Book 1 Chapter 120
“Still haven’t found a way to unlock the Hero’s World?”
“I-It can’t be helped! It’s a Hero’s Dungeon, so there’s no way to control it!”
“Crrck!”
Urgency flickered in Berga’s eyes, who had lost his composure.
It had already been an hour since the world of Arion had opened.
The fact that the Hero’s World itself wasn’t opening meant that Leo and Ar were holding up well, but that didn’t make him entirely happy.
‘Ar! Kyle!’
“Find a way to control it, quickly!”
“Ugh! B-Berga, instructor!”
Everyone was flustered when they saw Berga grabbing the vice-instructor by the collar.
“Calm down, Berga.”
A calm voice was heard.
Berga turned his head and let go of the vice-instructor’s collar as he saw a human man approaching him.
“Ain.”
Following Ain, Yura also entered with a serious expression.
“What brings the professors of Lumen here?”
Ain answered Berga’s question calmly.
“It’s related to the Hero’s World, so it’s good to share experiences. Our school also had several unfortunate incidents this first semester.”
Yura poked Ain’s side with a surprised look.
The mid-term exam turning into a Hero’s Dungeon.
The departmental competition at the end of the semester.
While both incidents were resolved well, they were considered Lumen’s shame by outsiders.
Yura couldn’t help but be taken aback that he casually brought up those stories to an outsider.
“Azenia is different from Lumen! This is just a simple accident!”
“Even so, there’s no harm in joining forces. My junior and I have experienced things that you and the instructors of Azenia haven’t. It won’t be a hindrance.”
Hearing that, Berga closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
Hearing Ain’s calm words in any situation, he felt his excitement subside.
“I apologize. I apologize for speaking carelessly in my excitement.”
“It’s okay.”
Yura waved his hand.
“By the way, how many years has it been since a new page of a Great Hero opened?”
“I heard one opened at Lumen at the beginning of this year, though?”
“It did, but it opened and closed very briefly for us.”
“What was it like when it opened?”
“It was a sudden rampage for us too. So, we couldn’t figure out the cause.”
It was when Berga’s face became serious.
*Woooong-!*
Suddenly, Arion’s page began to glow.
Their faces hardened as they saw it.
When a Hero’s Page reacted, it was one of two things: either the Hero’s World had been conquered, or the page closed due to the conqueror’s death.
As everyone tensed, Leo and Ar popped out from Arion’s page.
“Ar!”
“Father!”
Seeing Berga embracing him with tears, Ar smiled brightly.
“Are you injured anywhere?”
“Yes! Father! I conquered Arion’s world!”
“That doesn’t matter! Ar! My daughter! Do you know how worried I was!”
Hugging his daughter, Berga was genuinely happy.
It was true that he had rigorously trained his daughter from a young age to become a hero.
But that was so his daughter would have the strength to overcome trials without dying.
Since Ar knew that, she didn’t hate or resent her father, Berga.
Meanwhile, Leo had a bewildered expression.
‘Hey! What are you?! Why are you here?’
Leo was startled by the presence of Elsie, which he felt from the Orb of Light.
He was shocked when he saw the list of conquest rewards.
How could Elsie, a spirit from the past, be a conquest reward?
The contract he had made with Elsie just a moment ago was also valid.
This was literally like a dead person returning.
‘Elsie?’
[…….]
Even when Leo called her, Elsie seemed to be asleep and didn’t respond.
Leo scratched his head then.
“Father! We couldn’t have conquered it if it weren’t for the black rabbit here!”
“……”
Berga’s gaze turned to Leo.
Leo scratched his cheek as he received his gaze.
Berga, who had somehow returned to his usual dignified demeanor, stood before Leo with a solemn expression.
“Kyle.”
The way Berga called Leo had changed from “Reina’s son” to his name.
This meant that Berga acknowledged Leo.
“It’s amazing. To conquer Arion’s world.”
“I didn’t do it alone.”
“Hmph, is that modesty?”
Berga chuckled and clenched his fist.
“Regardless of the reason, Ar and you have conquered Arion’s world! This is decisive proof that you are worthy of being a student at the Hero Academy, Azenia! I am delighted!”
Berga folded his arms and declared with dignity.
“I, Berga, will do my best to teach you so that you can walk the path of the conqueror!”
At the Azenia Academy, students had to choose their instructors.
Among them, students naturally flocked to famous instructors.
And Berga was the best instructor anyone would want to learn from.
And now, he had personally declared that he would take Leo as his disciple.
It was an immense honor, and it could be said that his school life was guaranteed.
“Black rabbit! Let’s work hard together!”
Ar also welcomed Leo with a bright smile.
*Grab-!*
A woman’s outstretched hand grabbed Leo’s rabbit ears.
“Excuse me for interrupting, but.”
Yura asked Berga for permission and then looked at Leo with a bright smile.
“Mr. Class Representative? What are you doing here?”
“Who are you?”
Leo said brazenly.
He instinctively felt that if Yura noticed him, it would be troublesome, even if he didn’t know why she was there.
“Who are you? Who are you? You brat! You can’t even recognize the professor who taught you diligently for a semester? Or? Do you think you can fool the professors just by using a little magic?”
Yura, with narrowed eyes, applied force.
“Hey! Why are you here? What are you trying to do? Tell me honestly. Are you testing the waters between Lumen and Azenia? Do you want to die? Do you want to die? Huh?”
Veins bulged on Yura’s hand, and she easily lifted Leo.
Leo dangled like a rabbit caught by its ears.
“What in the world are you talking about?”
Berga asked with a bewildered expression, and Ain sighed.
“It seems one of our students has committed a discourtesy. I don’t know how he managed to participate in Azenia’s entrance ceremony, but allow me to introduce him.”
Leo, who had slipped out from behind Yura, judged that he could no longer hide and released his polymorph magic.
A faint light flowed from Leo’s body.
The rabbit ears disappeared, and his hair turned white.
Berga and Ar’s mouths dropped open as they saw Leo return to human form.
“This is Leo Flob. He is the class representative of Lumen’s first year.”
“Hello, I am Leo Flob.”
*
After Leo’s identity was revealed, it was chaos.
‘It doesn’t matter if he’s Lumen’s class representative! Azenia’s doors are open! Kyle! No, Leo Flob! You can enroll in Azenia!’
‘What nonsense are you talking about to a student in our school’s Knight Department?’
‘Why the Knight Department! It should be the Summoning Department!’
Ain and Yura bickered at Berga’s cry.
Ar looked somewhat shocked.
Leo tried to apologize, but it was too chaotic to do so.
‘Student Leo, please, I beg you. Please restrain yourself. It’s too difficult for us!’
Vice-Professor Carlo shed tears and pleaded with Leo.
The professors were already having escalating disputes about Leo’s department.
If other Hero Academies got involved, it would be the assistant professors and teaching assistants who would suffer.
Thus, Leo explained how he ended up attending Azenia’s entrance ceremony.
Since there was nothing illegal, it could be passed off as a minor incident.
However, the Azenia officials looked at Leo with regret in many ways.
It was unprecedented for a freshman to conquer the world of Arion before enrollment.
Ar had also achieved it, but it would have been nice to see both conquerors enroll together.
“You’re the first in Lumen’s history to cause trouble like this during vacation!”
Yura gave Leo a tap on the head.
“It’s fine since there were no major problems.”
Ain reacted calmly.
He seemed to have a rather positive assessment of Leo checking out rival Hero Academies as class representative.
“Well, I couldn’t attend the entrance ceremony, though.”
Leo couldn’t attend the desert marathon.
“Of course! If you had attended the entrance ceremony, you might have been forcibly enrolled in Azenia!”
“That would likely be the case.”
Leo burst into laughter.
“By the way, the conquest reward is disappointing.”
Ar’s conquest reward was Arion’s Breath, which turned out to be Arion’s water-breathing ability, mentioned only in texts.
Of course, a gag order was issued because a huge backlash was expected if the conquest rewards became known.
This measure was taken because Ar’s proper school life might become impossible.
Only a few people present and the conquerors themselves knew about this conquest reward.
“You can’t use such a conquest reward since you’re human.”
“I should be satisfied with conquering Arion’s world.”
“That fact shouldn’t be known either, right?”
Yura squinted her eyes.
Even though it was passed off as a minor incident, there was no benefit in it becoming known.
On the surface, he seemed to have gained nothing.
But Leo had obtained something as a conquest reward that others could not imagine.
‘What in the world happened to Elsie?’
Rewards related to summoning usually involved summoning catalysts or contract qualifications.
There had never been a case where the summon itself directly became a conquest reward.
‘I’ll think about that when I get back… I’m a little worried about Ar. She didn’t seem to be able to control Arion’s Breath properly.’
Leo clicked his tongue, recalling Ar who hadn’t fully mastered water-breathing and couldn’t control her power.
It was as if she had suddenly gained Arion’s power overnight, so it was impossible for her to control it properly.
‘If I could be by her side, I could help.’
“Anyway! Don’t cause any more trouble this vacation!”
Yura said warningly as they reached the warp gate.
Ain and Yura, the two instructors, had followed him to the warp gate to keep an eye on the unpredictable class representative, as they didn’t think he would go home obediently.
‘I don’t plan to cause any more trouble.’
Even though he thought so, it was obvious that telling them would be useless since he had already been caught in such a huge incident.
“I’ll see you in the second semester, professors.”
“Alright! See you after the vacation!”
“Rest well, Leo Flob.”
Leo greeted the professors and stepped into the warp gate.
With a flash of light, Leo left Azrek.
“Why does he cause such big incidents occasionally when he’s so well-behaved during school?”
Yura had a weary expression.
“Well, since it was handled well at Azenia, there shouldn’t be any more problems, right?”
“Can’t you tell by the letters I receive every month asking me to become their official instructor?”
Yura’s expression became serious.
“Hey, no matter what, he’s attending our school well, so why would he try to change schools…”
“You never know. After all, Azenia is a Hero Academy equal to ours.”
Ain sighed deeply.
“According to Professor Hallind, there were also transfer offers from Seirun.”
“……”
Yura’s expression became even more serious.
The two seniors and juniors looked at each other and thought.
‘This…’
‘This might not be the time for us to fight amongst ourselves.’
The two instructors couldn’t help but sigh deeply at the unprecedented situation of external forces interfering in a student recruitment war.