Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 395

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius – Episode 395

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius Episode 395

‘What is that?’ (5)

‘Where is this place?’

Seungwoo looked around.

The scenery was too unfamiliar, as if he’d been thrown into the past.

Still, traces that would later remain in the magic tower’s basement were deeply etched everywhere. He recognized the marks from accidentally breaking through the ceiling during research, and the giant claw marks on the floor were vividly imprinted in his memory.

‘Seeing those, I understand.’

The repaired ceiling and the claw marks.

All of this is the magic tower’s basement.

‘They were conducting experiments on Eve.’

Basement level 66. The lowest level.

It was definitely there.

It was distinctly different from what he knew, but the remaining traces around him indicated that this was the lowest level.

‘It’s really changed a lot.’

To think it used to be so blocked off like this.

In Seungwoo’s memory, the lowest level was a truly open space.

It was called an open space for a good reason.

In reality, it was extremely desolate compared to its vast area.

‘It doesn’t seem that long ago, though.’

Seungwoo examined Adam’s face.

His face was definitely younger than he remembered.

That’s not to say that Adam looked old in his memory.

It just meant that he looked slightly more mature than the boyish face before him.

With that much difference in their faces, he could roughly estimate about 5 years.

Even assuming he was naturally youthful, it would be at least 10 years.

Well, it doesn’t seem like it was that long ago.

‘That’s a relief.’

I thought I had flown back 30 years.

Anyway, it changes quite a bit.

Seungwoo’s gaze turned to the floor.

An uncountable number of magic spells were buried.

If he touched them carelessly, they would all explode… but he wouldn’t die.

‘Is this a trap that only explodes and kills intruders?’

If you head in the right direction, there’s no harm, but anyone who moves in the wrong direction on this lowest level dies.

It wasn’t a trap made of just one magic spell.

The magic spells buried in the floor harmonized with each other, designed to exclude only intruders.

‘I can’t even do this.’

Of course, it’s not that it’s difficult.

‘How much of a waste of time is this?’

He wouldn’t do it because it’s a waste of time.

To bury so many magic spells and create them like a single formation would require a really long time. The installation process isn’t difficult, but it just takes a lot of time, so it can’t be done.

There’s no greater waste of time than this.

‘Still, they made it properly.’

Seungwoo analyzed the formation.

There were gates of life and gates of death, and gates of rest in between.

Such a formation.

‘For now, it’s certain that the gate of life is in this direction.’

A faint red thread was tied to Adam and led beyond the iron gate.

Seungwoo carefully observed the thread.

He wondered what a thread was doing in a formation so close to the textbook, but it seemed that it was the key.

Step by step.

He followed behind Adam, who was leisurely walking on the formation.

Adam, who had been circling around the lowest level, stopped at some point.

Thud.

The thread snapped.

Seeing that, Seungwoo muttered.

‘We’ve finally arrived.’

The red thread melted into the air.

At the same time, the surrounding scenery began to change.

A large laboratory and a small room.

Adam was standing there.

He saw countless researchers watching him through the glass with sparkling eyes and immediately entered the laboratory.

‘Did they even mix in an illusionary formation?’

This guy isn’t even magic?

Seungwoo was amazed by the old magic tower’s technology and chased after Adam.

Adam headed to a place where countless dolls were piled up like a mountain.

On top of the mountain of dolls, a small girl was lying down, asleep.

A girl Seungwoo knew well.

‘…Eve.’

Seungwoo looked at the girl and thought of Eve.

His longtime friend. The image of Eve’s childhood was still vivid in Seungwoo’s mind.

She certainly resembled Eve, but.

‘The atmosphere is completely different.’

That girl must be a completely different Eve from the Eve he knew.

Which Eve is she?

Seungwoo was curious.

“Eve, were you sleeping?”

“…No, I wasn’t.”

“You need to sleep to grow taller.”

“I can grow taller with magic.”

Eve, who was lying on the mountain of dolls, opened her eyes.

Click!

When Eve snapped her fingers, her legs grew longer.

It wasn’t just her legs that grew longer. Her whole body changed like an adult.

Seeing that, Seungwoo doubted his eyes.

‘Illusion…?’

The same principle as the illusionary formation that was installed in the formation Adam had just passed through was manifested by Eve’s finger snap.

That’s a bit surprising.

Beyond simply having a good sense of handling magic, Eve’s body was now one with magic.

If there is a realm called Sword and Swordsman as One for swordsmen, then Eve has reached the realm of becoming one with magic. [A state of perfect harmony and skill].

Divine Magic Unification. Something like that?

‘Divine Magic Unification sounds a bit lame, even to me.’

Anyway, Eve, who was a homunculus [an artificially created human] of an unknown number, looked down at Adam from the dolls.

“Come up here.”

“I, I didn’t come here to play with you today, but to check on your condition.”

“Really? Then that’s perfect.”

Ugh!

Eve jumped from the mountain of dolls.

As many dolls were piled up like a mountain, many dolls were scattered on the floor.

Eve landed softly on them and faced Adam head-on.

“I can check on your condition while playing with you.”

Eve roughly grabbed Adam’s hand.

Immediately, the surrounding scenery changed.

Just like how the large laboratory and the mountain of dolls appeared in the formation, the scenery changed in an instant this time as well.

“This is…”

“How is it? I made the lake you saw in the video before!”

A wide lake and a meadow.

These were things that no longer remained in the desolate city.

You can’t see it just because you have money and power.

Adam’s eyes welled up at the sight that even the city’s numerous corporations and their leaders, and the magic tower’s elders who manage the city, couldn’t see.

The greenness of the mountains and trees seemed to infect his heart with freshness.

“It’s really… a beautiful sight. But why did you make this place?”

“Why did I make it? You said you wanted to see it.”

“…Could it be.”

Just for that reason?

Eve created a space for Adam with her illusion.

Seungwoo continued to watch them.

Adam and Eve seemed very happy.

At least for a week.

“Today is the last day, right?”

“Yes, it’s already been a month.”

“The fact that there’s been no change even after a month means…”

“It’s obvious. It means it failed again, right?”

“It’s not like it’s been a day or two, it’s been failing for over hundreds of years. Now that so much data has accumulated, it’s not even surprising.”

The researchers watched Adam and Eve and spoke.

Their eyes were filled with clear disappointment and a sense of resignation that failure was familiar. It was the look in the eyes of broken people.

“Do we dispose of this one too?”

“Let’s dispose of it into the Void.”

“Okay, Team 72. Open the Void. We have some non-burnable trash to throw away.”

Seungwoo, who had been watching their play for a week, turned his attention away.

It seemed like he had observed everything he could observe about Adam and Eve, and now it was time to observe the other researchers, so he eavesdropped on the conversations of the researchers outside the glass.

He heard something good.

‘Team 72, the Void, non-burnable trash.’

He was interested in the words he heard for the first time since coming here.

It wasn’t difficult to find the information he wanted. He was able to gather information from all over the magic tower with his ghost-like body that could pass through any place.

The existence of Team 72 was the easiest information to find.

It was treated as a department that safely opened the ‘Void’.

It seemed to be treated as the team that handled the most dangerous objects inside the magic tower.

He also found out that the dangerous object was a space called the Void.

And the non-burnable trash. He found out everything.

Seungwoo’s face hardened.

Unlike the usual warmth, a chillingly sharp coldness was felt in his ice-cold expression. It was so severe that.

“…Isn’t it a bit cold? Should we take out our winter clothes soon?”

“Really? Ugh, why is it so cold?”

Seungwoo’s coldness reached even the researchers who weren’t even touching him.

‘They’re making a fuss over such a small temperature.’

Seungwoo glared at the researchers with coldly hardened eyes.

Whoosh!

Seungwoo, turning his head, stared at the space that the researchers called Team 72 were creating in the air. A huge dark space created by combining numerous machines engraved with magic.

The Void.

It was a term unique to this world that called upon the gap in dimensions.

Once he understood the term, Seungwoo realized what the purpose of the Void in the basement was. Disgustingly, he noticed everything.

‘I can’t bear to watch any longer.’

Adam, who didn’t know the significance of the project, seemed to be unaware of the purpose of the Void, as well as other important facts.

The use of the Void was really simple.

Weapons? War weapons?

The technology to handle the endlessly swallowing Void was an excellent weapon to use in war. However, this city was a small world entirely under the control of the magic tower.

There was no need for such a terrifying weapon to exist.

So, the use of the Void that the magic tower’s researchers adopted was.

“Hey, open the Void right now.”

“Are you talking about the entrance? There are still many entities that haven’t been swallowed, so the Void is blocked. Wouldn’t it be better to do it in a few days?”

“Do you think we have that much time? Forget it, I’ll do it, so get out of here. This test subject also failed, so we have to try again, what do you mean a few days.”

A hole opened, greedily sucking in anything that touched it.

At the end of that hole was Eve.

Her smiling face, saying that it was fun to talk to Adam, was still vivid in his mind, but on Eve’s face, being dragged into that hole without any resistance.

“…”

There was no life.

Seungwoo watched her expression closely.

What Eve was making now was not a blank expression, but such an expression where the entire facial muscles were relaxed from death.

She was smiling with Adam this morning, gee.

There’s nothing to say.

‘…’

Seungwoo was silent.

He kept staring at her as she was being sucked into the Void.

Even though her whole body was sucked in and nothing was visible in his sight, he kept staring at the same place, and eventually.

Step by step.

He entered the laboratory where the Void was opened.

The Void was sucking in everything within its range, but whether it couldn’t absorb Seungwoo, who had no substance, only the hem of his clothes fluttered faintly.

‘There is a deeper bottom under the bottom.’

He didn’t know who said it, but he somehow understood those words now.

A mountain of corpses piled up caught his eye. He was overwhelmed by the scale, which didn’t make the expression Mount Tai [a metaphor for something heavy and significant] awkward.

What Seungwoo saw in the magic tower was only a fraction.

‘…I wanted to show you this.’

Thud.

Seungwoo felt something connected to him breaking.

It was like Adam digging through the formation, heading to the gate of life, and escaping from the illusion.

It’s the same as the formation.

Seungwoo had found the gate of life to escape from this timeline.

Step.

Seungwoo naturally stepped into the Void and realized that everything around him was scattering. Adam and Eve, all the objects around him disappeared, and even the light disappeared, darkening his vision.

Whether the light disappeared.

Whether he closed his eyes.

The darkness was so thick that he couldn’t tell, but it soon cleared.

Bright light brushed against his eyes like clear weather.

“Hello, it’s been a while.”

“…”

“It’s been a long time since I’ve seen you in such a relaxed space. Even ‘outside’ here, I’ve hardly met you for work for almost 3 years, and I haven’t even had time to have a cup of tea, but today I think I can chat a little more leisurely. How about it? Time is all I have, would you like me to make you a cup of tea?”

The voice in his ear.

Only then did he realize that there was someone else in this space besides him.

Seungwoo greeted her.

“Sounds good, make me a cup of black tea too.”

“Do you think this is soup? Ha, what do you think of tea ceremony.”

Eve.

She sipped tea and smiled in a garden made of white roses.