Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 218

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius – Episode 218

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius 218

Human Body Magic (3)

Class time arrived.

Seungwoo checked the time and started the lecture.

It was the first time he was lecturing on a class he designed, as a professor.

Usually, he would start with grand greetings and flowery language, but Seungwoo didn’t prepare any of that. It wasn’t his style, and he didn’t think such meaningless elements were worth the effort.

“Welcome, everyone. I’m Baek Seungwoo, and I’ll be teaching you for the next two weeks until the break. But there are more people than I expected.”

Seungwoo’s lecture was a temporary one.

Therefore, unlike regular lectures, there were no specific requirements to sign up. Usually, restrictions are set based on department or year, but not for temporary lectures.

Who would come to listen to a temporary professor’s temporary lecture? In normal cases, only a few dozen people would show up.

Even those few dozen were mostly students trying to build connections with the teaching assistant who held the title of temporary professor.

“About 700 freshmen, 1,800 sophomores, and 1,000 juniors. Don’t you all have anything better to do? You must have a lot of free time to take a lecture like this.”

Therefore, this number of students was bizarre.

Moreover, Seungwoo’s extracurricular activities consisted only of attending Nam Hwayeon’s freshman lectures a few times. He had never shown his face to other grades separately.

So, naturally, the number of freshmen attending should be the highest.

But they had the fewest students compared to the other grades.

“Almost all the students who could come from the 2,000 sophomores came, and almost all the juniors came except for those who are busy with external activities. It’s strange. I naturally thought the freshmen would be the most numerous.”

It wasn’t a very important fact, but it was an interesting result.

More than half of the 6,000 students in the entire school were taking the lecture, and most of them came not because they were interested in the lecture topic, but because they were interested in the person named Baek Seungwoo.

“Attendance seems difficult. Let’s start the lecture right away.”

Swish.

As he reached out his hand, chalk wrote the topic on the blackboard.

Next to it, he began to draw various formulas.

The symbols and formulas used were at the level of what is taught in the first semester of the first year. When the sophomores and juniors began to yawn, saying it was easy content, the formulas suddenly began to change.

It was too long.

Only the symbols and formulas were simple, but the content was excessively vast.

But that didn’t mean it was inefficient.

That was the minimum it could be condensed to. What is that?

The expressions of both the students who were seated and those who couldn’t find a seat began to change. Just then, Seungwoo opened his mouth.

“First, I’ll briefly introduce the basic formulas and the purpose I’m pursuing in this lecture.”

[Regeneration and Utilization of the Human Body].

The core of this topic was understanding the human body and maximizing the regenerative abilities of the body.

For example, Seungwoo’s left arm. The immediate goal was to replace this prosthetic arm, which was made of cold metal instead of flesh, with a real arm.

The skill, 「Weakness Resistance Delay」, one of its detailed abilities, 「Super Regeneration」, could reattach severed limbs and make them grow back. It was like a salamander’s ability, not a human’s.

But regeneration was just regeneration after all.

Since it didn’t restore perfectly, there was a possibility of structural defects or problems in the process of growing the severed parts. 「Super Regeneration」 was by no means a perfect healing ability.

The fact that it couldn’t heal old scars right away was proof of that.

Therefore, Seungwoo was planning to dissect this ability and modify it in the direction he wanted. This lecture was just a stepping stone for research on this.

As he kindly explained this, the students’ expressions gradually changed. They didn’t seem to be listening to the speech of a mere madman.

There was theoretical support, and above all, there was the ability called 「Super Regeneration」 to dissect and analyze. It might be a successful study.

The eyes of some students who interpreted it that way changed.

They became serious and sharp.

Until just now, the atmosphere was like that of teenagers who had come to play, but now they were as serious as students listening to an important lecture.

“Skin, bones, flesh, blood. Regenerating complex structures like organs is difficult, but not impossible. Because it’s magic created by lumping together magics related to life.”

What should I call it? Seungwoo hadn’t yet named the magic he had begun to delve into.

Magic related to the recovery and regeneration of the body had already been sufficiently studied in academia.

But what he was researching and putting forward as the lecture topic was quite different from existing research. It didn’t even end with being simply creative.

Seungwoo submitted evidence that his research would not simply end in fantasy, but as a byproduct of his own body.

It was proven that the research and topic were effective.

Then it needed a name to match.

“I’ll roughly name this [Human Body Magic]. There are no handouts, so everyone should take notes on their own.”

The development of this research doesn’t just stop at regeneration. It was a study to handle the body more precisely and perfectly.

At the end of it, of course, there must be the ultimate utilization of the body. In order to perfectly digest the lecture, a mental strength that is not inferior to the endlessly regenerating body must be accompanied.

It was definitely not easy content.

But the vision was clear.

The students began to listen to the lecture, which would definitely be helpful if they understood and accepted it even a little. Even the 2nd and 3rd graders who came to the lecture hall empty-handed without any writing tools were now creating notebooks and writing tools with magic and began to write down all the lecture content.

Students who couldn’t create anything with magic desperately went around borrowing writing tools, but all they got was rejection. The students in this place no longer had the 余裕 [Yoyu: Japanese word for ‘leeway’ or ‘margin’] to care for each other.

Clearly, one of the means to become stronger was right in front of them.

The other students in this place were nothing more than strangers, not even competitors in good faith. For thousands of students, only themselves and the professor, Baek Seungwoo, were everything.

The students were now taking clear steps towards becoming players [referring to individuals with supernatural abilities].

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The boisterous atmosphere of the beginning was nowhere to be found.

Only one person’s voice and the breathing of thousands of people filled the grand lecture hall.

Isabelle, who had immediately applied for the lecture after hearing the news that Baek Seungwoo had taken over Nam Hwayeon’s lecture time along with the teaching position, savored his lecture.

How would she evaluate his lecture?

‘I can definitely feel that the depth of research is shallow.’

Regardless of the topic and content, the depth of research was low.

This was something that all the magicians among the students agreed on. Since it was an area where research had not yet been properly activated, it was only natural.

Until now, no one except Baek Seungwoo had adopted such a topic.

There was only one person doing research, and the time spent on research was not long.

There were no common conclusions or results.

It was natural that the depth was shallow, but that didn’t mean that the quality of the lecture was shallow at all. The research element accounted for a small portion of Baek Seungwoo’s lecture.

He focused more on inspiration.

He focused on stimulating the students’ enlightenment.

If you could understand the entire lecture, it felt like you could gain something.

Everyone in this place desperately took notes to grasp that enlightenment.

Rustle, rustle.

The sound of pens moving filled the auditorium.

Rustle—!

Choi Jincheol’s pen was especially fast.

He was not just trying to take notes meticulously, but he was burning his body and passion to keep up with Baek Seungwoo’s class, the lecture that was teaching him.

Among the 3,472 students here, the person who was listening to the lecture and taking notes most diligently was none other than Choi Jincheol.

He was moving his pen so diligently that there was a rather loud noise from his notebook. There were people around him who were giving Choi Jincheol the side-eye, but he continued to take notes without paying attention.

The speed was the same as Baek Seungwoo, who was giving the lecture.

Choi Jincheol was writing down every single word that came out of Seungwoo’s mouth.

‘That’s not academic zeal.’

His appearance of taking notes with bloodshot eyes was far from passion. It was a collection of obsession and madness.

His will to absorb this lecture at all costs stood out.

‘You’re going to absorb a lecture that even I have difficulty understanding?’

What a pipe dream.

As it was a field where research was not yet fully developed, the lack of accumulated information and knowledge also increased the difficulty of the lecture. More than that, what extremely increased the difficulty of this lecture was the lecture itself that came out of Baek Seungwoo’s mouth.

The formulas that he densely wrote on the blackboard using 「Telekinesis」.

The explanations and examples that he explained in words made people more confused the more they listened. Especially the human body model that came out in the middle of the lecture.

30 minutes ago, Seungwoo created a hologram human with magic.

While pointing out the roles and names of bones, organs, and muscles, he said that this is how it works here. You have to approach it with this formula to regenerate and use it to the limit. This was so difficult that even a college student who had studied anatomy for 5 years would have difficulty understanding it.

‘No, who in the world teaches muscles and organs in such detail? We’re not necromancers.’

You don’t know if you only approach it from a biological point of view.

But Seungwoo’s lecture was not easy.

He even talked about how far you can use which muscles using magic, and about controlling electrical signals and organ movements.

‘If you analyze the terms and formulas used step by step, it’s an explanation that you might learn in the first semester of the first year, but the content itself is excessively vast.’

To put it simply, it was a feeling that anyone could interpret, but no one could understand. Even the 3rd graders were scratching their heads.

At one point, one student pleaded with him to please explain the lecture more easily. She was a promising 3rd grader and a magician who was confirmed to join one of the only three S-class guilds in the country after graduation.

Even she couldn’t keep up with Seungwoo’s speed.

To this, he.

“Shove the knowledge into your body. Understanding is the next step.”

After saying this, he continued the lecture.

At those words, she felt ashamed as a magician. It was as if she had heard that this much was naturally a basic requirement.

In response, the other students sympathized with her.

She felt strangely pitiful.

Seungwoo was just giving knowledge.

Everyone had to study on their own. I had a feeling that study groups would spring up like mushrooms after this lecture.

Everyone was worried about the difficulty of the lecture, but Seungwoo continued.

It was an inevitable choice in order to achieve results within the remaining time.

What Seungwoo wants to do for the students through the remaining lectures is clear: to implement his 「Super Regeneration」 ability into a formula so that students can use it.

That was the role Baek Seungwoo had to play in this lecture.

At least that’s what he thought.

If you can’t keep up, there’s nothing you can do.