I Became the Genius Bastard of a Noble Dark Clan – 3

Chapter 3

Episode 3

Tern’s eyes widened.

Chris sighed, raised his hand, gripped the blade between his fingers, and moved it aside.

Is it because it was an unexpected reaction?

Tern closed his mouth in embarrassment.

“What now….”

“I get it.”

“What did you say?”

“I understood what you said not to bring shame on the family’s reputation.”

“!!”

Chris looked down at Tern quietly and said.

“What else do you have to say?”

“…….”

Tern was speechless.

I had a lot to say.

But why? When I looked at that crooked gaze, my mouth wouldn’t open.

‘what?’

Tern was embarrassed.

He is called a genius, but he is still a child with no experience.

He didn’t realize that the feeling he was getting from Chris was ‘a feeling of intimidation’.

No, maybe he knew but was denying it.

It’s ridiculous to feel intimidated by the shame of that pitiful family.

Anyway, one thing was certain.

His older brother, Christian, was different from before.

‘That guy has changed?’

This is ridiculous.

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Tern gritted his teeth and growled.

“I warn you again, if you insult Baron Kazar’s name again, I will….”

“You won’t leave me alone, right? Okay, I understand. Don’t you have anything better to do? You keep saying the same thing over and over again without me even asking. Or do you want me to pay attention to you?”

“!!”

Teren’s face turned red.

He glared at Chris as if he was going to kill him, then turned around and disappeared.

‘How long have I been dealing with the truth? You still have a long way to go before you can deal with me, you little punk.’

Chris snickered.

‘Still, I think it’s a little cute. She was cute when she was little.’

In fact, Chris was acquainted with Tern.

We’ve encountered it before, during the Age of Destruction.

Tern was a famous mine in his own right.

But now, maybe because he’s still a child, he looks cute.

Anyway, that doesn’t matter.

He cleared his mind of Tern and grabbed the entrance to the punishment cell with his hand.

Knock knock.

The door opened.

It was time to get stronger.

* ? ?* ? ?*

As we entered the punishment cell, complete darkness descended.

‘I can’t see anything. I can’t hear anything.’

I moved my tongue and licked it, but still I couldn’t feel anything.

It’s not just light and sound that are blocked.

I couldn’t feel anything in my hands or feet.

‘Is it an effect of black magic? A curse?’

The only sense allowed was the delicate sensation of the fingertips.

It was a measure to keep them from starving to death, allowing them to feel and touch the items they had brought.

I definitely felt like if I stayed in a space like this for too long, my mind would become extremely worn out.

I could see why this was a place where mines were punished.

‘But it’s of little use to me.’

He’s tried all sorts of things in the past.

Among them was a ‘Treasure Hunter’. He was a top-class treasure hunter.

He was nicknamed the ‘Excavator of Light’ for finding all sorts of treasures that helped him fight the Magic Empire.

‘The world is going to ruin, so even if you unearth a treasure, there is no one to pay for it properly, so you give up halfway.’

In any case, when exploring the ruins, it was common to be deprived of all senses and rely only on a faint sense of hearing or touch.

So, this place wasn’t a very difficult environment for Chris right now.

‘In fact, it’s much better than the places I’ve been before. There are no traps or danger of being assassinated. It’s completely isolated from outside views.’

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Compared to the hells I’ve experienced in the past, this place is like a comfortable hotel?

And the biggest advantage.

‘With the five senses blocked, I can observe the inside more deeply. This is an environment like a coincidence that money cannot buy.’

Some training to reach the stage of ascension involves deliberately blocking the five senses.

By blocking out your five senses, you can maximize your concentration and focus solely on yourself.

What Chris was trying to do right now also required blocking out his five senses.

If it weren’t for the punishment cell, Chris would have had to use other methods to block his senses.

‘Let’s improve our constitution first.’

This body lived a dissolute life like a scoundrel.

Even though he was young, he was exposed to so many bad things that his waste was extreme.

The body was seriously damaged.

‘But it’s okay. You can just change yourself.’

It was an amazing story.

A complete transformation!

After reaching a certain level, the constitution of the body changes.

A body that has undergone a complete transformation will find perfect health and become well-suited for learning swordsmanship and other techniques.

This is something that anyone who learns swordsmanship would never want to miss.

However, only a very small number of people actually experienced a complete transformation.

Because it requires not only high enlightenment, but also luck.

But are you going to make such a complete transformation?

‘Because I can artificially transform the body.’

An artificial transformation.

It was an unbelievable story.

But it was real.

‘I have learned related secret arts from ancient ruins.’

Originally, it was an impossible feasibility technique.

This is because one must have extremely excellent medical knowledge, an innate sense for mana management, and the ability to use ‘body transformation techniques’.

There was no one in the world who met all of these conditions.

Except for Chris.

‘Because I’ve also worked as a doctor.’

He was not just a doctor, he was even called a divine doctor.

I remember gritting my teeth and studying hard to earn money, but I couldn’t earn any money and was called a saint and suffered a lot.

‘My mana management skills are something that even warriors and archmages admire.’

The final body transformation.

I knew how to handle this too.

In the past, before the era of destruction began.

There was a time when I was wandering around back alleys after escaping from my hellish family.

At that time, I learned all sorts of tricks like stealing, street performing, gambling, etc., and I even joined a circus and learned body transformation techniques.

Of course, the body transformation techniques used by the clowns were of the lowest level, but with Chris’s little tinkering, they were transformed into perfect bone shrinking techniques.

For this reason, Chris was able to undergo an artificial metamorphosis.

‘Let’s get started.’

Chris took out the magic stone.

Each stage of transformation required a magic stone with a different nature of mana, and fortunately, I was able to obtain them all.

‘It starts with purifying waste.’

Mana was extracted from the white energy magic stone.

So I let it flow to where the waste had accumulated.

Direct.

The purifying power contained in the white mana burned away the waste.

It was a boring step.

But it was an important step.

If even a little bit of waste remains, the transformation will fail. On the contrary, you could suffer major internal injuries and become disabled.

‘That’s why you need to have extensive medical knowledge.’

In addition to the large blood vessels through which mana moves, one must also be familiar with the anatomy of every nook and cranny of the body.

So, I had to cleanse each and every place where waste had accumulated with Baekui Mana.

Why you need an innate sense of mana management.

Fortunately, Chris’s sense of mana management was incomparable to that of others.

No, it wasn’t just the silk mana management skills.

It was like that in everything.

– You are really crazy.

It was something the warrior Evan said one day.

– You should have been a warrior.

Chris shook off his thoughts.

After thoroughly burning all the waste, we moved on to the next step.

He took out a magic stone filled with the energy of fire.

It was a stage of training to make the body strong.

‘Ugh. This really hurts.’

But I had to do it.

Chris closed his eyes and thought about his goal.

‘To rise to the top of the Magic Empire and save the world… that’s bullshit.’

Chris shook his head and shouted out his real goal to himself.

‘I will become the Demon King and make sure you enjoy the greatest wealth and honor!!! And at the same time, I will save the world!’

With that shout, a hot and fierce breeze came in.

The process of podium has begun.

Knock knock, knock knock.

Miracles began to happen with an eerie sound.

It was the beginning of a complete transformation.

* ? ?* ? ?*

Some time has passed since Chris entered the punishment cell.

It’s already been 7 days.

Count Kazar, Chris’s father, furrowed his eyebrows.

“You haven’t requested rescue yet?”

“Yes, Count. Shall we go inside?”

Cox, the butler of the Countess of Kazar, spoke with concern.

He was a half-vampire with a pale appearance.

I have a soft spot for vampires, so I have often worried about Chris in the past.

“Maybe it’s so damaged that it can’t even call for help.”

Maybe so.

Count Kazar nodded.

The punishment cell is a very terrible place.

At first, ignore it.

What’s so great about blocking out your five senses?

It was a common thought.

But that thought was shattered shortly after entering the punishment cell.

Complete silence.

You feel extreme fear in the emptiness where there is no one and you cannot feel anything.

Even if he screams, he can’t hear the sound.

The punishment that went crazy as time went on was punishment.

‘Did you send me to the punishment cell for nothing? It’s a place where even a strong-willed person would have a hard time enduring.’

Count Kazar frowned.

Given my son’s mental strength, it wouldn’t have been strange if he had become a complete wreck in the punishment cell.

‘How did it end up like this?’

Count Kazar sighed.

His son, Christian, wasn’t like this originally.

He was a child with a promising future.

But did he become arrogant because of his outstanding talent?

It gradually became crooked and then completely broken.

‘Instead of continuing to live like a slob, it might be better to become a wreck or die this time.’

It wasn’t a cruel thought.

It was a kind of fatherly love.

However, he was a mine, so his way of thinking was different from that of people outside.

He thought that rather than allowing his son to continue living a life like a vermin, tarnishing his own honor, it might be right for him, as the father, to take his own life.

but.

– I will change.

At the end, I remembered what Christian had said.

The look in my son’s eyes as he said those words kept coming to mind.

Something was different from before.

‘Again. After being fooled like that, what more do you expect?’

He shook his head in mockery.

“And… I have something to report. These are the items that the young master brought into the punishment cell. It seems like there are dangerous items in there.”

“anything?”

Count Kazar frowned.

I felt strong.

“They say he took the dream stone.”

“!!”

Count Khazar ground his teeth.

Illusion stone.

It’s a type of magic stone, and strangely enough, it causes hallucinations.

Because the feeling was similar to that of taking drugs, it was a popular item among the aristocracy and wealthy as a substitute for drugs.

Unlike drugs, dream stones were in a legal blind spot.

“Didn’t you decide to cut off the dream stone?”

Of course, among Christian’s many misdeeds was being intoxicated with dream stones.

“That’s true. But… judging from what you brought this time.”

The butler trailed off.

Count Kazar slumped back in his chair, his strength faltering.

What has changed?

The idea was to hallucinate inside the punishment cell, avoiding other people’s eyes!

“You’re hallucinating in a punishment cell where your five senses are blocked. We don’t know what kind of side effects will occur, so we need to open the punishment cell immediately. Otherwise, I can’t guarantee your life…!”

“…No, stop it.”

“yes?”

Count Khazar spoke in a cold voice.

“I’d rather just let you die.”

There was no longer even a speck of expectation left in his eyes.

* ? ?* ? ?*

At that time, the punishment cell.

‘I succeeded in a complete transformation.’

Chris let out a long sigh.