Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 355

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius – Episode 355

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius 355

Seven Calamities (5)

Seungwoo swings his sword, but the System blocks it.

When the System fully extends its wings and launches an attack, he desperately dodges.

The scales didn’t tip to either side, but it was obvious who would be at an advantage if things continued this way.

This fight is unfairly disadvantageous for Seungwoo.

‘When am I going to deal with all of these?’

He killed the Beast of Lust.

He tied up all the roots of the Divine Tree remaining in the ground.

He even performed a simplified seal to prevent it from escaping, either with help or on its own. With this, the Divine Tree could no longer interfere in the fight.

A monster that looked like a giant sea serpent.

The monster that emitted fog from its body and disturbed my nerves also turned into the rust of the sword. At this moment, Seungwoo had single-handedly captured as many as three calamities. Considering the past when humanity risked their lives to face each calamity, this was an unbelievable achievement.

Even though he accomplished it, it doesn’t feel real.

However, despite such achievements, Seungwoo’s expression didn’t brighten.

‘I killed three of them.’

Three out of seven.

It wasn’t a number that could be neatly divided in half since it was odd, but he had exhausted all his stamina, energy, and mana, except for the strength to stand, in capturing less than half of the calamities.

He could somehow replenish his mana by borrowing the power of the potions stored in the sub-space within the ring, but stamina and energy were the problem.

His body wouldn’t move anymore.

‘This is driving me crazy.’

The calamities only suffered critical injuries even when hit by Seungwoo’s attacks.

If he focused on defense, he could block them sufficiently.

However, in Seungwoo’s case, for his body, made of fragile human flesh and bones, even the slightest attack from the calamities was a critical injury. There was no option but to avoid every attack.

Thanks to this, Seungwoo was gasping for breath, struggling to hold onto his consciousness before he was about to fly away. It seems his body had reached its limit. His mind was turning white, and his consciousness flickered.

“Ah……! Seriously!”

Seungwoo rarely expressed his annoyance so openly.

Even Seungwoo, who was usually detached from everything, couldn’t remain calm in this situation. This situation far exceeded his expectations.

The existence of the final boss in this world rendered all the preparations Seungwoo had made meaningless.

‘Actually, I did really well considering this. I did well, but……!’

Considering that preparations wouldn’t be enough, I achieved the best results I could. Now there are four calamities left.

But, well.

He no longer had the strength to simultaneously face the ones called the third, fourth, sixth, and seventh calamities.

‘I knew it wouldn’t be easy, but this is a bit much.’

The calamities were superior to Seungwoo in many ways.

They had a larger number, which was the most basic, and their physical abilities were also superior.

Stamina that wouldn’t die no matter how much they were cut.

Strength and mass that made each movement greatly shake the ground.

It was true that there was a big difference in physique between humans and magical creatures, but this difference was a bit too much. And the calamities each possessed their own unique powers.

Depending on the individual, some calamities had multiple powers, and some, like the fourth calamity, could summon a force of hundreds of thousands in case of emergency and engage in a prolonged battle, although it wasn’t visible yet.

‘On the other hand, all I have are skills.’

If I had to add, Seungwoo’s knowledge and experience were also superior compared to the other calamities, but it wasn’t very important. No matter how smart a person’s head is, they are helpless in front of a gorilla without any special weapons.

‘Turn left to lure the fourth calamity and wipe them out all at once.’

Seungwoo instantly deployed all sorts of tactics with quick judgment.

So far, he had avoided all attacks with excellent situational judgment and defeated three calamities with tactics.

Even if seven calamities that could destroy a world gathered, it was impossible to lightly trample on a swordsman who had overcome such difficulties several times.

But conversely.

It was also impossible for Seungwoo to face seven calamities at the same time.

Thwack!

A huge object struck Seungwoo.

His consciousness faded from the attack that accurately targeted his abdomen.

Thanks to increasing his durability with mana, his body didn’t explode, but the inside must have burst like rotten fruit.

“Damn…… it!”

Just as Seungwoo spat out a curse that surged from his core and gripped his sword.

This time, something sharp rushed in from a different angle.

It was the rain of feathers shot from the wings of the body ‘Adam’ occupied by the System, which looked like white daggers.

Thwack thwack thwack thwack!

The rain of feathers that tore even steel poured down like a shower.

“I wonder where he dodged to?”

The System muttered quietly.

Of course, it didn’t think that this attack would finish Seungwoo. 10 minutes. In just 10 minutes since starting the fight with Seungwoo, three calamities had fallen.

Although one of them was weakened because the System directly pulled out and absorbed the upper part of the tree, the status of the calamity was not damaged.

The Divine Tree is strong even without branches.

Because her true power comes from the roots.

Yet, she died along with the other calamities.

The System thought that Seungwoo would have avoided this attack.

Or blocked it.

The moment it tried to quickly sense Seungwoo and launch another attack.

Stab!

The sword pierced the System’s chest.

“……Ha.”

The System made a sound like air escaping.

When he turned his head, he could see a Yaksha [a type of powerful, often malevolent, spirit in Hindu and Buddhist mythology] whose face was covered in blood due to the blood flowing from his forehead.

“You’re quite fast.”

Seungwoo pierced the System’s chest from behind.

The sword immediately cut through his heart and shredded his organs.

But the System didn’t die. Dying from a stabbed heart is for lowly creatures. Even humans like Seungwoo had their organs burst but were fighting hard.

He even succeeded in such a sharp and precise attack.

To think he was still hiding this speed.

“Amazing.”

It was pure admiration.

But.

“To fight so desperately even with a dying body.”

Seungwoo was an individual, and the System was a multitude.

Seungwoo, who noticed the strange sign, quickly abandoned his sword and ran away.

The sword was still stuck in the System’s chest.

However, the wound in the chest was healing at a rapid pace.

The speed was so fast that the body completed the restoration on its own with the sword still stuck in it. Eventually, the System pulled out the sword stuck in its chest. The process of pulling out the sword was quite stiff because the wound had healed.

Seungwoo, who couldn’t witness that gruesome sight, was busy dodging the attacks flying towards him.

“Ah, I should have neutralized it with that just now.”

Seungwoo, who failed the attack, moved at high speed and pondered.

How do I kill the remaining four?

A situation with no answer. I was too weak to do anything.

‘Should I run away?’

If I run away, where should I run to?

Somewhere in this world? Or the world in Eve’s novel?

No, in the first place.

‘Can I escape from the calamities?’

Seungwoo, who was running out of strength, and the calamities, who were still intact even after suffering critical injuries.

At that moment when he didn’t know what to do.

“Excuse me for a moment!”

“You……!”

Clutch!

A small, delicate hand grabbed my shoulder from behind.

When I scattered mana very widely to not miss the movements of the calamity from a blind spot a moment ago, I knew that Luna had woken up.

So I tried not to move towards her as much as possible.

“You’re not thinking of fighting more with this body, are you?”

I couldn’t believe Luna would come towards me.

Luna grabbed my shoulder with her right hand and took out a five-colored jewel from her chest with her left hand. I could tell as soon as I saw it. A device with space-time magic built in to move to the entered coordinates.

‘Such devices are supposed to break down or not work in these situations.’

Space-time magic was magic where the accuracy of the coordinates and a stable surrounding environment were important. It was difficult to manipulate easily if even a small anomaly occurred around the area where you were trying to cast the magic.

Not to mention, in cases like now, where the mana concentration in the atmosphere was so thick that it felt like your windpipe would tear due to the aftermath of all sorts of spells and powers.

That can never be used.

Seungwoo, who was so sure, saw the jewel reflecting light and sparkling. A jewel that sparkled so much that it hurt his eyes.

Could it be that. Is it working to move towards the correct coordinates right now?

‘Could it be?’

Seungwoo looked at the jewel again.

A beautiful five-colored jewel.

Looking closely at the jewel that any wealthy person would want to have, it was a jewel that was not made by processing a natural state but was artificially made from the beginning.

The same logic as making diamonds from graphite.

But what was used here was not graphite but charcoal.

That too.

‘A jewel made by directly processing charcoal made by burning the Divine Tree.’

Leaving aside how they made a jewel from charcoal.

A jewel made by processing the Divine Tree.

Seungwoo’s eyes were fixed on the jewel and suddenly turned to the calamities in front of him.

‘If it’s an object made with beings of the same level as them.’

It’s on a different level from devices that can be obtained just by paying money.

This will definitely work.

Grab!

Seungwoo snatched the jewel from Luna’s hand.

“What are you doing!”

“Do you think I’d let a guy who can’t even fix coordinates use such a device?”

Seungwoo put the jewel on his left hand and moved his five fingers busily.

Seungwoo, who completely rewrote the coordinates contained in the five-colored jewel, quickly deployed the built-in magic. Just before the calamity unleashed an attack that transcended the speed of sound.

“…….”

Seungwoo smiled as if to say goodbye and left the battlefield.

Boom!

A huge hand whipped like a whip and struck the ground where Seungwoo was standing.

The earthquake was so powerful that a large earthquake occurred centered on the struck ground.

However, there were no casualties. Because what the calamity struck was not Seungwoo but the afterimage he left behind while teleporting.

The fight briefly entered a lull.

* * *

“What on earth were you thinking, fighting those monsters?!”

Luna, who deployed the jewel, pulled me into a dimensional gap created in the process of the Divine Tree extending its roots to numerous worlds. I thought I could take a breather, but after hearing Luna’s nagging, it seems that won’t be the case.

“Do you think I wanted to fight?”

“Then you should have run away!”

“By myself? Against the seven calamities?”

If those seven spread a net to catch me.

Ah, I just imagined it, and it’s terrible.

It would be a miracle if I escaped with all my limbs intact. It’s a miracle even if I escape with all my limbs cut off. Because most likely, I won’t survive.

“What are you talking about……! Of course, I should have taken me with you!”

“…….”

“How could you think of running away alone?”

I stared at Luna silently.

It seems like she missed the point.

“……I didn’t run away.”

With those words, I closed my ears.

After that, Luna continued to chatter noisily.

My consciousness, which was quietly listening to that voice, slowly sank below the surface of the water.

I need a little rest.