I Became a Transcendent-Level Genius Trainer - Chapter 122

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Transcendent Genius Trainer, Chapter 122

Crackle-crack-crack-!
Information about the dragon began appearing in Yujun’s two eyes.

-Scanning the Black Dragon of Apocalypse, Pargonia!
-Achievement unlocked!
-Achievement [Dragon Scan] unlocked!
-Obtained 3,000 Points!
-Outstanding Scan! You have successfully scanned beyond your current level!

Crackle.
Crackle-crackle-crackle-!
Yujun’s crimson lightning spread powerfully outward.

-True Sight proficiency increases!
-Conditions fulfilled by achievement!
-You have met the conditions for True Sight Extreme.

Numerous notifications passed, and the dragon’s status window appeared.

-[Black Dragon of Apocalypse, Pargonia] Overall Grade: S+
-Body: [S]
-Spirit: [S]
-Potential: Supreme
-Special Notes: Ability Rampage
-Mana Purity: 15%

The identity of the black dragon before Yujun’s eyes was staggering.

‘The Black Dragon of Apocalypse?’

The Black Dragon of Apocalypse, Pargonia.
It was far more than a mere legendary Demon Beast.
Its grade was vastly higher than Fen’s.

‘The overall grade is S+.’

It was overwhelmingly the highest grade among all the targets Yujun had scanned so far.
Moreover, both body and spirit were S-grade.
Unlike when scanning humans, stats weren’t visible, but its potential was also excellent.

‘No wonder the Awakened Person Scan didn’t work.’

Even now that the Awakened Person Scan had succeeded, his eyes ached considerably.
Sting. Sting.
But Yujun didn’t stop and analyzed the status window.
His eyes couldn’t see it clearly, but through the Awakened Person Scan, he could grasp it.

‘An Ability Rampage.’

This Ability Rampage was a phrase that could be interpreted in various ways.

‘Simply put, its possessed abilities are running rampant.’

But there was a bigger problem.
Mana purity.

‘Fifteen percent—truly the worst.’

Now he understood how an S+ overall grade Pargonia had ended up being captured.

‘It can’t use its full power. That’s why it was captured.’

Yujun immediately used a Training Hint.
With only the current information, it would be difficult to judge.
Since the Awakened Person Scan had succeeded, a proper Training Hint should be obtainable.

Ding-!

-Training Hint! [Find the reason for the Ability Rampage. This dragon is very young!]

Ability Rampage, low Mana Purity, yet high Mana grade in contrast.
And furthermore…….

‘Young?’

Yujun’s mind raced rapidly.
The fragmented information began coming together.
Crackle-crack-crack.
The unified information led Yujun to the answer.

‘These abilities aren’t originally this dragon’s.’

What the black dragon’s own power was, he didn’t know.
But the fact that its abilities were rampaging and Mana Purity had dropped to fifteen percent strongly suggested these weren’t its original powers.

‘The Black Dragon of Apocalypse. A young dragon wouldn’t receive such a tremendous epithet.’

Then the most likely reason was inheritance of power.

It meant a young dragon that had inherited both the epithet and the name Pargonia.

‘It received the power and name from ancestors long past. That makes sense.’

That power dwelt within this small dragon.
Then the Ability Rampage also made sense.

‘Before it fully matured, it received power it couldn’t handle. That caused the Ability Rampage.’

Before both body and spirit had fully developed, it had gained immense power it couldn’t manage.

‘The Ability Rampage and Mana Purity.’

Yujun made his judgment with certainty.

‘The Ability Rampage has overloaded its Mana Circuit, gradually lowering the Mana Purity.’

This also explained the low Mana Purity.
Why the cracks and red light hadn’t appeared in his True Sight.

‘It’s concealing its weakness with raw power.’

Pargonia lived in the Tower.
To survive in that realm of the strong, concealing one’s weakness was absolutely natural.

‘Good.’

He had grasped Pargonia’s problem.
Now he just needed to find out what weakness the dragon was hiding.

‘And then train it and tame it based on that.’

“Kyarr-rr-rung-!”

Pargonia roared.
Yujun’s scan seemed to irritate it greatly, and it once again began showing hostility.

‘Now it’s a speed battle.’

Fen, the first Demon Beast Yujun had trained, had severe physical pain.
So he had identified the cracks and red light with True Sight, and by removing them, he had eased its suffering.
Thanks to that, he’d built trust and was able to proceed with training and taming.

‘Remove discomfort and make them trust me.’

In short, he had to build trust by removing discomfort and improving physical condition.

‘That’s the key. But this situation is different from Fen’s.’

This dragon had few cracks.
There was red light, but not the kind he could remove instantly.

‘These are injuries from training. Fixing them wouldn’t help. I need to find the fundamental cause.’

Currently, this dragon perceived training as an attempt to harm itself.
Yujun activated the Training Hint once more.

-Training Hint!
-[Fulfill what the dragon wants! Communicate!]

The Training Hint was simple.
Have a conversation with the dragon and fulfill what it wanted.

‘Then I need to ask what it wants.’

If it won’t tell him, he could force it to reveal itself.
Yujun gripped the Crystal Staff.

“Don’t worry. I’m not attacking.”

Screech-eee-eee-ck-!

“I’m just diagnosing your condition.”

Yujun’s Crystal Staff began moving frantically.
Poke. Poke. Poke. Poke.
In those movements made with full force, afterimages appeared.
Stabbing and stabbing.
He already knew the tail wasn’t the problem.
Legs, waist, shoulder, heart, head—then back down to the neck.

In an instant, Yujun’s Crystal Staff had pierced Pargonia’s entire body.

“……!”

At that sight, Sarah Jennings frowned and opened her mouth.

“Didn’t he fake the grade?”
“That can’t be. I heard South Korea is lenient with grade assignments.”
“By any measure, that’s not A-grade.”
“The way he evaded the breath, the way he wielded the staff…….”
“It’s overwhelming…….”

The other Trainers and Awakened Ones also marveled.
Those movements were absolutely not those of an A-grade.
An A-grade Trainer could never move like that.

Crash-!
Sarah Jennings, watching Yujun’s movements just now, was certain.
Those movements from a moment ago.

“That’s my training.”

Sarah Jennings could say with certainty.
Yujun wasn’t simply wielding the staff.
While wielding the staff, he was injecting Mana to activate the dragon’s nerves.

“He’s injecting Mana.”

It wasn’t just a simple injection.
He was applying the training method she had demonstrated through the artifact.
That was definitely her method.

Thud. Thud.
That wasn’t all.

“Hmm.”

Wei Long was feeling the same thing.
Those acupoint strikes.
That was his training method.

“……How? Did he copy it just from seeing it once?”

Had he replicated it from just that brief observation?
Wei Long couldn’t help but be astonished.

“It seems so.”

Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh-.
Sarah Jennings’s artifact sunglasses had the effect of sensitively detecting the flow of Mana.
She could see deeper and more acutely within the body.
Of course, what could be seen varied by wearer, but Sarah Jennings could draw out one hundred percent of her artifact sunglasses’ power.

“He’s training it. And adapting my method.”

Sarah Jennings marveled.

“But he had nothing before.”

Sarah had used her Awakening ability along with these sunglasses.
Her ability was Aura Detection.
A common support-type Awakening ability, but she could use it with greater strength.
By understanding her target’s movements and being able to remember that aura, it had become extremely useful in training.
Thanks to this, she could instinctively grasp incorrect movements through her ability.
This Aura Detection had become an ability to detect correct movements, making her one of the top-tier Trainers even in America.
This time was the same.
She was using her ability and artifact to correct the dragon’s incorrect movements and tame it.
Of course, she also understood.
That the way to give the dragon trust was to resolve its discomfort.
But the dragon seemed to have no discomfort.
She couldn’t sense it even with Aura Detection.

“Clearly there’s no problem…….”

Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh-!
She furrowed her brow and pushed her Aura Detection to its limit.
The target was that small dragon.
But soon she could only shake her head.

“I can’t sense it.”

Clearly Yujun was training it, yet she couldn’t sense any problem in the dragon.

“What exactly is he training?”

At Sarah Jennings’s words, Pyotr looked at her in confusion.

“You’re saying that A-grade is training it right now? Not just beating it into submission?”

He couldn’t believe it.
To his eyes, it just looked like they were fighting.
Looking closer, it seemed like he was stabbing the dragon’s body repeatedly.

“He’s really training and not just pretending?”

Pyotr and Hans frowned.
It seemed something was visible to Wei Long and Sarah Jennings that wasn’t visible to them.

“Ha.”

Meanwhile, Yujun wielded the Crystal Staff even more forcefully.

He had to push harder.

‘This Mana Injection Technique of Sarah Jennings—it’s quite excellent.’

It could stimulate the target’s Mana circuits and nerves to heighten reflexes.

‘Concealment means controlling power.’

It allowed him to control the target’s power from his end.

‘And striking acupoints amplifies the effect.’

At the moment he struck an acupoint while injecting Mana, Pargonia’s tail trembled.

‘Almost there.’

Wei Long and Sarah Jennings’s training methods gradually seeped into Yujun’s approach.

‘Truly watching good training is an enormous help!’

He combined Baek Do-gyun’s method of naturally tapping to correct internal issues with Wei Long’s precise acupoint striking to correct.
At that moment, Yujun’s eyes caught something.
Pargonia’s wings, which had been spread to distance itself from Yujun, trembled.

‘I saw it.’

The crack the dragon had been hiding became visible.
Red light showed and the Mana momentarily scattered.

‘Its wings are injured.’

This wasn’t an injury from training.

‘It’s congenital.’

Yujun wielded the Crystal Staff toward the dragon’s wings.
Crash-crash-crash-!

‘Found it.’

Yujun spun the Crystal Staff.
The place that needed fixing.
The place Pargonia desperately wanted to hide.

“I’ll help you.”

Yujun grinned and called Kim Gyu-cheol behind him.

“Gyu-cheol!”
“Yes!”
“The Wing-Fixing Artifact! The kind of repurposed artifact you made for Awakened One Seo Yu-ri before—I need one!”

Kim Gyu-cheol, who had been maintaining tension while observing the situation, could respond immediately.

“Yes! I’ll start right away!”

Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh-.
He immediately activated his ability.
Boom-!
The Geumgang Furnace appeared and Kim Gyu-cheol’s crafting began.
Bang-!
Having witnessed the entire process here, Kim Gyu-cheol was seething with anger.
Everyone was disrespecting Yujun.
So he wanted to show them.
Who his teacher was.
What his teacher’s training was like.
Thoughts related to the Geumgang Kim Family had already vanished from his mind.
Bang-! Bang-! Bang-!
As Kim Gyu-cheol began crafting, Pargonia started releasing powerful force.

“Kyarr-rr-rung-!”

The temporarily docile Pargonia began showing resistance.
Yujun spoke as he watched Pargonia like that.

“Your body will burn up too if you do that.”

Yet Pargonia didn’t stop.

‘If it continues, the injury will worsen.’

What Yujun needed to do now was eliminate that wing injury.

-Checking Pargonia’s skills!

Crackle-crack-crack-!
Yujun’s expression suddenly turned to shock.

‘This many……?’

Among all the subjects he’d trained so far, even Hong Jun-yong and Seo Yu-ri, who had the highest potential, weren’t comparable.
The dragon had far too many skills.

‘And they’re all Undeveloped.’

This confirmed it.
Pargonia had inherited power but wasn’t properly digesting it.

‘Then……it must be this.’

Among the countless skills, Yujun found the one that could reliably restore Pargonia’s condition.

-Song of Apocalypse <Undeveloped>

A skill called Song of Apocalypse.

‘A self-healing skill.’

With an overall grade of S+, there’s no way it lacks a self-healing skill.

‘And the other skills are ridiculous too.’

Yujun smiled darkly.
If he could tame such a black dragon, it would become a tremendous asset.

-Awakening the Black Dragon of Apocalypse Pargonia’s skill!
-10,000 Points consumed!
-Song of Apocalypse has Awakened!

Ten thousand points.
But not a waste at all.
Screech-ck-!
The moment Yujun awakened the Song of Apocalypse, he made it understood that the skill had awakened.
The Song of Apocalypse activated immediately, and a jet-black aura erupted from Pargonia’s entire body.

“Kyar……ung?”

The instant the pain in its wings vanished, surprise flickered in the dragon’s eyes.

“Ha!”

Then Pyotr shouted.

“Do you think it’ll work?”

Having tried twice, he knew.
This couldn’t be tamed.
Training was impossible for this monster.
The very idea of training a monster was flawed from the start.
These creatures had no value for training.
Training was only possible with beings that possessed reason.

“It’s not a real dragon. Just a monster wearing a dragon’s form.”

How could one possibly train such a being?

“If that were possible…….”

All the monsters in the Tower could be trained.
Pyotr swallowed his words and crossed his arms.
He was certain.
No matter how hard he tried to tame it, the dragon would eventually attack.

Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh-whoosh-!
Suddenly, intense black aura erupted from Pargonia.
Thinking exactly that, Yujun’s Crystal Staff stopped.

“Kekeke.”

As expected, it won’t work.
Pyotr scoffed and muttered.

“Still, he’s more skilled than I thought.”

Against such a powerful dragon, he had maintained his methods for quite a while.
Overpowering speed against the dragon.
And precise staffwork.

“Not a wasted effort!”

Now it seemed South Korea had intentionally drawn aggro by claiming A-grade.
That level would be evaluated as S-grade anywhere else.

“Was it a secret trump card?”

But even that trump card ultimately failed.

“……!”
“Huh?”

But something was off.
Sarah Jennings, carefully observing Yujun’s training, widened her eyes.
Yujun hadn’t given up and lowered his staff.

“Surely not.”

Pyotr’s hand gripping the whip tensed.
Hans and Wei Long too bore expressions of disbelief.
The dragon was no longer trying to attack Yujun.
It wasn’t showing any will to attack at all.
The dragon’s eyes, its momentum—everything had changed.

“It’s gone.”

The intense Mana it had been releasing had vanished too.
Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh-.
Stable Mana.
That meant the dragon was no longer showing hostility toward Yujun.
Bang-!
Right on cue, Kim Gyu-cheol’s crafting was complete.
Hastily made, the completeness was lacking, but what was needed now wasn’t a highly complete artifact.

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