Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 321

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius – Episode 321

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius 321

Elf (1)

“Who are you?”

As I drew my sword, the warrior in front of me spoke.

It wasn’t a question asked with hostility, but rather one born from pure curiosity and a fighting spirit. Seungwoo answered the question.

“…Soo.”

It wasn’t a neat answer.

Seungwoo wasn’t kind enough to honestly reveal his real name, but he also wasn’t one to deceive a warrior with such eyes in front of him.

However, he had a clear goal.

Clang.

With his empty left hand, he adjusted his mask.

“A swordsman who lived in the canyon beyond. I am called Soo.”

“The folk belief of humans?”

“Folk belief?”

I heard it was a legend.

If it were a legendary figure, I could imitate it well enough, but a belief is a slightly different story.

Belief involves interpretation, so needlessly imitating others could only make my own position difficult.

“Well, the believers themselves say it’s a legend, not a belief. Praying and bowing, that’s a belief, isn’t it?”

“…I suppose so.”

“By the way, how many people would believe that a human legend from hundreds of years ago has actually appeared?”

“…Probably none.”

Yeah, I know it’s hard to believe.

A hermit with powerful strength who appeared hundreds of years ago.

If it were a legend of a long-lived race, it might be different, but it’s hard to logically accept that a figure in the legend of the short-lived human world has survived for hundreds of years.

Nevertheless, they accepted it.

In this world, Seungwoo has no status or connections.

The only way for Seungwoo, who has nothing, to reveal himself was.

Only force was everything.

“So, I will prove it.”

If he proved his strength, they would have no choice but to believe the legend, even if they didn’t want to.

A strong person doesn’t just fall from the sky.

If Seungwoo proves his strength here, people will naturally believe that he is Soo, the hermit from the legend.

Full of fighting spirit, Seungwoo finally drew the cursed sword, Yoto, from its scabbard.

The moment the cursed sword was revealed in the air.

Hung──!

A spear cut through the air.

Just before the precise thrust pierced his forehead.

Clang!

The sword and spear collided.

The sword, swung from the inside out, combined with the strength roughly enhanced by magic and centrifugal force, knocked the spear away.

“A disappointing surprise attack.”

No sooner had he opened his mouth than.

─Whoosh!

The spear grazed over Seungwoo’s head.

The movement to stab with the spearhead instantly changed to slash my neck, but the trajectory was clearly visible.

Swish!

The ends of his hair were slightly cut.

The tip of the spear barely grazed his fox ears.

“…This is quite something.”

“You still have time to talk while fighting!”

I wouldn’t know if you bite your tongue and your slender neck gets pierced by the spear?

She, who was thoroughly provoked, greatly rotated her spear.

A spear that cut across the ground and raised from the bottom up.

Seungwoo, deflecting the spear aimed precisely at his lower abdomen with his sword, put strength into his lower body. To maintain an accurate posture, he fixed his body with the strength of his lower body and took a step forward.

Swish!

Again, the sound of something sharp cutting was heard.

The thing cut was also hair.

However, this time it was not Seungwoo’s hair but the elf’s golden long hair that was cut.

The tip of Seungwoo’s sword was on the end of the cut hair.

“I also aimed for that soft neck, chattering loudly like a lark, but I failed.”

This time, Seungwoo provoked.

“…”

The opponent did not respond to the provocation.

Rather, she responded with coldly hardened eyes.

She had a small physique and spoke like a young girl, but her skills and behavior were already those of an excellent warrior and knight.

‘I need to fight more seriously.’

As Seungwoo resolved himself, he turned his body to the left.

An instinctive movement relying on instinct.

Thump!

Thanks to that, his left arm didn’t fall off.

Compared to the quickly moving body, the brain’s thought, one step behind, analyzed what had just happened.

‘Just now, something tore through the air and charged.’

The sound of a bomb exploding went off with a thump!

But it wasn’t a bomb.

It was just a lump of air condensed with magic at the tip of the spear that became a quick bomb due to strong pressure. A throwing spear using air.

This level of power would require a decent amount of magic and would be inefficient, but he didn’t even feel the omen.

This is proof that she is using her abilities well.

Admiring, Seungwoo scanned his arm.

There were no major injuries, but the compressed air grazed his skin, causing abrasions.

Watching the trajectory of the wind that grazed by a hair’s breadth, the various races watching their fight from afar swallowed their regretful exclamations.

“Wow… that’s really a shame.”

“I know, right? If she had done well, it would have ended with that just now.”

“Are you guys focused on winning or losing right now? Look at that fight. If you can’t understand the mental calculations unfolding with every step, you still lack discernment.”

“That young girl has grown so much. This old man is deeply moved.”

“Grandpa, you’re only sixty, don’t make such a fuss. I’m seventy.”

“I’m human, and you’re an elf, you rascal.”

A carefree atmosphere.

The Union seemed to believe that the young elf knight would not be defeated by an outsider. They didn’t really discuss winning or losing.

What they valued more than winning or losing was the level of their battle.

“This is a more interesting fight than I thought! I’m glad I ran over without finishing my shower!”

“Agreed. This is more valuable than the shower time that comes once every three days.”

“Win, my niece!”

“She’s not your niece.”

“She’s like everyone’s niece. How lovely is she?”

“For someone like that, the attacks are a bit fierce, but she is cute, that’s true.”

One is a young girl knight loved by soldiers.

The other is an outsider with his face covered by a mask.

“But that guy. Why isn’t he using magic?”

“Isn’t it that he can’t use it? You know, there are races like that.”

“Hey, are your eyes and sensory organs just decorations? Can’t you feel the huge pulsation near that guy’s heart? No one in the Union has that much magic except for the princess!”

“Then why isn’t he using magic?”

“How would I know? He must be crazy.”

In addition, he was a weirdo who didn’t use magic even once throughout the fight.

‘His body moves well.’

Muscles and bones. Nothing was wrong.

Then the only problem was the magic circuit. Only one.

‘Existing magic can only be used minimally.’

The magic circuit was severely damaged.

This level of circuit damage would not be strange even if a magician was sentenced to death, but the Archmage is different.

‘The spell is relatively less affected by the circuit.’

Archmage. That title is not just a facade.

Accumulated knowledge and established worldview. Vast magic power and excellent sense.

All of this exceeded a certain value, so he obtained it.

Seungwoo analyzed his body condition and derived the best moves he could handle. As expected, the best thing was a fight using the body.

That too, a pure hand-to-hand combat that doesn’t utilize bets at all.

That wouldn’t affect the already broken circuit.

─But you. You don’t plan to fight barehanded.

‘Of course not. I can’t even beat that senior cadet if I fight barehanded.’

I have to fight while gnawing at my flesh appropriately.

Rather than a long-term battle, I’ll test the waters appropriately and then go for a short-term battle.

If possible, don’t use magic, and if you do, show off the maximum efficiency with the minimum amount.

Like this.

Swish!

Opening the space in the ring worn on his left hand, he put his hand inside and grabbed the sword he had prepared in advance and pulled it out.

People who couldn’t keep up with the movement of his hand, which moved quickly as if it were natural, doubted their eyes.

Before people could think deeply about the sword held in Seungwoo’s right hand and the sword that suddenly appeared in the air, he had already moved.

“His posture faltered!”

While quickly drawing the sword, his arm moved busily, and the grip of the sword, which was close to perfect, faltered slightly.

The elf’s spear did not miss that moment.

The wind gathered at the tip of the spear became another invisible spear, flying to make the opponent a donut with holes.

Not satisfied with the thrown spear of wind, she immediately followed behind the thrown spear. She quickly sprinted across the plain.

Dadaak!

Every time her feet touched the ground, the magic power emitted from the soles of her feet pushed her, creating tremendous propulsion.

It was thanks to her small physique. When others took two steps, she could step on the ground three or four times more than others.

“Leg!”

Immediately after she opened her mouth.

The spear aimed for the leg.

In this case, ordinary people’s nerves are usually focused on the leg, so they protect the leg. She was someone who could modify the movement of the spear at this time to aim for the arm.

And if the opponent was someone who could protect the arm according to her movement.

“Too late.”

She was a great person who could aim for the leg again.

A smile sparkled on the lips of the girl who was trying to incapacitate the opponent by accurately aiming for the leg.

Holes in the legs can be easily healed with elven technology.

So guilt did not put a brake on her movement.

Thud!

Instead, something else put on the brakes.

Not the sound of flesh piercing with a thud! sound, but the sound of hitting a blunt head or bone rang loudly.

“…Ah.”

At the same time as that sound was heard, the young elf knight collapsed on the plain.

The girl had a big bump on the back of her head.

She, who had concentrated all her nerves on piercing the leg, unfortunately, did not think about protecting her back.

It was a mistake born from the confidence that she had completely subdued the opponent.

“You should have paid attention to not only the sword but also the scabbard.”

Seungwoo’s waist did not have a scabbard to store the sword.

Just as the girl threw a spear made of wind, Seungwoo threw the scabbard upwards in advance on the path she would move, hitting her directly.

Unlike the fierce battle.

A somewhat bland finish.

However, the soldiers of the Union were enthusiastic about the fact that the winner was a stranger they didn’t even know. The Union, made up of beastmen and other vigorous races, welcomed the new strongman.

Soon, Seungwoo’s alias spread among them.

Soo.

That short word, which is easy to confuse with other words, has now become an unforgettable name among the members of the Union.

“Hey, did you hear that rumor?”

“Just get to the point. What rumor?”

“That person. That person.”

“…Just say the name. It’s not like he’s someone you can’t mention.”

“Really? Ahem, that person named Soo. Yesterday, there was a guy who picked a fight with him, and he immediately knocked him down.”

“It’s common to faint while fighting.”

“Actually, this is the main point. The person who fell had a big bump on the back of his head.”

“…Again?”

Back of the head fetishist, Soo.