Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 379

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius – Episode 379

I didn’t want to see it here (4)

This world was abandoned long ago.

I don’t know by what it was abandoned.

However, one thing was certain: by the time humanity realized it had been abandoned, it was already impossible to turn back.

“Nothing can be turned back?”

The old civilization.

The great mages of the world, who could still use magic directly, came up with a clever plan to avoid the end they faced.

“Then we can maintain the status quo.”

The great mage used all his abilities.

Even if it meant burning his life, he did not stop using magic.

That’s how the smallest world in the world was born: a gap between dimensions. Their city, nestled in that small corner.

In this city-world, no one could use magic.

Magic is a discipline that unfolds through formulas, but its essence is the ability to arbitrarily control the laws of the world. In this absurd world, it was impossible to manifest magic no matter how hard you tried.

It wasn’t just magic.

Too much simply didn’t work.

Even if they somehow avoided the end, they lost too much in the process.

It was the end result of a hastily made world.

The people who moved to the city to prolong their lives fell into despair. They had already lost so much, and they continued to lose even in this city, which they had hoped would be their salvation.

“If there are shortcomings, can’t we just make up for them?”

When everyone was in despair, someone stepped forward and said.

He was the first owner of the Magic Tower, the first Magic Tower Lord.

The Magic Tower, which was advancing research to somehow replace what humanity had lost, finally succeeded in using mechanical devices to perform magic on behalf of humanity.

In that way, the people in the city were gradually regaining what they had lost.

And ultimately,

The Magic Tower, as always,

Tried to recreate what was lost again.

Now, just one thing remained. All that’s left is to create what humanity lost first.

* * *

He spoke like a grandmother reading a fairy tale to the former Magic Tower Lord.

It was like glimpsing a very old fairy tale through the mouth of another.

“What’s it about?” Luna asked, tilting her head.

She didn’t seem to understand what he had just said at all.

On the other hand, Seungwoo kept his mouth shut.

“…….”

‘I think I know what you mean.’

Eve too. This city too. Why the students came to this place.

Who sent them here. Now I have a clue.

“You don’t know this story?” The former Magic Tower Lord reacted to Luna’s words.

The Magic Tower Lord’s expression was distorted with suspicion and astonishment, as if he had seen something unbelievable. It was as if there could be no one in this city who didn’t know this story.

Seeing that reaction, I’m sure.

“That’s impossible. This story is like our instinct. It’s impossible not to know it, and of course you should know it.”

That’s what the ancestors added while reinforcing the laws of this world.

It’s only natural to know.

This means… What if you don’t know these stories!

“You guys are from outside……!”

“Okay. That’s enough.”

“Ugh, ugh……! Ugh, ugh……!” Seungwoo blocked the former Magic Tower Lord’s mouth.

Asking questions is our role, not his.

After blocking his breath several times and making the Magic Tower Lord realize this fact to the bone, we were able to extract one key piece of information from him.

“200 years ago, we realized that what we had lost was God. So we started to create a technology to reconnect with God, but soon we were tied up in the difficult question of how to explain and find the existence of God.”

“And?”

“So, we just decided to create God.”

God.

God was absent in this world.

“More precisely, the center of the world disappeared at some point, just as a cell with its nucleus removed soon dies. A world without a nucleus also perishes quickly.”

Of course, there are creatures in this world that are not like that.

Ha ha ha! The former Magic Tower Lord laughed with satisfaction, as if he had made a truly funny joke. On the other hand, Seungwoo’s head was a little complicated.

‘One thing comes to mind.’

The center of the world. One thing came to Seungwoo’s mind when he heard those words: a translucent blue light window.

“……System.”

God. The center of the world.

It’s not such a grand image, but this world and most of the worlds I’ve seen so far were connected to the system.

Maybe in the students’ world, the system plays a central role.

“System?” The Magic Tower Lord reacted.

“Are you talking about the system? How do you know that?”

“What do you want to ask?”

System? Of course I know.

I learned it from my English teacher when I was young.

When Seungwoo looked at him with cold eyes, the former Magic Tower Lord shook his head.

“No, I’m not asking about the system in the dictionary definition!”

“Then?”

“System! The system we are creating! I’m talking about what we’re creating to replace what we lost first!”

“……Tell me more.”

The Magic Tower Lord let out a sigh of relief.

It seemed that his words had piqued his interest.

‘That’s a relief. It looks like I’ll be alive for a few more minutes.’

The Magic Tower Lord was not attached to death.

He didn’t care when he died. He was a person who had transcended death.

However, there was one regret: the regret of not being able to complete the system in his generation before he died.

‘It’s a pity that I can’t complete the system with my own hands, but it doesn’t matter if the system is completed in my later generations.’

Therefore, this moment was invaluable to him.

The Magic Tower Lord calmed down and organized the information in his head. Where should I start explaining? It’s better to start from the beginning, right?

“728 years ago, the 12th Magic Tower Lord began to contemplate what we lost first and what we would regain last.”

“……Excuse me, what generation are we in now?”

“Now? I was the 142nd, so you are the 143rd Magic Tower Lord.”

“You’re not thinking of explaining all the progress over hundreds of years, are you?” Luna said in a worried tone.

On the other hand, Seungwoo smiled behind her.

‘Still. You wouldn’t do such a crazy thing, would you?’

The research has been going on for over 700 years. You can’t hear it all even if you stay up all night.

“Well, you’re asking the obvious. As a researcher, you should start from the beginning. It’s an unconventional question.”

“……Yes?”

“……Oh, that’s right.”

He was crazy enough to conduct large-scale biological experiments.

You shouldn’t expect common sense.

“So, let me tell you. After the 12th Magic Tower Lord gave up everything……! Wait a minute, what are you guys doing!” The Magic Tower Lord said urgently as he watched us take out our weapons without focusing on his words.

Luna responded with a kind expression.

“The nonsense is a bit long. I’m just going to listen to this point.”

“……What?”

“Thank you for the story. Then go to hell and live in pain forever. Goodbye~.” Luna waved her hand and raised her weapon.

Among the researchers Seungwoo killed, there was one who tried to resist and grabbed a weapon. Luna, who was holding a mace as big as a person – perfect for dealing with a huge researcher – stretched her hand back.

‘I’m going to kill you with one big move.’

The Magic Tower Lord opened his mouth at the murderous intent in her eyes and actions.

“Wa, wait a minute!”

“Bye bye. I’m not going to hell, so this is a farewell forever. I’m glad I won’t have to hear that nonsense anymore.”

‘Hey! Why aren’t you going to hell?!’

‘If you, who are trying to strike people from the skull, don’t go, who will go?!’

The Magic Tower Lord screamed in his heart, but he also knew the truth. Luna’s actions are nothing more than karma.

Maybe he will fall into hell and Luna will go to heaven for the achievement of annihilating the mad scientists and saving countless people.

Of course, he, a researcher, doesn’t believe in things like heaven and hell.

‘I’m not going to think about making artificial angels and artificial gods.’

In the end, the Magic Tower Lord stretched out his neck.

Luna finally asked the neck that was stretched out like a turtle.

“……What are you doing?”

“I’m saying I was wrong. I’m expressing that I want one more chance.”

“Stretching your neck out like a turtle?”

“That’s right.”

“No matter how I look at it, it looks like you’re telling me to kill you quickly.”

Look at that long neck.

It’s a really good target to hit.

I think I can send it in one shot if I swing the mace once.

Luna, who used to be a noble princess but became somewhat sharp and lost her mercy after spending two weeks with Seungwoo, was tempted to swing the mace in her hand.

“It’s not much of a substitute, but you can swing it after you’ve heard everything I have to say.”

“This big and heavy mace?”

“That big and heavy mace.”

“Okay.”

Luna nodded.

Information and swinging a mace at a turtle’s neck.

It would be great if I could do both.

“……Did I say something wrong?”

The Magic Tower Lord’s mind seemed to change when he saw Luna’s satisfied expression.

‘Wouldn’t it have been better to tell you more information and beg you to save me? Now that I think about it, that’s right.’

Just then, Seungwoo patted him on the shoulder.

“I’ll kill you especially neatly. Tell me quickly.”

The Magic Tower Lord’s mind was awakened by Seungwoo’s words.

His death is already inevitable. It’s not something you can resist by resisting. Let’s not beg to be saved in an ugly way.

“……We have been expanding the Magic Tower underground for the project since then.”

The Magic Tower Lord is telling everything he knows.

Whenever his words were about to get too long, Luna raised her mace, and he summarized it in an easy-to-understand way. Thanks to that, I roughly learned about this underground in 30 minutes.

“So you’re saying this underground is a space that has been gradually expanded since 200 years ago, and research to reproduce God is continuing on each floor?”

“There are twice as many researchers underground as there are on the ground.”

“Okay, you understand.”

The human experiments were to reproduce their God.

It seems that they have sought a way to live in their own way, but human experiments are not something that can be forgiven.

─You’ve done it too.

‘What?’

─Human experiment.

‘When did I do human experiments?’

─You often said that as a result of dissecting monsters and demons many times, you learned how to swing a sword to kill them more easily.

‘What are doctors if you follow that logic?’

─Doctors don’t dissect living creatures, though.

‘I did too.’

─Really?

Tamamo stares at Seungwoo.

─Can you say that while looking me in the eye?

……Let’s stop talking about useless things here.

Seungwoo turned his head away.

─Hey.

‘Let’s stop here. There’s a lot to do.’

We don’t have time to waste like this.

It was a lame excuse.

Even if I didn’t step in, Luna was continuing the interrogation.

“Then what about that woman on the lowest floor? An experimental subject? Judging from the fact that she’s not cut into pieces like other experimental subjects, it seems like she’s being treated differently.”

“Ah, that’s the culmination of our research over the past hundreds of years……!”

It was just then.

Kugugugugung!!!

The underground shook, and dust and stone fragments poured down from above.

What on earth is going on?

“Earthquake?”

“This world is so small that there are no plates to support the land. Earthquakes can only be found in records in ancient books hundreds of years ago.”

“Then do you know what it is?”

“How would I know? I’m being interrogated with my limbs tied up, so I can’t use magic.”

“Is that so?”

Then I’ll have to find out myself.

Seungwoo checked the facilities on the 65th floor.

It was a machine I had never seen before, but I felt like I could operate it vaguely. It didn’t seem much different from the research equipment Seungwoo used.

Ting!

Finally, a channel was caught.

The abnormal signal was being caught there.

Let’s see.

“The location is…… 66th floor underground.”

“66th floor.”

“……Wait a minute, what did you say?”

66th floor underground facility explosion.

That was clearly written on the screen.