Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 199

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius – Episode 199

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius 199

Practical Training (4)

Erzebet’s relentless activity continued throughout the week. She forged her own path, achieving remarkable growth.

The other team members also began to coordinate.

Chaehwa took charge of healing and support.

Baek Eunho handled assistance and buffs.

Mugung took on defense and attack at the front, and the team began to take shape. Baek Eunho’s combat was particularly impressive.

“I’ll handle speed control. The rest of you, fend for yourselves.”

Speed control.

It was Baek Eunho’s specialty.

It wasn’t the ability to manipulate friction coefficients.

He simply amplified the relativity of time, accelerating it for allies and slowing it down for enemies.

However, perhaps because there were so many allies, the effect was weaker than when he used it alone on Seungwoo before.

Of course, even so, it was still significant in battles between transcendents where every second mattered. And Baek Eunho used his divine power, taking advantage of that moment.

A divine power passed down through his family.

The pure white fox’s protection shielded the caster and attacked the enemy.

It was a secret technique of the Cheonhobaek family, the family of the white fox, a power that Seungwoo, the head of the family, could not use.

At first, he focused intently on Baek Eunho’s combat because of that fact.

The Cheonhobaek family’s divine power was something Seungwoo, cursed and rejected by them, couldn’t access. Information about it was scarce.

It would definitely be necessary information if he were to fight the elders one day.

So, he focused only on Baek Eunho, but he suddenly thought about Erzebet, who handled “Blood Magic” in a more advanced way; Mugung, who showed off his potential despite effectively being one-armed; and Chaehwa, who fought hand-to-hand while covering her body with the light she used for healing.

‘Everyone is fighting so well… I wonder if anyone will try to take the team leader position?’

Everyone’s skills are so great that I can’t focus on just one person.

I have no choice.

Now it was his turn, as the leader of this team, to show what he could do.

Seungwoo first considered what he had.

The skills, experience, knowledge, traits, skills, and magic he had built up so far.

He had many things, but he couldn’t readily use his skills.

‘Most of my skills are martial arts. Using them is worse than not using them right now.’

He couldn’t overwork his aching body any further.

Seungwoo, who had secured a position at a distance, thought.

The appearance and habits of the opponent.

And based on the traces around him, he recalled monsters similar to or the same as it from the reports and papers he had read so far.

“The appearance of the ones living in the center of the dungeon is similar to the monsters I’ve seen so far. However, the claw marks around it belong to a beast-type monster. Then there’s a possibility that a completely unexpected entity will appear. The energy I feel around it seems to be roughly around the 5th to 4th Circle [a measure of magical power].”

He reviewed the information and pondered based on his experience.

Can I catch the dungeon’s boss alone?

The answer was positive.

He could catch them even if two attacked at the same time.

However, if there were more than three in that cave at the same time, if it was a social monster that formed a group, the story would be different.

‘The entrance is narrow, but that doesn’t mean the inside isn’t wide. Then let’s destroy it first.’

The deepest part of the dungeon’s center.

The boss monster was presumed to be in the cave.

Judging from the energy felt, it is estimated to be in the 4th Circle.

He had no intention of collapsing the entire cave to subdue such a guy.

If he did, he wouldn’t be able to confirm the kill, and he would only create unnecessary variables.

He would occupy it from the entrance in a textbook manner.

Whirr─!

A small spark ignited.

The spark floated into the air and flew towards the cave entrance.

His body didn’t move.

Only his eyes and mouth moved.

There was no need to move anything else.

『Salla, eat it.』

A beautiful tone.

A clear and pure voice rang out, like a lark chirping or a silver bell rolling.

Then, a huge flame suddenly blocked the entrance of the cave.

At the same time, he adjusted the humidity and temperature inside the cave.

The flames entered the interior through the cave entrance, providing Seungwoo with information about the interior.

The flames split into several branches, forming a huge, vein-like path. With this, he had acquired a map of the cave’s interior.

All of this was accomplished with a single spell. It was the profundity of advanced magic that could not be approached with intermediate magic.

No long incantation or prior preparation was needed.

Just one word.

『Salla, eat it.』

That one word was enough.

This was his own unique activation phrase. This was a unique incantation that only Baek Seungwoo in the world could use.

Just chanting it would realize the image in his mind.

Creating what he wanted.

It was a power similar to the dragon’s language from the old days, but it was far inferior to it. Instead, it reduced versatility and greatly increased power and efficiency.

‘Certainly, the [Fire Magic] I handle has generally become stronger than before.’

Perhaps if Seungwoo ordered the flames to carry out destructive operations…

In the distant future, when only power was considered, it would be at the same level as the dragon’s language. No, not even in the distant future.

It was a realm he would achieve in just a few years.

There was no need to look far ahead.

And the same was true when dealing with monsters.

There was no need to anticipate their actions.

Thud─!

A sound of something strongly pressing against the cave wall.

It pressed so hard that the cave echoed, and the ground we were standing on shook. It was a monster’s immense strength that humans could not easily approach.

Kugugugung──!!

This time, the sound was continuous.

The floor shook even more violently, and the several branches of fire that had entered the cave sent a signal. A large hole had suddenly appeared.

It conveyed that the artificially drilled hole was getting closer and closer to the floor Seungwoo was standing on.

Since the size and range of the monster’s attack were unknown, it would normally be right to run away as soon as the attack was recognized, but that would be too undignified, wouldn’t it?

Avoiding this much of an attack can be done with dignity and ease.

「Yoma Eye」

Seungwoo’s eyes turned purple.

Several images overlapped on the retina of his purple eyes.

[Skill, 「Yoma Eye」 divines the future ten miles away.]

[Consolidates numerous pieces of information into one.]

[「Ten Mile Eye」 has captured the future!]

He saw many futures.

He examined the monster’s identity, the range of its attack, himself with his arm cut off, and himself with his leg torn off. Various pieces of information were accumulated at once.

He captured all possible scenarios and organized them into one.

The best move Seungwoo could make based on this information now was…

「Pyrokinesis」

Floating slightly in the air.

It was to release the maximum output of firepower towards the floor he had been standing on until just now.

Whirr, whirr, whirr───!!!

The psychokinetic flames that had taken shape enveloped his body.

He felt warmth, but his body and clothes did not burn. The flames simply embraced Seungwoo and lifted him into the air.

When he had risen about 10 meters.

Seungwoo looked down at the floor.

Kugugugung──!!!!

The vibration grew louder and closer.

Eventually, the vibration stopped at the place where my feet had been.

Clack!!

It stopped with a huge maw popping out.

However, right at that moment when the monster’s maw was full of dirt and gravel instead of blood and flesh.

『Salla, eat it.』

The advanced magic activated with a single word exploded in the monster’s maw.

It would be nice if it died from this.

The monster’s identity was a 5th Circle monster, a Swimming Shark.

It was an individual first discovered on the beaches of the West, and it was a creature that could swim regardless of water or cliffs.

The Swimming Shark’s “swim” was a conceptual ability, so the guy swimming underground would have been aiming for prey as usual.

But it seemed that it didn’t have the ability to swim even in the air.

The huge shark, which had only revealed its maw in vain, was grilled in the fire while filled with dirt. It had become a shark mud roast.

‘Ah, should I call it a shark clay roast in this case?’

He had a pointless thought in his head about the battle that was too lacking in tension.

But something was a little disappointing.

There was nothing wrong with the fire magic itself.

Seungwoo’s words perfectly contained the advanced magic. The power was several times greater than ordinary [Fire Magic] due to his constitution.

Even so, he was disappointed.

It wasn’t because he was crazy about firepower.

Just.

“I feel like I could get stronger if I had a little more.”

It was because of the conviction that he could unleash even stronger firepower.

A magic that instantly turned a 5th Circle monster into a roast.

Even this surpassed ordinary advanced magic.

Seungwoo, scratching his head, pursued something even greater than that.

It wasn’t just vague confidence, but an instinctive belief.

He wanted it to be so charred that it was unrecognizable, as if melted in lava, not just firepower that turned monsters into roasts like now.

Kugugugung──!!

The ground rumbled again.

This time, it was the same species.

However, seeing that they were different individuals, it seemed that they had formed a group.

“This is perfect.”

The number of samples to experiment with has increased.

Through their sacrifice, Seungwoo’s firepower would head towards a higher realm.

First, it was a combination of magic and skills.

『Salla, eat it.』

A word containing the curse to be completely burned by the fire.

At the same time as that word, the curse was truly transferred to the fire.

The flames burning in purple.

The unidentified black letters embedded within were proof of that.

[Skill, 「Foxfire」 is burning fiercely.]

[The curse in the flames is strengthened several stages further with ‘Magic of Origin’ [a powerful, innate magical ability]!]

With this alone, the power surpassed the usual power.

The firepower of a quasi-S class that surpassed the usual A class skill.

When Seungwoo’s magic was mixed with that cursed flame, he didn’t have to wait for the shark to open its mouth this time.

Before the monster even approached.

He could just roast it along with the surface of the ground.

Whirr, whirr, whirr!

The fire plunged to the floor.

The flames, which had no object to burn, soon burned the entire ground.

The flames would not stop until they burned everything living within it.

However, even after seeing that, Seungwoo’s heart was not satisfied.

The sharks continued to approach.

Seungwoo decided to add a few more elements here.

Several times more magic power than he had consumed just now.

Whirr, whirr, whirr─!

He borrowed the power of the Five Elements [a Chinese philosophy describing fundamental elements] to strengthen the fire energy.

[The third tail, Wood (木), responds to the added thermal power]

[Five Elements Intergeneration, 「Wood Generates Fire (木生火)」 is activated!]

Whirr, whirr, whirr──!!

The flames grew larger and larger.

Before he knew it, the high-ranking monster called the 5th Circle had become Seungwoo’s experimental mouse.

The group who had been watching the scene quietly had already moved far away.

It was because they had glimpsed the subtle madness in his eyes.

It was Chaehwa teacher who noticed this in the process. She was a friend of Nam Hwayeon, who was called the king of magicians.

Whenever her friend had those eyes, the surroundings were never left intact.

Indeed, he was a disciple worthy of that master.

I don’t know why magicians are always like that.

Chaehwa thought that if other magicians heard her, they would be furious, telling her not to compare them to such a monster.

“…This isn’t it.”

Seungwoo objectively examined the disaster he had caused.

The huge flames filled the dungeon.

The flames spewed out using the energy of the Five Elements engraved on his tail were turning the environment created in the dungeon into ashes.

Even so, his heart was empty.

‘It’s relatively fuller than before. But just one thing. I feel like I can be satisfied if I find just one more thing…’

The flames were burning all the surrounding natural environment.

That couldn’t satisfy Seungwoo.

But he was sensing that he was now close to the answer.

It was neither the instinct of a genius nor the result of accumulated experience.

It was just that the artificially created talent from beyond the heavens was reacting.

[Trait, 「Magic Divinity」 seeks more powerful firepower.]

[Based on the accumulated data so far, it is calculating related information.]

He felt like his head had become a library.

The countless books he had read so far.

From the books that had given him great inspiration.

He felt like the knowledge he had casually thrown into one side of his head because he had read it without any emotion was unfolding all at once.

At that moment, his vision was blocked.

His body trembled, and his thoughts stopped momentarily.

The sensation of his brain trembling was like the screen buffering because he had opened too much data while playing a game. In fact, his brain had reached a temporary limit because he was unfolding too much information at once.

But it wasn’t much different.

That fleeting moment passed.

During that time, Seungwoo’s head, which had focused solely on information retrieval and calculation, was flashing with inspiration.

“Right, why did I forget that easy thing.”

The brilliant inspiration treated Seungwoo from a few seconds ago as a fool.

Why hadn’t he tried this easy thing?

Woo-oong─!

Magic power condenses in his hand.

The same process as before. But the intermediate process was very long.

Especially the process in which magic power turned into flame.

The transformation of magic power that occurred in the meantime.

The process of the straight magic power twisting and becoming one with three spirals became incredibly long. He couldn’t get out of that process for at least 10 minutes.

That was because.

Goo-oh!

He was adding two more strands on top of the three spirals that were barely forming.

Ojungnaseon (Quintuple Helix) [a theoretical magical structure]. Seungwoo poured all the knowledge he had accumulated so far to realize that shape with magic power, a shape that he had never seen before and was structurally difficult.

The impossible shape.

He did not give up on this and forcibly assembled it in a state of selflessness.

The collaboration of five spirals that should not have existed in the first place.

[Five spirals are superimposed into one.]

[Created skill, 「Quintuple Helix (A)」!]

The arrangement of magic power created from Seungwoo’s hand.

The five spirals have 5 times the efficiency compared to ordinary magic power.

It boasts 5 times more power.

As a result of calculating the power with simple math, the universal value was 5 squared.

Even if only power was considered, it was 25 times.

“Ha, hahaha! Finally… it’s done!!”

I can get stronger!

A new path was shining for Seungwoo, who had given up his sword in a situation where his body was dying. The attraction to strength was leading him to a higher realm.

[Construct 「Foxfire」 with skill, 「Quintuple Helix」.]

[Five Elements Intergeneration, 「Wood Generates Fire (木生火)」 is activated!]

[Excessive magic power is being injected. The amount is 47 times more than ordinary advanced magic!]

[Execute the Five Senses Letter, 「Lis」 [a magical enhancement]. The red burns redder and more intensely.]

[Execute the Five Senses Letter, 「Straf」 [another magical enhancement]. The sulfur flames of the crimson hell are added to the flames.]

Seungwoo pressed down on everything he had.

The black-purple sphere created in this way.

He threw it beyond the cave and said.

『Salla, eat it.』

A word that starts his magic.

The bead burst with that one word, emitting a huge flash of light.

The flames spreading in purple swallowed the cave and pierced through the huge mountain range behind it. A much more powerful power than the magic that ‘I’ had personally demonstrated in the past, when I had lost half of my consciousness and had been deprived of control.

It was a divine feat that had reached the ranks of great magic that many magicians dream of.