Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 405

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius 405

Toward the End (5)

Seungwoo had no intention of fighting Adam for long.

A battle of speed.

He revealed a significant number of his cards, pushing Adam relentlessly.

Despite being called the most powerful of the Seven Calamities, Adam’s divine form crumbled quickly. Seungwoo chuckled, watching the flames engulf his body.

“See, this is what happens when you misunderstand.”

I’m not a swordsman right now.

“For the one who received the title of Sword Saint to be so cowardly!”

“Sword Saint, my foot. You’re the only one in this world who remembers that title.”

The Valkyries were all dead. Odin, who had been trying to invade from above, seemed to be fighting evenly with Eve, but then his small body fell to the ground.

Odin, whose giant body had shrunk to human size.

He began a second battle against Eve and the students.

“Ah, that guy is still alive too. So there are two of you.”

“If only two people remember your deeds, does that mean you are no longer a Sword Saint? That can’t be true. Don’t you have pride in being called a Sword Saint?”

“Of course, I do.”

“Then……!”

But you guys have no right to say that!

Seungwoo burned Adam’s legs with flames.

“Kuhhhh!”

Adam vomited blood in agony.

The apple tree that could heal his wounds was still in a tug-of-war with Seungwoo’s territory. Adam endured the pain with his willpower.

“Pride in being called a Sword Saint? Of course, I have it.”

“Then how could you, who was so fair and just……!”

“Because you guys killed everyone who called me a Sword Saint, that’s why.”

The flames stretched out like a spear, aiming for Adam’s heart.

He wouldn’t die from being stabbed in the heart, but it would buy me enough time to kill him. Seungwoo wrapped his entire body in flames and charged at Adam.

Formless Sword.

A sword without form. He raised flames on top of it.

One might wonder what the difference is between that and a sword made of flames, but Seungwoo held the sword, intending a perfect union of the two abilities.

“When those people were alive, the title of Sword Saint might have been righteous and a great title, but not anymore.”

A Sword Saint is just a strong guy with a sword.

There was no more meaning beyond that.

“So just die already.”

The flames cut through everything they touched.

The properties of the sword were compressed into the flames.

The moment they touched, flesh was not only burned but also shredded.

Hook!

Adam smiled bitterly and poured soil onto the flames.

‘Elemental magic? No, did he just mimic magic with his authority?’

It was an authority that resembled magic. Adam’s magical aptitudes were mainly three:

Wood, earth, and lightning.

The wood aptitude sprouted with the authority of the ‘apple tree’ but was blocked by Seungwoo.

“No matter what you do to fire, it won’t burn without oxygen.”

Adam poured out earth, which could resist fire among his remaining aptitudes.

The flames were instantly covered.

Adam tilted his head back, watching the scene.

“Hahahahaha.”

No matter how powerful the magic, if its form is fixed as fire, its weakness is the same as ordinary fire.

Adam, having cut off the oxygen supply, laughed wildly and moved the soil on the ground.

Swish, swish, swish.

Each grain of sand moved according to Adam’s will.

It was such a detailed manipulation that anyone majoring in [Earth Magic] among elemental magic would be greatly discouraged. Of course, Seungwoo did not major in [Earth Magic], and he could do that much manipulation himself.

“You’re getting cocky just because it seems to be working.”

The flames surged like a tidal wave.

Adam tried to block the flames again with earth.

Bang!

A sound that was hard to believe came from the collision of fire and earth.

Already, the two elements had become weapons made of Seungwoo’s and Adam’s magic power, respectively. Adam clicked his tongue at the sight.

“Ha, to think they would achieve equilibrium.”

The earth and fire surging like tidal waves were in perfect equilibrium.

This meant that the power each of them had given to their respective tidal waves was similar, and at the same time, it meant that they were preparing something else.

If Seungwoo and Adam had been serious about winning, the fight would have been more intense than this. If only one of them had been serious, they would have been helplessly swallowed by the opponent’s elemental tidal wave.

However, if they achieved equilibrium in this way, it meant that there was a reason to reduce power in the two tidal waves and invest concentration and magic power elsewhere.

“I’ve been underestimated quite a bit, haven’t I?”

Adam, who was the first to realize this fact, said.

Adam’s eyes, which looked good, clearly showed a sign of victory.

On the other hand, Seungwoo didn’t seem to care about him.

As if the concentration he was currently focusing on was not enough to invest in Adam. He was clearly ignoring Adam.

“…….”

“Aren’t you going to answer?”

“…….”

“Hello?”

Seungwoo remained silent.

Adam, who was in a bad mood because of that, said coldly.

“Hey. Should I just attack?”

“…….”

“……Tsk.”

This is making me uneasy?

Adam didn’t know much about Seungwoo, but he knew how strong he was. A monster who had torn him apart with just a sword.

In fact, the expression ‘calamity’ was more suitable for that person than for himself.

Such a monster had wings in the name of magic.

It wasn’t that he didn’t have the means to do so, so was he preparing something big?

“I have no choice.”

Blue electricity surged over Adam’s body.

The last of the three aptitudes he possessed.

The lightning aptitude was manifested in his body.

This aptitude was not as great as the other aptitudes.

The wood aptitude gave Adam the authority of the apple tree, and the earth aptitude gave him the power to freely manipulate the earth. On the other hand, the lightning aptitude was rather modest.

Enhancement of the body. Or a slight discharge.

That’s all he could do.

“It’s been a while since I’ve shown this form.”

However, this was also clearly Adam’s power.

Adam compensated for the modest output by using his lightning aptitude in conjunction with other abilities.

Pazzzzzzz!

The electricity soared into the sky.

“It really turned out the way you wanted.”

Adam dropped the honorifics.

He had revealed this form only twice.

Just before he faced his first death, when he made his last struggle.

And now. These were the only two times.

“It really looks like it’s going to end in a short battle.”

Instinctively, he felt that the outcome of the battle at this moment would be the deciding factor.

He wished he could use the authority of the apple tree, but even now, Seungwoo was preventing Adam from using the apple tree.

“How about it? Shall we have a conversation?”

“…….”

“Don’t be so cold, let’s have a conversation. This is our second fight, you can at least talk to me, right?”

“……Okay.”

At Adam’s persistent words, Seungwoo finally opened his mouth.

He should have done this from the beginning. Adam smiled and threw out the topic.

“You were going to open your mouth anyway. You should have opened it sooner─.”

“Enough.”

Seungwoo cut off Adam’s words.

“Your tone has been changing since a while ago.”

He said, looking at Adam with tired eyes.

“It felt like multiple people were using a single terminal.”

“What, are you trying to say that the body I’m possessing is alive? Something like that?”

Adam shook his small limbs.

His limbs were thinner than the Adam in his memory.

The Adam who used to fight Seungwoo was truly proud of his statue-like physique.

The strength from his solid muscles and thick bones was so powerful that he could momentarily engage in close combat with Seungwoo, but the current Adam was not like that.

“You are not a calamity so weak that your identity is shaken.”

Seungwoo glared at Adam.

Occasionally, some calamities lose their identity, but Adam would never be such a guy.

He is a guy with a very strong pride.

“Not mixed in enough yet?”

“……!”

He pointed at Adam with his finger.

“I thought about it when I saw you, who has a strong pride, saying things you wouldn’t normally say. Maybe the possession isn’t perfect.”

“…….”

“I thought that part would be the key to the fight.”

Adam’s eyes widened at the calm words.

He widened his eyes, but he didn’t seem particularly angry.

“You realized that, what can you do?”

Adam’s intonation changed.

The corners of his lips smiled differently from the corners of his eyes.

Eyes and mouth. Although they were on the same face, the emotions displayed by the two organs were completely different.

“If you can figure out how to possess, do you think you can win the fight without getting your hands dirty?”

Soon.

All the emotions on his face were unified into one.

“Absolutely impossible.”

Expressionless.

The emotionless expression, so unbelievable that it belonged to a human, was the true emotion of the possessed Adam.

“…….”

Through that expression, Seungwoo realized one thing.

All the emotions Adam had shown so far were false.

He didn’t feel any emotions from the beginning. The tone that Seungwoo pointed out was just a confusion of tones due to the imperfect possession.

‘Was the real Adam silently waiting for an opportunity while maintaining silence behind various masks?’

On the outside, he was embarrassed and surprised, but.

In reality, he didn’t feel any emotions and was preparing for the next attack. In that case, Adam’s next attack is highly likely to be.

‘An unconventional attack that I can’t predict.’

That’s probably it.

The moment Seungwoo jumped up from his spot, the floor collapsed.

Kugugugung!

Something huge moved, swallowing the spot where Seungwoo had been standing.

Saaaaaaa.

What appeared in that spot was a black snake.

The same snake that Adam had wielded as a whip.

However, its size was incomparably larger than before.

‘Is that the form already?’

Adam’s black snake had grown huge.

It is not a living creature but something like a byproduct of authority, so it doesn’t die even if you kill it.

“I expected it.”

Adam muttered, looking at Seungwoo who had jumped into the sky.

Clearly, the snake was not under the ground until he jumped up.

In other words, Seungwoo didn’t even feel the vibrations of something moving in the ground and predicted the next attack to avoid it.

“I confirmed that he has the ability to foresee the future before.”

Ten Mile Eye. An eye that grasps the situation ten miles away.

That eye could not be used here.

The performance of that eye was too low to predict the future in the fight between Seungwoo and Adam.

“He only avoids it with foresight……. That’s why I hate guys with a lot of experience.”

It’s not easy to kill.

Seungwoo smiled at Adam’s calm attitude.

“Then it seems like you have no foresight at all.”

Judging by the fact that you’re still in that spot.

Adam felt an inexplicable anxiety at that smile, but.

“Where do you think you’re going.”

Seungwoo poured flames over Adam.

Reflexively, Adam dodged to the side.

Right then.

쿵!

A sound of something breaking was heard from far away.

Adam was not a fool who turned his head during a fight, but the wave felt from the source of the sound a moment ago caught his attention.

“……Odin?”

A calamity whose Valkyries were all dead and whose body had shrunk to human size.

He, who had crossed dimensions with Adam, aimed his golden spear.

“What……!”

At Adam, of all people.

Adam, whose expression had broken, called the snake to escape, but Seungwoo smiled and burned the snake whole. It doesn’t die, but it doesn’t mean it can’t burn.

He burned it very fiercely.

“You……!”

Adam glared at Seungwoo.

Whether he did or not, Seungwoo was smiling.

“Why. Does it look like it’s ruined?”