I Became a Transcendent-Level Genius Trainer - Chapter 166

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Transcendent Genius Trainer, Episode 166

Yujun first had the Kim family blacksmiths wait in place.

“Tonight will be the turning point.”

All the blacksmiths nodded in agreement.
It was exactly as he said.
Before tonight passed, he needed to settle the situation decisively.

“Please wait a moment. If you remain in this room, I’ll make the preparations and return.”

Now was the time to quickly win over the executives.
According to Kim Sang-hun, not all executives supported the family head.
When Yujun checked with Kim Jung-hun as well, he confirmed that quite a few had lost faith in the family head.
But with no way to overturn the current situation, they were reluctantly following along, he said.

‘Kim Sang-hun certainly has ability.’

He had passed on to Yujun the list of executives he’d identified as opposing the family head.
From now on, it was Yujun’s turn.
Everything would be decided by how Yujun acted.

“Wouldn’t it be better if we moved together?”
“Don’t worry. Besides, if we all move together, it’ll stand out too much.”

Yujun shook his head as he spoke.

“And I’m going to train now.”

This too was training.
Persuading the other party.

“Training the mind, you might say.”

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‘First, I need to deal with the one watching me.’

He already knew someone was surveilling him.
So Yujun deliberately powered forward with a sharp, heavy step from that spot.

Crack!
Crackle-crack-crack!

“……!”

The Kim family Awakener hidden in the shadows was startled by Yujun’s sudden approach.
The Kilo Gauntlet was equipped on Yujun’s hands.

“Stay quiet, please.”

Crack! Crack! Crack!

“Ugh……!”

The Awakener, suddenly feeling an enormous weight, let out a groan.
Yujun murmured softly as he swung the Crystal Stone Staff.

“Very quietly. You’ll wake up in about three days—that’ll be just right.”

Then he precisely blocked the Mana Road, rendering the Awakener unconscious.
Thud!
Having easily dealt with the Awakener, Yujun brushed himself off.

“Could this count as training too, wouldn’t you say?”

He’d quieted his opponent—this too was legitimate training.

“Too bad about the Points, though.”

With a light chuckle, he moved quickly toward the building where the executives were staying.
He arrived at the quarters of the first person he’d targeted for persuasion.

Knock, knock.
Yujun rapped on the door.

“Hello. I’m Kang Yu-jun. Do you have a moment to talk?”

Creak.
The Kim family executive who cautiously opened the door wore a flustered expression.

“Trainer Kang Yu-jun? What brings you here so suddenly…….”
“You’re Kim Yun-cheon, correct?”

Kim Yun-cheon, one of the Kim family executives.
Yujun smiled at him.

“I’ve come to have a conversation with you.”
“What sort of conversation…….”
“About the family head.”
“……Are you perhaps abandoning the training?”

Kim Yun-cheon’s expression hardened.
Currently, Yujun was in a state like prey trapped in a spider’s web—unable to move.
The Kim family blacksmiths were in a state where training was impossible.
So promising to train such people was naturally doomed to fail.

“That must proceed as per contract.”

Kim Yun-cheon spoke with a stern expression.

“I cannot help you…….”

No matter how dissatisfied he was with the family head, he was still a Kim family man, and could only move for the family’s benefit.
Yujun slipped directly into the open doorway.

“This isn’t about training. It’s about the family head. You know there’s Gyu-cheol in my team, don’t you?”
“I know that much. But why…….”

“Gyu-cheol has inherited the first family head’s ability.”

There was no need for roundabout words.
He needed to win Kim Yun-cheon’s trust quickly.

“……What?”
“Geumgang Forge.”

At Yujun’s words, Kim Yun-cheon’s eyes widened.

“Huh. It’s true. So Gyu-cheol really did inherit the first family head’s ability.”

At the mention of Geumgang Forge, Kim Yun-cheon looked around nervously.

“Come inside, please.”

Yujun was shown into Kim Yun-cheon’s quarters.
He spoke about Kim Gyu-cheol, and as Kim Yun-cheon listened, his expression grew troubled.

“So Gyu-cheol really did inherit the first family head’s ability?”
“What reason would I have to lie?”
“That’s…… A family head who should be working for the Kim family…….”

He appeared deeply shaken.

“Then the family head…….”

Instead of answering, Yujun simply nodded vaguely.

“So you knew all along. Everything. That’s why…….”

Yujun thought to himself.

‘Of course he didn’t know.’

The family head was a snake of a man.
Had he known of such an ability, he wouldn’t have expelled Gyu-cheol—he would have sought to use it by any means.
He would have tried to steal that power as well.

‘He’d have been far more vicious about it.’

The fact that he simply expelled Gyu-cheol meant the family head had no interest in him at all.

‘He just used him as a tool. He was obsessed only with whether artifacts could be made or not.’

And he’d used Gyu-cheol as a warning to the existing Kim family blacksmiths.
The family head had no particular interest in Gyu-cheol himself.

“Good heavens.”

Kim Yun-cheon’s mind spun in confusion.

“Even committing such an act…… I forgave everything for the sake of the Kim family and his efforts for it.”

So the family head had expelled Gyu-cheol out of jealousy for inheriting the first family head’s power!

Sensing this, Yujun smiled inwardly.

‘His loyalty to the family head runs shallow indeed.’

Coming to find this man had been the right choice.
Now all he needed to do was push a little.

“I’m not a Kim family man, but an outsider. So it’s difficult for me to say much, but I don’t think leaving things as they are is right.”

Yujun spoke as though he were merely offering a suggestion.

“If the Kim family is moving in the wrong direction now, wouldn’t a new family head be necessary?”
“……!”

A new family head.
At the suggestion to remove Family Head Kim Hwa-cheon, Kim Yun-cheon’s eyes went wide.

“Then perhaps…… your accepting this commission was…….”

He’d suspected Director Lee Ji-tae had sent him, but he never imagined the plot was this grand.

“Then…… was all of this planned by Director Lee?”

He furrowed his brow slightly.
Wrong is wrong, but this is a family matter.
He didn’t much like the idea of an outsider being involved.

‘So he assumed Director Lee sent me.’

“No. The Director didn’t send me. He probably found out later.”
“……What?”

So this was Kang Yu-jun acting on his own?
Observing his reaction, Yujun continued steadily with his plan.

‘I need to stay out of this.’

Direct involvement in family affairs, no matter how right the cause, would inevitably provoke resistance.

“This was planned by Gyu-cheol. For the family’s blacksmiths, and ultimately for the family itself.”

The phrase “for the family” was crucial.
The planner needed to be a Kim family member, and outside involvement minimized.

‘I just need to appear as if I’m helping Gyu-cheol.’

Hearing this, Kim Yun-cheon swallowed hard.

“Gyu-cheol…….”

The same Gyu-cheol who had seemed weak.
But if he’d inherited the first family head’s power, that very weakness would surely have vanished.

“I see. Yes. I understand.”

Kim Yun-cheon’s eyes grew sharp.

“I’ll join you. We’ll make what’s right be done rightly. It’s late, but…… I can’t just stand by and do nothing.”
“Thank you for your support.”

Yujun smiled.

‘Done.’

One executive persuaded.

Ding!
-Training complete!
-You have trained S-rank Awakener Kim Yun-cheon!
-Gained 1000 Points!
-Special training successful!
-Achievement [Mind Training] unlocked!

Yujun had done similar training before.

‘It feels a bit different.’

It seemed that verbal training had its own variety of forms.
In the Tower of Infinity, this kind of verbal training had been remarkably rare.
There was no reason for it, and to recruit for a team, one could simply conduct training directly.

‘Interesting.’

He hadn’t expected it to work this way.
Yujun chuckled.
But Kim Yun-cheon’s expression remained clouded.

“However…… to persuade the other executives, we’ll need something bigger. The Council of Elders will be hard to convince too. Especially since they want to maximize the family’s gains.”

Kim Yun-cheon continued.

“I alone can never make the family head step down. It seems you’re trying to apply that rule…… but then you’d have to convince them.”

Kim Yun-cheon knew the Kim family’s rules.
But at this level, it wasn’t enough to convince everyone.
On what grounds would they follow Yujun’s word?
For him it was enough—he strongly opposed the current family head’s policies. But those who supported the family head’s policies would never be swayed so easily.
The Kim family’s status was clearly rising under current leadership.
Though learning Gyu-cheol’s situation might change minds, that was merely possibility.

If he couldn’t convince them in that moment, this whole affair would reach the family head’s ears.
Then it was over.
The family head’s power was absolute, and he’d simply expel those who opposed him.

“For example, if you succeeded at this training…… but that’s impossible, isn’t it. So if you resolved this…….”

Kim Yun-cheon trailed off and shook his head.
No, no. This wouldn’t happen overnight.
A different, more powerful weapon was needed to reverse the situation quickly.

“Better to strengthen Gyu-cheol’s legitimacy more firmly instead.”

It would be better if Gyu-cheol returned to the Kim family and did something tangible.
But his thought didn’t get any further.

“Then it’s resolved.”
“……What?”

Kim Yun-cheon frowned, asking again.

“Resolved, you say……?”
“Eighteen. I’ve trained them all.”

Yujun spoke with supreme confidence.

“The Kim family blacksmiths are all healthy now. As they were before. Or better—if you continue training them, they’ll be in even better condition to craft artifacts than before.”
“You’ve trained them…… then…… you’ve healed them?”

All those Kim family blacksmiths in that terrible state—he’d trained them all?
Unable to believe it, he asked again.

“Yes. Would you like to confirm?”

Kim Yun-cheon nodded absently.
The two quickly headed for Yujun’s quarters.
There, gathered together, were the eighteen blacksmiths Kim Yun-cheon knew well.

Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh-whoosh!

“Huh……?”

It was an unbelievable sight.

“How…….”

He repeated the same words in a daze.
How. How. How could such a thing be.

“Will you join us?”

As if to shake him from his stupor, Yujun asked in a powerful voice.

“In building a new Kim family.”

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