Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 69

Academy Gumiho is a Magic Genius – Episode 69

Auction House (4)

The explosion rune carved into the Killing Stone detonated.

The impact was enough to cave in the floor of the central stage and shatter the Killing Stone. I wish it had ended there.

The aftershock of the explosion didn’t stop there.

“My, my arm…! My arm…!!”

“I, I can’t see. It hurts! Help me!!”

“Damn it! Everyone, watch out for the stone dust! It’s poison!”

The large Gumiho-shaped Killing Stone shattered and scattered in all directions upon the explosion.

That was the highlight of this explosion.

The fragments of the Killing Stone, large and small, spread like shrapnel mines with their sharp edges and the explosive force. It was practically a Claymore mine [an anti-personnel mine that projects shrapnel].

The closer you were to such an explosion, the greater the damage you suffered.

Especially Seungwoo’s appearance was hard to describe as good, to put it mildly.

Stone dust clung to his body, and sharp stone fragments were embedded in various parts of his body. His blood vessels were so swollen that they were visible, as if he was infected with poison and they were about to burst.

[The miasma of the ‘Killing Stone’ has penetrated your body.]

[The miasma travels through the blood vessels, contaminating the blood and internal organs!]

[The miasma that has reached the brain pours out the curse of the Gumiho!]

Stone fragments embedded in Seungwoo’s body.

He felt a deep dizziness as he pulled out the fragments of the Killing Stone, especially those embedded in his right arm. This is a more potent poison than I thought.

The stone fragments themselves were not a major threat.

He instinctively protected his major internal organs and vital points with both arms, so the damage from bleeding was minimal, but.

“…Hallucinations, auditory hallucinations, dizziness, and nausea are basic. On top of that, it has all sorts of toxicity, including mental confusion.”

The toxicity contained in the stone was the problem.

The Killing Stone is a rock made of dense poison and curses.

He was the closest to the explosion, so that’s why he’s still alive.

If it hadn’t been Seungwoo in this place, he would have certainly died.

It would have been a clean, instant death.

[The ‘Hundred Poisons Resistance,’ integrated into the skill ‘Weakness Resistance Delay,’ has begun to detoxify the miasma.]

[In 05 minutes and 47 seconds, you will acquire complete resistance to the miasma of the Killing Stone!]

「Ten Poisons Resistance」evolved into 「Hundred Poisons Resistance」, a post-acquired immune ability that grants immunity and resistance to a hundred kinds of poisons.

His body was momentarily taken aback by the unprecedented form of poison, but he felt it gradually begin to detoxify.

The dark red, swollen arms and legs subsided.

The blood vessels that seemed about to burst calmed down.

Feeling the resistance spreading throughout his body, Seungwoo surveyed his surroundings and analyzed the situation.

‘Hundreds of demons. 126 to be exact. One S-class demon, twelve A-class, and the rest are just fodder.’

They weren’t enemies he couldn’t handle.

He didn’t know why they were causing a ruckus at the auction house at this point, but that was something he could think about after the incident was over.

First of all, he had to kill them all.

“Ha, geez. There are so many civilians.”

There were several security guards in the underground auction house, but they alone couldn’t handle all the demons. Fortunately, students including Isabel and Isis were fighting the demons, but.

None of the students here were armed.

Well, who would have known that demons would carry out a terrorist attack?

If they had known, they would have been demons.

“It’s disadvantageous. Very disadvantageous.”

Seungwoo’s head ached.

Hundreds of demons, students resisting without weapons, rich and plump civilians. And above all else.

Even his shattered Killing Stone.

This place was too disadvantageous for Seungwoo.

He wasn’t sure if he could win even if he was alone.

There were too many people to protect here.

He couldn’t think of a suitable method with the cards he had.

Just then, Seungwoo’s senses focused on the status window.

‘If only I had the point store and the trait catalog or whatever…!’

Things that were written as rewards for the quest.

He didn’t know exactly what they were, but if the cards in his hand increased, there would be more things he could do.

Seungwoo moved his fingers and floated the status window in the air.

Anyone who saw him would think he was just spacing out.

But Seungwoo was quite anxious.

Even at this moment, the aftermath of the explosion was appearing here and there.

People poisoned by the toxin. People screaming in pain from stone fragments embedded in their vital points or dying from excessive bleeding.

The situation became increasingly chaotic with their screams and groans.

The demons didn’t miss the opportunity.

While Seungwoo’s students, security guards, and attendants were desperately resisting, they were trying to crush everyone in this place to death by attacking the walls that had been weakened by the explosion.

Just as Seungwoo was feeling frustrated and staring intently at the quest window.

[Main Quest: Killing Stone]

[Description: You have put in considerable effort to twist the planned scenario so far. Now it’s time to see the results of that effort. The results will determine whether your preparation was sufficient or still lacking.

Your only goal is to acquire the ‘Killing Stone’ in the underground auction house. You can take any method. What matters is what choice you will make through that stone.]

[Clear Conditions: 1. Obtain the ‘Killing Stone’, 2. Do not give other competitors any ‘room’ to take it away.]

[Success: ‘Point Store’ unlocked, ‘Trait Catalog’ granted, ‘Author’s Reply’]

[Failure: Nothing happens. Instead, there will be no change.]

The quest did not give a reward.

That meant he hadn’t succeeded in the quest yet.

“Indeed, is it a half-success?”

From the moment he won the bid, the Killing Stone was already his property.

Although it had become fragments and dust due to the demons’ cowardly tricks, the owner was clearly Baek Seungwoo. However, the second condition behind it.

The expression of not giving other competitors any ‘room’ to take it away stood out.

He didn’t know what kind of inflexible scoring criteria it was, but.

It seemed that winning the Killing Stone with an overwhelming amount of 100 billion won had not eliminated the ‘room’ for all the opponents in this place to take the Killing Stone.

If it doesn’t work with overwhelming money, well.

There’s only one way left.

───Fwoosh!

Seungwoo reached out his hand.

Fwoosh, at the same time, sparks flew in the air, and flames formed a giant hand, blocking the collapsing wall.

The people and demons’ hopes and fears crossed as the fire giant tried to support the wall that was about to collapse with its hand.

“I, I’m alive! Hurry and escape through this gap!”

“Run! There’s a shelter underground!!”

“Someone kill that magician! The humans are escaping like loaches!”

“What are those young girls?! Stop them quickly. What do those young things know how to do… Keu, eugh, my wrist…!!”

The people took this opportunity to take refuge in the shelter underground, and the demons, whose plan to bury most of the wealthy alive had gone awry, moved separately in confusion.

In the process, they were divided into demons who tried to kill him and collapse the wall, and demons who thought they could just slaughter them directly if they couldn’t bury them alive.

In that situation, Seungwoo’s gaze turned to the right.

A place where there were no civilians, no groups of demons, and no students he had taught. A demon was sitting in the VVIP seat where Grandpa Number 3 had been sitting.

“I’ll leave the fodder to the kids for training and just deal with that one.”

He could leave the other guys to the kids, but not that one.

* * *

A demon, strictly speaking, a man with the title of S-class demon and branch manager.

Dorudo walked through the auction house with a leisurely pace.

The guards’ resistance was fierce, but in the end, they would be the winners.

He sat in a luxurious chair and reminisced about the hardships of the past few days.

He prepared in many ways, such as coaxing and threatening some of the wealthy to prepare a foothold for the terror.

Carving runes for explosive terror on the Killing Stone, and so on.

Although the demons mobilized for the operation were all low-quality guys from C to B class.

He was confident because he had prepared more thoroughly than that. Even if there were unexpected variables, the possibility of the terror failing was 0% if the 12 A-class demons he had painstakingly prepared and he himself stepped forward.

The wealthy people from various countries who would die here would be the signal flare.

That’s what should have happened.

“What is that guy?”

While lying down on the soft chair, something that deviated from the grand plan caught his eye.

The plan to collapse the wall and bury most of the wealthy alive. It was clear that collapsing the wall was proceeding smoothly, but the collapsed wall did not pour onto the floor.

A huge flame was blocking the wall in the form of an arm.

Not only that, but the flame was melting the fragments of the collapsing wall and forcibly connecting them. A truly absurd and mysterious magical sight.

“…Could it be that he’s blocking the explosion and holding up the collapsing wall?”

Dorudo, who was admiring without realizing it, looked down at the owner of the work.

At that moment, the two’s eyes met.

“…”

“…”

Considering the location and situation between the two, it was an extremely advantageous situation for Dorudo.

However, the instinct and intuition that had developed as he became a demon were shouting.

Run away right now if you want to live. You can’t kill that pyromancer [a fire mage] with demons all around.

It was truly a strange thing.

The place where they were standing was an extremely disadvantageous place for the pyromancer. The enclosed space was short of oxygen.

Obstacles were scattered everywhere, and innocent civilians were screaming and trembling in fear.

In this situation, he, an S-class demon, would lose?

It doesn’t make sense.

Regardless of whether it was absurd or not, it was a disgrace to tarnish his own honor if he were to be defeated under these conditions.

“…What’s your name?”

“I have no name to reveal to a demon who is worse than a beast.”

“Cocky bastard. Let’s see if you can say that after I rip out your intestines. Oh, by the way, my name is Dorudo.”

“Dorudo. A funny name, befitting a demon.”

Baek Seungwoo chuckled and shook his hand.

At the same time, sparks flew and rotated like a wheel.

An unnamed magic. It was just a simple trick, but the wheel of fire instantly covered Dorudo.

Kwaaaang!

Dorudo, who had allowed the flames to hit him, was pushed back and collided with the wall.

He frowned at the tingling pain he felt in his back.

“…What the hell is going on?”

Before he could finish his sentence, Dorudo’s figure was pushed back again.

The demon’s skin was so tough that it wouldn’t even get burned by this level of flame, but it wasn’t enough to nullify the impact.

Yes, the impact.

“You take damage every time you allow an attack made of flames?”

Flames are just intangible energy and phenomena.

It’s far from the concept of impact.

Why is his body being pushed back every time he allows an attack?

Behind him, who was deeply contemplating, Baek Seungwoo muttered quietly.

“You know what? Do you know who the owner of the Killing Stone that you guys blew up is?”

“…You crazy!”

The high temperature that scattered his cognitive abilities unintentionally allowed him to give up his back. He quickly moved his legs, but the stream of fire wriggled like a snake and struck Dorudo even faster.

Wajajak!

Dorudo, who had flown far away, broke through the floor as he went.

At the same time, a new flame aimed at the rear.

“That’s mine, you bastard.”

“Ah…”

Dorudo sighed as he looked at the man with his temperature turned all the way up.

Something, something is very wrong.