I Became a Transcendent-Level Genius Trainer - Chapter 221

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Transcendent Genius Trainer Episode 221

“What I want to ask of you is to give up.”

Yujun’s request came completely out of nowhere.
Giving up.
Until now, these Youths had heard countless times never to give up.
Yet Yujun was telling them to give up.

“You mean we should give up on the First Team call-up……?”

A few Youths asked with displeasure written across their faces.

‘When you hear the word give up, something rises in you. I know.’

Yujun heard it every day too.
By now you won’t be able to Awaken anyway, so give up.
Quit before the Guild tells you to—clear the debt you’ve accumulated so far.
Every time he heard such things, he pretended it didn’t matter, but something would rise in him regardless.

‘You can’t help but bristle.’

So Yujun explained calmly.

“Just as you know me well, I know you well too.”

Yujun had once rolled with them himself.
The Youths of Promise Guild are called jewels in a jewelry box.
Valued highly and judged by equally strict standards.

“So from now on, forget everything. Balance, the pentagon, all the things meant to supplement weaknesses—forget them all.”

Yujun’s words didn’t mean to abandon growth or the future.
He meant to forget the training they’d been doing so far.

“You’ve learned far too much.”

They knew too many things.
Because of that, their self-objectification had become far too refined.

‘They all know too well what they lack and what their strengths are.’

The more advanced training becomes, the deeper the analysis grows.
Deep analysis has great advantages, but the disadvantages are considerable too.
They set limits on themselves, and rather than strengthen their advantages, they scramble to patch weaknesses first.

“Then……should we not supplement our weaknesses, sir?”
“Leave the weaknesses as they are.”

Yujun smiled wryly.

“One thing worth 300 points beats five things worth 80 each.”

Mediocrity.
This mediocrity born from knowing too much—Yujun intended to wipe it out completely.

‘Half of these could make First Team with just that mediocre knowledge stripped away and their strengths amplified.’

Making something pointed.
Honing it into a sharp awl.
That was what it took to become a First Team Awakener.

“From now on, you focus on just one thing. Ability usage. Abandon everything else. Don’t worry about variety—concentrate solely on using your ability. It doesn’t matter if all other balance crumbles.”

Ignore weaknesses and dedicate yourself to maximizing a single strength.
Everyone was bewildered by this unfamiliar request.

“Han Sol-bi. Im Jun-taek, Oh Yu-jin, Kim Du-chan.”

Yujun immediately called out the four names.

“You remember all the names……?”
“Surely not all 221 of them?”

Otherwise, how could he call out names without hesitation?
They hadn’t even had much interaction, no matter how long they’d been together.

“I have a roster.”

At Yujun’s words, the Youths stepped forward with embarrassed expressions.

“This will probably feel unfamiliar since you haven’t tried this kind of training before. And…….”

Crack!
–Thought Acceleration!

Whoosh.
He gripped the Geumgang Iron Staff firmly and swung it down.
Thud!

“It’s going to hurt a lot.”

There had been painful training before.
Sometimes understanding was difficult, making it mentally taxing, or their bodies suffered during physical conditioning or learning proper Mana circulation.
But taking direct blows like this—that was new.

“Ugh.”
“Kgh!”

This kind of training with direct strikes was entirely new.

“You said you’d do anything, didn’t you?”

Yujun smiled darkly.
His Geumgang Iron Staff touched their Mana Roads.
Bang! Crack!

‘Many of them have blocked Mana Roads.’

The Youths’ Mana Road circulation was inconsistent.
Unlike First Team Awakeners, their Mana Roads hadn’t finished developing, so that needed to be grown first.
Crack!

“I’m sorry…… I’m sorry. In the past, I came to training too early and complained behind your back about the burden.”
“Once?”
“I did it five times!”

Bang! Bang! Crack!

‘I don’t worry about anything else.’

Yujun focused solely on detonating their Mana circulation to maximize their abilities.

‘Next is Stats.’

Yujun immediately used the Incubation skill.
What the Youths needed most was Stats.
Raising their stat caps was most important.

–Expanding Stats!

Yujun expanded their stat caps first.
Only then did he grow each stat evenly.

‘I have plenty of Points.’

Yujun made aggressive investments, prepared to spend every last Point if necessary.
It wasn’t simply that he felt sympathy for them.

‘There are some I marked back when I was a Golden Youth.’

Those guys, in Yujun’s view, were ones he couldn’t understand—why weren’t they ever unlocking their true potential?

‘Now I see it was because their Stats were all capped.’

Crack!
–Awakener Scan!

Here lay the reason they hadn’t climbed to First Team despite receiving proper training and possessing excellent talent.
The vast gap between talent and Stats.
That gap had created the ceiling on their growth.

‘Total Stats are too low. At this rate, not only S-rank, even A-rank Awakeners—hell, even B-rank Awakeners would be hard.’

There were quite a few C-rank Awakeners with higher Stats than these Youths.

‘They were brought in on talent alone.’

Who could check Stats anyway?
To begin with, no Trainer existed who could see Stats.

‘They were only ever brought in based on the potential of their abilities.’

No one would have thought to look for a problem here.

–Stat: Strength 15 / 20 Agility 12 / 20 Endurance 10 / 15
–Stat: Strength 10 / 18 Agility 15 / 20 Endurance 8 / 13
–Stat: Strength 15 / 25 Agility 14 / 20 Endurance 9 / 14

Yujun frowned as he reviewed the Youths’ stat windows.

‘Endurance is a disaster.’

The other Stats were poor too, but Endurance was the worst.

That’s why they tired easily.
Couldn’t sustain ability usage long.
Couldn’t absorb training.
With stat caps set this low, even excellent training became meaningless.
Training wouldn’t properly imprint on their bodies.
Now Yujun could finally understand.
He hadn’t known then, but he knows now.

‘They couldn’t do it even if they wanted to.’

“You didn’t do anything wrong.”

Yujun continued speaking as he swung the staff.

“No one did anything wrong.”

It’s my fault.
My fault for not absorbing training properly.
My fault for producing no results despite the Guild pushing so hard.

“It’s not your fault.”

At those words, the Youths clenched their fists tightly.
Because Yujun said it—not anyone else—their hearts couldn’t help but be shaken.

Bang! Crack!

Yujun brought the Geumgang Iron Staff down.

Whoooosh.
And in that same instant, a Mana Aura bloomed from their bodies—something they had never felt even once before.

‘Stat optimization. Mana Road optimization.’

Mana Purity had also risen considerably.

“My body…….”

Each Youth felt something entirely different.
Those whose bodies always felt heavy now felt light.
Those who’d felt light now felt heavy.
And those who’d suffered chronic fatigue found that fatigue vanished.

‘I adjusted each body to what it needs.’

The Youths kept staring at their bodies in amazement.
Something felt different.
Among the countless trainings they’d received, this one was vastly different from all the rest.
Even the Trainers watching were astonished.

“Actually, even if training ended here…….”
“……it would be perfect training.”

The Trainers nodded in agreement.
They knew the Youths’ condition well.
The body condition that hadn’t improved despite all the training had now not only improved—it was optimized.

“We can’t replicate what he did…….”
“But we can at least learn the approach to problem-solving.”

The most creative aspect of Yujun’s training method was his problem-solving approach.
This approach was the very core of Kang Yujun’s training—and so the Trainer team focused intently on learning it.

“Now, ten at a time will use their abilities.”

There were fifty Youths in this place total.
Yujun divided them into groups of ten to use their abilities.

“How should we do it?”
“Remember what I said earlier, yeah?”

Yujun looked around at the Youths as he spoke.

“Don’t worry about anything else. Abandon it all. Just use your ability. Focus on that.”

The ten Youths called upon activated their abilities simultaneously.

“Think of just one thing. What is it?”
“Focus on using……our ability.”

Whoooosh!
–Thought Acceleration!

Yujun had narrowed the focus of this training to a single point.

‘Become comfortable with your ability.’

So that ability alone could give them competitive edge.
He proceeded with the same training he’d once done with Woo Ha-na.

Bursting flames.
An iron body.
Gravity distortion…….

“Flame range control. Not wide spread—narrow it down. If you can’t handle ten pyeong, compress it to just one. Make it penetrating.”

Bang.
Yujun pinpointed the problem clearly and gave a clear solution.

“If pooling Mana in one place is difficult, drill it. Repeat the pooling—do it a dozen times before each use.”

An iron body tempered to iron once more.

“Speed up your calculation. Your mind doesn’t burn easily.”

–Immediate Correction!
–Using Force Sync: Avatar!

Yujun activated new skills in succession.

–Guide Light!
–The light illuminates the path you must take.

“This will show you the path you need to follow.”

Whoooooosh!
Light appeared before their eyes.
The Youths moved following that light.
Then.

“……!”
“……!”
“……!”

In an instant, their abilities activated with amplified power.
A force they’d never displayed before.

“Se, senior…….”

Yujun saw the astonished Youths.

“It’s time to leave the jewelry box.”

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