from behind.

“Good morning.”

When Chen Xia smiled and greeted them, Leo greeted her back too.

“Good morning.”

Behind Chen Xia, Iliana also appeared.

Iliana looked back and forth between Leo and Cal, then squeezed between the two and separated them.

“What are you doing?”

When Cal asked with a puzzled face, Iliana wagged her finger.

“In this department war, the Class President is a judge after all. You can’t get too friendly with students from specific departments.”

Having said that, Iliana pushed Leo’s back.

“Class President. Let’s go eat with the Knight Department.”

“Didn’t you just say I can’t get friendly with specific departments?”

At Leo’s question, Iliana’s eyes widened.

“Yeah. I did. But Selia wanted to see you for a moment? Selia is the Class President’s cousin.”

“That’s right. Selia said she has something to tell you.”

Chen Xia also stuck close to Leo’s side, grabbed his hand and pulled him along.

While heading toward the Knight Department with the two of them.

Iliana looked around, confirmed there was no one around, then put her hand into Leo’s uniform inner pocket.

“What are you doing.”

“A gift.”

At those words, Leo took out what had been put in his inner pocket.

It was a snack that was extremely popular among female students.

It was something extremely difficult to obtain.

“Isn’t this a bribe?”

“Oh my! A bribe? It’s just a small token of my affection because I like the Class President.”

“I’m fine.”

“Hey! Keep it! Keep it! Are we not close enough to give and receive something like this?”

Iliana stuffed the snack Leo tried to return back into his pocket, looked around quickly, then asked quietly.

“But Class President. You said you hid problems here and there in the dormitory, right? Could you give me a hint…”

“Achoo.”

Then a sneeze was heard.

Iliana quickly looked toward where the sound came from.

Behind a building pillar.

She felt a presence.

Iliana narrowed her eyes and ran behind the pillar at tremendous speed.

“Oh ho? Betty?”

“Ah, hello. Senior Iliana.”

“You saw, didn’t you?”

Looking at Betty, the second-ranked 2nd year Magic Studies student, Iliana made a cold expression.

“I, I didn’t see anything! Nothing at all.”

“Hmm? Seems like you saw something?”

“Uuugh!”

“If you go somewhere and talk about what you saw today. You know, right? Your school life won’t be fun… Ack!”

Chen Xia struck the back of Iliana’s head with a hand chop.

Iliana clutched her head and rolled on the ground.

“You shouldn’t threaten underclassmen.”

“I wasn’t threatening her!”

Iliana made an aggrieved expression.

Leo approached such Iliana and stamped her with a demerit stamp.

“Bullying underclassmen violates school rules.”

“Aaaaah!”

Iliana let out a scream.

“I can’t believe it. Are you stupid? You tried to bribe Leo and ended up getting demerits?”

Selia crossed her arms and made an incredulous expression.

Iliana knelt in front of such Selia and said in a crawling voice.

“I got the demerit stamp not for the bribe, but for threatening Betty…”

“It’s an honor!”

Iliana shrank back as she watched Selia growling.

Leo, who had been observing this scene, asked Selia.

“You said you called me because you had something to say?”

Selia, who had been glaring at Iliana, pulled out a letter envelope from her chest and handed it to Leo.

“It’s a letter from your aunt.”

Originally it should have gone directly to Leo, but since becoming a third-year student, Leo’s room had become a place that outsiders couldn’t easily enter.

So it had become Selia’s job to receive Leo’s letters on his behalf.

“Thank you.”

Leo, who had expressed his gratitude, opened the letter envelope and checked its contents.

After a moment, watching Leo carefully fold the letter and put it back in the envelope, Selia asked with a curious expression.

“What did your aunt say?”

“She says she’s had her name added to the Hero Record this time.”

“Really? That’s really gre— What?!”

Selia, who had been nodding at Leo’s calm answer, widened her eyes in shock.

“Your aunt had her name added to the Hero Record?”

“That’s right.”

The other students also looked at Leo in surprise.

“Leo, congratulations!”

“Wow! That’s wonderful!”

“Leo! Congratulations!”

Leo smiled slightly at the congratulations pouring in from all directions.

“Thank you, but it’s not really something for me to be congratulated about.”

The surrounding students hesitated at Leo’s reaction.

Having one’s name added to the Hero Record.

In other words, becoming a hero was the glory of the entire family.

Considering that even the so-called Renowned Hero Families couldn’t produce heroes every generation.

It was literally something to be overjoyed about.

But Leo’s actual reaction was extremely indifferent.

Thanks to that reaction, the students momentarily became confused.

‘Are we making too much of a fuss?’

But no matter how they thought about it, it was definitely something to celebrate.

However, since the person being congratulated showed such a reaction, the Knight Department students couldn’t get their bearings.

“You’re really indifferent too. You don’t look particularly happy.”

When Selia crossed her arms and grumbled, Leo looked down at the letter envelope and chuckled.

“I am happy. It’s just that.”

“Just that?”

“I always thought Mother was someone who had sufficient qualifications to be a hero. So I’m just not making a show of it.”

Having finished his answer, Leo stood up from his seat.

“Where are you going?”

“To write a reply.”

“Wow, going to write a reply right away. You don’t show it, but you must be incredibly happy.”

Leo tapped Chen Xia’s forehead, who was teasing him, then left his seat.

Seeing this, Selia also stood up from her seat.

“Miss Selia, where are you going?”

“I’m also going to write a letter to his aunt. I respect her. Leo! Let’s go together!”

Following them, Iliana, who had been kneeling, also stood up.

“Where are you going?”

At Nella’s question, Iliana gave a thumbs up.

“I’m going to make up for the penalty points I received myself.”

At that reaction, the surrounding Knight Department students looked anxious.

“What are you planning to do now?”

“The Class President is in a good mood right now, right? I’ll ask him to cancel my penalty points.”

“You idiot!”

“Hey! Catch her!”

“Don’t bother Leo for no reason!”

The third-year students all rushed toward Iliana.

Watching this scene, Nella sighed.

“We need to make sure Iliana can’t even get near Leo. Isn’t there a good way?”

“Hmm.”

Chen Xia, who had been pondering Nella’s words, tilted her head.

“Should we break her neck if she tries to approach Lord Leo?”

“…”

Normally Nella would have criticized that as too harsh, but today she didn’t.

After a moment.

Nella sighed.

“Still, that’s too harsh.”

The most compassionate student in the Knight Department.

Chen Xia nodded at Nella’s words.

Magic Studies Department class.

“Everyone! Did you have a good weekend!”

Ren climbed up onto the platform.

Seeing this, the students began putting away their textbooks.

Today was the day of the written exam that Ren had announced.

Since he had said they would start the exam as soon as the lecture began, they put away everything except their writing materials.

There were also some students who slowly closed their textbooks, trying to look at the contents just a little bit more until the last moment.

After a moment.

On the now-clean circular lecture hall desks.

It was when tension was flowing among the students.

Professor Ren, with a solemn expression, snapped his fingers.

Then a golem created by magic entered carrying a bundle of papers.

“Wait, why are the test papers so thick?”

“They’re thicker than the midterm and final exam papers.”

“Aaahhh.”

Reactions of dismay poured out from among the students.

In the midst of this, the test papers flew toward the students following Ren’s gesture.

Thud- Thud-

Professor Ren approached the blackboard in the center of the lecture hall.

And he picked up chalk and began writing something on the blackboard.

Tap tap tap tap-! Tap!

The students who saw the sentence that Professor Ren wrote on the blackboard with his dazzling hand movements momentarily looked puzzled.

They had thought he would announce the exam time or method, but the sentence written on the blackboard had nothing to do with the exam.

Bang-!

“Who is our main enemy!”

“…”

At Ren’s sudden words as he struck the blackboard, the students became speechless.

Then the honor student Chloe raised her hand without hesitation.

“Student Chloe!”

“It’s Tartaros.”

“Wrong!”

Chloe showed a flustered expression at Ren’s firm answer.

Starting with Chloe, students began raising their hands and giving their respective answers.

“Demons!”

“Wrong!”

“Hero Hunter?”

“It’s the Overlord King!”

“Incorrect!”

“The Legion Commanders…?”

“Wrong answer!”

As incorrect answers poured out one after another.

Leo raised his hand.

“Erebos.”

In an instant, silence fell over the entire lecture hall.

Erebos.

Though it was the world’s enemy that must be defeated, speaking that name aloud was not easy.

As the atmosphere grew heavy from the name alone.

“Unfortunately, that’s also not the correct answer!”

Everyone was shocked.

Not only was Chloe, the top student of the Magic Studies Department, wrong, but even Leo, the student council president, had given an incorrect answer.

Then Cal, who had been quietly sitting, raised his hand and answered playfully.

“The Knight Department!”

“Cal.”

Chloe glared at him.

As Cal’s face filled with mischief and he gave her a look that said ‘What?’

Clap clap clap clap-!

“Bravo! Correct! Student Cal! As expected, an honor student who reached the position of hero early is truly different!”

“Huh?”

Ren applauded enthusiastically by himself.

Cal, who was being called an honor student by Ren for the first time since enrollment, made a dumbfounded expression.

Ren took out a stamp from his pocket, stamped it with a bang on a palm-sized piece of paper, and tossed it to Cal.

As Cal received the [Well Done] stamp with a blank expression.

Ren slammed his fist on the podium.

“Just as Student Cal said! Our main enemy that we must defeat is none other than the Knight Department!”

At that passionate declaration, Anna, who was waiting at the back of the lecture hall, looked up at the ceiling in dismay.

This man seems to have come down with a case of talking nonsense.

‘He’ll probably just give one speech and be done…’

While she was thinking that.

Ren spoke.

“Now! Solve the test papers I handed out today!”

At those words, the students flipped over the bundle of test papers that had been face down and checked the contents.

Instantly.

All the students’ faces changed strangely.

“Um… Professor Ren?”

Chelsea cautiously raised her hand.

“What is it? Student Chelsea!”

“The test content is a bit strange? No, strange aside, why do we need to solve this?”

At Chelsea’s words, Anna flinched and checked the test paper contents.

And her shoulders began trembling.

“Why is this test necessary?”

At those words, Ren’s eyes widened.

“Because ideological verification is necessary!”

“Hey, you crazy bastard!”

Anna rushed at Ren and grabbed him by the collar.

Even while being grabbed by the collar by Anna, Ren spoke resolutely.

“From today, we’ll conduct research classes on how to efficiently defeat those knight bastards! How to infiltrate the Knight Department dormitory! How to bring destruction to the Knight Department!”

“Student Leo! Student Avad! Student Cal! Drag this guy off the podium right now!”

At Anna’s words, the three stood up from their seats and climbed onto the platform.

“What, what are you doing! To your teacher who is like the heavens!”

“Professor. Please go outside the classroom first and calm down a bit.”

Cal smiled as he grabbed one of Ren’s arms.

As Avad also grabbed Ren’s other side, Leo grabbed Ren’s legs and dragged him outside.

“Associate Professor Anna! This is rebellion against me, a professor! How can you do this to me!”

Ren’s desperate cries echoed through the lecture hall as he was dragged out, just like he usually did to Sedjen.

Anna was pressing her temples with a tired expression.

Meanwhile, there was one student who was solving the problems very seriously.

“Iliana, what are you doing?”

At Chloe’s question, Iliana moved her pen quickly and said.

“I got a deduction stamp today. I need to make up for it, so I have to do well on this test.”

At that answer, Chloe said.

“You’re from the Knight Department.”

Though she attended Magic Studies lectures as a magic swordsman, her affiliation was still the Knight Department.

“So what?”

“…Never mind. Keep solving.”

Chloe sighed.

‘Is our department going to be okay like this?’

She was worried whether they’d be able to have proper classes.

However, similar situations to what happened in Ren’s class today were occurring throughout Lumern.

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