Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 295

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius – Episode 295

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius 295

The Head (5)

The head is the head.

The more I repeat it, the better it sounds.

No, I definitely like it.

“I ended up beheading the head of a group.”

Seungwoo muttered with a relaxed face, sipping the liquor on his desk.

The boy sitting across from Seungwoo grabbed his own head at those words.

He seemed to have a headache.

“…This is a serious matter. How can you just brush it off as a joke?”

“A joke? It’s a clear fact.”

“The Elder is dead. Moreover, he was the head of the guild and the one who sponsored numerous businesses!”

“He deserved to die.”

Elder? Guild? Sponsor?

I heard that the casualties caused by that crazy old man turning into a demon were in the tens of thousands. The number is still increasing.

Even that estimate was the official number announced by the state.

The battle ended just a day ago, but the handling is incredibly fast.

That means they are taking this situation very seriously.

And they should. The Nine Tails Guild, one of only three S-class guilds in South Korea.

There is no ranking assigned to S-class guilds, but people tacitly consider the Nine Tails Guild to be the number one guild in the world.

It was an incident caused by the head of such a guild.

It would be strange if the country didn’t take it seriously.

“That’s true! But still, killing him now…! Ha, well, there’s no other way to save a villain who has crossed the line other than killing him.”

“Not killing, hunting. That wasn’t a person, but a beast.”

“I also watched the video, and it looked like a monster, not a person or a beast.”

“Indeed, even the expression ‘beast’ is too good for it. It was a monster below even a beast.”

A beast that can’t speak is much better than Baek Seokho.

“Let’s stop talking about that. So, Clan Head.”

“Why are you calling me?”

“Where did you put the magic stone? Usually, when someone becomes a demon, they absorb the magic stone and the power of its remnants, so even if you kill them, nothing comes out, but a magic stone must have come out of Baek Seokho’s corpse, who hasn’t even been a demon for a day. You’re not going to tell me you burned it with Baek Seokho’s corpse, are you?”

Magic stone?

Like a monk’s sarira [crystallized remains], a magic stone can be found in the corpse of someone who has just become a demon.

It’s like a lump of magic power that hasn’t been absorbed yet.

If it’s that.

“It was taken away right away.”

“First, we should use that magic stone to play the media… Huh?”

“At first, I thought the magic stone had evaporated as well, so I searched all over the city, but it was eventually taken away.”

“No, leaving aside the fact that it was taken away. You’re saying something was taken from you?!”

Baek Eunho stood up from his desk with an unbelievable expression.

“Who on earth?! Daring to take something from you, who is reaching his prime!”

“Even if you praise me like that, nothing comes out.”

“It’s not flattery! You’ve even found a way to control the ‘Solar Vein Severance,’ that incurable disease. So, you can now unleash your swordsmanship to your heart’s content without worrying about your lifespan.”

“I can unleash it, but I need to grow my body to unleash it properly.”

“…Ah.”

I can unleash swordsmanship in this body.

However, unlike before when my body was 100% intact, Seungwoo’s body is now only slightly better than a glass window. It can be repaired if it breaks, but in the end, it’s still glass, so its basic durability is weak.

‘Even if I use enhancement magic, it’s still glass.’

If you strengthen glass, it becomes tempered glass.

Well, if you consider the process and advantages, the two are only similar in nature.

Strictly speaking, they are different types of glass.

Tempered glass is much stronger than regular glass.

However, that’s only when compared to glass.

In front of all kinds of weapons, tempered glass is also just a piece of glass.

It can be easily torn if you try to tear it, and easily cut if you try to cut it.

Seungwoo’s body is also like that.

“Basically, the swordsmanship I unleash is based on the premise that I have a perfect body. It’s the martial arts of the old men I learned. Unlike me, they adjusted and created it so that they could unleash it with their aging bodies, but I didn’t need to do that.”

The only person Baek Seungwoo can call his teacher is one, but there were many people who taught him techniques and tactics, so he can call them teachers.

Old masters who didn’t have much time left to live.

Seungwoo, who was their shared inheritor, learned all of their martial arts.

While organizing those martial arts, he realized something.

Perhaps because they were all old men, there were many martial arts that could be unleashed with aging and weak bodies. Seungwoo, who didn’t age and had sufficiently trained his body, instead reversed their martial arts and incorporated them into his swordsmanship.

If there are martial arts that can be unleashed even with an aging body.

There are also martial arts that can only be unleashed if supported by a strong body.

The problem is that the conditions are extremely demanding.

The minimum physical abilities must all be A-grade or higher.

On average, it should be around S- grade.

─What kind of martial arts has such poor accessibility?

‘Huh? That’s just the minimum entry requirement. If you want to learn the basics beyond the foundation, you need to be stronger than that, and if you want to master the advanced techniques, you need to acquire something like Vajra Body (金剛不壞) [indestructible body].’

─To achieve great mastery?

‘Well, I didn’t create such detailed criteria when I created the swordsmanship. Since I devised and created the swordsmanship from beginning to end, I started with the advanced techniques. It took less than a year to achieve great mastery.’

Still, if we were to discuss the prerequisites for great mastery.

You should be prepared to pacify the world with your body alone.

─Wouldn’t it be much more efficient for someone with such a body to fight with their fists rather than a sword?

‘If you had to say, that’s probably true. In fact, my 20-year-old fist was much stronger than any ordinary weapon or armaments.’

The prerequisites are not just strange.

They are excessively bizarre.

The condition for achieving great mastery of swordsmanship is that you must be strong enough to pacify the world with your body alone. At that point, you would become the most powerful warrior in the world even before achieving great mastery of swordsmanship.

Swordsmanship would be unnecessary.

Nevertheless, the reason why Baek Seungwoo bothered to create such swordsmanship was.

“Because the sword is the most familiar weapon to me.”

“Yes? Ah, right. There’s no way you could unleash the swordsmanship of a Sword Saint so easily. That was my foolish question.”

“…….”

That wasn’t for you.

Baek Eunho answered politely to the words he unknowingly blurted out.

Tamamo missed the opportunity to say her words because of the lengthy answer. Oh well. The small talk was a bit long to begin with.

“Anyway, let’s get back to the main point.”

“Yes, about the whereabouts of the magic stone.”

“I told you, it was taken away. Someone beat me to it.”

“So, who on earth was it?”

Looking at Baek Eunho, who was asking back with a frustrated look, Seungwoo made a face that said, ‘Don’t you even know this?’

The identity of the person who took the demon’s magic stone in this situation is obvious.

“Wouldn’t it be a demon, of course? It must be the demon who suggested the method to become a demon to Baek Seokho. Or someone related to him.”

“Ah……!”

The person who took Baek Seokho’s magic stone is either the same person who suggested the path to becoming a demon to him, or someone deeply connected to him to that extent.

That is the most likely possibility right now.

Because Seungwoo witnessed that person up close.

‘Just skimming over him, he looked quite strong.’

A demon with black skin and black horns.

The first thought that came to mind as soon as he saw that demon was that he was very black.

I don’t intend to say anything about his skin color, but his skin was such a deep black that it couldn’t be found in nature.

A black that seemed to absorb light.

That black man took the magic stone, which had endured to the end even in the flames that Seungwoo had released towards Baek Seokho’s corpse and blood, and disappeared.

Although they had never had a conversation, Seungwoo felt dignity and etiquette in that man’s actions. He felt as if he was born noble instinctively, rather than feeling like he had learned it diligently.

Truly a noble.

It felt like he had an audience with a genuine aristocrat.

This means.

‘He must be a noble of a fairly high rank.’

Five titles. The hierarchy among demons consisting of the five orders of nobility.

Now, he can easily trample barons, and he can kill viscounts without difficulty. Counts are difficult to deal with, but if he digs into their weaknesses well, he can guarantee victory without a single wound.

However, Seungwoo had never met the nobles above that yet.

Marquises and dukes.

Although there are fewer of them compared to other nobles.

There is an indescribable difference in status between their nobility and power.

If his thoughts are correct, Baek Seokho probably possessed a martial power that ranked in the upper ranks even among marquises.

Meanwhile, a duke.

‘Well, I don’t know, but. That guy seemed to be a duke.’

An extraordinary atmosphere.

He must be a duke.

Seungwoo, who had encountered him, chose to rest immediately rather than chasing after him to fight.

Such a man is likely to become a variable, so it is right to eliminate him in advance, but with his injured body, there was a risk that Seungwoo would be eliminated instead.

The demon was not interested in Seungwoo.

He didn’t even glance at him and left with only the magic stone.

“Black skin and horns that couldn’t be found in nature? I’m sorry, but at least in my memory, such a demon did not exist.”

“My memory is the same.”

“Then there is a possibility that he is an unknown enemy that we do not know at all.”

“That’s not it. He is definitely a noble-class demon. I can guarantee it.”

“You clearly said you didn’t know earlier. But how can you guarantee it?”

Never recklessly confirm a question for which the answer has not been determined.

Seungwoo often urged Baek Eunho to say this.

That’s how meticulous his personality was.

However, the words he uttered contradicted what he usually said.

At this, Seungwoo opened his mouth.

“I smelled a familiar scent.”

“Scent……?”

Smell.

People usually smell food and perfume with their sense of smell.

Smell is not an organ that exists simply to smell scents in that way.

People use their sense of smell to recall memories.

The smell of familiar food. The familiar scent of home.

Smell works on all of this.

When he encountered the black demon, his sense of smell touched old memories.

Not memories.

It was a memory close to a nightmare.

“Not long after I came to this world, there was a demon invasion. That’s the first time I smelled that smell.”

“Then wouldn’t that smell be the smell of demons or demons?”

“That’s not it.”

Along with the putrid smell unique to demons and demons, there was a strange smell mixed in.

What is clear is that it is not the smell of demons.

It was close to the scent of a person.

But it didn’t smell like a person.

It’s like a smell that straddles a certain point, and what’s amazing is that there have been several opportunities to smell that unique smell so far.

“Then what is it?”

“I can’t be sure, but it smells like a human who has been with demons for a long time.”

“You know there are a lot of those humans in the scenario, right?”

“Was it about five digits?”

“According to the description, it’s more than six digits.”

“……That’s difficult.”