I Became a Transcendent-Level Genius Trainer - Chapter 11
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Transcendent Genius Trainer Episode 11
“Really, truly… are you saying that you see potential in me?”
At those words, Kim Gyo-jun’s body trembled.
It was the first time he had heard such words.
You lack this. You lack that. You won’t make it.
He had only heard such talk endlessly.
So he had thought he had no potential.
He himself had thought so too.
But to say that he saw potential in him.
He stared blankly at Yujun for a long time.
Because he couldn’t believe it at all.
“Saying that I have talent… does that mean I can become strong? But I’ve already received notice of dismissal. In a few days, I have to pack my things and leave.”
“You’re still a member of Sky Guild, aren’t you? Then it’s not too late yet.”
Yujun approached Gyo-jun with a smile.
This part wasn’t something he could do anything about.
‘It only has meaning if he believes in himself.’
The foundation of training is belief.
If the trainee believes in the trainer, they can start based on that trust.
‘If you believe in me, you’ll come to believe in yourself too.’
After a brief silence, Kim Gyo-jun lowered his head.
“I want to become strong. If I have talent, I want to confirm it. I don’t want to end things like this.”
He had spoken as if he had given up everything, but that wasn’t the case.
He had only given up because he had no choice. He had only tried to run away.
In truth, he didn’t want to give up.
Even if he had to struggle more miserably, he wanted to stay at Sky Guild and keep struggling.
“Nothing is over.”
At that determined appearance, Yujun grinned.
‘Even without the Awakened Training System, I can clearly see it.’
He was definitely not someone who would give up on himself.
If given proper direction and just a little guidance, he was someone who would naturally progress.
“Let’s try it together. I can definitely see it.”
Yujun continued to gaze at the blue light still sparkling around Gyo-jun’s head.
* * *
“I don’t understand why he wants to take the difficult path.”
Team Leader Kim Do-hun shook his head disapprovingly.
“It seems like he’s gained confidence from the Woo Ha-na case. Since he’s a trainer who just started working, doesn’t he think it would be different if he took charge?”
Team Leader Kim and the trainers were quite skeptical about Kang Yu-jun’s choice to try training Kim Gyo-jun.
Of course, they knew that Kang Yu-jun’s training skills were extraordinary.
Those skills that corrected Woo Ha-na’s problems and made her potential explode. They were certainly impressive.
But that was only because Woo Ha-na had considerable potential, and Kang Yu-jun’s methods matched well with her.
“Trainee Kim Gyo-jun is an Awakened who has no reason to be kept any longer.”
All the trainers at Sky Guild knew this from having tried to teach him.
Kim Gyo-jun’s basic physical abilities were considerably lacking.
Because of that, it was difficult for him to utilize his awakening abilities.
A vicious cycle.
That’s why they couldn’t understand it even more.
There was no way Kang Yu-jun didn’t know Kim Gyo-jun’s weaknesses.
He had seen him while teaching Woo Ha-na.
He would actually know better than other trainers.
This wasn’t something that could be easily fixed, and if he failed, it could negatively affect his future career.
“He’ll just waste time. Of course, even so, Trainer Kang’s reputation won’t fall because of this much.”
Right now, stories about Woo Ha-na were being heard from here and there.
Due to the strong appeal from the Team Leader of Sales Team 3, a meeting was being held regarding Woo Ha-na’s future.
If the meeting went well, Woo Ha-na would go straight to Sales Team 1, and that result would become Kang Yu-jun’s achievement entirely.
“Not only is interest in Woo Ha-na increasing, but interest in Trainer Kang who trained her is also rising.”
But interest was something that rose quickly and fell quickly.
So trainers had to firmly elevate their value when attention was focused on them.
From other trainers’ perspective, it seemed like he was wasting time for no reason, which made them feel sorry.
If Kang Yu-jun distinguished himself, attention would come to them as Sky Guild trainers too.
Team Leader Kim Do-hun said with a bitter smile.
“He’s a new trainer. It can’t be helped that he’s caught up in romance. You guys were like that too, weren’t you?”
“…We were.”
“Taking the difficult path seems to be a common thing among newcomers.”
But they didn’t know.
The path Yujun chose was by no means a difficult one.
Rather, it was a shortcut.
* * *
Sky Guild Training Grounds.
Kim Gyo-jun stood there fidgeting,
while Yujun’s eyes gleamed in front of him.
‘Kim Gyo-jun is already a confirmed winning lottery ticket.’
Among Sky Guild’s Youth trainees, Kim Gyo-jun was the only one with an A-grade mental rating.
‘Though his other abilities are at rock bottom.’
His awakened ability was quite useful.
It was a good ability that could be utilized in various ways depending on how you conceived it.
‘If we look at his overall grade, the other trainers’ perspective is accurate. Comprehensively teaching him would actually be meaningless.’
Kim Gyo-jun, evaluated through Awakened analysis, was positioned at a comprehensive grade of [D-].
He was clearly insufficient talent for Sky Guild’s Youth to invest funds in.
‘But his mental grade makes all those evaluations meaningless. And where in the world would there be an Awakened not worth teaching?’
Having an A-grade mental rating meant he could endure any kind of training.
‘No matter how difficult the training, he can endure most ordinary training.’
His threshold for endurance was high.
While someone might have their spirit broken after just one hour of training, Kim Gyo-jun had the strength to endure two or three hours.
‘In that case, physical grade is no longer a problem.’
He could become stronger indefinitely.
‘But this is a judgment I can make because I know Kim Gyo-jun’s mental grade.’
Kim Gyo-jun had probably undergone training from various trainers. The ability of weapon enhancement was quite useful among the various awakened abilities.
Even by grade standards, it was at least a B-grade ability.
After all, just by grasping it in his hand, any object could become a powerful weapon.
But Kim Gyo-jun couldn’t properly utilize that ability.
It was because of mana.
‘Kim Gyo-jun has the problem of reflexively using the mana that should be utilized for his ability on physical enhancement instead. Other trainers would have had no choice but to give up since he couldn’t use his ability properly.’
He compensated for his weak body with mana, which caused problems in utilizing his ability.
However, other trainers lacked the capability to perceive that problem. Yujun could only see it thanks to his skill.
‘So what Kim Gyo-jun needs to be taught is.’
Mana utilization techniques.
“From now on, we’ll be doing repetitive training.”
He planned to draw out all of Kim Gyo-jun’s abilities with a curriculum perfectly suited for his current state.
Repetitive training was exactly what suited him.
‘Just like what I showed back then.’
He would approach this slightly differently from Woo Ha-na’s case.
‘I need to awaken his senses while imprinting mana utilization techniques.’
Of course, it would be very difficult.
It would need to be repeated over and over again.
But for Kim Gyo-jun, it could be easy training.
‘While other Awakened would give up quickly, Kim Gyo-jun won’t. He’ll definitely endure it.’
Both repetitive training and grueling training.
Kim Gyo-jun, with his A-grade mental rating, would be able to endure it all.
“Um, excuse me… what about my dismissal? I received notice that my contract expires in 5 days.”
“I’ve postponed it.”
For now, he had asked the guild master to postpone the dismissal itself by just ten days.
He would try training him first, and after that, they could decide whether to maintain or withdraw the dismissal decision.
“I’ve secured ten days.”
Yujun planned to thoroughly train Kim Gyo-jun during those permitted ten days.
“Trainee Woo Ha-na was called up to Team 1 this time, right? I’m thinking of making trainee Kim Gyo-jun into the next ace after trainee Woo Ha-na.”
“Me… next after Ms. Woo Ha-na…?”
Woo Ha-na was already an elite Youth member when Kim Gyo-jun entered Sky Guild’s Youth program.
Making him the successor to such a person?
Despite Kim Gyo-jun’s doubts, Yujun nodded with a confident expression.
-Awakened training begins!
-Training recipe is activated!
-This is a training recipe for Awakened Kim Gyo-jun!
Seeing this, Yujun grinned.
‘Ten days will be enough.’
“Let’s begin.”
* * *
“Huff… huff…”
Yujun taught Kim Gyo-jun mana utilization techniques while simultaneously training his physical strength.
“Don’t clump your mana. Don’t try to compensate for your lack of stamina with mana, just leave it as is.”
The verbal correction penetrated through Kim Gyo-jun’s body.
Kim Gyo-jun had the problem of trying to supplement his insufficient stamina with mana.
That’s why he couldn’t keep up with the existing training.
‘Since he keeps diverting mana elsewhere, he can’t properly use weapon enhancement either.’
Since he was supplementing his weak body with mana, there was no way he could do anything else.
Moreover, since this behavior was close to instinctual, neither he nor other trainers had been able to find the exact problem and solution.
‘He can’t use his mana properly.’
Yujun controlled Gyu-jun’s attempts to use mana through continued verbal corrections.
However, fixing a habit that had been reflexively adopted for a long time wasn’t easy.
That’s why he chose repetitive training.
He pushed his stamina to the limit and prevented him from supplementing his stamina with mana.
He let all the mana be invested purely into his ability, weapon enhancement.
“Mana circulation, again.”
“…Yes!”
Yujun pressed him so hard that it wouldn’t be strange if he collapsed at any moment.
It had already been eight hours since training started.
Excluding break time, the pure training time had exceeded six hours.
Shaaaaak-.
But Yujun wasn’t worried at all.
The more he pushed him, the stronger the blue light forming on his head became.
Even though he was exhausted to the point where it was difficult to move a finger, his mental strength remained sharp.
‘His eyes are alive.’
“I can do… more! Please, just a little more!”
However, this training wasn’t just tiring for him alone.
‘I’m getting tired.’
Yujun’s stamina and mana were also being worn down.
It was natural.
To serve as a training partner, there was a lot he had to show him.
For that, Yujun also had to keep moving continuously.
‘I’ll need to invest the next points in stamina.’
He decided to end the training here for now.
“We’ll end today’s training here.”
“Thank you!”
The real thing would start tomorrow.
* * *
One day, two days, three days.
Kim Gyo-jun’s dark circles deepened from the intense training.
But contrary to his tired appearance, Kim Gyo-jun was feeling something changing within him.
‘Light.’
His body felt light.
His movements felt different from before training.
Since there were no problems using his abilities, confidence began to grow.
Moreover, there was one more thing he could clearly feel.
‘It’s changed. Definitely.’
Yujun’s training wasn’t much different from other trainers.
But there was a clear distinction that couldn’t be explained in words.
‘Somehow I can follow along well.’
Moreover, unlike previous training, he definitely understood. When he listened to Yujun’s words, he could unconsciously follow the training content exactly.
Of course, only his body could follow. It wasn’t something he could immediately understand with his head.
But by repeatedly training more than 10 hours a day like this, he could feel it gradually becoming ingrained in his body.
Since the feeling of understanding was repeated, it became ingrained in his body regardless of comprehension.
“We’ll start today’s training.”
Yujun said this while examining Kim Gyo-jun’s body.
He looked tired in various ways, but seeing the blue light still emanating from his head, his mental strength was considerable.
Rather, the blue light was shining much stronger than before.
And.
‘The cracks that were spread throughout his body…’
Were fading away.
They hadn’t completely disappeared, but the cracks had become considerably lighter.
‘At this rate.’
* * *
“They say he trains for more than 10 hours.”
Guild Master’s Office of the Sky Guild.
“10 hours? Can Kim Gyo-jun even endure that? Besides, that far exceeds the existing work hours, doesn’t it?”
Basically, a trainer’s working hours are 6 hours.
It was a short time, but it was just right since there wasn’t much absolute training volume that Awakened could accept even if working hours were extended.
But Yujun was currently working 10 hours a day.
“It’s not like there’s overtime pay.”
Of course, he had to train him thoroughly during those ten days to prevent his dismissal.
But Yujun’s behavior was still incomprehensible.
“Did Trainer Kang know Kim Gyo-jun from before? No, he didn’t. He’s just one of the trainees.”
But to go this far.
“I think it might be because of old memories.”
Team Leader Kim Do-hun of the trainer team also couldn’t understand Yujun’s passion.
But suddenly he remembered something from the past.
When he had just become a trainer.
Even when there was no overtime pay, he used to spend a little more time training the trainees.
When the trainees he trained achieved results in the tower and gained recognition within the guild, he felt happy as if it were his own accomplishment.
There were times when he did it just to hear a simple word of thanks.
Passion.
He could feel the passion for the job of being a trainer.
“Well, Trainer Kang must have had many difficult times too. He probably empathized a bit.”
From Guild Master Lee Hyeok-jun’s perspective, such behavior couldn’t help but look endearing.
A trainer who sacrifices his own time to guide trainees.
“Trainers like that are quite rare these days.”
“Yes, that’s right.”
Recently, trainers who worked like Kang Yu-jun were hard to find.
Words like romance and such had disappeared long ago.
New trainers with high motivation encourage overtraining of Awakened, and the Awakened don’t prefer such methods either.
“I’m looking forward to it. To see how it turns out. Trainer Kang educated Woo Ha-na excellently, but that was because Woo Ha-na’s potential was outstanding.”
Of course, Team Leader Kim was still skeptical about Kim Gyo-jun’s education.
Ten days, 10 hours each. Simply calculated, that’s 100 hours.
But he thought 100 hours was nowhere near enough to solve Kim Gyo-jun’s problems.
“I feel the same way.”
There weren’t high expectations.
Probably Trainer Kang Yu-jun would also hit the wall called reality.
* * *
The ten days passed quickly.
Kim Gyo-jun looked no different from before on the surface. But strangely, his posture had become upright.
Moreover, his atmosphere had changed too.
‘Ten days of training.’
Today was the day of the internal evaluation.
The Youth within the guild receive scores through internal evaluations.
If they received high scores here, the dismissal decision could be canceled.
‘That’s not the end of my goal.’
Kim Gyo-jun receiving high scores in the internal evaluation and having his dismissal canceled was only the first goal.
“Today is the last day.”
Yujun said.
And the final training began.
“Mr. Kim Gyo-jun, everyone knows. Your weakness.”
It was a fact that everyone at Sky Guild openly knew.
“So we’ll use that in reverse.”
Turn the weakness that everyone knows into a strength instead.
“Draw them in with your weak body.”
Yujun clenched his fist and swung it.
“And crush them in return.”
That day.
Along with 10 hours of training.
“Thank you for your hard work.”
“Thank you… Thank you so much!”
-You have trained Awakened Kim Gyo-jun.
-Training score 7/10
-You gained points according to the training score.
-Trainee Kim Gyo-jun’s overall grade has increased!
-[D-] -> [C]
-Awakened Training Trainee List
1. Kim Min-seok
2. Woo Ha-na
3. Kim Gyo-jun NEW!
The training score was an impressive 7 points.
‘Excellent.’
The points earned from this were a whopping 3P.
‘All that hard work paid off.’
On top of that, Kim Gyo-jun’s overall grade had increased.
With this much, scoring high on the internal evaluation would be no problem.
Yujun confirmed this and smiled.
‘He can escape from the dismissal list.’
The preparations were complete.
Now what remained was.
“Go and show them. Show them who Trainee Kim Gyo-jun received training from.”
“Yes!”
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