Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 741

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741.

The week after midterm exams ended.

Normally, the school atmosphere should have been quite light with students freed from the shackles of exams.

“Pleease… help… meee…”

Clock Tower Dormitory Common Lounge.

Shasha from the 2nd Year Summoning Department was sprawled face-down, pleading with a dying expression.

That wasn’t all.

The Knight Department students had barely managed to return to the dormitory before collapsing on the spot.

Watching this scene, Juwen crossed his arms and curled up the corners of his mouth.

“Hehehe, pathetic Summoning Department and Knight Department guys, acting like that’s so difficult.”

“…We feel like we’re dying too though?”

“Juwen, your legs are shaking too…”

Just as they said, Juwen’s legs, the only 2nd year still standing, were trembling unsteadily.

Anyone could see he was forcing himself to stay upright.

At those words, Juwen’s eyes widened.

“What matters is that I’m standing!”

“Juwen! Why are you trembling like a leaf?”

Smack-!

“Kyah!”

When Cal approached and lightly tapped his shoulder, Juwen collapsed straight to the ground.

“Uh… sorry.”

As Cal scratched his cheek apologetically, Juwen looked up at him with resentful eyes.

Seeing this, Cal pulled out a spray bottle from his coat and sprayed it on Juwen with a few spritzes.

“What is this?”

“Cal’s General Store special muscle pain and mana strain relief medicine.”

Cal gave a thumbs up.

“Just finished making it today.”

“Oh…! The pain really is relieved!”

Juwen’s eyes widened in surprise.

“As expected, Senior Cal’s medicine works well.”

Cal grinned as he helped up the admiring Juwen who was getting to his feet.

“Support is my specialty after all.”

Seeing this, orders poured in from all around.

“C-Cal senior! Please spray some on me too!”

“Me too…!”

At those words, Cal pulled out a pouch from his coat.

“What’s that?”

Cal smiled slyly.

“We offer it cheaply, dear customers.”

“B-but you treated Juwen for free!”

“Hmph! If you’re jealous, you should have chosen your mentor better!”

Juwen stuck his tongue out at his classmates.

And so Cal treated not only Magic Studies Department students but also 2nd years from other departments while collecting fees.

Elena, who had been watching from one side, spoke up.

“Cal.”

“Yes, Senior Elena.”

“Spray some on me too.”

“Yes! Yes! Coming right away!”

Cal smiled brightly and rushed to Elena, pushing a cart full of pain relief medicine bottles.

It wasn’t just the 2nd years making groaning sounds.

Other grade levels were also suffering from aftereffects.

Cal looked at his bulging money pouch and grinned foolishly.

“Are you that happy?”

When Juwen asked incredulously, Cal nodded as if it were obvious.

“Money is always right.”

Saying this, he shook his pouch with a jingle-jangle sound.

The freshmen watching this scene wore tense expressions.

“Sister. We’ll have to fight Risinass-nim in tomorrow’s Combat Studies class too, right?”

At the question from freshman representative Perena, Eliza, who was tending to her nails, nodded.

“Probably?”

Just as Eliza was lightly blowing on her nails with a “Hoo-!”

“I heard freshmen don’t do mock battles though?”

“Eek?!”

At the voice from behind, Perena jumped in surprise.

“Y-you startled me!”

“Ah, sorry.”

When Perena protested, Cal grinned.

“Cal.”

“What?”

“Got anything to drink?”

“Of course I do.”

Just as Cal was smiling and reaching for his cart,

“Here it is.”

Juwen quickly intervened and found a drink from Cal’s cart.

“Milk tea, right?”

Juwen smiled brightly and handed the drink to Eliza.

Eliza stared at Juwen intently, then curled up the corners of her mouth and accepted the drink bottle.

“You know well. You could work as Cal’s employee.”

“I’ve helped Senior Cal a lot.”

Juwen grinned.

Watching this, Cal scratched his cheek and said to Perena.

“I heard freshmen have special classes instead of mock battles.”

After informing Perena of the schedule, Cal held out his hand.

“What’s this for?”

“Information fee.”

“How much?”

“8 shillings.”

“That’s expensive.”

“It includes the cost of your sister’s milk tea.”

Perena pouted and pulled out coins from her wallet to hand to Cal.

“Thank you, please use our services again next time~”

Cal spoke cheerfully and dragged Juwen along.

“Let’s go, Juwen. See you later~ Eliza.”

Cal greeted them good-naturedly and left.

***

Deviyang Kingdom.

“A massive kingdom situated in the Eastern Continent that practically wields the most powerful influence in the Eastern Continent, you mean?”

“Yes.”

Mellina nodded at Leo’s question.

“Wasn’t the most powerful nation in the Eastern Continent a place called Shan that Bihar founded?”

When Risinass asked with a puzzled expression, Leo answered.

“The situation is a bit complicated. Shan is far from being a typical empire.”

“Hmm?”

As Risinass tilted his head, Leo looked at Mellina.

Receiving his gaze, Mellina began explaining the political situation in the Eastern Continent.

“In reality, the Shan Empire is the hegemonic power of the Eastern Continent. However, despite having the greatest national strength in the east, Shan has never once exercised influence over neighboring countries.”

“Why? To become this massive, they must have engaged in conquest activities, right?”

“Shan has traditionally executed traitors as Shadows. Among them were key power figures of nations, and when such incidents occurred, Shan would erase those countries from the map.”

Kingdoms distant from Shan were absorbed by neighboring countries, but among nations bordering Shan, many regions were naturally absorbed into Shan.

As this pattern repeated, Shan naturally came to possess vast territory.

Growth that differed from conquest wars.

As a result, Shan became famous as a nation that did not exercise its powerful national strength externally.

Shan’s emperors also had stronger identities as leaders of the Shadows rather than as emperors of a great empire.

“That’s how the historically most quiet and tolerant Shan Empire was born.”

“So in place of the silent Shan, what currently exercises practical hegemony in the east is Deviange, which has the second-largest territory after Shan.”

Risinass nodded.

“Bihar’s descendants have lived maintaining their beliefs for generations. It must have been difficult.”

As Risinass smiled bitterly, Leo said.

“But on the other hand, they must have been proud. You can tell by looking at Chen Xia.”

“…Yes.”

Risinass smiled while tracing the Shan Empire on the map.

Then he checked Deviange’s location.

Deviange, situated in the northernmost part of the Eastern Continent, did not border Shan.

To the east, west, and south were only small kingdoms and duchies, while to the north it bordered Elven Territory.

As such, Deviange had been a nation maintaining close relations with the elves for a long time.

It was one of the few forces in the world that could trade with elves, and thanks to this, it was also a nation that had accumulated enormous wealth.

Consequently, there were no threatening elements in the vicinity, making it geographically perfect.

Thus Deviange had steadily built its own power without watching Shan’s reactions.

Deviange, which had held the position of practical hegemonic power externally, recently entered a state of civil war.

After the death of Deviange’s king, the crown prince, the First Prince, was naturally set to inherit the throne.

“However, that First Prince recently died in battle against Tartaros while leading an army.”

At Mellina’s words, Risinass sighed.

“What happened next is obvious.”

“Yes.”

When the situation became like this, the First Princess and Second Prince, who held the strongest power after the crown prince, became embroiled in civil war over the throne.

The war that started in the capital had already left the capital in ruins.

Afterward, the capital was declared a neutral zone and the nation was divided into east and west.

And accordingly, the Eastern Continent was also swept up in this chaos.

This was because all human nations in the Eastern Continent, except Shan, were under Deviange’s influence.

Originally, the Eastern Continent was a place where human nations found it difficult to grow their power.

The Far East Continent was Dwarf’s Territory, and aside from Deviange, most other areas were territory of the great Shan Empire.

And the remaining few lands were divided among several nations.

In this situation, thanks to Deviange maintaining its power for long years with its enormous strength, most nations of the Eastern Continent entered into subordinate relationships with Deviange.

When such Deviange entered civil war, the small nations quickly aligned themselves with either the First Princess faction or the Second Prince faction.

As the situation developed this way, war clouds began rapidly gathering among the Eastern Continent nations as well.

Deviange’s civil war had become the spark for war across the Eastern Continent.

The Shan Empire had no choice but to watch this situation.

They do not interfere in external affairs.

This was the long tradition and order of Shan, the hegemon of the Eastern Continent.

Shan’s thorough neutrality had maintained the order of the Eastern Continent.

In this situation, if Shan moved rashly, that order could collapse and even greater chaos might ensue.

“Why did Erebos’s fragment choose to nest in such a place?”

“That damned fireball always does things like this. Its very existence is harmful.”

When Leo spoke irritably, Risinass chimed in agreement.

Listening to their conversation, Mellina made a strange expression.

To people of this era, Erebos was an absolute existence of terror.

Therefore, it was fascinating to hear these two treat Erebos like a cockroach rather than a threat to the world.

‘As expected, the conversation of great heroes is amazing.’

While Mellina was thinking this, Leo and Risinass continued cursing Erebos without pause.

Watching this, Mellina smiled proudly.

“Why are you smiling?”

“Oh, it’s just that you two seem to get along very well.”

Having said that, Mellina spoke.

“So, when are you two getting back together?”

“What are you talking about now?”

When Leo frowned, Mellina said.

“A few days ago, you two looked so harmonious together. Since you’ve reconciled, the divorce is canceled, right?”

At those words, Leo reached out and pinched Mellina’s cheek.

“Why, why?”

“That won’t happen. I was the victim of a fraudulent marriage to begin with. Strictly speaking, it’s not divorce but marriage annulment. Who are you making into a wronged divorcee?”

When Leo made a fierce expression, Mellina looked tearful.

Then a knock was heard.

“Who is it?”

“It’s En.”

“Come in.”

Creak-

En opened the door and entered.

“Leo-nim. The principal is looking for you.”

“The principal?”

Leo made a puzzled expression and followed En out of the room.

With only the two of them remaining, Mellina said.

“Risinass-nim. You’re going to get back together with Leo-nim, right?”

At those words, Risinass smiled slightly.

“Mellina, I don’t know what was wrong with my head back then. It was one of my worst mistakes. Who would want to marry that kind of guy?”

“What? Then is Leo-nim going to end up with Luna-nim?”

Mellina’s eyes widened.

“Huh? What did you say?”

Risinass smiled slightly.

“I mean, Leo-nim and Luna-nim…”

Risinass reached out and pinched the opposite cheek from the one Leo had grabbed.

“Want to say that again?”

“Risinass-nim suits Leo-nim the best.”

At those words, Risinass released her cheek.

Rubbing both cheeks, Mellina let out a small sigh.

***

The principal of Lumern.

Riina looked at Leo who had come to her office and said.

“Student Leo. A request has come to Lumern.”

“I suppose it’s a request that specifically named me.”

“That’s right.”

Riina clicked her tongue.

“A support request has come in from the First Princess of Deviange’s side.”

“They should know that Lumern is neutral, shouldn’t they?”

When Leo made a puzzled expression, Riina clicked her tongue.

“The situation has gotten complicated.”

“More complicated than it already is?”

When Leo made a puzzled expression, Riina sighed deeply and nodded her head.

“The Second Prince Faction has drawn Seirun into this.”

“Seirun?”

Leo furrowed his brow at the sudden involvement of the elven Hero Academy.

“The one dispatched from Seirun is Runia El Rundada, Seirun’s Student Council President. That’s why Deviange specifically named you. You understand what this means, right?”

At Riina’s words, Leo sighed.

“It’s a complete mess.”

“Exactly right.”

Matching Leo’s sigh, Riina also let out a corresponding sigh.

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