Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 760

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760.

Before Leo was called the Hero of the Beginning, there was a time when he was called the Surviving Hero.

In some ways, it was a more familiar title than Hero of the Beginning.

No one knows when the Surviving Hero first began fighting.

It was a story from the past that even his fellow Great Heroes didn’t know and never asked about.

At some point, Kail was at the frontlines of battle against Tartaros.

He lost countless comrades and at some point stopped making new companions.

So just as much as the demons hated the Hero of the Beginning.

Or perhaps even more so, Leo hated Tartaros and Erebos.

But that emotion wasn’t Kail’s alone.

In the hearts of all those who had to live through the Age of Calamity, deep-rooted hatred toward Erebos and Tartaros had inevitably taken hold, whether great or small.

So it wasn’t particularly just Leo who cruelly hunted demons.

‘It’s just that Kail was especially severe.’

Risinass looked at the demons with dry, emotionless eyes.

But Risinass was different.

She had never shown even a single moment of hatred, let alone any emotion, in battles against Erebos and Tartaros.

Unlike the Great Heroes who were allowed to show emotions, Risinass, who had to take responsibility for them, always had to assess situations coldly.

What Risinass had to think about was efficiency alone.

She only thought about how to kill as simply and easily as possible.

As a result of killing demons like a machine without a trace of emotion, Risinass became the hero who hunted more demons than any other hero.

The title she earned among demons was none other than Massacrer, Slayer.

The Hero of the Beginning became a fearsome existence to demons in the process of earning their greatest hatred.

On the other hand, the King of Wisdom was pure terror itself to demons.

That terror was now being imprinted on the ancient demons as well.

‘What the hell is this!’

Cardmol was trembling with fear rising from deep within his emotions.

He couldn’t understand this situation at all.

Why were the Second Saint’s knights attacking each other?

Even within Styx, the Knights of Repose led by the Second Saint were aberrant beings.

They were beings promised eternal resurrection.

As long as they didn’t lose their loyalty to the Second Saint and their faith in Nix, the freezing of death, they would virtually never be annihilated.

On top of that, they had immunity to mental corruption.

As long as Ameriol’s dominance existed, there was no way the Knights of Repose would betray.

“You traitors! Do you dare betray the Saint and the Goddess!”

Cardmol roared in fury and swung the mace gripped in his hand.

Kugagagagagang! Kwang-!

As the mace was swung, invisible physical force was applied, sweeping away everything in front of him.

An attack of tremendous power that half-destroyed part of the city.

But that attack couldn’t continue being swung.

The catastrophically powerful attack stopped precisely where Risinass was standing.

Risinass, with Elsi sitting on his left palm raised to his chest, had his right hand stretched straight out to the side.

The invisible, intangible force was blocked by Risinass.

“Attack amplification? Hmm. That doesn’t seem right?”

He used his insight to identify the nature of the invisible attack.

‘He simply swung the mace, but the city was half-destroyed without any warning. If it were a power that maximized physical force, there should definitely be traces of dark magic wavelengths, right?’

Yet despite such destructive power being exercised, there were no such signs.

Risinass’s obsidian-like eyes looked piercingly at Cardmol.

“Grrr! A lowly reptile like you! All of this must be your doing!”

Cardmol shouted and swung his mace upward from below.

Kwang-!

Risinass was hit by the invisible mace rising from the ground and flew into the sky at tremendous speed.

But there was no damage.

Instead, he coldly analyzed the current phenomenon.

‘The ability activates by swinging the mace.’

Then he saw Cardmol draw a longsword.

A sword like transparent crystal was swung toward Risinass floating in the air.

Risinass stretched his right hand into the void.

Flash-!

A sword of light shot up from his right hand.

Spirit Armed.

He had summoned Larel, the Great Spirit of Light, and formed her into a sword.

Kwagagang-!

The invisible sword and the sword of light crossed in the air.

Hwaak-! Kung-!

‘I see.’

Risinass’s eyes turned to Cardmol.

‘An ability that materializes thoughts through actions.’

The thought of destroying the city with a mace.

The thought of cutting him with a sword.

Those thoughts were affecting reality through actions.

It was a powerful ability.

There were no signs of activation and no apparent penalties.

‘An ability befitting a legion commander-class direct demon.’

Risinass spread his right hand.

Woong-!

Larel’s body, returning from sword form to her palm-sized main body, glowed and began splitting into fingernail-sized pieces.

Risinass was a master of light magic acknowledged even by Luna.

While dark spirits were the most compatible spirits for her, light spirits were the ones she could handle best.

Fifteen small Larels began transforming into orbs of light and flew toward Cardmol at tremendous speed.

Kwagagagak-!

The light bullets made from Larel tore Cardmol to shreds.

Cardmol’s ability was certainly a powerful one befitting a high-ranking demon.

An ordinary hero might have died as a bloody mess without even being able to respond properly.

But his opponent was too unfortunate.

For Risinass, Cardmol’s ability wasn’t just non-threatening—it didn’t even qualify as annoying.

If there were no dark magic wavelengths during activation and no penalties for using the ability, it might seem invincible at first glance.

But it had the fatal flaw of requiring specific actions before activation.

Exploiting that gap was far too simple for Risinass.

“How…! How can you know my actions in advance! Can you read the future! Or do you have the ability to read thoughts!”

Cardmol cried out in shock.

Kwak-!

A Larel bullet blew off Cardmol’s head.

The medium through which Cardmol could project his thoughts into reality through actions wasn’t just his hands.

It was possible with his body, feet, and mouth as well.

But before that ability could activate, the Larel bullets crushed Cardmol’s body parts one step ahead.

For Cardmol, he could only think that Risinass had the ability to read thoughts.

“Seeing the future is Arron’s supersense, but I could never master it. And if I had such a convenient ability to read thoughts, I wouldn’t have suffered mentally because of that idiot.”

Risinass said with self-deprecating grumbling.

“Do you happen to know a game called chess?”

“What?”

“There’s something called reading moves.”

He had simply read the next move using the clues that Cardmol revealed.

Predictions close to future foresight were feats only possible for Risinass, who possessed transcendent insight.

“There’s no way such a thing would work…!”

Watching the shocked Cardmol, Risinass spoke calmly.

“It’s not a realm possible for high-ranking demons who have relied only on their innate abilities their whole lives. I told you, didn’t I?”

The Knights of Repose appearing behind Risinass swung their swords.

“We are unreasonable beings.”

Thunk! Thunk! Thunk!

“Graaahhh!”

Swords flying from all directions pierced through Cardmol’s body.

The Knights of Repose who drew their swords slashed at Cardmol’s recovering body again.

Around them were countless corpses of the Knights of Repose scattered as ice fragments.

The only ones moving now were the demons dominated by Elsi.

“How…! How is this possible! The Saint’s blessing is absolute and unchanging! Why have the knights betrayed!”

-I’m curious about that too. Was my ability this amazing?

Elsi asked in a bewildered voice.

She understood that she was currently exercising dominance over the Knights of Repose.

But this was a power unknown even to Elsi herself.

“Subordinating everything of oneself to an absolute and unchanging being… body and will… even the soul. At first glance, it seems like you’d be promised absolute immutability, but that’s not actually the case.”

Risinass gently stroked Larel’s head with his fingertips as she stood beside Elsi, speaking.

“The moment dominance is taken away, it’s over.”

Risinass spoke calmly.

“The Shadow Spirit Elsi here is a greater spirit who can exercise dominance over those she possesses.”

“No matter what kind of spirit exists, the frozen death! The Saint’s dominance as Nix’s confidant…!”

“What’s a mere Saint?”

“What?”

“Sorry, but I’m a dragon who led the subjugation force that defeated Erebos, who devoured six evil gods.”

Thunk-

One Knight of Repose’s sword pierced through Cardmol’s forehead.

“Breaking the dominance of a mere Saint who’s at best legion commander level isn’t that difficult.”

As soon as those words ended, Elsi’s power began dominating Cardmol.

The moment he was freed from the Saint’s dominance.

The absolute and unchanging life that had been granted to him came to an end.

“This, this can’t be… I… I…”

“Isn’t this what you wanted? Eternal death.”

“I never wanted this form of death! I! I wanted to remain in an eternally unchanging form!”

“What do I care?”

Risinass turned around coldly.

Crack-!

One Knight of Repose crushed Cardmol’s head with Cardmol’s own mace.

Soon the demons began a hellish slaughter among themselves and all met their deaths.

-We dealt with that surprisingly easily?

Larel asked in a bewildered voice.

Larel, who had also been a Pact Maker of the Cataclysm Hero, knew.

That no matter what, that demon called Cardmol just now wasn’t a demon who could be killed like swatting a bug.

As Larel trembled at the great hero’s prowess, Risinass said.

“The compatibility was good.”

-Compatibility?

“Tartaros’s legions are largely divided into two types.”

Risinass spoke calmly.

“The type that pushes through with brute force. The type that uses cowardly tricks.”

-Then these demons were?

“The type that uses tricks.”

Risinass spoke calmly.

“Tricks are actually easier because I dealt with them to a sickening degree during the Age of Calamity. The ones who push with brute force are actually more threatening.”

At those words, Elsi tilted her head.

-Then which type is the Overlord King?

“The Overlord King is…”

Risinass let out a small sigh.

“Both. That’s why he’s extremely threatening.”

He essentially had no weaknesses as a demon.

Moreover, he was cunning and thought several moves ahead.

He even considered escape as a precaution.

He was literally one of the worst enemies.

Rummmmmmmble!

At that moment, a white pillar of flame shot up in the distance.

Risinass headed in that direction.

-Leo went that way though?

“Leo probably doesn’t need much help from me.”

At Elsi’s words, Risinass shrugged and spoke.

What he was curious about right now was Runia El Runda.

As Risinass was heading toward Runia.

A summoning circle appeared in the void and a hand suddenly popped out.

“Huh?”

Risinass tried to back away in shock.

But the hand was faster, being sucked into Risinass’s chest.

The hand that emerged after rummaging through his chest held a staff.

The hand immediately disappeared beyond the summoning circle.

Risinass clutched his chest and trembled.

“You damn bastard! You should at least give some warning!”

Risinass exploded in anger toward Leo’s disappeared hand.

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