Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 400

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius – Episode 400

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius Episode 400

It Was You (5)

I could feel the electrifying tingle of potential trouble [vicarious liability – being responsible for someone else’s actions] in my hand.

“Finally landed a good one.”

I shook my hand.

It stung a little because I put quite a bit of force into it.

“How is it? A little spicy, huh?”

I grinned at ‘Eve’.

A smile that unreservedly revealed the depths of a Gumiho’s nature.

“What?”

Eve looked up at me, and her neck flushed red.

A blush bloomed on her face. As the focus in her eyes began to tremble, Eve covered her face with both hands, kicked off the floor, and ran backward.

Infusing magic into her legs, her body soared higher with each kick.

The speed at which she fled began to increase rapidly.

She disappeared from sight in an instant, muttering briefly.

“…That was dangerous, just now.”

Even out of sight, Eve ran desperately.

Eve’s face was still flushed red, and her nose still remembered his scent.

As if completely bewitched, the inside of Eve’s head sent out warning signals. She shouldn’t fight that man up close anymore.

“All my senses were drawn in.”

Her sight was fixed on his face, her sense of smell focused on his scent, and her hearing excluded all other sounds to listen to his heartbeat.

Eve was repeating the actions of a typical ‘person in love’.

Eve is in the form of a woman, but her essence is a homunculus [an artificially created human]. A doll-like being. Emotions can be taught to her after her creation, but she had only just opened her eyes.

She had only learned emotions in the form of information.

Eve, who had never even felt basic emotional states like joy and sorrow, could not possibly feel the complex emotion of ‘love’.

But Eve felt love.

It was a situation that should not have happened in the first place.

If she hadn’t recognized her anomaly, she would have been helpless.

It’s fortunate that the ability was listed in the database.

‘That ability is dangerous.’

Eve breathed a sigh of relief.

Now, she needed information. She recalled the abilities written in the system connected to the tens of millions of ‘Eves’ who had been disposed of and to her now.

Peach Blossom Charm.

That was the reason Eve’s face had turned red.

“…Huh? Does Peach Blossom Charm apply to inanimate objects too?”

Eve’s expression hardened as she received the information in her head.

She realized why her emotional state, which was no different from a doll, had reacted to Seungwoo.

The ability of the Peach Blossom Charm applies whether something is alive or not.

Eve became alert to the more dangerous implications of the ability.

“It’s quite an interesting ability, isn’t it?”

“…!”

I muttered beside her.

Eve was startled as I caught up with her at her high speed.

“How already?”

Even so, to catch up to this speed?

Right now, Eve had become one with the wind. Her innate talent and the information received from the system became one, giving her an unattainable speed, but I nonchalantly kept up with that speed.

‘How long have I been training and using footwork for?’

Could I not even catch up to a mere wind with this body?

I could easily catch up to the wind, let alone the speed of light.

I waved to the flustered Eve.

“It’s because of the Peach Blossom Charm.”

A fox is an animal that bewitches people.

Then what about a Gumiho [a nine-tailed fox spirit]?

I found the answer as I became a Gumiho myself.

“All things love me.”

The wind loves him.

The magic loves him.

The world loves him.

To me, love is sacrifice and devotion.

It was thanks to my teacher and colleagues who had a great influence on my emotions.

The wind, the magic, and the world that brought this about willingly sacrificed and devoted themselves to me. Because they firmly believed that this was my love and the way to love me.

All things responded to me.

“I think I know why the Celestial Fox was a race on par with dragons.”

Whooooooooosh-!

A whirlwind swirled around me.

The wind did not block the way. It circled around, becoming a driving force.

Rather, because I was running so fast, the wind itself judged that it might be hindering me, so it reduced air resistance to the extreme.

So that I could run faster.

Without using magic or spells, the wind devoted itself to me.

Swishhhhhh.

I didn’t even need to use magic.

The magic in the air naturally gathered in my grasp.

I didn’t even need to use my internal magic as the magic rushed in as if telling me to use it.

The state of naturally using external magic or energy as if it were one’s own, the Empty Spirit Body [a state of enlightenment where one is in perfect harmony with the world].

Without any enlightenment, simply by becoming a Gumiho, I gained a state that touched the Empty Spirit Body.

Thump!

The world’s love was extremely simple.

Heavenly Luck. It could be defined in one word.

The path I ran was always a shortcut to the destination, and the obstacles blocking my path were cleared without me even having to touch them. What was happening in front of me right now was exactly like that.

Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwang!

Eve molded blue magic into her palm and destroyed buildings.

Buildings that were precisely blocking my path. And the debris from the buildings fell to the ground, precisely aiming at me.

All of this must have been done under her calculations.

‘Even if she can’t kill me, is it to delay my steps by even one second?’

If so, it’s amazing.

To calculate the direction the buildings were falling and the location of the falling rocks in a chase where it’s hard to even take a breath. Truly, the calculation speed of the system’s artificial intelligence.

‘But haven’t you forgotten the most important thing?’

There shouldn’t be any variables in the calculation.

Obstacles cannot block my path.

Thump!

The rocks that poured out from the collapsed building debris scattered in all directions.

I didn’t protect myself with magic, but ran only in a straight line.

Thump!

A fragment of the building narrowly brushed past my side.

It was a paper-thin difference.

Thump!

A rock that was falling directly towards my head became entangled in the wiring of a mechanical device inside the building and fell in the wrong place.

Bang!

The huge fragment shattered into countless pieces the moment it fell in front of me, scattering in all directions. But no matter how many fragments there were, not a single one hit me while I was running.

So many rocks poured around me, and huge fragments several times the size of my body fell, but I didn’t even blink an eye.

Because not a single fragment could touch me.

There was no reason to fear the falling rocks.

Thump-!!!

I stomped on the ground and flew forward like a cannonball.

Since there was minimal air resistance blocking the way, the speed naturally increased.

If there was this little resistance, I wouldn’t be able to breathe, and my body would be strained, but the world’s favoritism only gave me advantages.

“Faster! More…!”

Eve pictured light in her head.

She planned to disassemble her body, convert it into photons to increase her speed and distance, and cast a spell.

Eve transformed her body into light without any interference.

「Alluring Beauty」

If I hadn’t caught up with that speed, Eve would have been able to create a spell that covered the entire city.

Swoosh.

That is, if the premise was that I hadn’t caught up with that speed.

Whoosh!

Flames rose from my fingertips.

A low-level magic that I didn’t even remember the name of.

The magic, charged with just that level of magic power, pierced through Eve.

“Kuh-ugh!”

Eve spat out blood and crashed into the exterior wall of a building.

Eve’s magic, unable to withstand the explosion, was dispelled, and she rolled on the floor.

Eve, who had transformed into the form of photons, intended to endure the magic and somehow increase the speed, but you can’t ignore my magic efficiency.

“Ugh, ugh…”

“My magic efficiency is especially unique. Didn’t you look up information about Gumihos in the system? It should definitely be at the top.”

Eve wiped her mouth with her hand and thought.

I know. I know that too.

Even if you use the same amount of magic power, the Gumiho’s magic power amplifies its efficiency several times. In the case of a typical Gumiho, the efficiency is about 9 times.

But the black Gumiho in front of me.

‘Even if I estimate it, it’s 80 times. No, is it exactly 81 times?’

The unit of efficiency is different.

Eve immediately healed her wounds with overflowing magic power and became wary of Seungwoo.

What other attacks? What other bizarre methods might come flying.

Although he is proficient in swordsmanship, he is also a magician.

Creating distance was not a bad thing for Seungwoo either.

However, recklessly engaging in close combat was not a good situation.

Swoosh.

Eve looked at Seungwoo.

Toned hands and muscles. It was the body of a typical martial artist.

Hadn’t she been fighting against his sword until just now?

At that time, she was able to deflect and withstand the attacks to some extent, but she felt a little uneasy about the current Baek Seungwoo. The thought that it would be better to avoid the sword was creeping up.

“What are you thinking so hard about?”

Eve spat out the saliva and blood that had pooled in her mouth and said.

“…Ptooey. About you.”

I frowned at those words.

To think I would hear such words from that face.

No, if someone else had said those words, my expression wouldn’t have changed.

“I never imagined I would hear those words from you, seriously.”

I chuckled slightly, finding it absurd.

I was smiling with my eyes, but I was carefully observing the magic power around Eve.

It seems like the next attack will be big.

It’s already impossible to block with defense or reverse-calculate the magic itself.

The magic is already more than half prepared.

“Looks like you prepared it as soon as you crashed into the wall.”

“Tsk.”

Eve clicked her tongue as I openly saw through her intentions.

Immediately after, Eve aimed at my head with her hand.

It seemed that it was almost completely finished, not just more than half.

“If you dodged all the falling rocks, try dodging this too.”

Eve’s hand sparkled with golden light.

Pazzzik.

Yellow circles floated around Eve.

The yellow circles emitted electricity and gathered in a straight line, one after another.

Kugugugugugugung-!!!

A huge beam of light shot out from her hand.

Thump!

The beam of light passed through the circle emitting electricity.

Thump!

The beam became larger and faster each time it passed through a circle.

Finally, a flash of light pierced through the city in a circular shape. The buildings swallowed by that light were blown away as they were.

“For now… is this reassuring?”

An attack that combined all kinds of top-level magic.

As a result, all the buildings within the range of the beam disappeared without a trace.

By chance, the magic that came within the range of that beam, which stretched out in a straight line.

Swish.

Turned into dust without leaving a trace of the building.

Eve finally breathed a sigh of relief and prepared to move again.

Even though she had used that much magic, she had enough magic power left, and she had fully recovered her wounds and stamina while preparing the magic.

She didn’t even dream of the expectation that Seungwoo would have been hit by the beam and evaporated. However, if he were to dodge a beam of this magnitude in time, he would have consumed a considerable amount of magic power.

If she moved quickly from now on, she could create distance.

‘I can see the end I want.’

Eve looked at her left hand.

The hand that had been holding the unconscious Adam until just now.

Now, Adam had escaped her hand and was doing and taking on the role that only he could do.

Now it was her turn.

“I’ll be there soon.”

Eve moved quickly.

There was someone silently watching that scene.