Antihero In the Hero Academy: I Can Connect the Past Heroes-Chapter 154: That Is All

"Then it’s your turn," said Cassandra.

"My turn?" asked Atlas.

"We have plenty of time, tell me everything, Atlas," replied Cassandra.

These words would open the door to a long, grandiose, but equally sad story that would last for days.

There was so much to tell...

"Two years have already passed. When I turned 15, I opened my eyes again. Right after the moment, you told me about, Cassandra. When I opened my eyes, I was in my room; it was a normal day, and there was still plenty of time before I had to go to the academy."

Atlas, filled with both hope and bewilderment, began to tell Cassandra everything, who had sat down beside him to comfort him.

"I wanted to prevent the events of my previous life from repeating themselves. I tried to eliminate the devil-worshippers who had poisoned the Sages at the academy, and I succeeded in doing so much sooner than I had anticipated. This made it impossible for the devil’s gate to open." freēnovelkiss.com

When he spoke these words, Cassandra and the other Sages looked at each other. Atlas still did not know the ’Life Stones.’.

"The assassins who came to the Herria City, the potions I knew, the techniques and spells I had learned, even my own crimson and black aura—all of these were things I had managed to achieve in my previous life."

"I killed millions of people from different races... It would be accurate to say I was manipulated by humanity. I didn’t know... I didn’t know that the attack that killed Helena had taken place... I didn’t know that those who opened the barrier blocking the demons or those who opened the angelic gateway in the World Tree were humans."

"Everything went wrong. When I somehow returned to the past and cleansed the secret passage involved in the death of the Dead Tree, I realised I could use both aura and mana at the same time. I knew I had to catch Lady Cordelia’s attention."

When he spoke these words, Atlas turned to Cordelia. After all, he had told her, he felt he had to look into the eyes of the most powerful being in the world.

"If I could somehow get Lady Cordelia on my side, everything could have turned out better. To be honest, I hadn’t thought about this until I first met the lady at the academy. Until then, I had thought I could seek refuge with one of the alchemy professors, but the lady’s appreciation of me prompted me to rewrite my plans."

When he said these words, Atlas paused for a few seconds, then bowed his head gently and said, "I’m sorry, my lady, I deceived you... many times."

Cordelia shook her head from side to side and then commanded, "Just continue explaining all to me."

Atlas nodded as if he understood and said, "I realised I needed to make the lady more interested in me. That’s why I carefully considered what I could do. If I used the white flame, one of the rarest flames... if I used the ice fire which is the white flame, which, according to what was said, hadn’t appeared in over a million years, I thought I would succeed."

"And you succeeded," Cain replied.

"Yes... Yes, I succeeded. And it was a great success. I thought Lady Cordelia would take me under her wing, but to become her personal student? That was something I never even imagined."

"I really had to change my plans completely. Logically, I had become the only untouchable person in the entire academy, hell even the world! Plus, the fact that my sister Eva and Emperor Aether and Empress Aelia were paying attention to my words made everything easier."

"So when you beat up the people who were harming River, you drew attention to yourself," Cordelia had said.

"Exactly. I had accidentally witnessed River’s incident. That day, when I went there by chance to conduct a few training sessions, I saw everything, but this led me to both rescue someone who was being oppressed and take everything further. If I were to beat someone whom the devil worshippers were seriously considering bringing into their ranks, I could bring out the most impatient persons among them. Among the professors, the devil worshipper who needed to fall."

"I had one goal. That was to anger the devil worshippers as much as possible. First, the woman trying to become a new professor, then the professor in Lady Cordelia’s room. With that, everything had come to light. Before going back in time, I reported everyone whose names I had learned at the academy to the professors."

"This completely cleansed the academy," Talon had said.

"Not only did I take on the protection of Lady Cordelia while saving Cassandra’s nieces, but I also ensured that she gathered the remaining Sages... Though I didn’t think it was a certainty, it turned out as I had imagined."

"While all this was happening and I was unconscious, I prompted my sister Eva, my uncle Aether, and my aunt Aelia, whom I had previously connected with and told everything to, to take action. I knew how much I was loved... but I didn’t realise it before I went back in time, and I didn’t look at Aether or Aelia’s faces after my sister died, but... this time everything would be different. The Epsilon Empire truly had to be one, and every rotten element within it had to be eradicated."

"In just a short time, the entire empire, and not only that, the entire continent, and even other continents, had begun to be cleansed thanks to you. Even if we didn’t know where their leaders were, the devil worshippers had become very, very weak and were forced to hide. When we cleaned up the underground slave market, we had dealt the final blow."

"The Epsilon Empire had been cleansed."

Everyone couldn’t help but take a deep breath after hearing all these words. Cassandra took Atlas’s hand and gently asked, "After all the pain you’ve endured... you’re trying to be a hero once again. How can you endure everything?’"

Even Talon, perhaps the harshest of the Sages, had a broken heart. Though Atlas had lived until the age of 37, in their eyes he was still just a child. Even the youngest, Juliet, was hundreds of thousands of years old, so it was incredible that an ordinary human could endure such things at this age.