Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 392

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius – Episode 392

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius 392

What is that? (2)

‘Let’s not rely on the sword.’

Recently, I’ve been relying on the sword too much, but my talent is now optimized for casting magic.

‘Lay out all the cards I have.’

Scatter poison everywhere, counter incomprehensible attacks by ‘adapting,’ and treat precious and common weapons as disposable. Exploit Eve’s weaknesses.

Thud!

I kicked off the ground.

At that moment, the platform made of flames responded to my step.

Whoosh!

The flames rose, obscuring my position and Eve’s vision.

Soon, they flickered like a mirage and began to absorb the magic in the air. Eve took a step back, wary.

‘Mana Drain.’

The ability to absorb energy.

That ability was inherent in the flames.

‘Absorbing the energy in the air is fine, I guess.’

The energy of nature, which martial artists usually call natural energy [Ki or Qi], was not as simple as it sounded.

Like the air that makes up the atmosphere, natural energy, which means the energy of nature, seems very pure, but it comprises various elements.

Therefore, it is not easy to absorb and handle natural energy.

However, that doesn’t mean that no one can handle it.

Even Eve could freely handle natural energy.

She even controlled all the magic that made up this world. It was natural that she wasn’t very interested in who handled natural energy.

That is, unless the opponent tried to absorb her magic along with the natural energy.

“Who are you?”

“Me? I am me.”

“Don’t play games. What exactly is your identity?”

“Speaking of which, aren’t you the one whose identity is most suspicious?”

She was asleep in a glass tube, then suddenly woke up, soared into the sky, and controlled all the magic that makes up the world? She even dropped us, who were floating in the air, into the tower, where we found a mountain of corpses that looked exactly like her.

Right now, the most suspicious person in many ways was Eve.

“But I know your identity.”

Not really to me, though.

“At first, she was a clone made by replicating Hawa, but after hundreds of years of repeated research, she became an independent homunculus [artificial human] who didn’t resemble her at all.”

“……You.”

“They intended to create her as a perfect system artificial intelligence, but no matter how much the research progressed, it didn’t improve, so they created over thousands of failures.”

“……You!”

“Oh, and I found your identification number too.”

Clatter.

I took something out of my pocket.

A name tag I found on the same floor as the journal.

It said [Y-20].

“I thought it was strange that it was wet, but after analyzing the water, I understood.”

Various nutrients were detected in the solution.

Most of them were nutrients needed for people to live.

“This is your identification number that was put in the glass tube with you, right?”

“…….”

There was no answer.

But silence is an answer, and I felt that she had agreed.

“Alphabet and number.”

It’s also amazing that there are alphabets in this world.

But right now, there was something even more amazing than that.

“How do you count this?”

“……!”

“The number of alphabets is 26. So, will the numbers go up to 26 too?”

Smiling lightly, I took more name tags out of my pocket.

Clatter. Clatter. Clatter.

There were so many name tags that they could all be hung on ten fingers.

“Take a look at this.”

I threw one of the name tags in front of her.

Of course, since it was in the sky, the name tag fell to the ground in a parabola.

[F-984]

Eve’s transcendental vision easily captured the alphabet and number written there just before the name tag fell. After confirming this, I opened my mouth.

“If it says 984, that means you were the 984th homunculus to be assigned F, right?”

So, does that mean that about 1,000 Eves were created as test subjects for each alphabet? That could be the case.

But if there are Eves with alphabets in their identification numbers, wouldn’t there be Eves with something other than alphabets in front of their numbers?

‘Actually, I don’t know that far.’

From what number to what number Eve exists.

To confirm that, I would have to read all the project progress documents stored on the 57th basement floor, not the research journal. All those documents that occupy the entire 57th floor because the project has been going on for hundreds of years.

‘I’d rather try to provoke Eve than read that.’

Fortunately, my guess seemed to be correct.

After throwing the name tag and mentioning that Eve was a created being, Eve, standing in front of her, exuded hostility that was incomparable to before.

I said to her cautiously.

“……You.”

The Eve I knew was not the type of person who would get angry or frustrated that she was a homunculus. The Eve in front of me was the same yet clearly different from that Eve, so I looked at the man she was holding onto with a hopeful heart.

“That guy doesn’t know you’re a homunculus.”

“……! How did you know that?”

Hmm? I just tried to provoke her with this too?

It seems I guessed the reason why she was exuding hostility.

‘My accuracy is good today.’

I looked at Eve’s surprised expression and then looked at Simon next to her.

Simon or Adam. No, why does he have two names?

I should just call him Adam from now on.

‘The journal said that they created Eve as a system artificial intelligence, but.’

The actual system entity that I experienced.

The artificial intelligence was Adam, not Eve.

I wondered what on earth had happened to switch their positions. Eve quickly moved and broke the sword in my hand.

It was an attack that took advantage of my momentary distraction.

When I thought about why she didn’t aim for my neck but for my sword, I realized that I had cut off her arm with my sword, and if she aimed for my neck, I would obviously react reflexively, so she aimed for my sword.

“Sorry, but I’m a mage now.”

Magic is my main focus now, not the sword.

“!”

It was then.

I raised my hand above my head.

Thud!

Eve’s fist aimed for my head.

Then, Eve threw me to the ground.

Whether she had enhanced her physical abilities with magic, my body fell quickly.

To fall with this much acceleration, she must have invested a considerable amount of magic into her strength. Of course, compared to Eve’s total magic power that encompasses the entire world, it was only a tiny amount.

The fact that she, who efficiently cast any magic, poured out magic so urgently meant that things were going awry.

“It seems like she noticed something.”

I’ve already finished preparing.

Something black shadow stretched out behind Eve.

“I had a hard time waiting for 10 minutes.”

This place was high in the sky.

It was a place where shadows were difficult to cast.

When Eve raised her head, she saw a big-eared woman reaching out to her. A person she remembered seeing. Yes, that was the person who was riding on the flames when that man shaped the flames and flew towards her.

‘Didn’t she fall and die?’

I didn’t see her and there was no sign of her, so I thought she was dead.

‘……It doesn’t matter.’

If she was alive, I could just kill her now.

Eve prepared magic without hesitation.

The most powerful magic she could unleash.

‘Yes, like the magic of the girl and the man I just saw.’

I should unleash something like that.

Whoosh!

Flames burning in the air.

The flames burned green and moved as vividly as if they were alive, gradually increasing their size. Flashes flickered above it.

Flame and light.

Eve combined those two attributes.

“Flames as fast as flashing light.”

Moreover, the flames were not just any flames.

She referred to his strange fire a lot while fighting the man.

Giving mass to the flames, or melting curses to make them burn purple, etc. He showed a lot with just one flame.

“Goodbye.”

Because I mixed poison and necromancy into the flames.

You will die as soon as you touch it.

Eve shot the flames at Luna, who was aiming for her back, without hesitation.

────!

The green flames were shot upwards.

Not flames that flickered and burned.

The flames, shot like a giant ray of heat, stretched out and left green smoke in their wake. It was the residue of the deadly poison mixed in the flames.

Because she mixed in a deadly poison, deadly poison remained even in the place where the flames passed.

She fired a series of inefficient, slightly excessive attacks.

‘It wasn’t like me.’

It was an inefficient action, unlike someone who would soon become the owner of the system.

Ha, Eve sighed and looked down at the ground, moving her magic again.

‘Since he’s someone who survived even after being dropped into the tower once.’

He would survive no matter how hard I threw him.

Let’s launch an attack that only focuses on efficiency this time.

I only need to attack one person, so I’ll select a magic that targets individuals.

The speed must be so fast that it cannot be avoided, so if possible, I will gather light at one point and shoot it.

Sparkle.

Light condensed in Eve’s hand.

Using the feeling she had when she created the green flames, she aimed an attack made only of light at the man who was falling to the ground.

“—Where did he go?”

The man, who should have been falling, disappeared from her sight and even disappeared from Eve’s range of perception. The range she could perceive was the entire small world.

The city was already in Eve’s grasp.

The fact that he was not in this city meant.

‘Another dimension?’

Eve began to calculate based on all possible scenarios.

The answer was quickly derived. Since her range of perception was limited to this world, the fact that she could not perceive the man meant that he was not in this world.

Indeed, it was the speed worthy of a woman created as a system artificial intelligence.

However, the fact that she could not do anything about the phenomenon that would follow, just by realizing it quickly, held Eve back.

Thud!

The sound of piercing sharp flesh.

Eve turned her head back at the familiar pain. More precisely, she looked at her heel.

A heel was pierced by something huge.

“Hello.”

The woman greeted Eve.

The woman, who had been blown away by the green flames, was dangling from her heel with thorns stuck in it. What on earth is this—!

“You must be wondering what’s going on, right?”

“!!!”

“It’s simple.”

Thud!

A sword cut through the flesh and entered.

The black sword, which properly aimed for the gap, pierced Eve’s abdomen.

“Ah, I was going to aim for the heart.”

She avoided it again with her intuition.

Not animalistic reflexes, but avoided it with just intuition.

It’s a little disappointing, but so what.

“I can just try again.”

“Stop right there!”

Eve shouted loudly.

A mantra, the words themselves bound my body like a sophisticated magic.

It’s quite impressive. It’s hard to find this level among magic that is activated through language. Even I often used ‘activation words’ that are activated through language, but it was not as powerful as this.

However, even with such a powerful mantra, I moved freely and hid myself from her sight.

As if I had disappeared from this world.