Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 803

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803.

“Kail, the surviving hero. 5000 years ago, you sealed me away.”

Erebos smiled as he looked at Leo.

“No matter how much the power you possess is the only force capable of defeating me, it was an impossible task.”

The absolute evil that had devoured all evil gods that existed since the beginning of time and became an existence that even the celestial gods could not handle.

No matter how much he had obtained all the power of the great heroes, there was no way he could handle it.

“So I thought. I should take on your appearance, the one who stopped me.”

“How?”

Seeing Leo asking with his arms crossed, a malicious smile appeared on Erebos’s lips.

“Even if you accomplished great deeds, you’re merely human. Imitating your appearance isn’t that difficult.”

A divine being.

Perfectly recreating Kail’s appearance from the memories of the battle 5000 years ago wasn’t that difficult for Erebos.

“Moreover, destroying the world in the form of the one who saved it would be even more meaningful.”

“Your way of thinking is really damn unlucky.”

Leo revealed his hostility in a low voice.

The creature’s twisted malice toward the world was clear.

Leo gripped his sword tighter.

‘…Can I defeat this thing here and now?’

If he took the front and Luna took the rear, they might be able to achieve a stalemate.

But defeating it was a different matter.

‘Most importantly…’

Leo glanced toward where the Flobe Estate was located.

The demon legions that had suddenly appeared.

They were subordinates created by Erebos using the power of creation.

Raina and the others dispatched from Rodren had gone to protect the territory.

But…

‘It’s not enough.’

Their forces were overwhelmingly insufficient.

Though he was exaggerating his composure in front of Erebos, the crisis situation remained unchanged.

‘I need to end this as quickly as possible.’

Having thought that far, Leo spoke.

“Luna.”

“Huh?”

Roon was slightly flustered seeing Leo call her by her past life’s name rather than her current one.

“I need you to hit extra hard.”

Roon was taken aback seeing Leo turn to look at her with a grin.

“What? Then you’ll have to block that bastard all by yourself!”

Extra hard.

Roon knew all too well what that meant.

It meant pouring out all her mana to cast magic with the greatest power.

Magic became more powerful the more mana was used and the longer time was spent completing it.

But in exchange for gaining power, she would be unable to do anything while the magic was being completed.

She wouldn’t be able to support Leo.

Moreover, Erebos knew better than anyone how powerful Roon’s magic was.

‘He won’t just leave me alone until the magic is completed.’

In the end, Leo would have to fight Erebos while protecting Roon.

The two of them hadn’t yet regained their peak power.

Even if it was just a fragment, it was an existence that couldn’t be handled alone.

The difference in power was clear.

“It’s impossible! Instead of that, let’s somehow hold out until the others arrive…”

“When have we ever.”

Leo looked straight into Roon’s eyes and said.

“Done things that were possible?”

“…!”

“We’ve overcome difficult situations like this many times, haven’t we?”

Roon bit her lip.

“Luna. Even in the moment you closed your eyes, you trusted me absolutely, right?”

Leo looked at Erebos.

“I would have done the same.”

If the situation had been reversed.

Leo would never have doubted Luna.

“I trust you.”

“…”

“So just like then, trust me too.”

Strength entered Roon’s hand gripping her staff.

“We’ve accomplished impossible things by trusting each other like that.”

Leaving those words behind, Leo stepped forward.

Watching his retreating figure, Roon brought both hands to her head and shouted irritably.

“Ah! Really! Why are you making my heart flutter in such an urgent situation!”

After tugging at her hair once, Roon glared at Leo.

“This is all because of that bastard! Why is he being unnecessarily cool! It’s bad for my heart!”

After venting her inexplicable anger once, Roon took a deep breath.

Then she slapped both her cheeks with her palms as hard as she could.

Smack-!

Leaving her stinging cheeks behind, Roon gripped her staff.

‘Alright, let’s give it a try.’

Roon’s eyes focused on Leo’s back.

The retreating figure she couldn’t follow and had to let go in her past life.

‘…If I let you go alone again even after being reborn… that would really be the worst!’

Whooooooo-!

As enormous mana surged, an incantation flowed from Roon’s mouth.

The incantation of the strongest magic, Apocalypse.

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“Oh?”

Erebos looked at Leo with apparent interest.

“Do you think you can handle me all by yourself, surviving hero? You should know it’s impossible to fight while protecting the Progenitor of the Starry Skies, shouldn’t you?”

A laugh full of mockery.

But Erebos never underestimated Leo and Roon.

5000 years ago.

In the end, hadn’t their obsession torn his body and aspirations to shreds?

“Don’t smile with that damn unlucky expression. I don’t smile like that.”

“Hmm. I was just perfectly recreating your smile, though?”

Erebos stroked his lips.

“I don’t smile like that.”

“You do smile like that!”

“Whose side are you on?”

When Roon’s voice came from behind as she was chanting, Leo irritably glared back.

“Kukukuk… Indeed, your mental fortitude is at an amazing level. To be able to have such a conversation even in this situation.”

A situation where the Age of Calamity might return.

Even before that, the absolute evil couldn’t help but express pure admiration at the sight of the two calmly conversing.

“So? Surviving Hero. How do you plan to stop me all by yourself?”

Looking at Erebos who asked with interest and wariness, Leo answered calmly.

“I’ll show you.”

Whoooooosh-!

Gray mana flowed from Leo’s body, rippling like burning flames.

Seeing this, Erebos frowned.

‘The power of purity.’

Ash gray.

It was a color all too familiar to Erebos, who was also an incarnation of flame, and a color that the evil god favored.

A color symbolizing the desire to turn the world into ash and crumble it away.

But now it had become the color he most hated and feared.

‘That the power of purity is ash gray… How utterly ironic.’

Whoosh-!

Black flames burst forth from Erebos’s body.

Calamity flames that would burn the world leaving not even a trace.

“In your current state, you cannot stop me, Surviving Hero.”

“I heard those words 5000 years ago too. And the result of this battle will be similar to 5000 years ago. You will be defeated by our hands.”

“With your current power, it’s impossible.”

At Erebos’s sneer, Leo smiled.

“Shall I tell you an interesting fact?”

“…?”

“When I first awakened my mana.”

Leo opened his palm.

Gray mana began to condense there.

Looking at his own mana, Leo spoke.

“The color of my mana wasn’t gray.”

Erebos’s eyes twitched.

Leo had only confirmed the color of his mana in his previous life once, when he awakened.

The color of mana is the color of one’s soul.

And mana changing color wasn’t actually that rare an occurrence.

Mana color changes for various reasons.

“5000 years ago, the flames that burned the world swept over me at that time.”

The Age of Calamity burned everything around young Kail.

“Many things burned.”

After losing his first companions.

Leo’s mana color became gray.

“Why are you suddenly bringing up meaningless old stories?”

“After reincarnating, I endlessly pondered. How I could completely annihilate you.”

Leo lifted his eyes from his palm and looked at Erebos.

“I’m not Risinass, nor am I Luna. I’m not Arron or Dweno either. I lack the capability to pioneer and advance a path like those guys.”

During the final battle, Kail had used the essence of power built up by his companions.

Not the power of one, but the power of five.

But in this life, Leo was alone.

So he had no choice but to find the answer to defeat Erebos in memories of the past.

Conversations he’d shared with his companions.

He chewed over the past again and again to find clues to develop his power from things they’d done together.

It was agonizing work, but he didn’t stop.

Words his friends had casually thrown out gave Leo enlightenment time and again.

“Then I recalled memories I had forgotten.”

Memories I wanted to forget.

So memories of awakening abilities I had lived forgetting.

“The starting point, I found the path there.”

Leo clenched his fist.

The burning gray mana died down.

At that moment.

Erebos felt goosebumps rise all over his body.

Leo’s mana color was changing.

The ash gray gradually became fainter as if draining away.

“I refined my mana countless times.”

So that pure power could become utterly pure.

This was different from condensation and compression.

It was removing impurities mixed in the mana.

That meant encountering and overcoming terrible memories engraved in his soul countless times.

To refine his mana and return to the starting point.

Leo vividly recalled memories he had experienced countless times.

Along with pain he would never grow accustomed to.

He repeated the vivid agony that seemed like it would shatter his mind.

Flash-

Finally, pure white mana shone from Leo’s hand.

“What… what are you, Surviving Hero.”

Erebos’s face was colored with terror.

That pure white wasn’t obtained for free.

It was the product of pain on a level even Erebos couldn’t imagine.

“How is such a thing possible…?”

Looking at Erebos who asked with a shocked face, Leo smiled.

“Thanks to you.”

“What?”

“After being burned by you, I realized.”

Leo’s eyes gleamed with murderous intent and venom.

“That even the pain of the past I wanted to forget was bearable.”

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