I Became a Transcendent-Level Genius Trainer - Chapter 139

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Transcendent Genius Trainer 139

Whoosh—!
It was a novel experience for Baek Hyeon-jin as well.

He had received mana injection from others before.
Top-tier trainers in South Korea had succeeded in injecting mana into him.
Do Kang-myeong, Yeon Da-seul, and even Ryu Jeong-hwan, the association chairman before him.
But this was the first time it had succeeded without an artifact.

“To think that one staff alone could make the mana injection successful.”

Something was different.
Baek Hyeon-jin steeled his resolve and closed his eyes.
Since he’d confirmed it was different from before, he too had to shift his mindset and focus.

‘Lightning Rod.’

Lightning Rod.
It was a skill Yujun was seeing for the first time as well.

‘It seems to be a training skill that disperses the impact of sudden shocks. I have every reason to be seeing it for the first time.’

Right now, Yujun was attempting to train an SS-rank Awakener.

‘To conduct training for an SS-rank Awakener in the Tower of Infinity, you need to raise your level quite significantly.’

So trainers naturally tended to carry various skills or artifacts to reduce the danger that came with training SS-rank Awakeners.
But right now, Yujun had none of those things.
So he’d tried his best to disperse the impact through experience.

‘So a new skill bloomed. If anything, it’s worked out better.’

It was a skill he could make good use of in many future trainings.
He could use it further in Baek Hyeon-jin’s current training as well.
Yujun slowly pushed the injected mana deeper into Baek Hyeon-jin’s body.

From this point on, no stray thoughts were allowed.
He had to commune only with Baek Hyeon-jin and focus on the mana he’d injected into his body.
Even the smallest mistake could deal him and Baek Hyeon-jin both tremendous damage.

‘Then today’s training would be done.’

Until now, Yujun had finished training in almost a single day.
But in the case of the hero before him, Baek Hyeon-jin, it was impossible in a single day.

‘I need to plan for a longer timeframe.’

To reconstruct the Mana Road within this bottomless pit of a body, a single day was insufficient.
For that, the body’s condition couldn’t be even slightly off.
Yujun’s mana carefully examined Baek Hyeon-jin’s body.
Things that weren’t visible even with Mind’s Eye at its peak began to be felt through mana injection.

Since Yujun could supplement insufficient information through both Mind’s Eye at its peak and mana injection, he could see Baek Hyeon-jin’s internal state far more accurately.

‘The entire Mana Circuit is burned.’

The Mana Circuit was already in a state no different from ashes.
It was remarkable that he’d survived such total devastation.
Yujun moved his mana deeper.

‘It’s more serious than I thought.’

It seemed others hadn’t tried to stop him for no reason.
There was almost nothing left.

‘Hmm.’

Whether they sensed Yujun’s thoughts or not, Baek Hyeon-jin and the chairman’s eyes met.
Both of them seemed to know why Yujun had been biting his lip.

The state of his body.
Right now, Baek Hyeon-jin wasn’t in a condition where training or even treatment was possible.
Chairman Ryu Jeong-hwan let out a deep sigh.

“There’s no thread to begin training with.”

Nor was there a thread to begin treatment with.
Yujun opened his eyes and briefly broke his concentration, and Baek Hyeon-jin spoke to him.

“You must be curious about the reason. Why my body came to this state.”

Yujun nodded.

“During the Great Disaster. There were an enormous number of monsters pouring out of the Tower. They were such formidable creatures that only an S-rank Awakener could stand against them, but there was no one else who could move besides me.”

But on that day, all the Awakeners were in no condition to fight.
The only Awakener who could hold back this flood of monsters was Baek Hyeon-jin.
As the memory of that day surfaced, Baek Hyeon-jin’s eyes became fierce.

“I moved. Fast. Faster. But the power I could muster was limited. So I decided. I would just burn it all. Burn everything. Right here.”

It wasn’t to protect.

“I didn’t have any great heroic spirit. I was just consumed by vengeance. The Great Disaster took my wife.”

Baek Hyeon-jin gripped his sword.
And he swung it, burning his body.
Each swing collapsed his interior.

The mighty, solid Mana Roads were torn.
The Mana Circuits shattered.
His entire body screamed.
Yet he continued. He drew out his mana to its absolute limit.

“I burned myself. That’s why I survived.”

Then Baek Hyeon-jin laughed.

“What more could happen than death? With that thought, I survived. Of course, the price is this.”

After hearing the entire story, Yujun organized his thoughts and boldly moved his mana.

‘Then there must be something left.’

There was a way. A definite way to overcome this situation had come to him.

Whoosh.
Yujun withdrew the mana he’d injected and looked at Baek Hyeon-jin.

“How is it? Do you think training would be possible?”

Could he be made into an Awakener again, as Yujun had said at the very beginning?
Such was the question.

“Your condition is far worse than I expected, sir.”

Yujun spoke with a frown.

“But I can see a path. I know how to do it.”

Soon after, he relaxed his expression and answered with conviction.

“You know how to do it?”

Baek Hyeon-jin asked with disbelief written across his face, and Yujun nodded readily.

“Yes. I think it will work if we rebuild. From the beginning. All of it.”
“……Rebuild, you say?”

In Baek Hyeon-jin’s stead, the chairman continued the question.

“How?”
“Mana Circuit Reconstruction.”
“……!”

At that answer, the chairman sprang to his feet.

“That can’t possibly be done.”

His eyes were filled with shock.

“It’s like gathering fragments of a broken ceramic and putting them back together. And you have to do it not with your hands but with a tiny pair of tweezers. Moreover, Baek Hyeon-jin doesn’t have any mana right now. If there’s no mana left, it’s impossible to reconstruct the Mana Circuit.”

If he made a mistake, the backlash could tangle Yujun’s mana.
If that happened, Yujun would naturally experience Mana Reversal and could suffer permanent damage.
And there was the matter of mana itself.

Currently, Baek Hyeon-jin had no mana.
There couldn’t be mana left among the ashes.
This had already gone beyond impossible.
The reason Ryu Jeong-hwan and others hadn’t spoken of circuit reconstruction was precisely because it was an ideal solution—nothing more than an ideal.

‘I thought the same.’

Yujun also agreed with that assessment.
But after talking with Baek Hyeon-jin and examining his body, he saw the possibility.

‘If he’d been ruptured by a monster attack, there’d likely be no mana left, as the chairman said.’

But he’d burned it himself.

‘Then there’s a possibility. I’ve experienced a similar case in the Tower of Infinity as well.’

If he applied the experience and knowledge from that time, there was definitely a possibility.
Watching him, the chairman asked with concern.

“Don’t get drunk on idealism. Have you ever done it? Reconstruction?”
“Yes.”

Yujun nodded and answered.

‘I’ve already done it with Seo Yu-ri.’

Of course, the reconstruction he’d done for Seo Yu-ri had been partial.

‘Whereas with Baek Hyeon-jin, it’s his entire body interior.’

He had to build a house from the foundation stone up.

“Though the circumstances were different from Baek Hyeon-jin’s, I should mention.”

Yujun smiled.

“Either way, what’s worse than death?”

At that audacity and confidence, both Baek Hyeon-jin and Ryu Jeong-hwan let out hollow laughs.
Watching them, Yujun declared boldly.

“Then I’ll begin at once.”

With that, he turned Baek Hyeon-jin around and brought his hand to his back.
Whoooosh—!
Though he’d used the Crystal Stone Staff before, he’d already experienced injecting mana once, so his bare hand was sufficient.

“!”

Baek Hyeon-jin was startled to see mana being injected without an artifact.
But Yujun paid no attention to that and focused on moving the mana.

Control.
First, he spread the mana around the navel area.
The first thing he had to do was find an ember in this pile of ashes.
He had to find that ember and burn it.
He had to ignite a flame and find the fundamental mana that Baek Hyeon-jin possessed.

‘I’ll build the circuit around that First Mana.’

Whoooosh—!
After spreading the mana in all directions and concentrating, Yujun found a small light.
It was mana that had survived at the end of the completely burned circuit.

‘This is enough.’

Yujun drew out his mana in a long line.
Then he began connecting it around Baek Hyeon-jin’s mana.

Click—.
Click—. Click—.
After connecting one, another fragment of mana in the ashes became visible.
Yujun connected it with the line he’d created.

The mana fragments were the last strength that had sustained Baek Hyeon-jin for decades.
That power, hidden in the ashes, shone like stars.
As if it knew what Yujun was doing, it revealed where it was.
Yujun connected those glimmering mana stars.

“……!”

Baek Hyeon-jin felt a tremendous surge of pain in an instant.
Even he, who’d grown numb to all manner of suffering, trembled violently.

“……He’s really connecting them.”

Confirming the change in Baek Hyeon-jin, Chairman Ryu Jeong-hwan quietly sat back down.
Whoooosh—!
A pale blue aura rose from Yujun’s body.
One became ten, ten became a hundred, and hundreds became thousands of circuits.
When thousands of circuits became a single Mana Road.

Whoooosh—!
The hidden mana fragments soon began connecting like dots.
Whoosh—. Whoosh—. Whoosh—.

Each time, sweat poured down from Yujun’s entire body.
His mind was a blank slate.
He moved almost on instinct alone, finding the optimal path.
The chairman unconsciously released a breath he’d been holding.

“Huh.”

He thought about why he’d chosen such a difficult path.
Why he’d chosen something bound to fail.
The audacity of youth.
The challenge of a trainer who knows no failure.
He understood the reason. He simply couldn’t comprehend it.
But watching it directly, everything began to make sense.

“He’s just……enjoying it.”

Seeing it, he couldn’t help but understand.
Yujun simply loved it.
Any training whatsoever.
He was enjoying even training in the impossible—the very things others called impossible.

Witnessing it, his heart as a fellow trainer couldn’t help but race.
The sitting chairman’s legs trembled.
Watching such training made him want to train himself.

The trainings he hadn’t done before out of propriety or had given up once becoming chairman surfaced in his mind.
Why had he walked the path of a trainer?
He too had a rebellious streak—he’d started precisely because someone said training was absolutely impossible.

-That person can absolutely never train.
-Just give up.

Chairman Ryu Jeong-hwan muttered softly about his own changes.

“What’s this unseemly behavior at almost sixty.”

His heart racing to this degree.
The chairman held his breath once more and observed Yujun’s training.

Connecting the mana fragments.
Connecting again until thousands of mana became a path.
Crack—.
The immense Mana Road created by fragments connecting to fragments was like a constellation.

Yujun grasped Baek Hyeon-jin’s body condition through Mind’s Eye. The foundation stones were all laid; now only one thing remained.

‘Now then. Make all the fragments into one great Mana Road.’

This final process was both the most crucial and the most dangerous.
But it didn’t matter.

‘If I die during training, it’s an honorable death.’

Yujun simply injected his mana as planned.

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