Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 260

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius – Episode 260

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius 260

Those Who Have Nothing to Lose (5)

Immediately after devouring the Gumiho slumbering within my mindscape,

My rank increased dramatically.

So much so that my body couldn’t keep up with the enlightenment of my mind.

As a result, the transformation of my body was delayed, and the metamorphosis took place amidst the smoke rising from my burning flesh.

[Into a Six-Tailed Fox……!]

[Transformation in progress…! It is recommended to find a safe place and stabilize……!]

Turning from five tails to six tails wasn’t a monumental change. I already had so many tails; one more wasn’t a big deal.

However, that was only the external change.

My inner self was constantly evolving.

The flow and depth of mana intensified.

The mana circuit, spreading widely through my blood vessels, expanded its domain by extending to an additional circuit called the ‘Sixth Tail.’

As the circuit expanded, the circulation of mana accelerated, and the depth, or concentration, of mana became much denser.

Originally, this would have been a lengthy process, but this was already my fifth transformation.

By now, I was gradually adapting to the process of the body changing, and I had reached a point where I could compress all these processes to a minimum.

‘About a minute.’

The time it took for the sixth tail to fully manifest was 30 seconds.

It was a very short time.

It was still difficult to fully adapt to the changed body, but the rank that had risen by one stage calmly revealed its might, even with a body that hadn’t fully adjusted.

Thwack!

The tail stretched out long and pierced the demon’s heart and brain simultaneously, like a spear.

The tail, whose length was freely adjusted like a spring and turned sharp like metal, was empowered by sorcery.

“……!”

‘They die cleanly.’

I manipulated the six tails and eliminated the demons within the smoke.

Thanks to the smoke generated by the burning bodies of the demons, the area was saturated with magical energy. This magical energy mixed with the smoke not only obstructed the demons’ vision but also rendered detection using magical energy useless.

The perfect setup for carrying out assassinations was in place.

Thanks to this, as I hunted down five or more demons with each of the six tails, a disturbing idea came to mind.

‘……Should I just chop up the corpses?’

What if I recreated a scene from a horror movie I had seen before?

I didn’t remember the narrative or the specific plot points, but I clearly remembered the chilling atmosphere the horror movie had created.

‘It was hell.’

The surroundings were covered in blood.

The dead bodies were finely chopped and sorted by type.

The room was dark, and in a bleak and eerie atmosphere, the horror was amplified by an unexpected twist.

‘Can I replicate that?’

Looking at the burning flesh of the demons, there was less than a minute left until that flesh turned to ashes and the smoke subsided.

Not even a minute. There wasn’t enough time, even if I started right now.

So, I moved my body on instinct.

I propped up the corpses, which hadn’t even let out a death cry thanks to being killed cleanly, in standing positions. I then began to chop up the living demons.

In the process, baron-class and viscount-class demons resisted fiercely, but no matter how noble they were, if you stabbed and cut their bodies, they would die just like commoners.

‘Still, they’re nobles, so their lifespans are tougher.’

I aimed for the vocal cords and lungs first to prevent them from screaming. As a result, I succeeded in destroying their vocal organs altogether, but the level of their resistance began to increase.

Unlike other demons, they didn’t die easily.

Just in time, there weren’t enough chopped corpses and blood on the walls to create the desired atmosphere. I diligently cut and killed the nobles, including the baron and viscount.

Swish─!

A sword that shone very quietly in the darkness.

I drew the sword from the ring and swung it at the same time.

It wasn’t a small sword, so the sound of it being swung should have been heard, but there was no sound. The sword was swung silently without any sound, and the moment the silver light flashed in the eyes of the demon who had particularly bright eyes─.

─Thud!

The head was already gone.

The fallen head fell to the floor, and as the body that had lost its head fell to the ground, it sounded like something had fallen, and by then,

The surroundings were already full of corpses that had been mercilessly cut with something sharp.

After that, the smoke subsided, and one demon was seen collecting blood and flesh from the corpses.

If you ask how I witnessed that.

‘That guy might be a little difficult, but I can trap this in the shadow.’

As the tail count increased, the rank rose.

At the same time, the ability to manipulate the shadows of 「Murciélago」 grew even further. The shadow swallowed the demon, presumed to be a count, and trapped in the shadow world, he attacked all sides and shouted to be taken out.

‘He’s too noisy. It hurts my ears.’

Even if he didn’t worry like that, I was planning to take him out later.

I didn’t feel good about having a foreign object like him in my shadow world, which was my domain, for a long time.

Well, he won’t be able to get out alive, though.

With this, the survivors inside the botanical garden were me and the demon.

Only these two.

To aim for his back, I imitated the appearance of the demon trapped in the shadow world with 「Illusion Magic」. The tone was based on the intonation of the words he spat out, asking to be taken out of the shadow world.

As a result, Count, 「Purson」, didn’t notice the sense of incongruity felt from all sides until the last moment approached.

Standing naturally, but the demons didn’t move because their hearts and brains were pierced.

Too many corpses. And he realized that the person behind his back had changed into someone else only at the very end.

“……I’m tired.”

I used too much mana and collapsed to the floor.

The surroundings were full of disgusting demons, but my body was too heavy.

In addition, I had a headache.

It was a headache caused by using too much magic.

Time will take care of this.

‘What should I do with these corpses?’

If I leave them alone, there will be a big commotion, and there are too many corpses for me to take care of them all. Then burning them is the answer, but other lower-ranking nobles are okay, but.

“It’s a bit ambiguous to kill nobles like this.”

I had been storing the corpses of demons I had killed or half-killed in the space inside the ring. Because the nobles of the demons can inherit their names and abilities as they are through death.

Until I perfectly understood the method and principle, I couldn’t carelessly dispose of even the decaying corpses. But yesterday and today.

I achieved so many results.

I caught a lot of nobles.

If I combine them with the ones I had stored in the ring in advance, there will be exactly 17 bodies.

“Seventeen out of seventy-two nobles. When I compare it, I think I’ve caught a lot.”

4 counts, 7 viscounts, 6 barons.

It was a pity that I couldn’t catch marquises and dukes, but let’s give meaning to the fact that I killed more than 10 people this week alone.

‘Even counts can’t threaten me anymore.’

Even a marquis could be defeated if I endured a difficult fight.

The problem is the duke. There was no guarantee that I could win against the highest-ranking demon among the five ranks.

Confidence is high.

The problem was that their power, which was only 7, exceeded the high rankers.

They were big shots located at the crossroads of the main story.

If I couldn’t overcome them with overwhelming power, it was impossible to move forward.

Even if I had the same or more power than an ordinary high ranker, I couldn’t guarantee victory against them.

If I could make a body that could perfectly unfold swordsmanship, it would somehow work out.

But that’s not something that takes a day or two.

It wouldn’t be easy.

So, I’ll prepare for that time.

Fortunately, I had the best trait to prepare for this.

Thwack!

I took out the heart from the chest of the fallen demon.

The heart is the abode where the soul resides. Their names and powers are the marks engraved on the soul. I began to extract and understand their powers from the hearts of the corpses.

[Trait, 「Magicality」 imitates the powers.]

[Records information on the 20th level, 「Purson」’s ‘Biometric Detection’ !]

[Information on the 27th level, 「Ronove」’s ‘Red Mist’…!]

[The 43rd level, 「Sabnock」’s ‘Corruption Consecration’…!]

……

[Congratulations! You have acquired information on a total of 31 powers.]

31?

It seems that everyone doesn’t have more than two powers.

But what is 31? It’s not like I can pick and choose.

‘It’s not bad to have them, but there are hardly any useful powers.’

There were no powers that particularly suited me or that I would use as my main force among the 31.

That doesn’t mean I can’t use them.

‘It’s a bit much to use them as they are. It would be better to study them in connection with other disciplines, right?’

It was not easy to study more than 31 powers one by one.

Should I just hand over all this knowledge to the professor?

It wasn’t a bad idea.

‘I’ll be suspected of the source of the knowledge, but that person was originally crazy about new knowledge, so even if I gloss over it, I think she’ll put aside everything else and focus on research.’

It was not easy to predict how Professor Nam Hwa-yeon would react because of her unique expressionless face and eyes that had lost their light.

But she will definitely accept it.

Being crazy about new knowledge is the instinct of a wizard.

“It’s enough for me to share the research results and contents in exchange for sharing knowledge, right?”

Should I also support the research funds?

This kind of thing has to be done secretly from the family, so I have to raise funds that have been laundered in advance. It’s a bit of a headache because of that, what should I do?

As I gathered my tired body while thinking about this and that, I suddenly heard a clanging sound from my pocket. Ah, I forgot about it for a while because of the powers.

‘Come to think of it. I came to find the keys to these demons, right?’

The silver key I took out of my pocket.

The rough appearance was no different from ordinary keys.

‘So, using this key will allow me to reach the ending quickly, right?’

It was a kind of MacGuffin [a plot device used to drive the story forward] in Eve’s novel.

In this world, it exists in reality like this.

It wasn’t particularly broken, and the bizarre form of magical power felt inside the key could be used as soon as I wanted.

Numerous thoughts flashed through my head.

Many possible scenarios repeatedly appeared and disappeared.

First of all.

“……Shall we go home?”

To Sirius’s mansion where the children are.

To the Korean house with security magic built into the walls.

I wanted to go back again.

Swish.

In the dark botanical garden, a shadow brushed my ankle.

The shadow swallowed my body in an instant, and also swallowed the corpses of the demons who had received titles. We hid our bodies in the botanical garden and left the scene like that, and the police who were dispatched to the scene due to reports from citizens who heard terrible explosions in the old ruins could not take their eyes off the horrific scene.

The police, who had been suffering from the recent incident in Germany, eventually fainted on the spot due to mental shock.

In the end, Germany, where two cases of unknown cause had occurred in a row, decided to actively use military power, and thanks to that, I was unable to return to Korea for the time being.

……If I had known this would happen, I would have cleaned up all the corpses before leaving.