I Became a Transcendent-Level Genius Trainer - Chapter 140

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I Became a Transcendent-Level Genius Trainer — Chapter 140

Shaaaaaaack—!
Shaaaaaaaaaaaack—!

Light exploded.
Baek Hyeon-jin clenched his teeth and gripped his fists with all his strength.
Something was happening to Baek Hyeon-jin’s body, which had been filled with ash.

“Ugh…”

While Baek Hyeon-jin endured the intense pain, his mana circuits were rebuilt.
And centered on him, a proper Mana Road was created.

Shaack—.
Of course, compared to his prime, it was incomparably weak.

“The training was successful.”

Yujun smiled.
At the same time, he slowly withdrew his hand and collapsed right there.
He fell to one knee and breathed heavily.

‘That was way too close.’

Yujun’s physical condition was now at its worst.
All his mana had been drained, and he had absorbed the full shock of creating the Mana Road.
If he moved wrong from here, his internal body could literally explode.
It was training where he had risked his life.

“Insane…… insane! Have you lost your mind!”

Association Chairman Ryu Jeong-hwan spoke with an incredulous expression.
I will train with my life on the line.
That was just a hackneyed phrase. It was merely a figurative way of saying he’d work hard, like a habit.
Not a single trainer actually stakes his life on it.

Even trainers who climb the Tower together observe carefully from behind.
Training proceeded through VR or cameras, never from up close.
But Kang Yu-jun had actually staked his life.

“Have you lost your mind, you maniac!”

The chairman spoke with fierce language before he could help himself.

“You nearly died!”

Yujun smiled as he looked at the chairman.

“Fortunately, I survived.”

It wasn’t a gamble on pure odds.
He challenged it because it was doable.
And in the end, he succeeded.
Of course, the training wasn’t finished yet.

‘Now I’ve reached the starting line.’

But since he had accomplished the most difficult part, Yujun could smile.

“A potion, please.”

Gulp-gulp—.
Yujun received a potion from the chairman and drank it right away.

After downing the highest-tier mana recovery potion, his condition improved slightly.
Yujun quickly released the shockwave trapped inside his body like a time bomb by rolling his feet.

Boom—!
Booooom—!
As intense power erupted from Baek Hyeon-jin with a thunderous roar, the watching Awakened Ones cried out in surprise.

—!
“What…… what exactly did we just witness?”
“Could it be…… the training actually succeeded?”

Shaaaaaack—.
The aura rising from Baek Hyeon-jin.

“Doesn’t seem like it…… ?”
“A Hero’s aura shouldn’t be this weak.”
“No, something’s strange. It’s odd somehow…… ?”

Normally, nothing could be felt from a Hero.
They all thought the Hero really was finished—such a pathetic existence compared to what a Hero should be.
But now Baek Hyeon-jin was emitting a strange aura.
Something that hadn’t been there before.

“…… Feels like about 10 percent success?”
“Success? Isn’t 10 percent already insane?”

Until now, no one had achieved anything close to success with a Hero’s training.
Yujun had pulled it off.
After finishing the potion, Yujun took a deep breath.

“Whooooooo…”

His body hadn’t fully recovered, but checking on Baek Hyeon-jin took priority.

“How do you feel?”

Baek Hyeon-jin closed his eyes.
Then he carefully observed his own body.
Shaaaaaack—.
A faint aura rising.
Centered on the vast Mana Road settled in his body’s core, he slowly began to draw mana upward.

Thump—.
Thump—. Thump—.
As his heart beat strongly, mana began to rise throughout his body.
It was faint mana, but it was definitely gathering.

“A path……”

Baek Hyeon-jin clenched his fist firmly.
There was something luminous within the hollow body.
A path.
A Mana Road.
A vast path for mana to travel existed. Just as it had been in the old days.

“It has been reconstructed. My mana circuits have been newly…… created.”
“It’s not newly created. The original mana was still alive, albeit extremely faintly. I connected those minute mana threads together to build the circuit and create the Mana Road. Since I’ve just completed it, it hasn’t settled yet. If you move excessively, it could break again.”

Yujun gave that caution and then expressed his gratitude.

“Thank you for trusting my words and following me without hesitation. It was only possible thanks to your full cooperation.”

‘That was challenging.’

He’d succeeded many times at the Tower of Infinity, but this was his first time here.

‘More enjoyable than I expected.’

“Today I’ve completed exactly half of the training I need to do.”

Now he needed to recover and prepare to receive training.

‘This is where the real work begins.’

He had to conduct training to restore Baek Hyeon-jin’s body to its former prime.

‘Now that he’s regained his Mana Road, there will be proper backlash from here on.’

Even with a body like ash, Baek Hyeon-jin had generated backlash that created constraints on training.
Once he recovered some of his power through the Mana Road, the difficulty of training would rise beyond this point.

From now on, he’d have to think of facing the boss in the Tower of Infinity’s boss room.

Crackle—!
Yujun looked at Baek Hyeon-jin.
Between the luminous Mana Road, he saw tremendous things.
Countless cracks and red light. They ran too deep and intense to be called ordinary damage.

‘During that burning process, his body was completely destroyed. The Mana Road was created, but that mana can’t even be transmitted.’

The cracks were proof of that.

‘The injuries haven’t been resolved yet either.’

Yujun drafted a training plan in his mind.

‘In the past, it must have shone with golden light.’

Yujun intended to restore that.
But not yet.

‘I can’t do more today.’

“Thank you for your hard work in training today.”

Yujun felt like he would collapse if he stayed any longer, so he got up to leave right away.

“I’ll see you tomorrow.”

After Yujun left.
The Lafesta Training Ground fell silent for a long time.
Gulp—.

Then the chairman broke the silence.

“Thank goodness. Really, thank goodness.”

The chairman murmured quietly.

“If I hadn’t listened to what Trainer Park said…… ”

Kang Yu-jun’s training had crossed a line.
Unconventional.
More bold and precise than any trainer’s training he’d ever witnessed.
Would he have missed this due to the influence of the sponsoring guild?

“Really…… ”

Just thinking about it was terrifying.

“I would’ve been screwed.”

* * *

That night. Baek Hyeon-jin couldn’t fall asleep easily.

Shaaaaaack—.
The vast Mana Road.
This Mana Road writhing inside his body was now in a state he couldn’t properly use.
But when he thought about how he’d been nothing but ash until now, this moment felt like a dream.

“Really…… will it happen?”

He’d learned additionally from the chairman about Kang Yu-jun’s circuit reconstruction.
Difficulty that was unimaginable.
The chairman had said that not a single domestic trainer could pull it off at this point.

—Probably only a handful of overseas trainers could manage it. But this much is certain: bring in anyone you want, and there’s not a single domestic trainer who could even imitate this. Senior Do Kang-myeong couldn’t do it. Trainer Yeon Da-seul couldn’t do it either.

What no one else could do, Yujun had accomplished.
So Baek Hyeon-jin asked.

—Now I’m getting my hopes up. This might work. No—it will work.

It wasn’t just because of what the chairman said. He could feel something himself.
The fact that the Mana Road in his body had definitely been reconstructed meant recovery was within reach.

“I can’t help but have hope. Not after hearing something like that.”

The training was still ongoing.
He couldn’t be certain of success in his current state…… but this time might be different.
Success…… it might happen.
Cautiously, Baek Hyeon-jin harbored that thought.

Shaaaaaaaaack—!
So his eyes wouldn’t close.
He let out a laugh and sat up.

“Sleep is out of the question.”

* * *

“Why can’t I sleep.”

Pyeongchang-dong.
Association Chairman Ryu Jeong-hwan’s residence.

“Why can’t you sleep? Did something happen?”
“Something did…… go to sleep first.”

The chairman told his wife to go to sleep first, then came to the living room.
He dropped onto the sofa and, closing his eyes, recalled Kang Yu-jun’s training.
That training for the Hero was truly absurd.

Circuit reconstruction in such a state.

“It was impossible.”

But Yujun had done it.
Seeing that, old memories surfaced in his mind.
Now, as association chairman, he’d stepped back from training, but that was just an excuse.
At some point, interest in training work had vanished.
Impossible things remained impossible. Possible things were merely boring.

“I started thinking rationally.”

Where he once threw himself at things like fire, he now thought carefully instead.
He thought rationally and thoroughly, planned for efficient results.
Then he clicked his tongue.

No.
This was just an excuse.

“I just set limits on myself and lived within them.”

Through Kang Yu-jun’s training, he understood clearly.
The limits he’d set were the result of his own fear and cowardice.
He couldn’t go back to passionate training now, but a different kind of drive had awakened in him.

“Now I understand why Trainer Park made that statement of defeat.”

He stood from his seat.

“I lost too.”

Not just to youth and boldness.
To that fundamental power a trainer possesses. The power that Kang Yu-jun had.

“The association needs to provide full support.”

Whether Kang Yu-jun succeeded or failed in training the Hero, Baek Hyeon-jin, it was already certain that he would become the icon of a new age.

* * *

Dawn.
Geumgang Forge in Goyang City.

“Master. Your uncle sent a message.”

Kim Gyu-cheol spoke with an expression of bewilderment.

“He said things went well with you, and now he’s unconditionally on my side and yours…… ”

Gyu-cheol spoke in surprise.

“Ah, it happened that fast. I had a talk with your uncle that day.”

Yujun smiled and explained Kim Sang-hun’s state to him.

—!

Kim Gyu-cheol nodded in surprise.

“True…… the Kim family was functioning like parts. Of course, back then I wanted to be those parts too.”

So he hadn’t been able to understand even the hearts of his elder family members, who were functioning like cogs themselves.

“Uncle had those thoughts…… ”

Then he laughed.
He finally understood the phrase in his uncle’s message—that he’d come to understand your heart.

“How was your uncle’s training?”
“All the Kim family’s Creation Type Awakened Ones are excellent.”
“Uncle wanted to make small, pretty things from before. It doesn’t match the Kim family style. Though the technique suits perfectly.”

Kim Gyu-cheol answered while recalling his uncle’s past appearance.
And he wore an expression of delight.
He’d probably see him often from now on, so he’d have to tease him.
Uncle had put on such a solemn face, yet he’d change this much from a single training session.
Of course it was training worthy of such change, but the gap made him laugh.

“Is it finished?”

Yujun had come looking for Kim Gyu-cheol because of an artifact.

‘It should be done by now.’

As expected.

“It’s finished.”

Kim Gyu-cheol smiled and handed over the artifact.

“The Kilo Gauntlet.”

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