Academy’s Gumiho is a Magic Genius - Chapter 281



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Academy Gumiho is a Magical Genius Episode 281

Old Fox (1)

There was no answer in return.

Instead, what greeted me was a pure white lightning bolt.

Kugugugugugun─!

As soon as the strong charge appeared from Baek Seok-ho’s hand, it brushed past my ear. It was fast and sharp.

“If I hadn’t avoided it, I would have died.”

“It was a blow that I shouted at him not to be avoided.”

“Your hands are cold.”

Gulp.

Blood is flowing from my ears.

It didn’t damage my hearing or eardrums, but the flesh on my ear was pierced and blackened. I think I can somehow recover from that if I treat my ears, but if that attack hits my stomach, there’s no way to treat it.

This time it was time for me to make a move.

“Where are you moving?”

Whoosh!

This time, a flash of light passes before my eyes.

I instinctively dodged the lightning bolt that was aimed squarely at my neck.

Kugugugugugun─!

The sound was only heard after the lightning struck the ground.

That speed is a bit weird.

Light travels faster than sound, of course, but isn’t this a bit strange?

‘The speed is abnormally fast.’

Of all the enemies I’ve faced so far, there have been some who have dealt with electricity and lightning.

Rather, it was on the many side.

Lightning was one of the most threatening elements found in nature, along with fire. They often mixed fists with lightning-wielding monsters and minions.

However, Baek Seok-ho’s lightning was the most heterogeneous and fastest lightning I’ve ever encountered.

‘It’s much stronger than I expected.’

This is the power of a High Ranker, of which only 100 exist in the entire world.

Certainly, the average military power in this world is higher than where I lived.

‘Let’s explore information first.’

I kicked my feet.

“Lambo”

A gait as swift as a wolf.

As the threatening strides characteristic of a predator unfolded, the lightning pouring down on me stopped.

Strictly speaking, it didn’t stop.

‘Since I couldn’t match it, I decided that any more lightning strikes would be a waste of magic power.’

It is a reasonable judgment.

After the first lightning strike.

Baek Seok-ho never matched me even once.

But that doesn’t mean the current situation is in my favor.

“If we go to a war of attrition, I have the advantage, but in a long-range attack, my opponent has the upper hand. What kind of fight is this?”

The quality and quantity of magical power.

Even the speed at which it rises during battle.

If it becomes a protracted war and a war of attrition, I will be the one who gains the advantage.

However, if the situation changes to a long-range battle, which is synonymous with a war of attrition, the balance of victory tilts towards Baek Seok-ho.

Baek Seok-ho’s specialty.

The problem was the lightning bolts emanating from his hands and weapons.

‘The form is lightning, but the contents are completely different.’

The speed itself far exceeded the maximum speed that lightning could achieve.

As the speed is great, the power is also tremendous.

Of course, if you don’t hit, speed and power are meaningless, but Baek Seok-ho is starting to take advantage of the additional effects of lightning.

Kookung─!

As lightning strikes the ground, a huge electric current flows through the ground, tearing it apart.

Sharp debris from the floor.

The strong winds generated by the lightning struck and the debris mixed together to form a huge weapon that aimed for my body.

Most of them were small blade-sized fragments, but some were larger than my body. Those fragments still contained the magical power and electricity transmitted from the lightning strike.

That was your goal from the beginning.

I have no choice but to admit it.

This is a bit threatening.

“Eat it alive.”

Starter word.

As soon as the words left my mouth, sparks appeared in the air.

A wall of red flames formed.

Baek Seok-ho stepped back at the intense heat he felt through his skin.

Heat is not a problem.

All you need to do is protect your skin with magic.

However, the momentum of the magical power that made up the flame was unusually sharp. This is clearly a trap.

The moment Baek Seok-ho, who figured out his opponent’s intentions, tried to pierce the wall of flames with a pure white lightning bolt.

Clump, clump.

Black letters passed by like clouds in the flames.

Baek Seok-ho’s eyes moved quickly.

‘what?’

Letters that passed by in an instant.

With his superhuman kinetic vision, Baek Seok-ho analyzed the letters that passed before his eyes.

That’s it just now.

‘A bunch of foreign words with Chinese characters that I don’t know what they are. And they’re clearly dead characters from a very long time ago. But what the heck are they?’

I knew right away what it was.

Words that were presumed to be ancient words with no known analogue in Chinese characters emerged from the flames and burned to ashes.

… … Since I can’t interpret it, I can’t know the other person’s intentions.

‘It’s a possibility, though.’

These may be characters that have no meaning.

It could also have been a means of dazzling Baek Seok-ho’s eyes and concentration.

Even if it has no meaning, if there is a possibility that it might happen, it makes it so that we have no choice but to prepare for it, even if it is a meaningless word.

You’ve put some thought into it.

It looks like he used a plan that came to him during the fight, but geniuses are different. He got caught up in it.

but!

That’s something that only sewers get into!

“I’m not the type of person to hesitate over a text message I don’t understand!”

Thud thud.

Baek Seok-ho moved his feet for the first time.

He had been firing off only lightning bolts from his spot, but as the wall of flames began to block the debris on the ground and surround and press Baek Seok-ho, he walked straight ahead.

A confident stride.

In front of the fire, Baek Seok-ho put strength into his feet.

Then, electricity gathered in his feet, and his lower body turned into lightning and began to move quickly. Baek Seok-ho broke through the wall of flames in an instant.

Boom─!

I hit the wall and fell to the floor.

… … You just hit a wall?

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“You’ve given physical power to the flames. Were those letters just now some kind of magic that solidified the flames?”

I don’t know what it is, but it’s amazing.

How could he, who moves at lightning speed, be unable to penetrate a wall of such strength? This is stronger than an average S-class shield or armor.

“Is it true that even if the elders of the branch family work hard for decades, the head of the family is different? Even when fighting a twenty-year-old, he can’t get a chance to win.”

Baek Seok-ho was purely amazed.

His lightning bolt was the culmination of decades of hard work.

It’s so easy to dodge or block a lightning bolt like that.

It is never an easy task. At least among the people that Baek Seok-ho knows, there are only a very small number of people who can have such a close fight with him.

Even if you add the condition of being a wizard to that very small number, you can still count them on one hand.

Because Baek Seok-ho is not a person who shouts lightning.

He is Changsu.

It is an unmanned vehicle that uses a spear as its main weapon.

The old fox had a talent for fighting, and over a long period of time, that talent blossomed fully.

That’s why I was proud.

Baek Seok-ho’s pride in believing he would definitely win the fight took something away from him.

“Foxfire”

The fire that Baek Seok-ho encountered was no ordinary fire.

It was a cursed fire that should never be ignored.

Hwaruk─!

It started out as a small spark.

Baek Seok-ho frowned at the small flames on his shoes and tried to suppress them with his magic power.

Just like an alcohol lamp.

We tried to put out the fire by cutting off the oxygen, but something was wrong.

The magical power was not covering the flames like a lid, but rather was being sucked in.

“!!!”

This is a curse!

Baek Seok-ho realized the power contained in the flames in an instant, but it was already too late.

He should not have stopped paying attention and being on guard since the unidentifiable letters began to appear in the flames. Baek Seok-ho was proud and arrogant.

The price was his right ankle.

Hwarururuk─!

The small spark soon grew into a size that could be called a full-fledged flame.

Baek Seok-ho, who had his feet stolen by the flames, made a decision.

Evolution is late. So we have no choice but to cut it out.

Crunch!

The lightning struck him like a sword, cutting off his right foot with fire. A decision without hesitation.

Thanks to this, Baek Seok-ho was able to reduce the damage to one foot.

“That’s too bad. I thought I could take it up to my ankles.”

“Now I know what it is. It was a really clingy ghost. At this rate, even if I win the fight, my skin will all burn off.”

Ghost phosphorus.

It’s a will-o’-the-wisp.

It was a gloomy flame burning in a place like the night and the grave.

Baek Seok-ho figured out exactly what had caused his feet to be like this.

Now I know what those letters are. They’re related to curses.

He put all sorts of curses into the will-o’-the-wisps to make it impossible for them to be used recklessly. It was a truly vicious and wise attack.

“It’s pretty good.”

But if you don’t get the next number, you’ll lose your right foot too?

The magical power gathered in Baek Seok-ho’s right hand is unusual.

Kugugugugugun─!

The transformation was instantaneous.

The magic soon turned into lightning, and dozens of lightning bolts shot from the sky and rained down on the ground. I stopped my feet as I desperately tried to run away.

If you run away, you will definitely lose.

An intuition took over my body telling me to stop it here.

“I’m really angry because you cut off my foot.”

All sorts of ideas suddenly came to my mind.

The first thing that came to mind was a lightning rod, but that won’t do.

What you can’t stop by setting up a lightning rod is that the concept that makes up lightning isn’t electricity. Only the visible form is made of electricity.

In reality, it is a mass of fast and sharp magic power.

That kind of thing isn’t all in its original form.

If that was a real lightning strike, I would have done something about it.

They would have done something like erecting a transmission tower or blocking it with earth.

‘That’s best defended with an equal amount of magical power.’

So this time, the sparks were lit again.

I didn’t build the wall of flames for nothing.

Skill, the flames that are heavily imbued with the curse of “Foxfire” are made up of a vast amount of magical power that even those without talent for magical power would doubt as they pass by.

20% of the maximum horsepower I have.

20% may seem like a small amount, but it was more than the amount invested by an ordinary wizard with all of his magical power. Furthermore, the quality of the magical power was on a whole other level.

‘How many more times can I endure this?’

However, even with these flames, there was a limit to blocking Baek Seok-ho’s lightning. Perhaps nine more steps. If the magical power that makes up the lightning is dispersed and the range of impact is widened, it will collapse within five steps.

It’s almost time to come now.

‘They’re coming from far away. Let’s take this step.’

thud!

A dull thud was heard beyond the wall.

It sounded like the person next door in the apartment was punching me with all their might.

The ensuing cracking sound burst the wall.

Kugugugugun─!

A clear, crackling sound.

Not only the sound, but the impact was so great that the flames, which had remained unshaken like an iron fortress even after successive attacks, began to shake violently.

Two feet with this.

I think I can hold out for three more steps.

When I feel like doing that.

“……What the heck!”

I instinctively followed the law.

Run as far away from the flame barrier as possible!

By straining my leg muscles and moving faster than the speed of lightning, I was finally able to escape from the ominous feeling.

Immediately after that.

─────!

A deafening, huge roar rang out.

As the wall of flame collapsed, a blinding flash of light erupted between the walls.

The speed of light or the speed of sound. It didn’t matter which reached me faster.

The important thing is that the speed of both is crazy.

I have seen lightning and avoided it, but this time I was unable to do anything.

By the time hearing and sight were restored.

I saw a monster.

“It’s harder than I thought. It was hard to break through.”

Baek Seok-ho calmly approached, breaking through the wall of flames. His severed right foot was covered in lightning bolts like the sole of an animal’s paw, and his left hand held a thin, long lightning spear.

For a cunning old fox, having his leg cut off was nothing.

This is an area that he can overcome with his wits.

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