Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 351

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius – Episode 351

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius 351

Seven Calamities (1)

“W-What’s going on?”

The first thing Luna saw upon waking was a raging fire.

She desperately moved, suffocated by the heat of the flames.

‘The Red Knight’s flames!’

It didn’t take long to recognize the fire’s origin.

A friend to the spirit elves. Calling the Spirit King a friend was a bit much, but a high elf could be considered a friend of equal standing.

Luna had wanted to see him up close.

The war against the corrupted spirits, waged under the banner of the Knights, had reached its tenth year.

She had long abandoned the naive hope that spirits could become friends again. However, as an old acquaintance, she had wanted to see their faces before fighting. But…

“…The flames are fading?”

Seeing the flames slowly dying out, Luna realized that seeing him was no longer a possibility.

The Red Knight’s flames were eternally burning. They burned even without a mount [a creature or object the knight rides or is associated with], and anything touched by the fire wouldn’t go out until it was completely consumed, even if submerged in water. The fact that such a fire was fading meant something had happened to the fire’s source, the Red Knight.

“He finally died,” Luna said in a small voice.

Her assessment of the situation was swift.

The unique iridescent magic of the high elves enveloped the flames. The immense presence that should have been felt beyond this flame was absent.

Clearly, the flames were close, but the warmth they emitted felt like the warmth of a slowly fading corpse.

It might be warm now, but it would be very cold soon.

It was a flame that unconsciously evoked such thoughts.

“There’s not much time left.”

The Red Knight, or rather, the Spirit King of Fire, was Luna’s old friend, but…

With a calm demeanor, she accepted the death of her old friend.

Already, two of the five key figures who had started the war had met their end.

“The Black Knight and the Blue Knight, and—”

—Our mother, the World Tree, who is too difficult to even speak of.

If only these three were eliminated, this war would be over.

Believing this, Luna sensed the presence of the Black Knight and the Blue Knight far away. The two were gradually getting closer to this place.

Considering their speed, they would arrive in an hour.

By then, she had to somehow get rid of the mother tree in front of her.

Luna looked for Seungwoo, about to call out his name to quickly tell him how to cut down the mother tree.

Thump!

Something that shouldn’t have fallen began to fall.

“Huh…?”

Luna, uttering a dumbfounded sound, turned around.

The massive mother tree, large enough to embrace the entire world, was gradually tilting and falling to the ground. This shouldn’t be happening. The mother tree shouldn’t fall like this.

It was necessary to cut down the tree immediately after burning it.

Only by turning the mother tree into a huge source of nutrients and spreading it evenly across this land could they finally become independent from their mother’s embrace.

But for the mother to fall so futilely…

It was something that should never have happened.

“S-Stop…!” Luna shouted desperately and ran.

Sensing the sharp energy of the sword emanating from the mother tree, Seungwoo’s traces, Luna thought that this was happening because of Seungwoo’s swordsmanship.

So she called his name, but…

Crack!

The upper part of the cut mother tree…

As all the branches and twigs were sucked into the black hole, Luna was left speechless. The massive tree disappeared, leaving only a stump, into a hole that looked like a snake’s mouth and stomach.

‘Something is going wrong.’

Luna instinctively stopped shouting.

Hiding next to the stump of the mother tree, Luna began to spread the high elf’s magic like a thin thread to survey the situation. Unfortunately, she was more suited to being a commander who collected information, devised strategies, and led people, rather than a warrior or a magician.

The location and movement of the Black Knight and the Blue Knight.

Seungwoo, holding a sword and exuding a strong presence, and…

She recorded all the traces of the snake-like man who was emitting an ominous and foul presence that was no less than his. That was the best she could do right now.

* * *

“Thank you. Thanks to you, I was able to understand the general situation.”

Me and Simon.

No, me and the system confronted each other.

In the silence where no one spoke, it was I who spoke first.

“What the hell is…?”

“I found out thanks to your slip of the tongue.”

“So explain it so I can understand!”

The system burst into anger.

It didn’t seem like he was particularly angry.

If something called a system was suffering from intermittent explosive disorder, there would be nothing more ridiculous in the world. The system’s anger was simply due to the fact that I was manipulating his feelings at will.

‘Let’s add one more thing for sure.’

Seungwoo listened to the system’s words with one ear and let them flow out the other.

‘The system is clearly connected to everyone and contains all their information, but it seems that there are many things that even he doesn’t know in this place outside the system’s influence.’

And one more thing to consider is…

‘Unlike the rigid name of the system, he clearly has emotions.’

If it’s called a system, you might think of a cold machine.

But just now, he was clearly angry with me. Clear evidence that he has emotions.

Other than this, there are no more things to consider.

‘None.’

I erased all information about the opponent from my head.

I thoroughly analyzed the opponent in front of me so as not to make a wrong judgment due to prejudice.

I, who had nothing more to analyze.

“Shall we think with weapons first?”

I immediately threw a weapon.

As I threw a small metal lump, the system flapped its huge wings and easily dodged it. It wasn’t a spear that I threw, nor even a dagger.

The system smirked at that fact.

“If you’re going to throw a weapon, throw something proper. Are you testing me while ignoring me right now? Do you think you can find out anything by doing that?”

“I threw something proper.”

“You’re completely ignoring me! Do you think my dynamic visual acuity wouldn’t know what you threw?”

The body of a superhuman.

The body that the system was wearing now was the body of someone with a more solid physique than anyone else in the world. It was the system that was handling such a body. It wasn’t difficult to judge what was thrown at him with just his dynamic visual acuity.

A small metal lump.

At first, he suspected it was a grenade or a bomb, but…

There was no ignition device or magic conductor.

Even if there was something inside the metal, there was virtually no way to detonate it. The system glared at me with a scary expression for ignoring him.

“No.”

On the other hand, I was wronged.

“I really threw a bomb properly.”

“What?”

Simon’s gaze, doubting his ears, turned back.

He reconfirmed the metal lump passing by him.

But even after checking again, there was still no ignition device.

Even if that was really a bomb, there was no way to explode it unless there was an impact. He clearly thought so.

Whoosh!

Until the dagger that grazed the system’s ear in an instant made him realize before he started running.

Slice!

The dagger cut the system’s ear.

The situation happened so quickly that the system, even with its monstrous dynamic visual acuity, couldn’t figure out what had happened.

Only the blood flowing from the system’s left ear. The explosion that penetrated the small metal lump and properly targeted the system’s weakness was the only thing that forced him to understand the current situation.

So.

“You threw a dagger from this distance and hit the bomb flying behind it?”

So my ear was cut by the dagger?

The bomb exploded and covered me?

No, really. What kind of tricks are you playing with just a mere human!

Fssssss.

The spear held in the system’s hand wriggled.

The pure white snake returned from the form of a spear to the form of a snake again.

The snake climbed up the system’s arm and settled on his neck. It looked like a pet snake, but…

“Go and bite him.”

Fssssss!

The snake, hearing its master’s command, was no longer the size to be called a pet. The snake that came down from the system’s hand grew huge. It was smaller than the snake that swallowed the world that I had killed before, but its presence was more imposing.

At this level…

‘If we’re talking about the hierarchy of monsters, it’s class 1. Stronger than the other four knights.’

A monster with the power to destroy the world was reflecting sunlight with its pure white scales and staring at me. The unpleasant sensation unique to snake eyes seemed to be analyzing me thoroughly.

‘Really, why are all my fights like this?’

Blink!

The snake with its eyes rolled back thrust its fangs-filled mouth at me.

Familiar memories came to mind at the sight.

There was a beast ridden by a woman called Calamity.

The seven-headed beast had different tendencies for each head, and the head with a particularly nasty temper used to move like that.

“Ah, really.”

Don’t tell me it’s you?

I was judging that there was no possibility in my head, but my body reacted instinctively. I moved according to the movements that I had forcibly stuffed into my body to survive in those days. As I moved my legs with somewhat complex movements…

Thump!

Thump! Thump!

The snake slammed its head into the spot where I was standing.

It’s not self-harm. It’s just that the snake is attacking the location where I was with a half-beat delay. Seeing that the way it attacks is exactly the same as the beast of the Calamity, are you also a monster that imitates that guy?

“Ha. Damn it.”

Eve, my old friend.

If my thoughts are correct.

You will surely die if I get out of here alive.

“Are you telling me I really have to face all seven calamities?”

The Divine Tree, Adam, and the Calamity.

These three are all objects that were called calamities.

Although Adam’s contents have been changed to the system that was active as Simon.

The beast of the Calamity is attacking me persistently instead of the Calamity, but it is certain that it is related to the Calamity. Then, does that mean that the final boss that Eunho was talking about is not one, but facing all seven of them?

‘It seems to be right in the circumstances, but…’

If fighting the seven monsters related to the seven calamities is really the final boss… someone please pray for my soul.

—Aren’t you saying too weak words without even fighting?

‘Weak words?’

—Yes, you haven’t even fought properly yet. Still, with your skills, wouldn’t you have enough chances of winning, assuming you fight to the death?

‘Chances of winning?’

Seungwoo’s eyes darkened at Tamamo’s words.

As if telling her not to say ridiculous things.

His lifeless pupils with a completely dead expression stared at her.

“Even after seeing that, you’re saying there’s a chance of winning? Can you guarantee it?”

—Don’t tell me that’s also the work of the calamity?

“The beast of the Calamity raised the sea water, and the lightning is the work of the dull god. Oh my god, I can’t believe I’m going to see that crazy technique again.”

I just remember it vividly.

How many people died from each of those techniques.

I just can’t get the old thoughts out of my head.

But you know what? I’d rather just move according to my memories.

“The monsters that used to be called calamities are joining forces.”

The sea and the lightning became one in the name of a tornado.

The combined attack of the two calamities.

The huge tornado created in that way pulverized everything and advanced towards me. Even a natural disaster was not that powerful.

You would lose your life just by being swept away nearby.

Actually.

In the process of moving, the tornado began to turn red, wondering what it had swallowed. Some small pieces of meat were floating in the tornado.

The wind that mercilessly shreds flesh and bones is coming towards me.