Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 715

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715.

Deep night.

Leo, walking through the eerie dormitory corridor, reached the area where portraits of graduates were displayed.

Countless portraits hanging in the corridor.

All of them were graduates of Lumern.

Usually, students whose portraits are hung within the academy are those who brought honor to the school’s name.

Those here were also Lumern graduates who showed heroic qualities after graduation.

However, they couldn’t bring honor to the school’s name.

They didn’t reach the position of heroes, nor did they inscribe their names in history.

No matter how outstanding their abilities were.

Even if they lived noble lives based on those abilities.

Even if they saved many people through noble sacrifice.

Unless they achieved something significant.

Being remembered by many people for a long time wasn’t easy.

Most people only remember the winners.

The owners of the portraits here were those who ended their lives before their potential could bloom.

Though they couldn’t bring honor to the school’s name.

Those who didn’t forget the essence of being heroes and met a splendid end.

That their deaths were never in vain.

To let the school’s juniors know that such great seniors existed, Lumern displayed the graduates’ portraits within the school.

When the dormitory structure was reorganized, a space to honor and commemorate seniors was created, thus the portrait corridor came to be.

“Coming at night makes it somehow scary.”

Iliana said while hiding behind Leo’s back.

Chelsea, standing beside Leo, recalled the memory of the paintings all looking at her simultaneously earlier.

Chelsea, who shuddered all over, moved closer to Leo’s side.

Then she reached out and lightly grabbed the hem of Leo’s clothes.

Iliana, watching this, muttered.

“Ew. Acting all delicate, so unlike you?”

“Huh? Who said I was acting delicate?”

Squeeze-!

Tap tap tap-

“I surrender, I surrender. I misspoke.”

At Chelsea’s action of quickly coming behind her and wrapping her arm around her neck in a chokehold, Iliana frantically tapped Chelsea’s forearm with her hand.

Released from Chelsea, Iliana gasped for breath.

Step- Step-

Leaving those two behind, Leo walked toward the center of the corridor.

Chelsea and Iliana hurriedly followed behind Leo.

Leo, standing in the center of the corridor, created illumination with light magic and carefully observed the portraits.

‘I don’t sense anything suspicious though?’

Leo, looking around at the portraits, discovered a painting of a Knight Department graduate among them and paused.

“Chelsea.”

“Yeah?”

“This armor. Isn’t it that armor from earlier?”

At Leo’s words, Chelsea widened her eyes and carefully examined the knight who had a stern expression in the portrait.

“Oh? The shoulder shape is exactly the same!”

Chelsea widened her eyes and clapped her hands.

“Let me see. 991st graduate… roughly a senior from 2000 years ago.”

Leo’s current class number is 3021.

As Chelsea said, a great senior from about 2000 years ago.

Iliana, who had been listening to their conversation, also widened her eyes.

“Look at this. This mage! Isn’t this that red cloak from earlier?”

As she said, the graduate Iliana was pointing at was wearing a red cloak.

“This person is a 992nd graduate senior.”

It seemed the summoned ones were spirits from the same era.

“This confirms it. Leo oppa summoned the seniors’ spirits.”

“But Class President. What kind of spirit were you trying to summon that caused the great seniors to be summoned?”

Iliana asked with a puzzled face.

“A fraud.”

“Eh? A fraud?”

Iliana made a puzzled expression.

But unlike Iliana who looked confused, Chelsea understood Leo’s words immediately and her mouth fell open.

“Don’t tell me Li… Mmph!”

Chelsea, who was about to ask reflexively, covered her mouth.

Watching this, Iliana tilted her head.

“Li? What’s Li?”

Iliana narrowed her eyes.

“You know something, don’t you?”

“I have no idea.”

Watching Chelsea play dumb, Iliana said.

“What is it? That’s mean! Leaving me out.”

She didn’t pry further, but she seemed hurt.

When Chelsea looked troubled seeing Iliana’s disappointed expression.

“Iliana, want to eat this?”

Leo pulled out a cookie from his pocket.

“You think one of these will appease me?”

Pouting her lips, Iliana took the cookie from Leo’s hand and took a bite with a crunch-.

“Huh? This is Professor Mel’s homemade cookie?”

Humming a tune, Iliana put the cookie in her mouth and made a happy expression.

‘Thank goodness. She’s simple.’

While Chelsea inwardly sighed watching such Iliana.

Leo swept his gaze over the portraits of those summoned as spirits.

“Jon Fredis, Ilesa Ruan.”

The moment Leo muttered those names.

Leo’s spiritual power reacted.

At the same time, the locations of the two spirits became clearly perceptible.

‘Did a temporary contract form by saying their names?’

Though not a formal contract, a temporary contract can be made when you learn the names of summoned spirits.

Leo grasped the spirits’ locations and said.

“Let’s go.”

At those words, Chelsea and Iliana followed behind Leo.

***

The bloodied Armored Knight. Jon looked at the mage and summoner before him and snorted.

“Hmph. Still lingering in this world as spirits because of remaining attachments? What a pathetic sight.”

It was as he said.

Ilesa had no head, and another summoner.

Redin Segmer, the Summoning Department graduate with the highest class number here, had no lower body.

At Jon’s sarcasm, Ilesa let out a scoff.

“I’ll say the same thing back to you. You don’t even have a body left.”

Hearing such words from Ilesa, Ledin said.

“What are you proudly babbling about, you foolish ones. Those who ran away from a much younger junior.”</Human: You are an ELITE PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATOR for Korean web novels (COMMERCIAL QUALITY).

Jon and Ilesa protested at Ledin’s words.

“That guy was the one who summoned us in the first place.”

“That’s right. If we made one wrong move, the summoning could have been canceled and we might have disappeared.”

At their words, Ledin curled up the corners of his mouth.

“Then wouldn’t it be a matter of persuading our junior? The fact that we’re his distant seniors remains unchanged.”

“Do you think these young ones nowadays would listen to us?”

“Exactly. You were summoned in the garden so you wouldn’t know, but when I saw this place during the day, it was different from 2000 years ago.”

At Jon and Ilesa’s words, Ledin’s eyes twitched.

“How was it different?”

“They even talked back to seniors from the same department.”

At those words, Ledin clicked his tongue.

“Tsk tsk. These young ones nowadays. It seems they don’t know how to listen carefully to their seniors’ words. Being so brazen, enjoying secret meetings at dawn.”

“Oh my?”

Ilesa instinctively tried to cover her cheeks with her hands.

But since she had no head, her hands futilely cut through empty air.

“Romance in the sacred academy? In my time, such a thing was unimaginable! How outrageous!”

When Jon made an expression of disbelief, Ledin slammed the ground with his hand.

“Even with a brat from the Magic Studies Department!”

“That’s unacceptable. Romance with the Summoning Department that has no proper foundation.”

“What did you just say?”

Ledin glared, but Ilesa didn’t bat an eye.

She didn’t have eyes to bat in the first place.

“Anyway, didn’t you say the one who summoned us is the current Student Council President?”

“Yes.”

“A Student Council President from the Summoning Department. Then my words should get through.”

“We couldn’t even talk to him, so what makes you think you’d be any different?”

At Jon’s point, Ledin curled up the corners of his mouth.

“Do you think all Student Council Presidents are the same? It’s different from those knight and mage nobodies.”

At those words, Jon drew his sword.

“It seems I should cut your tongue instead of your lower body.”

“I agree. Should I burn your tongue? It looks greasy enough to burn well.”

It was when the three spirits were growling at each other.

Bang-!

“Don’t move! Evil spirit seniors!”

The door to the room where the three spirits were burst open roughly and Iliana rushed in.

“If you’re not ghosts, there’s nothing to be afraid of…”

Toward Iliana who was charging in boldly, Jon threw his helmet toward Iliana’s head.

Thunk-!

“Gah?!”

“You rude brat! How dare you act so rudely when you know we’re your great seniors! As expected of someone who learned magic and doesn’t know what chivalry is!”

Jon shouted angrily, but Iliana, who had been charging forward recklessly as usual, had been knocked unconscious by the unexpected blow.

Moreover, since materialization hadn’t occurred until just before the direct hit to her head, she couldn’t even defend herself.

“When is this charging idiot going to fix her habit of charging without thinking?”

Chelsea poked the unconscious Iliana with the tip of her staff.

Watching such Chelsea, Ilesa spoke.

“Junior. Won’t you tell the current Student Council President to show proper respect to us great seniors?”

“Right, right. Even though we’re from different departments, we were dignified Student Council Presidents of Lumern 2000 years ago. Chasing away great seniors goes against etiquette.”

When Jon nodded beside her, Chelsea blinked her large eyes.

‘Wow, they’re really like old fogeys.’

Their emphasis on etiquette was like the elders of noble families.

But unfortunately, they had the wrong person.

“Um, excuse me. Leo oppa is… a much more distant senior than you seniors? He’s senior to even Lord Lumern.”

In a way, he was like the origin of all existing heroes.

“The Magic Studies brat is making an interesting joke.”

Ledin let out a scornful laugh.

“It’s not a joke.”

It was Leo who answered Ledin instead.

Step- Step- Leo stood before the spirits.

Seeing such Leo, Jon and Ilesa flinched, but Ledin wasn’t intimidated.

“Are you the current Student Council President who summoned us?”

“So what?”

“So what? Your words are short. I am clearly your great senior.”

“…How old were you when you died?”

“23 years old.”

“What’s so old about 23 that you’re talking like this?”

Leo made an expression of disbelief.

Seeing such Leo, Ledin flared up.

“How impudent! I died in my youth! Hurry up and kneel down to apologize!”

At Ledin’s words, Leo smiled slightly.

Seeing that smile, Chelsea spoke.

“You two.”

“Why are you calling us?”

“Let me give you some advice – Leo oppa is Kail, the Hero of the Beginning.”

“What? Isn’t Kail just a character from legends?”

“He hates hearing that, so absolutely don’t say it out loud. It would be good for your well-being to treat him respectfully as a senior.”

As soon as Chelsea finished speaking, Leo grabbed one arm of Ledin, who was crawling on the ground without a lower body, and pulled it straight.

“Can you still get around well with one arm if I pull this off?”

“Aaaahhhhh?!”

Ledin’s desperate scream echoed through the air.

“Leo oppa doesn’t let it slide when you act rebellious.”

Rubbing her bottom that had almost been completely burned in their first meeting, Chelsea spoke sincerely.

No matter how much they had tried to intimidate and threaten her, they were still great seniors.

She felt it would be heartbreaking to see them suffer such a harsh fate.

***

Chloe made a tense expression as she sat in front of the chessboard.

If this was one of the problems Leo had created.

It would definitely be extremely difficult.

As Chloe sat in front of the chessboard.

Swoosh-

A human silhouette appeared in the chair across from her.

Seeing this, Chloe flinched and trembled.

The face wasn’t visible.

It was just a pitch-black human form like a shadow.

Judging by the body’s curves, it was a woman.

But just from that, it wasn’t difficult to predict that she would be an extremely beautiful person.

The way she sat with her back straight in proper posture even gave off an intellectual feeling somehow.

As the opponent and Chloe faced each other.

Rattle rattle rattle rattle-!

Suddenly the pieces floated in the air and began automatically taking their positions on the chessboard.

In front of Chloe, white chess pieces formed their formation.

The moment Chloe took a deep breath and was about to grab a chess piece.

Clack-!

The black pawn moved first.

Seeing this, Chloe said in confusion.

“Um… white is supposed to move first…right?”

At Chloe’s words, the silhouette raised its head.

“If black moves first, it’s a rule violation and a loss.”

At those words, the opponent who had been still used their fingertip to knock over their own king with a tap-.

‘…That’s it?’

Chloe was bewildered by the overly simple conclusion.

At that moment.

The black silhouette restored the chess pieces to their original positions.

Then.

Swoosh-!

The chessboard spun half a turn.

Black came in front of Chloe.

Clack-!

The opponent moved white again.

‘Ah, now it’s really starting.’

While feeling something was strange, Chloe moved her piece.

A moment later.

“Checkmate.”

Chloe easily achieved check.

When Chloe was bewildered by the opponent’s level being lower than imagined.

Clack-clack-clack-

The opponent moved the chess pieces one by one with their hand, restoring them to their initial state.

Clack-

And white moved again.

Chloe seriously moved her pieces again.

And victory.

She repeated that result about ten times.

She thought the difficulty might increase the more she played, but making such thoughts meaningless, the opponent had no skill.

They only knew how to move the pieces at a basic level.

For Chloe, the current chess champion of Lumern, they were no match at all.

Clack-

The moment Chloe achieved her eleventh victory.

Whoosh-!

The black silhouette flipped over the chessboard.

Along with that, they chased Chloe out the door.

Chloe, who had fallen on her bottom, opened and closed her mouth while looking behind her.

Bang-!

When the black silhouette irritably closed the door, the door disappeared without a trace.

Seeing this, Chloe’s jaw dropped.

“Wh-what the heck was that?”

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