Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 780

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780.

Risinass looked at Leo lying on the bed.

Beside Leo stood Selia with a worried expression on her face.

“Is he still unconscious?”

At Selia’s question, Mellina, who had been examining his condition, nodded.

“Yes.”

“Why on earth is this happening?”

Chloe asked in an anxious voice.

“I can’t know the details myself. But there’s nothing seriously wrong with his body.”

“Nothing wrong with his body?”

“Yes. He’s in a very healthy state.”

Mellina said while looking at Leo’s face.

“Could it be some kind of curse?”

When Lil cautiously voiced her opinion, Elena tilted her head.

“If it’s Leo, even curses would tremble and run away.”

“Pfft.”

At Elena’s words, Risinass burst into laughter without realizing it.

Everyone’s gaze turned to Risinass in an instant.

Under those gazes, Risinass spoke.

“Let me take a look. Could everyone except Mellina leave the room?”

The students looked at each other’s faces once and then left the room.

When Risinass approached Leo, Mellina stepped aside.

“Could it be some kind of curse?”

“Didn’t you hear what Elena said earlier? Curses like that don’t work on this guy. Especially mental curses.”

Curses are a unique power possessed by the Tartaros Demons that weaken targets or lead them to death.

In the case of high-level curses, they can even nullify abilities themselves.

There are various forms, and among them, mental interference curses steal the target’s consciousness or drive them insane.

“It was Kail who overcame even Erebos’s curse. There’s no way curses from mere demons would work.”

The representative effect of mental curses is the weakening of the opponent’s mind.

As such, they don’t work on those with strong mental fortitude.

The Hero of the Beginning’s mental strength was by far the greatest among the Great Heroes.

‘Because he was someone who only lost.’

Risinass looked at Leo with somewhat pitying eyes.

A man who never gives up even in the depths of despair.

That’s the kind of man Kail is.

Because he never gave up, Kail had lived a life where he only lost.

“Then what on earth could it be?”

When Mellina made a confused expression, Risinass gently stroked Leo’s forehead and said.

“His soul has left his body.”

“What?”

“I can’t sense Kail’s soul in his body.”

To Risinass’s eyes as a spiritualist, it was visible that Leo’s soul was absent from his physical body.

Hearing this, Mellina made a bewildered expression.

“What on earth happened?”

“Well.”

Risinass, who had been gently stroking Leo’s cheek, said.

“Mellina, could you bring me a pen?”

“Yes.”

Mellina brought a pen from inside the room and handed it over.

Taking the pen, Risinass wrote “idiot” on Leo’s cheek.

As Risinass giggled, Mellina made a blank expression.

“Risinass?”

“He’s a light sleeper, so I can’t do this normally. When else would I get the chance? Want to try too?”

“I-I’m fine.”

At Mellina’s words, Risinass smiled mischievously.

“Don’t worry too much.”

“What?”

“Spiritualists who have trained spirit magic to the extreme can temporarily extract their own souls.”

Risinass poked Leo’s cheek and chuckled.

His playful appearance looked somehow innocent.

“I don’t know what he’s scheming, but it seems Kail used that ability.”

“Was that possible with spirit magic?”

“Yeah. A spiritualist of my level can do it. And Kail inherited my spirit magic.”

Risinass smiled mischievously and flicked Leo’s forehead.

“He probably separated his soul from his body intentionally. So you don’t need to worry.”

“Ah.”

Mellina made a relieved expression.

“Please calm down the other children.”

“Yes.”

Nodding, Mellina left the room.

Risinass looked outside the window.

Snow had begun to fall at some point.

Looking at the snow, Risinass opened his mouth.

“Really… lying is a daily routine, both in the past and now.”

Risinass smiled bitterly.

There’s no such ability to separate the soul from the body.

It was just a lie to reassure Mellina.

The one supporting this era is none other than Leo.

Moreover, Mellina and several others know that Leo is the reincarnation of the Hero of the Beginning, Kail.

If they learned that something had happened to Leo, it would inevitably affect morale.

‘That can’t happen.’

Looking at the snow falling outside the window, Risinass coldly analyzed the situation.

It’s true that Leo’s soul has disappeared from his body.

‘But it’s stabilized.’

Despite the unstable situation where the soul has separated from the body, there’s no threat to his life.

Risinass reached out and put his hand into Leo’s inner pocket.

Clink-

A moment later.

He pulled out a pocket watch from Leo’s pocket.

Click-

Opening the lid revealed a watch that was barely moving.

Confirming the slowly moving second hand of the watch, Risinass grabbed Leo’s wrist.

‘The flow of mana is slow.’

Precisely, the flow of mana in Leo’s body was flowing similarly to the time on the watch.

‘The soul is connected to the body. Then it wasn’t ejected externally.’

Risinass quickly grasped the situation.

‘Kail’s body has deviated from the flow of time itself.’

He combines theories in his head.

‘That means… his soul was ejected to another dimension, not somewhere in this world. Yet the connection to his body wasn’t severed.’

The King of Wisdom, praised as the wisest in the world, soon reached one conclusion.

‘Being in a different dimension while still belonging to this place? Multiverse interpretation?!’

Having reached that conclusion, Risinass looked down at Leo.

Had Leo crossed over to a parallel world through his own power?

‘It would be reasonable to assume someone else sent him.’

And Risinass knew of a being with unknown authority.

‘Nix.’

Another evil god who was born alongside Erebos.

Perhaps it was the work of that evil god.

Having reached his conclusion, Risinass let out a deep sigh.

‘If they judged Kail as a risk factor and neutralized him… they’ll move soon.’

With that thought, Risinass rose from his seat.

“Your empty place… I’ll handle it for a while.”

He had lied to Mellina to prevent the future children from becoming agitated.

Even if not perfectly, he could fill Leo’s empty place.

Of course, he who would soon disappear couldn’t fully shoulder the world.

‘But temporarily filling in is enough.’

He didn’t know what scheme was used, but the Hero of the Beginning would definitely return.

He had such absolute trust.

‘He’s the hero I chose.’

Risinass approached the window.

Outside the window, he could see the hero candidates.

Among them, he could see the next generation heroes chosen by Leo, led by Runia who was devoted to training.

‘Someday those children will support Kail, just as Kail of the past supported me, and just as I now support Kail.’

But now was too early.

A fence was needed.

That’s why Risinass had lied to Mellina.

But…

‘I just need to make the lie into truth again this time.’

It’s not a big problem.

He just needs to keep that promise.

Just as he always had.

Risinass looked up at the sky.

‘Come on. This world won’t crumble just because the Hero of the Beginning is absent.’

***

“Everyone entered the realm of super-senses in just one week! Amazing as expected!”

Kar said with sparkling eyes.

Looking at such Kar, Leo made an indifferent expression.

“You’re just bad at teaching.”

Even at Leo’s words, Kar only smiled brightly.

Dion touched his ears with a curious expression.

“So this is super-senses… It feels like this.”

Borman rubbed under his nose and said.

“How should I put it… You’re amazing. I was half-doubtful, but to think we’d step into super-senses in just one week…”

“Unlike this guy who was born with super-senses, I had to learn from him.”

Leo glanced at Kar.

“I know what’s difficult about learning.”

Hearing those words, Rwen nodded.

“Still, seeing how quickly you pass on the know-how is amazing.”

“Right. Ka… No. Leo teaches really well.”

“It’s also because your vessels were already complete to begin with.”

“Vessels?”

“Right. You had to dodge this guy’s attacks to survive.”

In the fights with Kar, they always had to sharpen their senses.

Those sharpened senses themselves became the foundation for entering the realm of super-senses.

Until now, they were just missing the crucial element.

Leo had simply given them training that first awakened each person’s keen senses.

“But…”

Splash- Rwen looked at Ar being pushed by the incoming waves.

Her body stretched out limply, clearly in a fainted state.

“Is Ar okay?”

At those words, Leo approached Ar and poked her.

Ar didn’t move at all.

Leo lifted the heavy iron ball attached to Ar’s ankle with chains and said.

“Should I drop her back into the sea?”

“Hey, you vicious human!”

Ar jumped up and protested to Leo.

Looking at such Ar, Leo chuckled and released the iron ball.

Thud-!

As the gravity-enchanted iron ball fell to the ground, the earth shook.

Leo had trained Ar by throwing her into the sea.

The reason was simple.

Underwater, touch, sight, smell, and hearing are all blocked.

It was the perfect environment to maximize sensory activation, so he forcibly threw her in.

“Why are you only particularly cruel to me!”

“You’re the boss cat.”

“Boss?”

“Right. You’re the closest to Kar among all of you.”

“Heh. That’s true.”

Ar became smug.

Seeing that, her classmates made expressions of disdain.

‘Does that idiot fall for those words completely?’

‘Easy. So easy.’

While everyone was clicking their tongues.

“Anyway, you’ve also entered super-senses, right?”

“Of course.”

“Then shall we proceed with a test? Everyone gather around.”

At Leo’s words, the Ajonia third-years made puzzled expressions.

When Leo gestured with his chin, Kar hesitantly took something out from his chest.

It was a luxurious box.

When the lid opened, a Hero Record popped out from inside.

It was none other than the first chapter of Hero Arron’s Hero Record.

Kar had brought it from Ajonia using his student council president authority.

The world that Leo had first encountered and conquered with Ar when he was a first-year in the original world.

Kar approached Ar and said.

“Um…”

“Yes?”

“You can’t be disappointed when you see the hero’s appearance, okay?”

“What do you mean by that…?”

Ar made a puzzled expression as she received the Hero Record fragment that Kar handed her.

Along with that, seeing the message before her eyes, she opened her eyes wide.

The other Ajonia third-years were the same.

Flash-!

With a bright light, the Ajonia students disappeared from sight.

Kar, who had been watching this scene, spoke.

“Kail.”

“What.”

“You said I was being too hard on the kids.”

“Yeah.”

“But no matter how I think about it, you seem more vicious than me.”

“How so?”

“I torment them physically, but you torment them mentally.”

“That’s because they’re weak. Back in my day.”

“You know even Berkia and Bihar trembled at those words, right?”

Leo chuckled at Kar’s words.

***

Clang-! Clang-!

The sound of pickaxes breaking rocks echoed cheerfully.

Dwarves were the greatest warriors and craftsmen, as well as the finest miners.

Their mine development skills were unmatched among all races.

At the entrance of such a mine.

A dwarf stood before a large marble stone, a pipe clenched between his teeth as he glared at the marble.

In his hands were a chisel and hammer.

Then.

Someone’s hand snatched the pipe from the dwarf’s mouth.

“Senior. Smoking violates school rules.”

“Do you think I need to follow school rules at my age?”

“Senior. Please stop talking like an old man. You’re still a teenager with a bright future ahead.”

Driana looked at Valhar, Demian’s student council president, with pitying eyes.

Clicking his tongue, Valhar set down his hammer and chisel, snatched back his pipe from Driana’s hand, and puffed on it.

Then he approached the mine entrance and said.

“How’s the mine development going?”

“It’s going smoothly. But do we really need to develop the mine from scratch?”

Usually Demian students would mine ore from mines, but actually developing the mines themselves was uncommon.

At Driana’s question, Valhar’s eyes widened.

“Mine development is the duty of the dwarf race since ancient times! As students, we must not forget the basics!”

“…But Senior Valhar, you only supervise the mine development, you don’t actually do it yourself.”

“Should I be getting my face covered in soot developing mines at my age?!”

“…So Senior Valhar, you’re still a teenager. Stop talking like you’re all old and decrepit…”

“You’ve been talking back to an adult this whole time. Should I crack your head open?”

As Valhar swung his hammer around menacingly, Driana shrieked and ran away.

Watching Driana flee, Valhar clicked his tongue.

Then he looked into the mine.

Shortly after.

Screams began echoing from inside the mine.

Seeing this, Valhar’s eyes stirred.

Demian students began rushing out of the tunnel in panic.

“What’s happening?”

When Valhar grabbed one student and asked, the student said urgently.

“P-President! Black flames… black flames!”

“Black flames?”

As Valhar furrowed his brow.

Whoooosh-!

Black flames erupted from the mine entrance where the students had fled.

Seeing this, Valhar’s… Dweno’s face hardened.

Those flames were all too familiar to Valhar.

He could never forget them even if he tried.

He had lost his life to those black flames.

Valhar, no, Dweno muttered that name.

“Calamity Flame…!”

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