Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 85

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85.

‘I shook him off!’

Emio wore a confident expression.

‘Once you slow down, it’s hard to accelerate again!’

In contrast, Emio was continuing to accelerate.

‘With this, the other kids will also feel Leo’s limits…’

“Hello?”

“…!”

Emio’s eyes widened as he looked to the side.

There was Leo on a broomstick, waving his hand.

“H-how!”

“How? I just caught up quickly.”

Leo, wearing an indifferent expression, gathered his mana.

Crackle-!

“This is payback for what you gave me earlier.”

Golden sparks flew from Leo’s hand.

“Lightning Bolt!”

Flash! Crackle!

“Gah!”

Emio hastily dodged.

“As expected of a magical tool used by Professor Albi! It looks shabby on the outside, but its performance is incredible!”

Emio grinned and gathered mana in both hands.

Emio, whose specialty was lightning magic, cast a higher-level spell than Lightning Bolt.

“Chain Lightning!”

Crackle-crackle-crack-!

Chain-shaped lightning struck at Leo.

When Leo lightly dodged the attack, Emio shouted.

“It’s useless!”

‘Homing function?’

Leo made an interested expression.

It was a spell that electrocuted the area around the target it hit, but it seemed he had modified the magical formula to turn it into a homing function.

As the Chain Lightning chased after him, Leo put force into his broomstick and lowered his posture.

Crackle-! Crack!

‘Gah! He’s dodging all of that?’

Seeing Leo easily avoid the Chain Lightning that was targeting him at high speed, Emio glared at the broomstick Leo was riding.

‘It’s unfair! How am I supposed to beat an opponent with that kind of magical tool…’

“Ice Bolt.”

Leo cast magic toward the front.

Countless ice projectiles flew like bullets.

“What are you aiming at!”

“What am I aiming at? The front, obviously. Chain Lightning.”

Crackle-!

The Chain Lightning Leo cast created a massive electrical net in the air.

“No!”

As a giant electrical net suddenly appeared in front, Emio’s eyes widened.

The Ice Bolt Leo had shot earlier was acting as a conductor.

“Gah!”

Emio hastily stopped his speed.

If he got electrocuted like this, the match would end with Leo’s victory.

Whoosh-!

Crack! Crackle!

Just as Emio, who had barely stopped in front of the electrical net Leo had spread, was breathing a sigh of relief.

“It’s not over yet.”

Thwack-!

“Gasp!”

Leo struck Emio’s magical tool with his fist charged with aura.

Instantly, the magical tool whose spell system had been shaken began to go wild.

“I didn’t break it, so you can fix it.”

Leo grinned and flew up into the sky.

“Ahhh! Woahhh?!”

The out-of-control magical tool shook back and forth.

Whoosh-!

“Gasp!”

Then it began charging toward the school building.

“S-stop it!”

Thud!

“Ugh?!”

Emio, who had crashed into the building wall, slid down.

Leo chuckled once at the sight of Emio and returned after circling the finish line.

“I’m back.”

“Leo. It seems you won’t need separate aerial combat training.”

Albi smiled and praised Leo.

Associate Professor Anna was surprised to see this.

‘Oh my, Professor Albi is actually giving praise?’

Since Albi was quite stingy with praise, this was a surprising scene for Anna.

“Senior Albi has also recognized student Leo’s true worth! Of course! Naturally! There’s no way Senior Albi wouldn’t notice such brilliant talent! Senior has acknowledged that student Leo is the talent the Magic Studies Department needs!”

‘This person is overreacting again. I should stop him from going overboard in front of the students.’

Anna was sighing deeply with a face that said ‘When should I stop this person…’ when.

Emio, whose face was a mess from hitting the wall, returned with difficulty.

“Unacceptable! Leo! You cheated!”

Emio shouted angrily.

“What kind of cheating did I do?”

“How can you use aura in a Magic Studies Department class!”

“There was no rule saying not to use abilities other than magic, was there?”

Hearing their conversation, the students murmured.

“He used aura?”

“In a magic class, that’s a bit…”

Gaining confidence from those words, Emio shouted.

“In Magic Studies Department classes, the principle is to use only magic!”

“If it had been a regular magic class, I wouldn’t have used aura. But this is a class preparing for the Inter-Department Competition, right? Let me tell you something. Most of the Knight Department kids have been preparing countermeasures against aerial attacks since the beginning of the semester. Flying in the air isn’t a big advantage.”

“Ugh?”

At Leo’s words, Emio flinched and then got angry.

“Are you saying the Knight Department kids are better in a Magic Studies Department class?”

Leo sighed deeply.

“I’m saying you should prepare countermeasures against the Knight Department kids’ attacks. In reality, you lost mobility as soon as your wing magical tool was neutralized. Such situations can happen plenty in the Inter-Department Competition.”

The critical weakness of wing magic.

That was losing mobility when the magical tool broke.

“E-even so, this match was unfair! You competed using Professor Albi’s wing magical tool!”

“This thing?”

He chuckled and looked down at the broomstick in his hand.

“This is just an ordinary cleaning magical tool?”

“What?”

Leo threw the broom toward the flustered Emio.

Emio’s face hardened as he caught the broom unexpectedly.

Just as Leo said, it was an ordinary cleaning magical tool.

“I don’t know how to use Wing magic in the first place. I never learned it.”

“What did you say?”

All the students were surprised by those words.

“You don’t know Wing magic? That’s the most basic of basics! No! How did you chase after me without Wing magic in the first place?”

“I used Fly magic.”

“Fly magic?”

It was literally a levitation magic that boasted history and tradition, existing from before the Age of Calamity until now.

However, in the current era, it had become a magic rarely used since Wing magic was invented.

“Th-that’s impossible.”

Emio showed an expression of disbelief.

“Wing magic is certainly easy and allows you to fly through the sky quickly. Looking at that alone, it seems like a superior version of Fly magic.”

Leo made an indifferent expression.

“But that’s as far as it goes, right? It’s heavily influenced by magical tools and has clear spell limitations.”

“Leo Flobe is correct. Wing magic is magic created based on Fly magic. While it allows anyone to fly quickly through magical tools, that’s all it does. Since it focused on improving convenience, delicate manipulation like Fly magic is impossible.”

The students who had said there were no mobility issues avoided Albi’s gaze.

“It’s true that the development of Wing magic allowed mages to overcome mobility, which was considered their greatest weakness. But that’s only in general cases. You’re not ordinary mages but students of Hero Academy.”

Everyone flinched at Albi’s words.

“And the students from other departments you must compete against are also Hero Academy students. Don’t think that ordinary methods will work against your competitors. The biggest problem isn’t the Knight Department but the Summoning Department. To summoners who handle aerial beasts and elementalists who handle wind spirits, mages dependent on Wing magic are perfect prey. Do you understand what I mean when I say mobility is a problem now?”

“Yes.”

Watching the Magic Studies Department students answer weakly, Ren signaled to Anna.

“Everyone, starting today we’ll practice Fly magic. Professor Ren, student Torua, myself, and the assistants will help with practice. Since we need to divide into groups by skill level before practice, we’ll conduct a test. Please line up.”

At Anna’s words, the students began forming a line.

“Grr!”

Emio glared at Leo once before going to line up.

Ren approached Albi and Leo.

“Student Leo can receive guidance on magical combat from Senior Albi.”

“I don’t need to take the test?”

“Based on what you showed in the match, you pass the mobility section, Student Leo.”

Ren chuckled and was about to go instruct students when he noticed Torua standing beside Leo and frowned.

“Student Torua, what are you doing here?”

“I want to attend Professor Albi’s class.”

“You already know all this content! Stop talking nonsense and go instruct your juniors!”

Ren grabbed Torua by the scruff of his neck and dragged him away.

Seeing the bustling practice grounds, Albi said.

“We need to move locations.”

When Albi lightly waved his hand, an entrance to another space opened in the air.

‘Fairy magic.’

Leo crossed through the spatial entrance.

He immediately arrived at another magic practice room.

“What should we do now?”

“Study on your own.”

“You’re not going to teach me anything?”

Albi sat down on a chair in one corner of the practice room and closed his eyes.

“I can’t figure out what to teach a first-year who can modify Fly magic to that level.”

Albi, who had recognized how tremendous the magic Leo just used was, said.

“You don’t seem to have anything left to learn at the first-year level. But arbitrarily conducting advanced classes would be overstepping my authority. So as a teacher, all I can have you do is self-study.”

“Then there’s something I’d like to ask you, Professor.”

“What is it?”

“Could I enter the Lumern Forbidden Library?”

Albi opened only one eye and looked at Leo.

“Forbidden Library access is beyond a teacher’s authority.”

“I’m asking not as a professor, but as a member of the Jeron Family.”

“…”

The Jeron Family.

Called one of Lumern’s three great renowned hero families, their influence in Lumern was at an absolute level.

“What’s your reason for wanting to enter the Forbidden Library?”

“There’s a document I want to find.”

“What is it?”

“History about Hero Records that isn’t known to the public.”

“…”

Albi, who had been silently watching Leo speak honestly, nodded.

“If that’s what you want, I’ll write you a recommendation letter.”

“Oh.”

Leo exclaimed in admiration, thinking things were going better than expected.

“Of course, even with my recommendation letter, you can’t enter the Forbidden Library. What you need to enter the Forbidden Library is permission from the head of the Jeron family, that is, my older brother Altech Jeron.”

Albi took out paper from his pocket and scribbled on it.

“All I can do is arrange a meeting. What happens next is up to you.”

“Aw.”

Leo showed a disappointed expression.

In fact, even just a recommendation letter to meet Altech was tremendous.

Altech was someone even ordinary royalty couldn’t easily meet.

Receiving the recommendation letter, Leo thought about Altech.

‘Was he called the Infinity Speller?’

He who handled infinite spells was a powerful hero.

“Wait. But isn’t the head of the Jeron family currently dispatched to Tartaros’s southern front?”

He was currently absent, subjugating Tartaros at the front lines.

“You can meet his representative.”

“Representative?”

“Right. You can meet them easily. Since they’re your senior.”

“Who is it?”

Albi rarely let out a deep sigh.

“Lumern third-year, Elena Jeron.”

He clicked his tongue with a troubled expression.

“She’s my niece.”

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