Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 95

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95.

The first-year students who quickly gathered around Leo totaled nine people.

‘Three from the Knight Department, two from the Summoning Department, four from the Magic Department… quite a lot.’

“Jebin!”

“Nibea! Perfect! How lucky! To join up this early!”

Jebin spotted Nibea, a female Magic Department student from his same clique, and showed a bright expression.

“I don’t think I’ve done anything to earn grudges.”

At Leo’s words, Nibea snorted.

“Ha! Ridiculous! Do you think it’s been just a day or two that other students have suffered because of you?”

“What kind of harm have you suffered because of me?”

“Getting favoritism from professors with your ‘all class’ this and that! Thanks to you unnecessarily showing off, magic class content just keeps getting harder! Don’t you know how to consider other students?”

“Right! In summoning class too, because you’re always acting smart, we get tons of difficult assignments every day!”

“Knight class also makes us do tough training every day!”

Leo, who had been quietly listening to the pouring complaints, let out a hollow laugh.

“If that’s your complaint, you should protest to the professors.”

At those words, the students flinched.

“And do you really think it makes sense that the class curriculum changes because of one person like me? Haven’t you considered that you’re simply unable to keep up with the class pace?”

“What!”

At Leo’s words, Nibea flared up.

“I was always top of my class at the academy I attended before entering Lumern! It doesn’t make sense that someone like me can’t keep up with the class pace!”

“It makes sense, which is why you can’t keep up. Aren’t you embarrassed to blame others for your own shortcomings?”

“Ugh! Shut up! Chain Lightning!”

Crackle—!

A chain of electric current shot out from the tip of her staff toward Leo.

As the chain of electricity reached right in front of him, Leo swung his hand to deflect the magic.

Whoosh! Crack! Crackle-crackle-crack!

The deflected magic exploded as it was, sending fierce sparks flying in all directions.

“H-how?”

“Even if the power is strong, the spell structure is simple. That’s why it’s easily dispelled. You learned that in the first class, didn’t you?”

Leo curled up the corner of his mouth.

“Don’t rely too much on activation formulas.”

“Ugh! Don’t act so smart! You’re just a country bumpkin from a frontier kingdom!”

Nibea flared up and began wildly casting magic.

“Everyone attack! What’s a year representative anyway? He’s the same first-year as us! With this many people ganging up, even that guy can’t do anything!”

“Same first-year?”

At Jebin’s shout, Leo burst into laughter.

“Certainly, if you were proper Lumern first-years, I might have had some trouble, but I don’t think I’ll lose to you guys who blame others for your own shortcomings.”

“What did you say!”

“This bastard!”

The Magic Department students all shot magic at Leo in unison, while the Knight Department students gripped their weapons and circled around Leo, pressuring him.

The Summoning Department students summoned spirits.

Flicker—!

Leo created flames in his hand.

“Fire Wall.”

Roar—!

A rising wall of flames neutralized the incoming magic.

The Magic Department students who had been pressuring Leo retreated in shock.

“I-impossible! Our magic was defeated so easily…!”

“Don’t be scared! Such powerful magic must consume a lot of mana! He’s just struggling!”

The Knight Department student who encouraged the others quickly stepped forward, readjusted his grip on his spear, and charged at Leo.

Whoosh—!

A fast thrusting attack.

It was a lightning-fast attack, but Leo caught the spear shaft on the spot without much difficulty.

Thud—!

“Ugh!”

When his attack was futilely blocked, he urgently tried to retrieve his spear.

However, the spear wouldn’t budge at all.

Rather, when Leo applied force, he was dragged forward like a puppet with cut strings.

‘W-what kind of strength is this!’

He didn’t know it, but in terms of pure physical strength, Leo was the best in the Knight Department.

Whooom—!

Aura rippled in Leo’s right hand that wasn’t holding the spear.

Leo swung his fist toward the face of the student being dragged toward him.

“Huh!”

Crash!

He hastily protected himself from Leo’s attack with aura armor.

But the male student felt his head ringing.

Thwack—!

“Gah!”

Leo followed up by kicking his stomach.

Whoosh! Thud!

“Argh!”

The male student who flew and crashed into a tree collapsed miserably on the ground.

“Found an opening!”

A large male student ambushed Leo from behind.

The male student holding up a massive two-handed sword smiled confidently.

“You’re out! Leo Flobe!”

Thud—!

“…!”

Leo reached out and caught the tip of the massive blade of the two-handed sword.

The moment his attack was blocked, the panicked male student tried to retrieve his sword.

But the sword caught in Leo’s hand had no intention of budging.

Crack—!

Rather, when Leo applied force, cracks began to appear on the blade.

“I-impossible! It’s a sword imbued with aura!”

“Aura isn’t invincible, you know?”

Crack—! Shatter!

“…!”

Fragments of the shattered two-handed sword scattered in all directions.

“You should have prepared a backup plan in case it was blocked.”

Thwack—!

“Ugh!”

Leo immediately kicked the male student’s side.

Crash!

“Argh!”

The helplessly sent flying male student also pathetically rolled on the ground.

Bright light burst from the bodies of the two writhing Knight Department students before they disappeared.

Teleport magic.

It meant they had been eliminated from the Inter-Department Competition.

Rumble!

At that moment, the ground moved like a living creature and wrapped around Leo’s body like a snake.

Along with that, water droplets formed around his face, and a head-sized water bubble covered Leo’s face.

Bubble- Bubble-

“Great!”

“Just suffocate him and eliminate him!”

The two Summoning Department students who had summoned the spirits cheered in triumph.

Crack! Pop-!

However, the earth that had grabbed Leo crumbled into dirt clods and scattered, while the water bubble burst helplessly.

“This can’t be! Our spirit magic…!”

Looking at the devastated elementalists, Leo shook off the water from his head and said.

“If you made simple contracts with the spirits in this area, shouldn’t you have expected that a superior spirit mage could take control away from you?”

Leo brushed off the dirt clinging to his body and asked.

“So, what’s next?”

They unconsciously stepped backward.

‘The difference is this great?’

“Nothing?”

Whoooosh-!

Leo unleashed his aura.

“Then you’re prepared, right?”

“W-wait! Leo! Just wait!”

Jebin shouted urgently with a pale face.

“W-we were wrong! If we get eliminated like this, we’ll be expelled! Please give us a break just this once!”

“R-right! Forgive us!”

“I-I never intended to fight you! Leo! It’s because these guys instigated it!”

“Don’t be ridiculous! You were the most actively involved!”

Having lost their fighting spirit, they quickly fell apart.

“L-Leo! You don’t really need to eliminate us anyway, right? Right? So…”

Nibea said with a trembling voice.

Looking at Nibea, Leo said.

“You’re right that leaving trash like you alone wouldn’t particularly threaten me, and eliminating you wouldn’t benefit me either.”

At those words, the faces of the arguing students brightened.

“T-then!”

“But here’s the thing.”

Leo’s face turned cold.

“If the situation were reversed, would you have spared me?”

The students’ faces were painted with despair.

Shing-!

“This might be your last fight as Lumern students. So fight like Lumern students should.”

“Don’t be ridiculous! I’m going to stay at Lumern!”

Jebin, who spat out curses, quickly fled the battlefield using wind magic.

“Cowardly bastard!”

“Damn it! Run!”

Watching his classmates scatter in all directions, Leo sighed.

Simply surviving the final practical exam doesn’t guarantee a high score.

“A true hero sometimes has to fight even when they know they’ll lose.”

These students had essentially thrown away their last chance.

“You’d better abandon the illusion that you can escape.”

Leo smiled coldly.

***

When the Inter-Department Competition began and most Lumern students were dropped into Neigrande, they fell into panic.

“Monster? Hey! Don’t lead it this way!”

“My dear department friend! Let’s deal with the monster together! We agreed to join forces!”

“Hey! That was for a normal Inter-Department Competition! Now there’s an exam at stake… Ah! Really, just get lost!”

A student charging at fellow department students while being chased by monsters inhabiting Neigrande.

“Wait! A curse just activated here… Uweeeeek!”

“Sensory confusion curse… Ugh! M-motion sickness!”

Students falling victim to curses spread throughout Neigrande.

“Come at me!”

“That’s what I wanted! Let’s have a proper fight!”

Students fighting each other fiercely.

“Please! We’re in the same class! Please form a party with me!”

“Ah! B-but you and I are from different departments…! Let go of this!”

Students clinging to their classmates, and so on.

With the sudden addition of the final practical exam element, the Inter-Department Competition became chaos itself.

The pressure of the final exam was so great that it overturned their existing strategies.

Professor Artion, Class 8’s homeroom teacher watching through broadcast magic from Lumern, said with a serious expression.

“I wonder if this isn’t too harsh for the students.”

“That’s naive thinking, Professor Artion.”

At Hallind’s words, Artion flinched and shrank back.

“This Inter-Department Competition may have seemed like an individual competition at first glance, but strictly speaking, it was a situation where students could form teams and cooperate sufficiently.”

“Politics and diplomacy are also important virtues for heroes. As such, cooperating in advance can also be considered part of preparedness.”

Professor Sedjen, continuing Hallind’s words, looked at the students shown in the broadcast magic and said.

“But the world doesn’t always go according to plan. The principal was aiming for that too. This Inter-Department Competition could be called a test of ability to handle unexpected situations.”

“Still, it’s too harsh. Shouldn’t we guide students through more stable methods?”

As a new professor not from Lumern, Artion couldn’t adapt to Lumern’s educational policy of constantly imposing trials on students.

“That would be the case for ordinary schools. But Professor Artion, this is Lumern.”

“Pardon?”

“The students we’re raising are hero candidates. And a hero means one who overcomes trials.”

Sedjen made a serious expression.

“If they can’t overcome even trials like this, forget becoming heroes – they might lose their lives during Lumern’s academic curriculum.”

Having said that, he let out a deep sigh.

“To prevent that, we must constantly test our students’ potential.”

When all the teachers fell silent at Sedjen’s words, who had witnessed more student deaths than anyone else.

“Professors.”

“Secretary Erena, what’s the matter?”

Erena, the principal’s secretary, came to where the first-year professors were gathered.

“Something urgent has come up for the assistant professors. May I take them with me?”

“What’s this urgent matter for the assistant professors?”

At Hallind’s question, Secretary Erena smiled slightly.

“We need to deploy personnel because of this lockdown order.”

“I understand. Assistant professors, it’s Academy business, so please cooperate.”

With Sedjen’s permission, the assistant professors followed Secretary Erena out of the training ground.

“What’s wrong? Hallind.”

When Sedjen asked Hallind, who was staring intently at Erena, Hallind shook his head.

“No, it’s nothing.”

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