Book 1 Chapter 792

792.

Run woke up to the commotion outside.

"An attack?"

He considered it for a moment, then shook his head.

"I don't feel any dark magic."

Besides, he couldn't feel any movement from the Lumern professors either.

"It must be some kind of training."

Run went to the window and sat down, looking at the burning dormitory.

Then he tilted his head.

"Phoenix fire?"

He felt the power of a phoenix from the flames burning in the dormitory.

Moreover…

"This is the same power as Lunia's phoenix!"

"Fiora! Where are you!"

"Miss Lunia! She's not in the room!"

Lunia and Eiran's urgent voices could be heard from outside the door.

Run opened the door and went out.

"What's wrong?"

"Fiora suddenly disappeared! Senior Run!"

Lunia said with a pout.

"The fire burning in the Lumern dormitory right now, it seems like it's your phoenix's power?"

"What?"

Lunia's face showed surprise as she quickly ran to the window.

"Wh-what is this…"

Lunia, with a look of disbelief, said to Run.

"I'll be right back. I'm going out for a moment."

"Eiran, go with Lunia."

"Y-yes."

After sending his juniors, Run went back into the room.

He slumped onto the bed and muttered to himself.

"What is this situation? A dual contract? But no matter how young, a phoenix wouldn't make a dual contract."

After a moment of thought, Run lay back down on the bed.

"Too lazy to think."

An impossible event had occurred.

Yet, Run felt no curiosity.

With a listless expression, he stared at the ceiling, then closed his eyes.

***

"Hahahahahahaha!"

Cal held bottles in both hands.

"This has amazing firepower!"

"Kkug! Y-you villain…!"

The first-year students stared at the torches in Cal's hands with expressions of horror.

Currently, Cal was confronting the first-year students who were trying to put out the fire from the rear.

Cal lit bottles containing highly explosive oil, with cloth inserted, using a torch.

Cal's torch was Fiora's flame.

The meeting of the phoenix's flame, the most powerful flame in the world, and an easily flammable explosive potion created a tremendous force.

Whenever the first-year students showed an opening, Cal would appear like a ghost, throw a potion bottle, and hide behind nearby terrain, repeating this.

While doing so, he laid all sorts of traps and waged guerrilla warfare against the first-year students.

Literally, a trick.

However, the first-year students were caught up in Cal's brilliant strategic play.

*Fwoosh-*!

"Now! Where should I throw this? Shoo! Shoo!"

Seeing the power of the potions, the first-year students flinched as they watched Cal wildly swing the bottles.

"Here you go!"

"Kyaaak?!"

At that moment, Cal threw a potion bottle at a female student.

*Boom! Fwoosh-*!

The bottle exploded upon hitting the ground.

However, the flames flared up momentarily.

In the end, no damage was inflicted.

"It's a fake! Hahahahahahaha!"

Cal laughed and disappeared again.

Even Cal did not have a large supply of highly explosive potions.

This way, he was just bluffing and driving the first-year students into increasing panic.

"My goal is simply to stop the first-year students, not to defeat them."

Cal was just doing what he could.

But even that was having a sufficient effect.

"Hey, you sneaky…"

"Is this your first time fighting a sneaky person?!"

Cal's giggling laughter echoed.

***

Chen Xia shivered.

"What is this man."

At that moment, her eyes met the man who was stepping on her stomach and looking down at her. She gritted her teeth and grabbed his ankle.

She tried to generate water aura.

*Squeeze-!*

"Kuhuk?!"

But as the opponent applied force, the water aura scattered.

He didn't just apply force.

The opponent had flowed his aura to neutralize Chen Xia's aura.

"Shadow fighting style?!"

But he was vastly superior.

The man was fighting in the way he had idealized.

Chen Xia turned her head and looked at Warden, who was lying on the ground.

"He defeated Warden with only spirit summoning…"

And this man's spirit summoning somehow resembled Warden's.

No. More precisely, it was much more evolved than Warden's fighting style.

It was as if it was what Warden ultimately aimed for.

At that moment, a Wind Wyvern roared from the sky and charged at Leo.

*Fwoosh-*

Then, Fiora on Leo's shoulder grew huge and began to blow wind.

"What kind of phoenix blows wind…!"

Eliza, riding the Wind Wyvern, let out a cry of astonishment.

*Fwoosh!*

The wind Fiora blew made Fiora's flames even stronger.

*Poong-!*

"Kyaaak?!"

The Wind Wyvern that collided with Fiora was blown away.

Due to the impact, Eliza was also flung off the Wind Wyvern.

Leo looked at Eliza falling towards him and reached out with a blank expression.

*Grasp-*!

Eliza, whose scruff was grabbed, hung limply, unconscious.

At that moment, Chloe's ice clones, which were like ice bombs, rushed towards Leo.

Looking at the ice clones that had reached within arm's reach, Leo reached out.

*Chomp-*!

"Kuhuk?!"

"Your tricks are shallow."

Leo said calmly.

"You were planning to rescue your allies while hiding among the ice clones, weren't you?"

Leo said calmly, looking at Chloe, whose neck was held by him and who was kneeling.

"But a place that suits you is in the rear."

Chloe was fighting like a Battle Magician.

More precisely, it was the appearance of a versatile mage who moved between the front and rear.

It was the same way Leo used magic.

But it wasn't a suitable direction for Chloe.

*Swish-*!

"Gasp?!"

Leo raised his arm.

Chloe, suspended in mid-air, clutched Leo's wrist with a pained expression.

At that moment, Abad deployed magic from the sky.

Seeing that, Leo deployed Dispel.

Abad's magic was instantly neutralized.

The moment they saw that, everyone's eyes were filled with astonishment.

"M-magic?"

"He wasn't a Summoner Knight… a Dual Class?!"

"Is he an All-Class?"

"But that's something only found in legends!"

As everyone watched with shocked expressions, Abad bit his lip.

"A monster…"

"Pressure using wind. It's an efficient method I like."

"Your combat method is similar to mine."

"Is it only me?"

Leo burst into laughter.

"Do you know why you were so easily subdued by me?"

At his words, the third-year students fell silent.

Chen Xia bit her lip tightly.

"Overwhelming summoning ability that could hold back Lumern students other than the first-years by himself."

Leo summoned countless spirit beasts and spirits to hold back the other grades.

This included Elena, a fifth-year.

However, he also possessed swordsmanship and magical abilities comparable to that summoning ability.

In a sense, it was the ideal form that Lumern students dreamed of.

And the moment they saw that, they realized.

"I… no. We can never become like that."

Even a lifetime of effort wouldn't be enough to even get close.

As Chen Xia bit her lip, Leo lifted his foot from her stomach.

*Flump- Flump-*

Then he released Chloe and Eliza, who he had held by the neck.

He could sense that their will to fight him had disappeared.

At that moment, Chelsea and Iliana ran over.

"Oppa Leo! I won!"

"Leo! Leo! I beat Duran!"

Chelsea and Iliana shouted in excited voices.

Hearing their voices, Chen Xia's eyes widened in surprise.

"Miss Chelsea? Miss Iliana? No, what did you just say…?"

Seeing Chen Xia with a look of disbelief, Iliana puffed out her chest.

"I beat Duran! Xia! It's all thanks to Leo! Leo is definitely a god!"

Her excited rambling felt both strange and familiar.

It was as if she had returned to her first year.

Of course, if she had defeated Duran, it meant she had become incomparably stronger.

"Ah! Brother…!"

As Chen Xia, flustered, tried to run to Abad, Leo grabbed her scruff.

"Let it go."

"Huh? Why?"

"You beat Celia. But Abad couldn't even touch me and was defeated."

Leo said calmly.

"No matter how good Abad's personality is, approaching him and comforting him now would crush his pride."

"Ah…"

Chelsea hunched her neck.

Leo turned his head and looked at Celia and Duran, who were rising, using their swords as staffs.

It wasn't a narrow victory.

It was an overwhelming victory, to put it mildly.

A week.

In just one week, Chelsea and Iliana had returned to their original selves.

They had fully absorbed the combat styles of Chelsea and Iliana from another world, who thought, pondered, and built them up themselves, rather than people from this world.

That difference was what led to the current outcome.

"It may not seem like much… but it's significant."

The Lumern students of this timeline had inadvertently lost their true selves.

Although their appearances were the same, there was a clear difference between fake and real.

"Decide."

Leo said.

"Whether to collapse as you are."

Everyone looked at Leo.

"Or to stand up again and move forward."

Leo smiled faintly.

"I recommend the latter."

"Why?"

"If you choose the former, I won't stand idly by."

Chen Xia let out a wry laugh.

Leaving Chen Xia behind, Leo walked away.

Chelsea and Iliana exchanged glances, then hurriedly followed Leo.

Watching their retreating figures, Chen Xia thought.

"She resembles Lea… No. In this case, Lea should resemble her."

***

*Fwoosh-*!

Leo reached the burning dormitory and dispelled the flames.

"Shouldn't we help Cal?"

To Chelsea's question, Leo replied.

"Cal is more skilled in actual combat than you think. Don't worry."

After saying that much, Leo stopped walking and looked ahead.

There were familiar faces.

'Lunia, Eiran.'

When Leo spotted the two, Lunia and Eiran also spotted Leo.

And Lunia noticed the plump phoenix on Leo's shoulder.

"Fiora!"

Lunia, who ran towards Leo, shouted.

"You! You kidnapped Fiora?! What are your intentions!"

At her fierce voice, Leo tilted his head.

"Kidnapped?"

Saying that, Leo grabbed Fiora's head and lifted her.

*Peep- Peep-!*

Fiora flapped her wings and struggled.

"I just summoned her."

"Don't be ridiculous! Fiora is bound by an oath to me! She wouldn't respond to your summon!"

Seeing Lunia getting agitated, Leo shook Fiora vigorously from side to side.

*Ppyah-ppyah-ppyah-ppyah-ppyah-ppyah-ppyah-ppiyang!*

"Fiora!"

As Fiora screamed, her flesh jiggling, Lunia cried out in terror.

Leo looked at Lunia with a look of disdain and said.

"A summoner can't even properly manage their own summoned beast? That's why she abandoned you and responded to my summon."

"Don't be ridiculous! You kidnapped her! Give Fiora back right now!"

At those words, Leo, with a bored expression, threw Fiora away.

*Splash!*

*Beep!*

Fiora, who fell to the ground, let out a scream.

"Fio…"

"Choose, Fiora."

Leo said calmly.

"Lunia or me."

At his words, Fiora turned her head.

Then she began to look back and forth between Leo and Lunia.

"Fiora, come here quickly."

Lunia crouched down and extended both hands.

*Peep!*

Fiora began to roll away.

"……!"

Lunia's expression was one of shock.

The direction Fiora rolled was none other than towards Leo.

"Think again."

Leo nudged Fiora with his toe, and she rolled like a ball towards Lunia.

However, Fiora turned her body of her own will and returned to Leo's feet.

*Grasp-*

Leo caught Fiora and lifted her up.

"You chose me."

*Thump-*

"H-how can this be…"

Lunia, who collapsed on the spot, had an expression of disbelief, then her expression turned fierce.

"You damn bastard! What did you do to Fiora!"

*Fwooooosh-*!

"Hic?!"

"Wh-what is it?"

At Lunia's furious outburst, Iliana hid behind Leo in terror, and Chelsea also stepped back in surprise.

Seeing that, Leo clicked his tongue.

"As expected, she was putting on an act."

She was known as a perfect honor student, so it was strange, but it seemed she had been thoroughly putting on an act.

"M-Miss Lunia, please calm down first."

"Let go! I'm going to tear apart that damn punk who stole someone else's summoned beast!"

"P-please calm down!"

Eiran desperately tried to stop Lunia and asked.

"Wh-what is your purpose?"

To that question, Leo replied calmly.

"I have business with the student council president of Seirun."

"With Senior Run?"

Eiran asked with a puzzled expression.

Leo raised his sword, looking at Eiran.

"Yes."

"What business do you have with Senior Run?"

Eiran asked with a wary expression, and Leo replied calmly.

"I'm going to kick that rotten girl's ass."

*Flash! Boom-!*

As Leo generated magic, a powerful explosion occurred in the room where Run was staying.

Lunia and Eiran's eyes widened.

Chelsea and Iliana also gaped.

"Chelsea, Iliana."

"Huh?"

"Deal with those two for me."

*Gooooo-*!

Leo turned his head and looked towards Run, from whom unusual magic was emanating.

"I think I need to have a physical conversation with him."

"A-are you okay?"

Chelsea asked cautiously, and Leo shrugged.

"It'll probably be a bit intense?"