I Became a Transcendent-Level Genius Trainer - Chapter 23

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Transcendent Genius Trainer Episode 23

[Lv.2]

-1. Incubation

-2. ??

Points, performance, and Achievement are required to unlock the next level.

“It feels like I’m finally at the starting line.”

Awakened Training System Lv.2.

Yujun had successfully unlocked its first skill.

The skill, Incubation.

-Incubation: Inherit the stats of the Awakened you have trained. Your stats increase.

It was a very simple skill, but this Incubation could be considered the flower of Awakened trainers.

‘Basically, an Awakened trainer’s role is to make Awakened stronger.’

However, when training them, there comes a time when the trainer reaches their limit.

‘Training low-grade Awakened isn’t burdensome, but when the target’s grade gets higher, teaching them becomes quite demanding.’

This is because gaps widen in various aspects, including physical abilities.

The Incubation skill was what could bridge that gap.

‘There are things you can only know by becoming strong.’

Not just strength, but to give authority to one’s words, appropriate power was needed.

Incubation made that possible.

‘I can become stronger together with them.’

Yujun had no great interest in conquering the Tower.

The reason he wanted to become stronger was to teach Awakened more perfectly, and more quickly and easily.

“Let’s do this properly.”

Yujun immediately sent a message to Lee Su-yeon.

-Neverland Guild, let’s depart right away.

* * *

Sky Guild Guild Master’s Office.

[Guild Master Lee! It’s me!]

The person calling Lee Hyeok-jun was none other than the Guild Master of Thunder Guild.

[It’s nothing major, but…]

“You’re calling to ask about our trainer, right?”

[Ah, yes. That’s right! About Trainer Kang Yu-jun! Is he by any chance a full-time employee?]

“…”

Guild Master Lee Hyeok-jun paused for a moment.

“…No, he’s on a short-term contract. He doesn’t have a license.”

[I see? Then that’s fine. Thank you, Guild Master Lee. You’ll come to next month’s golf meeting, right?]

“I should go. But… how is Seok-jae doing?”

[Huh? Didn’t you know? Trainer Kang Yu-jun trained our Seok-jae.]

The Thunder Guild Master’s voice was quite excited.

[Seok-jae moved up to Team 1. He became part of the main Tower climbing team.]

“…!”

[He’s at the training ground today too… What kind of trainer is this Kang Yu-jun that he changed like this?]

Guild Master Lee Hyeok-jun smiled bitterly at the Thunder Guild Master’s words.

Indeed, an awl in a pocket cannot help but show its tip.

He was speaking in roundabout ways, but right now he was coveting Trainer Kang Yu-jun.

If he had to send him away anyway, it was better to send him cleanly.

After all, if it came down to a bidding war with Thunder Guild, Sky Guild had no way to win.

And actually, since he was on a short-term contract, there wasn’t really anything to send or not send.

It wasn’t an exclusive contract after all.

“See for yourself once. You wouldn’t believe me if I told you anyway, would you?”

[…Is that so?]

The Thunder Guild Master knew Lee Hyeok-jun’s personality well.

[If Guild Master Lee is reacting like this, then this… must be huge.]

The Thunder Guild Master swallowed.

[Thank you, Guild Master. See you next month.]

After the call ended, Lee Hyeok-jun smiled broadly.

Having him taken away was inevitable.

He had thought from the beginning that they couldn’t keep him for long.

“This… if we think of it as being the first to employ a future S-rank trainer, it’s actually good!”

When Yujun became an S-rank trainer later and gave interviews, he would at least mention Sky Guild and his own name.

If he wasn’t at a level they could keep, then doing their best to maintain a connection and relationship with him would be the right thing to do.

* * *

Yeouido.

Yujun was standing in front of the Neverland Guild headquarters building with Lee Su-yeon.

“This is our guild headquarters. You’ve seen it before, right?”

“I’ve been here before.”

Yujun had once visited this Neverland Guild headquarters for exchange purposes.

‘It’s gotten bigger.’

The Neverland Guild had grown larger than before. Originally they used 3 floors, but now they occupied 10 floors of the building.

Beep-.

Just then, Lee Su-yeon’s phone rang.

“…The situation must be really bad.”

“What’s wrong?”

“I got a message saying they’re firing all our trainers.”

‘Oh ho.’

Yujun’s eyebrows twitched slightly.

“That’s an opportunity. For me.”

Whatever the situation was, it seemed their trainers had made a big mistake.

“Let’s go in right away.”

* * *

Neverland Guild.

This guild based in Yeouido had been experiencing a major crisis recently.

“Why on earth did these injuries happen?”

Guild Master Lee Sin-jun was tearing at his hair.

“We haven’t been able to enter the Tower for three months now.”

To maintain guild rankings, results were necessary.

The most representative result was Tower conquest.

There were various types of Towers in South Korea.

Towers needed to be conquered periodically, and if conquest wasn’t carried out, the monsters on those floors would go berserk and pour out.

So the government managed these Towers, and each guild would bid for Tower conquest rights.

And these exclusive conquest rights were a double-edged sword with both advantages and disadvantages.

Successful conquest was recognized as achievement points, but falling behind even slightly would result in major point deductions.

Recently, the Neverland Guild had exclusively won conquest rights for two Towers.

If they couldn’t conquer those two Towers immediately, the conquest rights would be transferred to other guilds.

“We’ll receive penalty points. This can’t happen. We have to prevent it somehow.”

Guild points would drop, and furthermore, there would be problems with guild revenue generation.

If that happened, all the hard work to raise their ranking would become meaningless.

“All that effort to raise our ranking.”

The Guild Master ruffled his hair.

The higher the guild ranking, the more benefits they received.

Tax benefits were especially significant, which was a policy implemented by the government for national competitiveness.

Naturally, if rankings dropped, benefit eligibility would also be revoked.

Moreover, once an image was established, high-grade Awakened wouldn’t join the guild.

It was a continuous vicious cycle.

He fiddled with his phone.

He was contemplating whether to contact the Mercenary Guild.

The Mercenary Guild was a dispatch-specialized guild that possessed numerous freelance Awakened.

They would select and dispatch Awakened requested by each guild.

At first glance it seemed like a convenient option, but from the perspective of top guilds, there were several disadvantages.

First, it cost more than using their own guild members, and it revealed that their own capabilities were insufficient.

In other words, it would lower the guild’s prestige, but in this situation, they couldn’t afford to be picky about such things.

Just as he was about to make the call, he heard a knock.

“Guild Master.”

“Come in.”

The chief secretary who entered immediately guided the Guild Master with a bow.

“What about the trainers? Have all the rehabilitation trainers gathered?”

“Yes, they’re in the conference room.”

Lee Sin-jun opened the conference room door almost forcefully and entered.

Inside were various staff members.

There were training trainers who trained Awakened and rehabilitation trainers for those who were injured or at risk of injury.

Their expressions were quite grim.

“You all know without me saying, right? Why I called you here.”

The Guild Master frowned.

“I would understand if they got hurt in the Tower. Towers are always unpredictable, and even when conquering the same Tower repeatedly, irregular dungeons can appear inside the Tower and strong monsters can emerge.”

Even Towers that were conquered daily could have irregular situations occur.

“But what is this? Getting injured during training? All those guild members?”

The problem was that they weren’t injured in the Tower.

All the injured had been hurt during training.

That’s why he had summoned all the trainers.

The Neverland Trainer Team Leader wore an extremely flustered expression.

“I don’t know where or how to solve this… I’m truly sorry, Guild Master.”

“Explain to me how this happened, Team Leader. What exactly is this situation?”

“Well…”

He hesitated before finally opening his mouth.

“Actually, it’s related to Awakened Yu Je-na…”

Neverland’s ace, S-rank Awakened Volcano Yu Je-na.

His ability, Volcano, was top-tier even among fire-type abilities.

“You’re saying it’s because of Je-na?”

“Yes, actually Awakened Yu Je-na introduced a new training method with our A-rank trainer this time. It seems that training method didn’t suit them well.”

“…”

The Neverland Guild Master was dumbfounded.

Such a situation had occurred over just that reason?

“Then couldn’t you just revert the training method back to the original?”

“Yes, that’s exactly what we did. We confirmed that Yu Je-na’s training method only worked for Yu Je-na himself and corrected it, but…”

The existing Awakened had already followed the wrong training method, causing their internal bodies to be damaged.

“The team doctors provided treatment, but…”

They had put out the immediate fire.

But the problem was rehabilitation.

“Rehabilitation isn’t progressing easily.”

To restore the internal mana roads that had collapsed once required grueling rehabilitation training.

“Rehabilitation will likely take time.”

“…How long?”

“At least 6 months…”

At least 6 months.

At those words, the Guild Master gritted his teeth.

What time was it now?

It was year-end, when they absolutely had to produce results.

During this period, they absolutely couldn’t rest.

They had to work non-stop, going through towers contracted by the government and new towers to earn points.

But most of the guild members had sustained long-term injuries and needed rehabilitation?

“And it could take even longer?”

“Yes.”

The Team Leader couldn’t lift his head.

“Hah…”

That meant they might need rehabilitation for up to a year.

“Are you saying all the injured Awakened are like this, Team Leader?”

“Yes.”

In fact, it was the Team Leader who had led all of this.

“Team Leader.”

The Neverland Guild Master rubbed his face.

“You know I could fire you and all the trainers right now, don’t you?”

The Team Leader clenched his teeth.

He had nothing to say even if he got fired.

Since this was directly connected to his honor and reputation, he had tried his best to solve this problem somehow.

But the more training they did, the bigger the problem became.

Rehabilitation wasn’t working properly, and the injuries were getting worse instead.

Since rehabilitation training wasn’t working, they had to do rehabilitation treatment according to the body’s healing speed or bring in production-type Awakened for specialized treatment.

However, that wasn’t an easy problem.

Specialized treatment was enormously expensive from the start, and even if they found alchemist Awakened among production-type Awakened who mainly made potions to reduce costs, they could still run a deficit.

“Sigh.”

If things continued like this, it would be the end.

The guild they had painstakingly built up could collapse just because of injuries.

“Why did it turn out like this…”

Ding-! Ding-!

Just then, the Guild Master’s phone alarm rang.

“…Ha, looks like I’m about to see the worst situation.”

It was a return message from Lee Su-yeon, Neverland’s promising Awakened who had returned after completing her studies abroad.

But there was something strange written in that message.

-Fixed my fainting issue and coming back. A domestic trainer fixed it for me. I’m returning with that trainer!

“…A domestic trainer?”

Lee Su-yeon was the Awakened that Neverland was putting their heart and soul into nurturing after Yu Je-na.

Her ability, Iron Wall, wasn’t just a simple defense-type ability.

They were supporting her because it was an ability with at least S-rank potential.

The probability was fifty-fifty. No, it was lower than half.

But she said someone had fixed it and was coming back.

No, it wasn’t a message saying he had been fixed and come back, but that he had returned and then been fixed.

“What is this?”

The Guild Master pressed his forehead at the incomprehensible message.

Anyway, that was that, and this was this.

“For now, try to get them recovered as quickly as possible. We need to resume Tower conquest within a month somehow. Otherwise, we’ll have to use the Mercenary Guild, and the damage compensation claims will be passed on to you all.”

“N-no…!”

“G-Guild Master…!”

“Keep that in mind.”

The Guild Master turned around as if he didn’t want to hear any more and left the scene.

Ring ring ring-.

“Su-yeon? Come to the Guild Master’s Office for now. I don’t quite understand the message you just sent, so I need more explanation.”

“There’s no need for that!”

Lee Su-yeon’s voice came from behind.

“I’ve already arrived, Guild Master.”

Next to her was someone he had never seen before.

No, it wasn’t someone he had never seen.

“…Kang Yu-jun?”

“It’s been a while, Guild Master.”

It really was Kang Yu-jun.

“I heard the situation isn’t good, and I think I might be able to help.”

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