Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 402

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius – Episode 402

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius 402

Towards the End (2)

“No, my wings!”

“What is this pigeon?”

“An angel?”

“Definitely divine? I feel something holy.”

“Well, isn’t it a bit weak for that?”

“Ah, you’re right.”

Tap, tap.

The students taunted the angel, poking at the shoulder blades connected to the wings with the tips of their spears, and cutting off the feathers one by one with their swords.

“The feathers are really big. What if we make pillows or blankets with them?”

“……Why not make decorations instead?”

“As souvenirs? Oh, feathers of this size could be worth money…….”

“Since they feel divine and holy. If we sell them to a religious group, we could make a lot of money.”

“We could all become rich together.”

At the students’ feet lay the dead Valkyries.

The blood spilled by the Valkyries soaked the floor.

A scene resembling a painting depicting hell.

“Now that the vanguard has arrived, it’s our rearguard’s turn…….”

“Hmm, the winged ones weren’t just one unit.”

Swishhhhh.

Icy energy emanated from Isis’s body.

The chill, exquisitely avoiding her comrades, spread in all directions.

It was so cold that the blood and corpses on the floor instantly froze solid. Isabel gestured to Isis.

“How’s your total mana?”

“Enough. I’ve recovered all the mana I used to create the Ice Tower.”

“Use it sparingly. There’s a limit to how much mana you can replenish with potions.”

“Thanks for the concern. I’ll keep that in mind. But there’s no need.”

Snap!

Isis snapped her fingers.

The blood pooled on the floor moved like snakes, ensnaring the Valkyries in the sky.

“Everyone! Deploy the runes!”

“That’s a wicked magic that uses the blood of our brethren!”

“Attack without mercy! It is the order of the gods!”

Strange characters emerged from the Valkyries’ bodies.

Rune letters. The oldest magic script, originating from the Valkyries.

In modern times, it is called the Primordial Rune, the Rune of Origin, and the ancient mystery that even few people have mastered reached out to them.

Clang!

The Valkyries instantly equipped themselves with golden armor.

Golden armor. Golden shields. Golden spears and swords.

Armed with weapons made of vast divinity and magic, they looked like an invincible army.

“What, isn’t that Isis’s specialty?”

Lee Ji, who had frowned at the unusual surge of magic, suddenly smiled brightly.

“That’s why I told you. There’s no need to conserve mana or potions.”

Isis loosened her wrists.

From the moment the Valkyries used rune magic, Isis became the protagonist of this battlefield. A chill swept from her hands.

“Should I assist you with some light?”

“No, it’s okay. I’m enough on my own.”

The surging chill began to condense on her hands.

The chill formed a sphere, drawing a small circle.

Two glass-like transparent spheres were created in both hands.

They looked like snow globes.

Inside the spherical glass bottles, a blizzard of extreme cold raged.

The storm could not be felt from the outside.

“Here I go.”

Isis threw the spheres in her hands.

Bang!

The spheres flew quickly like shot puts, probably because she had enhanced her body with magic.

It was considerable throwing power that one would not expect from a mage.

“That human. Wasn’t she a mage? What kind of strength is that?”

“Stop talking nonsense! Raise your shields to block it.”

The Valkyries doubted their eyes.

In their common sense, mages were weak glass cannons [characters who deal high damage but have low defense].

They were weaklings who needed to be protected by the vanguard.

In fact, looking at the Valkyries’ formation, women armed with armor and shields stood in the front ranks, and women holding golden rods that looked like staves or spears stood in the rear ranks.

“Everyone! Deploy the barrier!”

Clang clang clang!

The Valkyries in the front row all raised their shields.

The densely packed shields blocked the entire sky.

“You can’t block it with that.”

The spheres flying like shot puts crashed into the shields.

Faaaaang!!!

A tearing sound was heard as the massive barrier was ripped apart.

The Valkyries who blocked the spheres head-on were crushed into chunks of meat by the force of the spheres, shields and all. The Valkyries barely had time to swallow their saliva at the terrifying throwing power.

Shatter!

The spheres that had crushed the shields shattered.

At that moment, as the spheres shattered, a storm of cold swept through the Valkyrie ranks.

The blood that had flowed from the first two Valkyries to die froze.

The frozen blood became sharp, hard ice, becoming daggers that sought out the gaps in the Valkyries’ defenses within the storm.

“Kyaaaaak! Blood, blood!”

“Be careful of areas like your armpits and ankles!”

“Commander! Unexpected attacks are tearing apart the exposed skin of the Valkyries!”

“I know! I know that too!”

The Valkyries located where the storm of cold had erupted froze stiff and died. The Valkyries’ commander, Freya, didn’t care.

After all, the front row was just meat shields [expendable units].

They were worthless individuals who could be killed without consequence.

However, the variables were the blood that froze in the storm of cold, and the corpses and weapons of the dead Valkyries.

The blood froze sharply into blades, and the corpses, frozen whole and becoming heavy boulders, staggered through the storm, crashing into their fellow Valkyries.

In addition, the shields and swords dropped by the dead Valkyries rode the storm, targeting the armpits and ankles, the only places where skin was exposed from the armor if one was momentarily careless.

“Don’t let a mere storm disrupt the front lines!”

Freya shouted from within the storm.

Reaching out and roughly swinging her arm, she neutralized the storm with a great gust of wind.

It was the power of rune magic.

“Hilde.”

“Yes, Commander.”

“Situation report.”

A Valkyrie with pink hair fluttering wildly in the wind reported with her eyes closed.

“100 low-ranking Valkyries who went out as the vanguard have died. 70 low-ranking Valkyries and 12 mid-ranking Valkyries have died from the previous attack.”

“Exactly, what are the casualties?”

“It’s not my preference to aggregate casualties, but if you insist on ordering me to do so, the casualties are exactly 327. Furthermore, 3 high-ranking Valkyries have lost their ankles.”

“To lose 300 to magic of this level is a great loss.”

Crack!

Freya crushed the shield in her hand with her grip.

Her coldly frozen eyes were like looking at an active volcano about to erupt.

“To be defeated by 300 people with magic that is not like that woman’s, and is worthless except for its unconventionality.”

Unpleasant memories began to surface in Freya’s mind.

When their world, Asgard [the realm of the Norse gods], was destroyed by the providence of the universe.

Freya followed their god and king, Odin, and led the army to a new world to take refuge. It was a peaceful blue planet.

Odin, who was terraforming the peaceful world with only humans to make it a better place for them to live, became aware of six calamities of equal standing to himself in the process, and made an agreement not to interfere with each other in order to avoid unnecessary conflict.

Decades later.

The calamities began to be hunted by humans, and finally Odin’s turn came.

Freya, the commander of the Valkyries and Odin’s knight, desperately protected her god, but blocking her path was a woman with attractive white hair and purple eyes.

Freya, who was called the master of rune magic, could never withstand her magic.

Before the magic unleashed by the white-haired mage, she and her forces turned to dust.

“I trust that there will be no more Valkyries defeated by magic from such a snot-nosed brat.”

Freya gritted her teeth.

Compared to her, Isis’s magic was nothing more than a trick.

Freya was not someone who looked down on magic.

She herself was a master of magic.

However, to Freya, who vividly remembered the power of the white-haired mage who had slaughtered her and the Valkyries, Isis’s magic seemed trivial.

“Advance.”

With that one word, five thousand troops poured down from the sky.

A ridiculously small number compared to the days when she commanded tens of thousands of Valkyries in their prime. But it was okay.

“After all, those monsters don’t exist in this world.”

Freya remembered.

The fact that Baek Seung-woo and Eve, two heroes who were particularly outstanding among the human heroes, killed her and murdered the great Odin.

The other Valkyries didn’t seem to remember at all.

“Let’s lay the foundation stone once again in this world.”

Freya did not question the reason why she and Odin, who had died, were resurrected. She was simply following the will of God.

“It just so happens that one has white hair too.”

I will kill that girl to relieve my resentment.

Freya looked down from the sky at the Valkyrie forces descending to the ground.

The situation was dire. They seemed to be easily defeating the low-ranking Valkyries, but they seemed to be having some difficulty with the mid-ranking Valkyries.

Even the high-ranking Valkyries began to overwhelm the humans.

“I will kill that girl with my own hands.”

Certainly, that white-haired girl was strong.

Whether it was because she had good compatibility with the Valkyries, she converted the divinity and magic of the attacking Valkyries into cold energy, overwhelming the Valkyries. However, she was breathing heavily, perhaps because she was starting to get physically exhausted by the Valkyries who were rushing at her, not afraid of death.

Now that’s a sight I like to see.

Just as Freya, satisfied, was about to go down and tear Isis apart with her own hands.

“What?”

“……!”

“A winged creature? Adam taught me. Wings are possessed by various races, but feathers are the domain of birds.”

“Then are you a bird too?”

“You don’t look like one.”

Freya’s body stiffened at the voice coming from behind her head.

‘This voice…….’

Her body, which had not stiffened even in Isis’s cold, froze at those words.

Freya slowly turned around with a trembling neck.

Turning her neck felt like an eternity.

Freya, who looked back like that.

“Ah, ah…… ah!”

Started to tremble.

“What? Do you know me?”

“Ah, ah……!”

Freya’s expression contorted with fear.

“Mage Saint……!”

“What’s that old-fashioned name again.”

Thud.

The expressionless Eve placed her hand on Freya’s head.

The terrified Freya could neither block nor avoid that gesture.

From the moment Eve appeared, her vision had become extremely narrow.

“What? Are you helping me?”

Eve unfolded her magic with peace of mind.

The magic circle floating in the air sparkled in a circular shape.

A magic circle came to Freya’s mind.

However, it was not circular.

The magic circle wrapped around her head in the shape of a long tail.

It looked like she was wearing a crown.

‘Why is that woman here? Why is that woman here?’

Whether Eve used magic or not.

Freya gasped in fear.

The memories and pain of the moment she died at the hands of that woman began to consume her mind.

“All done.”

Eve smiled brightly, having completed the magic.

Freya, who watched that smile up close, laughed hysterically and thought.

‘Odin…… You must not come here.’

Freya felt a huge presence in the distance.

It was definitely a human presence, but a presence that was infinitely closer to a sword than a human.

It was definitely that Sword Demon’s [an exceptionally skilled swordsman]. The Sword Demon who was obsessed with the sword and beheaded their god.

That Sword Demon was here too.

“I hate variables, so goodbye.”

“……Ah.”

Odin.

‘You must never come.’

This place was a demon’s den.