Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 340

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius – Episode 340

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius 340

Five Minutes to Chaos (5)

“Shouldn’t we take care of that?”

I pointed to the hundreds of thousands of troops and the three knights.

Luna and I were moving at high speed, leaping from branch to branch, surveying the battlefield. Despite the significant damage from the 100,000 troops and the White Knight – a natural disaster, really – just a few days ago, the battlefield wasn’t in terrible shape.

‘Not too bad, but not good either.’

Considering we were defending in a siege, which gave us a tactical advantage, the situation was far from ideal.

The knights wielded elemental powers like fire, earth, and water, while the Union warriors enhanced their bodies with magic.

In a straight fight, they were outmatched.

The only reason the Union members were holding their own was that they had been fighting the knights for nearly 10 years and had become accustomed to their fighting style.

But to put it another way…

“For 10 years, they’ve been fighting without a single victory, just accumulating experience? You morons.”

“Well, I can’t deny that, to be honest.”

“The exchange ratio between our forces and the enemy is almost 1:1. We’re defending, and the barrier hasn’t even been breached. Does that make sense to you?”

Luna nodded.

“Well, what can you do? The power levels are just different.”

“If their power is lacking, they should have come up with innovative tactics.”

“Are you one to talk?”

Luna looked at me, dumbfounded.

“You killed most of the commanding officers two days ago.”

“I guarantee you it would have been even more disastrous if I hadn’t killed those things.”

“Well… that’s true.”

It’s not like I enjoyed killing the commanding officers.

But in a situation where they should have been devising innovative tactics, their very incompetence was the problem.

“This is the better situation, at least.”

“Honestly, I don’t like it, but at this rate, we can hold out for about two days.”

“Two days?”

Luna lowered her head.

Even so, her running speed didn’t decrease – truly an elven feat. Maintaining that speed while deep in thought.

“It can’t be helped. The biggest forces in our Union are clearly you and me. Two days is the best we can do.”

“No, you’re saying *we* can only hold out for two days?”

“…Was that what you were questioning?”

Luna’s face flushed red for a moment.

I couldn’t tell if it was embarrassment or anger at being underestimated.

I probably wouldn’t get an explanation.

Shh!

I approached Luna, who looked ready to protest, and put a finger to her lips.

With my other hand, I pointed to the ground.

A knight in red armor was staring intently in our direction.

An enemy knight was onto us.

“He’s got his eyes on us.”

“W-What should we do then?” Luna asked urgently.

“Just keep running like this.”

“Huh? At this speed?”

“Were you thinking of slowing down, then?”

“But running this fast was to quickly escape this chaotic battlefield.”

A run without any regard for stamina.

She explained that the reason for running like that was to escape the battlefield. Well, that made sense.

“Doesn’t that mean that as long as we’re being chased by him, we’re still on the battlefield?”

“Huh? Is that how you see it?”

“Then let’s keep running.”

Luna increased her speed even more.

Following behind, Luna desperately tried to keep up, panting.

“W-Wait a minute! I’m the guide, so why am I following behind?! If that’s the case, don’t you need me?”

Luna’s desperate cry echoed through the forest, but no one answered, so she ended up running even harder.

Meanwhile, Seungwoo.

─Isn’t it because of the sword you’re wearing that he’s got his eyes on you?

‘Probably?’

* * *

One person per punch.

The enemy knight, who was steadily cutting down Union soldiers, twisted his body to dodge a charging swordsman and fell into thought.

‘What was it?’

The enemy knight recalled the fox engulfed in hot wind.

He hadn’t felt any impact when he struck him.

Clearly, he had just been sent flying. There was a high probability that he was still alive and well.

“…That.”

The enemy knight tried to mutter something.

He was reminded once again that he didn’t have vocal cords.

He had forgotten that he didn’t have a separate vocal organ because he had been communicating with the same spirits through telepathy for so long. Well, what did it matter?

The enemy knight, who didn’t need a vocal organ, killed people with his hands while thoroughly analyzing the sense of incongruity he felt as he rode his armor to the spirit core [the source of the knight’s power].

‘He knew me well.’

It wasn’t just that he had a lot of fighting experience or that his senses were sharp.

The masked man seemed to already know how the enemy knight would attack. His response was seamless.

A movement like seeing the future.

‘But it was quite different from seeing the future.’

Objects and abilities that peek into the future certainly exist.

When the enemy knight was active as a fire spirit and associating with humans, he often saw humans or monsters with the ability to peek into the near future, displaying overwhelming power.

But even those monsters were crushed by overwhelming firepower.

In the face of violence that made any response meaningless.

The beings that break down most easily in such situations are those who see the future.

‘Clearly, I tried to overwhelm him with overwhelming firepower.’

But he lightly brushed off even the superhuman strength that transcended recognition.

As the king of spirits, the origin from which fire first sprang, I intended to burn him to his soul, but even the flames didn’t work.

Superhuman strength is one thing, but the enemy knight’s flames cannot be dealt with from the start.

If you want to stop it, you can’t just see the future.

You have to experience the flames once.

Learning by taking the hit is the only way to overcome the enemy knight’s flames.

‘He dealt with it so casually, as if he had already experienced it hundreds of times.’

The moment I created a hot wind with my fist and sent him flying, his eyes curved into crescents. A look of amusement.

That look was close to a sneer, as if mocking, ‘Is that all you’ve got?’

‘Have I encountered him somewhere before?’

I can’t shake the feeling that I’m fighting someone who knows me well.

But the person who saw the enemy knight in his spirit days no longer exists.

The enemy knight fell into confusion.

He felt a strange presence in his senses.

It was closer to the presence of a spirit than a person.

And it was a fire spirit.

‘My presence?’

The enemy knight, questioning the fact that he felt his presence far away, fell into deep thought.

Thud!

The enemy knight, agonizing without even knowing that five people were impaled on each of his hands, with blood dripping from his armor, eventually left his spot.

‘I’ll see with my own eyes what happened!’

Two people came into the eyes of the enemy knight running at high speed.

The two running above the trees were people the enemy knight knew.

The fox mask and the high elf girl he had just fought.

Finding the two, the enemy knight first looked at the girl.

Elves are the closest race to spirits.

In particular, high elves, the royalty of elves, have a very close relationship with high-ranking spirits. The enemy knight’s body stiffened the moment he saw the girl.

And that stiff body.

‘Ah!’

The sword hanging from Seungwoo’s waist.

Seeing the enemy knight’s Byeolung Sword [a sword made from the remains of a powerful enemy], it was instantly released.

The moment he saw the sword, the enemy knight felt the strange presence he had felt and the questions that filled his head disappear in an instant.

‘I’m sure of it!’

Now I know for sure.

That masked thug knows me very well.

Even without mixing hands and feet while holding the sword, he is already aware of my weaknesses. The enemy knight’s head spun complicatedly.

Unlike humans, his head, which has no limits, soon came to a conclusion.

‘He killed me. I will die to him in the distant future!’

The weapon presumed to be his corpse was screaming.

A sword made by melting the corpse with various by-products.

The spirit core embedded in the center was clearly the enemy knight’s core.

‘Hahahaha.’

The enemy knight held a laughter without intonation.

Because he doesn’t have vocal cords like animals, his laughter only lingered in his head. He knew it looked strange and foolish to himself.

Nevertheless, the enemy knight couldn’t stop laughing.

‘What a pathetic end! Isn’t it?’

─……!

‘To be a body that can only scream. How miserable.’

The spirit core, which had been dead for more than 5 years, had lost its light.

The light has been lost for a long time, but the core still screamed.

The future of the enemy knight, who cannot die even in death.

It was now visible before his eyes.

‘It wouldn’t be polite not to chase after seeing himself in this state.’

Clang!

The joints of the armor moved violently.

The armor on the legs bent, and the joints moved roughly to the next branch.

Repeating that, the huge armor ran through the trees.

It was somewhat understandable that a slender man wearing a fox mask and a small girl were running at high speed through the trees.

“Isn’t that too fast?”

“It is a bit fast.”

“S-Should we catch that guy now?”

“Didn’t you say that there’s no time to waste power where it’s not needed? Then we need to run faster so that the enemy knight can’t catch us.”

Seungwoo and Luna looked back.

There was an armor moving in the sky, stomping on the branches.

“Run faster from here?! I’m testing my limits right now……!”

“Is that the limit? I heard that elves are close to nature and live in the forest all their lives. Don’t elves have their own tree-running technique?”

“I do have it……! That technique is only for elven warriors. A princess like me has never learned it because I live in the highest place!”

“That’s useless.”

Seungwoo clicked his tongue, looking at the high elf who couldn’t climb trees better than him.

For a high elf to be so slow.

“Then I’ll carry you on my back.”

“Yes? W-Wait a minute……! Where are you putting your hands now……!”

“Why, do you not like it? Then can you escape from that metal lump on your own two feet!”

Luna’s face turned to the back in an instant.

There was a red armor running at a terrifying speed.

Every branch he stepped on collapsed.

But the power that the enemy knight put into his feet was so strong that the branches didn’t just break, but weak trees were split in half. Even strong trees were no exception.

If the tree was strong and didn’t split, it bent so much that the roots popped out.

Luna, who watched that terrifying sight, shouted.

“Please take care of me!”

“Okay.”

Seungwoo carried her on his shoulder and ran above the trees.

The difference from the run just now is…

Whoosh!

With one step, he easily passed dozens of trees.

The speed started to pick up more and more.

“W-Wait, you’re overdoing it now……!”

“I haven’t even reached my top speed yet, so shut your mouth. You’ll bite your tongue.”

“Hup!”