The Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 264

Chapter 264

“I heard there was a commotion with the Azonia students.”

That evening.

Before heading to Damienne, Ain called Celia, Chen Xia, and Duran to talk.

“Of course, Azonia took Chloe Mueller first. But you could have handled it more wisely, right?”

Celia said to Ain, “If you had told the professors, I think it could have ended without much friction.”

“You knew that and fought against Azonia? Don’t you think it was a hasty decision? They provided the context, but if we had done it wrong, there might have been a conflict between the schools.”

The origins of the four hero academies were the same.

The founders, the Heroes of Creation, created them to train future heroes.

Their directions varied depending on the personality and characteristics of each founder, and their race, but their ultimate goal was one and the same.

To completely eradicate Tartaros.

That’s why all the hero academies were cooperative.

However, as time passed, friction between them became inevitable.

Even with the same goal, their means of achieving it differed.

In fact, because of this reason, there was large-scale opposition between hero academies and races.

The most recent example was the war between humans and elves.

The pride-filled Lumeiren between the two schools also began as a friendly competition to promote ‘harmony between races.’

But as a result of the war, it remained difficult for humans, as well as other races, to enter elven territory without permission.

The humans versus the elves.

The war between the two races began with a conflict between students from Lumene and Seiren.

Duran responded to Ain’s words.

“The reason we went to rescue Chloe Mueller ourselves without telling any professors is that we believed that students should solve the problems they create.”

“Besides, the Azonia students were after Leo. Since they used extreme methods, I thought they needed to be given a warning. A warning to say that we won’t do nothing if they mess with our school’s students.”

“I think they would have looked down on us if we had resolved the problem with our professors. They might have used even more extreme methods in return.”

Ain, who had been giving off a cold vibe, smiled with satisfaction.

He liked the confident attitude of his students despite his questioning.

Clap clap clap-

“Elegant! So elegant!”

At that moment, Professor Sedgen burst in with a moved face, clapping his hands.

“For the sake of your colleagues–nay! Of your friends! Not tolerating injustice! That is the chivalry of Lumene! Excellent, Celia, Chen Xia, and Duran! Professor Ain! I think these students should be rewarded, not punished! Give each of them 50 points for their beautiful attitudes-!”

“Professor Sedgen. It would be troublesome if you just gave them points because they were your first year students.”

“Ain! Do you think I’m such a narrow-minded professor who would give away points for such a reason?”

Sedgen got angry, but it was already well known that he showed great affection for the students he had once mentored.

“The number of points Professor Sedgen mentioned are excessive, but your actions do deserve a reward. I’ll give you each an additional 10 points.”

“Ain, you’ve been doing a great job as Harrid’s lackey lately, but you’re becoming more and more like him.”

Ain let out a small sigh at Sedgen’s words.

“Go and prepare to go to Damienne.”

“Yes.”

The three who answered simultaneously stepped forward.

After the three students left, Ain asked, “What’s the reaction from Azonia?”

“They’ve officially apologized. They’ve also promised that such a thing won’t happen again.”

“It’s been a wreck from the start.”

“It can’t be helped. This isn’t like Lumeiren.”

Lumeiren was the annual event held between Lumene and Seiren.

As such, the students prepared for the sake of a friendly competition between themselves every year, and the Lumene and Seiren students became familiar with each other.

But this situation wasn’t like that at all.

The four hero cadet schools were gathered in one place in Damienne.

Since the races were different, their values were different, too.

They also had a strong sense of pride as hero cadets representing their races.

Now, all of these people suddenly gathered in one place.

The four hero academies were cooperative in concept, but their academic schedules rarely overlapped.

It was even rarer for an entire grade from all four schools to live together in one place for two weeks.

The second-year students were special regardless of which school they were from.

“We might be seeing the heroes who will lead the world in the future gathered in one place.”

Ain burst into laughter at Sedgen’s words.

“If that’s true, then there is nothing more honorable than this as a professor at Lumene.”

The sun set and the second-year Lumene students headed to Damienne.

The huge coal mine attached to Dweronia was the entrance to Damienne.

As the immense and dark tunnel unfolded, voices of discontent spread among the female students.

“Aaah! I came wearing my school uniform for the first time in a while, but now it’s all dirty~”

“Why is the entrance to Damienne like this!”

At that complaint, Carr muttered, his hands clasped behind his head, “This is already all a mess. I’m worried… really worried.”

“What?”

Chelsea tilted her head at Carr’s muttering.

“Not even an hour since we’ve arrived in Dweronia, and there’s already been an incident between us and Azonia.”

Carr stuck out his tongue.

“But the four hero academies’ students are all gathered in one place. How many more incidents and accidents are there bound to be?”

“Is that really what you think?”

Carr shrugged at Chelsea’s indifferent response.

“Well what else do you expect? And the truth is that right now, Damienne invited students from the other hero academies to evaluate them.”

“That’s a little annoying.”

“Well, it’s a little annoying for us and Azonia.”

Carr shook his head excitedly.

“Seiren could cause a lot of chaos, too. The Seiren kids think they’re the best of the four hero academies, right?”

At Carr’s comment, Chelsea thought of the Seiren students.

“That’s definitely true.”

During the first-year school trip, the Seiren students looked down on the Lumene students.

Of course, even at the end of the school trip, a significant number of students still saw them as inferior.

And during Lumieren, most of the Seiren students had maintained that belief, believing in their own superiority.

“The moment I heard that Damienne would be evaluating Lumene, Azonia, and Seiren students all together, I’m sure their pride was hit hard. Those noble Seiren students, you know.”

Carr clicked his tongue.

Chelsea, one of the top three students in the sorcery department, was relatively acknowledged by the Seiren students, but not Carr.

When they heard Carr’s grades, they openly looked down on him and ignored him.

‘But they don’t mind being sweet to our nobles.’

“Don’t worry too much. No matter how arrogant they are, you were invited here, too, so why would they be so rude?”

Carr sighed at Leo’s words.

“That’s true. I heard that the person who is currently the temporary principal of Seiren is really impressive.”

“I heard that their principal was leaving. But when was a temporary principal decided?”

Chelsea tilted her head.

“Yeah. I heard that their principal changed just a little while ago. Even within Lumene, not that many people know. The problem is the person who became the principal.”

Carr made a serious expression.

“Lehagen Le Creo.”

“Huh?”

Chelsea frowned openly.

“Who is he?”

“Leo. Don’t you know Lehagen? He’s a famous elf hero, right?”

“You don’t know much about heroes these days.”

“Oh, right. Leo, you’ve never been too into modern heroes.”

Chelsea nodded.

Usually, heroes were objects of envy, so every hero candidate had one or two current heroes they admired.

However, Leo only knew about the old heroes he learned about in his heroics class at Lumene.

He had no interest in the heroes living in the present.

From Leo’s perspective, both past and present heroes were just his distant juniors.

“He’s a hero who calls himself the ‘Knight of the Poet.’ He’s a huge fan of the Poet.”

Carr clicked his tongue.

“He’s known to be an extreme racist. He even openly ignores heroes from other races.”

Leo narrowed his eyes at Carr’s words.

“Isn’t he a total idiot, then?”

“Isn’t it an idiotic choice?”

“Even if it’s Seiren, it’s strange to appoint someone like that as the headmaster?”

The racist tendencies of elves were already well-known even before the Age of Disaster.

That didn’t mean that all elves had such tendencies.

Luna was one elf who was far from the authoritarianism of elves.

‘She was a bluffer who didn’t care about such things, but that was the problem.’

Excessive authoritarianism was rampant throughout the race.

Elves must know that.

That’s why the headmaster of Seiren needed to be a wise person with a broad perspective.

‘The high-ranking elves must know that, too.’

But for a person with strong racist tendencies became the headmaster in such a situation?

Leo didn’t understand.

“The invasion of Seiren by the Demon Queen was the problem.”

“That was the problem.”

“Yes. Because the Poet appeared there.”

For unknown reasons, the descent of the Poet of the Stars and the Hero of the Beginning, Kyle, was talked about as a miracle by many people.

The ultimate use of the Sorcery of the Stars.

Lumene and everyone at Seiren witnessed the scene of the Demon Queen being defeated by End.

“The elves have declared that day as a day of miracles. In addition, there is talk that Seiren itself will be relocated so that place can be preserved as a holy place.”

“That’s too much.”

“Yeah, but that’s not the important part.”

Carr sighed.

“The miracle of the Poet appearing in the present world has strengthened the voice of racists among the elves.”

Leo frowned at Carr’s words.

‘Didn’t most of the elven racists of this era say they are Luna fans?’

Those who praised Luna, the Poet of the Stars, as the greatest of the Great Heroes.

Among them, there were some who insisted that only Luna was the true Great Hero.

The image of Luna flashed through Leo’s mind.

‘A fool who was always so confident.’

Luna was an elf who was a little too easily discouraged for how arrogant she was.

She used to brag that she would one day be praised as legend among the elves…

‘I don’t think she wanted to be worshipped like this, though.’

Leo smiled bitterly as he thought of his friend.

In the meantime, they had exited the tunnel.

The Lumene students burst into awe at the sight of the gigantic castle before their eyes.

The castle gates were wide open.

Four gigantic statues appeared in front of them.

Statues carved as realistically as if they were alive.

“This is the statue of the Great Heroes, the landmark of Damienne,” someone muttered in admiration.

Next to those statues, a new statue was being made.

The face was not properly sculpted yet, and the rough shape was being carved, but the Lumene students could tell who this statue was.

There was only one hero who could stand shoulder to shoulder with the four Great Heroes.

“This is the statue of Kyle, the Hero of the Beginning.”

“Wow! I’ve never seen Kyle’s face before!”

“I really want to see it when it’s finished!”

Exclamations erupted from the students.

While everyone’s eyes were focused on the statue,

Leo was looking at the high Damienne’s schoolyard.

At the highest peak.

Ba-dump—

Leo looked down at his hands as he felt his heart pounding.

‘This feeling… Am I being called there?’

He could feel mana responding to its call.

But it wasn’t Leo’s mana.

Dweno’s mana still flowed through Leo’s body.

Dweno’s flame, which had last been awakened by the divine power of Fiva, was reacting now.