I Became a Transcendent-Level Genius Trainer - Chapter 156

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Transcendent Genius Trainer Chapter 156

“Thank you for waiting.”

Click-. Click-! Click-!
Press Conference Hall.

Baek Hyeon-jin, the Hero of South Korea, made his declaration before the cameras with a grave expression.

“I have made a complete recovery.”

Whoooosh-!
Aura blazed forth from Baek Hyeon-jin’s body.
He rose from his seat and extended his hand forward.
Shwoosh-. Whooooooosh-!
Aura gathered in his palm and transformed into a sword.

“……!”
“……!”

The hall was filled with senior journalists and editors.
Ordinarily they wouldn’t attend a press conference, but for a Hero’s appearance, they had no choice but to come in person.

“Ah…….”

It was the same power they’d felt when interviewing the Hero back then.
The power they’d been told had vanished completely—it now dwelt in Baek Hyeon-jin.

“Many familiar faces in the crowd. I’m sure you’ll understand better now. As of this moment, I have returned completely. But of course, words alone won’t convince you. To demonstrate just how far I’ve recovered, I’ve prepared an entertaining performance.”

As Baek Hyeon-jin raised his hand, someone brought forward a Measurement Artifact.
Those assembled began to murmur.

“That……?”
“Really?”

Hummmmm-!
This artifact could measure up to S-rank.
It couldn’t provide perfectly precise numerical values, but it was an artifact with reasonable reliability.

Beep-.
As Baek Hyeon-jin raised his hand, the artifact began to sound.
Shwoosh-.

C, B, A, and then S.
Even reaching the S-rank measurement, it did not stop.
Ding-! Ding-! Ding-!
The artifact shattered entirely.

“……Insane.”
“The power……!”

Everyone gasped in shock.
Before them stood the Baek Hyeon-jin of old.
The Sword Saint. The Hero.

“Today, I stand here thanks to the training provided by Trainer Kang Yu-jun. I’ve heard that several of my juniors have trained under him and achieved remarkable results. They say they owe him a great debt.”

Baek Hyeon-jin gazed around the room as he spoke.

“But from today onwards, that will change. From now, I am the one most deeply indebted. I have been given a new life from that day forward. It was Trainer Kang Yu-jun who showed me that path.”

Click click-!
Baek Hyeon-jin’s return.
And stories of Kang Yu-jun began to spread like wildfire in the press.
The press conference sent all of South Korea into a frenzy.

-HERO’S RETURN! Trainer Kang Yu-jun Praised for Bringing Him Back
-Hero Baek Hyeon-jin’s Return Declaration: Re-measurement “Breaking Limits”…… Thanks to Trainer Kang Yu-jun’s Perfect Training.

Countless articles showered praise on Kang Yu-jun alongside the Hero’s return.

Hunternet.
-Isn’t the interval way too short?
-We haven’t even gotten over the dragon training news yet.
-The monster training thing didn’t die down either. One-Shot Guild’s side is crazy too

The Awakeners who had trained under Yujun were performing brilliantly.
They were not only achieving results beyond what their experience and rank should allow, but setting records—their interviews had been fresh news just days ago.
But now a massive issue had swept it all away.
The Hero’s training.

-He’s been through so much…….
-I heard that our mother’s life was saved by Hero Baek Hyeon-jin.
-He saved our father too.

To say that all of South Korea owed Baek Hyeon-jin its life was not an exaggeration.

-Such a great man, yet we’d been ignoring him because so much time had passed.
-Isn’t it wrong to flip our attitudes like that now?
-We need to reflect.
-But how did Trainer Kang Yu-jun decide to train Hero Baek Hyeon-jin right away? Can you even think that way?
-The chance of failure was higher.
-That guy’s seriously insane with audacity.
-Absolutely insane lmao;;

Exactly sixty days had passed.
Two months.
Everyone wondered how Kang Yu-jun, who had only filled out exactly two months, had come to train a Hero.

“How did it happen? I don’t know either.”

Director Lee Ji-tae set down his tablet with a grunt.

“Why are they asking if I had a hand in this?”

People had speculated that it was Director Lee Ji-tae’s influence that led Yujun to take on the Hero’s training.
It made sense.
Yujun, who’d already gathered enough fame, suddenly training a Hero with overwhelmingly high risk?
No one could make sense of it.

“Was I drawing up some grand strategy? Sure, maybe I was. But it wasn’t me who drew it.”

“Which just shows how remarkable Trainer Kang’s choice was.”

Director Lee Ji-tae had received information about Prince Kay’s training from the Association President.

“A formal letter from Japan calling him the nation’s benefactor came through!”

It also contained a request to reach out for help whenever needed.

“I was always treated as insignificant, but never thought I’d see a day like this.”

Prince Kay, whom no one had been able to train, had been successfully trained by Kang Yu-jun.
Yujun, summoned in desperation, had pulled off the job perfectly—the Japanese had every reason to feel this way.

“I wonder what he’ll do next. It looked like he still had energy to spare…….”

As Director Lee Ji-tae fell into thought, his phone rang.

Ding-!
-Live streaming begins!

“Hm?”

It was a MyTube live notification.
There weren’t many channels Director Lee Ji-tae had alerts set for…….

-Hero Baek Hyeon-jin’s Return Tower Conquest. Heading to the Tower of the Sun.

It was a live alert from Hero Baek Hyeon-jin’s channel.
Director Lee Ji-tae’s eyes widened at the notification, then he let out a soft laugh.

“This guy doesn’t rest either. Right, makes sense. If you’re making a comeback after decades, why would you want to rest? You’d want to move immediately.”

Director Lee Ji-tae watched Baek Hyeon-jin’s stream with delight.
Which tower would he choose?

“……!”

Even Director Lee Ji-tae was shocked at the tower Baek Hyeon-jin had selected.

“The Tower of the Sun? And the upper levels at that?”

Director Lee Ji-tae swallowed hard and focused intently on the livestream.

The Tower of the Sun’s upper levels.
The Tower of the Sun was a high-difficulty tower with almost no successful conquests in South Korea.
Only the Five Great Guilds could even attempt it, and even then, the losses outweighed the gains. No other guild had any business trying.
With frequent casualties, lately only raids led by rampaging stabilizers had been conducted there.

“Going in alone?”

Director Lee Ji-tae let out a hollow laugh.
Baek Hyeon-jin’s MyTube livestream viewership was already over one hundred thousand—testament to how he’d become a national sensation.
Once the tower conquest began, viewership would likely exceed one million.

-Didn’t you just do a press conference?
-Hero Baek declares his return in the morning and climbs the tower in the afternoon……..
-Heroes really are different.
-After waiting decades, can you blame him?

The Tower of the Sun.
Preparing for the raid, Baek Hyeon-jin felt light as air.

“I never thought I’d even get artifact equipment like this.”

Baek Hyeon-jin had received artifact equipment from Yujun.
He’d been told it was made by Kim Gyu-cheol, an Item Creation Awakener on his team, and the quality was remarkable.

“The Kim family’s craftsmen really are something else.”

He’d heard Kim Gyu-cheol had been cast out by the Kim family, yet looking at this artifact equipment made it incomprehensible.

“Just how much abundance does the Kim family have to discard an Awakener of this caliber?”

It made no sense.
Baek Hyeon-jin shook his head and displayed his gear to the livestream camera.

“The artifacts I’m wearing today were made by Awakener Kim Gyu-cheol.”

Then he gave a brief explanation of Kim Gyu-cheol.

“He’s a member of Trainer Kang Yu-jun’s team. Extremely skilled, very young, and quite handsome.”

And finally, he mentioned the Geumgang Forge in Goyang City.

“I hear they also accept private commissions.”

-Insane.
-A Hero giving him free advertising.
-How good does it have to be for this?!

Baek Hyeon-jin grinned as he promoted it, then immediately entered the Tower of the Sun.

And shortly after.
Those watching the livestream could only gape at Baek Hyeon-jin’s performance.

Each time Baek Hyeon-jin swung his sword, the ground split and walls crumbled.
The monsters in the Tower of the Sun had inherently high defense, and their special skills granted significant physical damage resistance.
Yet Baek Hyeon-jin’s attacks ignored that resistance entirely, cleaving straight through.

Crunch!
Crack-!

-Wow…….
-Insane.
-What is this??
-Is this really someone who just returned today? I heard the earth rumble when he swung.
-Haven’t you all heard that Hero Baek split mountains and sliced seas?
-Was that a metaphor?
-No, he actually did it.
-Now that I’m seeing this, I believe it was real.
-I feel relieved now. I used to say he was insanely powerful during his prime, but nobody believed me. Now they’ll understand.

Arguments erupted among viewers about the martial prowess Baek Hyeon-jin displayed.

-Just what in the world did Trainer Kang train him in?
-Kang Yu-jun’s touch literally revives the dead. Seo Yu-ri, Hong Jun-yong, and now Baek Hyeon-jin.
-He’s like a miracle doctor.
-Whatever he touches heals.
-What’s his market value going to be?

Currently, the highest market value trainer in South Korean history was Han Gyu-jin of Dream.

-If Han Gyu-jin transferred to another guild, he might get paid in the billions.
-With this level of training quality, he’d probably be worth even more.

Bang-! Crash-!
Baek Hyeon-jin advanced through the Tower of the Sun’s upper levels without a single obstacle.

“Whew…….”

This raid had been slightly overextended.
Yet there was only one reason he’d pushed through.

“Jae-hyeon. Did you see what Dad just did? If anyone’s bothering you, tell me everything. I’ll go settle it with my sword.”

He was South Korea’s Hero, but simultaneously, a single child’s father.

***

Ding-!
-Hello, Trainer Kang Yu-jun. My name is Baek Jae-hyeon. I’m in third grade, class three, at Han Bit Elementary School…….
Thank you for fixing my dad. He smiles all the time now. My friends can’t make fun of me anymore.

Yujun smiled warmly at the heartfelt message.

“This is why I do this training.”

South Korea was currently ablaze over the Hero Baek Hyeon-jin’s training.
Everyone was deeply curious.

Once, Baek Hyeon-jin had been called South Korea’s strongest Awakener.
But with so much time having passed, the prevailing expectation was that even a successful recovery wouldn’t restore his former martial prowess.
Yet through his livestream, Baek Hyeon-jin shattered that expectation entirely.

‘I never thought he’d promote Gyu-cheol this much.’

Kim Gyu-cheol’s standing was almost certainly going to rise significantly.

‘With this scale, the Kim family’s going to try to reach out again.’

They’d been making contact through Kim Sang-hun, but with the situation growing this large, there was a real possibility the Kim family head would move directly.

‘I’d been planning to play this more carefully.’

There didn’t seem to be any need for caution anymore.

“I’ll go to the Kim family.”

The Kim family had many broken Awakeners like Kim Gyu-cheol and Kim Sang-hun.
Outwardly magnificent and proud, but rotting from within.
They were all being used as spare parts for the Kim family, then discarded.

“Of course, thanks to that, the Kim family’s artifacts are recognized even overseas.”

Yujun smiled as he contemplated what lay ahead.
Training the Kim family’s craftspeople would be an extremely enjoyable endeavor.

“While I’m at it…… let’s turn the Kim family inside out too.”

Yujun headed straight for the airport.
He’d never unpacked his bags anyway, so there was nothing to pack.

“Trainer Kang Yu-jun.”

Prince Kay appeared at the airport with a Japanese government official to meet Yujun as he was leaving.
Prince Kay greeted Kang Yu-jun with a bright smile.

“We couldn’t simply let go our nation’s benefactor. Upon hearing you were returning so soon, we rushed here.”
“I’m truly grateful.”
“We wish you could stay longer, but since you’re busy…… we cannot hold you.”

Prince Kay’s interview was spreading enormously throughout Japan.
A Korean trainer had saved royalty.
The image Japanese people held of Korean trainers was completely transformed by Yujun.
How could they simply let such a benefactor leave?

“We’ve prepared a private jet for you.”

Prince Kay said with a broad smile.

‘They prepared a private jet?’

Even Yujun was shocked by this.
He had indeed been of great help, but providing a private jet was another matter entirely.

‘Though the compensation was quite satisfactory.’

With a private jet, he’d save time—there was no reason to refuse.

“Then I gratefully accept your kindness.”
“And.”

Prince Kay took out something separately.

“……Are you giving me this?”

Yujun stiffened briefly upon seeing it, then asked in a surprised voice.

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