Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 740

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740.

Iliana, who had been struck by Risinass’s tail and sent flying, raised her body.

‘It, it feels like I was hit by a siege engine…!’

Pain beyond imagination.

Literally the feeling of her body being shattered.

It was difficult to move her body due to the intense pain that spread every time she moved her muscles.

Thud-!

When Risinass descended to the ground, the earth shook.

Iliana bit her lips tightly.

Overwhelmed by the dragon fear that Risinass emitted, she couldn’t think properly.

Iliana’s mind, fallen into panic, was utterly chaotic.

‘What should I do? What should I do?’

Should she surrender like this?

Or? Should she just give up obediently?

‘If it were the Class President… what would he have done?’

Then Leo’s image came to mind.

Having thought that far, Iliana felt her chaotic mind calming down.

‘If it were the Class President…’

Grip-!

She grasped her sword and used it as a staff to raise her body.

‘He would have fought back!’

Fighting spirit appeared in Iliana’s eyes.

‘Look closely at Risinass!’

So far, she had taken a direct hit from Risinass’s attack only once.

Of course, even just grazing or dodging caused tremendous shock, but Iliana was somehow avoiding Risinass’s attacks.

‘If I can dodge, that means I can counterattack.’

Whooom-!

Mana rippled.

Accordingly, dragon language magic was activated.

Iliana moved her body amid the flashes of light pouring from all directions.

‘Focus!’

Iliana’s eyes followed the trajectory of light targeting her.

‘Light magic is my specialty!’

Subtle waves of mana.

Capturing the movement of light one by one with her eyes, Iliana dodged all of Risinass’s complex magical attacks.

Everyone’s eyes widened at that amazing movement.

Grip-!

Iliana clenched her hand.

Along with that, extradimensional space opened and Iliana’s spear revealed itself.

Gritting her teeth, Iliana threw the spear straight at Risinass.

Whoosh-! Flash-!

Iliana’s spear flying as a bullet of light.

The spear armed with magic and aura struck Risinass directly.

Kwaaaaang-!

Fragments of light scattered in all directions.

However, Iliana’s attack was blocked by Risinass’s scales and bounced off futilely.

But Iliana, who had approached right in front of Risinass at tremendous speed, swung her sword.

“Haaaaaaap!”

The moment Iliana’s aura tried to cut Risinass along with her battle cry.

Risinass simply crushed Iliana with his hand.

Kwagagagagagang-!

Seeing Iliana miserably trampled, the third-years squeezed their eyes shut.

“…Being this big… this reaction speed is cheating…”

At Iliana’s words, Risinass, who removed his hand, smiled slightly.

[Is it over?]

Swoosh-

At that question, Iliana pressed against the ground and raised her body.

Staggering as she raised her body, Iliana lifted her sword.

“No way.”

Iliana smiled as she pointed her sword.

The dragon fear that Risinass emitted was still there.

But Iliana wasn’t paralyzed with fear like before.

‘Is this recklessness?’

She thought that for a moment, but fear was clearly present in Iliana’s eyes.

She hadn’t forgotten the fear.

She had overcome it.

[You’ve done enough of what you could do.]

Risinass spoke sincerely.

She had fled and even succeeded in counterattacking.

Of course, that attack had no effect, but just fighting like this against the King of Wisdom could be called remarkable.

Risinass too hadn’t expected that Iliana, who was merely a young girl, would go this far.

Yet Iliana still wanted to fight more.

Squeezing out her unmoving body, not giving up.

It was a contrast to how she had been paralyzed with fear and trying to escape somehow just moments before.

“I’m not particularly smart, but…”

Iliana smiled.

“Until just now I only wanted to run away, but now I don’t want to give up.”

[Why?]

“Because if I give up here and now, I feel like I’ll give up the same way next time too.”

It was truly a thought that suddenly occurred to her.

If she faced this fear.

The expectation that she could go a little further.

“Besides…”

[Besides?]

“The Class President definitely wouldn’t have given up.”

[…]

Risinass looked at Iliana silently.

‘Class President… if it were Kail, he would have been like this…’

In Iliana as seen through Risinass’s eyes, various aspects were visible.

Arron’s appearance of facing fear.

Luna’s appearance of striving to make the impossible possible.

Dweno’s unwavering appearance.

And Leo’s appearance of never giving up.

Lastly… his own appearance of finding hope even in the face of despair.

‘I see.’

Risinass closed his eyes.

It was certainly being conveyed.

The things that he and those called Great Heroes had pursued.

Seeing a girl who had gathered all of those things and transcended limits far beyond like the motto of this school, he couldn’t help but smile.

Flash-

Risinass returned to her original form with a bright light.

“Pass.”

“But… I just got beaten up?”

“Were you really planning to land a hit on me?”

Risinass burst into laughter and patted Iliana’s head.

Along with that, Iliana’s body recovered.

“Ooh.”

When Iliana made a much more comfortable expression, Risinass said.

“I’m looking forward to it, what kind of hero you’ll become.”

At those words, Iliana’s eyes widened.

To hear such words from the King of Wisdom?

It was a tremendous honor that would remain in history forever.

Iliana smiled shyly and blushed, not knowing what to do.

Risinass pushed Iliana’s back gently.

Iliana returned to her seat with a beaming smile.

“Now then. Next is Duran Moira.”

At Albi’s call after seeing the mock battle conclude, everyone’s gaze turned to Duran.

When Duran clenched his fist, sparks flew.

Duran stood up from his seat and politely greeted Risinass.

The mock battle began.

“Class President! Class President! Risinass praised me!”

Iliana ran toward Leo with a bright smile and bounced around.

“You’re jealous, right? You’re jealous, right?!”

“I’m jealous.”

“Ahem!”

Leo smiled watching Iliana puff out her chest and shrug her shoulders.

Watching that scene, Cal said.

“Getting praised by Risinass, how nice.”

“Ohohoho! Yes! Be even more jealous.”

“Really jealous.”

“Indeed.”

“Eh?”

When Chelsea and Chen Xia joined in, Iliana was flustered.

“Why are you guys like this? Normally you would have snorted or said something sarcastic. Why are you genuinely envious?”

“No, we’re really envious.”

“That’s right.”

As Chelsea and Chen Xia’s gloomy reactions continued, Iliana hid behind Leo in fear.

“C-Class President. They’re acting strange!”

This mock battle wasn’t a test judged by individual skill.

It was a test where they had to mobilize everything they learned to gain recognition from the King of Wisdom.

As such, neither Chelsea nor Chen Xia had confidence they could pass the test.

What awaited them even more was Leo’s special training.

“D-don’t feel too pressured! You guys will definitely be recognized too!”

In the end, the rare scene of Iliana comforting Chelsea and Chen Xia unfolded.

‘That’s how they move forward, pushing, pulling, and supporting each other.’

Leo watched that scene with some satisfaction before eventually looking back at the training ground.

Duran’s battle had begun.

***

The students who finished their mock battles all returned to the dormitory with weary steps.

By the time the mock battles ended, the sun had already set and it had become a dark night.

Risinass, who remained at the training ground, stretched.

“Mmm~ It feels good to stretch my body.”

Leo approached Risinass, who was wearing a refreshing smile, and asked.

“How were they? The third years.”

“They were all amazing.”

Risinass smiled brightly.

“Among them, some particularly outstanding kids were even more amazing. You must have had a hard time too.”

It wasn’t very difficult to see whose influence the third years had received.

At Risinass’s words, Leo sighed.

“It was a lot of work. Thanks to that, I thought of you a lot.”

Risinass giggled.

“So? Did you think of some party members?”

“Selia and Avad, Chen Xia and Chloe. Woreden. I’ll take these five for now.”

The reason Risinass held this mock battle was partly to check the skills of this era’s hero candidates, but there was another reason too.

It was to directly select personnel who would be active in the Deviyang Kingdom.

The moment they learned that one of Erebos’s fragments had been resurrected and started activity.

They couldn’t just keep watching the situation.

As the King of Wisdom, Risinass was determined to finish off one fragment.

“Tomorrow is the fourth years?”

Risinass hummed a tune.

“You look happy.”

“I’m happy. Unlike 5000 years ago, this era is overflowing with talent.”

“True.”

Leo let out a hollow laugh.

Thinking about how he used to rack his brains to form subjugation team members, he felt the passage of time.

When Leo opened the door leading to his dormitory room, Risinass entered there.

And then she discovered the painting in front of her and unconsciously stiffened.

“Ah…? Dweno?”

A painting so vivid it seemed like it would come alive and move at any moment.

Watching Risinass look at that painting with bewildered eyes, Leo said.

“It’s a painting I got as a reward from conquering Dweno’s World.”

“Ah… But to think there’s someone other than Dweno who can paint this well… How surprising?”

Risinass looked with admiration at the elf in the painting who was painting just like Dweno, next to Dweno.

“This one is Dweno’s work though?”

Risinass could easily tell that the two paintings had different styles.

Of course, both paintings were works of art that would be impressive anywhere.

“Who is it?”

“The elf that Dweno loved.”

Risinass made a surprised expression.

“Tell me in detail! In detail!”

It was an excited appearance unlike the usual Risinass.

That was understandable since this was a situation where she could hear old stories about a friend she didn’t know about.

At Risinass’s reaction, Leo told her the story about Dweno and Ennitha.

“Wow… So that’s how that pervert became obsessed with beautiful things.”

Risinass, who had been admiring, made a strange expression.

“Then he must have made such eccentric requests to this elf too?”

“The request to become a nude model seems like something he learned from Ennitha?”

“They were a match made in heaven.”

Risinass clicked her tongue.

While doing so, she rested her chin on her hand and looked at the painting.

“Still, it’s fortunate. That even after death, she can achieve what she wanted.”

Risinass, who was genuinely relieved, asked.

“So? What kind of child is this successor of Dweno?”

“Female Dweno.”

“How did she end up like that?”

“How would I know? But her talent in art is absolutely terrible. Dweno told her to quit art altogether.”

“She absolutely won’t listen, right?”

“How did you know?”

“Because she’s Female Dweno.”

Risinass giggled.

“What about Arron’s successor?”

“There is one, a cat girl.”

Hearing about Ar, who had a completely opposite personality to Arron, Risinass’s eyes sparkled.

“What about Luna’s successor? I vaguely remember her in my memories, so I remember her face.”

“She’s exactly like Luna.”

“…I can imagine.”

Risinass let out a hollow laugh.

They chatted enjoyably.

“…Even in times of peace, we’re still the same.”

“What would change?”

Leo shrugged his shoulders in response to Risinass’s words.

Hearing that answer, Risinass nodded and poured tea.

She filled the teacup and gave it to Leo, then poured tea into her own cup and drank.

Then they silently admired Dweno and Ennitha’s painting.

To such Risinass, Leo asked.

“So, what’s your lingering attachment?”

“Hm?”

Leo sipped his tea.

“I don’t think you’re like Luna, unaware of what your lingering attachment is?”

“It’s a secret.”

When Risinass smiled slyly, Leo frowned.

“What is it?”

“Curious?”

“Don’t beat around the bush, just say it if you’re going to.”

Leo answered indifferently while sipping his tea.

“I want to lay eggs.”

“Pfft! Cough! Cough!”

Leo, who choked, coughed like crazy.

“It’s a joke. Funny? Why are you so flustered?”

Leo wiped his mouth and said.

“There are jokes and then there are jokes. Even Luna doesn’t make jokes like that!”

Leo, who had protested, caught his breath.

Then he blatantly looked Risinass up and down.

“What are you looking at?”

When Risinass frowned, Leo stroked his chin.

“No, it’s just because you said eggs.”

“Are you having lewd thoughts?”

“It’s not that. I just suddenly thought that biologically, you’re a lizard.”

“Come here. I’ll kill you.”

Risinass, with a cold expression, rushed at Leo and delivered a drop kick to his solar plexus.

Risinass climbed on top of the fallen Leo, grabbed his collar, and shook him.

It was when the two were having a fierce scuffle.

“Risinass! Leo! Sorry for the late hour! I have something to report… Oh my…”

Mellina, who opened the door and entered the room, paused upon seeing the scene before her.

Mel, who had been looking at Risinass mounted on top of Leo on the sofa for a moment, bowed her head.

“I apologize for the intrusion.”

Then she closed the door and left.

Seeing this, En made a puzzled expression.

“Lord. What about the report?”

“Let’s give it a little later.”

“Pardon?”

“The two of them might be getting back together!”

Mellina’s eyes were sparkling with anticipation.

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