Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 318

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius – Episode 318

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius 318

Race Alliance (3)

We were heading to the base where the elves had arrived.

While walking, Sirius said.

“This isn’t an old fairy tale.”

He added that it happened to those living in this world just 10 years ago, based on this world’s timeline.

In this world, magic power and magic exist, and all sorts of races live while fighting each other. Technology was just beginning to develop, and from what I heard, the level of technology was at a medieval level.

“There were frequent conflicts between races, but it was a decent world to live in.”

There was an element of instability called monsters, but they weren’t a significant threat.

It wasn’t that people were strong, but the level of monsters was generally weak.

Thanks to that, no one considered monsters a threat.

The neighboring country, which shared a border, was a bigger threat than the monsters, who were closer to beasts.

That was the problem.

People who recognized monsters as ‘dangerous but catchable creatures if manpower and money are invested’ were slow to recognize the changes in monsters.

“But from one day, the appearance of monsters became more frequent.”

Monsters began to invade people’s houses and cities.

After killing all the monsters in the city, we finally looked outside and could see people.

We realized that the monsters had formed an army.

“But even then, there was a chance to turn everything back.”

However, there was a way to solve it at the time.

“However, our narrow-minded complacency worsened the situation.”

The problem was that they didn’t use that method.

“To save money, they reduced the number of troops, and they responded with an ambiguous attitude because they were worried about diplomacy. People showed the worst response they could. The result is the destruction of the Empire.”

“The Empire?”

“Ah… the Honorable One might not know. The Empire was a rapidly growing country based on its powerful resources and talent, despite being a relatively new country.”

A past tense expression.

Seungwoo could guess the inside story.

“They destroyed the country they raised with their own hands, not by foreign powers.”

“…Yes, as expected, the Honorable One is different. You didn’t even seem to know about the existence of the Empire, but you grasped that fact at once.”

‘Really. If there had been someone like you in the old Empire, the situation wouldn’t have turned out so badly,’ Seungwoo thought.

Sirius spat out sharp criticisms of the world in a resentful tone.

Among them were words I didn’t know.

Judging from the context, it seemed to be a unique language of the elves, and it was such a high level of profanity that his troops were startled by Sirius’s words and tried to cover his mouth.

‘It might be cursing the king,’ Seungwoo mused.

‘Or it could just be vulgar swearing.’

Anyway, Sirius, who had uttered the curse, showed an incomprehensible reaction to the actions of his troops who were suddenly blocking his mouth.

“…Ah!”

He looked at Seungwoo and was startled.

‘Really, the leader is just like his troops,’ Seungwoo thought dryly.

It seems he unconsciously uttered the curse. ‘It’s okay to curse, but for someone who has to lead someone to be like that…’

Seungwoo stared at Sirius with cold eyes.

‘He doesn’t look like a leader no matter how I look at him.’

He doesn’t have enough weight to fulfill the role of a leader.

Of course, Seungwoo himself had often seen leaders with somewhat frivolous attitudes, but at least they did their job properly when it was time.

Their frivolity played a role in easing the atmosphere within the unit, and created an environment where natural camaraderie could develop among the unit members.

On the other hand, what about Sirius?

“I, I’m sorry! I made a mistake…!”

“I couldn’t understand it anyway, so keep talking.”

“Ah, uh, yes! I understand!”

Sirius bowed to Seungwoo and said.

Seungwoo waved his hand as if it was nothing.

The elves looked surprised at that.

Judging from their expressions, it felt like ‘how could he forgive so easily?’ It seems he had said something quite harsh.

“So, I mentioned the destruction of the Empire?”

“Yes.”

“Anyway, the Empire, the only country of humans, was caught up in its own complacency and was destroyed. When the Empire, which boasted the largest border, was destroyed, other countries were in trouble.”

“If the Empire’s border is wide, does that mean the area it defended was wide?”

A wide land is a valuable resource for a country, but.

The wider the area in contact with other countries or dangerous elements, the greater the risks involved. It seems the Empire was also the same.

Sirius nodded at this.

Thump, thump, he lowered his head as he walked straight ahead.

“At the same time as the destruction of the Empire, many countries were attacked. Among those countries, some were prepared in advance, and some were not.”

“So, what’s the conclusion?”

“…Countries built with stones and steel have all disappeared.”

Disappeared.

There is a good expression called destruction, but Sirius deliberately used the expression disappeared. Curious about his expression, I looked down at Sirius through the narrow gap between the masks.

‘I can’t see his face.’

Sirius deliberately covered his face.

Seungwoo, who was curious, looked at the elves who were following behind.

Their expressions were not good.

Rather than being depressed or sad… yes.

‘The jackals who read the room have that kind of expression.’

Jackals reading the room.

To put it nicely, they were elves who looked like office workers checking the mood of their boss.

“Countries made of stone and iron have all been destroyed. Then, does the Honorable One think there are any countries left?”

“A country not made of stone and iron? From a human perspective, I can only say it’s impossible.”

“From a human perspective? Hahaha! For the Honorable One, who looks like a fox beastman, to say such a thing. You’re quite the joker.”

Hahaha!

Sirius laughed loudly and raised his head.

He seemed genuinely amused.

Well, who could think of Seungwoo as a human when looking at him now?

If he took off his mask to check the nature between beastman and human, but if he wore a fox mask and revealed the characteristics of a fox, Seungwoo would be a fox beastman to anyone.

“I said that because I didn’t like the atmosphere. By the way, what’s the point of the question?”

He didn’t specifically affirm or deny it.

Seungwoo just asked back the point of the question.

He wants to get information now.

He had no intention of worrying about meaningless Zen questions.

“Ah, the answer to the question is nothing special. The answer is just one. It meant that there was a country that survived.”

“What about now?”

“Well, it’s half destroyed! The massive invasion of monsters happened more than 10 years ago.”

Races that built countries based on the civilization of the Iron Age.

Unlike them, the only race in the world that can build a country with only nature, without processing stone and iron, is the elves.

“The country of elves that resisted until the end. But in the end, it was broken.”

The elves seemed to be recalling the moment of destruction.

Everyone looked into the distance and opened their mouths.

“The Mother Tree is dyed.”

“The king died in the end.”

“The spirits have fallen.”

“The country of the elves is the last country left on this land. The destruction of such a country is the same as saying that all living things living on this land have lost their country.”

“Conflicts between races? Countless races who have lost their greatest sense of belonging and livelihood as a country have nothing left.”

“So we created an alliance. A race alliance where racial differences and discrimination are meaningless because there is no country.”

They took turns completing the sentences.

Seungwoo knew who those words were for.

Those words were not made up on the spot to say to Seungwoo.

It was for education. It was like a song for adults to sing to children and growing teenagers.

It was a song to explain why the country was destroyed and why they had to live with other races.

Thanks to that, I know the approximate worldview.

‘I know everything, but…’

There was only one part I didn’t understand.

It doesn’t mean I can’t analyze the meaning because I don’t know it, but a word I heard for the first time grabbed Seungwoo’s ankle.

“Um… I’m asking again, but what the hell is that spirit?”

“…?”

“…Excuse me?”

“…Seriously?”

I asked this question a little while ago, but I didn’t get a clear answer at that time.

In the end, Seungwoo asked the question again.

The expressions of the elves who received the question were all strange.

In the end, a small elf opened his mouth.

“Spirit, spirit magic, four major spirits? Do you really not know anything?”

“I just ignored it because I thought it was a joke, but you really don’t know?”

“Wow, I’ve never seen someone who doesn’t know spirits since I was born.”

“Me too.”

“Everyone here will see it for the first time.”

Seungwoo listened to the elves’ conversation.

‘Is spirit that obvious?’

‘Do you know about spirits?’

─Spirit? Are you talking about the souls of dead people or divine energy?

‘Okay. It seems you don’t know either.’

Tamamo doesn’t seem to know either.

From this, we can see that spirits do not exist in the world where Seungwoo was born and the world where he currently resides.

On the other hand, it seems strange not to know in this world.

Even if a legendary hermit doesn’t know the largest empire on the continent, not knowing spirits is so incomprehensible.

It was a very obvious common sense.

‘Is it really a different world?’

Even though we can communicate.

There were parts where basic common sense conflicted.

“If it’s a spirit… ah, how do I explain this? Hey, can you guys explain it? I can’t do it at all.”

“Why are you passing it on to us, Captain?”

“That’s right. You were explaining the current situation and military secrets very kindly until just now.”

Even Sirius, who had carelessly divulged military secrets, was struggling to explain the spirit.

‘I don’t know how to explain it at all,’ he thought.

“You guys! I said that because it’s an area I can explain. Spirit is different. How can I explain this well?”

“We’re the same. Why do we explain spirits in the first place?”

“We’ve never had to explain it since we were born.”

In fact, there is a way to explain the existence of spirits.

But that method is what other races, including humans, do.

Elves don’t have to explain spirits to others.

To them, spirits are friends and companions.

Who in the world defines a friend?

Nevertheless, if I had to define it.

“Um, so, Soo… nim [Korean honorific]?”

“Just call me Soo.”

“Yes, then Soo. A spirit is a kind of magical life form.”

“Magical life form?”

A male elf walked up to Seungwoo.

The elf, who looked intelligent with glasses, said.

“First of all, basically, they are lives made of magic power. So other races define spirits like this.”

Magic power with will.

“Magic power with will.”

“Yes, that’s the basic definition of a spirit. I’ll explain the rest as we go.”

The information I got from the intellectual elf was neat.

He first listed the basic physiology and specialness of spirits.

Among the many pieces of information about spirits, three things remained in Seungwoo’s mind.

Spirits exist based on the four elements.

Spirits are made up of ranks from the lowest to the highest, and above them, there are kings for each element.

And.

“So, the spirits, who are like your elf companions, have all fallen, and the result of that fall is Gisu, right? The red armor I killed.”

“Yes, that’s right. In addition, Soo, the one you killed was once called a high-level fire spirit.”

That spirit was, to some extent, his enemy.