I Became a Transcendent-Level Genius Trainer - Chapter 42
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Transcendent Genius Trainer Episode 42
“Examinee, aren’t you going to take the test?”
Kim Gyu-cheol couldn’t focus on the practical exam.
He wasn’t in a state where he could concentrate on the test.
His mind was very complicated.
‘He said he could fix it?’
It was because he couldn’t forget what Yujun had said before the practical exam started.
He caressed his arm.
His arm looked fine on the outside, but in reality it wasn’t fine at all.
The inside was completely broken and wasn’t functioning properly.
When his arm first stopped moving properly and he couldn’t even use his abilities.
He immediately went to see a doctor.
The doctor made a diagnosis with a serious expression.
-I’ve treated and cured countless Awakened individuals.
-But this is the first time I’ve seen mana roads and mana circuits burned out like this.
-Do you have any idea what might have caused this?
Kim Gyu-cheol was just as frustrated as the doctor.
He had no idea what he had done to end up like this.
So instead, he asked back.
Why did this happen?
Why were all the mana roads and mana circuits burned out?
Eventually, the doctor recommended a detailed examination, and the results of that detailed examination were very poor.
-I’m sorry to say this, but.
The doctors specializing in Awakened individuals all showed reluctance.
After pondering for a long time, the answer that came out was the same.
-I’m not sure.
-I can’t figure out the reason.
It was the same even when he went to other hospitals.
No one knew Kim Gyu-cheol’s condition.
-Can it be cured?
-It’s difficult.
It couldn’t be cured either.
How could they cure it when they didn’t even know the reason?
Kim Gyu-cheol fell into despair.
Geumgang Kim Family.
The clan he belonged to was one of the great families. Everyone belonging to such a family had to be great.
-What? You can never use one arm again?
-You know well what it means to not be able to use your arm in a blacksmith family, don’t you?
The elders of the clan were displeased with Kim Gyu-cheol.
No, they weren’t simply displeased.
-Judge for yourself. For the glory of the family.
They were already unhappy that he had broken taboos and gotten injured, but now he could never use one arm again.
They cursed him, calling it a curse brought upon the family.
A cursed one.
They said the cursed one would ruin the family and should be driven out.
They said there was nothing to regret since he was only half-awakened anyway.
-It might be better to see a clean result through death.
Kim Gyu-cheol eventually ran away from the family on his own.
He abandoned everything he cherished – his hammer, his forge.
He wanted to distance himself from the family.
Not wanting to do crafting work ever again, he turned to becoming a trainer.
It wasn’t that he looked down on this field. He simply had the desire to learn it himself and heal his hand.
‘But he said he could fix it?’
His mind was complicated.
Whether it could be fixed or not. That was already a settled question.
It couldn’t be fixed.
‘It’s not a problem that a mere trainer can fix. I’ve already met all the famous people. This isn’t a disease. It’s a curse.’
Kim Gyu-cheol closed his eyes.
This isn’t a disease. It’s a curse.
‘Because I… was greedy.’
In fact, he roughly suspected the reason.
‘I thought it might be because of the Geumgang Furnace.’
Kim Gyu-cheol had once sought out the Geumgang Furnace that had been passed down in the family to reverse the entire situation.
That Geumgang Furnace was the family’s treasure.
It was an item used by the founder of the Geumgang Kim Family, who was the first to become an Awakened in the family, but it had melted down and could no longer be used properly.
However, to Kim Gyu-cheol’s eyes, it still looked like a crafting tool that could be revived and used.
So he lit a fire.
But the fire wouldn’t catch. This Geumgang Furnace had become an artifact symbolizing the family and could no longer function properly.
He thought that was the end of it.
But after that day, his arm wouldn’t move. Furthermore, his sensation disappeared to the point where he couldn’t even feel pain.
A curse.
He thought it was a curse placed upon him for arrogantly trying to use the founder’s furnace.
But at the same time, he also had this thought.
Why would you curse a descendant who was just trying to do better?
Kim Gyu-cheol was confused.
He couldn’t distinguish what was real and what was fake.
It was easier to just think of this as a curse.
Because it couldn’t be reversed.
There was no point in worrying about irreversible things—it would only make him suffer.
But.
‘He says he can fix it?’
He says it can be fixed.
Yujun was just an Awakened trainer.
A trainer who came to take the license exam at that. Such a trainer said he could fix his arm that even specialized Awakened doctors couldn’t heal.
He said this wasn’t a curse but just a disease.
Instead of saying he didn’t know or couldn’t fix it, he spoke with confidence that he could heal it.
‘It can really be fixed?’
“Examinee!”
The examiner shouted loudly.
Kim Gyu-cheol, startled for a moment, looked ahead.
The world that had turned white was back to normal again.
The examiner in front of him had a slightly annoyed expression.
“Examinee, please begin.”
“Ah, I’m sorry. I’ll start right away.”
If he came to take an exam, he should focus on the exam.
He shouldn’t fall into such strange thoughts.
‘There’s no way it can be fixed.’
Kim Gyu-cheol didn’t believe it.
In his heart, he thought he could definitely fix his arm someday, but realistically he thought it was impossible.
He was broken.
No one would be able to treat him, so he had to find a new path.
He focused on the examiner in front of him.
* * *
Crack-!
The next place Yujun moved to after the shoulder was the waist.
‘How diligently twisted.’
The intentionally created body abnormality was severely twisted, overlapping with other abnormalities.
‘One wrong move could cause serious injury.’
It was surprising how serious he was about the exam.
‘That’s what makes it interesting.’
Yujun continued to poke the examiner’s body with his staff like untangling a twisted thread.
Correcting posture.
Establishing the mana roads in the body.
Along with that, he completely loosened even the arm mana that had been bunched up to block it tight.
“No way, this.”
Examiner Lee Ji-hun was suddenly flustered.
“How did you.”
What was bunched up in the arm area was really bunched up without showing any signs.
To check how good his eye was, he had very faintly bunched up mana to weaken the mana road.
He asked several examiners if they could notice this, but none of them did.
“Arm correction completed. Upper body correction finished.”
Yujun gestured to him.
-Focus skill proficiency increases!
The Focus skill needed to have its proficiency steadily raised.
‘Training starts with observation.’
You can’t train Awakened with theory alone.
Awakened are diverse.
Training methods that work for one Awakened often don’t work for another.
“Next, I’ll proceed with lower body and overall awakening ability correction.”
At Yujun’s words, Examiner Lee Ji-hun urgently said.
“Aren’t you going to use the VR Machine?”
“It’s fine.”
The VR Machine was ultimately a training tool used to better understand Awakened.
It was for grasping the natural movements of Awakened by watching them face monsters, and quantifying that to obtain information.
But Yujun didn’t need it.
‘It would be nice to have, but.’
Right now, Yujun was thinking of showing an overwhelming performance.
“Please assume there’s a monster in front and move while using your abilities.”
“With the VR Machine, we could make it more realistic…”
“It’s okay if it’s awkward. I can see everything just by you taking the stance.”
At Yujun’s words, Examiner Lee Ji-hun slightly frowned.
This confidence.
From the correction he had just shown, it was confirmed that Kang Yu-jun had skill.
However, excessive confidence wasn’t exactly a good trait.
“Do as you wish.”
Examiner Lee Ji-hun moved with determination.
Swoosh-!
His ability was a skill that enlarged the size of weapons in his hands.
The wooden sword he held instantly grew to about the size of a greatsword. When size increased, weight should increase as well, but his awakened ability allowed him to bear that weight.
Thoom-.
Whoooosh-!
He struck down with one blow.
-Training Hint [Mana density deterioration, size balance control impossible]
Training hints began to appear in Yujun’s eyes.
Due to the deterioration of mana density and the enormously enlarged size, balance was disrupted and cracks had already formed before he could even swing the wooden sword.
‘It’s because he simply enlarged the size. He couldn’t properly contain the mana.’
Yujun approached him closely.
Then he began correcting his posture from just now.
“You mustn’t be swayed by the weapon. It seems your ability supports the weight, but just because the ability supports it doesn’t mean the weight has disappeared.”
Yujun said this and told him to swing again.
-Word Command Correction is being used!
Following Yujun’s training command, Examiner Lee Ji-hun swung the enlarged wooden sword.
At the same time, Yujun swung his staff.
Thwack-! Crack-!
He struck the shoulder and came down, touching the mana rod and hitting the waist once more.
The overall movement changed to be much more efficient than before.
Additionally, the density of mana concentrated once again.
“…Huh?”
Swoosh-.
He struck down exactly the same as before.
However.
Whoooooooooooooosh-!
The power itself was different.
“…What?”
The trainers who were in the middle of conducting training began sending shocked gazes.
No, some had been watching from earlier.
Yujun’s training was different from other trainers.
It was precise, quick, and immediate.
“The power…”
“Wasn’t it much stronger than just before?”
“Didn’t he hit harder?”
But they knew from continuing their training.
The examiners showed no consideration for the examinees at all.
This could be seen as competition between examiners and examinees.
Therefore, what just happened was definitely real training.
“Uh…?”
Everyone murmured while looking at Examiner Lee Ji-hun.
“The examiner is also flustered. Look at that.”
“Crazy, no, over there…”
Examiner Lee Ji-hun was the most veteran among this exam’s examiners.
Therefore, the trainers couldn’t hide their surprise when looking at Examiner Lee Ji-hun.
It was because he had the highest difficulty level.
“I’ll do it once more.”
Examiner Lee Ji-hun was genuinely surprised.
Right now, Yujun had already solved the problems that Examiner Lee Ji-hun had ‘staged’.
What he had just corrected was a real problem with Ji-hun’s awakened ability.
The examiner momentarily confused the situation.
The Kang Yu-jun before his eyes was really an examinee without a license?
“Examin…”
Before he could finish saying “ee,” Yujun’s command flew again.
“Do it exactly the same again. This time, pay attention to mana density. Instead of feeling like you’re spreading it throughout, focus only on your hands and weapon. Don’t be conscious of your ability supporting the weight, and imagine lifting it with your entire body, furthermore with only your own strength.”
The most important thing for an Awakened was materialization.
Making what you imagine into reality.
‘I need to make him able to do that naturally.’
Crack-!
Yujun corrected him once again.
He corrected more deeply than before, making his body supple.
-Word Command Correction is being used!
The effect of Word Command Correction worked properly.
Just as Yujun had described, Lee Ji-hun’s giant wooden sword came crashing down.
Kwaaaaaaaaang-!
It was a force that seemed to shake the entire building.
“This is impossible….”
Lee Ji-hun was bewildered.
What was this supposed to mean?
This was becoming a test of a completely different nature.
Yujun smiled slyly.
“I really do enjoy solving problems.”
Lee Ji-hun looked at Yujun with a dazed expression.
“Then I’ll continue.”
Yujun gripped his staff firmly.
“Wow.”
“What the hell?”
“He corrected it in an instant…?”
“He didn’t even use the VR Machine.”
It overlapped with the image of him solving problems alone during the written exam.
Ding-!
-Focus skill proficiency increases!
Yujun moved his staff.
‘This is definitely easier.’
Perhaps because he had raised both Incubation and Physical Enhancement levels, correcting Examiner Lee Ji-hun’s movements was incredibly smooth.
Correcting detailed movements with his staff and even manipulating his mana load was quite effortless.
‘He’s an A-rank Awakened.’
Examiner Lee Ji-hun was an A-rank Awakened.
He was the same grade as Im Seok-jae but ranked slightly below him.
‘Considering how difficult it was when I taught Seok-jae.’
Even if his opponent was slightly lower in rank than Seok-jae, to be able to train an A-rank Awakened this smoothly.
‘The Incubation skill really is different.’
The Physical Enhancement skill was the same.
Thwack-!
Yujun’s staff struck near the heart as the final blow and stopped there.
The correction was complete.
If this were repeated, the real problem that Examiner Lee Ji-hun had would also be resolved.
“Correction complete.”
Ding-!
-You have trained Awakened Lee Ji-hun!
-Training score 8 / 10
-You gained 35P.
There were no more problems left for Lee Ji-hun.
It was truly an overwhelming performance.
“….”
“….”
All the Trainer Candidates kept their mouths tightly shut.
Of course, some had their mouths hanging open.
“Huh….”
Examiner Lee Ji-hun couldn’t close his mouth at his completely transformed movements.
Since Yujun’s training was finished, he had to calculate the score.
The score should be determined based on three factors, but his mind wasn’t working at all.
However, it wasn’t difficult for Examiner Lee Ji-hun to open his mouth.
“…Perfect score, it’s a perfect score.”
Because there was no other score he could give besides a perfect score.
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