Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 762

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762.

Lil looked at Elena with sparkling, bright eyes.

“As expected, Senior Elena is the best at the Academy!”

“Hmph. What do you mean best when there’s a current Student Council President around?”

“Shouldn’t we make an exception for big brother?”

“That’s true too.”

“Then Senior Elena really is the best, isn’t she!”

Lil smiled brightly and ran over to try to hug Elena.

She had puppy-like tendencies and would sometimes act cute like this when she couldn’t contain her excitement.

“Don’t come over.”

“Huh?”

“We haven’t completely defeated the enemy yet. We need to stay alert.”

“Ah! I was being thoughtless!”

Just as Lil hurriedly began watching their surroundings.

“What are you doing.”

Tap-!

“Eeeek?!”

When Leo approached from the side and lightly tapped her shoulder, Elena screamed and collapsed.

“What’s with acting tough in front of your junior?”

Leo clicked his tongue as he looked at Elena, who had slumped to the ground trembling.

Elena glared up at Leo with blazing eyes.

Leo grabbed Elena’s wrist and helped her stand up.

“It hurts! I said it hurts!”

“You overexerted yourself using magic and overloaded your mana circuits. It’s similar to muscle cramps, so stretching like this will relieve it.”

“Owwww!”

Since Elena was naturally blessed with sturdy mana circuits, this was the first time she’d experienced this level of overload.

Leo, holding both of Elena’s wrists, moved her arms around like a doll.

Each time, Elena’s screams echoed through the air.

Eventually, unable to bear it any longer, Elena swung her leg to try to kick Leo.

But far from hitting Leo, her overexerted body only brought her more pain.

Soon, Elena went limp, half-dead from the tremendous pain.

“Lil.”

“Yes, big brother.”

“Carry this one for me.”

Leo dumped Elena onto Lil like she was luggage.

“Senior. You should have said something if it hurt.”

“Shut up.”

“Still, big brother was stretching you out because he cares about you, so don’t hate him too much.”

“I’m going to punch that Mister in the face someday!”

Elena reacted sharply to each of Lil’s words.

Though Elena was growling fiercely, Lil didn’t particularly mind.

Rather, she was puzzled by Elena’s words.

“Why is big brother a mister?”

“Because he acts like one.”

“Hmm… Big brother does have a dandy charisma about him.”

“Dandy charisma my ass. He’s just an annoying mister.”

“Huh? Isn’t big brother cool?”

“…”

Lil widened her eyes with an expression that said she couldn’t understand.

Elena, who had been making a sullen face while being carried by Lil, bit down on Lil’s nape.

“Ack! Senior! Why are you biting me!”

“Hmph!”

Elena snorted irritably.

‘They get along well.’

Listening to their conversation, Leo approached the second Priestess.

After taking a direct hit from Elena’s Apocalypse, no more ice tentacles had been generated.

The second Priestess was also silent.

But Leo could sense this was the calm before the storm.

Because an ominous aura was flowing from the body of Ameriol, the demon of Styx.

Seeing this, Leo concentrated mana at his fingertips.

The mana swirling at his fingertips soon took shape and transformed into a magic formula.

Ameriol’s eyes, which had been silent, suddenly snapped open at that mana.

Kwagagagang-!

At the same time, hundreds of ice tentacles burst through the ground and revealed themselves.

Jjeojeojeojeojeong-!

Leo instantly created hundreds of magic shields to block the attack.

Having easily blocked the ice tentacles, Leo curled up the corner of his mouth.

Seeing Leo like this, Ameriol opened her eyes and spoke.

“For a slave race, your tricks are quite impressive.”

“Or maybe you’re just pathetic for a Legion Commander with such a weak attack?”

At Leo’s words, the Priestess spoke with an expressionless face.

“I’ll forgive the rudeness of placing me on the same level as those hideous monsters of Tartaros only once, so remember that.”

“Then what should I call you?”

“Priestess.”

“Ah, so you’re the one that demon kept calling Priestess, Priestess.”

Leo nodded as if he understood.

Then he soon made an indifferent expression.

“You’re not even holy, so why should I call you by such an excessive title as Priestess? Just Legion Commander would be perfect…”

Bang-!

Before Leo could finish speaking, a giant ice blade descended from the sky and struck where Leo had been standing.

“Foolish slave. If you hadn’t committed such rudeness, I might have at least left a corpse.”

Ameriol spoke in a cold voice.

Crack crack crack-!

“…?”

Cracks began to appear in the giant ice blade.

Crash-!

The shattered ice blade scattered in all directions.

Along with it, Leo emerged from the deeply carved crater.

Leo, who had lightly lifted his body using magic, landed on the ground.

“It doesn’t seem like ordinary ice?”

When Leo made an interested expression, Ameriol looked incredulous.

“Just what did you do? That was a holy sword that the second Saint carved with all his might from the great goddess’s ice. Nothing in the world should be harder than that. How did you destroy it?”

“Hmm. Seems you have someone like the Giant King on your side too.”

Leo chuckled.

“But what should I do?”

Leo pointed his sword at Ameriol.

“Mine is a sword that the greatest blacksmith threw away?”

“That crude-looking sword?”

Looking at Ameriol narrowing her eyes, Leo smiled eerily.

“You’ll know once you’re cut by it directly.”

Whoosh-!

Leo concealed his form.

Leo, who instantly revealed himself in front of Ameriol, swung his sword to strike her neck.

“You’re quite fast for a slave.”

Clang-!

Leo’s attack was blocked by a barrier that formed in front of Ameriol.

“Did you think a mere slave could inflict even a single wound on a saint’s body?”

Thwack-!

“Yeah.”

Leo’s sword cut through Ameriol’s neck along with the barrier.

Leo spoke with cold eyes.

“You seem to think you’re some kind of legion commander.”

“You fool! This body is not a monster of Tartaros but a saint of Styx!”

“I know.”

Leo looked up at Ameriol’s head that had shot into the sky and answered indifferently, then kicked Ameriol’s body.

Thwack-!

“I said it to piss you off.”

Ameriol’s body shattered into pieces from Leo’s mocking kick.

Then, as Leo swung his sword, the gray aura that burst forth crushed Ameriol’s head floating in the air.

Clatter- Clatter- Clatter-

Ice fragments fell in all directions.

The ice fragments soon gathered into one and returned to their original form.

“You…!”

Watching Ameriol display her anger, Leo curled up the corners of his mouth.

“It would be impossible for you to handle me even in your original state, but wouldn’t it be even harder when your power is divided into three?”

Currently, Ameriol’s power was divided into three parts.

One was here, while the other two were being faced by Chloe and Ruka, and Runia and Woreden respectively.

At Leo’s words, tremendous cold energy burst forth from Ameriol’s body.

“I am the second saint! I’ll make you regret earning Ameriol’s wrath even in death!”

Whooooooo-!

Along with a chillingly cold voice, Ameriol’s body began to grow larger and larger.

Crack-crack-crack-

The surrounding temperature began to drop rapidly.

Moisture in the air was sucked into Ameriol.

Accordingly, Ameriol’s gigantification accelerated even more.

Eventually, Ameriol, who had grown tremendously large, shouted.

“Bow down! You foolish slaves! Your master! The saint of Styx has returned!”

***

Runia and Woreden showed bewildered expressions when the saint they had been fighting suddenly disappeared.

Shortly after, Chen Xia and Chloe, who had been fighting not far away, also joined them.

“Runia. Were you by any chance fighting a strange woman?”

“Yeah. But she suddenly disappeared. What about you guys?”

“Same with us.”

When Runia was lost in thought at Chen Xia’s answer.

“Senior Runia!”

Rea flew over from afar using magic.

“Elena Jeron and Ril Ruche from Lumern are fighting against a legion commander-class demon!”

At those words, the four people’s faces became serious.

“We need to hurry and join them…!”

When Runia spoke urgently.

“No need to join them.”

“Ehhhhhh?”

Risinass, who appeared behind Rea, grabbed Rea’s soft cheeks and said.

“Leo Flobe has joined that side.”

“Lord Risinass.”

Runia hurriedly bowed her head.

When the other students also tried to show courtesy, Risinass shook his head.

“No need for stiff formalities.”

Risinass, who was pinching Rea’s cheeks this way and that, was impressed.

‘Nice texture?’

While Rea made a tearful face, unable to do this or that.

Rumble-!

The saint’s figure began to be visible not far away.

The hero candidates led by Runia gaped.

“Th-that… isn’t it getting too big?”

“Isn’t it growing to rival the Giant King?”

Watching the shocked hero candidates, Risinass said.

“The Giant King is larger than that.”

Even if it was smaller than the Giant King, they were naturally overwhelmed by that imposing bulk.

“W-we need to hurry and help!”

Chloe spoke urgently.

Despite those words, Risinass maintained an indifferent expression.

“Leave it be.”

“Huh?”

“Demons who rely only on their abilities always show their lack of experience.”

Risinass sneered.

“Watch carefully. That’s just a bigger target.”

***

Leo looked up at Ameriol with an incredulous expression.

He could feel dark magic power incomparable to what it was moments ago.

Moreover, a terrifying cold began to rage around them.

Just standing there was enough to freeze one’s body.

Overwhelming power.

Power befitting a legion commander.

‘No, was it a saint?’

Actually, it didn’t matter either way.

Whether legion commander or saint, to Leo they were equally demons that needed to be subjugated.

Among Tartaros’s legion commanders, there were many gigantic monsters.

Representative examples were the Giant King and Monster Queen.

‘Well, compared to those, this one is more aesthetically pleasing to look at.’

Hideous monster form versus beautiful form.

The latter was cleaner to look at.

And…

“This one’s more convenient to deal with too.”

The more combat experience a demon had, the more dangerous they were.

Because they could perfectly understand and apply their abilities.

That’s why the malice of experienced demons was frightening.

They maximized and lethally refined their abilities.

And Leo immediately saw through that this demon called Ameriol lacked combat experience.

During the Age of Calamity.

When the legion commanders were defeated by the Great Heroes, Erebos created new demon-class beings at the legion commander level.

All the demons born that way were defeated by the Great Heroes.

The reason was simple.

To the Great Heroes who had gained experience through the Age of Calamity, the newly born demons were nothing more than strong-bodied idiots.

All of them, intoxicated by their own power, charged recklessly without thinking and were easily defeated.

Ameriol’s behavior was similar to those newly born legion commanders of that time.

Growing this large in size could increase one’s strength.

But that also meant there were many openings to attack.

Moreover, this cold wave.

“A fragment of Erebos… No, did you receive Nix’s blessing?”

“For a mere human, you have good insight!”

Nix’s blessing.

It felt similar to Erebos’s blessing.

Leo recalled the legion commander who had once received Erebos’s blessing, Jormungandr.

At that time, Jormungandr had obtained the power of immortality like Erebos, even if only for a moment.

“Slave race! Feel fear at the goddess’s power and kneel…”

“Now I understand why you lost to those Tartaros bastards.”

Leo, who had climbed up to Ameriol’s head, cut off her words.

Gray mana rippled from Leo’s hand gripping his sword.

Ameriol was pathetically weak compared to Jormungandr.

No, there was no need to even compare her to Jormungandr.

The Giant King, the Monster Queen, and so on.

She was weaker than any legion commander.

That was because Ameriol was not a demon born for battle.

Even so, as a High-Ranking Demon at the legion commander level, it was natural that she was strong.

Moreover, she had received the blessing of an evil god and been reborn as an immortal being for a moment.

Originally, she would be a monster that earthly races could not handle.

But Ameriol didn’t know.

That Nix had been devoured by Erebos.

That after they disappeared into the back alleys of history due to their defeat.

What Erebos and Tartaros, who had trampled them, had done.

And what kind of treatment the ultimate absolute evil that had devoured the six evil gods had received from one human.

As a saint who had been waiting only for the voice of god again in the basement, there was no way for her to know.

Ameriol looked at the light bursting from the hands of the human who appeared before her eyes with an expression of incomprehension.

‘What is that? That magic?’

It was like a crystallization of malice that one human had harbored toward an evil god.

Magic created by the Hero of the Beginning to destroy gods, born from endless contemplation to eternally erase the existence called evil gods from this world.

Magic created by the Progenitor of the Starry Skies, a fusion of Apocalypse and Innocent.

The power of judgment that the defeated could never dare resist.

Leo unleashed that magic.

“Zero.”

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