I Became a Transcendent-Level Genius Trainer - Chapter 200

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Transcendent Genius Trainer Chapter 200

Hunternet.

-Getting a Conquest Grade of C or higher on the Tower of Ashes is seriously difficult.
-Right now even all the top guild business teams are coming back with B-grade results.
-Not Team 1, right?
-Even if it’s not Team 1, getting B-grade is kind of shocking.
-And we’re still on the lower floors…….

As the Tower of Ashes conquest began in earnest, Hunternet filled with posts about the tower.

-Aren’t all the top guilds S-rank, not just Team 1?
-The difficulty seems higher than expected.

Even if they weren’t Team 1, the top guilds had many S-rank Awakeners.
Yet they couldn’t produce results above B-grade. It was baffling.

-What’s the difficulty actually like?
-The difficulty is high, and to get a good Conquest Grade you have to pay attention to literally everything. Conquest speed, conquest process, and conquest elements—all of it.

The conquest had to be fast, clean, and certain to earn a higher grade than that.
Awakeners clicked their tongues.

-It’s so different from normal towers, they say.
-But the rewards for that high difficulty are supposed to be incredible?

Of course, the fact that the rewards were incredible spread relentlessly.

-The top guilds are already on dozens of attempts, they say.
-Team 1 members who were challenging other towers got called up to the Tower of Ashes, supposedly.
-They seem intent on making a serious push on the Tower of Ashes.

And at that same moment.

-The US already got A-grade, they say.
-They cleared up to the 5th Floor?
-Japan reached the 4th Floor, I heard.

Nations ranked as Awakener superpowers were clearing higher floors than South Korea.

-How are we supposed to handle this?
-Right? It hits hard when the same tower appears. The comparison is brutal.
-So that’s why we needed to develop our Youths more.
-Still unclear. There are well-known Youths out there.

Whoooooosh—!
Before the Tower of Ashes.
A group emerged roughly from the Tower of Ashes.

The Awakened Person Management Bureau’s military team, Strengths.
And with Strengths came Director Lee Ji-tae and Vice Director So Gang-cheol.

“Damn it.”

Director Lee Ji-tae clicked his tongue.

“Does this make any sense?”

It was his first raid in a long time.
Since retiring from active service and becoming a director, he hadn’t moved this violently in ages.

“No matter how rusty I’ve gotten…….”

Director Lee Ji-tae sighed and looked at the Strengths Team Members.

“Sorry about that.”
“Not at all!”
“It seems we failed to support you properly.”
“No. The difficulty was extraordinary.”

Vice Director So Gang-cheol agreed.

“It’s so different from other towers.”

Vice Director So Gang-cheol mulled over what happened inside the Tower of Ashes.

“Quests appear without end, and there are so many hidden elements.”

It wasn’t a place that could be cleared just by being strong.

“Director!”

A Management Bureau Employee who had been waiting outside rushed forward.

“Reporting! Here’s the current information on the Tower of Ashes conquest in the US, Japan, and England!”

The director nodded.

“The US, England, Germany, and Japan have already produced raid teams with A-grade conquests, they say.”
“That’s only natural—they have plenty of SS-rank Awakeners.”

The bureau director frowned as he received the briefing.

“What about us?”

Director Lee Ji-tae had just emerged from conquering the Tower of Ashes.

“This…… the difficulty is extraordinary.”

He had gone in with full effort.
But the grade that came back was C.

“Let’s send a cooperation request to other guilds. I don’t think we can leave this to inter-guild competition like usual.”

***

The Top 3 Guilds.
Guild Master Choi Ho-jeong was the son of the previous Guild Master Choi Gyun.
And the former Guild Master Choi Gyun had wanted to make the Promise Guild into South Korea’s greatest guild.

-I founded this Promise Guild with my old comrades. They’re all dead now, but.

The guild’s name became “Promise” because of a promise made at the moment of its founding.

-Back then, you were forcibly drafted based on your grade. We had to go even knowing we’d die.

So they founded the guild.
To protect themselves and their comrades.

-I wanted to make this guild the best so I could protect my people.

Choi Ho-jeong’s father often told him this story when he was young.

-So I will make this Promise Guild the greatest.

But twenty years ago, Choi Gyun died in the Great Rift.
And that will was inherited by Guild Master Choi Ho-jeong.
He recruited Youths obsessively.
To carry his father’s will and make the Promise Guild the greatest.
Of course, he made realistic adjustments to his goals.

From the greatest guild to one of the Top 3 Guilds.
Even that was an enormous achievement.
The Top 3 Guilds hadn’t changed in decades.
Though their rankings shifted slightly among themselves, no outside guild had ever entered the Top 3.

At first, his goal seemed to be materializing.
He was gathering outstanding Youths that could be called the guild’s jewels.
The rankings actually improved.
The position now occupied by the Master Guild was originally the Promise Guild’s place.

But there were limits.
The early Youths began to leave, and the later ones didn’t develop their potential as hoped.
Of course, the existing guild members performed well enough to keep the guild afloat.
Choi Ho-jeong believed he had to hold onto the Youths, so he continued aggressive investment.
But ultimately the Promise Guild couldn’t grow any further.
In fact, it declined.
It fell out of the Top 3 and now even its 5th place position was precarious.
At the next ranking update, it might drop further behind the Dream Guild.
Han Gyu-jin alone had produced over a dozen S-rank Awakeners, and those S-rank members were delivering solid results in towers.
Meanwhile, the Promise Guild couldn’t even maintain its existing roster.

“…….”

In that situation, Yujun’s overwhelming confidence made his heart race without knowing why.
Yujun had reignited a dream he’d half abandoned.

“Is that really possible?”

Is that really possible?
He knew Yujun’s ability was extraordinary.
But the Promise Guild was so broken he didn’t know where to start.

“Guild Master, that’s why I accepted this contract.”

‘I should at least make it into the Top 3 Guilds.’

Since he’d taken a stake in the Promise Guild, the guild’s growth became his gain.

“And please speak comfortably with me. Even though I’ve left, I still think of the Promise Guild as my home, the place that gave me my best.”

At Yujun’s words, Guild Master Choi Ho-jeong smiled faintly.

“Yes. Let’s do that.”

His eyes sharpened again.

“I’ll make sure to give you the shares from the contract. But before that, I have something to ask. The training scope on the contract isn’t written clearly.”

He handed over the contract.

“It just says the entire Promise Guild…….”
“That’s exactly what it means.”

Yujun replied.

“From bottom to top. In other words, I’ll train everyone—from new guild members all the way up to you.”

The guild master was slightly taken aback at the idea of training the entire Promise Guild.

“Me, too?”

Of course, he was still an active Awakener.
But it had been a very long time since he’d entered a tower.
He was technically an Awakener, but he’d been focusing more on guild operations.

Of course, he’d heard about Yujun’s training many times and wanted to receive it.
Even as a combat-focused Awakener, he had the desire to become stronger.

“Yes.”

Whoosh—.
Shhhh—.
Yujun’s two eyes scanned Choi Ho-jeong.

‘Golden light.’

Despite having long since stopped active work, there were areas emanating golden light from him.

‘Golden light is pouring from his shoulders.’

Of course, there was considerable red light and fissures as well.

‘What’s interesting is that his growth hasn’t finished yet.’

Despite being in his late forties, his growth had not yet reached its limit.

“Let me first hear the situation. I know most of it, but there might be things I didn’t know back when I was a Youth.”
“Then…….”

Guild Master Choi Ho-jeong explained the Promise Guild’s problems.

“First, it’s the Youths. Their growth has stalled. They have excellent talent. As you know.”

Youths with stalled growth.

“And next is the Trainers. Our guild’s Trainers have fallen into a mannerism.”

A Trainer’s purpose is to make Awakeners strong.
But they weren’t doing that.

“Actually, it’s not just the Trainers’ problem. The existing Awakeners are refusing the Trainers’ training.”

Refusing training.
Yujun had some sense of this.
The Awakeners weren’t accepting the training curriculum the Trainers had designed.
They only accepted comfortable training and rejected the hard, grueling training.
Then they complained that their skills weren’t improving and that they weren’t compatible, creating conflict.

“And the business team’s problems…… there are issues from Team 3 all the way to Team 1. Not just incompatibility…….”
“Hwang Jin-seong.”

When Yujun said that name, the Promise Guild master nodded.

“Right. Our ace is at the center of the business team’s problems.”
“Stopping the power struggle with Oh Do-yun should come first.”
“……You know all the internal details, don’t you.”

The business team wasn’t being destroyed just because of Hwang Jin-seong’s rampage.
The former ace Oh Do-yun and current ace Hwang Jin-seong kept clashing, ruining the team itself.

This was quite an embarrassment for the guild master.
It meant he wasn’t managing the guild properly.
It was a complete mess from beginning to end.

“For this Tower of Ashes conquest, I sent mixed teams from the business and support teams. Technically sent them, anyway.”

All guilds at the Promise Guild’s level had sent two teams to the Tower of Ashes.
Of course, due to continued failure, everyone was sending Team 1 now, but the Promise couldn’t send Team 1.

“Hwang Jin-seong pushed back. Questioning why we needed to focus on the Tower of Ashes. Saying we should recover the towers we already have first.”

‘It’s a bigger mess than I thought.’

The leadership’s decisions weren’t being implemented properly.
Because of one person, the business team leader—one of the strongest operatives.

‘And he’s not even being disciplined properly.’

Hwang Jin-seong’s military power held too much weight, and his influence was too great.
Most of the S-rank Awakeners in the guild followed him.

‘But he’ll want to prove himself.’

To win against Oh Do-yun, he just needs to perform on something like the Tower of Ashes.
Then victory follows.

‘It’s not just a simple power struggle, then.’

“I’ve confirmed the general situation.”

‘Youths, Trainers, Awakeners.’

He’d trained an entire guild before—the One-Shot Guild.
Of course, he’d divided the members with Trainer Seo Yu-ri back then.
It wouldn’t be easy, but that’s exactly why it felt meaningful.

‘So it should be fun.’

“Can you really train everyone? From the Trainers to the Youth Awakeners?”
“Yes. It’s possible. But I’d need you to acquire some items necessary for the training.”

Yujun immediately handed over a sheet of paper with the needed list.

“These are…….”

What was written were expensive potions.

‘One is for me to drink.’

The rest he planned to use for the Awakeners.

“Then I’ll start right away.”

This training target was the guild itself.

‘Training the Promise Guild.’

***

Promise Guild Training Grounds.
Yujun intended to completely transform this Promise Guild.

‘Then the first thing to train should be the existing Trainers.’

“……!”
“……!”

The Promise Guild’s Trainers were entering the Training Ground.
There were fifty Trainers here in total.
Each Trainer was divided between working with Youths and the business team.
And the leader of these Trainers was the person entering last.

Trainer Team Leader Kim Han-ju.
He was a skilled S-rank Trainer who had once trained Yujun.
Tall, neatly dressed in a suit, and long hair covering his face.

‘His dark circles are really pronounced.’

You could tell how much he’d suffered lately.

“Trainer Kim.”
“……?”

Kim Han-ju lifted his head and widened his eyes.

“It’s been a long time.”
“……Kang Yu-jun?”

It was definitely that Kang Yu-jun.

“What are you doing here…….”

He was deeply taken aback.

“I’ve been commissioned.”

All fifty of these Trainers had taught Yujun at some point.

Because of that, Yujun knew all of their training methods.

Shhhh—.
Crackling crackling crackling—!

-The True Eye activates.

Floating lightly.
Their information rose to the surface and was engraved in Yujun’s two eyes.
Shhhh—. Shhhh—. Shhhh—.

‘All fifty have problems.’

The biggest issue was with the team leader.

“Starting today, I will be training all of you.”
“……?”
“Training us?”
“We are Trainers, though.”

They were Trainers.
Naturally, Trainers were those who gave training, not those who received it.
But Yujun shook his head.

“It’s no different from Awakeners. Trainers need training too.”

These were reactions he’d already seen in other guilds.

“You all are excellent Trainers. I know this from being trained by you. But.”

‘You need vigilance and drive.’

These men’s eyes had been lifeless from the moment they entered.
Eyes that had lost hope.

‘Then let’s wake them up.’

“Right now, your training is pathetic. You are the primary culprits destroying the Promise Guild.”

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