Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 105

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius – Episode 105

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius 105

The Reverse Side of the World (5)

[You have entered the village-level Reverse World, ‘Temir, the Ruins of Eternal Winter.’]

[You will be assigned a random occupation and status based on your disposition and the world’s circumstances.]

[Selecting your occupation…]

The status window suddenly appeared.

All sorts of information floated above it.

I examined the message with hazy eyes, as if submerged in bathwater.

[Your occupation is the leader of the Black Wolf Mercenary Group.]

[As the leader, your role is to lead your members and resolve the issues of Temir Village, as requested.]

The destroyed world began to regenerate once more.

As if playing an old video, harsh static and distorted images assaulted my senses.

When my senses returned, the world before its destruction began to play out.

And we participated not merely as spectators of that world, but as individual entities.

[Total: 7 members. Connection to the Reverse World confirmed for all individuals.]

[From now on, you are Baek Seung-woo, ‘Leader of the Black Wolf Mercenary Group.’]

[Do not forget this fact.]

A status window with a warning-like message.

I wondered if this was normal when entering the Reverse World, but I couldn’t shake off a strange feeling.

What is this unpleasant sensation?

I felt uneasy, but there was nothing I could do right now.

All I could do was acknowledge it.

[Well then, I wish you good luck in your future endeavors.]

With those cliché words, the unpleasant sensation vanished in an instant, as if I had imagined it.

All my senses returned clearly.

My vision was still blurry with static, but the sensation of snow brushing against my skin and the sound of wind tearing through the air grew louder, and I soon realized that the world surrounding me had changed.

“So, this is the Reverse World.”

The fragments of a destroyed world.

True to that description, the environment of harsh blizzards evoked the word ‘destruction’ all on its own.

If this is a village-level Reverse World, there should normally be a village not far away.

“…A mountain range, or a canyon?”

Blizzards raged in all directions, making it difficult to see anything.

Snowfall that couldn’t be handled by simply lighting a fire to melt the snow.

Judging that eyesight was useless, I dyed my pupils purple.

[Skill, ‘Yoma Eye’ [Demon Eye], pierces through the magic inherent in all things.]

[Combined with , it allows you to observe everything in the area!]

The eerie Yoma Eye, which perceives magic and vengeful spirits, combined with the divine power to see everything without obstruction, allowing me to easily observe the mountain range I was standing on as if it were in the palm of my hand.

A feeling like a huge map was being created in my head.

As if responding to my vision, the system reacted.

[Mapping the terrain of the village-level Reverse World, ‘Frozen Ruins, Temir’!]

[Completion rate of ‘Map’… 7.9%… 14.6%…]

……

[You have captured all the terrain of the mountain range in your eyes.]

[You have grasped 17.7% of the Reverse World!]

A map-shaped icon appeared in the corner of the status window.

It was a map created by mapping what I had seen.

Having captured a fraction of a world in my eyes, I could objectively understand where I was.

A snow-covered mountain range.

I was in the center of it.

‘The terrain is rough. I’m glad this isn’t the type of Reverse World where the items I have are replaced with something else.’

Some Reverse Worlds occasionally replace the equipment or items you have with something else.

For example, the anecdote of fancy and expensive weapons temporarily turning into balloons or throwing daggers because the role assigned in the Reverse World was a clown is quite famous.

Fortunately, my attire hasn’t changed.

The suit and coat made by weaving 「Arachne’s Silk」 were still enveloping me. If so, what has changed….

“Where the heck did the kids go?”

I looked around, craning my neck.

I clearly remembered holding hands and entering together when we entered.

I have no idea where the kids went.

Could it be that they were assigned different occupations and roles and got separated from me?

This level of blizzard would be quite dangerous for them.

‘I have to find them quickly.’

I entered this Reverse World only as a temporary teacher and supervisor.

Objective judgment is left to drones or body cams, while subjective judgment that can be taken on-site is left to me.

So, I had a duty to find them quickly in order to judge and evaluate the students.

Most of the children have likely been assigned roles as members of the village, as this world is a limited area called ‘village-level.’

Having grasped all the terrain of the mountain range, I searched for the location of the village.

And I realized that there was a wooden lodge not far from here.

“About 1.2㎞? The path is rough because it’s a mountain, but I’ll get there soon.”

Having estimated the distance between where I was standing and the lodge, I quickly guessed the direction.

I just need to go north from here.

By the way, the blizzard is annoying on the way.

「Pyrokinesis」

I needed something urgently, so I embroidered flames in the air.

The sky was thick with blizzards.

I floated a few streaks of flames like stars above it and appropriately used [Telekinesis] to form a giant umbrella shape.

Pat, pat.

As the blizzard raged, the umbrella of flames blazed and melted the snow.

In that way, the snow dripped only water and disappeared without a trace.

‘Now, shall we go?’

I adjusted a few of the spells on the umbrella floating in the air and immediately started climbing the mountain.

Then, the umbrella slowly began to move in accordance with my steps.

Maintaining an appropriate distance from me, the brightly and warmly burning umbrella served as a shield against the fierce north wind and snow, as well as a torch to capture the visibility obscured by the blizzard.

Step by step.

At the end of the hike in dress shoes, there was blood.

To be more precise, corpses that the map and Yoma Eye couldn’t identify were piled up in front of the lodge.

I approached the corpses and placed my hands on each body.

The warmth of the heart that hasn’t cooled down yet.

“It seems like they haven’t been dead for long.”

The corpses weren’t completely buried in this blizzard, and the faint warmth remaining in their chests supports the fact that these corpses weren’t created long ago.

I examined each scar, wondering if there had been an attack by wild animals or monsters, and found traces of being hit by something blunt or pierced by something long and thick.

The possibility of wild animals is nonexistent.

The possibility of monsters is also extremely low.

Even if it was the act of a highly intelligent monster, the method of killing is too clean.

This is a characteristic of humans who hone their skills because they don’t have innate powers like other monsters.

“If it’s a person… who on earth would do this?”

While analyzing the scars and the magic lingering on the corpses, I found a wet notebook in the chest of a woman.

It was wet from the cold of the blizzard, and some of the pages were frozen, but it didn’t hinder reading.

Let’s see, the letters don’t seem to be different from ours.

[■■ Year ■ Month 12th. Our mercenary group moved after receiving a request from the village. I’m honestly looking forward to it. A charming village located at the edge of ■Ron Tier. The scenery is said to be good, so after finishing the request, should I ask the leader for a date?]

[■12 Year 3 Month 14th. The content of the request was to raid a lodge on a mountain range that crosses the village and the city. The witch living there, the ‘Frost Witch,’ is said to be the cause of ■■. I honestly don’t know. I just need to follow the leader.]

[■12 Year 3 Month 15th. I kept my distance from the leader all day under the guise of investigation, but this village is strange. It feels like there’s no warmth from people. The atmosphere isn’t very good. This date is a bust.]

[■12 Year 3 Month 17th. The Frost Witch is not at the level we thought. She is ■■■■…… ■■…….]

It looks like a diary, but a significant number of letters were wet and frozen by the snow, making them difficult to see.

Still, judging from the fact that the content is unusual, it seemed like it could be used as a clue.

I carefully put the diary in my pocket, and just then.

Whooooosh!!

At the same time as the frost wind blew, the door of the lodge, which seemed to have been tightly closed, swung open.

I felt the wind all over my body and realized.

This frost wind was blowing from inside the wide-open lodge.

Tap, tap.

Along with the sound of the wind, the sound of footsteps, presumed to be from a woman, is heard.

The footsteps exude a noble presence, not buried by the strong wind.

And the owner is.

“I don’t know who dared to appear aiming for my life again… but I won’t forgive anyone who interferes with my experiment. Freeze to death.”

“……”

“Oh, uh…?”

“I wondered why the presence felt familiar.”

Frost Witch.

The mistress of the cold that even I, who suffers from 「Solar Arteries」 [a condition where the blood vessels are filled with yang (positive) energy, causing overheating], shrink back from.

Isis Uniron.

“T-Teacher… Could you pretend you didn’t hear what I just said…?”

“Okay.”

“Really…? T-Thank you.”

It was the moment when her cool and mysterious image collapsed in an instant.

* * *

The day the first-year students and numerous professors and teaching assistants entered the dungeon.

Only the guide was quietly guarding the place. Except for him, the only ones were the guards who came to patrol periodically.

Powerful individuals who were all given player grades between B and A.

As long as those with skills in the top 20% were guarding this place, the same situation as the academy attack last time would not occur.

Although the number of S-class skilled individuals was very small, including the captain of the guard, they were firmly armed with a sense of duty to protect Chilseong at all costs.

“Hey, did you hear the news?”

“What news?”

They had a sense of duty, but that didn’t alleviate the boredom.

The two guards who were standing guard grabbed their respective weapons and stared blankly at the sky, saying.

“I heard that several students grabbed their hearts and collapsed right before the midterm exam started today.”

“Isn’t that just because they’re nervous? They’re seventeen years old and facing the opportunity of a lifetime, so wouldn’t it be strange if they weren’t nervous?”

“Well, I heard that particularly famous guilds came to this observation.”

Chilseong’s midterm and final exams are evaluated by the academy itself, but Chilseong is not the only one who sees the scene.

For fairer evaluation and to boast that our students are this great, Chilseong invites high-ranking officials from some guilds to show the progress of the exam in real time.

The high-ranking officials of the guilds who come as observers can record the data of skilled and promising students in advance, so they can search for items to enter the industry in the future, which is good.

From Chilseong’s point of view, it’s a win-win situation because they can boast the school’s educational level to them, who are socially related to various companies.

From the students’ point of view, they would never have received such a great opportunity and attention.

It wasn’t that strange to faint.

It wasn’t their concern that they uttered incomprehensible words like, ‘Tail… tail….’ in the background.

The guards were just talking to kill the boring time.

Crack!

That’s why their reaction was slow.

The eyes of the two guards, whose necks were turned, lost their light and fell to the floor.

Thud!!!

Since two adult men fell to the floor at the same time, the sound was louder than expected, but no guards came to support them after hearing the sound.

“That’s all taken care of.”

“Oh my, that was faster than I thought.”

“Hahaha, we can’t keep the nobles waiting.”

This is because all the guards in the area had their necks broken and collapsed.

At the center of it were two men and one woman.

To be more precise, one human and two demons.

“But aren’t you killing them? You’ve only knocked them all unconscious, and they can return to work after only a month of recuperation.”

“Yes, that’s right. Since I already have a record. Also, the landlord who will arrive at the moment the curtain is lifted is too big of a variable to kill again.”

We intend to pass by quietly.

Even if they didn’t say the rest, the two could roughly understand.

In fact, immediately after entering the site, they felt something huge was looking around the entire Chilseong.

A feeling like the moon floating in the sky was searching for them, hiding in the curtain like a giant eye.

Perhaps that moon is deeply related to the ‘landlord’ Simon mentioned.

“All we have to do is avoid the chairman’s eyes. Now, let’s go inside.”

“It’s an escort by livestock, but I’ll gladly accept it.”

“Haha, it’s an honor beyond my station.”

“What a load of crap….”

The man, who was fed up with the crazy fanatic and the princess disease-ridden comrade, grumbled and followed behind.

If that guy Simon hadn’t personally set the table, he wouldn’t have arrived at a place like this with those two.

Crazy bastards.

The man was determined to go separately next time.

By the way.

“Oh, it seems like they’ve created a double safety device. One of the securities is here, but the other seems to be inside the dungeon.”

“Didn’t you say it would be a good opportunity to trample on a bunch of young sprouts and eat away at their minds?”

“I certainly did, but it seems almost impossible to find now that over a hundred dungeons have been activated due to the midterm exam.”

“……Whose work is it?”

“Are you talking about the person who set the safety device twice? Let’s see, judging from the malformed efficiency of magic power, it’s the work of .”

“? Who is it that has such a title, leaving us aside?”

The man was in a very unpleasant mood.

In response, Simon still smiled.

“Haha, she’s not a demon, but a magician.”

“That means─.”

“─It means not the king of demons, but the king of magicians.”

The woman wearing a peacock mask cut off the man’s words.

When he turned around and frowned, the woman smiled, twirling the parasol in her hand as if his expression was funny.

She looked very happy.

“Anyway, this is troublesome.”

“Hey, human. What’s the trouble?”

“There’s been a setback from the beginning of the plan. These variables did not exist in the original plan, but this may cause a disruption to the grand plan.”

Simon, the cultist of the Demonic Cult, had this plan.

Kill all the students he failed to finish last time, torture their spirits after death, suck their blood, and use it to meet the required level of offerings.

He intended to wake up several nobles with that.

Since the main system of the safety device connected to the students’ uniforms was with the Demon King, the grand plan was thwarted before it even started.

“By grand plan, you mean waking up our comrades, right?”

“Yes, that’s right. Baron Peacock.”

I can’t see the expression in the mask, but whether she’s smiling or grinning strangely.

The peacock, whose tone clearly felt like she was laughing, said.

“If you are carrying out such an important mission, you must have several alternatives in case of failure.”

“I do have one….”

“What is it?”

Simon didn’t bother to answer.

He just followed her words and took out a thick document to find the names of the students and supervisors who entered each dungeon.

A document with 1,991 names.

At the very bottom.

[Reverse World (Village Level) Capture]

[Student List]

1. [Lee Ji]

2. [Seong Yeon-hwa]

3. [Isis Uniron]

4. [Isabel Sirius]

5. [Seo Ye-rin]

6. [Noh Yu-ra]

[Temporary Teacher and Supervisor]

[Baek Seung-woo]

The fox’s name was written.

Yes, this will be good.

Simon quickly found an alternative.