Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 625
625.
Fwoosh-!
As Reina swung her sword, the blade of flame extended with a swoosh.
The elongated blade of flame danced gracefully through the air like a whip.
At the sight of it, Giora’s figure suddenly disappeared.
Reina’s crimson eyes instantly followed Giora.
“Over there!!!”
The flame spear that was burning in her left hand suddenly roared ferociously.
Kwagagagagaga-!
The thrown spear flew straight towards Giora, who had revealed his figure.
Blue flames drew a trajectory in the air.
Peeing-! Pubububububang!
Fragments of blue flames splattered in all directions.
The intense heat caused a whirlwind, and the surroundings seemed distorted because of it.
Reina narrowed her eyes.
‘That spatial movement is not magic.’
The advantage of spatial movement magic in close combat is great.
No matter how fast you move, movement is ultimately a connection of lines.
You can predict the movement.
That’s why many battle mages used close-range spatial movement in close combat.
That’s because no matter how much you enhance your movement speed with magic, there is a limit to dealing with knights using aura.
However, when dealing with knight classes that have entered a certain realm, close combat using spatial movement becomes a poison.
This is because you can predict the location of the movement with the wave of magic power.
The biggest disadvantage of spatial movement is that you can’t know what the opponent is doing at the moment of spatial movement.
For a knight close to a hero, that moment is enough time to deal a fatal blow.
However, there is no wave used in magic in the spatial movement that Giora is using now.
‘It was the same before.’
There was no surge of magic power even when he kidnapped her and brought her here.
He literally appeared and disappeared.
The nature of magic power itself can be secretive, but it was not at that level.
The moment Reina tries to attack Giora again.
Giora disappeared again.
Reina curled her lips at the sight.
‘Aura.’
Reina, who had grasped the opponent’s ability in an instant, swung her sword upwards.
Kwagagagagak-!
The crimson and blue flames collided, creating a huge ripple of flames.
Reina glared at Giora, who looked like her younger self.
“I hate that appearance.”
“Then what are you going to do? You must know the nature of your flames well?”
Giora’s flames devoured Reina’s flames.
“I don’t know how you use the flames of the Great Flame Spirit. But at best, it’s just the level of flame at that time.”
Giora smiled coldly.
“What’s the difference in just changing that much?”
At Giora’s question, Reina smiled broadly and burst out a huge amount of flames as if exploding.
Fwoosh-!
“It’s useless! I’ll devour all those flames…”
The moment Giora laughed.
Kwaang-!
“Keuk?!”
“Crack?!”
Normally, when people grow their strength, they grow together with the vessel.
Reina kicked Zora in the abdomen.
Whooshing! Kwaga Gaga Gang-!
Zora flew to the floor and crashed with a powerful kick.
Reina landed lightly on the floor and said.
“As you said, since it was my flame, I know the characteristics of the flame well. That means I know the weaknesses well.”
Reina’s flame devours the opponent’s flame and creates a more powerful firepower.
At first glance, it seems that anyone who uses a flame will be eaten by Reina.
However, Reina’s flame needs time to digest when it devours the opponent’s flame.
And at that moment, it becomes defenseless.
That’s why Reina didn’t try to swallow the opponent’s flame without thinking.
“You didn’t even know that?”
“Eek!”
Zora got up from his seat, looking down at Reina with a pathetic face.
The power he possessed was clearly superior.
“Aunt!”
“Oh? Celia!”
At that moment, Reina smiled brightly and waved her hand towards the sky at the sound of a voice from the sky.
That moment.
Zora disappeared.
Zora, who disappeared without a trace, appeared behind Reina at some point.
Celia, who saw it from the sky, opened her eyes wide.
“Aunt! Behind…!”
Swish-!
However, before Celia could warn him, Reina swung her sword at the spot where Zora had appeared.
Zora’s cleanly cut head flew into the sky.
For a moment, Zora’s eyes, which had turned into a skeleton, twisted in astonishment.
“How on earth…!”
“Certainly, that spatial movement is not magic, but a power using aura, so it is difficult to know the place of movement.”
It was as Reina said.
Zora’s technique now cuts space using aura.
It is almost impossible to predict because it cuts space and moves to that place.
It is too late to respond to the sense of life and react.
However, Reina accurately identified the place where Zora was moving.
Reina’s red eyes sparkled.
‘Temperature.’
Flame users were sensitive to temperature.
And Reina’s sense of detecting the temperature was far superior to that of others.
As if a snake senses its prey.
I was able to check the subtle temperature of a person.
No matter how little movement there was, she could react quickly because a certain temperature disappeared and appeared within her senses.
-Crazy!
Ista, who lent Reina her strength, exclaimed in astonishment.
-No matter what, how can a human being be so familiar with heat! No, in the first place!
-How can you handle my power so freely!
The power of the flame that Ista lent to her far surpassed Reina’s power in her prime.
Nevertheless, Reina was wielding Ista’s power freely.
‘It’s not impossible. Sometimes there are such people. Those who have already completed the vessel!’
‘It’s not impossible. Sometimes there are such people. Those whose vessels are already complete!’
Celia, who saw it, opened her mouth without realizing it.
‘But Reina Flove had lost her powers for a long time!’
It was a situation where she borrowed the powers of another being, not her own.
There was no way she wouldn’t be awkward in handling flames.
But there was no such sign in Reina.
As if she had been handling the power for a long time.
She was perfectly handling the power she had received.
It wasn’t a problem with her mental strength.
Literally, her flame handling skills were beyond imagination.
“This bitch! Ignoring me! Kwaaaaaaaaaaah!”
Kwagagagagagagaga-!
Jaroa continued to lose his temper.
Leo said.
He said that he was ruining the power he had taken away.
Jaroa had laughed at those words, but now there was someone in front of him proving those words.
And ironically, that being was none other than the mother of the one who said those words.
Gooooooooo-! Pazijijik! Pazik!
A huge magical power surged.
Jaroa, with fierce murderous intent in his eyes, prepared a grand spell.
“Try blocking this!”
Celia, who saw it, said with a face that had turned white.
“G, aunt! You have to run away……!”
“Celia.”
“Yes?”
“Will you look back?”
“Back…… What?”
Celia looked back without realizing it.
And she gasped.
There, she could see the castle walls of the Flove Territory.
“If we run away, many people will die.”
“…….”
Celia gritted her teeth.
Looking at such Celia, Reina smiled broadly.
“Can I borrow Flame Storm?”
“Yes? Ah, yes……!”
Celia gave Reina the Flame Storm, the heirloom of Jerdinger that she had received.
It was the sword that Reina had held a long time ago.
A sword that burns without breaking as long as its will lives.
“Of course, if I die with those people, it’s nothing more or less than a dog’s death. But if there’s a possibility, I believe in fighting head-on.”
Reina bowed her head deeply.
She felt ashamed of herself for even thinking of running away without looking back or forth.
Looking at such Celia, Reina stroked her head.
“You don’t have to be ashamed. You’re still a child? And you don’t have to be like me.”
“ aunt…….”
Reina gently caressed the cheek of her niece who was looking up at her.
‘Sometimes she seems more like my daughter than Leo.’
A niece who resembled her a lot.
“You’ll definitely become a much greater knight than me. Create your own beliefs and decide your own path. And on that path you must take…… I’d be really happy if I could be a little bit of a guide.”
Reina turned around and approached Jaroa.
Hwarurruk-!
Blue flames surged from Reina’s body.
Jeobuk- Jeobuk-
The rising flames were concentrated at the tip of the Flame Storm.
Celia, who saw that, opened her mouth without realizing it.
‘How can she handle flames like that?’
Even Celia, who had trained in the flame of Jerdinger her whole life, wondered if it was possible to handle flames to that extent.
‘No. It’s not just me.’
List… Runia of the Lundar family too.
Even Leo.
Although they had the same flames, the flames that Reina used were different.
It wasn’t just that she freely handled the flames.
The flames that stayed at the tips of Reina’s fingers burned more intensely.
‘Father. Why was my aunt called the Flame Witch?’
‘Because there was no nickname that suited her more.’
Suddenly, a conversation from the past came to mind.
‘Ah. I see.’
Looking at her back, I realized it right away.
‘That’s why she’s a witch.’
Even the characteristics of the flames that the Great Spirit of Fire had changed into Reina’s flames when they touched her fingertips.
Before she knew it, Celia muttered while looking at the crimson flames that were concentrated at the tip of the sword.
‘The flame itself.’
That intense appearance captivated Celia’s eyes.
***
“You said it.”
Reina said, holding the crimson flames on her sword with both hands.
“Since that day, I have regretted it all my life. Yes, that’s true.”
Reina’s red eyes sparkled.
“I spent every day regretting it.”
Regretting the choices she had made at that time.
She missed the person she had lost.
“I couldn’t stop training because of that foolish longing.”
Even though she had already lost her flames, Reina didn’t stop improving herself.
It wasn’t just swordsmanship.
She had polished her flames in her imagination.
The ugliness of clinging to something that had disappeared and was gone.
-Is that what happened?
Listening to Reina, Ista stuck out her tongue as if she finally understood.
I finally understood.
The reason why she could freely handle her flames to this extent, even though she had lost them for decades.
That foolish longing for those few decades.
The time that seemed meaningless and pathetic.
It was rewarded in this short moment.
-You… never gave up.
Reina laughed at Ista’s words.
“Prominence.”
The essence of Jerdinger’s flames was realized at the tip of Reina’s sword.
The flames that were compressed and concentrated at the tip of the sword pierced through the magic and cut Jor’a in half.
“Kuaaaaaak! You foolish fool!”
Jor’a, who had lost his powers after dying again, let out a roar of fury.
“Why! Why don’t you give up!”
“Why are you asking when it’s obvious?”
Reina answered as if she pitied Jor’a, who was talking nonsense because he had lost his mind.
“My son will be here soon.”
Reina pointed at Jor’a with her finger and growled.
“That’s when you’ll disappear. I will never give up until I see you disappear.”