I Became a Transcendent-Level Genius Trainer - Chapter 3

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Transcendent Genius Trainer Episode 3

An Awakened’s strength is determined by the abilities they possess.

However, having good abilities or bad abilities didn’t determine an Awakened’s value.

Everything changed depending on how they honed and polished their abilities.

“Today, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Great Awakening Era, we have a special guest. Trainer specialist, Go Beom-jun!”

“Hello. I’m Go Beom-jun.”

How to utilize one’s abilities.

And in what direction to develop those abilities.

Everything could be changed depending on that.

Those who analyzed this and provided appropriate training were the Awakened Trainers.

The bodies of Awakened, far more powerful than ordinary people, could endure any kind of hard training.

And naturally, they could become stronger at a much faster pace.

That’s why training suited to each individual was important.

Whether it was a strong ability or weak ability, it could be developed further through training.

While some trained alone depending on the situation, there was a clear difference in growth speed depending on whether they had trainers who specialized in training, so trainers had become quite important by now.

Of course, it wasn’t like this in the past.

Even during the time when Yujun was called the Golden Youth, trainers weren’t that important.

It was common knowledge that if Awakened lacked talent, trainers couldn’t have any influence whatsoever.

But now an era had come where even if talent was lacking, a skilled trainer could develop an Awakened to their full potential.

“Times have changed. Now it’s an era where trainers are in the spotlight!”

“It’s an era where depending on the trainer, one can become A-rank or even S-rank!”

It was an era where even low-grade Awakened could turn everything around with proper training.

“Dream Guild recently recruited Trainer Han Gyu-jin. What do you think about this?”

“He’s an outstanding trainer. Isn’t he a trainer recognized even overseas? He’s an excellent talent who can turn low-rank Awakened into high-rank Awakened.”

“Dream Guild is currently ranked 7th, right? Until now, they’ve continued conquering towers by recruiting Awakened with huge sums of money, but Awakened bought with money ultimately transfer when offered bigger money.”

By now, the value of Awakened had been converted into money.

That’s why high-grade and powerful Awakened didn’t stay in guilds for long.

Regardless of grade and performance, their current annual salary determined an Awakened’s value.

In short, it was common for them to continuously switch guilds based on huge signing bonuses.

“So they don’t sign long-term contracts, only 2 years at most, or 1 year contracts at shortest. Or they go overseas to receive huge sums and change their nationality.”

Many guilds wanted long-term contracts with big-name Awakened, but most rejected long-term contracts.

So guilds changed their approach.

They decided to nurture Awakened from a young age.

For this reason, each guild became obsessed with raising Youth.

Youth develop affection for the guild where they grew up and become loyal to it.

Moreover, Awakened nurtured through a guild’s Youth system sign long-term contracts, so there’s no worry about them being stolen by other guilds for a considerable period.

Even if they were stolen, they could secure huge transfer fees, so it could be seen as a win-win situation.

However, it’s not common for Youth to break out.

The reason is simple.

Good trainers are not common.

“Han Gyu-jin joining Dream will be an opportunity to raise Dream’s ranking. Who is Han Gyu-jin? The market value of the Awakened he’s raised alone amounts to hundreds of billions.”

As a result, the existence of trainers became extremely important.

Each guild gathered trainers with the goal of nurturing Youth.

They possessed as few as three or four, and as many as five trainers.

“There’s a rumor that Trainer Han Gyu-jin’s contract fee was 150 billion!”

“Yes, that’s what they say. From what I’ve confirmed…”

Outstanding trainers were as expensive as Awakened.

No, recently there were even stories that trainers’ market value was higher than that of decent Awakened.

Recruiting an outstanding trainer was like plucking stars from the sky.

As a result, guilds of considerable scale were obsessed with recruiting famous domestic and international trainers.

However, the number of skilled trainers was limited, so recruitment wasn’t easy either.

In such a situation, Dream Guild’s recruitment of Han Gyu-jin was bound to become an issue in various media.

“I’m looking forward to seeing what kind of training methods Han Gyu-jin learned overseas!”

This was why Han Gyu-jin, the master trainer who returned from overseas, was bound to attract attention.

Into such a training market came a novice trainer with no experience.

It was none other than the former prospect treated as a has-been, Kang Yu-jun.

* * *

-I’ll somehow create a position for you. You’re going to work as a freelancer, right?

What Yujun asked Min-seok for was to create a position for him.

-I was really surprised. It was just like the old days, you know? When problems were solved with just one word from you.

Min-seok was truly grateful to Yujun.

Thanks to him, he was able to fix some of the problems with his ignition ability.

-I’ll do my best to help, so wait for me!

Yujun first registered as a business owner.

To work as a freelancer, he first needed a business registration certificate.

‘It’s definitely an ability with potential.’

Every guild wants trainers.

If it’s a skilled and excellent trainer, they’d pay any amount to recruit them.

However, trainers of that caliber are only a small minority.

In other words, a reality where supply and demand don’t match.

‘High demand, low supply.’

Especially skilled trainers were extremely few in number.

‘So there’s potential.’

In the past, Awakened trainers weren’t particularly sought-after professions.

So he had never thought deeply about his own talent.

That’s why he tried to somehow awaken and live as an Awakened who conquers towers.

But now things were different.

‘Now it’s an era where I can properly utilize this talent of mine.’

Ring ring ring ring-!

A phone ringtone echoed in Yujun’s studio apartment.

-It’s me.

It was a call from Min-seok.

“How did it go?”

-Sorry. I got rejected by all of them.

Min-seok’s voice sounded completely deflated.

He had expected it wouldn’t be easy.

So he answered calmly.

“I expected as much.”

The current Yujun was a former Youth who was expelled for failing to awaken.

Who would want to recruit such a Yujun?

‘I’ll have no choice but to make a direct approach.’

-But a section chief I know said he’d like to meet you once?

“…!”

Wanting to meet once probably meant he’d give him a chance.

-Just go see him once. Go and show him your abilities. And… please see me later too. This thing, it worked well when I was next to you, but my knee is starting to hurt again.

“Alright, let’s set up another session. Thanks, Min-seok.”

-If you’re grateful, repay me big time! And since it’s come to this, try doing as much as you want!

Min-seok wanted to do anything more if it would help Yujun.

Not only were they friends who had maintained their connection since childhood, but it was also true that he had come this far thanks to the help he received from him.

After hanging up the phone, Yujun took a deep breath.

An opportunity had come.

“It’s not a proper opportunity, but.”

He just had to turn it into a proper opportunity.

Right now, Yujun could be seen as a newcomer with an ambiguous background.

It would be better to have no experience at all, since that experience was actually holding him back.

A Youth who failed even with the Promise Guild’s support.

That was Yujun’s position.

“That’s how it’s been until now.”

But things would be different from now on.

“I’ll seize it.”

Yujun intended to grab this opportunity and soar.

* * *

“We know each other, don’t we, Yujun? It’s been a while.”

“Hello, Section Chief.”

Section Chief Han Seok-ryul.

He was an instructor for special education programs targeting Youth members.

Thanks to that, he was acquainted with Yujun.

“I heard from Min-seok. You’re aspiring to be a trainer?”

Of course, they were only acquainted, not particularly close.

On the other hand, he maintained quite a close relationship with Kim Min-seok, because Kim Min-seok had once worked at the Sky Guild that Han Seok-ryul belonged to.

“Ah, yes.”

“Hmm, Min-seok strongly recommended you.”

The fact that Yujun was expelled from the Promise Guild was openly known among those in the industry.

Moreover, Awakened who tackle towers and Awakened trainers were strictly different fields.

Because of that, there were many parts he couldn’t understand, but since it was Kim Min-seok’s recommendation, he decided to meet him first.

“I can create a simple position anytime. I can scout as much as I want. But you know, right? You need to have ability. Not awakening ability, but that eye Min-seok mentioned.”

Han Seok-ryul said that while gesturing to someone who came with him.

“If those eyes are real, our guild can accept you anytime.”

“Hello, I’m Lee Seong-min.”

“This is Seong-min, a Youth member of our guild who just recently joined.”

Yujun’s eyes lit up as he looked at Lee Seong-min, a Youth member of the Sky Guild.

‘There are many cracks.’

His gait, breathing, and even mana circulation.

‘He must be an Awakened who just joined the Youth program.’

Section Chief Han Seok-ryul crossed his arms and spoke.

“Show us your skills.”

First, they needed to see his abilities before anything could proceed.

They had to see the opponent’s skills first before they could do anything.

“Please use your ability once.”

At Yujun’s words, Seong-min drew up his mana. Then he extended his fist forward.

‘It’s the martial arts learned at the academy.’

It was the same martial arts that Yujun had practiced to the point of exhaustion in the past.

Because of that, there were too many visible problems. It seemed like he wouldn’t even need to use skills.

‘I was always good at spotting other people’s problems, but now that I’ve let go, I can see even better.’

The movements were disciplined but had far too many openings.

To the current Yujun, everything was clearly visible – how to fix it, how to improve.

‘Doing it myself was difficult, but teaching it is somehow easy.’

Knowing something in your head and actually performing it are different matters.

But teaching is different.

It came too easily to Yujun.

‘And now I even have the Awakened Training System.’

The Awakened Training System excellently organized the information in Yujun’s head and applied it directly to the training subject.

“Seong-min.”

“Yes.”

Seong-min had a considerably annoyed expression.

Naturally.

Seong-min also knew who Yujun was.

A perpetual promising candidate who couldn’t even awaken and got expelled was now trying to be a trainer.

No matter how you looked at it, it was ridiculous.

Ripple-.

Every time Seong-min moved, cracks rippled.

Yujun watched those cracks intently, then glanced at Seong-min’s reaction.

‘Right, he might not believe me.’

He understood not being able to trust him easily.

If someone evaluated as a failed promising candidate suddenly came and said they’d train him, he would have cursed too.

Asking who they think they’re teaching when they failed themselves.

Such feelings were inevitable.

Then the answer was simple.

‘I just need to show him.’

Being asked to show skills here probably meant demonstrating a trainer’s most basic ability – identifying problems and suggesting improvement directions.

‘They’re asking me to find what’s wrong and suggest directions for improvement.’

It was clearly visible to Yujun.

All of Seong-min’s strengths and weaknesses.

“Please do it once more.”

“…Yes.”

Seong-min answered curtly to Yujun’s request.

Still, if he was told to do it, he had to – what else could he do?

Seong-min immediately deployed his martial arts.

Tap.

Yujun immediately approached Seong-min and corrected his posture.

There was a crack in his shoulder.

Instead, a blue light was shining at his waist.

“Your shoulders are too hunched. Straighten them out, with elasticity. Step on the axis with your feet and rotate.”

It was obvious advice.

However, Yujun’s ability was added to that obvious advice.

Shaaaak-!

-The power of Word Correction is activated!

“…Huh?”

Seong-min’s creaking body suddenly turned powerfully.

Crack-!

His previously weak punch was properly filled with strength.

Just a single word and one posture correction.

That was all it took to achieve this result.

Yujun confirmed that Seong-min’s shoulder, which had been cracked just moments ago, was now glowing with a blue light.

-Perfect training skills!

-You have trained Awakened Lee Seong-min!

-You have trained a Combat-type (Melee) Awakened!

With this, he had now trained two Combat-type Awakened, including Kim Min-seok.

“….”

Han Seok-ryul was so shocked by the result that his jaw dropped open.

Throughout his career, he had seen many Trainers.

Among them were quite a few skilled Trainers, but even they couldn’t produce such dramatic results with just a few words.

Yujun grinned and asked Manager Han Seok-ryul.

“Do you need more?”

“Pass, you pass!”

Han Seok-ryul stood up from his seat and shouted loudly.

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