Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 814

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814.

Roooooar! Whoooooosh—!

Erebos unleashed sword energy of black flames.

“Hup!”

Valhar let out a battle cry and split his double-bladed battle axe in half.

Clang!

Valhar gripped the separated battle axes, now single-bladed, in each hand and spun them, causing a storm to begin swirling.

Kwaaaaaaack—!

Valhar’s eyes flashed as he charged forward, shattering the black flame sword energy.

“Kar!”

As Valhar carved a path through the black flames, Kar followed behind him.

Woooom—!

Kar leaped while scattering golden aura from his sword.

“Haaaaaaah—!”

With a roar close to a thunderous battle cry, Kar plunged toward Erebos like a comet.

His super senses transmitted countless pieces of information to Kar’s brain.

Sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste.

Through his maximized senses, Erebos’s attack patterns began to form in his mind, and eventually his transcendent senses reached a single domain.

The domain of the sixth sense.

Flash—!

Light burst from Kar’s eyes.

‘Prediction’ close to future sight began to take place.

‘I can see it.’

Erebos’s thoughts.

Where he would attack.

Kar, who was about to swing his sword while dodging Erebos’s attack, suddenly trembled.

Whoosh—! Thud—!

Kar hastily kicked off the ground and retreated, just as black sword energy fell from the sky like a guillotine where he had been.

“Indeed.”

Erebos’s emotionless gaze reached Kar.

“Super senses?”

Erebos’s senses momentarily surpassed Kar’s super senses.

Kar had experienced this phenomenon during his sparring with Leo.

A fight between fellow possessors of super senses.

A battle of wits in an invisible domain.

Watching Kar mutter with a serious expression, Erebos answered.

“I merely utilized one of my authorities in the manner of a surviving hero.”

Erebos spoke calmly as he raised his palm from bottom to top.

Krrrrrrrrrack—!

Black flames burst through the ground.

Whoooooosh! Rooooooooo!

The black flames soon swept toward the Great Heroes like a massive tsunami.

Seeing this, Roon deployed magic.

Krrrrrrrrrrrack—!

A wall of ice filled with terrifying cold tried to block the tsunami of flames.

At that moment.

Rooooooooo—!

The black flames that had been spreading wide began to converge in one place.

Simultaneously, they spun like a whirlwind and pierced through one point of the ice wall.

Pierce—!

Seeing this, Roon immediately struck the ground with his staff.

Krrrrrrrrring—!

A magic circle formed, and hundreds of mana chains embroidered with threads of mana poured out.

Roon tried to bind the Calamity Flame concentrated at one point with the mana chains.

But at that moment.

Whoosh—!

The Calamity Flame that had gathered in one place split and scattered in multiple directions.

Krrrrrrrack—!

Unable to catch all the Calamity Flames with the mana chains, Roon’s face contorted mercilessly.

“This crazy…”

A strand of Calamity Flame flew toward Roon.

Flash—! Whoooooosh—!

Then Leo appeared in front of Roon and sliced through the black flame with his sword.

“Nice! Leo! I’ll give you a kiss later!”

Leo let out a hollow laugh and deployed his mana.

Woom—!

Mana dwelled in Leo’s sword.

“Innocent.”

As he quietly spoke the name of the magic, the sword began to shine pure white.

Thud—!

When Leo thrust his sword into one of the black flame strands writhing like a living thing, the pure white light dwelling in the sword flowed into the black flame as if being absorbed.

A moment later.

Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom—!

Explosions began occurring inside the black flames.

The explosions burst in a chain reaction, rushing toward Erebos.

Just as Erebos was about to cut off the black flames upon seeing this.

“Where do you think you’re going!”

Thoom!

Roon used gravity magic to crush Erebos’s body.

Thud—!

As the surrounding gravity suddenly intensified, Erebos fell to his knees.

Boom boom boom! Krrrrrack—!

The Innocent that had been causing explosions along the black flames soon flowed into Erebos’s body and exploded.

Erebos’s body swelled as if about to burst.

Drip drip drip—

Blood flowed from Erebos’s mouth, nose, eyes, and ears.

“Ugh! Kail, since it’s your appearance, it’s not very pleasant to look at.”

Roon muttered as if disgusted.

But Leo paid no heed and looked up at the sky, shouting.

“Rea!”

With those words, Rea, who had been gathering mana high in the sky, opened her eyes.

Soon, an arrow of light formed in Rea’s hand stretched toward the sky.

As she pulled the arrow back like drawing a bowstring, a bow made of light appeared in Rea’s hand.

Light magic that repels evil and corrupt forces.

Rea unleashed her unique magic.

“Punishment.”

The arrow of light flew toward Erebos at tremendous speed.

Woom—! Flash! Krrrrrrrrrack!

When the arrow of light pierced Erebos, a mushroom cloud rose with a tremendous explosion.

To avoid being blown away by the aftermath of that explosion, Kar and Valhar lowered their stances.

Leo pulled Roon into his arms and crouched down, protecting her.

Shortly after, as soon as the aftermath of the explosion cleared, Roon, who had been protected in Leo’s arms, opened her eyes wide.

“Apocalypse!”

-!

Without even the sound of an explosion, a blinding flash swept through that seemed to blind the eyes.

Leo, who had blocked his vision with his arm, slowly lowered his hand.

And seeing the scene unfolding before his eyes, he clicked his tongue.

The power of the punishment Rea had used was also beyond imagination.

But as expected, Roon’s Apocalypse was on a completely different scale of power.

‘She must have reduced the range to minimize damage to the surroundings.’

The spirits were fleeing in terror.

Thud- Thud-

But even in such an explosion, Erebos in Kail’s form was calmly walking out.

Seeing that sight, Roon spoke with a disgusted expression.

“Wow, that ignorant durability is still the same.”

“It’s not simply durability.”

Rea landed beside Leo.

Roon, who had been held in Leo’s arms, opened her eyes wide.

“Then what is it?”

“He countered our attacks.”

It was different from Erebos of 5000 years ago.

The Erebos of 5000 years ago had blocked the Great Heroes’ attacks with purely overwhelming power.

But unlike 5000 years ago when he crushed with force, now he was predicting and preparing for each Great Hero’s attack methods and countering them.

‘If we had remained the same as 5000 years ago… we would have been defeated.’

Rea narrowed her eyes.

‘Imitating Kail’s appearance wasn’t simply for amusement or whim.’

“Indeed… so you are the Great Heroes.”

Erebos, standing before the five people, narrowed his eyes.

“To think you’re still progressing even at this very moment.”

Seeing Erebos showing wariness, Rea clicked her tongue.

“5000 years ago, even though my victory was certain, I was defeated by you.”

Erebos looked down at his hands.

“In that final battle, I never underestimated you.”

Erebos raised his head and looked at each of the Great Heroes one by one.

“But there was something I overlooked. It was the potential of the Lower Realm’s inhabitants.”

“Potential…?”

“Yes. From the moment the world was born. From the very beginning, I thought: Why do the inhabitants of the Lower Realm exist? Why does your utterly useless race live meaningless lives? To me, the inhabitants of the Lower Realm were like gnats. Useless and simply disgusting insects that needed to be caught and killed.”

Erebos looked at Leo.

“5000 years ago, surviving hero. Until the moment just before I was defeated by you, that’s what the Lower Realm inhabitants were to me.”

“Did that change after I split you into six pieces?”

“Yes.”

“Well, that’s petty for someone who claims to have devoured all the evil gods. Do you hate us that much?”

“Yes. I hate you. And at the same time, I’m grateful.”

“What?”

“I have mixed feelings of love and hate for you. Surviving Hero, no. Hero of the Beginning.”

As Erebos’s title changed, Leo’s eyes twitched.

Erebos’s gray eyes directly faced the Great Heroes.

“You are the very embodiment of the Lower Realm inhabitants’ potential. The moment I was defeated, I realized why I had hated the Lower Realm inhabitants so irrationally. It was self-hatred.”

“What kind of crazy talk is that? Did being split apart for 5000 years drive you insane?”

Roon spun her finger around her head in circles.

“The Lower Realm inhabitants and I are fundamentally the same.”

“…What makes you think that?”

Rea asked in a hardened voice.

“You live finite lives. Even that permitted time is pathetically short. Yet you live doing your absolute best.”

“…”

“Yes. You rush toward destruction doing your best. Just like me. Even I, an immortal being, will ultimately face destruction. In the end, I too am a finite existence.”

A being whose only purpose is to burn the world and turn it to ash.

One who faces only destruction at the end of existence.

That was precisely Erebos, the Flame of Destruction.

“Understanding you this way, while I hate you, I also became fond of you.”

Erebos spread both arms wide.

“After becoming fond, I came to revere you. I came to revere your infinite potential. That’s why I took this form. You are my new beginning! Thank you! Great Heroes! Thanks to you, I was able to see potential.”

“…What would a being rushing toward destruction do by seeing potential?”

Rea said coldly.

No matter how much he had changed, his essence remained unchanged.

Rea knew well.

The abomination before her eyes was ultimately a monster that would only be satisfied after devouring, burning, and destroying everything.

“I have found a dream.”

Erebos smiled with ecstatic joy.

“I will burn all worlds that exist in parallel worlds. That is the potential I found and my dream!”

“Crazy… What a disgustingly repulsive dream.”

Roon spat out curses.

At that moment.

Leo’s eyes twitched.

“You… devoured Nyx, didn’t you?”

At Leo’s words, Erebos grinned wickedly.

Roooooooar-!

Flames rising from Erebos’s body shot up to the sky.

Along with it, the night sky began to be dyed a dark red color.

The Great Heroes’ faces hardened at the phenomenon similar to the Age of Calamity.

At the same time, the Tartaros Legion began to reveal itself in the sky.

“I return once again.”

Erebos, grinning wickedly, concealed his form.

Seeing that, Leo spat out curses.

“Damn it! Everyone run!”

With those words, the Great Heroes immediately began to run.

“Why?! What’s happening?”

Roon urgently asked while following behind Leo.

Rea, who had been following Leo, shuddered with a start.

“Don’t tell me…?”

“That’s right, that bastard!”

Killing intent dwelled in Leo’s eyes.

“He’s planning to cross over to my world line!”

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