Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 383

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius – Episode 383

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius 383

Moment Without Memory (3)

“What’s that in the sky?”

“Up there? Oh, that?”

Lee Ji shrugged and replied to Seo Yerin’s question.

“That’s the guy we missed this morning. You can tell just by looking.”

“There’s a woman next to him too. Is she his girlfriend?”

“Don’t say ridiculous things. Take a closer look at that woman’s magic pattern. Doesn’t it consist of roughly thousands of patterns?”

Everyone looked up at the sky at Isabel’s last words.

There, a pair of huge wings made of photons spread wide to both sides. The magic patterns that make up the wings are unusual.

“Is it even possible for that many patterns to be contained in one form without colliding? Of course, Professor Nam Hwayeon and Teacher can do it, but still…”

“Well, it’s impossible in common sense. Unless you have a quantum computer in your head.”

“In that sense, those two are really unlike humans in many ways.”

How can a person calculate that many formulas and variables in their head?

Everyone nodded at Lee Ji’s words.

Nam Hwayeon and Baek Seungwoo are clearly strange people.

A genius who is born once every thousands of years is born in the same era, in the same country, and builds a master-disciple relationship.

This alone is already an oversaturation of geniuses.

Even if it’s a different dimension, it’s hard to imagine that there is a genius of the same level as them in this small city.

“That’s probably not a human, right?”

Lee Ji asked cautiously.

Everyone seemed to have the same thought as her, seeking agreement.

The woman standing at the center of the wings. And the man standing next to her.

The man was clearly the researcher from the magic tower basement they had secretly kidnapped last night.

When they kidnapped and tied him up, they didn’t feel any special magic waves at all.

Lee Ji concluded that the woman alone created those wings.

“It seems like it?”

Isis agreed with the opinion.

“The calculation speed of all magic patterns is constant without even a single error. I can do it with magic patterns of about two digits, and Professor Nam Hwayeon and Seungwoo Teacher can calculate magic patterns of more than three digits without any errors.”

“But from four digits, it’s a bit no.”

“Well, it can’t be helped. If you cleverly mix hundreds of magic patterns into magic, the opponent cannot grasp the intention contained in the magic, nor can they reverse engineer it.”

Isabel said firmly.

“From four digits, it’s a matter of efficiency. Hundreds are theoretically efficient enough, but beyond that, the efficiency is terrible compared to the magic power and mental power invested.”

“That’s right. Furthermore, if thousands of magic patterns are mixed into one magic, the patterns become monotonous in the middle, giving the magic a breakthrough.”

Isabel and Isis agreed.

“But there are no holes in that magic.”

“The calculation ability itself is a monster. If there are no flaws in those many patterns, it means that there is no problem even if you waste mental power in that way.”

“Artificial human?”

“There’s a chance that she wasn’t human from birth.”

“Then a homunculus? No. There’s a possibility that it’s a machine.”

My head is complicated.

All sorts of possibilities flashed through my head, but there was no way to figure out what that woman’s identity was. Eventually, they turned their gaze to the side.

Everyone’s eyes were on the man.

His name was definitely Simon. No, was it Adam?

“Simon Adam? Adam Simon? I don’t know which is the first name and which is the last name.”

“Actually, what does it matter what the name is?”

We can just call him whatever we want.

That’s right.

Isabel nodded and raised her magic power.

The golden magic power, shining brightly, wrapped around her body.

The golden magic power can become a shield that surrounds Isabel and her party, or it can block or intercept the attacks of the two in the sky. She was ready to do anything.

It was a warm-up exercise to heat up her body so that she could react immediately if the woman did anything.

“What? Are you going to attack right away? Fighting right now is a bit… I think we all need to prepare.”

“I’m not thinking of fighting right away either. But we have to prepare.”

“Oh my god, how can you pour so much magic power into preparation? With this much magic power, about five A-class players would have to empty their magic power tanks to barely get that amount.”

“Not really? I can recover this much magic power just by absorbing the surrounding light.”

“Even with sunlight?”

“If it’s a cloudless day, 10 minutes is enough for the magic power I just consumed.”

“Hey. Are you a solar panel?”

“Solar panel? My energy efficiency is tens of thousands of times better than that.”

The students joked and prepared themselves.

Lee Ji took out a shield and an axe, and took out a belt with potion bundles already inserted from her backpack and put it on.

Armed in advance because she didn’t know when and how she would fight.

Other students quickly took out weapons and consumables from their luggage and prepared, and heated up their magic power appropriately to be fully prepared to fight.

A preparation speed several times faster than that of active players.

The students, who didn’t even spend a minute like that, watched the sky carefully.

It was at that moment.

Whoosh!!!

A flame soared from the magic tower. A flame resembling a ship.

The ship, radiating intense flames from the bottom, flew high into the sky and quickly reached the vicinity of the two men and women.

Overwhelming control over fire magic.

Isabel muttered as she watched the scene.

“…Teacher?”

The person the students were so eager to find was there now.

* * *

─How is it, are you going to fight?

Baek Seungwoo flew into the sky on the overflowing flames.

Seungwoo, who had inspected the magic circuit that had been broken and left unattended for a long time, stared intently at the sky and slowly warmed up his body.

A warm-up that clearly showed his intention to fight.

Vast magic powers circulated swiftly over the long-dormant magic circuit, emitting powerful magic waves.

“…I’m not thinking of fighting yet.”

Seungwoo hesitated for a moment and gave an answer. He didn’t want to fight ‘yet’, not even a tiny bit.

She resembled Eve.

He had many things he wanted to ask, and he desperately wanted to solve the problem through dialogue if possible.

─You killed so many people in the magic tower?

“The guys in the basement deserve to die.”

─Then what about the people above?

“…….”

─You felt it as you flew at high speed from the lowest floor to the top floor. The fact that everyone in the tower is dead.

At least hundreds of researchers were shattered by the shockwave that Eve emitted as she broke through the magic tower.

Too many people died to solve it through dialogue. But Seungwoo still had something to say.

“It’s not like many people died.”

─That’s true.

Tamamo admitted.

She is beautiful enough to stimulate the affection of a man with a wife, but Tamamo was a woman famous for being cruel in history. Even if you add the killings she committed under her other names, the number increases exponentially.

Hundreds of lives are just ants in front of Tamamo.

And Seungwoo also took many lives.

Under the pretext of benefiting humanity, Seungwoo annihilated countless monsters. The combination of Seungwoo, who possessed powerful wide-area skills, and the endless breeding power of the monsters, quickly turned the mountains and rivers into a sea of blood.

It wasn’t just monsters.

If there were humans who betrayed humanity, he killed them.

If there was a suitable area for a base, he cut down mountains and carved out rivers.

“At least she had a justification.”

A woman who looks like Eve. No, let’s just call her Eve now.

After reading all the research records below, Seungwoo concluded that Eve was justified in killing everyone in this tower.

“What justification?”

“Revenge.”

“Revenge? I don’t understand.”

“Revenge for being born. Revenge for not being born. Revenge for conducting human experiments on her.”

Eve’s revenge had three justifications.

Tamamo widened her eyes and nodded at those words, while Luna frowned, saying she couldn’t understand at all.

It seems she doesn’t have any experience with such cases.

Seungwoo held out three fingers to Luna.

“Listen carefully. Does Eve look like a human to you?”

“…No.”

Luna looked at Eve.

It was a transcendent beauty that did not exist in the human world.

How could that be a human?

A goddess. No, it must be an angel.

She even has a pair of white, shining wings.

“I’m not talking about appearance, you idiot.”

Thud!

Seungwoo clenched his fist and hit Luna’s head.

Luna, who was hit on the head with a little force, shed tears and raised her voice to Seungwoo.

“Ah! Why are you hitting me!”

“I was bewitched. Bewitched.”

“Bewitched? There’s a Gumiho [a nine-tailed fox spirit known for its bewitching abilities] famous for being good at bewitching people right in front of me. And one more as a ghost.”

“I was bewitched by Eve’s appearance. You weren’t even aware of it?”

“I’m bewitched by that woman. I’m heterosexual. I like men! No matter how pretty a woman is, I wouldn’t be interested…”

“This is wrong.”

She’s completely bewitched.

Seungwoo moved some of the flames under his feet to Luna with a ‘can’t be helped’ mindset. Luna, startled by the flames that were burning fiercely, struggled, but stopped moving after confirming that the flames were not burning her.

When all the flames subsided, she widened her eyes and looked at Seungwoo.

“…Su-nim [Korean honorific title, similar to ‘master’ or ‘teacher’].”

“Why?”

“What just happened to me?”

Luna looked like she couldn’t understand.

─Why does she look so surprised?

‘Because she can’t even recognize it.’

─She didn’t recognize it? She should be able to recognize it herself when she’s in that state?

‘Yeah. She must be very surprised. Let’s talk a little quieter.’

I can’t talk proudly in front of someone who has just been fascinated.

Seungwoo pointed to Eve, who was spreading her wings gracefully at a considerably higher position than them even though he had risen high into the sky, and murmured.

‘Fascination. The Eve I know also had that ability.’

─Fascination?

At those words, Tamamo looked back at herself.

─I didn’t feel anything?

‘Me too. Well, we are also a race that belongs to the fascinating side, not the fascinated side, and our mental power is high because our level is high.’

The ability to unconditionally impress people who are lower than you.

It’s not a terrifying ability like brainwashing, and it’s actually ambiguous to call it fascination, but the point is that it unconditionally impresses people who are lower than you.

The world I grew up in.

There, Eve is the only magician and the great archmage, and her only rival is me.

And the Eve in front of me.

‘She looks strong.’

What is that? She seems to have been trapped in a glass tube for quite a long time, but why is she so energetic? If she does well, she will not only destroy this city, but also wipe it all out.

─Wait a minute, unconditional?

‘Yeah. Isn’t it a scam?’

Tamamo was startled.

Even she, a Gumiho, had never heard of such a fascination ability.

Seungwoo nodded at her attitude and understood, while he smiled bitterly because he understood her through the research logs.

─What kind of fraudulent ability is that?

‘If you think about it, it’s natural.’

A new god to be born.

She has to clear away the faiths that have long been rooted in many dying dimensions, take her place as the only faith, and lead people to salvation, but what’s the use if she doesn’t have charm?