Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 343

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius – Episode 343

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius 343

Branches Extending to the World (3)

“I roughly understand how things are going.”

Seungwoo said, looking at the glass beads.

His tone was full of unwavering conviction. His confident attitude, as if he didn’t need a response, was evident not only in his voice but also in his demeanor and face.

“Was this all because of this one tree?”

Again, a voice filled with conviction.

[As expected, you have a good eye.]

To that conviction.

The system responded.

The laughter hidden in the mechanical voice lingered in Seungwoo’s ears.

It was clear that this guy was teasing Seungwoo. He couldn’t help but feel like a being in a high place was looking down on someone below and sneering.

Even a passerby watching a puppy’s antics on the street wouldn’t smile like that. It was like a nobleman with a bad personality chuckling as he watched the reactions of commoners.

‘No, the reality is probably worse than that.’

Nobleman and commoner?

He felt like the guy was closer to royalty than a nobleman, closer to a god than royalty.

To him, Seungwoo probably looked more like a slave or livestock than a commoner. The system’s thoughts and gaze were conveyed through his voice alone.

“Eo Gi Jeon Seong?”

Eo Gi Jeon Seong (御氣傳聲) [A high-level technique that conveys not only words but also inner thoughts].

A high-level technique that can convey not only someone’s words but also their inner thoughts into another person’s mind. It was clear that the system’s thoughts and gaze were conveyed to Seungwoo through this method. But this.

“What were you thinking, using this on me?”

Among the telepathy techniques (傳音術) [techniques that transmit voices], there is an unwritten rule that Eo Gi Jeon Seong should not be used on strangers or enemies one has never met. Because the moment you use this Eo Gi Jeon Seong, along with the words, the person’s thoughts are conveyed, and.

“So, you were there.”

You can also estimate the location of the target who sent the words.

Swish─!

The sword was in his hand in an instant.

He omitted all the trivial processes of putting his hand into the space in the ring, selecting the desired sword from that space, and taking it out.

The lightning-fast draw soared straight into the sky.

Kugugugung!

The magic power and pure white sword energy contained in the sword instantly climbed up the Divine Tree.

Even from the distant location of the alliance, it looked as if a pure white flash had completely covered one side of the Mother Tree. In response, some of the knights, especially those who had not yet entered the battlefield like the Black Knights and Blue Knights, immediately turned their reins.

“……Mother?”

“Something is wrong with the Mother Tree! Everyone! Turn back!”

For the knights, the war was a holy war for the Mother Tree.

“We have no more business with these small fries!”

“Slaughter can wait! There is something more important now!”

“Our kings have turned their reins! Then this place is no longer our battlefield. Quickly advance towards their flags!”

In other words, without the Mother Tree, the war would not exist in the first place. The knights, who could crush alliances of various races at any time, immediately turned back the way they came. To see if something had happened to the Mother Tree, and if so, to eliminate the cause.

Hundreds of thousands of knights left the battlefield.

“The blue knights in the rear retreat, following the Blue Knight.”

“The black knights in the center should have those with free hands move first, following the blue knights. Black knights already tied down on the battlefield should use earth and ground to retreat as quickly as possible.”

“Red knights, fight! The reason your armor is red is not to symbolize burning flames.”

“It is for struggle! To fight and struggle so much that it wouldn’t be strange to be covered in blood, only for that struggle! Prevent the alliance from using tricks to grab the ankles of our comrades in the rear!”

In the process, the upper-level knights rang the metal vocal cords of their armor.

The metal vibrated, and a thunderous voice reached the lower-level knights.

Originally, the knights had a spirit core inside their armor. They could communicate sufficiently with the telepathy function built into it, but the situation was different now. They needed to leave the battlefield quickly.

Clatter clatter!

The horses’ hooves roughly touched the ground as they ran.

Trurururu───!

The horses ridden by the Black Knight and Blue Knight neighed roughly.

“Wh, what a surprise!”

“Lightning! Lightning struck……! Uh, uh? Why am I okay?”

The sound was so loud.

It was as if lightning had struck right next to the soldiers.

In fact, some soldiers even mistook that lightning had struck them.

At that time, when the soldiers were all in chaos.

“Oh! They’re running away over there!”

A short sentence was heard from somewhere.

A voice saying someone was running away.

Who was running away? The most important subject was missing from the sentence, but the soldiers could see the missing word at a glance when they raised their heads.

“Th, the knights…….”

“The knights are running away!”

“We’re alive! We’re alive!”

“I really thought I was going to die this time!”

The knights are running away.

Already, the fast-footed knights and the Black Knight and Blue Knight riding strangely shaped horses had already fled to the distant ridge. Instinctively, the soldiers understood that today’s miserable war was over.

Thud!

Some soldiers even lost their footing and sat down on the floor.

Now, all that remained on the battlefield were a small number of black knights and 40,000 red knights armed with flames. Of course, dealing with them would not be easy, but it was much better than dealing with dozens of surviving knights at the same time.

If it’s 40,000, there will be damage.

The alliance will surely survive.

A sure path to survival. From a situation where they thought they might all die, a future where they could all survive began to appear.

“But why are those guys suddenly running away?”

A soldier, covered in blood like the other soldiers, said while lying on the floor. It wasn’t a question he asked expecting an answer. He was just voicing a question that came to his mind.

“Uh…… I wonder why they’re suddenly retreating?”

“Hey. Isn’t it obvious? It’s because this Radun slew dozens of knights on the front lines. Weren’t they all scared and ran away in the face of his magnificent power?”

A soldier answered jokingly to the question.

“What a load of crap.”

“All the knights you killed were the lowest-ranking knights. If you couldn’t catch them, you would have been done for a long time ago.”

“Still, it was the best joke to lighten the mood. Isn’t that right, Radun? Thanks. The atmosphere has improved a bit thanks to you.”

“Uh…… no, that’s what I really…….”

“What scheme do those monsters have in mind to choose such a strange option as retreat?”

Maybe it wasn’t a joke.

Anyway, the questions kept piling up. Before he knew it, the question that even the soldier who asked the first question had not anticipated was lost in a maze.

“Maybe there’s something more important than annihilating us?”

It was resolved more easily than expected.

“Come to think of it, did everyone see that?”

“What are you talking about? Is it trendy to leave out the subject these days?”

“No! The white flash that flashed right before the knights retreated!”

“Ah, that?”

Everyone was so focused on the fight that they didn’t see it properly.

A pure white light rose up the World Tree on one side of their vision. Eventually, they could see that it had completely covered one side of the tree. It was a sufficiently strange and ominous sight, but they quickly forgot about it as they fought with spears and swords to survive from the enemies in front of them.

“Why are you suddenly talking about that sight?”

“No, is your head just for decoration? Aren’t you curious why such a light shot up the World Tree? Doesn’t it seem like there’s a connection between the knights disappearing right after that light shot up?”

“……Aha!”

Come to think of it, that’s right.

After the white flash shot up the World Tree. The knights began to retreat quickly. Everyone was so focused on surviving that they didn’t think there was anything hidden behind the knights’ retreat.

So why did the knights retreat because of the light that shot up the World Tree?

“Well, that’s because they were originally spirits.”

“Elements and nature itself that exist in the world of spirits. And the World Tree is the world itself that embraces such nature.”

“It’s not for nothing that it’s called the World Tree.”

“So, something happened to the World Tree, and the knights put the war aside and quickly moved towards their home, the back of the World Tree. That’s how we can see it.”

A rough outline begins to appear.

The soldiers are now beginning to collect their conclusions.

“……Hmm.”

A scene he had seen just a few hours ago came to the mind of a warrior who had been listening to the words quietly. The leader of the alliance, the High Elf princess. The girl he had to protect at the risk of his life headed to the World Tree with a masked hero.

The beastman warrior. His muscles are like a beast, but his head is also like a beast.

He, who was born with particularly low intelligence even among beastmen, does not know exactly why the princess and the masked hero left.

“……This is dangerous.”

He’s a beastman with a bad head.

But he’s not without loyalty.

“The princess is in danger!”

“Huh? Dio, what are you talking about all of a sudden? Why is the princess suddenly coming out of here?”

“Yes, if it’s the princess, she must have evacuated, so calm down…….”

“No! The princess is at the World Tree right now!”

The princess is at the World Tree right now!

The princess is at the World Tree right now─!

The princess is at the World Tree right now──!

As if he had eaten a train’s firebox [an expression for someone shouting very loudly]. A very loud voice swept through the entire battlefield. The words eventually reached the ears of all the soldiers and warriors on the battlefield.

The first to react was a middle-aged elf.

“Our princess is at the World Tree……?”

The Mother Tree. No, that tree, which is no longer the mother of the elves, is no more.

The only high elf, the princess, is in such a dangerous place?

His mind, which had been wielding a sword on the battlefield, could not understand why the princess was in such a dangerous place. But the pure white flash that had just flashed from the World Tree.

“─If it has a close connection with the princess who is not here.”

Even if it’s not the princess.

If the hero tried something and one side of the World Tree was covered in light, and the knights, feeling a sense of crisis, gave up the war and thought about returning to their nest, the back of the World Tree.

This opportunity. You must never miss it.

“Everyone, take up your weapons!”

“L, leader? Isn’t the war over now……?”

“That’s right. The enemies have all run away, and most of the remaining knights are lower-ranking knights. But what are you suddenly going to do here by taking up your weapons?”

“Well, should we chase them?”

Someone said it as a joke, but the person in charge was serious.

The middle-aged elf nodded and shouted in an even louder voice.

“Take up your weapons! Chase and stab the enemy’s rear!”

“Is this guy really crazy?!”

“The leader of our alliance and the hero who helped us from the white nightmare are now at the World Tree. Do you understand what this means?!”

He didn’t give a detailed explanation because it was an urgent situation.

But he conveyed enough of what he wanted to say with those words.

“Now is the time for a counterattack! Don’t sit down, run and hit them one more time! You can rest enough when you die!”

Uaaaaaaaa! The elf middle-aged man swung his sword with a shout and bisected a knight in black armor who was running away. The soldiers who watched the scene also slowly began to join in.

The people who heard his words also instinctively felt something.

Never let these monsters near the World Tree.

The alliance was making a firm resolution.

“Hu. Man. Fi. Nal. Ly. Caught. You.”

“Ha, this tin can is talking now.”

The enemy knight arrived at the World Tree.