He Became A Monstrous Genius After Obtaining A Time Dilation Artifact

The morning breeze peered through the open windows of the bedroom, causing an individual sprawled across the bed in a dramatic position's eyes to flutter open.

"Mmm" Kailen yawned, then stretched, half awake.

Scratching his eyes with his hands, he lazily got off the bed, then headed to the washroom to freshen up.

"I miss those days when the time dilation artifact would give me free clothes and even help me freshen up. I feel so lazy"

Kailen sighed lazily.

Sincerely he felt like lazing around for the day.

However, time was not on his side.

He couldn't slack off.

"Tsk! You could use universe energy to freshen up, no need to take these showers you know"

The voice of the time dilation artifact rang in his ear as she hovered around him.

Kailen revealed a bored look. "We are both aware that I know that, golden finger. Just, there's this feeling that comes with freshening up by taking a shower, know what I mean?"

She rolled her eyes at his shameless antics. This kid was getting bolder and bolder at demonstrating his shamelessness in front of her by the day.

If you knew that, why then did you have to comment about missing the time when I gave you free clothes and helped you freshen up?

Sighing, the time dilation artifact left the troublesome kid to his nonsensities and disappeared.

She had some teen drama to binge-watch.

Kailen slumped into the bed, lazily scrolling across the holographic screen of the ID slot.

Kailen nodded in understanding.

"I see. It turns out that what the instructor said, everything in the academy can be earned through points.

The academy system does not follow the usual routine of teaching.

One has to even pay to have a lecture session with an instructor.

As for the methods of earning points, perhaps it's time I visit the alchemy department. I'm sure with my prowess as a rank 1 alchemist, I can earn enough points. Most importantly, perform an outstanding achievement. After all, the first phase of the path of vengeance mission states that I do things that will make even the royal family place value on me. I am sure demonstrating my prowess as an alchemy prodigy could help with that. Might not be a big step, but worth it. Anything to have enough backing so that getting rid of Cyrus in the future becomes easier. If I prove to be more important to the empire than the Darkhaven clan as a whole, no one will dare make trouble for me when I intend to get rid of them"

Kailen left the villa after making his decision.

Very soon, he arrived in front of the teleportation gate that led to the alchemy department of the academy.

Quickly, he passed through it, arriving at a different location entirely.

The place was bustling with different students from different races moving about, heading towards different locations.

Various eyes landed on him, and then gossip began.

"Is that the top-ranked of the first years?"

"Yes, that's him, Kailen Darkhaven"

"What's he doing here?"

"Idiot, he's an alchemist. What do you think he's doing here? He probably came here to take on some mission or something from the alchemy mission hall"

"Heard he has a purity level of not less than 91 percent"

"Tsk! Do you honestly believe that? It's all rumors"

Ignoring the chatters, Kailen turned into a streak of light, weaving through buildings.

Finally, he arrived in front of a towering pagoda, whose peaks stretched infinitely into the skies, giving some sort of ancient vibe.

Kailen wasted no time, and entered the pagoda.

Various individuals stood in front of various holographic mission boards, reading their contents.

This was the ground floor of the pagoda, designated for rank 1 alchemy missions.

The moment they agreed to take on the missions, they'd press the accept button of the holographic screen of the mission board, and then the data of the individual accepting the mission would be saved in the alchemy hall's database.

When the mission is completed, a monitoring system will notify the database and the rewarding system will do its work.

Simple and efficient.

Kailen proceeded towards a particular mission board.

This one had piqued his curiosity, not because of the number of points allocated to completing the mission, but the impossibility of the mission.

[The son of one of the academy's prestigious professors has been stuck in the supreme stage of the Ascendant level for an extremely long period of time. Any talent-enhancing pill or elixir consumed has yielded no positive results, some even causing backlashes and further derail in his strength.

Your mission is to create a talent enhancement pill or elixir that can help him break through to the galactic level without experiencing the above challenge.

Difficulty level - Berserk.

Reward - 5000 student points/credits]

The surrounding students stared at Kailen like he was a crazy lunatic as he clicked on the yes button of the mission.

"This guy is really delusional"

"It's normal, the first years are always this impulsive"

"Yeah, not even the most talented rank 1 alchemists have been able to complete this mission in the history of the academy ever since it was posted 500 years ago.

Does he really think he has a shot at completing it, when even alchemical prodigies who have gone on to become extremely influential alchemists couldn't complete this mission when they were rank 1 alchemists?"

"What's your problem, it's normal for the delusional first-year students to learn their place the hard way"

"You're right. We were all like that when we enrolled. But reality humbled us"

Kailen was not in the least bit bothered by their conversations.

He wasn't trying to prove anything to them.

He was just doing what he had set out to do—shatter every record ever set by any genius in the academy before he graduates.

In order to be able to use the influence of the empire—ahem, have the backing of the empire fully, he had to be so valuable that the empire would feel honored to have him.

That way, it would be easier to get rid of the Darkhavens.

All the same, he was also gonna work on increasing his own strength, so that if the empire ended up turning on him in the end as a result of being threatened by his potential, like it always happened in the cliché novels he read back on earth, even if he couldn't retaliate fully against them, he'd be strong enough to defend himself and protect his loved ones.

Lost in his thoughts, Kailen left the pagoda.

Meanwhile...