Academy’S Gumiho Is A Magical Genius [EN]: Chapter 84

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius – Episode 84

Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius Episode 84

The Progenitor’s Spell (4)

It’s empty.

Not only the five senses but even the sixth sense is closed off.

In a world where all stimuli have disappeared, the first thing I forgot was time.

A day? Two days? Well, I don’t know how long it’s been.

All I know is the number game in seconds.

34,790,002 seconds. 34,790,003 seconds.

Next is… Huh?

Did I count the time too fast?

But if it’s 34,790,000 seconds, how many days is that? All my nerves were focused on counting numbers, so even simple calculations were impossible, let alone handling magic.

Day and night. The 24 hours that flow based on a day have become meaningless concepts to me.

In a world where nothing is felt, all I can do is recite the time in my head.

But even that.

I couldn’t be sure of the concept of ‘seconds,’ and it crumbled.

I became unable to count time anymore.

Even if I counted 1 second, 2 seconds, I couldn’t be sure if the standard was a universal calculation, so I just drifted like someone who threw myself into the vast ocean.

Time and space.

The most primitive concepts defined by humans.

When I forgot spacetime, the primitive concept that alchemists or scholars immersed in ancient studies claimed to be the source of all things, the four elements, before they took root on this earth, the only thought that came to mind was one.

‘Why am I here in the first place?’

The most important and core question.

However, there were no clues or suitable environments to find an answer to this.

The only clue I had was that entering the inner world was Tamamo’s magic, so she was suspicious.

But I couldn’t say for sure.

Furthermore, the environment that gradually eroded my mind and peace blurred the boundaries between my subjectivity and objectivity.

…I’m getting dizzy at this point.

‘Am I really me?’

Baek Seung-woo was a man who scattered snow-white hair like that of an old man and mercilessly massacred enemies with the Holy Sword.

He was a sinner who survived to the end, stepping on the corpses of his beloved mentors, teachers, friends, and colleagues. So, if living without being able to die is truly my life.

‘Wouldn’t it be better to become a butterfly?’

The life of a butterfly freely flying in the sky in search of flowers seemed more enjoyable than living as Baek Seung-woo.

As I thought about butterflies, I realized that I was trying to imitate the actions of a butterfly. I couldn’t see or feel it, but my arms and legs were clearly trying to follow the butterfly’s flapping.

Ha ha, I’m not Zhuang Zhou [a Chinese philosopher who dreamt he was a butterfly].

Who am I, unable to distinguish between the lives of butterflies and humans in the darkness where I can’t see an inch ahead.

‘…Well, I don’t know.’

Who am I?

Before asking myself, I thought about it carefully.

Who am I really, and what am I? The remoteness that floated leisurely in this emptiness took away the value and purpose of life from the man named Baek Seung-woo.

Baek Seung-woo, who had lost his value and purpose, was no different from a dead person.

However, even if he lost his value and purpose, he did not lose his direction.

What have I been living for?

What have I been walking for?

Who on earth has Baek Seung-woo been walking this long pilgrimage for?

‘…Thinking about this, I guess I’m really old. The teacher was usually good at this.’

Teacher.

The teacher I love and respect.

I learned how to see the world from her, and I learned how to protect it.

However, unlike those teachings, she was, well.

She was truly not worthy of the title [of ‘teacher,’ implying she was unconventional].

Her beautiful appearance and gentle atmosphere were like the Virgin Mary in the Bible, but her impiety, which did not believe in God, was close to the behavior of an apostate.

She always told me as a habit not to believe in or worship God.

What’s the point of believing in God?

Even if God exists, she only asks people questions.

She often said that it is always our job to interpret and find the answers to questions, and that we must bear the results and responsibilities.

‘Okay, whatever happens, this is something I have to deal with.’

When I remembered the teacher’s words, I felt that I was alive even in the insensitive five senses and six senses.

This is the responsibility and hardship I have to embrace.

Then, of course, it is my job to overcome it.

At that very moment.

Along with the sound of the status window reacting, my heart was filled with courage.

The full courage burned passionately as if pouring oil.

It was the activation of .

Classification: Disposition

Description: Like an empty cart making a lot of noise, it is a natural disposition to deceive others by making loud noises or raising only vain momentum even though there is no substance.

This courage burning in my heart is a bluff.

The system was saying that.

But this is not a bluff.

I realized after spending a long time in the emptiness with all five senses and six senses closed. I just wanted to avoid agony.

But I accepted it and just opened my closed eyes.

Now I felt more alive than anyone else in the world.

At that very moment.

Light came in through the thin gap in the opened eyelids.

The light formed several lines of text.

[You have completely unified all your spirits.]

[You have witnessed a state equivalent to ascending to immortality (羽化登仙) [becoming a celestial being] and nirvana (涅槃) [a state of enlightenment]. You have achieved an achievement that cannot be achieved with the human spirit!]

[According to the achievement, searching for a reward worthy of it…]

……

[Magic power becomes more refined! All magical acts you perform with magic power in the future will be corrected.]

[Magic power increases by two levels… !]

……

[Error! The level of reward is significantly lower than the achievement. Discard existing rewards. Searching for new rewards…]

[Selected a valid reward!]

[Provides information on the mysterious principle of grasping the center of the subtly twisted three spirals, !]

[In addition, based on the background of achieving complete mental unity, you have awakened the beginning of the six supernormal powers (六神通) [six types of paranormal abilities]!]

[With the title , the eye of the opens!]

My eyes accepted the divine eye.

The eyes of a Buddhist who has achieved mental unity, the so-called sky eyes [a clairvoyant ability].

The eyes that thoroughly penetrate all distant and near sufferings and intervene in the future awakened my eyes completely in the emptiness.

The moment the heavy eyelids opened completely.

The sight that I thought I had lost captured the horrors I had turned away from and kept in my eyes for the rest of my life. This is the deepest part of my mind that I wanted to deny.

My inner self itself.

That place was a sea of blood and a mountain of corpses.

‘….’

My inner world has no sound and no change.

In a world that is so quiet that it is empty, my hearing has degenerated, and my sense of touch has lost its function due to the repeated sensation of blood and flesh. My sense of smell became distant due to the iron-filled blood, and my sense of taste was distorted by the tingling taste of blood in my mouth.

In this way, four of my five senses were closed in an instant.

And I unconsciously closed my last remaining sight.

Because I didn’t want to see this sight again.

However, now that has opened, I couldn’t turn a blind eye.

The karma and suffering accumulated in my heart did not allow me to avoid responsibility.

Look. This blood pooled on the floor, this flesh floating around, belonged to my colleagues.

I blocked all my senses because I didn’t want to see this sight. I didn’t want to witness their deaths again.

I didn’t want to be aware.

The responsibilities that were filled to me by their sacrifices.

The shackles in the name of responsibility and duty.

I wanted to turn away from them, so I regarded this deep place as an empty sea. I just kept swimming on the sea of blood and flesh.

But now that I have opened my eyes, I have no choice but to accept it.

I embrace all of this and fulfill my responsibilities.

I will not turn a blind eye to this tragedy.

Even if it breaks me.

“I will save the world.”

I swore in front of this tragedy.

“I will save people.”

As long as I am me.

I will fulfill my responsibilities and duties and save everyone.

That’s the only reason I can’t die.

* * *

When I woke up from the world of blood clots, the comfortable head of household’s room and bed welcomed me.

Tamamo was nowhere to be seen.

Did she hide in the ring?

“She must have a guilty conscience.”

If that wasn’t the case, there was no reason for Tamamo, who had never looked tired, to hide. I vowed to get compensation when I faced her later and looked at my watch.

Sunday, 3 p.m.

Not even a day has passed.

“What a load of crap.”

I feel like I’ve been there for over a year.

No matter how much it’s in my heart, what kind of time difference is this big?

I let out a hollow laugh and lay down on the bed.

I felt like I was going to die from exhaustion.

‘I haven’t been able to treat the injuries I got at the auction house on Saturday, and I haven’t been able to get enough sleep or meals.’

I might die soon if I keep doing this.

I’m still alive because it’s me. If it were someone else, they might have fainted or become a vegetable the moment they entered their mind.

Still, the only comforting thing is.

“I’m glad the rewards seem generous.”

Two rewards.

In particular, it was great to be able to handle completely.

From now on, the magic efficiency consumed in all magical acts will triple, and the power will also triple.

I also got a title, so I was about to be satisfied when.

A message popped up.

[You have approached something close to the essence of the system!]

[Warning! This is not a place where ‘species name: human’ can come carelessly!]

…….

[The entity is not ‘species name: human’! Judging according to settings and laws.]

My eyes were fixed on the status window.

The translucent blue window was distorted. It felt like watching a broken electronic device or a program that was lagging.

Just as I was feeling that something was wrong, the status window outputted the next message.

[Passed the review. Connects to a deeper part of the system.]

[The system’s browsing privileges have been raised by one level! Some of the details that were originally locked are revealed through the status window!]

[Acquired administrator authority level 9.]

‘Authority?’

Does that mean there were parts that ordinary people couldn’t see?

I slowly looked around to see what had changed, but there was no big change. There wasn’t even a small change.

It’s just the same as before?

At that moment.

[ penetrates subtly hidden privileges!]

[Outputs the appropriate details according to the authority again.]

[You have discovered a trick! As a result, the biased causality is readjusted. Searching for appropriate compensation and response… Administrator authority has been raised to level 8.]

[Magic power has increased by one level.]

[Magic power: A+ → S]

As my magic power increased by one level, my heart became a lake where magic power sprang up. But even so, the limit of output is clear due to the Yanggang energy that blocked the blood vessels.

Anyway, various information began to appear in the status window.

A flood of information pours into my eyes and head.

I memorized everything with the innate talent of , but my head throbbed because I received too much information.

Is this what it feels like to have your head burning?

It’s quite painful.

[The discarded setting, , is only being processed in your status window. Updating the status window.]

[5.5%… 28.7%… 49.9%… 72.2%…… 93.5%… 100%. Update complete.]

[According to the settings, the title and the title are output again.]

“Oh, that’s amazing.”

The details of the status window began to change little by little.

From the minor details that were not visible before to the more detailed figures, you can see them at a glance.

What should I say? If the status window I had been using until now was for free distribution, I couldn’t help but feel like I had bought a paid version for money now.

Many things have changed with the update.

The most noticeable part was the reorganization of the title.

Classification: B+

Description: You have become the successor to the extinct ancient race, the vampires. There may be several other successors besides you. This is an inheritance method derived from the vampire’s tradition of not distinguishing bloodlines only by bloodlines. Gather the forgotten legacies of the vampires and become the only successor.

*Due to finding and absorbing multiple legacies, the power of is activated, which absorbs magic power and energy from blood just by touching the body.

Classification: —

Description: A symbol of complete mental unity. Six mysteries (不可思議) [beyond comprehension] that are above enlightenment and nirvana. There is no information or record of how to train the powers or how to awaken more psychic powers.

*Currently, only is open to oversee all things.

From grade to description.

The hidden content of the title, which was not there before, was revealed.

With this, I will be able to use more diverse tactics in future actions and strategies.

“……Tamamo, should I scold you a little less?”

Yes, she wouldn’t have had any bad intentions either.

Otherwise, my status window would not have become so splendid.

I showed compassion to the extent that Buddha would go away and forgave Tamamo’s sins. Only about half.

* * *

The weekend, which was like a storm, was over.

And then Monday, which would be more terrible than the storm, began.

The students of Chilseong washed up in the dormitory, ate breakfast in their own way, and headed to the lecture rooms of each class.

“I feel like it’s been a long time since I’ve been here.”

I was newly impressed as I looked at the flowers blooming everywhere and the magnificent buildings and grounds. Was this place so magnificent and beautiful in the first place?

‘Is it because I came out after being in the depths of my heart for too long? Or is it because my eyes have changed?’

I touched the area around my newly changed eyes and entered the faculty office.

The first day I came to this world.

To the place I went into by accident.