Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 287

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius – Episode 287

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius 287

The Limitless (2)

A black flash flickered.

Right after something that was neither darkness nor light flickered.

Everything around, including the walls and ceiling, collapsed.

Only Seungwoo was able to survive by instinctively deploying a barrier.

“It’s fortunate that there weren’t people around. All the animals near here must be dead.”

A lot of animals died.

A charred pigeon, crisped by the flash emitted in all directions, fell right next to him.

It was such a mess that, without a good sense, one wouldn’t know that this black object was a pigeon. The same went for the animals and the buildings.

There were numerous collapsed buildings, and the closest one had melted away, leaving no trace of its original form.

It was that intense of a light.

“Lightning strike?”

“You too! You too, come to my side!”

“That guy’s completely insane.”

Baek Seokho, holding a seal in his hand, flew towards Seungwoo.

He was flying like lightning, wrapped in black lightning.

Even before becoming a demon, Baek Seokho flew around like lightning.

After becoming a demon, he moved even faster based on his overwhelming physique and physical abilities.

It was no longer at a level that could be captured with the eyes.

He had to rely solely on instinct to avoid it.

Whoosh!

Right then.

Something brushed past Seungwoo’s side.

He instinctively twisted his body before it brushed him, but the speed was so fast that his skin still made contact. He felt a momentary stinging and burning sensation.

When Seungwoo looked down at his right arm, the flesh of his elbow was gone. He had been hit by Baek Seokho’s attack, who was moving while wrapped in lightning.

“No bleeding.”

The affected area was completely burned due to the lightning.

The dark red elbow was gradually losing strength, leaving a large mark. It was incredibly fast.

Admiring the opponent’s speed, Seungwoo took out several syringes from his pocket.

Clink.

Syringes containing at least dozens of doses of the drug.

Inside was the drug that Seungwoo had recently developed and sold.

He had publicly stated that he could only make three a month, but in reality, there were no restrictions on production.

He was just too lazy to make them.

Also, he wielded the advantage of being able to produce a maximum of only three per month as a weapon.

Crunch!

He roughly tore off the cap of the syringe with his teeth.

Afterward, he injected all the syringes into his right arm.

Then, muscles and flesh began to rapidly fill in.

He clenched his fist with his quickly regenerated arm to check, and he could confirm that his condition had improved compared to before.

The moment he confirmed the restoration of his right arm.

Kugugugung─!

Hundreds of bundles of lightning fell, aiming at Seungwoo, along with a huge vibration sound.

Larger and more massive bundles of lightning than before.

Each lightning bolt contained a large amount of sticky demonic energy, and Baek Seokho occasionally added erratic attacks by flying with the lightning.

Thump!

The sound was heard from far away at the same time as the lightning fell to the ground.

Seungwoo immediately rotated his body upon hearing the sound.

Surprisingly, the figure of a man was faintly visible with electricity sparking in the spot where he had been standing.

Baek Seokho had hidden his body in the sound of lightning and aimed for Seungwoo.

“……Tch!”

Clicking his tongue, he immediately ran away.

There was no way to do anything.

Baek Seokho’s speed of attacking and running away was faster than the speed at which Seungwoo’s magic reached him.

Indeed, ordinary attacks wouldn’t work.

Controlling and spewing flames wouldn’t reach Baek Seokho.

If so.

“I just have to make an unavoidable attack.”

He stretched his hand upward.

His magic power was dyed dark red and began to rotate above his hand.

He absorbed 50% of his possessed magic power and as much magic power floating in the atmosphere as possible, condensing it into one form.

Then, the rotation became even larger, growing to a size comparable to a storm. This was simply a mass of magic power with added rotation.

However, one unique point was that the arrangement of magic power forming the storm was modified with the 「Sevenfold Spiral」 created by Seungwoo.

It was unavoidable.

It was impossible to seize the initiative due to the unique magic power arrangement.

“Damn it!”

Baek Seokho instinctively realized.

This storm was magic created by Seungwoo without caring about his surroundings.

It was impossible to avoid because it was magic unfolded solely to kill him.

“……!”

Baek Seokho, with blood vessels standing out in his eyes, created a spear with demonic energy.

The lightning spear he had been using until just now had a subtle golden color, but what he held in his hand now was made of pitch-black darkness.

Darkness that hadn’t even taken proper form.

He grabbed the darkness that continued to flow down even though it was fixed in the form of a spear with both hands and slashed down at the storm.

─────!!!

The spear bisected the dark red storm from top to bottom.

The storm was bisected, but its essence was a vast amount of magic power.

It didn’t disappear or get destroyed by being bisected.

Rather, the situation worsened.

When the mass of magic power that had formed a clear shape of a storm was cut in half, the magic power that made up the storm began to become unstable.

The magic power rippled at the same time as Baek Seokho withdrew the spear he had swung.

Woong!

A strange sound.

This was coming from the traces of the bisected storm.

Baek Seokho knew the identity of that sound.

“A self-destruction?!”

Resonance of magic power.

It was a very basic magic power manipulation technique that magicians learned, and the end of the resonance was the explosion of magic power.

This scale was a sight that even Baek Seokho was seeing for the first time.

It was unavoidable.

The magic power was already enveloping him.

There were many difficulties in forcibly escaping beyond the magic power.

In the end, Baek Seokho protected his body with demonic energy.

Demonic energy thickly wrapped like a shield and armor.

Above it, a huge explosion occurred.

Thump─!

A short and concise explosion.

It wasn’t a huge explosion that shook the entire city.

However, an explosive power of a similar scale occurred only around Baek Seokho. Just looking at the scale of the magic power, one could tell.

The explosive power that could blow away the entire city was concentrated on Baek Seokho alone. As a result, unbelievably high heat and flashes of light enveloped Baek Seokho, who had protected his body with demonic energy.

“……How injured is he?”

Seungwoo looked up at the sky.

The pieces of flesh falling from it made him imagine the aftermath of the explosion just now. However, there were no pieces larger than flesh falling.

It seemed he hadn’t died.

If so, it would be nice if he was in a state of considerable damage.

At that moment.

Thwack!

As if piercing fragile flesh with a sharp weapon.

The sound of something being stabbed was heard.

Fortunately, the sound was not coming from Seungwoo’s body.

However, it was a sound heard right in front of him.

“Fingers?”

When he saw five long somethings, the word fingers naturally came to mind.

However, fingers weren’t this long.

These were longer than most spears.

Moreover, the speed was fast.

Soon, the long things that looked like fingers aimed for Seungwoo’s body.

He barely dodged the fingers that aimed for vital areas such as the heart and head at a very fast speed.

The fingers that aimed for vital spots in all directions gave the feeling that five spears were precisely surrounding Seungwoo.

“It’s more difficult than facing five masters of swordsmanship at the same time.”

There was no gap for a counterattack.

Even Baek Seokho, the owner of these fingers, didn’t reveal his body after the explosion. He didn’t know where to attack.

Even if he tried to overlay magic power on his eyes to track the guy’s location, he wouldn’t give him a chance to activate 「Yoma Eye」 [a technique to enhance vision with magic].

Still, the only fortunate thing was.

‘Only the speed is fast.’

Only speed remained.

He couldn’t feel the martial arts that had been honed over decades in Baek Seokho’s attacks.

The attack had become faster than before.

But if the attack didn’t reach, was there another way?

Of course not.

Only a quick attack.

That didn’t reach me.

“I’ve faced guys faster than you, and I haven’t let a single one of them live.”

Seungwoo said quietly.

He didn’t care whether this voice reached him or not.

“How long do you think this confrontation will last?”

If Baek Seokho’s speed was like lightning.

In the past, Seungwoo had fought against those who moved faster than lightning.

Among them were monsters whose instantaneous acceleration approached the speed of light, surpassing the speed of light. Speed that transcended common sense.

He dodged all attacks and hit all attacks.

But in the end, it was enough to cut them down.

A guy who was only quick was always like that.

“Being fast alone is meaningless.”

Baek Seokho’s hand, stretching out long, was wielded like a whip.

The extreme of using demonic energy with the body.

He had adapted to his changed body with surprising speed, even though he had just become a demon. That was amazing, but the problem was what came next.

The wielded hand was plunged into the ground.

The hand, deeply embedded like an anchor.

Thump! Kugugugung─!

When he swung the hand deeply embedded in the ground, the surface of the earth began to turn over at once. It was insane strength and divine power.

The floor, hardened with asphalt, was lifted as it was and turned upside down. A rough floor made of dirt and stones was hanging down instead of a neatly arranged floor.

─Turning the floor over is something even a child playing in the sand can do. Provided that the prerequisite of ‘radius of several kilometers’ is attached.

‘I can’t do that either.’

There was nothing I couldn’t do with magic, but at least turning the ground over like that wasn’t my area.

But Baek Seokho did it with only his strength.

It wasn’t pure strength.

It was something he did with strength enhanced with demonic energy, but would it usually work even if you enhanced it like that?

But that guy had been relying on strength and magic power since earlier.

Although he borrowed the power of the spear, the traces of swordsmanship and martial arts that made his eyes flash were no longer left anywhere in his attacks and movements.

“A brute-force attack without technique is no different from a beast, and an attack that relies only on strength is worse than a monster.”

Monsters fight only trusting their physical abilities.

It was natural because monsters around the 2nd level could easily confront thousands of players with just their physical abilities.

But not people.

They learn and master martial arts because they are weak.

Even if Baek Seokho became a demon and gained monstrous strength and speed that far surpassed humans, his pure physical ability didn’t reach the 2nd level.

“Maybe you became a demon because you couldn’t beat me with technique.”

It was rather the opposite.

He couldn’t defeat Seungwoo with just physical abilities.

“I’ll correct your flawed thinking completely with your life.”

This was what you offered as the price.

Reason and martial arts. It was an area that existed beyond that.

Swish.

Baek Seungwoo drew a sword from his ring.

A pure white sword.

It was a masterpiece made by Gu Yaja and a work created solely for revenge.

Light poured out from the sword.

The flashing light lingering on the sword was weaker in brightness than the black lightning emitted from Baek Seokho’s hands, but for some reason, it seemed to shine more brilliantly.

Yes, it only seemed that way.

There was such a big difference that even a fool with a severe head injury could clearly tell that the latter was shining more.

Baek Seokho, who had hidden his body in the darkness, thought.

‘What? Why isn’t the light disappearing?’

Even so, why.

Wouldn’t the light lingering on the sword be eaten?

The ceiling and walls of the space we had already entered had collapsed a long time ago.

The sunlight rose in the mid-sky. It was a good day without a single cloud. Yet, the sky was covered by a dark and gloomy aura.

Those who knew already realized it.

That the warm sunlight in the sky had been eaten by Baek Seokho’s lightning.

However, the light lingering on the sword didn’t lose its light even in front of the lightning that had swallowed the sunlight. Rather, it shone even more brightly.

“Feel it for yourself.”

The pinnacle of swordsmanship (劍道) [Kendo, the way of the sword].

Ironically, the end doesn’t involve handling a sword.

Because the sword is meaningless when you reach the realm.

수중무검 심중유검 (手中無劍 心中有劍) [Sujungmugeom simjungyugeom: Even if there is no sword in hand, the heart is the sword].

Why bother carrying a heavy sword in hand?

심검 [Simgeom]. A sword wielded with the heart.

Distance is meaningless to the trajectory that the sword is directed towards.

Slash─!

Baek Seokho’s arm, which had hidden his body in the darkness, was cut off.

“……!”

Baek Seokho, greatly embarrassed, grabbed his hand.

The pain wasn’t the problem. The hand that hadn’t come out of the darkness was cut off even though it didn’t exist in the direction of wielding the sword.

What?

What kind of phenomenon is this?

Could it be that he is accurately identifying my identity and launching an attack?

But it would take quite a bit of time to figure out this darkness.

All sorts of thoughts and questions overlap.

Baek Seokho, who couldn’t properly grasp the current situation.

Slash!

Afterward, his left foot was also cut off without any warning.