Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 729

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729.

“Uaaaaaaah!”

Iliana was running at tremendous speed.

Chasing closely behind Iliana was none other than Chelsea.

“Stop right there!”

“Would you stop if you were me!”

Iliana looked back while running and stuck out her tongue teasingly.

Chelsea’s eyes became even more fierce as she drew her staff.

She aimed the tip of her staff at Iliana.

But hitting the fast-moving Iliana wasn’t an easy task even for Chelsea.

Whoosh! Bang-!

The magic Chelsea shot barely grazed over Iliana’s head.

The compressed air exploded and fragments scattered, but Iliana didn’t care and increased her speed even more.

“Ugh! Really, how long is that leech going to keep chasing me!”

Iliana made an expression of being fed up.

In fact, if it had been a one-on-one fight, Iliana wouldn’t have been running away so one-sidedly.

No matter how much Chelsea’s skills surpassed Iliana’s, Iliana also had abilities that made it hard to find a match among the third-years in the Knight Department, excluding Chen Xia, Selia, and Duran.

As such, even Chelsea, who was a Battle Mage with the nickname Knight Killer, couldn’t one-sidedly suppress Iliana.

But for now, she had no choice but to run away from Chelsea.

Because Chelsea wasn’t the only one chasing Iliana.

‘I wonder if I’ve shaken off Avad by now?’

Tonight, Chelsea had teamed up with her older brother Avad.

So Iliana had no choice but to run away as soon as she encountered the Rwallin siblings.

Whoosh-!

Iliana, who had been accelerating more and more, trembled with a start.

Whoom-!

A fierce wind blew and Avad appeared in front of her.

“Oh! How did you get ahead of me?”

When Iliana stopped in place with a surprised expression and looked flustered, Avad smiled slightly.

“Iliana, you’re honest.”

“Ehehehehe. Even if you praise me like that, nothing’s going to come out.”

“You fool. Does that sound like praise to you? I’m saying your movements are simple.”

Thud-!

Chelsea, who had blocked Iliana’s rear, sighed.

“I intentionally drove you to this place.”

“Ah! That’s unfair!”

“What’s unfair or not in a fight? And what’s unfair about it! It’s strategy! Isn’t it your fault for falling for such a simple strategy?”

Chelsea snorted at Iliana’s protest.

Iliana, who looked indignant at that, drew her sword.

Shing-!

Seeing the sharply gleaming sword, Avad also raised his staff.

That’s when it happened.

Whoosh-!

“Brother!”

Chelsea shouted to Avad in surprise.

Avad also trembled with a start and swung his staff.

Whooom-!

A barrier of wind deflected the flame aura, and sparks flew in all directions.

“Found an opening! Showing me your back! How fearless! Avad!”

“Where do you think you’re going!”

When Iliana aimed for Avad’s back, Chelsea, who was furious, quickly closed in on Iliana and swung her staff.

Clang-!

Iliana’s sharp sword crossed with Chelsea’s staff armed with wind blades.

Iliana looked at Chelsea pressuring her and applied force directly.

Whoosh-!

Chelsea, overpowered in strength, used Iliana’s force to bounce back and create distance for repositioning.

However, Iliana closed the distance as if she wouldn’t give her a chance.

‘Ugh? She got faster?’

Chelsea was flustered by Iliana’s speed that exceeded expectations.

Clang-!

All the muscles in her body tensed tightly and all her nerves focused on the tip of Iliana’s sword.

Clang! Chang! Clangclangclangclangclang! Kakakakakak-!

One exchange, one exchange.

Sparks flew every time sword and staff crossed.

And the longer the offense and defense continued, the faster Iliana’s sword became.

“What?”

Finally, an exclamation of shock burst from Chelsea’s mouth.

Chelsea also didn’t fall behind anywhere when it came to attack speed.

High-speed casting was her specialty, and based on that high-speed casting, overwhelming opponents with excellent physical techniques was Chelsea’s forte.

Chelsea’s close combat was literally like complex acrobatics.

And Chelsea accomplished that without much difficulty.

The insufficient destructive power of high-speed casting was replaced by aiming for the opponent’s vital points with quick movements.

Conversely, the physical techniques that were relatively inferior compared to the Knight class were supplemented with magic.

By overcoming weaknesses with greater strengths like this, Chelsea had become strong.

‘If I could do that, it would be the easy path. But if I try to do it like Chelsea, it actually gets more complicated.’

Iliana looked at the shocked Chelsea and pouted her lips.

Contrary to Chelsea, Iliana didn’t pay much attention to her weaknesses.

More precisely, she tried not to think about them.

Iliana’s attacks were certainly fast and threatening, but that was all.

‘I only have speed. I don’t have destructive power like Selia or Duran, nor do I have the versatility like Sia.’

She only had fast speed and the boldness to charge toward enemies.

And that was, in some sense, one of the factors holding back Iliana’s growth.

Excluding Selia, Duran, and Chen Xia, it was hard to find a match in the third-year Knight Department.

But as such, to the three people at the top of the Knight Department, Iliana was an easy opponent who posed no threat at all.

Iliana was so powerless against the three that she sometimes heard jeers about massacring civilians as a joke in the Knight Department.

No, it wasn’t just the three of them.

‘I was helpless against the tops of other departments too.’

Clang-!

Iliana, who had created distance from Chelsea, caught her breath.

‘I didn’t care in my first year.’

Anyway, she had grown rapidly in her first year.

And when she became a second-year.

Iliana would sometimes grab Chen Xia and Chloe to complain.

That the gap between herself and the top students seemed to be widening even more.

‘Sia and Chloe told me to approach everything more seriously.’

That was right.

Iliana was indeed very frivolous.

Not only her attitude toward everything, but even her attitude toward combat.

Iliana’s biggest weakness was that kind of simplicity.

‘If you don’t move rashly and think for a long time before moving heavily, you won’t just charge recklessly.’

‘If I seriously observe my opponent, I can think of various attacks.’

If she followed their advice, she would surely be able to overcome her weaknesses.

But even so, Iliana couldn’t do it.

Because thinking complexly made her sword slower.

She hated that.

During her 2nd year, after much contemplation, Iliana eventually asked Leo what she should do.

And Leo’s response was unexpected.

“Wouldn’t it be fine to just keep doing what you’re doing now?”

“Aha! You mean I’m doing well right now?”

“No.”

“What! Then why tell me to keep doing what I’m doing!”

“It would be good to add complex variations to fast speed. But from what I see, you’re not the type of person who can do that.”

“Ugh!”

“So just keep doing what you’ve been doing.”

“But then the gap between me and the others will keep growing.”

“Anyway, isn’t it fine for you whether you become a Hero or not?”

“That’s true.”

“Then why are you trying to keep up with the others?”

“I really like our classmates. So I want to keep going together with them.”

Iliana spoke as if it was nothing special.

“To do that, I’d have to at least keep up from behind, right?”

“There will be many dangerous situations ahead, you know?”

“Ah? I don’t like that… Hmm… Hmm…”

Iliana, who had been pondering with a troubled face, crossed her arms and shouted.

“Fine! If that’s the case, I’ll just accomplish great deeds and become a Hero! Everyone will respect and support me for life!”

Leo burst into laughter at Iliana’s words.

“So just keep doing what you’ve been doing.”

“Huh?”

“Moving in complex ways also means taking detours to reach your target destination.”

Leo smiled slightly.

“Being simple is definitely your weakness, but it means you can quickly reach where you want to go.”

“Oho. Oho.”

“When you become faster than anyone else, your weakness will become your strength.”

“Great! Then I’ll just keep doing what I’ve been doing!”

‘After hearing the Class President’s advice, I just kept doing what I was doing. But I still couldn’t really see the path forward.’

So she decided to just work moderately hard.

The distance from the top students would grow wider anyway.

And even doing things as she was, she was helping enough.

Just as she was thinking that.

Iliana saw Dweno and Ennitha.

The Great Hero who had tried to turn his back on the world for his own goal.

Ennitha who had pushed that Great Hero’s back.

That scene was a great stimulus.

Her restless and frivolous personality remained the same.

Iliana was still an immature girl who loved to fool around.

But.

The image of a Hero who had sacrificed himself for them remained in her mind.

Wouldn’t it just be nice to become a Hero?

The simple girl who had thought vaguely learned what kind of existence a Hero was.

What it meant to become a Hero.

She learned through Ennitha, a Hero from the distant past of 5000 years ago.

‘Maybe I can be a little serious too?’

Iliana, who had wanted to become faster without any goal.

Now had a clear objective.

She learned that even Great Heroes wander.

Then wouldn’t her friends also have times when they wander in the future?

When that time comes.

‘Maybe I can push their backs like Ennitha did?’

So Iliana, who could only charge straight ahead.

Set her direction and began running quickly toward that place.

Flash-!

Iliana’s sword flashed like lightning.

Chelsea watched Iliana closing the distance at tremendous speed with shock and deployed her magic.

She could predict the movements.

But the speed surpassed that prediction.

Simple, but so fast it was hard to respond to.

It was different from the Iliana up until now.

‘Stay calm.’

Wind’s advantage wasn’t just speed, but before that, its ever-changing nature.

Endlessly changing wind – no one could predict where it would head.

No matter how much faster Iliana had become beyond imagination.

Chelsea had no intention of losing to Iliana.

‘If I lose, I’ll have to see her triumphant face until graduation! Absolutely not losing!’

She resolved inwardly again and again.

Iliana looked at Chelsea and gripped her sword tightly.

Before long, several doors became visible in the long corridor.

Chelsea and Iliana, who had been facing off with a door between them, moved simultaneously.

And just as the two were about to charge.

Bang-! Whoooooosh-!

Suddenly an explosion occurred from inside the room and flames poured out.

At the sudden situation, Chelsea and Iliana backed away in shock.

“Wh-what? Selia and Avad were fighting in that corridor over there!”

“This isn’t Jerdinger’s flame. It’s a flame made by magic.”

At the sudden situation, Chelsea and Iliana temporarily stopped fighting and carefully approached the door.

Looking inside the door, they could see the devastated interior of the room.

Inside the room, Leo was holding his face in his hands.

Lil was beside him, repeatedly bowing her head.

Then Elena appeared from above the room.

“Huh? Why is it connected to Leo’s room? And…”

Elena looked around Leo’s room.

Due to the explosion just now, all the doors that had been in the room were blown away.

The spaces beyond the doors revealed as they were blown away were connected to various parts of the Academy.

At the sudden situation, like Iliana and Chelsea, students’ faces could be seen looking into the room wondering what was happening.

“…What kind of situation is this?”

Just as Elena was tilting her head in confusion.

“Ah!”

A scream burst out from Iliana.

“It’s the stamp!”

Iliana pointed with her hand at the stamp rolling on the floor.

While everyone was frozen for a moment.

Whoosh-!

Iliana rushed forward at tremendous speed and snatched the stamp.

That was the signal for people to start pouring into Leo’s room from all over the academy.

“Hohoho! This body shall claim the praise stamp!”

“Catch her! Catch Iliana!”

“Stop right there!”

“Aaaaah! Selia! Pass!”

Iliana hurriedly threw the stamp to Selia, who was waiting outside the door.

Selia caught it and started running.

“This looks fun.”

“I’ll participate too!”

Just as Elena and Lil were about to chase after the stamp.

Grab-

“Where do you think you’re going?”

Leo grabbed both of them by the scruff of their necks with a menacing voice.

“Clean up.”

“Yes!”

“Yes…”

Not only Lil, but even the mighty Elena couldn’t make a peep and shrank their necks.

In the room now left with only Elena and Lil, Leo sat on what had once been a sofa and fell into thought.

‘Yesterday Iliana barged into my room, and now suddenly entrances from dormitory rooms everywhere are connected to my room.’

Something was definitely wrong with the entire Clock Tower Dormitory.

It felt like someone had intentionally opened entrances to his room.

‘This isn’t possible with just exceptional magic skills. This is the work of someone with superior understanding of space.’

Leo narrowed his eyes as he tried to narrow down who at Lumern could be capable of such a thing.

The complex magical formations of the Clock Tower Dormitory were enough to make even Leo click his tongue.

‘Even if the Lumern Magic Department professors are geniuses, controlling magic to this extent would be difficult. Moreover.’

Leo looked at the open entrance.

‘I can sense malice.’

Anyone could tell there was clear intent to mess with him.

Leo paused after thinking that far.

A sudden thought made Leo’s face contort.

‘Don’t tell me it’s that damn lizard?’

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