Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 317

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius – Episode 317

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius 317

Race Alliance (2)

I faced the Red Knight.

‘A Standard Bearer… was it?’

According to what I heard while coming down from the forest to this place.

The elves called the knight in red armor a ‘Superior Standard Bearer.’

Standard Bearer. If it’s the Standard Bearer I know, it means the one who stands at the front, holding the flag and leading the vanguard.

‘Standard Bearer doesn’t really suit him. Knight would be more like it.’

Red armor.

A giant spear in hand.

It was the characteristic of a knight no matter who looked at it. It wasn’t the characteristic of a Standard Bearer.

He didn’t even hold a flag, which could be said to be the symbol of a Standard Bearer.

“I don’t know.”

There is not enough information to judge something.

In that sense, the elves behind me were valuable informants.

It’s a bit of a shame that one died.

‘Still, the guy who seems to be the highest in rank is alive, so.’

That’s a relief.

I have to try to keep the remaining eight from dying.

I faced the red armor and said to the elf archer behind me.

“Hey, you with the bow.”

“Me, are you talking to me……?”

“Yes, I’m talking to you, you idiot.”

“Y-You idiot?”

The elf archer couldn’t adapt to the sudden situation.

It wasn’t easy to adapt to the situation of losing his life.

Suddenly, the person who helped him in the crisis looked down on him and called him an idiot. Due to the continuous embarrassment, the archer couldn’t even think of getting angry at the words that blamed him.

His head is slow to accept it.

“You’re a moron who couldn’t keep even one of the virtues of a leader, even though you seem to be the leader. So, you’re an idiot.”

On the other hand, I got angry just by looking at his face.

Elf archer. I don’t know his name or position, but at least one thing.

I could tell in a short time that he was an incompetent commander.

“I’ll check one more time, you’re the one leading those seven, no, including the dead one, eight of them, right?”

“Y-Yes.”

“……Yes?”

“Y-Yes, I am!”

As a result of the confirmation, he was indeed the leader.

Then there was nothing more I wanted to know.

Getting other information from those guys is something to do after dealing with that Red Armored Standard Bearer.

Seungwoo erased the elves from his mind.

Then he glared at the guy who was moving properly.

“It doesn’t seem like magic doesn’t work at all.”

Seungwoo examined the deeply dug traces on the floor.

That was the ground where the Standard Bearer was buried by the impact of the explosion.

“It seems like only fire doesn’t work.”

He flew away properly from the explosion, which is the added effect of fire.

Besides, it didn’t seem like the fact that fire didn’t work was related to the guy’s resistance. Usually, there are many of those enemies that have resistance to certain attributes.

That’s more like… yeah.

It was as if he was immune to fire itself.

As evidence, fire magic did not do any damage to the Standard Bearer, but all other magic and physical laws worked.

“Shall we test something else?”

Clearly, my specialty is fire magic, but.

My innate talent made it possible to improve my magic skills in a short period of time to the point where I could show meaningful results in other fields of magic.

Pop!

A small drop of water splashed.

It was so small that even a person with extremely developed senses would not have recognized that a drop of water had splashed.

What if that drop of water splashed not on the skin but on the armor?

“……?”

He wouldn’t even react until that drop of water caused some phenomenon.

“This is─”

─Boom!

The small drop of water that splashed on the armor exploded.

It was a drop of water, but it boosted the explosion like oil. This was a high-level magic among the elemental magic that deals with water.

Among the attack magic with the name of high-level, it boasts overwhelmingly low firepower, but it was difficult in that it was an explosion from a small drop of water.

“Unlike fire, this works well.”

The power is decent for the first time it is used in actual combat.

The Standard Bearer’s armor, which had not been damaged by fire, was broken a little.

Crack!

The iron plate hanging at the end of the armor broke and fell to the floor.

However, only a very slight crack appeared in the firmly made parts, such as the head, chest, and stomach.

It didn’t do serious damage.

‘But he’s quite durable.’

Even a first-class guardian can only withstand high-level magic by raising their physical abilities and durability with magic.

However, the monster called Standard Bearer was fine even after being hit head-on twice with high-level magic following fire magic without any means of protection.

A feat that humans made of flesh cannot dare to imitate.

Subsequently, he seemed to be somewhat damaged by the linked attacks of wind and earth.

However, the visible power was subtle.

He was strangely fine for being hit head-on by high-level magic.

I could be sure of that appearance. That’s resistance.

“He has some resistance to the four major elements, and no matter how strong the fire is, it doesn’t cause any damage. However, he flies away from explosions caused by fire, etc. So he only has resistance to elements.”

When analyzed comprehensively.

“It’s a unique creature.”

It was one of the most unique creatures I’ve ever seen.

Seeing that he flies away powerlessly even with a small explosion even though he has that much power, it is clear that the inside of that armor is empty.

A creature that moves even though it doesn’t have a body made of flesh and blood inside.

A magical creature that moves with necromancy [magic that raises the dead]. Living Armor naturally came to mind, but.

‘The energy itself is different from that gloomy golem like a corpse.’

If the energy felt from the Living Dead is as cold as a corpse.

The energy felt from the Superior Standard Bearer was a warm energy of life.

It’s somewhat mysterious, but that was the end.

I thought the rest of the information could be obtained by examining the corpse after killing it, so I took out my sword.

Sreung!

A plain, unremarkable blade was revealed.

The reason why I took out this ordinary sword was because I didn’t feel the need to take out a famous sword. I think I can kill him easily with an ordinary sword.

In fact, after being hit by magic until his armor was about to be half-destroyed, he didn’t even try to resist.

So─

─Swish!

I cleanly cut him down.

A body cut left, right, and sideways.

Now I was about to check his body.

“Hmm…… a stone?”

The body cut in half, where did the armor go?

A dull-colored stone was lying alone.

Seungwoo knew that it was the reality of the Standard Bearer he had cut.

A sense of emptiness was creeping in at that moment.

“H-Hok, perhaps! Are you the Soo recorded in human legends!”

“……Me?”

The elves approached Seungwoo.

Then the man who had just asked if he was the leader asked Seungwoo if he was the ‘Soo.’ I listened to what he was saying because I was wondering what he was talking about.

‘He’s just a hidden master.’

Hidden master, Soo.

It’s a pretty short name.

No, before arguing about the name, something strange was attached.

‘This might be pretty good.’

Because he is a hidden master, no one knows his identity, and even if he shows a lack of knowledge of the world, there is nothing awkward about it.

Not bad. Rather, there is no other role like this.

Seungwoo decided to immerse himself in the role of ‘Soo’ that the elves were talking about, recalling the reason why he opened the key in his head.

* * *

Nam Hwayeon looked into the past.

In the process, she learned most of Seungwoo’s past.

“……I wish I hadn’t known.”

Nam Hwayeon didn’t want to see those scenes.

That’s why I hate this ability. Because it makes you see things you don’t want to see.

It would be nice if I could perfectly control this power and only see the past at the time I wanted, but it was a power that even she, who was born with a natural talent, found difficult to handle carelessly.

“……He’s a real villain.”

Demon King.

That was her nickname, which meant the king of wizards.

Some people doubted this, saying that she was the king of demons, not magic, and in the end, it was concluded that this was just a suspicion.

Unexpectedly, this suspicion was valid.

This is because the reason why she, who had not achieved any achievements as a magician, suddenly left her name on the rankings and was called the Demon King was deeply related to demons.

“……Ha, really. If I had known this would happen, I wouldn’t have made it in the first place.”

The number of magics currently created by Nam Hwayeon was beyond counting.

Among those numerous magics, the field with the highest level of entry difficulty and rumored to be her main magic was space-time magic.

But she knows.

The fact that her specialty is more focused on magic than space-time.

I know it very deeply.

The old definition of magic is a strange technique performed with a strange power called magic, the origin of which is unknown.

The magics that brought Nam Hwayeon to where she is now were like that.

“Those demons are annoying even though they are demons in form and concept.”

Devil. The magic that Nam Hwayeon created was none other than the devil himself.

Of course, unlike the demons, it is not a magic that borrows or takes the power of actual demons, but simply creates demons that existed only as concepts.

She didn’t create it because she had any evil intentions.

If magic is the power that makes the impossible possible.

Because science is the study of discovering and interpreting truths and laws.

Nam Hwayeon in her youth, who believed without a doubt that better results could be produced through the complementarity of the two, stubbornly applied four concepts that went beyond the scope of science to magic. Finally, she succeeded.

That is the four major demons of science history that refuse the interpretation of science itself even though they originated from science history.

She received an indefinite mark of [Grade: ──] because she could not clearly interpret its use and limitations from the system.

The ability that does not follow her control even though Nam Hwayeon clearly created it starts with the scenes she does not want.

It even showed me things I never intended to see in the first place.

For example, if what she was trying to see was the past, she would put the future in one side of her vision at the same time as the past.

Nam Hwayeon was speechless at Seungwoo’s future and past that she saw in that way.

* * *

“And we came from beyond those mountains. Originally, we cross the river instead of the mountains, but a high-ranking person came to the mountains a few days ago. Oh, and we have quite a lot of food, so you don’t have to worry, hahaha!”

The elf archer. The young man who identified himself as Sirius revealed all kinds of information at my request. Some of the information he was talking about was confidential.

“Captain! That’s confidential!”

“Even though you saved us, aren’t you telling someone who doesn’t belong to the military too much?”

“That’s right! You can talk about it after arriving at the barracks and discussing it with the battalion commander.”

His unit members were trying to stop him.

Whether they did or not.

“What kind of manners are you showing in front of your benefactor! And, isn’t it natural to repay if there is something I can repay to my benefactor!”

Sirius raised his voice and said.

The unit members were speechless at the sight.

“Why is our captain like that?”

“Until this morning, he was a stubborn and disobedient person.”

“But he suddenly became a dog.”

He was truly a loyal dog.

I was even a little reluctant to get information close to confidential.

Whether he did or not, Sirius continued to spit out information.

“By the way, to cut the Standard Bearer into pieces with a single sword. As expected, Soo! I didn’t trust him because he was a legend in the short history of humans, but I never thought he would kill a corrupted spirit so lightly.”

“It’s not a spirit, it’s a Standard Bearer, Captain.”

“Captain, how long has it been since the name changed, and you’re still using it interchangeably?”

“Oh, that’s right. It wasn’t a corrupted spirit, it was a Standard Bearer.”

“But I get confused sometimes too.”

The elf unit members opened their mouths and added flesh to the information provided by Sirius. When I heard it, the information about the red armor was clear, but.

“Spirit?”

The name I heard for the first time in my life caught my attention.