I Became a Transcendent-Level Genius Trainer - Chapter 199

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I Became a Transcendent Genius Trainer — Episode 199

“What will Trainer Kang Yu-jun do next?”

After the Cheongnae Choi Family training session.
Everyone was curious about Yujun’s next move.

-Right now, anything he touches is a sure success.
-He even makes trainings that should fail succeed instead.
-I’m dying to know what training he’ll take on next.
-Bet he’s heading overseas now?
-I heard there are plenty of trainings overseas that he can’t handle yet.

-He received a knighthood in England, so he’s definitely going international.
-Still seems like a waste though. There are plenty of Awakeners left in the country worth training.
-Either way, it’s great to see him active like this. Has there ever been a domestic trainer like him?

Across multiple media outlets, including Hunternet, Kang Yu-jun’s next move was blazing-hot gossip.
Just as everyone wondered, his next destination was finally revealed.

-Everyone. Trainer Kang Yu-jun’s next move just dropped.
-I’m confirming this information right now.
-The Cheongnae Choi Family’s next destination is said to be the Promise Guild!
-Trainer Kang Yu-jun has accepted a request from Promise Guild!

The moment it became known that Yujun’s next destination was Promise Guild, South Korea’s Awakener industry erupted.

-Wow.
-Does that even make sense?
-Promise?
-Isn’t that the guild he was expelled from?

What kind of place was Promise Guild?
It was once Yujun’s home — a guild that had expelled him due to Awakening Failure, only to watch him achieve massive success as a trainer afterward.
For Yujun, it held only bitter memories, and Promise Guild itself could only feel a sting of regret watching the man they’d cast out flourish spectacularly beyond their walls.

-I always thought Trainer Kang Yu-jun and Promise Guild would eventually have some kind of interaction.
-But I never expected it would be now.

SS-rank.
Moreover, his stock had skyrocketed madly after successfully training the Cheongnae Choi Family.
That he would accept a request from Promise Guild in such a position was baffling.

-I hear it worked out well though.
-Mm…….

It was stunning.

-I didn’t think an SS-rank trainer would accept Promise Guild’s training request.

Even if things had gone well, accepting a request from the guild that expelled him was no easy matter.

-Wouldn’t there be better training options available?
-Aren’t there the Top 3 Guilds?

Besides, there was no shortage of overseas Awakeners who’d already entered the country.
Simply accepting training requests from them would earn far better credentials and far greater compensation.

-Everyone knows Promise’s situation isn’t good.
-He’s choosing a difficult path again.

Promise Guild, once ranked among the top five in Korea, was not in good shape.
They’d lost monopoly rights to all their existing Tower operations, and high-ranking Awakeners had defected en masse.
Yun Tae-jin and Kim Il-su, who once represented Promise, were now at Master Guild, one of the Top 3, while Go Yun-jin had gone to Cheongryong, also one of the Top 3.

-A lot of people don’t even notice it’s quietly declining.
-Isn’t the Youth problem the main issue?
-The Youths are a problem, and Sales Team 1 is too.
-The Youths had their potential awakened too early, so their bodies are all damaged, and Team 1……
-They can’t coordinate. Their teamwork is off.

Total chaos.
That was the perfect description for Promise’s current state.
The Youths were in poor condition, and Team 1 couldn’t find their rhythm.

-And on top of everything, the trainers there are also…

Even the trainers were a problem.
Despite having fifty trainers on staff, most had fallen into stagnation, failing to deliver proper training.

-So this isn’t just symbolic?
-I thought he was going back to the expelled guild to prove himself.
-But seeing this, he really stayed true to form, didn’t he?

Kang Yu-jun had become synonymous with impossible training.
Everyone else avoided the hard path, and everyone assumed Yujun would never take anything easy — so they all believed he only accepted the most difficult jobs.

-So he didn’t judge the guild’s reputation — he judged the difficulty.
-Haha, so he really just went for the hard one.
-But how’s he going to pull this off?
-With the Choi Family, all he needed was to solve the Lightning Mana issue.
-The Kim Family had internal politics too, but it was a family matter so he managed it.
-But this is more serious. If he comes in too hard, everyone will want to defect immediately.

This was a guild.
A guild was a collective bound by mutual interest and complex relationships.

-But didn’t he do well with One-Shot too?
-One-Shot had insane difficulty too. Training long-range Awakeners requires specialized knowledge, but……
-One-Shot only had one S-rank though, didn’t they?

At One-Shot, only the Wind Archer Hong Jun-yong was S-rank.
But Promise Guild had quite a few S-rank Awakeners.

-What’s Hong Jun-yong up to these days?
-Going crazy in the Tower.
-Pulling up One-Shot Guild’s ranking single-handedly.
-He was praising Trainer Kang every day.
-Well, he should be grateful. The man changed his life.

So everyone waited to see how Yujun would solve this training.
Some even predicted he would fail.

-It’s about time he failed.
-We won’t complain even if he does. Let’s see some human weakness for once!

Because they felt the overall difficulty this time was even higher.

-This is pretty much an impossible training to succeed at.
-Let’s wait and see.

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“We’ve been waiting for you.”

It was Promise Guild’s Secretary’s Office that greeted Yujun.
The Awakeners of the S-rank Secretary’s Office were responsible for VIP security and formal reception.

‘There are some familiar faces here.’

There were three people from the Secretary’s Office.
Two of them were faces he recognized.

“It’s been a while.”
“Yes. Trainer Kang. I’m really glad to finally meet you like this.”

Those belonging to the Secretary’s Office strictly separate work and personal matters.
But that didn’t mean they had reason to pretend not to recognize someone they’d known before.

“I’m sure you never thought you’d be coming back like this. Neither did I. In any case, I’m counting on your help.”

While Yujun carried out Promise Guild’s request, these people were meant to assist him.
Of course, there wasn’t much need for that.

‘I already know this place.’

Whoooosh—
The automatic door slid open, and the interior of Promise Guild felt overwhelmingly familiar.

‘I was here just months ago, after all.’

Yet everything felt entirely different now.

As Yujun entered the Promise Guild building, numerous guild members saw him.

“Huh?”
“……Is that Yujun?”
“It’s Kang Yu-jun?”

The fact that Yujun, Korea’s hottest trainer, was in the Promise Guild building made them all look as though they’d seen a ghost.
Yujun, who’d been expelled, had already achieved massive success as a trainer.
It was natural to assume he’d never return to Promise Guild.

“Long time no see.”

Only a few months had passed.
Yet it felt as though years had gone by.

“Is it really you?”
“Of course it’s me.”

Yujun took their greetings calmly, like someone coming home.

“No wait…… Congratulations! Congratulations, really! How did this happen? We knew your training skills were something, even if we didn’t fully understand it back then……”
“But why’d you come back here?”
“You’re not rejoining us, are you?”
“No. I accepted a request, so I came.”

Yujun exchanged greetings with friends from his Youth days.

‘They’re all promising people.’

They were now assigned to Sales Team 3.

“Promise Guild’s training request, that is.”
“……!”
“……!”

Their eyes went wide.
Yujun as a trainer wasn’t just a friend — he was South Korea’s one and only SS-rank.

Unparalleled.
By now, there were already hundreds of overseas Awakeners who’d come into the country hoping for his training.
Yet neither overseas nor domestic Awakeners had been able to secure his services.
Wanting him wasn’t the same as getting him.

“So all of us……”
“We can receive your training?”

The Awakeners of Sales Team 3 felt their hearts pound with fierce anticipation.
Right now, they needed training.
Sales Team 3 itself was part of Promise Guild’s troubles.

“Not quite. You know how busy Yujun is.”
“Still, it’s nice to see you like this. Really, congratulations.”

They understood.
During his golden Youth days, Yujun had lacked only the ability to Awaken — but he had possessed remarkable talent in everything else.
The casual advice he’d tossed out then still shaped them to this day.
Because they remembered that, they cheered for him.

“Don’t worry.”

Yujun smiled at them.

“Something worth your expectations will happen.”

***

The Guild Master’s Office.
Choi Ho-jeong, Guild Master of Promise Guild, was quite pleased to hear that Director Kim Tae-jeong had successfully sealed the contract with Kang Yu-jun.

“You worked very hard. Director Kim.”

Even when he’d sent Kim Tae-jeong out, he hadn’t held great expectations.
Promise had expelled Kang Yu-jun.
They’d done so after careful deliberation, but an expulsion was still an expulsion.
How could there be a beautiful parting?
That was why, despite sending Kim Tae-jeong — who’d had a good relationship with Yujun — he hadn’t truly expected success.
Yet the contract had gone through.

“From what I heard, there were quite a few notable guilds competing.”

Promise had beaten out all those notable guilds gathered in the Gwanghwamun office and secured the contract with Kang Yu-jun.
It was an enormous achievement.

“Director Kim did an excellent job.”
“I did nothing at all. Yujun simply chose us.”

Director Kim Tae-jeong shook his head plainly.
That was the truth of it.

“Still, he’s practically your son, isn’t he? Young Yujun.”

Since childhood, Kang Yu-jun had followed Kim Tae-jeong closely.
Accordingly, Kim Tae-jeong had done what he could for Yujun.
Of course, he never overstepped.
Had he shown excessive favoritism toward one person, it could have caused problems within the guild.

“If I’d gone myself, there might not have been any chance. I wouldn’t have left a good impression on him anyway.”

As Guild Master, Choi Ho-jeong had to prioritize the guild’s interests and the complex web of stakeholders above all.

“Trainer Kang Yu-jun has arrived.”

With a knock, Kang Yu-jun entered alongside the Awakeners from the Secretary’s Office.

“Yujun…… No, Trainer Kang Yu-jun!”

Choi Ho-jeong greeted Yujun warmly.
Whoooosh—
Though he was suppressing his power as much as possible, the aura radiating from Yujun was so formidable it bore no resemblance to the Yujun of the past.
Choi Ho-jeong, Kim Tae-jeong, and even Yujun himself found smiles spreading across their faces unbidden.

Regardless of how things had ended between them or what anyone felt, they had once charged forward together toward a shared goal.
That history meant Yujun’s excellent growth and success naturally brought a smile to their faces.
Especially for Guild Master Choi Ho-jeong, who had always dreamed of this very sight.

“Ah……”

Choi Ho-jeong let out a genuine sigh of admiration.
This was the image of Yujun he had always longed to see.

“You’ve changed quite a bit.”

He was no longer a guild member of theirs.
That was why Guild Master Choi Ho-jeong spoke with formality.

“It’s unfortunate that he bloomed like this outside our care rather than within it.”

The very fact of his potential exploding filled the Guild Master with considerable satisfaction.
Yujun had spent over a decade as a Youth of Promise.
Time and history had twisted even bitter feelings into affection.
To Choi Ho-jeong’s words, Yujun offered a light smile.

“Promise Guild is fifth place right now, isn’t it, Guild Master?”
“That’s correct.”
“I’ll make sure this training gets you into the Top 3.”

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