Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 98

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98.

“Haah!”

Chelsea moved quickly, unleashing a barrage of magic.

“Fast.”

Howl from Class 1 deflected the swirling wind magic with his spear, furrowing his brow.

Seeing this, Iliana raised both arms and hopped up and down.

“As expected of Chelsea! Small and strong!”

“Who are you calling small!”

“Don’t just help, do something! Raden!”

Chelsea and Howl simultaneously shouted at Iliana.

At this, Iliana flinched and shrank her neck.

“Wind Chain!”

Chelsea created chains of wind and shot them forward.

Howl lightly performed an aura step to dodge Chelsea’s attack.

‘Indeed, she’s aspiring to be a Battle Mage. This is no joke. To be able to cast magic while moving at this speed…’

Though Howl had already eliminated five Magic Studies Department students, Chelsea was on a different level from the previous magic students.

‘Moreover, even if I close the distance, she’s accustomed to close combat.’

Unlike other Magic Studies Department students, Chelsea didn’t fall even when allowing close approach.

Meanwhile, Chelsea also found Howl equally troublesome.

‘He moves like a snake while approaching, so incredibly annoying!’

Howl’s poison aura would be lethal to other mages, but Chelsea had the advantage in compatibility with wind magic as her specialty.

She had blown away the poison with wind.

However, despite the disadvantageous compatibility, Howl continued to close the distance while dodging Chelsea’s magic.

‘I’m faster in speed though.’

As Howl was rated just below the top 3 of the Knight Department, there was no sign of the battle reaching a conclusion.

“Both of you, fighting!”

“So stop just watching and help! Raden!”

“How long will you keep backing away! Hurry up and join! Iliana!”

When Howl and Chelsea shouted simultaneously, Iliana scratched her cheek.

“Even if you say that, it’s too ambiguous for me to attack either of you?”

“What’s ambiguous! You’re from the Magic Studies Department!”

“What are you talking about! You’re from the Knight Department!”

“No. I haven’t chosen either place yet.”

Leo wasn’t the only student who hadn’t chosen a department.

More precisely, among dual class students, there were several whose departments were ambiguous.

Iliana was one of them.

During the training for this Inter-Department Competition, when the Magic Studies Department focused on mobility-centered training, she leaned more toward Knight Department classes.

As a magic swordsman, she had already secured mobility.

So throughout the preparation period for the Inter-Department Competition, she had trained with Knight Department students.

“Then help me! Howl is from Class 1!”

“Sorry, Chelsea. This time, Howl taught me various things well during Knight Department classes, even while grumbling. So it feels wrong to attack him coldly just because he’s from Class 1.”

Before the Inter-Department Competition, Howl had helped to definitively draw Iliana, who was skilled, into the Knight Department.

Chelsea pressed her temples and said.

“If you’re not going to help either side, go somewhere else. Don’t just hover around being annoying.”

“I agree with Chelsea Rwallin’s words.”

When Howl also sighed and spoke, Iliana laughed mischievously.

“But, if you two keep fighting, eventually there’ll be a winner and the victor will be tired too, right? That’s when I’ll defeat one of you! Hehe! Good strategy, right?”

Chelsea and Howl’s faces turned cold simultaneously.

“It’s a joke! A joke! Later when one of you gets tired, I’ll help…”

“So. You’re going to stab us in the back?”

“A vicious strategy.”

“Huh? Huh? I said it’s a joke though.”

“Chelsea Rwallin. I propose we deal with Raden first.”

“We’re on the same page. I was thinking the same thing.”

“Ah! I told you it’s a joke!”

Iliana let out a scream.

Whiiiing! Crash-!

Something crashed down from the sky behind Iliana.

Grooooooooooar!

It was a monstrous creature with a massive build that seemed about 3 meters tall.

In its thick hands that looked like they could tear a human body to shreds with just a graze, a vicious battle axe was gripped.

Hiss- Hiss-

It exhaled powerful breath from its nose.

A monster with the head of a bull.

“Minotaur?!”

“Why is a magical beast here!”

Chelsea and Howl were shocked.

Grooooooooooar!

The Minotaur swung its axe down toward Iliana.

Crash-!

***

“As expected, you came. Vice Lord Jis.”

“It’s been a while. This is the first time since the entrance exam. Sir Rojess.”

The people around Jis hurriedly stood up from their seats.

Seeing them, Rojess raised his hand.

“News of your nephew reaches the Imperial Palace daily. His Majesty the Emperor is truly impressed, as befitting Jerdinger.”

When Rojess Rwallin spoke with a smile, Jis grinned slightly.

“Didn’t Avad and Chelsea also take 1st and 2nd place in the Magic Studies Department midterms? I think His Majesty would be even more pleased about that.”

The gazes of those around naturally focused on the influential figures of the Jerdinger and Rwallin families, who supported Rodrene, the greatest power in the western continent.

At that moment, the entire audience watching the Inter-Department Competition began to murmur.

“That’s… a magical beast?”

“Why did a magical beast appear in the Inter-Department Competition?”

“Was Neigrande a magical beast outbreak area?”

While the audience wore puzzled expressions.

The professors also noticed the anomaly.

“Why did a magical beast suddenly appear?”

Sedjen’s eyes widened.

Hallind stood up from his seat and quickly headed to the control room managing the Inter-Department Competition.

“What’s going on?”

“P-Professor Hallind! This is terrible! We can’t contact the control room on the Neigrande side!”

“What?”

Hallind’s face hardened stiffly.

“Immediately halt the Inter-Department Competition and bring the students back.”

“Excuse me? What do you mean…”

The staff members looked confused at Hallind’s sudden words.

“Are you saying we should leave students in a danger zone when we can’t even maintain control!?”

“But Professor Hallind, if we do that, the higher-ups will…”

“I’ll take responsibility! Stop talking and bring the students back!”

“Y-Yes!”

The staff members, startled by Hallind’s fierce momentum, activated the teleport.

“Ah, it’s not working! The teleport isn’t activating!”

At the urgent cry from the staff member, Hallind’s eyes widened in shock.

“What’s happening! Hallind.”

“It’s an emergency. All connections to Neigrande have been severed!”

“What?”

Sedjen’s face turned pale.

Several hours had passed since the Inter-Department Competition began, but there were still a hundred students remaining in Neigrande.

“You take command here. I’ll go to the headmaster.”

“Understood.”

Hallind left the control room and grimaced as he looked at the magic transmission screen.

‘What the hell is happening!’

***

The students who had survived in the Inter-Department Competition also began to notice the anomalies one by one.

“Haaah!”

“Kuk!”

A Knight Department student was roughly pressing a Magic Studies Department student.

“You gave me a hard time moving so fast! But this is it! Don’t resent me for eliminating you! I’ll treat you later!”

The two students from the same class had been close friends.

So they had promised beforehand not to hold grudges against each other even if they had to fight in the Inter-Department Competition.

The Knight Department student who had created an opening grinned and thrust his sword toward the abdomen.

The magic bracelets given to students would immediately activate teleport magic the moment they sensed danger to the wearer.

It was magic granted to protect the students’ safety.

Therefore, even if they actually attacked the abdomen, there wouldn’t be serious injury.

Thunk!

“Kuk?”

“Uh…?”

Both the Knight Department student and the Magic Studies Department student’s eyes widened at what happened.

“Wh, what… kuhuk?”

The Knight Department student’s hands trembled as he watched his friend cough up blood.

“Th, this is what. Hey! Get it together! Get it together!”

With a pale face, he embraced his friend and shouted while crying.

“Excuse me! Is anyone there! Please help! My friend is hurt!”

Meanwhile, outside the castle walls, monsters from the surrounding area suddenly began gathering toward the castle ruins.

The students defending the fortress gate showed panicked expressions upon seeing this.

“What! What’s happening?”

One Summoning Department student showed a surprised expression at the outside situation.

In the midst of fierce battles between departments, a large group of monsters suddenly launched an assault.

This caused chaos to break out in front of the fortress gate.

“Monsters?”

“W, wait, there are too many of them!”

A large number of monsters.

Normally they would have had to join forces, but since it was during the Inter-Department Competition, they couldn’t unite with each other.

“How lucky!”

A Summoning Department student cheered.

While struggling to hold off Knight Department and Magic Studies Department students, monsters had conveniently attacked at just the right timing.

From the perspective of those defending the fortress gate, it was a very advantageous situation.

At that moment, Woreden, who had been sitting on the fortress gate wall, narrowed his eyes.

He had never once participated in combat.

As if waiting for someone, he had simply sat quietly watching the Inter-Department Competition.

There had been requests for help from his Summoning Department peers, but he had consistently ignored them.

That same Woreden suddenly stood up from his seat.

“What? Are you finally going to help too?”

The commanding Summoning Department student clicked his tongue with an expression that said ‘you’re only stepping up now?’

But Woreden only stared intently at the group of monsters.

‘Strange. Monsters are suddenly acting collectively?’

Woreden, being a summoner, felt something off about the monsters’ movements.

‘They’re being controlled by something.’

Having thought that far, Woreden raised his head.

High above the castle ruins, Woreden spotted the black wyvern he had seen during midterms and gathered his spiritual power.

“Huh? Woreden?”

Grooooooo-!

A red light began swirling around Woreden’s entire body.

Whoosh! Kwaaaaaaaang!

A massive explosion occurred in the middle of the monsters attacking the Knight Department and Magic Studies Department.

“Wh, what?”

“Woreden? Why is he helping us?”

A student from another department during the Inter-Department Competition.

Moreover, when Woreden, who had bad relations even with students from his own department, helped them, students from other departments showed dumbfounded expressions.

“Open the fortress gate.”

“What? What nonsense are you talking about right now? And why are you suddenly helping those guys!”

“Stop talking nonsense and just open the fortress gate. Now isn’t the time for the Inter-Department Competition.”

“What sudden nonsense! And there’s no reason we should follow your orders… kuk!”

Woreden grabbed the commanding student’s throat with his hand.

“No time to explain. Scram.”

“Kuk-kuk-!”

The student whose throat was being choked rolled his eyes back and fainted.

As the surrounding students looked on in shock, Woreden spoke in a cold voice.

“From now on, I’m in command. Open the fortress gate.”

Woreden said as he pushed the unconscious student aside.

“From now on, our enemies are magical beasts and monsters. If there are any idiots fighting between departments, I’ll deal with them first, so keep that in mind.”

“Y, yes!”

“I’ll pass that message to the other department kids too!”

“And you.”

“Eek? Why, why are you calling me?”

At Woreden’s call, one female student was terrified.

“You contracted with a wind spirit, right?”

“Y, yes!”

“Then go to the guys at the other fortress gates and tell them.”

Woreden looked up at the sky and gathered his spiritual power.

Pafnir began descending at a terrifying speed.

“Tell them to stop the Inter-Department Competition since an emergency situation has occurred.”

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