Book 1 Chapter 993
993.
Returning to her dorm room, Illiana sat at her desk and opened a book.
“Make time together, hoo. Hoo.”
It was a romance novel she bought in Rumeria City.
If Chelsea or Chloe had seen her, they would have told her to study that hard.
Unfortunately, reading such books was much more enjoyable for her than studying.
As Illiana’s eyes sparkled while she read the book.
Knock-knock-
A knock was heard.
Illiana waved her hand without taking her eyes off the book.
Click-
“Come in.”
Since Nella was the only one likely to visit her room, Illiana let the guest in without even looking at the door.
Thump-thump-
“What are you looking at so intently?”
“Winning a man’s heart… Huh?”
Illiana, who was answering a familiar voice, paused and turned her head.
And what she met were sparkling red eyes like jewels.
“Class President?!”
Illiana jumped up from her seat in surprise.
“Why is the Class President in my room?! You shouldn’t just enter a lady’s room!”
“Didn’t you tell me to come in?”
“Oh, I did tell you to come in.”
Illiana, who was nodding, shouted.
“No! Still, this is a girls’ dormitory! How did you get in?!”
“The student council president’s room has a door that can go anywhere in the dormitory.”
“Oh, right. I forgot because the Class President wasn’t abusing it.”
Hmm! Hmm! Illiana, who was nodding and understanding, tilted her head.
“But Class President, why did you come to my room?”
Seeing Illiana ask with curiosity, Leo said.
“Illiana, let’s go somewhere with me.”
“Huh?”
At his words, Illiana paused, then quickly made a tense expression.
“You don’t mean just the two of us?”
“That’s right.”
“Then it’s a date?!”
“It’s not like that.”
“Date~ Date~ A date with just the Class President~”
Illiana didn’t listen to Leo’s continuing words and hummed as she approached the closet.
And she said to Leo.
“Class President. Wait outside for a moment.”
“Why?”
“You don’t seriously intend to watch a lady like me change clothes, do you?”
Illiana, narrowing her eyes, pushed Leo’s back and sent him out of the room.
“So, the date is…”
“Uh-huh. I’ll be ready soon.”
Illiana, whose tension was high, didn’t listen to Leo’s words.
Left alone, Illiana quickly found and put on a pretty winter outfit.
Even though it was winter clothing, pretty clothes were thin.
Normally, she would have bundled up, saying warmth was best, but if she was going somewhere alone with Leo, what was a little cold?
‘I hope it snows a lot. So we can enjoy the snow together in a romantic atmosphere.’
Illiana, who was imagining a romantic situation, let out a shriek.
And a moment later.
Whoooooosh!
Illiana screamed amidst the terrifying blizzard.
“It’s cooooooooold!”
“That’s why you dressed so thinly.”
“I thought it was a date!”
Illiana made a tearful face.
Currently, the place Leo and Illiana came to was the frozen ice sea in the northwest of the continent.
Illiana, who wore thin clothes to look pretty, couldn’t help but scream in the tremendous severe cold.
“Class Presideeeent! It’s coooold!”
Illiana clung to Leo.
There was no ulterior motive.
It was merely a desperate struggle to escape the cold even a little.
If it had been an ordinary person, they would have lost their life in this cold, no matter how many layers they wore.
Seeing Illiana make a tearful face, Leo sighed and took off his coat, wrapping it around Illiana.
Illiana sniffled and pulled the coat tighter.
“This coat is super warm.”
“It’s made of phoenix feathers.”
Leo, who used Zerdinger’s flame aura, was not greatly affected by the cold even without a coat.
“Anyway, when you said let’s go somewhere just the two of us, I thought it was a date.”
“That’s why you should listen to people until they finish speaking.”
“Ouch!”
Leo flicked Illiana’s forehead.
Illiana, rubbing her forehead, pouted her lips.
“But why are we here?”
“We’re going to patrol the surrounding area. A Hero Dungeon might have appeared.”
Before long, Illiana had become the fastest in Rumerun.
As such, she was perfect for extensive reconnaissance missions.
“Aha. So you need Illiana-nim, the Light-Speed Quick Sword!”
Illiana let out a “Hmph” and laughed, and Leo nodded.
“Yes.”
“Hmph! Leave it to Illiana-nim!”
Illiana thumped her chest and smiled brightly.
“The Class President trusts and relies on me! I feel so motivated!”
‘She’d get upset if I told her I brought her because she seemed the least busy, wouldn’t she?’
Leo gave a wry smile, watching Illiana burn with enthusiasm, wearing a proud expression.
While it was true that Illiana was brought because she was specialized in reconnaissance missions, it was also because she seemed less busy compared to Chelsea, Eliza, and Duran.
Leo told Illiana the reconnaissance range and began searching his own area.
‘Luna and Seirun, huh…’
Walking on the frozen sea, Leo recalled the story Lunia had told him.
It was a perplexing story even for Leo.
It was not surprising that Seirun, the Hero of Genesis, had appeared in the present world.
But appearing with Luna was a bewildering story.
Recalling Seirun, Leo thought of Azonia and Damian a few months ago.
He remembered when he met the two of them.
When they were leaving, their eyes met with Erebus.
Remembering Erebus, who showed no sign of coming out, Leo stopped walking.
His snow-white hair fluttered in the blizzard blowing from the vast icy sea.
Leo narrowed his red eyes, which looked as if they could burst into flames at any moment, and activated his super-senses.
First, finding the entrance to the Hero Dungeon was the priority.
“Loo-loo~ La-la~”
Illiana was humming and walking on the frozen icy sea.
It was a terribly murderous cold, but thanks to the coat Leo gave her and the cold-resistant magic, she could manage it.
“Achoo!”
Still, the cold hadn’t completely gone away.
“Ahem. Anyway, it’s too wide.”
Illiana sniffled and glared at the frozen sea.
“Will it end today?”
Illiana, who was looking at the vast search area that made her head spin, suddenly remembered something.
“If it doesn’t end today… Do I have to stay out overnight with the Class President?”
Her heart pounded for no reason.
‘Come to think of it, Chloe was once trapped in a blizzard with the Class President.’
At the time, she pressed her about what happened, but Chloe never answered.
However, judging by her reaction, something had definitely happened.
Illiana, who was momentarily excited with a strange anticipation, shook off her thoughts.
‘First, the search.’
Illiana concentrated.
Among her various senses, her vision was maximized.
Illiana was still inexperienced with super-senses.
Only her vision could acquire transcendent senses.
However, she uniquely gained vision so superior that it overwhelmed her other senses.
As her vision expanded, the flow of mana, which was not normally visible, began to appear.
Illiana’s eyes twitched as she looked around.
‘A person?’
In the blizzard where one couldn't see a foot ahead.
A human presence appeared in Illiana’s sight.
“Hmm~!”
Illiana folded her arms and narrowed her eyes.
‘Suspicious!’
This was an elf territory, but a person moving in this land where even animals adapted to the cold, let alone elves, were not seen.
It couldn’t help but be suspicious.
‘A traitor active within the elf territory? Or a demon?’
Thinking various thoughts, Illiana drew her sword.
And relying on her super-senses, she began to approach the person.
At that moment.
The person beyond the blizzard seemed to have noticed her as well and began to flee.
“Ah! Stop right there!”
Illiana quickly pursued him.
The opponent’s speed was unusual.
She began the chase, but as she couldn’t close the distance, Illiana thought.
‘Should I call the Class President instead of pursuing recklessly?’
Illiana, who was thinking that, soon increased her speed.
In the current situation, she couldn't gauge the enemy's strength.
But even so, she remembered why she was here.
‘The Class President brought me to search for a Hero Dungeon.’
That meant he also considered combat situations.
If he had thought Illiana would have difficulty handling it, he wouldn’t have brought her.
‘No, if a combat situation arose, he would have told me not to pursue and to call him.’
But Leo entrusted it to Illiana's judgment.
‘Even if the opponent is an overwhelmingly strong enemy, the Class President believes I can hold out until he arrives.’
That was Leo’s trust in Illiana.
‘I will pursue.’
Illiana also had faith in Leo.
The trust that even if the enemy could defeat her in an instant, Leo would arrive and help her before that happened.
She had to live up to that trust.
Illiana also knew that she disliked studying and training compared to her other friends.
Because she disliked difficult tasks.
Her desire to live comfortably and idly for her entire life hadn’t changed since her first year.
But if something had changed, it was that her desire to live up to Leo’s expectations, who always affirmed her potential, had grown stronger than that feeling.
Flash-!
Illiana instantly accelerated.
Before she knew it, she had left the ice sea and entered a forest.
Flash-!
Illiana's sword, which instantly closed the distance with the opponent, slashed through the air.
A sword aura of light burst forth, blocking the escape route of the fleeing person.
Thud-!
Taking advantage of the opponent’s pause, Illiana, who stood in front of them, said.
“Ho ho ho! You cannot escape from Illiana-nim, Rumerun’s Light-Speed Quick Sword!”
Illiana, covering her mouth and smiling elegantly, said.
“Reveal your identity. Why were you loitering in such a place, and why did you run away?”
Illiana, pointing her sword at the opponent, carefully observed their appearance.
It was a girl with impressive snow-white hair and red eyes.
Around 15 years old?
‘She doesn’t look like a bad kid?’
Illiana tilted her head.
“Now, if you surrender obediently, there will be no bloodshed.”
At those words, the girl pulled out a dagger from her pocket.
“Oh? Unnie isn’t a bad person, are you? Are you going to resist?”
Illiana gave an awkward smile.
She didn’t seem like a bad kid, but she couldn’t just let down her guard.
‘I’ll subdue her first.’
Thinking that, Illiana moved.
Whoosh-
As she instantly closed the distance, the girl extended the hand that wasn’t holding the dagger.
Flash-!
A magic circle unfolded on her palm.
‘Star magic?’
And it wasn't the star magic system reinterpreted by Ren, but the original magic used by elves.
Illiana admired it and parried the star magic that was covering her with her sword.
And just as she was about to grab the girl.
The girl swung her dagger through the air at an incredible speed, preventing Illiana from approaching.
It was a threat, not an attack.
“Hmm?”
Illiana, having widened the distance, let out an uncomfortable breath.
She was stronger than Illiana thought.
“Hmph. You impudent little brat. Do you think I’m easy just because this Unnie is going easy on you?”
As Illiana smiled faintly and warned her, the girl, who had been listening silently, mumbled in a somewhat vexed voice.
“You weren’t going easy on me from the start, old hag.”
“…”
Of course, she had no intention of going easy from the start.
Illiana always makes sure to win against an opponent she can defeat.
Even if it's a child who isn't even 10 years old.
But more than that remark, it was the appellation she had heard for the first time in her life that provoked Illiana.
“Heh heh… Heh heh heh. Kid. This Unnie just heard something strange, didn’t I? I must have misheard, right?”
“You didn’t mishear. Old hag.”
“Understood. I’ll tear that impudent mouth of yours!”
Illiana’s eyes flashed as she lunged at the girl.
Whoooooosh-!
At that moment, a fierce blizzard blew, instantly obscuring Illiana’s vision.
“Ugh?!”
The moment Illiana paused.
When the blizzard cleared, the girl’s figure was no longer visible.
Seeing that, Illiana let out a furious scream.
“Where did you run off to! You damn white-haired brat! Get back here right now!”
She shouted with the force of breathing fire, maximizing her super-senses to scan her surroundings.
But the girl’s figure was nowhere to be seen.
Only Illiana’s hollow anger echoed.