Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 306

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius – Episode 306

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius 306

Test (1)

“I clearly left today’s lecture topic blank, but quite a few of you showed up.”

Students listened intently to the voice coming from the podium.

Other professors were also young for their age, likely due to their magical power and skill, but the man standing on the platform now was young regardless of such things.

In fact, the age difference between him and the students wasn’t that great.

However, the unique aura surrounding him was more intellectual and refined than that of any other professor.

“Attendance… is unnecessary. After all, it’s a non-regular lecture, and checking this many students one by one would be a waste of time.”

Seungwoo closed the book in his hand.

It was a list of students, but there was no need to check it.

“Let’s start the class right away.”

No need to call out the students’ names.

He could just address them directly.

“We’ll proceed in order, starting with the 10 students sitting in the front.”

“In order?”

“Wasn’t this supposed to be a large-scale lecture today?”

“I haven’t heard anything about this?”

The lecture would proceed by dividing the students into groups.

No, it was difficult to call it a lecture when they were being taught separately.

It was more like a specialized class.

“Excuse me! Teacher, I have a question!”

Right then.

A student who couldn’t contain her question raised her hand.

“…….”

Seungwoo didn’t like it when someone raised their hand or asked questions without permission during his lectures, but…

“Yes, student Inari. Ask your question.”

“…Huh? How did you know my name?”

“This isn’t the designated Q&A time. If you have any questions, ask them quickly.”

“Ah! Yes, actually, I haven’t received any notice about today’s lecture!”

He listened to the female student’s words.

Indeed.

He knew this question would come up.

That’s why Seungwoo allowed the question.

If someone asked this question, he could answer it on the spot, stating the topic and goal of today’s class.

“The lecture I’m in charge of today was a free topic. The board seems to want you to learn complex, core, and academic knowledge, but…”

Unfortunately, today isn’t a lecture but an outdoor class.

There’s no set topic, so I can do as I please.

“What you need now isn’t knowledge.”

The midterms for the second semester are over.

The final exams are approaching soon, and after the final exams, all the students in front of him will be sophomores. From the sophomore year, advanced lectures will be subdivided according to major.

Advanced lectures according to major are like a giant tower.

The more advanced knowledge you learn and digest, the greater the size and stability of the tower you can build.

If the sophomore year is the stage for building that tower,

The common lectures of the freshman year are a stage for preparing the land and increasing the stability of the construction for about a year before building the tower.

“Your foundations are still too weak to build a tower with knowledge already.”

Digging up miscellaneous soil and stones, and compacting the ground firmly so that the tower doesn’t shake or collapse during construction.

Until now, students have been learning various things at the academy, eliminating habits that hinder them and filling themselves with sophisticated skills and experiences.

They have cultivated their bodies into the right shape.

“I will test that in this class.”

Whether your foundations are well-organized.

Whether you are ready to build your own tower soon.

If you are not ready, this is the time to check in which direction you can solidify your foundation.

“About 2,000 people. If you group them in 10s, you’ll get about 200 teams.”

Approximately 2,000 freshmen.

Originally, there were exactly 2,000 people, but the number of people decreased slightly due to deaths and dropouts caused by various accidents.

“Follow me.”

“T, Teaching assistant…?”

“No. Since it’s a non-regular lecture, wouldn’t it be better to call me ‘teacher’ in this setting?”

“The title doesn’t matter. First of all, this lecture hall is too cramped for my class, so let’s go outside.”

Snap!

He snapped his fingers.

Then, right next to the podium at the end of all the students’ gazes,

A huge hole appeared to the right of where Seungwoo was standing.

A hole large enough for a large student to pass through.

Beyond it, a blue field could be seen.

It was a place well known to the students of Chilseong Academy.

“That’s…?”

“Area 7 within the academy grounds?”

“That’s where we sometimes go for sparring during hunting time, right? But that place is under the supervision of the professors, so why…?”

The field visible beyond the hole is a place prepared for the students’ hunting abilities and sparring. Originally, you couldn’t enter without the permission of the professor in charge.

It’s not easy to go there even before getting permission.

Because in order to go to that field, you have to cross a valley and a small mountain inside the academy grounds.

Of course, there was a huge physical distance between the lecture hall where Seungwoo and the students were located.

Portal? Space magic?

The students’ minds were filled with questions.

“…It’s hard for me to maintain this. All the students who were called, come up to the platform. What are you waiting for?”

“Y, yes, I’m going now!”

“We just have to walk through that space, right?”

“Yes, just walk through.”

The ten students sitting in the front came forward.

Some students were nervous, but others were excited.

As expected of the students sitting in the front row, they seemed to have a great desire for learning and growth. After sending nine of them, the last one remained.

The small male student in front of him was about to start the class as the first team. But.

“U, um, by any chance! Is there any chance that I might fall into a gap in space while passing through, or fall into a strange place due to spatial distortion?”

“Don’t worry. I’ve already verified it all by myself.”

“B, but what if the magic power I instinctively emit gets tangled in the coordinates…!”

He seemed very timid and shrank back.

Among the thousands of students sitting in their seats, quite a few seemed to empathize with the male student’s feelings.

Well, Seungwoo understood.

[Space Magic] was still an unknown area.

Of course, compared to other unknown mysteries where even the whole story and concept have not been revealed, [Space Magic] is a field of study that only those with aptitude can barely enter.

Because those who are born with that aptitude are very rare, they have to build knowledge and achieve success on their own.

As a result, knowledge about [Space Magic] was not widely known.

After all, even if you know it, you can’t use or apply it without talent.

I understand.

However, Seungwoo didn’t stop at understanding.

“Don’t think that your magic power can interfere with my magic. The things you’re worried about won’t happen. Just go.”

“U, uaaaaa! Don’t push me!”

He pushed the student’s back.

After that, he followed the student and moved his steps beyond the space.

Step by step. After completely crossing the space.

──!

The portal connecting the lecture hall and the field disappeared.

* * *

“Is this really a field?”

“Hey, have we only been here once or twice? Of course, it is.”

“The texture and smell of the grass. Both are perfect.”

“The smell of grass? How do you know that? Are you a dog?”

“I often hear that I’m like a beast.”

“…I don’t think that was said with good intentions.”

“Huh?”

The students who arrived at the field in advance were talking among themselves.

However, the commotion disappeared in an instant when the 10th student and Seungwoo came together.

“…….”

Sensing the changed atmosphere with his arrival, Seungwoo scanned his surroundings and opened his mouth.

“Now that everyone is here, let’s start the class.”

“But teacher, you’ve been talking about foundations and classes since earlier. How is that class going to be conducted?”

A student asked.

It was the same female student who raised her hand in the lecture hall earlier.

She asked, thinking that Seungwoo would answer.

In fact, Seungwoo responded to the female student’s question.

“Like this.”

“……!”

Not with words, but with his body.

Whoosh─!

The wind brushed the female student’s shoulder.

The student instinctively dodged by throwing her body to the side.

Tumbling and rolling on the floor, the female student, covered in dirt and dry grass on her school uniform, struggled to get up.

“What the heck is this…!”

This time, just as resentment was about to come out of the female student’s mouth instead of a question,

Seungwoo didn’t even give her a chance to finish her words.

“…….”

Seungwoo, who had been consistent with silence, stretched out his foot.

Due to his low physical abilities, it wasn’t a very threatening attack, but the combination of the martial art contained in the kick and the serious atmosphere made it difficult for the young student to maintain her composure.

What?

Why are you suddenly attacking?

Swish! Swish!

The female student desperately dodged every attack.

Whether she couldn’t find the timing to counterattack,

Or whether she didn’t understand the current situation.

Seungwoo, watching the student who couldn’t respond at all, opened his closed mouth.

“…I think I’ve said it once before, but I’ll say it again.”

Seungwoo hates it when someone infringes on or interferes with his time.

The same goes for students’ questions.

“The class has already started.”

“……!”

“And now is not Q&A time.”

It’s different from when he first accepted the question.

At that time, he exceptionally allowed the question because he hadn’t even revealed the topic of the lecture. There was a prelude to Seungwoo’s attack on the student now.

He said he would test the students.

Before attacking, he released magical power in advance so that the students could fully recognize it, advertising that he was here.

But what about it.

“One student barely reacted, but didn’t understand, did the rest not even understand?”

“!!!!”

“I clearly said it. 10 people are grouped into one team.”

Seungwoo’s attack was not limited to one person.

The remaining nine students, who had frozen in the sudden situation, were the same. As soon as those words were finished, the students raised their magic power in their own ways.

Students shaping weapons.

Students strengthening their bodies.

Students preparing magic.

Etc.

They waited for the approaching attack, mobilizing as many different magic manipulations and means as the number of students.

It was different from the female student who couldn’t react while rolling on the floor.

They seemed to be able to respond to the attack.

But this is.

‘Did it look like an attack that could be responded to by preparing?’

Step by step.

Footsteps were heard.

The male student who sensed the sound first threw the magic power in his hand.

The magic power shaped like a spear aimed at Seungwoo with a heavy weight and a sharp end, drawing a perfect parabola as if it had reproduced the weight of the spear.

“Not a bad attack, but─”

He accurately snatched the spear heading towards him in the middle.

Seungwoo was also holding the spear in reverse.

“─The structure of the magic power that makes up the spear is too simple. At this level, you can take away control of the magic power just by putting your hand on it.”

Seungwoo added flames to the spear of magic power that flew towards him.

It wasn’t the black flames filled with the venom and curses of a vicious fox [referring to Seungwoo’s Gumiho heritage], but ordinary red flames.

Shoooooo────!

The trajectory and speed of the javelin were unusual.

The spear falling like a meteor covered the student like that.

It was quite different from the javelin that the male student himself had thrown.

“…Ah.”

What’s different?

Flame?

Did the flame surrounding the spear act as a propellant?

No, the important thing was not the change in speed.

The male students stared at the spear coming down like a shooting star towards them.

They looked up at the spear, recalling the posture of Seungwoo, who had shot the spear at them just before, with the trajectory of the blade shaking.

“…Ah!”

Then he realized.

The shortcomings of himself.

The way to remove the huge rock that was deeply embedded in his foundation.

There was a problem with the method of javelin throwing.

The perfect textbook to fix his problems was now in front of him.

Shoooooo────!!!

Of course, just because he realized something didn’t mean that the flying spear would stop in the middle.

Thud!!!

The student was hit by the spear.

The spear did not penetrate the student, nor did blood come out.

He had been controlling that much power from the beginning.

However, the impact was significant, so the student hit by the spear fell down.

The expressions of the students watching the scene gradually turned blue.

“…It’s a little disappointing, but it seems like he realized the improvements.”

Seungwoo turned around.

The remaining students came into his view.

The female student at the very beginning trembled and grabbed her shoulder at the cold gaze that was hard to believe was looking at the students.

The nine students instinctively sensed that it was their turn next.