Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 710

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710.

“Summoning spirits is similar to the sensation of feeling mana.”

Artion, sitting in front of Leo who was seated in a proper posture, explained.

“Now, try closing your eyes.”

Swoosh-

Leo gently closed his eyes.

“Breathe deeply and slowly, focusing on your breathing. Slowly. Slowly.”

As if teaching a young child.

Artion kindly explained from the basics.

Leo breathed according to Artion’s explanation.

Even with All-Class, there are abilities that cannot be used.

Among them, the most representative one is spirit magic.

Moreover, the spirit magic that Leo possessed wasn’t something that awakened Leo’s hidden power either.

Although he had unconsciously used spirit magic several times before, strictly speaking, even that wasn’t Leo’s unconscious doing.

‘It was Risinass’ unconscious.’

When did Risinass’ spirit come to dwell within him?

‘…When I entered Risinass’ world.’

After defeating Yormungand the Gluttonous King in Risinass’ world.

Using his past self as a medium, Risinass revealed herself before Leo.

After the world conquest was completed.

Leo obtained the essence of mana that Risinass possessed as a conquest reward.

It was probably then that he gained the ability of spirit magic.

From that moment on, Risinass would have become a spirit and dwelled within Leo.

However, Leo still cannot properly use that power.

Far from using it properly, he’s in a situation where he can’t even grasp a clue for handling the power.

‘I’ll think of it as starting completely from scratch.’

He takes deep breaths and concentrates his mind.

While waiting for Artion’s next words.

The summoning circle drawn on Leo’s body began to glow.

Along with that, spiritual power began to flow through Leo’s body.

It wasn’t Leo’s spiritual power.

It was Artion’s spiritual power.

‘I see.’

Artion had drawn the summoning circle on Leo’s body using his blood to show him the flow of spiritual power.

Leo followed the movement of spiritual power while being as conscious as possible of Artion’s spiritual power flowing through the blood as a medium.

‘So this is how Professor Artion operates spiritual power when using spirit magic.’

A method of showing one’s spiritual power flow to another person.

He couldn’t help but think that Artion, who came up with something like this, was also a possessor of remarkable talent.

Artion’s spiritual power disappeared.

“How was it?”

“I’m starting to get a feel for it.”

“You’re already getting a feel for it? As expected, honor students are truly different.”

Artion clapped his hands.

Artion smiled brightly and said.

“Unexpectedly, it might not take very long to master spirit magic.”

“I don’t think that’s the case.”

“Huh?”

“Because it’s harder than I thought.”

“You’re being modest.”

Artion smiled slightly.

But Leo’s words were sincere.

‘It might take a lifetime.’

Leo had become able to imitate his past comrades’ techniques almost perfectly through endless effort.

In the case of magic, there’s Leo’s unique magic system that can theoretically contain all magic formulas existing in the world.

Because of the Bible, he can imitate Luna.

Arron’s howling and breathing can also be imitated with the power of All-Class, and Dweno’s flames can also be handled to use powerful fire power.

The same goes for Risinass’ summoning magic.

But Leo also has his limits.

Luna’s unique magics.

The enlightenment that Arron achieved.

Just as Leo cannot imitate Dweno’s hand techniques.

Spirit magic is a unique ability that Leo has been unable to use until now.

From Leo’s perspective, it’s literally a domain he must start from scratch.

Moreover, the original owner of the spirit magic Leo obtained is Risinass.

If it had been the power of an ordinary spiritualist, Leo would have been confident in imitating it too.

But the original owner of the spirit magic dwelling within Leo is none other than Risinass, the King of Wisdom.

The being called the strongest summoner in history.

The reason she was called the strongest summoner was extremely simple.

Generally, summoners are divided into two major categories.

The first is summoners who summon powerful magical beasts or spirits and draw out their summoned creatures’ abilities to the maximum.

The second is summoners who summon an enormous number of summoned creatures.

In this case, it could literally be called an army of summoned creatures.

Risinass was an all-rounder type summoner who possessed both styles.

‘She could even summon powerful summoned creatures and an enormous number of summoned creatures at the same time.’

It might not seem like much.

But even now, Leo cannot simultaneously handle powerful summoned creatures while summoning large-scale summoned creatures like Risinass.

The reason the Great Heroes could win battles despite having an overwhelming numerical disadvantage compared to Tartaros.

Luna’s power was significant, but it was possible because Risinass was there to somewhat compensate for the numerical balance beforehand.

And what particularly shone in those large-scale battles was precisely Risinass’ spirit magic.

Leo sighed while recalling the image of Risinass summoning countless spirits.

‘Will I be able to do something like that?’

“Now, shall we try summoning a spirit?”

When Artion smiled and spoke, Leo closed his eyes and concentrated his mind.

And he began to raise spiritual power as Artion had taught him earlier.

Whooooooo-!

Spiritual power began to swirl around Leo’s body.

‘Wow… I knew Student Leo had multi-colored spiritual power, but… the color manifested when using spirit magic is black.’

It wasn’t a gloomy or ominous feeling.

Looking at the jet-black spiritual power that was dark and deep but somehow gave a cozy feeling, Artion said.

“Amazing. To reach a level where you can use spirit summoning with just one explanation.”

Artion clapped his hands in admiration.

“Then, Student Leo! Shall we try summoning a spirit now?”

“Summoning?”

“Yes. Try intensely calling for someone in your mind. A spirit will be summoned, drawn by Student Leo’s voice.”

At those words, Leo took a deep breath and called for Risinass.

‘Hey. Fraud lizard. Come quickly. Hurry up.’

The moment he said that.

Kwaaaaaa-!

“Huh?!”

Artion was startled.

The power of the spiritual energy Leo was emitting grew even stronger.

Then, like a black hole, it began sucking in everything around it.

“Whoa whoa whoa?”

Artion pressed his body flat against the ground with a panicked expression, trying not to get sucked in.

Fluttering- Whoooosh!

As books and furnishings around them, as well as large furniture, began getting sucked toward Leo, Artion’s body also started floating.

‘Just how powerful is this spiritual energy!’

The spiritual energy manipulation technique Artion had taught Leo today was basic spirit summoning.

Spirit summoning has the power to strongly pull something toward oneself.

Not just spirits, but even things with physical form.

That’s why spirit summoning sometimes exerts physical influence when used.

But this was the first time Artion had seen such powerful gravitational force generated.

‘Just what kind of powerful spirit is being summoned?’

“Student Leo? Student Leo! Try to stop… Kyaah?!”

Eventually, unable to resist the force, Artion’s body flew toward Leo.

The moment Artion tried to channel spiritual energy to steady himself.

Leo opened his eyes.

Eyes flashing with black light.

Leo, who instantly grasped the situation, rose from his seat.

And lightly caught Artion who was being pulled toward him.

Thud-!

The furniture that had been pulled by Leo’s spirit summoning fell to the ground.

“Woooooooh.”

Artion, caught in Leo’s arms, exclaimed in admiration.

“Just… just how powerful a spirit did you summon?”

“…I was trying to summon quite an impressive one. But I failed.”

“Failed?”

Even though such powerful spirit summoning had manifested, it failed?

“Yes.”

“Hmm. What could have been the problem?”

Leo set down the contemplating Artion.

While Artion stood on the ground lost in thought.

Leo looked around the room.

He let out a small sigh seeing the room in shambles.

‘If I knew this would happen, should I have done it outside?’

***

Late at night.

The Central Hall of the Clock Tower Dormitory.

Though it was the most lively place during the day, at night without students it gave off an eerie atmosphere.

Eliza, sitting on the sofa in the Central Hall with her legs crossed, took out a pocket watch from her bosom to check the time.

The time shown in the dim moonlight was approaching 1 AM.

‘He’s late.’

It was when Eliza’s eyes were twitching.

Dong-! Dong-!

The clock tower’s bell announcing the hour echoed throughout the entire building.

A sound that couldn’t be heard from the dormitory quarters.

The clock ringing at this late hour made her feel even more eerie.

It was when irritation appeared on Eliza’s face.

Tap tap-

When someone tapped her shoulder from behind without any presence, Eliza was startled.

“Eep?!”

Seeing Eliza about to scream involuntarily, Cal hurriedly covered her mouth.

“Hey hey. Eliza. It’s me. Me. It’s Cal.”

Hearing Cal’s voice, Eliza calmed her trembling heart.

Then she rolled her eyes and looked behind her.

Cal removed the cloak he had been wearing from what seemed like empty space.

It was an invisibility cloak made with Dweno’s alchemy.

“You scared me! And why are you so late!”

“No. I tried to come quickly. But the kids kept asking me to go exploring with them. I had some trouble getting away from them.”

“How did you get away from them.”

“I said I was going on a date.”

“Is that funny?”

“It’s a joke. I just said I was going to rest today and snuck out.”

“It would be hard to avoid other students’ eyes with just your invisibility cloak, right?”

Eliza was right.

While the invisibility cloak was indeed an amazing item, it wasn’t something that completely erased one’s presence.

Among the Magic Studies Department students, there were those who used detection magic in real-time as training for combat preparation.

Avoiding such people’s detection magic wasn’t easy.

“I borrowed item power for my presence too.”

“An item?”

“Normally this would be a trade secret but…”

Cal smiled slyly and showed the bracelet on his hand.

“A bracelet that Dweno made for me.”

Things related to Dweno’s World were still under a gag order and not known to the public.

However, Eliza, who had participated in the conquest together, knew of its existence.

Eliza had also received a gift from Dweno.

“Mine has a function that hides presence.”

Though it seemed like a trivial function, it was a very necessary ability for Cal, who had to stay close to battlefields to continuously read the flow of combat even if he didn’t participate in battles.

Clank-

“Huh?”

That’s when it happened.

The sound of metal scraping echoed.

Clank- Clank-

Cal and Eliza looked at each other’s faces.

The sound was gradually approaching toward this place.

Cal put on the invisibility cloak and said to Eliza.

“Come in here.”

“Why?”

“If it’s other students, we’ll have to fight. If you hide with your summoning, you might get caught. It’s safer to just hide in the invisibility cloak.”

At Cal’s words, Eliza clicked her tongue as if displeased and entered Cal’s cloak.

Then she pressed her body close to Cal.

“You don’t need to stick that close?”

“You should have said so earlier.”

Eliza frowned and slightly increased the distance.

Though they were still close, Cal didn’t bother saying anything.

The two held their breath inside the invisibility cloak.

Clank- Clank- Clank-

After a moment.

Someone revealed themselves from the darkness.

The sight was shocking.

He was a knight holding a bastard sword in one hand.

Armed in full plate armor, he was literally drenched in blood.

“Huff- Huff-“

Seeing the knight breathing heavily, Cal and Eliza froze in place.

Dark night.

The knight who appeared in an almost horror-like form in the eerie atmosphere had something about him that made their hearts race with fear.

“Huff- Kill them… Huff…”

Then the knight muttered in a voice filled with murderous intent.

“Kill them… Mages… Summoners…”

Clank- Clank-

After revealing his murderous intent once, the knight disappeared back into the darkness.

A moment later.

Eliza muttered with an incredulous expression.

“What the hell was that?”

“How would I know? It seems like the Knight Department is doing some kind of concept act.”

Since there were many eccentrics at Lumern, it seemed plausible.

“By the way.”

“What?”

“Miss Eliza, were you scared?”

Cal grinned mischievously.

When the knight had revealed his murderous intent earlier, Eliza had unconsciously grabbed Cal’s arm tightly.

“Our Miss Eliza has a surprisingly timid side to her…”

Crack-!

“I’m sorry. I was talking nonsense.”

Seeing Eliza pull out her whip and stretch it taut, Cal immediately bent at the waist.

Watching this scene, Eliza said.

“Let’s go conquer Mirona.”

“Got it.”

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