Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 759

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759.

Crack crack crack-

The ice fragments that had been shattered to pieces by Leo began returning to their original position.

Soon, the demon regained its original form.

A moment later.

Hissssss-

The demon that had regained its original form nodded its head several times.

Creak- Creak creak

Thin ice fell to the ground.

Despite having its neck severed and face blown off, it didn’t seem greatly shocked.

“What an insolent mortal.”

He looked down at Leo, revealing his anger.

“To think such a lowly attack would work on me…”

Slash-!

Once again, before the demon could finish speaking, Leo severed its mouth.

“Why do you babble so much?”

Leo spoke indifferently.

Once more, the ancient demon’s head flew off leaving only its jaw, then recovered its face and showed its rage.

“You-!”

With that cry, Leo and Risinass launched their bodies.

Bang-!

Something invisible crushed the ground where Leo and Risinass had been standing.

Risinass, who landed lightly on the ground, looked at Leo and said.

“Looks like you haven’t fixed that personality.”

Among the five great heroes, the being that the demons of Tartaros hate most is none other than the Hero of the Beginning.

It wasn’t because Leo had defeated Erebos.

The demons’ deep hatred for the Hero of the Beginning had already taken deep root since the Age of Calamity.

‘Kail hunted demons most cruelly among us.’

Leo never killed demons cleanly.

He would torment and kill them as cruelly as possible.

Due to this aspect, Leo became the most hateful yet least desirable opponent to fight from the demons’ perspective.

“By the way, what’s the principle behind this recovery?”

Leo tilted his head while looking at the high-ranking demon.

It wasn’t that the attacks didn’t work.

But it took no damage at all.

After having its neck and face severed, returning to its original form wasn’t recovery.

It had simply reverted back.

No power was used in that process.

‘Does it have a core? But that would be inefficient, wouldn’t it?’

Creating a core grants endless regeneration abilities, but it also has the clear disadvantage of being destroyed if the core is destroyed.

To compensate for this weakness, they choose to hide it outside their body.

But if the core’s location is discovered, it’s still dangerous, and there’s also the vulnerability that the core’s position is easily detected when regeneration abilities are activated.

That’s why the high-ranking demons of Tartaros didn’t create cores.

Leo, who had been searching for the core’s location with his enhanced senses, tilted his head.

‘The location can’t be detected?’

It seemed there was something special about it.

“How arrogant you are for possessing the power of a wicked god! I’ll make you feel the terror of death! Knights of Rest! Representative of Lady Ameriol! I command in the name of I, Karmol! Grant that insolent mortal pain worse than death!”

At Cardmol’s cry, the knights moved.

Each one of them was no different from a high-ranking demon with powerful strength.

Grooooooo-!

An ominous aura of death burst forth.

When Leo saw this and clenched and unclenched his fist, about to step forward.

“I’ll handle them.”

“Don’t overdo it?”

“Overdo it?”

Risinass tilted her head.

“With just that much?”

“My mistake.”

Certainly, Risinass was currently in a spirit state.

She needed Leo’s help to properly use her power.

Even so, the fact that she was Risinass, the King of Wisdom, remained unchanged.

“So?”

Whoosh-!

A golden aura surged from Leo’s sword.

Crash crash crash crash-!

Golden slashes flew out and tore the knights apart.

Slashes like the claws of a beast.

It was Arron’s sword technique.

But soon the demons that had been shattered to pieces returned to their original state.

“Did you figure out the regeneration principle of these things?”

“Yeah.”

Risinass nodded and looked at the ice column.

“There should be a legion commander-level demon around here leading these demons.”

“How dare a lowly reptile! To dare classify the noble saint as the same level as that hideous monster! Do you want to die…!”

Slash-!

Leo blew away Cardmol’s upper body with magic.

“Who are you calling a reptile?”

“Leo…”

“I’m the only one who can call her that, you know?”

Stomp-!

Risinass stepped on Leo’s foot.

“This lowly slave race…!”

Cardmol regained his original form, but Leo and Risinass paid no attention.

“The leader-level demon of these guys will be the core.”

“So we just need to catch one boss and it’s over. It’s a simpler structure than I thought.”

“The stronger the power, the simpler the method of operation.”

Cardmol frowned upon hearing their conversation.

‘They saw through that fact in an instant?’

Long ago.

When Nix was defeated by Erebos and about to be devoured.

Styx, who served Nix, withdrew without fighting Tartaros.

At that time, Erebos’s forces, having devoured other evil gods, were not something Nix could ever handle.

Therefore, Nix promised a future day and ordered the saints and saintesses who followed him to hide throughout the continent.

Eventually, after Nix was devoured by Erebos.

The demons of Styx lost consciousness as they were.

Those demons of Styx opened their eyes again.

That was proof that their master had arrived!

They didn’t know how much time had passed.

But Saint Ameriol, realizing that humans existed on the land where they had been sleeping, began to take action.

She tried to grant eternal rest to the people of this land and head toward their goddess, Nix.

In the midst of all this, they discovered a human harboring the detestable power of the heavenly gods.

Divine power.

And such immense power that it rivaled the strength of Nix’s true divine form.

The demons of Styx knew that their goddess had grown weak.

If they offered that divine power to their goddess, she would immediately regain her prime strength.

Moreover, stealing power from a lowly human was not particularly difficult.

But the dragon accompanying that human immediately saw through the weakness of the Knights of Repose.

The warriors of Styx led by the Second Saint were all beings who had received the Saint’s blessing.

They had been granted infinite vitality, but in exchange, their fates were also bound to the Second Saint.

In the distant past.

Even when the Second Saint and the Knights of Repose spread the blessing of death throughout this world, no one had seen through that fact.

Even if there were any, they did not survive and died.

Yet that dragon had seen through that fact in less than a few minutes.

Though Cardmol felt an inexplicable uneasiness, he didn’t care.

‘Though somewhat strong, they’re merely a human and a dragon.’

Before Nix disappeared, humans were nothing but lowly slaves that Styx commanded.

Most dragons dared to reject the blessing of goddess Nix and followed the incompetent heavenly gods, but that was all.

Whether they saw through the Second Saint’s secret or not, they could not reach the Second Saint.

Even if they stood before the Saint, it didn’t matter.

‘They will only kneel before the Saint’s mighty power.’

Cardmol sneered.

‘What could the likes of you possibly do?’

“You go to the ice column. Kail.”

“For a lowly human to stand before the Saint is disrespectful. Where do you think you’re going…”

Crack-!

Cardmol’s shadow shot up like a blade and severed Cardmol’s head.

That wasn’t the end.

Kraaaaaaash-!

The shadows of the Knights of Repose surged upward, wrapped around their main bodies, and dragged them to the ground.

The movements of the knights surrounding the two were paralyzed in an instant.

“I’ll go first.”

As the encirclement disappeared, Leo ran toward the ice column at tremendous speed.

-Wow.

At that moment, Elsi, summoned on Risinass’s palm, let out an exclamation.

-How should I put it. Risinass’s spirit magic is similar to Leo’s yet different. You can use power extremely efficiently.

It was none other than Elsi who had bound the Knights of Repose.

Currently, Leo and Risinass were bound by a covenant.

With Leo’s permission, Risinass could act on Leo’s behalf regarding the covenant at any time.

Risinass had used that proxy authority to employ Elsi’s power.

“The basic framework of Leo’s spirit magic comes from me.”

-That means Risinass is Leo’s teacher.

“Not quite a teacher. That guy just watched and imitated well.”

Risinass smiled slightly as he looked at Elsi.

Under that gaze, Elsi’s eyes widened as she felt around her own face.

-Is there something on my face?

“No. It’s just. When I first met you, I really wanted to form a covenant with you.”

Of course, Elsi had no memory of it.

Elsi was merely sustaining her existence in this world as a reward from Hero Record.

In actual history, Elsi had perished 5000 years ago.

But Elsi recalled the story Risinass had told her before.

-That’s right. But back then, I needed Leo more than Risinass… Hic?

“Yeah. That’s right.”

Risinass brought his face close to Elsi’s head and inhaled.

-Ri, Risinass. You’re too close.

“Do you know how much I wanted to handle you?”

Risinass’s eyes sparkled unusually.

It was a sight rarely seen normally.

Literally the pure desire of a spirit mage.

If Leo had seen it, he would have surely called it perverted, but Leo wasn’t here right now.

As Risinass said, 5000 years ago.

Risinass had fallen for Elsie, the Shadow Spirit, at first sight.

As a black dragon, he had been instinctively drawn to the great spirit of darkness who possessed powerful strength.

But at that time, Risinass couldn’t comfort the wounded Elsi.

Risinass’s ideals of painting a bright future and spreading hope couldn’t harmonize with Elsi, who was hurt and despairing in the world.

The Elsi of that time had chosen Kail, who had a similar personality to herself.

Knowing that forcing a covenant would be useless, Risinass had no choice but to swallow his regret at the time.

But now was different.

As a spirit mage, he could finally handle the power of Elsi, who had the best compatibility with him.

‘If that spirit is the strongest spirit, it’s an enormous blessing for a spirit mage.’

It was surely a blessing that only those who had saved the world in a previous life could enjoy.

‘Ah, did I already save the world once?’

While having such idle thoughts.

Bang-!

The Knights of Repose, freed from Elsi’s restraints, began emanating terrifying killing intent.

“Do you think we’d fall for such crude tricks!”

Cardmol emanated killing intent.

“Don’t be arrogant! Dragon! Just one slave race! You won’t be able to cause any harm to the Saint!”

“Slave race… Indeed. I’ve seen in old documents that some humans were slaves to demons. It seems you were the ones who commanded them.”

Risinass nodded as if he had learned a new fact.

Documents from an immeasurably ancient era whose age couldn’t even be determined.

When Risinass had interpreted and read those documents, he had felt puzzled.

Tartaros did not enslave humans.

They only divided the surface races into two categories.

Whether to kill them immediately.

Or whether to use them and then kill them.

Erebos’s desire was to burn the world and leave not even ashes behind.

When Risinass saw records that such beings had enslaved humans in the past, he thought it strange.

But if it were other evil gods, it made sense.

Their ultimate purpose was different from Erebos’s.

‘If the goal is to make the world an unchanging, frozen world of death… enslaving humans makes sense too.’

An absolutely immutable, unchanging world.

They couldn’t go extinct until that desire was fulfilled.

Though it was a thought Risinass couldn’t understand, he knew well that trying to understand gods, let alone evil gods, would only give him a headache.

Therefore, Risinass simply nodded calmly, saying he had learned a new fact.

“But you know. The era you lived in and the current era are very different. Especially the guy who just left is someone who’s become skilled at hunting and killing demons.”

Risinass smiled broadly.

“Hmph! How terrifying oblivion is! To have forgotten our terror.”

Cardmol sneered.

“No matter how strong you are, it doesn’t matter. It’s common sense that you mortals cannot defeat us residents of Styx who serve the goddess of death.”

“Common sense…”

Risinass smiled faintly.

Risinass’s eyes quietly gazed at Cardmol.

Her eyes gleamed with insight.

It was the power of this insight that allowed her to instantly see through the principle of Cardmol’s infinite regeneration.

This insight was the very foundation that made Risinass the King of Wisdom.

Risinass calmly looked at the Knights of Repose.

“You know what? Common sense exists to be broken. And we were never conventional beings to begin with.”

If they had been conventional beings.

They wouldn’t have been able to save the world in that situation.

Risinass gently stroked the cheek of Elsi, who was kneeling on her palm, with her other finger.

Elsi straightened her back and opened her eyes wide.

-Huh?

From Elsi’s body, who let out an involuntary gasp, darkness began to seep out.

That darkness flowed down Risinass’s body to the ground and merged with Risinass’s shadow.

Then it stretched out and touched the shadows of the Knights of Repose.

“Do you think I’d fall for such a lowly trick again?”

Cardmol, thinking it was the same shadow binding as before, sneered.

Seeing Cardmol like that, Risinass smiled.

“Let me tell you one thing. I can defeat you all without dealing with that saint or whatever.”

“Ignorance is frightening. To think it could make you harbor such vain hope…”

Thwack-!

“…What?”

Cardmol couldn’t finish his words and let out a questioning sound.

‘What?’

Had his opponent blown off his head again?

That wasn’t it.

Thud-!

Cardmol’s head fell to the ground and rolled around.

Cardmol looked at the one who had severed his neck.

It was none other than a Knight of Repose.

The demons’ bodies began to tremble.

Soon…

Thwack-! Crack! Slice!

The Knights of Repose began swinging their weapons at each other.

The demons’ limbs were severed as a gruesome scene of slaughter unfolded.

“Wh-what is this…”

Cardmol’s face was colored with shock.

“You bitch! What the hell are you!”

“Hmm… What should I tell you? King of Wisdom? Foolish one? These titles are hard to grasp, so they probably don’t resonate well… Ah!”

Risinass, who had been pondering, smiled brightly.

“Slayer.”

“What?”

“I’m the hero who has killed the most demons in the world.”

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