Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 403

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius – Episode 403

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius 403

Toward the End (3)

Eve’s appearance turned the tide of the battle.

“Barely survived……!”

“The attacks were so fierce. I thought my shield was going to break.”

“But is it okay not to confront that woman?”

“……Who cares. She’s not even paying attention to us.”

“Still, it’s a bit suspicious…….”

The students survived the danger thanks to her.

The Valkyries’ forces were an unexpectedly formidable enemy.

Especially the high-level Valkyries, the so-called High Valkyries, were very threatening.

“What if it’s suspicious? What can we do?”

“……We have to try something.”

“Don’t you remember? That woman blocked all of our attacks.”

We can’t beat that woman.

The students gave up fighting Eve early on.

Fighting someone you can’t beat is reckless. Unless there’s a reason why you absolutely have to win, but we’ve already found the teacher.

“We don’t need to fight that person. Let’s go.”

It was at that moment.

Bang!

With a small explosion, blood poured down like a shower from all directions.

The students turned around, anxious.

“You’re weak? That man wouldn’t die no matter what I did.”

A headless corpse collapsed to the floor.

Eve blew up Freya and killed her.

To others, it looked like Eve grabbed her head and crushed it with her grip. But Isabel saw it clearly.

“……Magic.”

Isabel’s eyes sparkled like starlight.

Hyoseong’an [a skill where the eyes shine golden like the morning star, Venus]. A skill where the eyes shine golden like the morning star, Venus.

Hyoseong, which discerns the truth of magic, understood the magic Eve performed.

“Isabel? What’s wrong.”

“She engraved magic directly into the brain.”

“Is that true?”

Isabel nodded at her friends’ questions.

Instead of a magic circle floating in the air, a magic circle was engraved inside the body of the contacted object. Magic that circularly wrapped around the inside of the head like a crown.

In Isabel’s eyes, it looked like a crown.

Like a crown of thorns that slowly kills you as you are pricked by thorns the moment you wear it.

“That’s not magic.”

Isabel was sure.

The King of Magic, Nam Hwa-yeon. Even she cannot imitate that magic.

It wears the mask of magic, but essentially, it was not magic.

Isabel had heard from Seungwoo.

Something that seems to belong to reason, but in reality, does not belong to reason.

“……Authority.”

The mighty authority wielded by God. That’s how Isabel felt.

Seungwoo, who was watching the scene from afar, had the same impression.

Seungwoo, who stopped the chase, revised his plan to watch Eve from a distance.

If Eve harms the students, it won’t be too late to step in then.

“She’s definitely weaker than before. Some even recognized Eve.”

Seungwoo muttered, looking at Odin’s forces.

The Valkyrie forces that Seungwoo knew were not just four digits.

Six digits. Hundreds of thousands of Valkyries roamed the sky, carrying out bombings and landings.

Moreover, each individual possessed A-class or higher combat power, and a very few Valkyries, led by high-ranking Valkyries, boasted power beyond the wall.

The forces weren’t just Valkyries.

The undying warriors of Valhalla were also a headache.

Thanks to this, on the ground, they had to deal with the warriors of Valhalla while paying attention to the bombing, and often struggled because of the warriors of Valhalla who cooperated with the Valkyries in the sky.

It wasn’t just about the money, but I remember a lot of people really died.

‘Compared to those days, the numbers are definitely smaller, and the high-ranking Valkyries and Freya are also weaker, but to think that those guys would have memories of us.’

Seungwoo thought of the disasters that appeared in the inner world as fragments of the old world.

The disasters he killed were disasters of the distant future.

The disaster that appeared now is the disaster before it appeared in Seungwoo’s dimension.

I thought it was a kind of old data.

Because that’s how the dungeon works.

I guessed that the disasters had the same mechanism.

“Judging from the reaction I just saw, it doesn’t seem like that.”

Anyway, if the Valkyries are aware of Eve’s existence, then the surviving disasters are likely to have completely recalled Seungwoo’s existence.

‘Whether it’s past data or resurrected ghosts. It doesn’t really matter.’

Whatever it is, just kill them all.

Moreover, Seungwoo’s power has become significantly stronger than in the old days when he was called the Sword Saint. Even if Odin is a disaster that skillfully wields spears and magic, he cannot be compared to Seungwoo, who has reached the extreme of the sword and is also skilled in magic.

‘If there were any variables, it would be Odin’s authority and the divine objects he possesses. And Freya…….’

One variable just disappeared?

Then the only variables left for Odin were authority and divine objects.

In fact, those variables are the most troublesome things…… but they are nothing compared to Adam. In fact, that guy is the biggest problem.

‘Adam.’

The strongest of the seven disasters in terms of single combat power.

An unreasonable monster that instantly kills even the strongest S-class player through the authority of the ‘Apple Tree’.

His apple is like a kind of curse.

A kind of instant death skill that kills you as soon as you touch the apple or get hit by exploding fragments.

─The apple explodes? Even if you touch it, you die?

If the queen in Snow White had obtained such an apple, the protagonist of the fairy tale would definitely have been the queen. What is a poisoned apple? What is a poisoned apple?

It has to be an apple that kills you as soon as you touch it and explodes if you don’t like it to be called an apple.

─That’s not an apple anymore…….

Tamamo muttered, but apples had long become like devil fruits [a type of fruit from the manga series One Piece that grants the eater supernatural powers] in Seungwoo’s mind.

Every time an apple falls from a tree, his comrades die. He can’t stand it unless the common sense in his head changes.

‘At least Odin has a clear purpose of terraforming the area they will rule and dominate.’

Adam is the most troublesome guy because even that purpose is uncertain.

Damn three-way battle really.

‘Everyone doesn’t know each other’s intentions, huh.’

Seungwoo, Eve, and Adam each want different things.

Everyone is aware of that, but they don’t know anything about the other person’s intentions except for themselves.

─Why is that so important?

‘It is important.’

─It’s not like we can solve things through conversation with those guys.

Adam, Eve, and Odin. Those who have deeply involved themselves in this fight each have their own goals.

Those goals are not something that can be resolved through dialogue.

If it were possible through conversation, they wouldn’t be fighting each other to the death like this.

‘You’re right. The situation has already gone beyond what can be resolved through conversation.’

─Then why bother trying to find out what they are?

‘It’s simple.’

Seungwoo mimed slitting his throat with his hand.

‘What they want is their real weakness.’

Let’s make a hypothesis.

For example, if the goal of those three is some kind of treasure.

Could they ignore the words of someone threatening to destroy that treasure in their hands?

‘If I were them, I’d be too scared of the treasure being destroyed to do anything.’

Hahahahaha.

Seungwoo smiled gleefully.

Tamamo shook her head, watching that smile.

─That’s just what you always do.

Grasp the opponent’s weakness.

The most basic strategy in battle.

Usually, it’s family, colleagues, or precious objects that are a person’s weakness, but Adam was not a person.

To know his weakness, it was necessary to know Adam’s purpose.

‘He wouldn’t be causing this chaos for no reason.’

Adam is a madman, that’s true.

However, he was far from the type of madman who acts without any reason. He always moved as if he had a set goal.

‘The Cult of the Demon. A worshiper of the Demon Cult.’

He recalled Adam’s past actions under the name of Simon.

Then, he retraced everything about Adam that appeared in the world opened using the key to the orchard. Why did he move with the Calamities?

Why on earth?

‘There’s no ‘just because’ in his actions.’

There must be an invisible pattern.

Seungwoo pondered and agonized.

Come to think of it, he hasn’t been seen… Ah.

“…I see.”

Seungwoo snapped his fingers.

Now he felt like he knew something.

To find the forgotten Adam again, he spread his magic widely.

There was no need to gather the spread magic again.

As if waiting for it, his presence was felt far away. The roof of the magic tower that had not yet collapsed.

It wouldn’t collapse yet.

A man stood proudly in that place that could collapse at any moment.

Seungwoo confronted Adam on that rooftop.

Having fainted and seeing him again, he looked very different compared to before.

“Welcome, Sword Saint.”

Sword Saint. Seungwoo’s old title.

There is no one in this world who would remember that title.

Therefore, the core of that Adam must not belong to someone from this world.

“…You’ve been possessed.”

Possession.

When another person takes over the body of a living person.

“As expected, it’s good that I don’t need to explain things to you.”

That’s why I like smart people.

Seungwoo raised his sword towards Adam.

‘Calamity’ Adam possessed ‘Researcher’ Adam.

Although there may be physical limitations, all other restrictions were lifted.

Unlike Odin, who had not yet entered, he arrived in this world through a trick. Certainly, it was a clever move that even I had not anticipated.

“I thought it was strange. No matter how many sacrifices are offered, it is not easy for an existence with great power to cross dimensions entirely on their own accord.”

It was understandable that Odin moved dimensions alone, and Adam used the trick of possession.

“And you arrived in this world to escape.”

“Well, I’m a genius. It’s only natural.”

Seungwoo glared at Adam.

“You’re not like that.”

The Adam that Seungwoo had watched was by no means a genius.

No matter what experiences he had or how vast his knowledge was, Adam was far from being a genius. He could never be like Seungwoo.

“You. Was this your goal?”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“There’s no use denying it. I’ve already figured it all out.”

“……”

“Meticulous. You drew a very big picture.”

Adam had no talent.

No matter how hard you try, you will kneel before talent.

If you add effort to effort, and talent and effort are combined, you become untouchable.

“You didn’t have enough time to work hard. You wanted to live longer, so you did this.”

Adam. ‘Calamity Adam’ was already dead.

Seungwoo’s existence proved that fact.

However, Adam in his days as a researcher, who was still untainted, had plenty of days left to die.

He would lose more Eves in the future, and at the moment the last Eve was completed, he would be abandoned by her.

He would live for nearly countless years in the gap of that destroyed world.

During those years, he would conduct research and study how to access the system with his own power without Eve.

He would become a calamity that destroys countless dimensions and worlds, become an artificial intelligence that drives out Eve and divides her and the system’s authority, and appear before me.

“You want to try again.”

If it doesn’t work with effort, then more effort.

If that doesn’t work, even if it means repeating life.

“Do you want to kill me that much? Or Eve?”

What a tenacious guy.

Whatever it is, he won’t stop until he’s completely annihilated.

“Dream on. You’re going to die here today.”

It wasn’t that he had perfectly figured out Adam’s goal.

There was no need to figure out more than this.

Either way, he’s going to die here today.

Swish!

Seungwoo rushed at Adam.