Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 75

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius – Episode 75

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius Episode 75

Killing Stone (5)

Inside the auction house was a large room.

A room decorated with all sorts of jewels, gold, and relics.

At a glance, it seemed to be the office where the owner of the auction house conducted business and received important clients.

Being called to a place like this, it could only mean one thing: a meeting with the owner of this auction house.

Thud.

Sitting on what appeared to be a guest chair, I rested my chin on my right hand and waited for the person who would sit across from me.

After waiting for about a minute.

The sound of hurried footsteps and panting approached from outside the door.

With a soft rustle, the door opened, and a middle-aged man wiping sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief entered. He immediately slumped into the seat opposite me and opened his mouth.

“Haha, I’m a little late. I never thought I, who lives by leeching off the underground, would get to meet the parent of the esteemed foxes. And to even have you in my office like this. As the manager of the Jongno underground auction house, it is truly an honor.”

“I don’t dislike flattery, but it makes me feel bad when you suck up too much. Just treat me normally.”

“Ah, then I will call you Head Baek with respect and reverence.”

He invited me, but perhaps he didn’t expect me to come so quickly, as the manager kept wiping away the sweat.

He apologized for his tardiness and repeatedly praised me with flattery.

This guy knows how to navigate social situations.

He has an excellent ability to flatter appropriately without making people uncomfortable or unpleasant. He even neatly covers up his tardiness through flattery.

Truly a manager of an illegal underground auction house.

I was intrigued by his skills, but since there were more important topics to discuss, I slowly cut off the manager’s flattery.

“──Really. Your skin is so good.”

“Manager, shouldn’t we start talking seriously soon?”

“Ah, yes. Of course, Head Baek. Would you like me to offer you a cup of tea through my attendant……?”

“No, I don’t intend to have a long conversation.”

There was no value in talking to the manager for a long time.

After all, my connections with him wouldn’t be particularly helpful in the future.

Just exchanging a few words was the most courtesy I could offer.

“Ah, I see. I’m worried that I might be holding up someone who is busy for too long.”

“So, what’s the matter?”

“Actually, didn’t Head Baek prevent the attack that happened at the academy last time? Since you already have experience, I wanted to hear your insights.”

If it was last time, he must be referring to the incident that happened at the academy.

The international criminal and collaborator with the demons, ‘Magician Slayer,’ and the thousands of monsters he commanded. Behind them was clearly the demon group .

This was the information revealed by the Player Association.

The association took this incident as an opportunity, joined hands with large guilds, and swept away a large number of demons, destroying all the branches in various places.

I thought they had destroyed almost everything, but that didn’t hold back and stuck its snout in again.

“Actually, until I came to this position, I was interrogating the attendants.”

“So, what’s the result?”

“Five people were cooperating with them. I’ve identified that they leaked the details of the auction items to the outside and also passed on the list of guests who participated here.”

“I have an idea about the auction items, but I don’t know about passing on the guest list.”

The reason why the demons tried to get the auction items.

That must have been one of their schemes to raise ‘bail’ to release the nobles trapped on the island.

Come to think of it, it was about time for the nobles to appear in the scenario.

From now on, I have to push myself to the limit even more. Objectively, my growth rate was fast, but it didn’t satisfy me.

At this rate, I can’t guarantee how many people I can save in the next episode.

The next episode is the ordeal that the awakened protagonist faces for the first time, fighting against the released Pandemonium’s Baron ‘Belial.’ In the process, one professor and three teaching assistants die, and several civilian casualties occur, as I remember.

“I have an idea about the guest list. It seems they intended to identify which field and position the rich people they kill are in, and then gradually swallow all their positions after their death to seek a comeback.”

“……I see. Coincidentally, the seeds of the demons have been almost half wiped out in Asia due to the joint operation of the association and the guild this time.”

“But those cunning things can’t have only that in mind.”

“Of course, that’s right.”

When the attack on the Seven Stars Academy, which mobilized Yuren and thousands of monsters, returned to nothing, the demons sought new ways to recover.

The plan they found was to parasitize by taking away the interests of the rich little by little.

What they can ultimately obtain from this is.

“Probably…… economic chaos. Especially the economy of this land will be shaken the most.”

“Chaos in the Korean economy. Truly an action worthy of .”

“Yes, that’s right. If tycoons from all over the world die, their companies or businesses will falter, and various problems will arise, including succession issues. They might even hold Korea responsible.”

“……Above all, it would have been a foregone conclusion that they would hold our auction house responsible. We survived thanks to Head Baek.”

The people gathered at today’s auction are mostly from the political and business world, or those who have secured their own positions in their respective fields.

What if these people are massacred in one place?

It was a promised event that the leadership in each area would be confused, and the country and place where the incident occurred would be criticized and take responsibility.

The manager wiped the cold sweat flowing on his forehead as if he had a headache just imagining it.

Wiping his sweat with a handkerchief, he closed his eyes for a moment.

After closing his eyes and opening them, as if there was something to think about deeply, the manager got up from his seat and bowed to me, saying.

“Really, the more I think about it, the more grateful I am to Head Baek and the students. You solved a problem that could have made my life and even the future of my children, who are not here now, uncertain, so I can’t help but bow my head.”

The manager continued to speak with his head bowed.

“Although I am a person who illegally handles money and goods underground, I know how to act in this situation as much as I handle a lot of money. As a token of gratitude, I would like to give each of the Head Baek and the students who have worked hard one item below the assessed S-class that was scheduled to be exhibited at the next auction. Please accept it.”

He gave me a key with a very serious expression after bowing his head.

“It’s the key to open the warehouse door on the 2nd basement floor. I would appreciate it if you could guide the students to choose one each when you leave later.”

“……If it’s below S-class, you can get at least hundreds of millions of won per item [millions of USD]?”

“In the end, it’s just a part of the various items I handle. It’s not comparable to my life and prestige. In particular, Head Baek saved our lives from that powerful demon who made us tremble just by looking at him. Just accept it.”

The manager smiled as he handed me the key.

I can’t spit on a smiling face [refuse a kind offer], but there was one error in what he said that I had to point out.

Dorudo, who I faced.

He is not that strong in the force. If you rank the strength, it would be around 100th place.

The guys in the single digits and double digits are really strong in a different dimension.

Especially the seventy-two nobles.

─I need the names of the executives of the villain group. A lot of them.

─So what, should we do some naming together?

─Then, can I use Baekgeomdae, the children of your unit, as a motif? I need seventy-two people, which is the same as the number of your unit.

─Why are you asking me for permission? Ask them.

─I already asked. Everyone said it’s okay if you give permission. Iol, Seungwoo, aren’t you too loved by your subordinates?

─Shut up. If those kids said it’s okay, you can use it. And it’s not being loved, it’s respect for the superior. Don’t add unnecessary remarks to the setting.

If the nobles were really configured with my subordinates as motifs.

I can never win.

Even discussing the slightest possibility would be ridiculous.

Who in the world puts ants and dinosaurs on the same line?

There was that much of a gap between me and them now.

A gap that cannot be narrowed simply by keen senses and a lot of magic power.

I pondered my own powerlessness again and was lost in thought, and I got up from my seat and saw the manager seeing me off. He waved his hand and said.

“Ah, come to think of it, there was also a jade ring that was transported together when transporting the Killing Stone underground. If you’re interested, it wouldn’t be bad to check it out. I’m an amateur when it comes to Gumiho [nine-tailed fox spirit], so I didn’t find any value in the ring, but Head Baek might be different.”

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“I like this!”

“Another sword? I know you commissioned a sword from that old man Gu Yaja.”

“The more swords, the better! Do you want to get one too, Teacher?”

“I already have the Sword of Kusanagi, so I’m fine.”

“Ah!”

Jongno Auction House 2nd basement floor, goods storage warehouse.

Inside, Seong Yeonhwa was waving a sword made of blue magic stone.

She seemed to like it quite a bit.

Well, there were quite a few useful things in the warehouse on the 2nd basement floor.

It wasn’t as much as what I bought, but there were so many things that were profitable when they said they would give it for free, so it was fun to window shop.

However, Seong Yeonhwa chose the blue sword as soon as she saw it, as if there was nothing more to worry about.

I took a quick look and it seemed to be S-class and the magic conductivity was considerable.

Her speech is a bit clumsy, but her eye for swords is the best.

As a teacher, in my honest opinion, I wish she would pay a little more attention to studying Korean than this sword.

As soon as she finished her selection, my gaze turned to Noh Yura.

Noh Yura looked at the weapons piled up in the warehouse and said in an unbelievable tone.

“Assistant, is it really okay to take anything below S-class?”

“Yeah, that’s what they said.”

“Following the assistant, things like this happen. Thank you.”

“What’s there to thank me for? It’s all a reward for doing well.”

Noh Yura ran straight to the rack in the warehouse.

She took out the pistol that was placed on the top.

“Oh, it’s a pistol made from the spine of Beris. There are holes in the bone, how did they implement the barrel and gun barrel with this?”

She was looking at her main weapon, firearms.

Perhaps because firearms are relatively recently made weapons compared to swords, there was a lack of know-how, so there were not many high-grade weapons compared to demand.

Low grades are easy to obtain at a low price, but the higher the grade, the higher the price.

This is especially true for A-class or S-class firearms.

Due to the short history of weapons, you can’t even expect grades with special origins such as [Bihwa] or [Seosa]. In fact, S-class is the maximum for guns.

Noh Yura was touching various guns, saying it was a good opportunity.

I needed a long time to test the shoulder rest and recoil, so I went to find another student.

Isis was right nearby.

“Yeah, it’s okay. This much heat might help.”

She was touching a fire crystal that looked like a marble.

The marble with the shape of a flame frozen in it was emitting tremendous heat just by approaching it. Is she thinking of choosing that?

Her compatibility with cold is the worst.

She’s not really thinking of choosing that, is she?

“No. It won’t get better with this.”

Fortunately, Isis shook her head, not liking the fire crystal, and put the fire crystal back in its place.

Then she took a black glove.

A glove with black frills around the wrist.

It looked like a bride would wear it to a wedding.

However, the energy felt different from that appearance is unusual.

The overall energy is dark and gloomy, and it seems to be an object containing powerful curses or spells.

“What, is it an armor with magic? The power felt on the outside is not bad.”

“Ah, Teacher. Did you come to see this? How is it, it’s okay. It’s a cursed glove that was born when a bride who found out that the groom was her parents’ enemy on her wedding day killed all the guests and the groom.”

“……Is that so?”

“Yeah, thanks to the intertwined power, I can put a curse on my ice. There’s a Korean proverb that says ‘If a woman holds a grudge, frost will fall even in May,’ so I can put a grudge on the frost.”

“…….”

Um, I don’t want to hear anymore.

I nodded roughly and agreed with everything she said and quickly left the spot.

What a creepy thing.

Actually, I wasn’t going to do it.

‘Killing Stone’ that poisons and kills those who touch it.

‘Sword of Kusanagi’ that steals the energy of unqualified people and kills them.

My things are a cut above when it comes to creepy things, but I didn’t want to admit it. Both things were within my control, but I judged that this would be complicated to detoxify.

I don’t want to go near there.

With that thought, I wandered around the warehouse and saw a girl standing still near the exit.

It was Isabel, Baek Seungwoo’s ex-fiancée.

“Oh? Did you already choose? That’s fast.”

“What about you.”

“Um, me? I don’t really need new weapons. There are a few S-class in the dormitory or main house.”

She calmly said she didn’t need it.

As expected, the eldest daughter of the Sirius family.

Is it not enough to catch her eye with this?

“Still, pick one. You don’t have to pick a practical item. If you really do, think of it as a gift from me and pick anything you like.”

“……Is that so? Then I can’t help it.”

She moved to the place where the accessories were kept without hesitation at my answer. Among them, she said with her eyes on the ring.

“Would a diamond ring be better, or a ruby ring?”

“I don’t know. I don’t know the heart of a girl. When I buy a ring, I look at the performance rather than the decoration.”

“……Is that so?”

I need to know that.

Isabel muttered so and looked for ten more minutes and seemed to have found something she liked.

“Um, a ruby ring would be better.”

Isabel found the ring and put it on her finger.

Strangely, she puts it on her left ring finger.

I guess it’s just my imagination that the ruby ​​embedded in the ring looks like my eyes.

Yeah, it must be my imagination.

Anyway, a ring.

I didn’t have any items that I was attracted to in the warehouse.

“There’s only one empty space on my ten fingers, should I get a ring too?”

Inside the glove, there were nine rings on the bare hand.

Nine is ambiguous, so it wouldn’t be a bad idea to make it exactly ten.

When I rummaged through the warehouse where the rings were displayed, a jade ring suddenly came into my eyes.

The faint patterns and styles engraved on the ring resembled the Killing Stone just before it was destroyed.

This must be the ring the manager was talking about.

“Jade ring? Wouldn’t it be too plain?”

“Yura is right, Teacher. It doesn’t seem like such a good artifact……?”

“Oh? It looks pretty to me!”

“……I’d rather have the same color if possible.”

When I chose a ring that was nothing but crude. The students who chose each item opened their mouths.

Somehow the last word sounded a little strange.

Well, it must be my imagination.

First, let’s try wearing the ring for now.

「Jade Ring」

Grade: C

Description: It is a ring made of clear jade. It is estimated to have been made a long time ago, and because of that, it has a crude appearance or makes people feel an unknown magic power.

*Magic Power Storage

It is the power inherent in the jade of the ring itself. It is a miracle that Biche (翡翠) [Jade] has endured hundreds of years and accepted the magic power in the atmosphere. It can store magic power at the level of a small generator and can also be used as a medium for magic.

A ring with abilities that are too shabby to have been found with the Killing Stone.

If you buy it at the regular price, you can get it for less than 10 million won. It would be a decent price among C grades.

In fact, the 10 million won was set because of the aesthetic value of the jade ring.

If you look only at the built-in ability, you can easily get it for around 5 million won. It’s just that level, so the moment I tried to pull the ring off my finger.

Kkuuuk, the ring squeezed my finger as if it wouldn’t come off.

[You have equipped the ‘Jade Ring’.]

[The blood of the Heavenly Fox flows from the target.]

[You have satisfied the hidden conditions of the ring!]

[The ‘Jade Ring’ reveals its true nature and summons the entangled vengeful spirit.]

What, in this sudden situation, the status window output the message faster than my head could follow.

The moment I quickly read the message.

쿵!

Something heavy rang in my heart.

What should I say, a strange sense of incongruity. Along with the feeling that something was stirring my stomach with my hands, I heard a sweet voice of a woman behind my back.

─Oh, expanding the microcosm to the macrocosm, forcibly piercing the blood of the Imdok Yangmaek [unspecified meridian points], forcibly opening the way to divine power. In the process, he refined the harmony of heaven, earth, and man to achieve the three transformations and three blessings. At the current rate of growth, awakening divine power will be instantaneous.

The sweet voice was the same hallucination I heard in the battle with Dorudo.

Rather, it was clearer than then.

As if whispering behind me.

Very clearly.

─It seems to be a distant descendant of Yeo (余) [a surname], but to think that he would achieve such divine power at the level of a three-tailed fox. If I could only use my hands, I would have stroked him, but it’s a pity. Then hoho……. Anyway, please take care of me while I’m in this ring, contractor.

Only then did I realize.

This is neither hallucination nor hallucination.

In fact, a semi-transparent woman brought her mouth to my ear and whispered. At the same time, her white hands penetrated my stomach and stirred it around.

Um, a haunted ring.

Even if I pick a dud, it seems like I picked the wrong one.

Moreover, it was impossible to take off the ring with my strength as if the ring was cursed. In the end, I chose this and came out.

That’s why you shouldn’t receive free things carelessly.