Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 73

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius – Episode 73

Killing Stone (3)

—If it were me, I would maximize the output of the flames to create a cage to trap the beast in front of me. Extracting water from the black mist to manipulate it would be difficult because the heat within its flesh is too intense, causing the water to evaporate quickly.

A hallucination in my ear.

Yet, the hallucination was clear, and my body unconsciously followed its logical method.

콰앙!!

Flames engulfed the surroundings.

Soon, the flames became dozens of pillars, plunging into the ground.

Thus, the tangible flames formed a prison, creating a cage that no living creature in the area could enter or exit.

Of course, this would only hold him for about 19 seconds.

No, 19 seconds is quite a long time, I guess.

“Haha, do you think you can restrain me with flames like this?”

So said Dorudo, pulling at the bars of flame with his strength.

The tangible flames created a prison as solid as iron bars, but this time, the opponent was wrong. That was only enough to hold him back a little.

But that little bit of time was what I wanted.

Once again, a monologue with a tone like a beautiful melody continued in my ear.

—And next, you would adjust the unique spiral magic array. Judging from the spare space in the volume, about three spirals could fit comfortably. I don’t know why you’re not even trying.

Thanks for the next advice, hallucination.

Feeling the logic in the hallucination’s words, I put it into action.

퍼엉!!

“……!!!”

The fist was blocked. It was Dorudo’s fist, which had never been blocked before, so his face was filled with astonishment.

“What, what is this magic power of unbelievable density……!!”

As a demon, Dorudo was sensitive to magic power. In Seungwoo’s eyes, he was a madman consumed by madness.

Even more than himself.

The madman in front of him divided the structure of magic power into two, and not only crossed them but also added an additional line on top.

It sounds simple, but it requires a natural sense of magic and bearing the risk that all the magic power in the body might be twisted and the body distorted by a single mistake.

A dizzying acrobatics where a single failure can lead to permanent disability or death.

Dorudo seriously considered finding a way out at the sight of Seungwoo wielding the magic power constructed with three lines, which were presumed to be still incomplete, without hesitation.

That much, that magic power was dangerous.

If he made a mistake, not only would his magical armor be crushed like paper, but his internal organs would also be turned to mush.

Feeling threatened by an opponent he had ignored, he was momentarily daunted.

He soon wrapped his fist in magical energy and rushed to break the guy’s bizarre magic power with all his might.

Right then, a small spark was secretly burning in my grasp.

It followed the two spirals and the awkwardly added spiral, swirling and fiercely rising.

「Foxfire─Triple Helix」

The three-pronged purple, cursed flame engulfed the area.

The purple flames flickered, and a dark shadow stretched out behind me.

At that moment, Dorudo, who was watching the scene from the opposite side, suddenly thought of a demon. The shadow, elongated by the movement of the flames, began to look like long horns, teeth, and a tail.

It seemed as if a demon, more vicious and greedy than the seventy-two nobles he served, was flickering.

Thus, a momentary gap was created.

I compressed the flames into a bead form to the extreme and shoved the bead into Dorudo’s body, piercing a hole in his massive body and sturdy armor.

콰아아아앙!!

“Yo, you, son of a bitch───!!!!”

At the same time as a large hole was pierced in his abdomen, an indescribable pain of the affected area burning caused a bizarre scream to fill the auction house.

“…….”

But this is not enough.

I inflicted a critical hit, but it’s not enough to be sure of victory.

I closed my eyes for a moment and retraced the arrangement of the flame, 「Foxfire」, in my hand.

There was an empty space in the two-stranded helix.

Until now, I hadn’t paid much attention to this empty space. Because I thought that this gap was the key to doubling the efficiency and power of skills or magic in the magic arrangement of 「Double Helix」.

However, as knowledge accumulated and wisdom sprouted in my eyes, that thought gradually disappeared.

The empty space in front of me is not a key structure that enhances the power of magic.

Rather, it was proof that the skill I created was lacking.

In other words, it was like room for 「Double Helix」 to grow.

—Oh my, you’re acting exactly as if you heard me……. Could it be that you can hear my soliloquy?

Ah, have I been found out?

I don’t know who you are, but thank you, hallucination.

Thanks to you, I realized for sure.

If ordinary things don’t work, double it.

If doubling it doesn’t work, the fact that hitting it three times will work.

A violently violent realization.

However, the realization caressed my spiritual status and led me to a higher level.

[Your training has reached its peak!]

[With Nine Transformations and Nine Recoveries, the moonlight waxes three times and wanes three times, achieving the harmony of heaven, earth, and humanity.]

I felt that the vessel inside me was full of water.

I don’t know what this vessel or this water means.

I knew that it was the same feeling I had when I fought Yuren before.

However, this time, my skin did not crack.

What I’m shedding is not my skin but the knowledge that has confined the limits of my capabilities.

I broke the invisible egg and moved on to the next stage.

[You are shedding your second skin.]

[Creating the third tail!]

Knowledge expanded like a burst dam.

Along with knowledge, I felt the size and status of my soul expanding together. There were no noticeable major changes.

Ah, the fact that the number of tails has increased from two to three is a big change, if it can be called a change.

[Evolution is complete.]

[Evolved from 「Species: Two-Tailed Fox」 to 「Species: Three-Tailed Fox」!]

[Achieved ‘Trinity’. The three tails each govern heaven, earth, and humanity, embodying the Three Powers!]

[As a reward for achieving the Three Powers, the quality of magic power increases by one level!]

……

[The ‘Three Powers’ you have embodied affect the skill, 「Double Helix」.]

[A new helix intersects over the two helices.]

[You have acquired the skill, ‘Triple Helix (B)’.]

화륵!

A small spark튀기며, the flame formed three pillars.

The pillars intersected each other, becoming one with three spirals.

From that, a flame containing extreme yang heat rose. Stability that cannot be compared to the previous one.

As the structure was stabilized, the power and efficiency also doubled.

“……Thank you. I feel like I’ve shed a layer thanks to you.”

“D, d, don’t come! You crazy son of a bitch!”

“That’s right. I’ll let you taste this first. How is it? It’s an honor, right?”

Dorudo shouted desperately, but I, who had no intention of even listening to his last words, grabbed his mouth wide open with my left hand, feeling the ultra-high heat clearly felt over my glove.

When I shoved the flame into his mouth, where blood was flowing due to damaged internal organs, the blood flowing from his mouth stopped with a pop!

No, I should say that all the blood in his body stopped and burned.

“──────!!!!!”

A scream erupted from Dorudo’s mouth due to the scorching pain of his body burning from the inside out. However, all he could do was utter a bizarre death cry with his mouth, where blood and saliva had dried up.

I looked down at Dorudo and carefully examined the flames burning him.

A flame that burns even S-class demons with flame resistance to death.

Is this what the sulfur fire of hell is like?

“Good.”

I felt like I got an extra bonus from coming to the auction house.

Do young kids call this situation a득템 [deuktem – a lucky find or score]?

Really, it was sudden, but thanks to it, I 득템.

I smiled contentedly, looking at the third tail that had grown behind my back.

Now that my battle is over, what are those guys doing over there?

I could tell the moment I turned my head out of curiosity.

“It’ll be over soon over there too.”

* * *

Color the light.

Seungwoo’s words were fresh and shocking.

It’s not about spouting trivial scientific logic like the wavelength of light.

Literally, Isabel had never even thought about giving her light a ‘color’. No, she judged that such a thought itself was blasphemous.

Because Isabel’s light resembled that of her grandmother.

Her grandmother, with the alias , always protected England with brilliant and glorious light, befitting her alias.

Admiration soon became imitation.

Over time, she mistook what she had imitated as her own.

But now I know.

‘……This is not my light.’

The brilliant light mixed with pure white and gold belonged to .

It was not Isabel’s.

Then what is Isabel’s light?

Where is it, and what color does it have?

Burning flames and red color flooding the floor?

No, such passionate colors were far from her.

The blue of the wide and deep sea and the clear sky?

Unfortunately, her world was narrow, so there was no space for blue to take place.

The fresh green of the vegetation?

It was not a color that suited her, who had spent her entire life confined to a large mansion.

Also the turquoise of the open nature.

Also the pink that a girl of that age would like.

Also yellow or gold, like her beautiful blonde hair.

It was not a color that could define Isabel.

“……Not all. My color is─”

─deeper and darker.

Blue eyes swept around.

In a world of colorful colors, she desperately rolled her eyes to find a color that suited her best, a color that could define Isabel as a human being with only one color.

At the same time, she did not stop commanding with her mouth.

Her mouth gave orders, her eyes distinguished colors, and her head performed two commands simultaneously.

Colors far exceed dozens or hundreds depending on the combination and combination.

Where is her color among these many colors?

In the meantime, a man fighting desperately. Her former fiancé, Baek Seungwoo, came into her eyes.

His body hair is black.

His hair, ears, and tail.

The color surrounding Seungwoo was darker and darker than the black she commonly knew. If you had to name the color like lacquer [a dark, glossy finish].

The color of lacquer.

Yes, about jet black.

The moment she captured a color that was so dark and dark that she wondered if she could realize it with her light.

“……It’s not about painting over. It’s the opposite.”

Isabel realized.

It is not always good to add color.

Sometimes it is a virtue to subtract.

Her ex-fiancé. Academy teaching assistant. Death-row instructor. The man who dumped me. Nevertheless, the man she still couldn’t forget told Isabel.

Add colors.

However, she thought the opposite. There was also a slight sense of rebellion against her ex-fiancé in that thought.

If you’re going to paint over the light, wouldn’t it be okay to just erase it altogether?

Let’s put it into practice right away.

‘First, let’s dismantle the basic framework step by step.’

The most basic framework that makes up her light.

‘Three primary colors’, she evoked the purest form of light from the spell to dismantle it.

The pure white light that flickered like a flower bud on Isabel’s thin grip.

She erased the color from that light.

The concept of 「赫」 [he – red] was erased from her magic. Cyan sank over the pure white light.

A color that seemed to embody the blue vegetation as it is.

It was beautiful, but it was not the color she wanted.

Subsequently, the concept of 「蒼」 [cang – blue/green] was erased from the cyan. In the cyan from which the blue had disappeared, only the concept of 「緑」 [lǜ – green] remained alone.

Eventually, even the last remaining concept collapsed.

The light that had lost all the colors that made up itself gradually subsided.

The light flickered and faded dimly.

Isabel did not leave that light alone.

Fix the spell in this state. She forcibly manipulated the light that had lost its color using her characteristics and skills.

The spell that had lost its most basic framework was faint as if it would collapse at any moment, but she built a new framework on it.

However, the forcibly built framework could not be strong.

Compared to the original form created with her grandmother, it was no different from rags. Over the forcibly sewn spell, the faint light spread widely.

Isabel couldn’t help but laugh as she watched the light 편산 [pyeonsan – spread out/scattered] in all directions like a collapsed sandcastle.

“……I finally found it.”

My light.

This is my light.

My color that I can define, that I found.

Resembling the one she loved, perhaps still loves.

Just like the night sky that she looked up at with him when she was young and always knew she would see together.

Like the emptiness in a corner of her empty heart, a jet-black radiance covered all directions.

The black light dyed everything it touched, whether it was an object or the floor, black.

近墨者黑 [jìn mò zhě hēi – one is influenced by one’s company].

If you are next to ink, any color will be dyed black.

Red blood, golden coins shimmering in gold, and blue sky.

No matter how beautiful the color is, it is reduced to black the moment you pour ink on it.

This was Isabel’s, the logic of this world she set.

At this moment.

Only on the black light, but she was temporarily dominating the space.

“Why is that young girl declaring a domain and acting up?!!”

“Do you know that? It’s a light I’ve never seen before.”

“You muscle brains wouldn’t know. Right now, that brat is forcibly covering a ‘domain’ that she can manipulate at will, using black light as a medium!”

“Uh……. So what is that?”

Domain (領域) [yeong-yeok – territory/domain].

Some people attach grandiose modifiers such as domain declaration or domain expansion.

In the end, the domain is proof and proof that they have reached the brink of the supreme realm of holiness.

At this moment.

The blonde young girl had, albeit incompletely, dipped her feet into the ultimate that magicians pursue.

Magicians who knew that fact tried to escape from their seats. In an instant, the light surged like a wave, blocking their path.

A speed that seemed to know the demons’ escape in advance, rather than an action taken on the spot.

“……Where are you going to run away?”

She gave a weak smile to the frightened demons. It was a form of fear that Isabel also knew.

Her once brilliant golden light had also lost its color and was dyed with ink, so she fully understood their hearts.

So with me.

Following the one she loved, perhaps still loves.

“Let’s get darker together.”

「Sea Counting Starlight」

「Sea of Photons」

Isabel’s signature skills, 「Sea Counting Starlight」 and 「Sea of Photons」, surged.

People who knew her before would think that the waves of light, overflowing like a 해일 [hae-il – tsunami], would soon swallow all her enemies lurking in the auction house.

『近墨者黑』[jìn mò zhě hēi – one is influenced by one’s company]

Her light, which had lost its color, no longer distinguished between 피아 (彼我) [pi-a (bi-ga) – friend and foe] of everything in all directions.

The waves do not choose the opponent to hit on their own.

It just keeps hitting so that the beach is not calm.

But the waves wanted a target.

It wanted a color to defile, a specific priority for it.

It was a magic that resembled Isabel, who had a systematic tendency to write down what to do that day in a memo every morning. So she decided to use the color to dye black.

Defining by color is not only her magic.

The various targets spread out before her eyes.

Isabel judged that she should classify the colors of these targets and paint them according to their use.

Areas where people or objects that must be protected are green. Blue, which is based on protection, but can be dyed depending on the situation. Yellow, which can be dyed without hesitation.

And red, which must be dyed black as the first priority.

Not messy with various colors. Also, so that it can be swallowed in an instant.

Isabel’s vision, organized with only four colors, was more systematic and orderly than before.

Now all she had to do was implement a ‘sea’ where waves of a certain intensity could hit. Thus, a jet-black sea, shimmering like ink ground on an inkstone, spread quietly.

“……Because it’s a black sea. No one will know even if a little blood gets 묻어도 [mudeodo – stained/covered].”

The only colors that could survive on this sea were Isabel’s classmates and rich people who only had a lot of money and pretended to be 허세 [heose – pretentious/boastful]. And only Seungwoo.

Everyone else is an enemy that must be killed.

Isabel, who had no experience in killing yet.

As a prospective player, she had no hesitation in killing demons.

The waves of black light swallowed everything in front of her, leaving nothing in the area. She made the empty world the same black as herself.

Occasionally, when several demons died, a clear red color was revealed on top of the black, which was troublesome.

Only the traces of red blood were the dying words of the demons who had died, but even that was dyed black and disappeared.

“……I don’t want to show it to that guy.”

Even if it’s a demon.

She didn’t want to show Seungwoo the fact that she had killed someone.

Out of the shyness of a girl in her prime, she dyed even the traces of the demons’ blood and their corpses black.

I guess they won’t notice this?