Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 722

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722.

“Gentlemen! The bloody morning has dawned!”

The Magic Studies Department students’ first morning class.

Professor Ren, who entered the lecture hall, spoke in a stern voice.

“Shortly! Our Magic Studies Department must fight against those wicked hordes of the Knight Department led by that cunning Professor Ain!”

Professor Ren, clenching his fist, passionately gave a speech like a general leading an army before battle.

“If there are any students trembling right now, raise your hands!”

Several students raised their hands.

Even though they had become third-years, there were bound to be students who found mock battles burdensome.

Especially since their opponents were none other than fellow third-year Knight Department students.

For those weak in actual combat, trembling from nervousness wasn’t particularly strange.

Seeing the students who raised their hands, Ren’s eyes widened.

“Excellent!”

The students showed puzzled expressions at the sudden praise.

Was it praise for understanding and reporting their situation without shame?

“Trembling with excitement before war! Doesn’t that mean you’re ready to go out and eliminate the enemy at any time! Excellent! Very excellent!”

“…Um… Professor Ren, this isn’t a war. And we’re trembling because we’re nervous…”

“Not a war! Hmm! Excellent! That’s right! Against something like the Knight Department, it wouldn’t be a war! Yes! This fight will be a general massacre!”

“So we’re nervous because…”

“Appropriate tension is a good thing!”

“…”

Seeing Professor Ren, who couldn’t be reasoned with, the students who had raised their hands fell silent and quietly lowered them.

“Brother. Doesn’t Professor Ren seem to be becoming more and more like Professor Sedjen?”

“He does.”

Chelsea and Avad whispered to each other.

Cal, sitting in the front row as usual, rested his chin on his hand and shook his head before glancing to the side.

Chloe was sitting in her usual proper posture, looking at Ren.

The only differences were that she had let her hair down and combed it neatly, and she wasn’t carrying a difficult book as usual.

‘What was that earlier?’

She seemed like the usual Chloe but with a mature feeling.

Of course, Chloe was the most mature student among her peers, but still, it was fundamentally completely different.

‘How should I put it, she seemed like an older sister?’

Cal crossed his arms and seriously pondered.

“Now! Then, gentlemen! Let’s go! To the battlefield!”

At Ren’s words, the Magic Studies Department students began standing up one by one.

Chloe also stood up from her seat.

Then she made eye contact with Cal.

“What are you staring at?”

“Nothing.”

Cal shrugged and stood beside Chloe with his hands clasped behind his head as usual.

Chelsea and Avad also joined the two of them.

The four people naturally took the lead among the third-year Magic Studies Department students and followed Professor Ren.

Shortly after.

They arrived at the training ground used by third-year students for combat studies classes.

Outside the training ground, Summoning Department students were sitting.

The inter-department mock battles weren’t ending here.

After today’s mock battle between the Knight Department and Magic Studies Department ended, a mock battle with the Summoning Department was also scheduled.

And all third-year students were given equal opportunities to observe the mock battles.

‘Those children are the Summoning Department hero candidates.’

Risinass looked at the Summoning Department students with gleaming eyes.

Risinass was also a powerful mage.

However, his specialty was spirit and magical beast magic that combined the power of spirits and magical beasts based on powerful dragon language magic.

For Risinass, magic was an auxiliary means to maximize the power of summoning arts.

Therefore, it was inevitable that he was slightly more interested in Summoning Department students than Magic Studies Department students.

‘That child is Woreden Taiden… Wow! He’s already contracted with a greater spirit at that age?’

Risinass was amazed looking at Woreden with his massive build.

He immediately noticed that he had contracted with a greater spirit.

Not only that.

The spirit energy felt around Woreden made it immediately clear how remarkable a spirit mage he was.

And how deep his potential was.

For a moment, their eyes met.

Seeing this, Risinass smiled broadly.

From Woreden, he could feel a rock-solid will.

Risinass sensed a desire for strength from Woreden.

‘Children like that always become stronger than their limits.’

Long ago.

The Hero of the Beginning and the Progenitor of the Starry Skies.

Risinass, who had gathered the hero and the Divine Blacksmith.

At that time, there were certainly heroes with higher fame than those four.

Looking back now, Risinass’s choice was the very answer for the world’s salvation, but by the standards of that time, it wasn’t.

What led the four to the path of saviors was purely Risinass’s eye.

The conviction that they could do it came from Risinass’s insight.

In such Risinass’s eyes, Woreden was clearly visible as someone who would grow into a tremendous hero.

‘And… that child is Eliza…’

Risinass tilted his head.

“Cal.”

“Hm? What?”

“Eliza has been glaring at you fiercely since earlier?”

“Huh?”

Cal looked at Eliza with a puzzled face.

“Wow, how menacing.”

Cal cheekily hid behind Risinass, who was inside Chloe’s body, as usual.

“Did you do something wrong?”

“No, I didn’t do anything particularly wrong?”

When Cal shook his head, Risinass narrowed his eyes.

“Hmm.”

“Why?”

“Didn’t you fool around with some pretty female student? Maybe she’s jealous?”

“Where would I have a pretty female student to fool around with? And why would she be jealous about that?”

Risinass giggled watching Cal shrug.

“Why are you laughing?”

“No, your behavior is endlessly frivolous, but seeing how considerate you are makes me think you’re a gentleman.”

“Huh? What kind of nonsense is that?”

“Aren’t you pretending to be oblivious because you think it would be bad for Eliza if strange rumors spread?”

“Huh?”

Cal showed a flustered expression.

“How innocent, it’s a good time. A good time.”

“Why are you reacting like some auntie…?”

“Hm? What did you say?”

“Ahhh- I was wrong! Please forgive me! Please forgive me!”

Cal desperately begged for forgiveness as he watched Risinass, who was smiling and twisting his own wrist.

Risinass released Cal and poked his side, saying,

“Think carefully. Haven’t you done anything to upset me?”

“You’re acting strangely smug today, aren’t you? But seriously, I haven’t done anything that would upset you.”

“Really nothing?”

Cal crossed his arms and tilted his head in thought.

Meanwhile.

Eliza, who was sitting in a chair watching them.

Crack-!

“Hiiiek!”

“What, what? Why are you suddenly like that?!”

Eliza gritted her teeth as she crushed the wooden armrest of her chair.

‘What’s so good that they’re giggling like that!’

Eliza knew that Cal was close with many female students.

She especially knew well that he had been best friends with Chloe since their first year.

But today, the atmosphere between those two seemed strange.

More precisely, she could feel Cal being conscious of Chloe.

To Eliza’s eyes, it was clearly different from their usual friendship.

So Eliza was feeling an enormous sense of crisis.

As Eliza’s mood plummeted in real time.

The Knight Department students and Magic Studies Department students faced each other.

At the front stood Ain and Ren.

“Heh, Senior Ain. Have you prepared your handkerchief well? Your students will be wailing when they’re defeated by my beloved disciples.”

At Ren’s words, Ain curled up the corners of his mouth.

“If you’re that confident, shall we make a bet?”

“That sounds good! How about a month’s salary?”

“Not bad.”

The two people smiled wickedly at each other and led their students back to their respective camps.

“As I said before, think of this not as a mock battle but as war. Get close and beat them up.”

Ain spoke in a low voice.

“Gentlemen. This is real combat. Don’t hesitate to use any means necessary for victory.”

Ren spared no underhanded advice to his students with an utterly serious face.

***

This semester’s departmental mock battle proceeded in a different direction from usual mock battles.

First, it was a team battle rather than individual matches.

But it was slightly different from the team battles that had occasionally taken place before.

Previous team battles were purely random selection regardless of skill level.

Or they mixed students with excellent skills with those whose grades were relatively in the middle to lower ranks to form mock battle teams.

But in today’s mock battle, students of similar skill levels were literally teamed together.

And those they faced also had similar skill levels.

While previous mock battles evaluated and strengthened abilities like creating variables and overcoming crises, this time it was literally a mock battle where pure skill clashed against skill.

That’s why the students who went out now were those with relatively lower grades.

“Hehehe.”

Ren crossed his arms and made a meaningful expression.

Watching such Ren, Anna sighed.

“Why are you smiling so unpleasantly? We’re already at a disadvantage due to compatibility, and among the third-year lower-ranking students, there isn’t a single Battle Mage candidate, making us even more overwhelmingly disadvantaged.”

For mages, one-on-one duels against knights are extremely disadvantageous.

Especially the relatively less skilled often cannot overturn this relationship.

In such a situation, there were no Battle Mage students who could respond to the knights.

The first team was definitely at a disadvantage for the Magic Studies Department.

“Think about it! Associate Professor Anna! Don’t we have none other than student Cal!”

“Ah…”

“As long as we have Cal, who is a hero! Our victory is our…”

“Um… Professor Ren. I can’t participate in the mock battle.”

“What are you talking about!”

“Before coming to class today, a professor told me not to participate because my mere presence would compromise fairness.”

“Which professor dares to challenge my authority as the department’s supervising professor!”

“Professor Hallind.”

“If it’s Professor Hallind, that’s understandable.”

Ren quickly changed his stance.

Meanwhile, the mock battle began with Professor Yura serving as referee.

Risinass, sitting in his seat and watching, was impressed.

‘They’re all doing well.’

From what he heard, they didn’t seem to be among the outstanding students.

But even so, this was Lumern where excellent talents gathered.

In Risinass’s eyes, the sight of hero candidates doing their best looked so dazzling.

‘These are… our descendants.’

In the students’ appearance, various people were reflected.

‘…Those who were with Kail.’

It wasn’t difficult to know whose influence they had received.

He had shown them his back and made them follow.

Even though he hadn’t directly taught them anything, each would have their own message they received in their own way.

As the mock battle continued, victories and defeats were decided.

A moment later.

The top 10 students stood up from their seats.

The 9 Magic Studies Department students who stood up looked puzzled as they saw Risinass still sitting.

“What are you doing, Chloe? Aren’t you going?”

“I should go.”

At Chelsea’s question, Chloe stood up.

Students who had followed Kail.

And…

‘The children Kail chose.’

In Risinass’s eyes were captured the figures of several Knight Department students including Avad and Chelsea.

Just as he had chosen Dweno, Arron, Luna… Kail.

Leo had chosen these children.

Standing in his place and watching that sight, Risinass curled up the corners of his mouth.

As the King of Wisdom.

He became curious about the level of those chosen by the Hero of the Beginning.

‘Shall I… test them a little?’

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