Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 747

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747.

“The famous student council president of Lumern! It’s an honor to meet Leo Flobe!”

The commander of the Deviange front, Duke Diel, spoke with an emotional expression.

He was a man with a gaunt frame and an impressive goatee on his face.

A duke is by no means a low position.

A position that could even influence an entire nation.

But for a man holding such a position, Duke Diel was excessively servile.

His face looked as if “sycophant” was written all over it.

Leo clicked his tongue at the sight of him even rubbing his hands together obsequiously.

‘Has this country’s fortune also declined?’

He couldn’t shake that thought.

In Leo’s eyes, Duke Diel seemed to lack the capability to handle such a major battle, and indeed he did.

“Now that the great hero has joined the battlefield, those wicked rebels will surely be defeated soon!”

Leo responded to Duke Diel’s words.

“It seems this country’s heroes haven’t lent their strength to this civil war.”

Even though Shan doesn’t engage in external activities and has seized hegemony over the Eastern Continent, a great power is still a great power.

When Deviange split in half and civil war broke out, even countries connected to Deviange in the Eastern Continent found themselves at war.

In this era, the measure of a great power isn’t determined simply by national strength and the number of soldiers.

The number of heroes.

That’s what allows a great power to remain a great power.

And Deviange was the country with the most heroes in the Eastern Continent.

Yet they’re maintaining silence in this war.

“You mean them?”

Duke Diel frowned and showed his displeasure.

“After the late king passed away and His Highness the crown prince also tragically lost his life on the battlefield, they declared their silence.”

“I see.”

“How can they do such a thing! No matter how much they’re heroes chosen by the gods! In the end, they’re subjects who ate the country’s grain and received the late king’s grace! How can they so coldly ignore the nation’s crisis! Ah! With Lumern’s juniors watching like this! They don’t even seem ashamed!”

Duke Diel burst out in frustration.

But Leo evaluated this country’s heroes positively.

‘This country’s heroes don’t seem to be people who would fulfill their personal greed, at least.’

Heroes, being those who must achieve great deeds recognized by the gods, are fundamentally beings with tremendous martial power.

But even with overwhelming force, not all of them were noble beings.

The heroes selected over the past 5000 years have been chosen by the gods.

Those chosen solely according to the gods’ preferences.

Because it was an era ignorant of gods, people tend to regard gods as perfect beings, but gods are not perfect beings.

Their interest isn’t given only to noble beings.

Even villains are selected as heroes if they achieve great deeds.

They don’t care even knowing that people will change the moment they rise to high positions and make life difficult for those around them.

The gods’ standards tended to be twisted for earthly beings to understand.

There are also those who pursue only pure entertainment.

That’s why the heroes so far, while strong, weren’t all noble.

Leo had stripped many such individuals of their hero status several times.

And he intended to continue stripping the titles from those unworthy in the future.

Leo is the Hero of the Beginning.

He was the representative of all those who risked their lives for a new era.

‘I don’t have much attachment to the hero title itself. But I can’t tolerate anyone tarnishing that name.’

He thought that was the sole duty of a hero from that era living in the current age.

In that sense, he thought Deviange’s heroes were righteous people.

Heroes are those who change the tide of battle.

As beings called leaders of the era, they possess powerful charisma that leads people.

The appearance of a single hero further incites war.

Currently, the forces of both the First Princess and Second Prince are all suffering from severe morale decline.

‘Because this war has no justification whatsoever.’

A meaningless war driven to the battlefield merely by the greed of those above.

There was no way soldiers could fight with determination.

But what if a hero appeared on that battlefield?

Just being with a hero would greatly boost the soldiers’ morale.

An era where heroes are justice itself.

Just being with a hero would make ordinary soldiers unconsciously justify their participation in war.

The name “hero” in this era had that much power.

Since emotions spread easily on battlefields, the war would eventually become increasingly fierce.

‘Then it would truly become irreversible.’

Since Deviange has the most heroes in the Eastern Continent, it’s also the country responsible for the front lines of the eastern front against Tartaros.

If Deviange wavers, the entire eastern front wavers.

‘Knowing this, the heroes have no choice but to watch the civil war.’

The atmosphere on Tartaros’s eastern front is serious enough that the crown prince died in battle.

Deviange’s heroes are keeping a close watch on Tartaros’s movements.

Probably all the capable commanders have been deployed to the Tartaros battlefield as well.

‘Should I call it a blessing in disguise? That all those interested in the civil war are incompetent.’

While the entire country being split in half is certainly a big problem, at least they prevented the civil war from becoming intense.

The best the two factions can do is capture and recapture major cities around the capital.

If this situation continues for long, the problems will grow.

But in the current situation where civil war has broken out, this situation where the balance of power is maintained was better than having the balance tip to one side and the civil war intensifying.

Leo, who easily inferred the current situation from the Deviange heroes’ attitude, looked outside the city walls before turning his gaze toward the Lumerne students.

There, students other than Elena, Lil, and Runba had tense expressions.

They had experience fighting people.

But this was their first experience with such a large-scale battlefield where thousands of soldiers shed blood.

They weren’t afraid of war.

But the battle they were about to experience was very different from the fights they’d had so far.

Most of the enemies they’d fought until now were Tartaros demons and monsters.

In the case of humans, they were clear villains who harmed others.

Or even if not, most experiences were in the Heroes’ World.

But those fighting now were ordinary people forcibly dragged into war.

That fact weighed heavily on the hero candidates’ hearts.

“Leo, aren’t you nervous?”

Selia approached and asked.

Leo answered calmly to that question.

“Not really.”

“You’re amazing as always.”

Selia smiled bitterly.

The same age.

They took the Lumern entrance exam together, entered together, and attended school together until now.

Yet Leo was always mature.

“Your nervousness is natural.”

“Huh?”

“Never forget the burden you’re feeling right now.”

Boom- Boom-

The sound of drums rang out.

Hoooooo-!

The sound of horn trumpets rang out.

In the distance, thousands of soldiers belonging to the Second Prince Faction revealed themselves.

“It’s natural to fear harming people. Those who lose that feeling can never get it back.”

Leo glanced at Chen Xia.

As a Shadow, Chen Xia had executed countless traitors.

To that extent, Chen Xia was accustomed to the act of killing people.

Still, she wasn’t completely numb to it at least.

But he was different.

He had executed incomparably more traitors than Chen Xia.

It wasn’t wrong.

Someone had to do it, and it was for the world.

He had never regretted stepping into the darkness.

‘If the same situation came again, I would make the same choice countless times.’

But because of that, Leo had become numb to harming people.

Leo hoped that the heroes who would lead the next generation wouldn’t become like him.

Not just the heroes.

The Shadows were the same too.

‘A world without heroes like me would be a better world.’

Thinking that, Leo spoke.

“There’s one thing I need to tell you.”

Leo climbed up onto the city wall.

Everyone’s gaze turned to Leo.

“In this mission, absolutely do not kill ordinary soldiers.”

“What?”

“We came here to mediate a civil war. So there’s no need to shed blood.”

“But there are times when we have no choice but to use force, right?”

Selia showed a slightly flustered expression.

Seeing such Selia, Leo smiled.

“That’s why I’m going to show you a demonstration from now on. So watch from here.”

Having said that, Leo looked at the advancing soldiers.

Then Chen Xia approached Leo’s side and whispered quietly.

“Shall I help you?”

“You just watch quietly too.”

“I know Lord Leo is worried about something. But I…”

“I’m not worried about you.”

Leo chuckled.

“I want to do this.”

“…”

Chen Xia stared intently at Leo.

Leo looked at such Chen Xia and burst into laughter.

“Why?”

Chen Xia was flustered seeing Leo suddenly burst into laughter.

“No. I suddenly thought that I too had times like yours.”

Leo looked at the battlefield.

“I can’t imagine it.”

“What can’t you imagine? I had comrades like you too.”

“Were you like this back then too?”

“Do you think I was a mister from birth?”

“You were a mister from birth though.”

Leo burst into laughter at Chen Xia’s muttering.

“Those comrades like us… were they the Great Heroes?”

“No. They were literally my first comrades. They were inexperienced. Both they and I.”

“…”

Chen Xia fell silent.

Because she knew well what first comrades meant.

“You don’t need to be so considerate.”

Leo smiled brightly and jumped down below the city wall.

‘…Back then, I thought everything would work out well.’

It was his childhood, even the memories were dim.

Probably when he was Kail, he would have been exactly this age.

Back then, when he thought of himself, he seemed to sparkle like the current Chen Xia or Selia.

His comrades too.

A time when he thought he could become anything.

‘Am I being foolish?’

With a bitter smile at the suddenly surfaced memories of the past, Leo looked at the soldiers.

‘By the way, what the hell is Risinass doing?’

Didn’t he say he was going to test the Seirun students?

When Leo showed a puzzled expression.

Roooooar-!

In the distance, a massive energy surged from the front of the troops.

Along with that, a black dragon revealed itself.

Risinass breathed fire toward someone.

Seeing that, Leo showed a slightly flustered expression.

Even when testing the Lumern students before, he hadn’t breathed fire with that level of power.

“No… that seems a bit too harsh?”

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