I Became A Flashing Genius At The Magic Academy-Chapter 330
When a person regains consciousness, it doesn’t happen all at once, like flipping on a TV. Rather, awareness slowly seeps in, as if waking from a deep dream, with reality gradually encroaching upon the senses, one by one.
The first sensation that reached Baek Yuseol was sound.
"...with us..."
"...complicated transport process..."
"...we can also..."
Murmurs filled his ears, and with them, his awareness sharpened, his senses returning more vividly.
The flood of reality suddenly opened before him.
Baek Yuseol instinctively tried to snap his eyes open and sit up.
“Ugh...”
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But his eyelids felt as heavy as if an entire building rested on them.
He couldn’t move, either. His whole body felt bound, as if wrapped in steel chains, making even the slightest twitch impossible. It was as if his entire body was devoid of sensation.
“What’s...”
A surge of fear struck him.
He couldn’t understand why his body was in such a state.
Then, a violent shock radiating from his heart made him want to scream in pain.
‘Aaaahhh...’
But with his body immobilized, he couldn’t even let out a cry.
Sweat beaded on his forehead, as it felt like a ticking time bomb had been planted in his heart.
‘It’s going to... burst...’
His heart felt like it was swelling, filled with an immense energy that his frail, human heart could not contain.
The thought that he might truly die made Baek Yuseol want to grab hold of anything he could and fight against it, yet his body remained unresponsive.
‘Ugh...’
He struggled to cling to consciousness and flailed mentally, feeling a peculiar gaze watching him from somewhere.
‘...Who is it? Who’s watching?’
He tried to call out to the mysterious, enormous gaze he felt upon him, but his voice didn’t reach.
An intense pressure from his heart demanded his attention. The swelling energy was rising uncontrollably.
‘You can do this... You’ve done it before...’
Memories flashed through his mind—the memories of another future, or perhaps another world’s version of himself. He had experienced a perfected version of himself, witnessed how that future self reached the mastery of *Natural Celestial Body*.
Of course, compared to that version, his current self had barely tasted 0.01% of that mastery.
‘Even if it’s only 0.01%...’
Between total inability and that slight glimmer, there was a world of difference.
Baek Yuseol needed just that—a minuscule channel to control, release, and circulate the massive energy trapped within him.
‘Argh...’
His head throbbed as if molten lava was pouring over it, and his heart seemed about to rupture, but...
‘I feel it.’
He forced the vital energy trapped in his heart to flow through his meridians, aiming to avoid harming his body.
Pulse.
The life force, which had been spreading out wildly, began to focus, flowing in the direction Baek Yuseol willed.
This was it.
His future self had developed high-speed meridians throughout his body, allowing that vital energy to circulate at an incredible rate. In his current self, however, even a basic channel didn’t exist, making movement difficult.
But if he could open a path through his meridians with this life force...
‘Huh?’
Suddenly, his vision went dark.
‘How do I...?’
It was like trying to create a passage through a blank wall without any tools.
The life force surged, struggling to break free like a restless child. As soon as he paused, it began to riot within him again.
There was no obvious answer.
Though he had experienced the completed body of his future self, he hadn’t learned how to open these paths since they were already fully established in that version.
If he had grown and matured naturally, he might have learned, but for now, he was at a loss.
“Impressive. Controlling life force, however clumsily... That’s something rare among humans.”
A voice echoed.
‘...Who?’
The life force that had been raging within him suddenly calmed down.
The voice seemed to reverberate through the entire world, a woman’s voice that filled Baek Yuseol with awe.
In the darkness, he opened his eyes wide, finding himself staring at a gigantic, emerald-green figure, watching him with a gentle smile.
A being resembling a mountain, with an enormous presence.
“I knew you were special, but I wanted to confirm it with my own eyes. And now I see... you are worthy to share in my life force.”
‘Who... are you?’
“My name is Yeon Do Rim Sa Wol.”
‘...What?’
The Twelfth Month of Twelve Moons!
The very being he’d never been able to meet in the game, now standing before him.
She extended a massive hand toward him and spoke.
“You are the closest existence to nature in this world, yet you are still young and unrefined to truly sense the birth of life. However, your effort to accept and understand life force has moved me.”
‘...Is that so?’
Truthfully, he didn’t understand her words.
After all, wasn’t he in this mess precisely because he failed to comprehend life force?
“I cannot manipulate your body at will, but I can offer you a small bit of help.”
‘Help...?’
With a gentle touch, Yeon Do Rim Sa Wol reached out, and a small channel opened within his heart.
“Don’t be alarmed. Your heart is unharmed. I merely opened a pathway for the energy to flow.”
‘A pathway...?’
Realizing what she meant, Baek Yuseol refocused on the life force. Just as she said, a tiny channel had formed within his heart, allowing the life force to flow.
It was small, and only allowed a minimal amount of flow, but...
Even a small opening could eventually widen into a larger passageway.
‘I can do this... I’m Baek Yuseol... I’m the boldest of all men...’
“An unusual chant of modern times. Is it a spell for self-suggestion?”
Crack.
With a subtle breaking sound, his meridians began to open, allowing space for the life force to flow freely.
It was still far off. He had only opened a single passage near his heart, while his future self had pathways extending throughout his body.
But he didn’t need that yet. As long as he could establish just one primary channel...
‘I can become like my future self.’
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Beep! Beep! Beep!
The life support system monitoring Baek Yuseol’s vitals began to sound an alarm.
Sweat dotted his forehead as he lay in the machine designed by Alterisha, his face twisted in pain.
“Will he... be okay?”
“He will be.”
The nurse’s question was met with a firm nod from Alterisha.
Although she was not a doctor, Alterisha had spent the past month relentlessly studying medicine to build a device capable of aiding life force circulation.
‘His life force needs careful control.’
The life force within Baek Yuseol’s body was like a ticking bomb. If released recklessly, it could explode.
It needed to be regulated, circulated, and then naturally dispersed.
And Alterisha understood something crucial.
‘This transfer won’t solve anything.’
Though they planned to send him to alchemists specializing in life studies, modern science still had no way to handle "life force," this mysterious energy.
Life force couldn’t even be detected by machines. Should humanity ever uncover even 0.01% of its secrets, they might one day control the very birth of life.
‘That’s how unknown this domain is.’
Inspired by Aijel’s comment that Baek Yuseol “smelled like a forest,” Alterisha developed the life support system, creating a space as close to nature as possible.
If, by some miracle, Baek Yuseol tried to control his life force while unconscious... if he fought to survive... how should she proceed?
‘I’ll need to make more adjustments.’
She could help him. Perhaps her technology wouldn’t be the final key to his survival, but even if it offered the slightest bit of assistance, Alterisha would do whatever it took.
“Could everyone step outside? I need only the doctors to remain.”
“Yes, of course...”
Although Alterisha wasn’t a medical professional, she was the one who had stabilized Baek Yuseol’s condition, so the others obeyed her respectfully.
*Click!*
As the nurses left and sat down outside, wiping cold sweat from their brows, a few Stella knights approached.
“Nurse, is everything all right? How’s Baek Yuseol’s condition?”
“I know the first question is just a formality, but no, it’s not okay. And as for Baek Yuseol... he’s stable, for now.”
“Phew... We were so alarmed when he suddenly had a seizure. He’s been calm all month, hasn’t he?”
“Exactly.”
The nurse pursed her lips as the knights sheepishly cleared their throats.
“Sorry for bothering you, but what can we do? Princess Adelabit and the guild head’s daughter over there were practically begging us for updates...”
Noticing the girls pacing in the distance, the nurse felt a chill run down her spine.
When Baek Yuseol’s condition deteriorated, they had been dismissed by Alterisha for causing too much disruption. Left without news, they were undoubtedly feeling the stress.
“...It’s exhausting.”
As if treating such a unique patient wasn’t hard enough, she had to handle the expectations of such high-ranking individuals as well. Being a nurse was proving to be far more demanding than she had imagined.
“Tell me about it...”
The knights sighed in unison.
What
had seemed like a simple transport mission had turned into an operation involving Stella’s most elite students.
“Let’s hope this mission ends peacefully...”
That was something no one could be certain of yet.
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