Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 382

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius – Episode 382

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius 382

A Moment I Don’t Remember (2)

I overworked my brain trying to process the information quickly, and my body felt like a rag. Still, I managed to get up.

“Are you alive?”

“……Yeah.”

Not dead yet.

It’s true that my body is quite uncomfortable, but it’s okay.

I never thought I’d use it like this so soon after creating it.

I can’t afford to be picky right now.

Whoosh!

Half of my body was engulfed in flames.

“Y-Your body is on fire─”

“It’s nothing.”

The flames swept over my body and disappeared.

Immediately after, Luna looked at every inch of my body with surprised eyes.

Of course, as I said it was nothing, the flames didn’t leave even a small scar or burn on my body, and didn’t even singe a single piece of clothing. This flame wasn’t a real fire.

“It’s a new magic I created. I infused the concept of flame to maintain the magic’s effect, so it’s just burning in a conceptual sense. It’s not a real flame.”

Even the color was unique.

If the foxfire, a skill I often used, was a cursed flame burning in purple, this flame burned in white.

Holy Fire.

The sacred flame focused on healing rather than devouring the target.

I created the magic on the very edge of the system’s domain, so I thought it would be recognized as a skill, but it seems that’s not the case.

─It’s more than that.

Tamamo frowned.

When she focused her eyes, Seungwoo’s body became transparent. The magic circuit was broken and tangled, and neither Tamamo nor Seungwoo could even think of fixing it. That magic circuit began to regenerate on its own.

─Even S-rank is a joke. What on earth did you create?

If that flame was simply a magic with the ability to regenerate, the magic circuit would not have regenerated.

Because Seungwoo’s magic circuit wasn’t cut off, but tangled and twisted, so I judged that it would be difficult to fix.

But when that circuit touched the flame, it automatically returned to normal.

The tangled circuits were untangled, and the twisted and damaged circuits burned away, and new magic circuits took their place, like new flesh growing.

─The fatigue and burden accumulated in the brain also burned away? Did you redefine the concept of flame itself? How else could this be possible?

Tamamo scratched her head.

Thinking like this wouldn’t lead to the answer.

The Holy Fire wasn’t easy enough to grasp the core of at once. Her praise flowed into my mind. I smiled at the pure admiration.

“It feels good to be thought of so highly.”

Holy Fire, a magic created solely to heal magic circuits.

Holy Fire isn’t a magic created by combining formulas like normal magic. It was a magic born purely from intuition. A stroke of luck.

Saying it was created relying on luck might make it seem insignificant, but luck is something you can only grasp if you have the skills to match.

From the time I joined Luna’s alliance until now.

I have tested countless combinations of magic.

I can’t test it directly because my circuits are in this state. So I conducted thought experiments in my head for a very long time.

Hundreds, thousands, if you add up the experiments conducted with accelerated thought, it’s a magic created after tens of thousands of failures.

“But this is incomplete.”

─Incomplete? If that’s incomplete, what magic in the world is a proper magic?

“Your sorcery is naturally perfect.”

Even if you compare them, comparing the sorcery of the origin with the Holy Fire.

Holy Fire is just a newly created concept. On the other hand, Tamamo’s sorcery of the origin is a deep and profound field of study whose beginning is hard to fathom.

─Ha, at least you have an eye for things.

When I purely praised her sorcery.

Tamamo smiled brightly.

─But aren’t you being too hard on yourself?

“What do you mean?”

─The body regeneration magic you made before wasn’t this good either. What was it, an artificial arm? That form of magic that you keep in a bottle. That was also a restoration-level healing magic, but that Holy Fire clearly crossed the line of healing.

If your skill increases, even someone on the verge of death.

No, even if it’s a dead person, if the shape of the brain is intact, you’ll definitely be able to revive them within 10 minutes. That was the concept contained in the Holy Fire. Regeneration and restoration. It was a magic that perfectly transcended those two boundaries.

“…….”

After hearing her words, I thought seriously.

Yeah, I know what you mean. Because I’m the one who infused that concept into the Holy Fire, I’m the one who conceived and created the Holy Fire. I understood it well enough.

“I told you. It’s incomplete.”

─Are you serious?

“Yeah.”

I finished thinking.

No matter how I calculated it, the answer was the same.

“As expected, the Holy Fire is incomplete.”

─If you answer like that, is there any special reason? Why the Holy Fire is incomplete and my sorcery is perfect.

“Reason?”

It’s not that big of a deal.

I spread out my palm.

Poof!

A small spark the size of a lighter blazed on my palm.

A pure white flame. Unlike a normal flame that tries to burn everything, this fire tried to heal everything it touched.

On the surface, it seems complete and stable in this state, but that’s not an easy task.

“I’ve grasped the direction, but I failed to create a framework.”

“Framework?”

“Yeah, a framework. Every magic has its own reason for being created. Even very basic elemental magic or sorcery has a clear direction on how it was created and what should be developed.”

The Holy Fire succeeded in grasping that direction.

A flame that heals the opponent. The direction is clear. But this magic doesn’t have a basic framework.

I was so focused on healing the magic circuit and restoring myself that I forgot to shape the most basic framework of the magic.

Actually, it’s just a framework.

It’s not as important as the direction of the magic, so you can shape it later, but the Holy Fire is so complex that you can’t shape that framework later.

─Hmm, complicated. I’ve never seen a case where a magic of that level doesn’t have a framework, so it’s hard for me to say anything.

‘It’s okay if you don’t tell me. I didn’t say it because I wanted an answer.’

Anyway, this kind of magic framework.

You’ll quickly get a feel for it if you experience it in practice.

More than that right now.

“Let’s go up soon.”

“Are you talking to me?”

“Then who else would I be telling to go up besides you?”

I pointed behind me and said.

“Anyway, that guy behind me will follow me up when I go up.”

There’s no need to say that to Tamamo.

Then naturally, these words are for Luna, the only one alive and breathing in this lowest floor besides me. Except for her, all the researchers in this basement are dead.

Basement floor 65 is for us.

Basement floor 1 is for the students.

And basement floors 2 to 64 are…

Whooooooooooooooosh.

A huge hole in the center of the Magic Tower that is bringing fresh air to the lowest floor in real time. Eve, who is presumed to have drilled that huge hole directly.

She killed all the remaining researchers.

‘No, looking at this state, is that too few?’

From the lowest floor to the highest floor.

It’s highly likely that everyone except us is dead.

With such a large hole in the Magic Tower, there was a chance that the tower would collapse at any moment due to the wind and remaining impact.

“This city will end today too.”

The tower will not survive today.

If this huge tower tilts and collapses, the walls will collapse.

If the walls that protected the city collapse, the city that was hiding in the gaps between spaces will naturally come into the eyes of the monsters. Then naturally, this world will perish. The last shred of hope will be thrown into hell.

“I can’t let that happen.”

I raised my head and looked to the side.

There was Luna, blaming herself for following a strange person for no reason and getting involved in troublesome things all the time.

She had to become the owner of this city, the new Magic Tower Master, for the sake of me and the alliance.

Then there are a total of three problems to solve right now.

What to do with Eve and Simon, who flew up into the sky, whether to kill them or capture them.

To carry out repair work in one day so that the Magic Tower doesn’t collapse.

To replenish the tower’s researchers, who have all died and become vacant.

These are the three things.

─How are you going to put that child up as the owner of the tower?

‘That’s easy. It’s not like there’s anyone who can check Luna if she becomes the Magic Tower Master right now. Who would object?’

─It’s also true that there isn’t a single person who will affirm and support that child becoming the owner of the tower.

‘There’s always bad things when there’s good things.’

It seems like too many bad things happened today.

But won’t good things happen when all of this is over?

Whirr!

I created a flame from my fingertips through the recovered magic circuit.

It was an ordinary flame with nothing special. There was no curse inside the flame, and it didn’t burn white. Instead, the flame burned very brightly.

“What are you going to do with that flame this time? Fly up over that hole?”

Luna pointed at the flame with her finger.

The flame changed its shape little by little according to my will.

The flame didn’t rise upwards, but spread out wide in the air.

As if it could be ridden. Luna was sweating at the sight.

“No way… really?”

I don’t know if she was sweating because it was hot. Or if she was sweating because she was embarrassed.

“How did you know I wasn’t even talking to Tamamo? That’s right, I’m thinking of riding this up. There’s also a way to go up by stepping on each floor of the building, but honestly, it’s hard.”

“Um, isn’t that way much more comfortable because I’m an elf?”

I used to live climbing trees, so I think this height is enough?

I realized belatedly at Luna’s words.

Ah, that’s right.

She was an elf.

‘I’ve been so busy being my assistant lately that I forgot.’

If she’s an elf, she can go enough.

But it’s a whopping basement floor 66.

When are you going to jump to the first floor? I stood on the flame with both feet and tapped the flame with my feet.

“It’s safe. Get on.”

“…I can jump and go, though?”

“You’re slow. When you ran on the tree before, I had to hold you because you were so slow, didn’t I?”

Hmm? Did I just carry her like luggage and run?

Or did I not even carry her at all?

It wasn’t a very important memory, so it was hazy.

“Anyway, it’s true that you’re slow. Get on quickly.”

I urged her to get on, and Luna finally sighed.

“Okay. I’ll get on.”

Luna carefully stretched her foot onto the flame.

As if stepping on a cloud, she carefully placed both feet on the flame, and the flame began to soar into the sky.

The high-speed movement that fused flame magic and telekinesis quickly passed through the basement.

The flame quickly passed the first floor and stopped only after passing the top floor, the 77th floor, and the ceiling hole that the Eve-like woman was presumed to have drilled. Luna was holding her head because of the speed, and I was clutching my chest.

‘I just recovered the circuit, but I might have overworked it too much.’

I overdid it too much.

‘Ah, if I had completely completed the Holy Fire, this wouldn’t have happened.’

─It’s amazing enough now. Are you really confident in completing the Holy Fire?

‘Of course.’

I’m overflowing with confidence.

From the moment I saw Simon and Eve. I sensed it.

The completion of the Holy Fire was most ideally completed by the two of them.