Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 753

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753.

The highest tower of the royal palace in the Deviyang Kingdom.

Standing there, Leo silently looked down at the ruined Deang.

Various parts of Deang city still remained in ruins.

The scars of civil war.

Many people could be seen coming and going through the ruined streets.

In the overall chaotic atmosphere, people’s faces were all filled with worry.

It was when Leo’s red eyes were observing the people.

“What would Arron have said if he had seen this sight?”

At the voice heard from behind, Leo glanced at Risinass.

Risinass, who had come beside Leo, crouched down.

Whooooo-

The wind blew, scattering Risinass’s black hair.

The sight of the world reflected in the obsidian-like eyes of the black dragon who had once shouldered the world alone.

Unlike then, it was a peaceful world.

The sky was spotlessly clear and full of light.

But even so, the faces of the people in this city now were filled with darkness.

Risinass knew.

That darkness had also filled the faces of people 5000 years ago.

Even after 5000 years, there were things that hadn’t changed.

Anxiety about an uncertain future.

Laments for those who had departed first.

Even when the world regained peace, that wouldn’t disappear.

But Risinass wasn’t discouraged by such things.

Risinass had known and saved it.

That the world he would save was this kind of place.

He knew well that it was a world also full of bad things.

But because he knew there were many more good things than that, he had staked everything on saving the world.

But…

What about those who were born in the Age of Calamity?

The future they dreamed of was purely hopeful and bright.

Because they had only seen extreme darkness from birth.

They naively thought there would be no conflicts in a world full of light.

Originally, adults should have taught them.

That the world has both good and bad aspects coexisting.

They shouldn’t have been allowed to harbor only false fantasies.

But Risinass hadn’t taught such things to the children born in the Age of Calamity.

Not even to Arron.

Because sometimes it was better not to know.

Risinass knew all too well that the hope of a bright world waiting – the complete opposite of the Age of Calamity – gave great strength to those who had only lived in despair.

‘I merely used that.’

Risinass’s eyes darkened.

“In the end, I might have been a fraud to those born in that era.”

“Why are you being like this all of a sudden?”

Leo glanced down at Risinass.

Risinass, who had been looking down at the people, drew his knees to his chest.

“I guess you heard the story about Berkia from Eiran.”

“…Yeah.”

Risinass closed his eyes.

Berkia Ersarr.

The disciple of Kail, Luna, and Arron.

But Berkia was special to Risinass too.

As much as Bihar, whom he had secretly regarded like a daughter.

The reason was simple.

‘That child was one who shone brightly even in darkness.’

The souls of children born in the Age of Calamity were dark.

It was natural since they couldn’t grow up seeing proper light.

But Berkia was different.

‘A child who could shine on her own.’

If Bihar was someone who assimilated with darkness and walked forward.

Berkia was someone who advanced by driving away darkness with light.

The Erebos Punitive Force that Risinass had led, the expedition to Arhee, had ultimately ended in success.

Arhee’s final journey was certainly close to a gamble, but there were chances of victory.

But speaking coldly, Risinass hadn’t been confident he would be alive after the expedition succeeded.

And when that happened.

He thought the leader who would inherit his position and guide the world would be none other than Berkia.

The King of Wisdom’s eyes were accurate.

After Erebos was defeated.

Berkia had restored the world.

She gathered the remaining forces after Erebos was defeated and blocked Tartaros’s great invasion that tried to destroy the world.

She laid the foundation for the world’s revival.

As he had expected.

No, even more than that, Berkia had magnificently rebuilt the world without them.

But even that Berkia had ultimately collapsed under the world’s malice.

‘If I hadn’t lied. Would she not have suffered such tragedy?’

“If Arron had survived and seen the world that regained its light… wouldn’t he have resented me?”

Arron was timid.

That’s why Risinass had told Arron stories about the world from the time before Erebos existed.

‘The blue sky was the foundation of courage for Arron.’

Arron had confided many stories to Risinass.

And he followed and believed Risinass’s words better than anyone.

Risinass had only told Arron about the bright aspects of the world from peaceful times.

Fearing that Arron’s courage would break if he heard stories about ugly aspects.

“In the end, I… might not have trusted Arron.”

The fact that he had deceived someone who believed in him more purely than anyone returned as guilt.

Hearing Berkia’s story made his heart sink even more.

“Is this why you didn’t tell me about Berkia and Bihar’s stories?”

Risinass asked with a bitter expression.

“Because I know you’re the type to worry and get depressed over useless things.”

Leo spoke in an annoyed tone.

Luna, who was always overflowing with confidence, had a personality that was always high-spirited.

But sometimes she would become excessively dejected.

Unlike such Luna, Risinass was always calm.

But once his heart sank, he would become dark to a degree that was painful to watch.

Especially when it involved others rather than himself, the degree was severe.

At Leo’s indifferent tone, Risinass smiled bitterly.

Watching that expression, Leo said.

“Even if Arron had lived and faced the Age of Heroes, he wouldn’t have been broken.”

“Why?”

“It’s true that guy was foolishly naive. But he was even stronger than that.”

Leo thought of Arron.

“He must have overcome it and gone his own way.”

“… You believe in Arron more than I do.”

When Risinass smiled bitterly, Leo made an expression of disdain.

“That guy had a good teacher. A good teacher who persevered to the end with what he believed was right, even in the most desperate situations.”

“He had such a teacher? Are you talking about the Guardian of the Starry Skies?”

Risinass made a curious expression.

‘Why is this lizard sometimes so clueless?’

Leo looked at Risinass with an incredulous expression.

“I’m talking about you.”

“Huh?”

Risinass’s eyes widened.

Leo said.

“The path you guided us on was always right. So don’t be dejected just because you told a few lies.”

“….”

“If you make a lie into truth, then it’s not a lie, right?”

Seeing his friend occasionally spout the same shameless words he used to say, Risinass burst into laughter without realizing it.

‘But there’s one promise I ultimately couldn’t keep.’

The words “I won’t leave you alone” that ultimately remained a real lie.

Thinking of that impossible promise, Risinass asked.

“How were Bihar and Berkia?”

Risinass mustered the courage to ask about the precious children.

At that question, Leo told him stories about the two people he knew.

“They both became grandmothers.”

“That’s right.”

Risinass burst into laughter and Leo shook his head.

“… What about the end?”

Eventually, Risinass asked carefully.

“How was the end?”

At that question, Leo closed his eyes.

Risinass watched Leo with a tense expression.

“Those damn brats called me dad.”

“What?”

“Though each of them probably thought of different people as mom.”

Leo clicked his tongue.

“This is why being popular is such a burden.”

“You’re talking nonsense.”

Risinass spat out rough words uncharacteristically.

Seeing that, Leo chuckled.

“So?”

“Huh?”

“How long are you going to stay dejected? Mom Bihar.”

“Hearing that makes me feel strange, like I became a parent without knowing it.”

Watching Risinass frown, Leo said coldly.

“Could you feel stranger than me, who suddenly got married and became a parent without knowing it?”

“….”

At those words, Risinass fell silent.

“Cheer up. The kids went through all that hardship trying to do something with the world we left them… It would be embarrassing to be dejected.”

“… That’s true too.”

“Ah~ Leo-nim~”

Just then, Eiran’s voice reached their ears.

Looking down below the tower, they could see Eiran waving her hand.

Normally her voice wouldn’t have reached them, but it wasn’t too difficult for Leo and Risinass to hear it.

Chen Xia was beside Eiran.

It seemed they had been looking for Leo.

Risinass got up.

The two people who belatedly discovered Risinass bowed their heads.

“Looking at them like this, they really do resemble them.”

Risinass saw the figures of Berkia and Bihar in the two people.

After watching the two for a moment, Risinass said.

“Kail.”

“What?”

“If… just if.”

“If what?”

“Could there be a chance for us to gather in one place again?”

“….”

Leo knew well who Risinass meant by “us.”

The Great Heroes.

Though Risinass had stood before Dweno borrowing Artion’s body in Dweno’s World.

That was merely a manifestation of strong will.

They couldn’t have a proper conversation.

Even the memories of that time were only vague.

At Risinass’s question, Leo closed his eyes.

“… It would probably be difficult.”

“Right?”

“But I really hope we could all gather together.”

At Leo’s words, Risinass burst into laughter.

“Weren’t you the type not to hope for impossible things?”

“Some damn lizard taught me that even false hope can be strength.”

At Leo’s sarcasm, Risinass chuckled.

“Then if all five of us gather in one place, what would you do first?”

“I have something I absolutely must do.”

“What?”

“Luna. I’m going to beat the crap out of that guy.”

Watching Risinass speak in a cold voice, Leo thought.

‘Would it be better to run away? Would it be better to hide behind the Deviant Dwarf?’

Either way, he didn’t want to stay at that scene for long.

Leo, who had been watching the dragon’s anger, suddenly looked up.

Risinass did the same.

“Snow….”

At Leo’s murmur, Risinass’s expression became serious.

It was the abnormal weather phenomenon that Leo and Risinass had been trying to investigate.

“Suddenly?”

Leo frowned.

When Leo arrived in Deviange, all the snow had stopped and melted away.

When he asked, he was told that the snow had stopped just before Leo’s group arrived and hadn’t come since.

But suddenly, snow began to fall again.

After watching the snow for a moment, Risinass said.

“Perhaps.”

“Huh?”

“Could it be that the fragment of Erebos was somewhere other than Deviange for a while?”

“….”

At those words, Leo fell into thought.

Certainly, the fragment of Erebos affects its surroundings just by its very existence.

If it had temporarily gone somewhere else and returned as Risinass suggested, it would make sense that the snow that had suddenly stopped would start falling again.

But….

“Why?”

Leo wore a puzzled expression.

He understood suddenly moving somewhere.

It could have allied with Tartaros.

Tartaros would follow the resurrected fragment of Erebos.

But no such signs had been detected.

“If that were the case, it wouldn’t have left Tartaros. Rather, it would have grown its power there.”

Rather, this situation where the fragment of Erebos that had left returned was even stranger.

Risinass fell into thought.

And after a moment.

The King of Wisdom, who once possessed the insight to master all the wisdom of the world, reached one conclusion.

“What if there’s something necessary in this land?”

“Something necessary?”

“Yes.”

Risinass narrowed his eyes.

“Perhaps the fragment of Erebos didn’t resurrect as Erebos. If it resurrected in the form of an ancient evil deity that Erebos once devoured.”

Leo’s face became serious.

“Then there’s a possibility it failed to control Tartaros.”

Because Tartaros only follows its own Creator.

“Then what would an ancient evil deity need in the current situation?”

“Its own legion.”

“Exactly.”

Risinass nodded.

“This is just a hypothesis. But if it returned to this land…. Perhaps the Ancient Evil Deity’s Legion might be slumbering here.”

At Risinass’s words, Leo’s face became serious.

“The Ancient Evil Deity’s Legion….”

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