Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 763

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763.

Flash-!

The saint, like a giant ice fragment, was swept up in the flash.

No, that light was somehow different to be called a flash.

It wasn’t a bright light that instantly stole one’s vision.

That light was precisely gray in color.

“That magic… what exactly is it?”

Runia muttered blankly.

“It looks like Star Magic…?”

Chloe made a confused expression beside her.

As Chloe said, everyone could tell that magic seemed like Star Magic.

But beyond that, they couldn’t understand anything else.

They could only realize it was someone’s unique magic in the form of Star Magic.

Then Woreden muttered.

“It’s similar.”

Everyone’s attention turned to Woreden.

“It resembles the gray mana that Leo Flobe uses.”

“Ah. Definitely! Then is that magic Leo’s unique magic?”

Rea said with wide eyes.

“It’s disappearing.”

“What?”

But at Ruka’s following words, everyone’s gaze turned back to Leo.

As Ruka said, Ameriol’s body, struck by Leo’s magic, was slowly breaking apart and decomposing.

Among the surrounding buildings exposed to that gray light, none were being destroyed.

Leo’s magic had only damaged Ameriol.

Risinass, watching this scene, clenched his fist.

‘It’s magic I’ve never seen before, but… it’s definitely Kail’s magic.’

He could recognize it instantly.

In some sense, that magic resembled the Hero of the Beginning himself.

The somehow desolate pale gray light gave viewers a strange loneliness and even longing.

Unique magic sometimes expresses a mage’s inner thoughts.

In that sense, that gray light resembled Kail’s life.

‘Kail before he met me.’

The faded inner self of the surviving hero Kail, who had lost everything and had nothing left.

The inner self just before announcing a great beginning.

‘He fused Apocalypse and Innocent.’

Risinass instantly saw through the magic’s identity.

A miraculous power that returns everything related to evil gods to nothingness.

Anyone could tell at a glance.

What level that magic was at.

The techniques used to complete the magic were Apocalypse and Innocent.

Magic created by Luna.

But fusing those two techniques to create new magic was entirely Leo’s ability.

Even Luna probably couldn’t have dared imagine that Apocalypse, a magic of absolute destruction, could be fused with Innocent, a magic that was simply pure.

Before he knew it, Kail’s level as a mage had reached right behind the genius Luna.

He felt the distance anew.

The distance between Leo, who was advancing, and himself, left behind standing alone in place.

‘Since I can’t advance further, this gap will surely widen more.’

-Risinass.

“Yeah. What is it.”

Elsi carefully looked up at Risinass.

And was surprised.

Risinass was smiling.

-Aren’t you… sad?

“Huh? Why do you think I should be sad?”

-Well… because you must have felt the distance from Leo.

Right now, they were miraculously sharing the same time.

But this miraculous moment wouldn’t last forever.

Arron, Luna, Dweno… and even Risinass.

For anyone, miraculous moments had come to an end and would continue to do so.

Risinass would be no different.

Elsi didn’t know the feelings of Arron, Luna, and Dweno who had departed earlier.

She couldn’t know what feelings they had watched Leo with.

But if it had been Elsi herself.

‘I would have been sad and miserable.’

The sense of distance from someone more precious than her own life.

The reality of not being able to be together would surely have been despairing and resentful.

But Risinass showed no such signs at all.

Rather, he was smiling with endless joy.

“I can’t help but be happy.”

-Pardon?

“All the things I said long ago were lies.”

-Lies?

“Yeah. If they weren’t lies, I couldn’t have given hope to people back then.”

-…

“I had to deceive people somehow.”

-But those lies have now become truth.

“Right. But the fact that I was a fraud remains unchanged.”

Risinass smiled pleasantly while looking at the completely vanished gray light.

“But now a hero who speaks only truth has appeared. And the fact that it’s Kail…”

Without a hint of falsehood, Risinass said.

“I’m so happy and proud.”

His heart trembled seeing Kail, who would become the hero he couldn’t become and could no longer become.

-…Did you fall for him again?

“…Yeah. Enough to want to go hug him.”

-Let’s go meet him.

“Alright.”

Risinass smiled and headed toward Kail.

***

Ameriol vanished without even realizing she was dying.

Leo sheathed his sword and approached Elena and Lil with an expressionless face.

“As expected of you, brother! To defeat a legion commander-class demon all by yourself!”

Lil said in an excited voice.

At those words, Leo replied indifferently.

“Legion commander-class? Are you kidding?”

“Pardon?

“Looking at its position and dark magic power, it might have been legion commander-class. But its actual ability was just some pathetic demon trash.”

If Silatuna or Gias, who had already been defeated, had possessed the abilities of Ameriol who was just defeated, they would never have been defeated so futilely.

The power one possesses doesn’t represent absolute combat capability.

From that perspective, by Leo’s standards, the second saint Ameriol was just a strong idiot.

“…Isn’t the standard too high?”

When Elena frowned, Leo chuckled.

“With your current combined strength, it would have been impossible to subjugate. But it’s the truth.”

“Just what standard are you using to measure legion commander level?”

“The legion commander level that existed during the Age of Calamity.”

“…”

Even in the current era, when a legion commander appears, the surrounding nations feel threats close to annihilation.

The three great legion commanders, now all subjugated except for one, ruled through fear by their very existence alone.

“Are the legion commanders born in this era really legion commanders? They’re just high-ranking demons pretending to be legion commanders.”

But for this man, the bar is set too high.

“Damn old-timer.”

Elena grumbled quietly.

At that, Leo approached Elena and pulled her ear.

“Ow ow ow ow! What are you doing to your senior! Lil! Get away from this human right now.”

“Stay still.”

“I’m sorry, Senior Elena. My brother’s orders take priority for me.”

“This insubordination…! Aaaaaaaah!”

Leo now grabbed Elena’s hair above her ear and pulled.

It was when Elena was screaming frantically.

“It seems no one was seriously injured.”

Not far away, Risinass revealed himself.

“Oh! Lord Risinass!”

Lil stood at attention! and bowed his head 90 degrees toward Risinass.

Thanks to that, Elena, who had been riding on Lil’s back, fell straight to the ground and landed on her bottom.

“What are you doing!”

When Elena shouted, Lil spoke in a stern voice.

“Senior Elena. We’re in front of Lord Risinass. Show some manners.”

Usually Elena would boss Lil around as she pleased, but in front of the great heroes, she was instead bossed around by Lil.

Grinding her teeth while glaring at Lil, Elena saw Leo going “kek-kek-” trying to hold back his laughter and bit her lips tightly.

‘This mister really!’

It seems he finds teasing her quite entertaining.

Feeling like she’d become a toy, Elena thought to herself.

‘I really want to hit him just once!’

While Elena was grinding her teeth inwardly.

Risinass, who had been watching this scene, smiled slightly.

And approached Leo.

Thud- Thud- Tap tap tap tap tap- Whoosh-!

Before Leo could react, he ran at full speed and flew straight into a drop kick to Leo’s face.

Thwack-!

Elena and Lil’s mouths gaped open.

Leo, who was sent flying, rolled around on the ground.

“What are you doing!”

When Leo ground his teeth, Risinass pointed to his own chest with a cold expression.

And said coldly.

“Consider yourself lucky it ended with just this.”

Risinass snorted and patted Elena and Lil’s heads.

Elena made a “serves you right” expression, and while Lil didn’t understand what happened, he just smiled happily at Risinass’s praise.

Watching this scene with a scrunched face, Leo lay sprawled on the ground and picked up ice chunks rolling around nearby to place on his face.

-Risinass.

‘Yeah.’

-Didn’t you say you wanted to hug him?

‘I wanted to, but seeing his face with not an ounce of remorse made me want to kick him instead.’

At those words, Elsi shook her head back and forth.

***

Whooooooo-!

Eastern Continent.

The border region with Tartaros.

Deviange’s pride and the hero with the alias [Iron Fortress].

Rasaon Robet was sitting atop the high city wall.

He was an old man with a wrinkled face, disheveled white hair, and an impressive eyepatch covering his right eye.

An already aged hero.

But his shining left eye reminded those who saw him that he wasn’t simply an old hero, but a hero who had protected this eastern region from demons for many years and was still a formidable iron wall.

Then a woman with deep black hair climbed up onto the city wall.

“Commander!”

“Have all the soldiers been issued winter equipment, adjutant?”

“Yes. But we don’t know how long this abnormal weather will last – is it really okay to have them fully armed with winter equipment?”

Rasaon’s adjutant, Winny Sheen, was a half-blood with beast-kin blood flowing through her.

She too was a hero with the alias Iron Claws, a soldier who had assisted Rasaon for many years protecting the eastern region.

This eastern region wasn’t only invaded by high-ranking demons or giant monsters that soldiers couldn’t handle.

There were also cases where tremendous numbers of low-ranking demons and monsters would surge in like a tsunami.

No matter how powerful the heroes and the knights, mages, and summoners who followed them were, they alone couldn’t handle such numbers.

That’s why in this eastern front, soldiers were also important warriors just like the heroes.

As such, thorough preparations were made to prevent power losses outside of combat, with winter equipment being a prime example.

It was important supplies that protected soldiers from the bitter cold winds blowing from the north during winter.

But if the snow suddenly melted and the weather became hot, it could become an obstacle hindering the soldiers’ movements.

Yet Rasaon had the soldiers fully armed with winter equipment.

Considering the weather had warmed up once before, it could be excessive.

At Winny Sheen’s words, Rasaon took out a note from his chest and handed it to her.

Winny Sheen received it with a puzzled expression, checked the letter’s seal, and froze.

“This is…!”

“The Dragon Lord’s seal.”

Rasaon said calmly.

“The Silent Dragon occasionally gives advice to heroes. Usually she remains silent, but… I’ve never seen a hero who ignored her words when she spoke and didn’t lose their life.”

Rasaon too had received the Dragon Lord’s advice several times.

And each time, he had succeeded in blocking Tartaros’s seemingly impossible attacks.

“But… this is strange. If it was advice like this, it would have been fine to communicate it officially, wouldn’t it?”

Many lower-ranking commanders were puzzled about switching to winter equipment.

If an official document had been sent, that confusion could have been reduced.

Yet they deliberately used this troublesome method, which Winny Sheen found puzzling.

“Do you know why?”

“Pardon?”

“Because if she officially spoke up… that would become a command, not advice.”

Rasaon’s remaining eye shone wisely.

“Adjutant… no. Winny. Remember this.”

“Yes.”

“No matter how great an existence may be, commands inevitably provoke resistance. They’ll listen for now. But the Dragon Lord is an existence who gives advice, not one who rules over us.”

Right now it’s a matter related to the eastern front, so there’s no big problem.

But what if interests were entangled?

“No matter how legitimate a command might be, if she carelessly intervened in conflicts… yes, especially situations like civil wars in our country, one side would inevitably resist.”

“…”

“If that happens, the authority of the one who gave the command would be lost.”

“…This is an age of chaos. If we could reach an agreement, at least until this chaos ends….”

“Impossible. It might have been different if the Dragons had ruled from the beginning. But for them to serve as advisors…. As selectors who stepped back from world history, it’s already been 5000 years.”

In people’s minds, Dragons are already watchers.

“If they tried to rule, it would obviously cause even greater backlash.”

“This is difficult.”

“It is difficult.”

Rasaon sighed.

“This era needs a legitimate king who can rule over the world.”

To unite the chaotic world in one direction, a king with powerful influence is needed.

“The existence of such a king is impossible. No one would accept it.”

Winny Sheen shook her head.

“Right. It’s practically impossible. But you never know.”

Rasaon smiled broadly.

“Now that the King of Wisdom, who led this world to salvation, has revealed himself to the world again. Perhaps he will choose such a king.”

“What?”

“Isn’t he the one who selected the heroes that saved the world? There’s no law saying he can’t select a king to lead the world.”

It was when Rasaon was chuckling.

Thud-!

A small vibration echoed.

A very faint vibration.

But Rasaon and Winny Sheen, who had reached the transcendent realm and risen to the position of Heroes, sensed something unusual.

“I’m getting old, so… where did the impact start from?”

“…The west.”

“The west?”

Sheen frowned and turned her head.

The west was the land he had devoted his life to protecting.

“…This is not ordinary.”

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