Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 742

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742.

The communal bathhouse of the Knight’s Academy is bustling from early morning.

It was a natural phenomenon, as many students wake up at dawn and train until they’re drenched in sweat.

Swoooosh- Squeak- Squeak-

Selia, who had turned off the shower, left the bathhouse.

Selia lightly dried herself with a towel and stood in front of the locker in the dressing room.

Then she used her aura to lightly dry the remaining moisture before getting dressed in pristine condition.

“Miss Selia, are you done washing?”

“Yeah. Are you ready to go out too?”

“Yes. Let’s go out together.”

Selia and Chen Xia left the bathhouse.

Since they used rooms right next to each other, they often moved together.

“This damn school really always surprises people.”

Selia grumbled.

“But in a way, it’s an honor. We got to spar with Lord Risinass.”

“That’s true, but… More than that, it’s a shame I couldn’t see Leo’s mock battle.”

Selia clicked her tongue.

In the last mock battle, Leo didn’t spar with Risinass.

Many students felt great disappointment since it was the big match they had been secretly anticipating.

‘If those two fought… It’s terrifying just to imagine.’

If they had fought, they probably wouldn’t have held back.

‘The entire school might have collapsed.’

Chen Xia shook her head vigorously, thinking of the worst-case scenario that could have actually happened.

Selia, who had arrived in front of her room, tilted her head curiously.

“A letter?”

Lumern students living in dormitories were familiar with letters.

Basically, unless it was something significant, they couldn’t go home during the semester.

Also, unless it was a mission, they rarely had occasion to go outside Lumeria City, and regular students couldn’t go out of Lumeria City except on weekends unless it was a special case.

As such, countless letters are delivered to and from Lumern every day.

But now wasn’t the time for letters to arrive.

“There wasn’t anything when I checked earlier?”

Selia made a puzzled expression as she opened the personal mailbox in her room.

“I have one too.”

Chen Xia also tilted her head after looking at her mailbox.

Selia flipped over the letter envelope and checked the seal stamped on the letter’s closure.

“It’s from the Student Council? Chen Xia, is yours too?”

“Yes. Mine is also from the Student Council.”

After confirming the source, Selia and Chen Xia opened the letter envelopes to check the contents.

“Come to the Student Council from this morning? What’s this about?”

Selia, who had put away the letter, made a puzzled expression.

“You two. What are you doing standing in the corridor?”

Then Nella approached with Iliana.

“The Student Council wants us to come right now.”

“Huh? From the Student Council?”

Nella, who had been tilting her head, checked her own mailbox.

Iliana also flinched and hurriedly opened her mailbox.

“Oh, I have one too?”

Nella tilted her head.

Iliana, who had checked her mailbox, let out a sigh of relief.

Then she said.

“You three. Did you violate any school rules?”

“Huh? We haven’t done anything like that? Why are you suddenly asking that?”

At Nella’s question, Iliana crossed her arms.

“Usually when you’re called to the Student Council from morning, it’s because you got caught violating school rules. And that’s when you’ve made a really big mistake. Minor rule violations get you penalty points on the spot and that’s it.”

“This is the first time I’m hearing this? But Iliana, how do you know that?”

“Because I was called there in my first year.”

“Ah. Come to think of it, that did happen, didn’t it?”

Nella burst into laughter.

“The day you went excitedly saying the Student Council recognized your talent, then came back and stayed pale as a sheet all day, right?”

Iliana made a sullen expression looking at Nella teasing her and said.

“Anyway, except for cases like that, I’ve never seen the Student Council call students from morning.”

“But we’re far from violating school rules.”

“Right. What do you think we are?”

At Selia’s words, Iliana pouted her lips.

“Anyway, let’s get ready and go.”

At Nella’s words, Selia and Chen Xia nodded.

“You have to come back alive.”

Watching the three of them, Iliana waved her hand.

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The three people who came to the Student Council room from morning encountered a male student.

“Woreden?”

Selia’s eyes widened.

“Did you also get called by the Student Council?”

“It seems you were also summoned.”

Woreden answered in his characteristically emotionless voice.

“According to Iliana, usually when you’re called in the morning, it means you did something seriously wrong. Do you have any memory of that?”

“No. At least if you were called, it’s probably not for that reason.”

“Right?”

Selia smiled brightly.

Chen Xia, who was watching this, whispered to Nella.

“Miss Selia gets along well with Woreden.”

“They had many opportunities to interact when they were dormitory heads together in second year. He surprisingly mediated well between Selia and Chelsea too.”

Chen Xia made a slightly surprised expression upon hearing that Woreden, who had strong individualistic tendencies, had mediated for harmony.

“You guys came too?”

Then Chloe and Avad also walked over.

Avad glanced at Selia, who was smiling and talking with Weleden.

Selia looked back and forth between Chloe and Avad and nodded.

“This confirms it. It’s definitely not about rule violations.”

If Chloe, who was as much of a model student as anyone, had come, the possibility of rule violations that she had been wondering about could be completely ruled out.

Then.

The Student Council room door opened and Lil appeared.

“Oh! Third-year students! You’re here.”

Lil, smiling cheerfully as always, guided the third-years.

“Please come in.”

Upon entering, Elena and Runba were sitting in the middle of the Student Council room sofa.

“Did Senior Elena summon us?”

At those words, Elena, who had been sipping her teacup, put it down and pointed upward with her finger.

“Someone above me.”

“Then…”

“Yes, the president.”

At those words, the faces of the 3rd years except for Woreden became serious.

“With this kind of lineup, are we going to war or something?”

“That might be the case.”

Elena clicked her tongue.

Elena openly made an unpleasant expression.

The lineup of people called this morning was not ordinary.

Anyone could see that Leo was definitely planning to cause some troublesome incident.

As Elena led the students in showing anxious expressions.

“Isn’t this exciting! What amazing thing will big brother do this time!”

“This should be interesting.”

Lil clenched her fists and showed an excited reaction, and Woreden also curled up the corners of his mouth.

Elena, who was watching that scene, rested her chin on her hand.

“Just looking at graduated senior Ulta, you can tell that the Summoning Department kids definitely have something wrong with their heads.”

“Hey. Don’t use senior Ulta or those guys as specimens. I’m perfectly normal.”

Runba protested with an aggrieved face.

Knock knock-

“Excuse me… Huh? Seniors?”

With the knocking sound, the Student Council door opened and 2nd year Department of Magic students Juwen and Betty entered.

And 2nd year Summoning Department Shasha came in.

Shasha looked at the lineup of students with a surprised expression, then laughed with a “hoot-“.

“This looks like something interesting is going to happen.”

At Shasha’s reaction, Elena clicked her tongue.

“As expected of those Summoning Department guys…”

“That one’s weird too.”

“Aren’t you the weird one?”

“I’m normal! Me!”

At Elena’s words, Runba got fired up.

Then the door to the Student Council Room opened.

“Everyone’s here. Everyone go to the meeting room.”

At those words, the students rushed into the meeting room.

Elena, sitting next to the head seat, crossed her arms and asked.

“So? What’s the reason you gathered us from this morning?”

“It’s a mission.”

“A Hero Dungeon must have appeared.”

“No. It’s not a Hero Dungeon related mission.”

“Then?”

“We’re going to intervene in Debiang’s civil war.”

At those words, Elena furrowed her brow.

“President. Lumern has neutrality obligations, right? Even if the Eastern Region is in crisis of becoming a wasteland, we shouldn’t carelessly intervene in a civil war, should we?”

When Runba tilted her head, Leo said.

“Normally that would be the case. But I heard that Seirun has entered the war to help the 2nd Prince’s faction.”

“Wait. Where did you say? Seirun?”

Runba momentarily made an expression of not understanding.

The other students were the same.

Suddenly Seirun?

Even Elena, who wouldn’t bat an eye at most incidents, made an expression of disbelief.

“No way. Have those guys suddenly gone crazy? Why are they suddenly intervening in human affairs?”

Seirun was the same Hero Officer Academy as Lumern, but had a different character from Lumern.

Lumern has a strong character as a mediator that mediates various nations from the center of the human race.

That’s why Lumern maintains neutrality in all conflicts.

But Seirun is a place that serves as a representative representing the Elven Alliance.

The Elven Council is deeply involved in Seirun’s operations, and Seirun’s will sometimes represents the will of all elves.

The reason why all of Seirun was shaken by the Pure Blood Society before was also due to this character of Seirun.

That such a Seirun sided with Debiang’s 2nd Prince and participated in the civil war means it’s safe to say that the entire elven race supports the 2nd Prince.

And this was the first time in Seirun’s history for such a thing.

That’s because one of the major principles of the Elven Council is not to interfere in other races’ wars.

That major principle has now been broken.

“Moreover, elves are especially a race with a strong tendency to look down on humans.”

Not all elves look down on humans.

Among elves, there are many who consider humans as friends.

In fact, there were many students at Lumern who built friendships with Seirun students and consistently exchanged letters and interacted.

But even so, changing the perception of an entire race is not easy.

The arrogance of elves was to the extent that not only humans but also Suin and Dwarfs would shake their heads.

The history of the world is a history of war.

In reality, the races of the earthly realm have repeated harmony and conflict.

But among them, the only race that not only waged the most wars with other races but also endlessly fought among themselves, spilling blood, was humans.

It’s no exaggeration to say that human history is a history of war.

And most of it was wars caused by ‘greed’.

Elves viewed humans as the most barbaric and vulgar race for constantly waging wars out of greed for wealth and power.

That’s why they had an especially strong tendency to look down on humans.

But that Seirun participated in Debiang’s civil war, which was fought over power that they considered most vulgar?

One couldn’t help but be dumbfounded.

Looking at Elena who was dumbfounded, Leo clicked his tongue.

“From what I heard, it seems certain that the entire race has gone crazy.”

“Huh? What do you mean by that?”

At Leo’s words, everyone made puzzled expressions.

Leo scratched his head vigorously.

“Anyway, those pointy-ears have no moderation.”

“So what does that mean?”

“Elves are an especially strong-willed race.”

Leo sighed and began explaining.

“And beliefs don’t change easily, but they’re easy to corrupt. Elves have a strong tendency to blindly follow even those corrupted beliefs.”

That’s why elves were a race that was easily influenced.

If their beliefs are righteous, all elves can become good.

Conversely, if they become distorted, the entire race easily becomes distorted.

“What does that have to do with Seirun participating in Debiang’s civil war?”

When Selia asked with a puzzled face, Leo clicked his tongue.

“Do you know what’s most popular recently in Seirun… No. In all of elven society?”

“How would we know that?”

“Human culture.”

“What?”

“Human food culture, fashion, architectural styles, literature, etc. All sorts of things are trendy.”

“…Didn’t elves not really like our culture, saying it was vulgar?”

Chen Xia asked with a flustered face.

Even Eiran, who admired humans and was immersed in human culture, was treated as quite an oddball within Seirun.

“Right. But that’s what’s trendy now.”

Leo covered his face with his hands.

“And they’re treating us like some kind of brother race.”

“…What’s that? Why are those guys suddenly being so disgusting?”

Elena wrinkled her face.

“It’s because of the Progenitor of the Starry Skies.”

“What?”

When Elena made a confused expression.

Avad stroked his chin.

“The declaration Luna-nim made some time ago.”

“Right.”

Leo recalled that moment.

“I! Like Kaiiiiiiiil!”

The cry of the Progenitor of the Starry Skies that would remain in history forever.

And that cry completely changed the ideology of the elven race.

Elves are a race that would insist cold things are hot if Luna said so.

That Luna had confessed like that to Kail, the great human hero.

On top of that, there was even a recent announcement in elven hero studies that Berkia, who was known as Luna’s disciple, was actually ‘Kail’s disciple’.

‘There are even rumors going around that Berkia is actually a half-elf born between me and Luna, right?’

Until recently, elven society would have arrested you for blasphemy if you called a racial hero a half-elf.

But currently, such strange rumors are circulating despite Ershar’s vehement denials.

“B-but even so, how could an entire race suddenly start liking humans they used to hate overnight?”

“I heard the most popular romantic interest in Seirun recently is a Lumern student.”

“What’s that about? That’s scary.”

Leo let out a chuckle.

“Deviange’s Second Prince’s faction desperately requested help from Seirun, grasping at straws.”

Naturally, when requesting help, they would have proclaimed their righteousness.

“Don’t tell me they completely fell for those claims?”

When Lil asked with a disbelieving expression, Leo smiled bitterly.

“It seems they believed it without thinking it through. So they decided to dispatch forces to help the poor humans.”

“…Are those people idiots?”

Lil asked back with a shocked expression.

“Let’s talk about the elves later. Anyway.”

Leo said.

“The members here are going to Deviange tomorrow. So prepare everything by today.”

The students nodded at those words.

“Alright, dismissed. Oh, 4th and 5th year seniors, please stay.”

At those words, all students except Elena, Runba, and Lil left.

“Is there more to say?”

“This is secret from the other students.”

Leo looked at the three with a serious expression.

“There’s a very high probability that a revived fragment of Erebos is in Deviange.”

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