Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 807

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807.

“Evil god?”

Kar made a bewildered expression.

‘Wasn’t Erebos the only evil god?’

The appearance of another being claiming to be an evil god.

Moreover, the power it was emanating was far from ordinary.

‘It’s definitely a fragment of Erebos.’

Kar’s transcendent senses told him that this being was a fragment of Erebos, yet something completely different.

‘Whatever it is….’

Kar’s hands tensed with strength.

‘It’s still something that must be defeated.’

Nix watched Kar, who was trembling, with interested eyes.

“Truly remarkable. For a mere mortal like you to see through my essence.”

On the surface, Nix appeared no different from an ordinary human.

This was because he had perfectly concealed his presence as an evil god.

Nevertheless, Kar had accurately seen through Nix’s essence.

‘To see through the essence of a divine being… what a remarkable existence.’

But that was all.

No matter how strong a being might be, it was ultimately something that would die and disappear someday.

There was no way a resident of the lower realm with clear limitations could handle an evil god with immortal power.

“Why… did you come here?”

“I don’t have business in this place. This just happened to be on my way.”

“On your way?”

Nix smiled faintly.

“I sealed my divine artifact at the southern end of the world, and I need to retrieve it.”

“If you’re just passing through, there’s no need to fight, right?”

Kar said while trembling.

The evil god’s presence made Kar, with his sensitive senses, paralyzed with fear.

The evil god before him was certainly the nemesis of himself and his friends.

But there was no need to fight right now.

‘If he passes by… I can contact Rea and form a subjugation force.’

Right now, he couldn’t handle this alone.

‘Then avoiding a fight would be the best strategy.’

For the cowardly Kar, it was an inevitable choice.

He didn’t like scary things.

At Kar’s words, Nix smiled faintly.

“Yes. So I’m going to give eternal rest to those in this place.”

“What?! Why do you insist on fighting?! We have no intention of being hostile toward you!”

“When you’re walking and there are bugs in your path, do you bother to avoid them? You just step on them and move on, right? It’s the same thing.”

Nix smiled faintly.

“Why should I avoid the inferior residents of the lower realm? Only beautiful things should remain in this world.”

Nix pointed at Ajonia with his finger.

“For those who weren’t chosen… giving them rest quickly is rather a blessing. Don’t you think so?”

The evil god’s way of thinking was beyond common sense, something he could never understand.

Behind Nix, a massive ice gate was created.

And from within it, Styx’s army revealed itself.

Kar immediately saw through that they were demons, different from Tartaros but demons nonetheless.

An evil god of unknown identity and the demons that followed them.

‘Scary.’

Fear overwhelmed him.

In that moment, Kar unconsciously stepped backward.

‘I have to protect the students….’

The students of Ajonia.

Rough and fierce, but also pure-hearted and courageous people.

Descendants of heroes who admired the falsely recorded image of himself in history and wanted to become like that.

But could he protect them alone?

‘I’m… not like a hero.’

He was just a coward.

Kar, whose mind was filled only with thoughts of wanting to run away immediately, unconsciously squeezed his eyes shut.

It wasn’t like his past life where he had reliable friends around him.

‘Can I do this alone?’

When Kar was wavering.

“Everyone! Prepare for battle!”

A powerful voice rang out from behind.

“How dare you! This is a place where the descendants of heroes build their strength, established by the great warrior Ajonia!”

Jepia, the principal of Ajonia, shouted with a fierce voice.

“We’ll make you regret barging into this place so recklessly! Let’s smash all their heads to pieces! Are you ready, rookies!”

“Yes!”

At Jepia’s shout, the Ajonia students responded with short, strong voices.

“Don’t let only Kar be active!”

“We’re also descendants of heroes!”

“Hey! Kar! You’re not scared again, are you?”

“Would he be scared? That guy. He does what needs to be done! He’ll be the bravest among us when fighting, right? Just not normally.”

Kar’s classmates and seniors shouted.

Kar clenched his fists while looking at the Ajonia students.

The hero candidates he had pushed and led.

Future heroes who admired the hero Arron and ran toward that fantasy.

‘…Heavy.’

When he realized anew that these were people he was responsible for, his shoulders felt heavy.

‘I’m only leading a few hundred people… yet it’s heavy.’

He realized anew what the weight of being responsible for something meant.

Just as they admired and chased after his false image.

Kar too had admired someone and wanted to be like them.

The gray-haired young man he could never become like in the end.

He thought of Kar as an equal friend and comrade, but to Kar, he was like an older brother.

‘Kail….’

He wanted to become like Kail.

He had always admired that strong figure who never gave up and moved forward.

‘What would Kail… have done?’

He thought of Leo, who came from other world lines.

He couldn’t understand what Leo had said at all.

But this one thing he could understand.

The fact that he had been alone in the place where he was.

None of the other Great Heroes had been able to reincarnate.

When Leo said that only Kail alone was fighting a difficult battle in that place, Kar was just busy admiring him, saying “as expected of Kail.”

‘Wow, Kail really is amazing. To think of fighting alone… how can he be so brave?’

‘What are you talking about.’

‘Huh?’

‘You’re the one who taught me that. Damn coward.’

He couldn’t understand those words spoken with a face that said he was pathetic.

In fact, even now I can’t understand it.

‘I was only able to find courage because I had friends.’

Alone, I wouldn’t have been able to do anything.

Yet Kail said he learned that courage from me.

Kar felt the courage and fighting spirit of the Ajonia students behind him.

Children who were trying to become like him.

But….

‘If it were Kail, he would have fought back.’

It wasn’t just Kail.

‘Risinass too… Luna too… Dweno too… they would have fought.’

Kar clenched his fist.

‘Because… having something to take responsibility for means exactly that!’

Now I finally understood.

Why his friends could be so brave.

In their previous lives, Risinass and Luna, Dweno… and Kail each had things they were responsible for.

Risinass was responsible for the world itself.

Luna was responsible for research to make Gardstron even slightly more prosperous through magic.

Kail was responsible for the world’s darkness.

Dweno was responsible as an advisor to the three.

Each of them bore the duty to maintain the world.

But Arron had nothing he was responsible for.

Because he was the youngest before being a friend and companion.

The four hadn’t entrusted him with anything.

‘I… only received consideration in my previous life.’

I feel it anew.

What it means to become an object of admiration.

‘I’m just a pathetic coward.’

The trembling stopped.

‘In my previous life, I was just a pathetic coward who only received help from friends… only received consideration.’

Kar always averted his eyes from the appearance of Arron, the hero of this era.

That wasn’t him.

It was just an illusion created by later generations.

He thought he could never become like that and made no effort at all.

But….

‘These children are sincere.’

They firmly believe the false hero’s appearance is truth.

And wanting to resemble that hero even a little, they chase false illusions and overcome their fears.

Kar’s trembling subsided.

Step—

He took one step forward.

‘Let me be brave.’

Step— Step—

‘So those children won’t be disappointed when they learn the truth.’

Whoooooosh—!

Golden aura rose from Kar’s body.

Seeing Kar like this, Arga made a flustered expression.

“K, Kar senior! That’s too reckless….”

Boom—!

Kar kicked off the ground and charged toward Nix at invisible speed.

Crackle—!

Instantly, a wall of ice blocked Kar’s path.

Clang!

The sword Kar swung was blocked by the ice wall.

“It’s useless. That ice is immortal ice that never melts. Lower realm residents can’t even scratch me.”

Nix looked at Kar pitifully.

Then.

Flash!

Golden sword energy swirled from Kar’s body.

Slice! Slice! Slice! Slice!

The sound of something being cut echoed.

Nix’s face hardened.

“He cut it?”

Nix’s face was colored with shock.

Looking at Nix like that, Kar said.

“Among things with form… there’s nothing I can’t cut.”

“What?!”

“If I couldn’t even do that, I would have been disqualified as a great hero.”

Nix’s face was colored with rage.

“A mere creature of the lower realm!”

Crackle—!

Tremendous cold tried to freeze Kar solid.

At that moment.

Kar kicked off the void.

He pierced through the cold and charged toward Nix.

Nix’s face twitched.

‘Is this courage? Or is it recklessness?’

Nix’s physical condition wasn’t perfect.

Moreover, having been suppressed by the Calamity Flame for so long, the range he could deploy his unique ability, the Frozen Realm of Death, was also limited.

But Kar accurately pierced through that gap and closed the distance with Nix.

‘If he had retreated, he would have frozen to death.’

Even if he saw through it, charging into the center of the cold wouldn’t have been easy….

‘What is this? This beastman?’

While Nix felt a strange unease.

Kar’s sword cut Nix’s neck.

Thunk—!

Nix’s head flew through the air.

But an evil god doesn’t die from something like this.

Crackle—

Ice formed over the empty neck and restored it to its original state.

“Your skills are quite good.”

Nix sneered.

“But such toys don’t work on me, an immortal being.”

“I know. I’ve fought Erebos to the point of exhaustion.”

If he had regained all his power from his previous life, it might be different….

With Kar’s current state, it was difficult to deal significant damage to Nix.

Kar looked back and forth between his sword and Nix.

And he let out a sigh of relief.

“What? That relieved expression?”

“No, I just felt it a moment ago.”

His super senses conveyed much information to Kar.

“Right now, I absolutely cannot defeat you.”

“And yet you feel relieved?”

Nyx felt a strange eeriness for some unknown reason.

This Suin’s sense of relief was genuine.

It felt like he was shouting ‘I’m alive!’

How could he feel such relief when he knew he absolutely couldn’t win?

“Yeah.”

Kar nodded with a bright, cheerful face.

“You have equal power to Erebos, but your combat ability is terrible, right? That’s why I felt relieved.”

Kar casually poked at Nyx’s emotions without much thought.

Tremble tremble tremble…

“You…”

Nyx’s body shook with rage.

“A mere mortal dares to—aaaaaaaah!”

The cold fury of the Frozen Realm of Death came sweeping in.

Seeing this, Kar grinned wickedly.

His super senses allowed him to know the truth through his opponent’s emotions.

“I get it. You lost to Erebos, didn’t you?”

“How dare a mere mortal mock me, the Frozen Realm of Death!”

Kwaaaaaaaaaaak—!

A bombardment of frigid air poured down around them.

Dodging the bombardment, Kar muttered with an aggrieved expression.

“It wasn’t mockery, I was just smiling coolly like Kail would?”

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