Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 92

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92.

“What a commotion.”

Leo clicked his tongue as he arrived at magic class.

The lockdown order announced in the morning was enough to turn the entire school upside down.

Even though quite some time had passed since breakfast, the students were still preoccupied with talk of the lockdown order.

“I understand everyone is unsettled by the sudden situation. But don’t worry about such things and focus on thoroughly preparing for the Inter-Department Competition.”

Professor Ren spoke in a listless voice.

“As you all know, the Inter-Department Competition is also observed by external dignitaries.”

The chaotic atmosphere changed instantly.

External dignitaries.

This literally meant people in power from various countries.

Not everyone who attends Lumern becomes a hero.

However, just having attended a Hero Academy greatly increases the possibility of rising to high positions in the future.

“Today we’ll practice Fly magic like in the previous lesson.”

The students showed tense expressions at Professor Ren’s words.

While Fly magic itself wasn’t difficult in terms of complexity, its practical application was extremely challenging.

This was especially difficult for Lumern Magic Department students since they were all accustomed to Wing magic.

“And the four students who passed in the first lesson, come forward.”

At the call, Leo, Chelsea, Chloe, and Avad stepped forward.

Professor Ren drew his wand and swung it through the air.

Sharrrk-!

An entrance was created in mid-air.

“All four students will receive guidance from Senior Albi.”

The four including Leo immediately crossed through the space to the next training site where Albi was waiting.

All the students looked at the four with envy.

‘What’s the difference between me and those guys! Damn it!’

While Emio was grinding his teeth inwardly, the four people crossed over to where Albi was.

The four who moved to a practice ground that was excessively large for just four people to use approached Albi, who was sitting on a chair in one corner of the practice ground.

“Professor Albi. Professor Ren sent us over here.”

At Chloe’s words, Albi, who had his eyes closed, opened them.

“Chloe Muller. What do you think your shortcomings are?”

“Pardon?”

At the sudden question, Chloe pondered for a moment before answering.

“The power of my spells?”

“…Your spell power should be the strongest among the four of you though?”

“Being stronger is good, isn’t it?”

“Chelsea Rwallin, what do you think you lack?”

“Close combat ability!”

“For a Battle Mage, your close combat skills are excellent though?”

“It’s not enough! I think I should be able to beat down any ordinary Knight Department student!”

Albi sighed as he watched Chelsea shout “Yah!” and thrust her fist into the air.

“Ren’s educational philosophy is to maximize each student’s individual strengths. You’ve all been honing what you’re good at here at Lumern according to that education.”

Chloe and Chelsea nodded at Albi’s words.

“But focusing too much on one area isn’t good either. Chelsea Rwallin. Your biggest weakness is the power of your spells.”

“But Professor. I’m a Battle Mage!”

“You mustn’t be mistaken, Chelsea Rwallin. A Battle Mage is a mage who fights on the front lines of battle. Not a knight. Regardless of your position, the fact that you’re a mage doesn’t change.”

“Mmm!”

“What is a mage’s basic role?”

“To change the tide of battle!”

“Do you think you can be active on the front lines and change the tide of battle with your current skills?”

“N-no.”

Albi crossed his arms.

“You should set that as your goal and plan your training direction.”

“What specific training should I do?”

“You’ll need to practice multiple casting.”

“Multiple casting?”

Chelsea made a subtle expression.

She was already practicing multiple casting sufficiently.

Casting itself was Chelsea’s greatest specialty to begin with.

“I’m not talking about ordinary multiple casting.”

Albi raised both hands.

A Fire Ball was completed in his right hand.

And in his left hand…

“Hell Fire?”

The strongest fire-type magic was generated.

Casting spells of similar power from different elements simultaneously was a relatively simple task.

However, casting low-level spells and high-level spells simultaneously was difficult.

Since the outputs were different, even the basic framework of spell construction differed.

Naturally, the greater the gap between spells, the more difficult it became.

“If you aim to be a hero as a Battle Mage, you should be able to do this much easily.”

At Albi’s words, Chelsea gulped nervously.

“Begin practice.”

“Yes!”

Chelsea answered briskly and immediately immersed herself in training.

Albi’s gaze turned to Chloe.

“Chloe, you know your weakness without me telling you, right?”

“Being weak in chaotic battles.”

“Right. Actually, chaotic battles are a problem that all types of mages except Battle Mages face. Securing mobility through Wing magic is also to avoid chaotic battles. But the fundamental problem hasn’t been solved. Especially you, Chloe. You’re a typical mage.”

“Ugh!”

Chloe flinched at Albi’s words.

A typical mage who only devoted herself to studying magic.

Of course, she had done basic physical training as a Lumern student, but that was all.

“Study martial arts to prepare for chaotic battles to some extent.”

“In magic class!?”

“Today’s class is a special class for the Inter-Department Competition.”

“But, that’s…!”

“Go warm up over there.”

At Albi’s words, Chloe’s shoulders drooped as she began warming up in one corner.

“Avad Rwallin.”

“Yes.”

“At your current stage, you don’t really have any particular weaknesses.”

Avad smiled slightly at those words.

He was inferior to Chelsea in close combat and inferior to Chloe in spell power.

However, in terms of overall combat ability, Avad was the strongest among first-year mages.

“Help Chelsea.”

“Yes.”

“Leo, same for you, help Chloe with her practice.”

“Understood.”

After giving assignments to the two, Albi closed his eyes.

Leo and Avad approached Chloe and Chelsea, who were each preparing to practice in the middle of the practice ground.

“Come to think of it.”

Leo stopped walking at Avad’s words.

“Is this the first time we’re talking alone like this?”

Avad smiled slightly.

Half the semester had passed, but until now there hadn’t been any particular connection between Leo and Avad.

They weren’t in the same class, nor did they attend magic lessons together.

“That’s right.”

“My sister is always indebted to you. It seems she’s receiving a lot of help from you in various ways.”

“I’m also having fun at the Academy thanks to Chelsea.”

At that response, Avad smiled gently and said.

“In this Inter-Department Competition, I’m going to defeat you.”

Leo showed a slightly surprised expression at the quiet and calm declaration of war.

“I’ve been thinking about you since the entrance exam.”

During the entrance exam, Leo was nowhere near Avad’s level of skill.

“Back then I thought you were an excellent knight, but when the semester started, that wasn’t the case. You showed your talents in magic and summoning one after another.”

Avad’s gaze looked directly at Leo.

“The fact that someone like you exists was extremely interesting to me. But when I came to my senses, you were already running ahead of me.”

“I’m honored that you evaluate me that way.”

“It’s not my evaluation. It’s the world’s evaluation. Actually, I’m grateful for your existence. Without you, I would have had nothing to aim for and Academy life would have been boring.”

Avad smiled like a gentle spring breeze.

“In this Inter-Department Competition, I will set you as my target.”

‘Even I, as a man, think he’s handsome. No wonder he’s the most popular male student among the first years.’

Selia would complain that Avad was like butter, but he was indeed the most popular student among the first-year male students.

Anyway, from the feeling of having a conversation with him, Leo didn’t dislike Avad.

At Leo’s words, Avad bowed gracefully like a challenger and approached Chelsea.

Watching his retreating figure, Leo let out a hollow laugh.

“Well now. Being popular is also a problem.”

***

“What did you talk about with Avad?”

“He said he’s going to defeat me in this Inter-Department Competition.”

“Selia and Duran are also really fired up about it.”

“Those guys have been like that since the beginning of the semester, so whatever.”

Watching Leo speak nonchalantly, Chloe added.

“From what I heard at the last class representative meeting, Chen Xia and Eliza are also targeting you?”

“…”

“Woreden is naturally quiet and indifferent to others, so he probably wouldn’t be like that.”

“He said he’d defeat me during Summoning Studies class last week.”

“Really?”

Chloe covered her mouth and giggled.

“What? What’s with that laugh?”

“No, I was just thinking how nice it must be for the year representative to be so popular!”

Watching Chloe tease him with a grinning smile, Leo chuckled.

“What about you then? Am I not your target in this Inter-Department Competition?”

“Huh? Not particularly.”

“That’s strange. During midterms, that was your purpose, so you got obsessed with some weird book and had dark circles down to here throughout the exam period.”

“Hey! Why are you bringing up that story now!”

Chloe’s face turned bright red as she screamed and kicked at him, but Leo dodged annoyingly.

“Leo. I will definitely beat you in this practical exam!”

“Stop it!”

Watching Leo even imitate her way of speaking, the enraged Chloe wildly swung the magic book she was holding.

“Huff-! Huff-!”

Eventually, Chloe, who got tired first, fixed her hair and said.

“I’ll tell you in advance. The fact that my target is you hasn’t changed.”

“Huh?”

“It’s just that recovering grades worthy of the North Entrance Exam Top Scorer comes first.”

“Yes, that’s admirable.”

“Hmph!”

Chloe turned her head sharply.

“Anyway, right now I need to develop close combat abilities as Professor Albi said, right? I’ll help you stretch.”

Leo helped Chloe with her stretching.

He helped with stretching by pressing down on Chloe’s back as she sat in a split, or lifting each other up while back-to-back.

“Uhhh. That feels good.”

Chloe, who was swaying back and forth while riding on Leo’s back, muttered.

“Are you an old man?”

At those words, Chloe lightly pulled Leo’s hair.

“Now then, even mages learn basic martial arts, right? What weapon did you learn with?”

“First, the most standard would be swordsmanship.”

“Then would you like to swing a wooden sword around?”

Leo took out a wooden sword from his subspace and gave it to Chloe.

Chloe took out the wooden sword and took a stance.

‘Oh? That looks decent?’

Leo was impressed seeing her quite proper stance.

Chloe, who loved reading books, had also read swordsmanship manuals perfectly, so her stance was very good.

“Haah!”

Whoosh-!

And she swung the sword.

Seeing that, Leo nodded.

“A typical case of being physically clumsy, huh?”

Chloe pouted her lips.

“Wouldn’t it be better to use magic to increase mobility and quickly escape from close combat?”

“That’s also a method, but even so, you need to have basic preparation for close combat.”

“Huh?”

“Here, hold the sword like this.”

Leo approached Chloe and placed his hand on the back of Chloe’s hand.

As they suddenly became close enough for their breaths to touch, Chloe’s mouth opened and closed.

“Like this, use your wrist smoothly. Put strength in your waist.”

“…!”

When Leo’s hand touched her waist, Chloe’s shoulders trembled like a startled cat.

“For a lesson, the atmosphere is quite steamy, isn’t it?”

At the voice heard from behind, Chloe was startled and moved away from Leo.

Leo turned his head to look in that direction.

“Hello, cute underclassmen.”

There was Elena, sitting cross-legged while riding on her staff.

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