I Became a Transcendent-Level Genius Trainer - Chapter 4

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Transcendent Genius Trainer Episode 4

“What? Who did you say?

“Kang Yu-jun.”

“Kang Yu-jun?”

Sky Guild Headquarters.

Sky Guild leader Lee Hyeok-jun frowned.

Sky Guild was a mid-tier guild positioned in the mid-60s ranking.

It could be considered high if you looked at it one way, low if you looked at it another – one of those mediocre guilds in many respects. As such, they were desperate to recruit strong Awakened.

But there was no reason for such strong individuals or promising Awakened to come to Sky Guild, so like other small and medium-sized guilds, they were putting their heart and soul into recruiting and educating Youth.

“That Kang Yu-jun, the golden Youth of Promise Guild? Why is he here?”

Kang Yu-jun’s name had been very famous since 13 years ago.

Promise Guild.

Promise Guild, currently ranked 5th in South Korea, had promised to strengthen their Youth system at the time and gathered promising talents with excellent potential.

Among them, the most famous prospect was Kang Yu-jun.

At minimum S-rank, golden Youth – his talent was certain.

He was unrivaled even among the prospects who were called Promise’s treasure box at the time.

Among all those prospects, none had potential as high as Kang Yu-jun’s, making him truly a super-elite prospect who received overwhelming expectations.

Because of this, all guilds at the time tried to somehow extract Kang Yu-jun from the treasure box.

However, now that 13 years had passed.

Kang Yu-jun had not only failed to grow up to those expectations, but hadn’t even awakened.

Recently, there had even been news that he was expelled from Promise Guild.

“Yes, that’s right. That Kang Yu-jun.”

“Huh, really. I heard he was expelled from Promise. Scouting? To our guild? Wait, being expelled means he didn’t awaken, right?”

Lee Hyeok-jun clicked his tongue.

“So, who scouted that Kang Yu-jun?”

“It was Manager Han.”

“Manager Han isn’t the type to scout carelessly. Hmm. Does he show signs of awakening?”

“That’s not it. He scouted him as a Trainer.”

“Trainer?”

Lee Hyeok-jun tilted his head.

Han Seok-ryul was a veteran Awakened who had consistently produced results.

Though not an official scout, he often brought in various Awakened through his connections.

They had conducted hiring interviews together, and Han Seok-ryul’s eye was quite accurate.

“Just because someone failed as an Awakened doesn’t mean they can’t succeed as a Trainer, but…”

To begin with, Trainers who achieved great success were extremely few.

But in Korea, there wasn’t a single Trainer who had overcome failure and achieved great success.

“Non-awakened individuals have difficulty surpassing C-rank Trainer level at best…”

To understand the Awakened, one ultimately had to be Awakened themselves.

Trainers who failed to awaken, even if they changed careers, were eventually called C-rank or D-rank, faced discrimination, and were ultimately expelled from the Trainer world.

“Ha, this is a bit concerning.”

But since Manager Han had personally scouted him, it wasn’t his place to say more.

“Well, whatever.”

Besides, he quite liked the attitude of not getting discouraged after being expelled and immediately looking for work.

Most importantly, these were times when Trainers were precious.

If he fell short of expectations, they could expel him midway or let him go when his contract expired, so there was nothing bad for them.

“Since he was Promise Guild’s golden Youth, he should have abundant knowledge and experience, right? You never know. It might turn out to be a better recruitment than expected.”

* * *

Sky Guild building located in Jongno.

Three people were sitting in the guild leader’s office.

“Hello!”

“I’m Lee Hyeok-jun. You’re Kang Yu-jun, right?”

“Yes, I’m Kang Yu-jun. Nice to meet you, Guild Leader.”

Guild Leader Lee Hyeok-jun sat at the head seat, with Manager Han Seok-ryul and Kang Yu-jun sitting on either side.

“Welcome to joining Sky Guild. I’ve heard about you. I understand you’ve switched to being a Trainer this time?”

“Yes, that’s right. That side seems to suit me better.”

“Manager Han praised you tremendously.”

Han Seok-ryul had spared no praise when recommending Kang Yu-jun to the guild leader, calling him a considerable talent.

Guild Leader Lee Hyeok-jun knew well that Manager Han didn’t praise carelessly, so he met Kang Yu-jun with half expectation and half concern.

But Yujun, whom he actually met, looked ordinary no matter how he looked at him.

He didn’t seem to have any particular aura either.

“Thank you for viewing me favorably.”

“Right, let’s work well together from now on.”

They signed an official contract along with brief greetings.

“It’s a 3-month short-term contract. Since Manager Han recommended you like this, it would seem fine to proceed with a short-term contract that includes conversion to regular employment. Why did you refuse?”

“Because I might become a burden.”

Yujun wasn’t officially joining Sky Guild.

A short-term contract position close to freelance work.

With Section Chief Han’s influence, he could have easily gotten Kang Yu-jun hired at Sky Guild, but Kang Yu-jun didn’t make such a request.

There would be nothing good about signing a formal contract without proving his own worth first.

The guild master made a strange expression as if impressed by Yujun’s answer.

The risk that occurs during the talent recruitment process is entirely the guild’s responsibility to bear.

There’s no way Yujun wouldn’t know that.

Right now, Yujun was showing humility, thinking that a short-term contract would be sufficient.

The guild master smiled with satisfaction at that confidence and ambition.

Then he had no choice but to watch and see if he had the skills to back up that ambition.

“Then I can assign you work right away?”

“Of course.”

When the guild master shouted toward the outside to come in, someone opened the door and entered.

“Hello.”

The person who entered was a fairly young woman.

Guild Master Lee Hyeok-jun personally introduced her.

“This is Woo Ha-na, one of our Youth members. She’s one of the Youth we have quite high expectations for in our guild. Try teaching her. This is the first request I’m assigning to you.”

Sky Guild’s Youth member, Woo Ha-na.

She was a C-rank Awakened who had just turned 21.

Woo Ha-na stared intently at Kang Yu-jun.

She also knew Kang Yu-jun well.

Since they were only 4 years apart in age, they had quite a bit of interaction while both were active as Youth members in the same era.

Of course, Yujun was such a prominent national-level Youth at the time that he didn’t remember Woo Ha-na, but Woo Ha-na remembered Kang Yu-jun.

She never imagined that such an outstanding Youth would switch to being a Trainer.

But anyway, since it was the guild master’s instruction, she would have to learn from him for the time being.

“Please take care of me.”

Woo Ha-na bowed her head politely.

And Yujun instantly read Section Chief Han Seok-ryul’s expression.

It was a face that seemed to be trying hard to hide his confusion.

* * *

After the two people left.

Section Chief Han Seok-ryul asked Guild Master Lee Hyeok-jun with a worried expression.

“Guild Master, I didn’t expect you to assign Woo Ha-na to him from the start.”

“Why? Section Chief Han said he was skilled, didn’t you? Since you personally scouted him, wouldn’t it be better to assign Woo Ha-na to him?”

“But Woo Ha-na is…”

Section Chief Han sighed and trailed off.

Woo Ha-na had very high potential even among Sky Guild’s Youth members, but she had a serious flaw.

“Isn’t there a problem? No trainer has been able to fix it until now…”

Even the trainers belonging to Sky Guild couldn’t fix Woo Ha-na’s current problem.

They had continued training, but because of that one major weakness, the money invested in Woo Ha-na was on the verge of going down the drain.

Assigning such a Woo Ha-na to Kang Yu-jun, who had just become a trainer?

“You’ve made too unreasonable a request.”

“Kang Yu-jun is the talent that Section Chief Han confidently brought in, isn’t he?”

The guild master looked at Han Seok-ryul with a serious expression.

Since it wasn’t wrong, Section Chief Han Seok-ryul couldn’t argue back and just trailed off.

“But…”

“Right, properly training Woo Ha-na would be quite difficult. If it were something that could be done easily, Woo Ha-na wouldn’t still have that major weakness until now. I don’t think Kang Yu-jun will be able to properly teach Woo Ha-na either. I’m just trying to check once.”

At the guild master’s words, Section Chief Han couldn’t respond with anything more.

But for him, it was regrettable.

In his view, Kang Yu-jun’s talent was definitely a shining rough gem.

But that gem would lose its shine if not properly cut and polished.

Assigning Woo Ha-na to Kang Yu-jun now was no different from scratching the gem.

He wanted to carefully refine and develop him step by step, but Guild Master Lee Hyeok-jun seemed to think differently.

Guild Master Lee Hyeok-jun patted his shoulder, which was heavy with worry, and said.

“Don’t worry too much. He’s the talent you personally brought in, isn’t he? I’ll observe directly too, and I have no intention of dismissing him just because he can’t train Woo Ha-na. It would just end up being a short-term contract, that’s all.”

* * *

Sky Guild’s Private Training Ground.

Yujun looked at Woo Ha-na and immediately used Awakened Scan.

-Using Awakened Scan!

Awakened Scan.

Everything about Woo Ha-na began to appear in Yujun’s eyes.

-[Woo Ha-na] Overall Grade: C+

-Physical: [B]

-Mental: [B]

-Awakened Ability: Acceleration

-Stats: [Strength 5/10] [Stamina 6/10] [Agility 12/15]

‘Awakened Scan has been upgraded. I can see stats that weren’t visible before.’

Yujun was amazed.

Previously, only awakening abilities and stats were visible, but now even physical and mental grades were starting to show.

‘It’s thanks to the Focus skill.’

He checked the opponent’s information, organized his thoughts for a moment, then spoke.

“First, please draw up your mana.”

He planned to check the most basic things one by one.

First, he had confirmed the information with Awakened Scan, so next was mana circulation.

Shaaaaaaaa-!

At Yujun’s words, Woo Ha-na drew up her mana.

Crack.

Centered around her heart area, cracks appeared near her side.

The cracks that started from her side were trying to spread throughout her entire body.

Seeing this, Yujun nodded.

‘There’s a problem with the way she circulates mana.’

Because of that method, she couldn’t properly utilize her mana.

Then he just needed to change her circulation method.

‘More than that, this is quite interesting.’

All parts except her side were glowing faintly.

‘Excluding the cracked parts, there don’t seem to be any particular weaknesses. And the talent in other areas is quite outstanding.’

It could be called insane potential.

‘This kind of character was called a god-tier character.’

In Tower of Infinity, this type of character was classified as one you absolutely had to take with you.

With such thoughts, Yujun spoke to Woo Ha-na.

“There’s a problem with your mana circulation method. Please flow mana vigorously near your side.”

At the same time, power was infused into his words.

-Using Word Spirit Correction!

As Woo Ha-na vigorously flowed mana near her side, the cracks began to fill in.

“…!”

Woo Ha-na’s eyes widened.

She had merely followed one instruction, yet her mana circulation became distinctly different from before.

Until now, she had received advice from various trainers.

But no method had been able to improve it, yet with Yujun’s simple training, her mana circulation efficiency improved.

“Well done. Please continue circulating in that state.”

This was exactly the biggest problem Woo Ha-na had been carrying.

The inability to achieve explosive mana circulation.

But right now, at this moment, that weakness was corrected.

And with just one small guidance session.

Her problem was solved with a single word of advice.

In this unbelievable situation, Woo Ha-na could only blink her eyes.

“Why is this… working?”

She couldn’t understand why it was working.

Kang Yu-jun was also surprised by the better-than-expected results, but soon calmed his surprise.

Because he had confirmed the value of his ability once again.

‘My power is one that can solve all of someone’s problems with just a single word.’

The power to correct all kinds of problems with a single word.

It was a power that any trainer would want to have.

“Then let’s proceed in earnest now.”

Kang Yu-jun smiled and continued observing Woo Ha-na’s mana circulation.

Following Yujun’s words, Woo Ha-na continued circulating her mana. The explosive mana circulation was awkward at first, but she was gradually getting used to it.

Yujun checked Woo Ha-na’s condition while continuing to test the power of Word Spirit Correction that had just appeared.

“More vigorously.”

“Yes!”

Perhaps because she had directly experienced the good results, Woo Ha-na obediently followed Kang Yu-jun’s words.

‘Word Spirit Correction. As expected, what I felt was right. It was a technique included in S-rank Trainer.’

He had felt something strange when he first corrected Min-seok too.

‘Both Min-seok and Ms. Woo Ha-na must have received quite a lot of education from various trainers.’

Since Kang Yu-jun himself had been a youth of Promise Guild, he knew well how much training the awakened and youth belonging to the guild received.

Especially youth like Woo Ha-na, whom the guild was determined to nurture, constantly had trainers attached to them.

Other trainers would have known about Woo Ha-na’s problems and given feedback about them.

‘I know well since I’ve received a lot of education from famous trainers too.’

He knew the trainers’ methods well.

Each had different styles, but ultimately everyone’s theoretical foundation was similar.

‘Everyone would know the problems. But even knowing doesn’t mean you can solve everything.’

Was it only the trainers?

Woo Ha-na must have been well aware of her own problems too.

Despite that, the fact that she hadn’t been able to solve the problem until now meant she couldn’t find a clear solution.

‘Even knowing there’s a problem, she couldn’t figure out how to fix it.’

This case could serve as a perfect example.

He had identified that the mana circulation method put strain on her side, and instructed her to ignore that strain and circulate mana anyway.

This was a problem that could only be solved by making the Awakened understand, but most Awakened wouldn’t be able to comprehend that solution.

Because the risk would be considerable.

But the persuasive power of Verbal Correction made it possible.

It was the result of combining his knowledge, experience, and the ability he had gained.

‘A single word makes it understandable. It gets forcibly injected.’

The power to fix problems with a single word.

‘This is the power of Verbal Correction.’

It could be considered the core ability of the Awakened Training System.

‘This ability will be the power that differentiates me among trainers.’

Other trainers had to persuade their subjects not only with words but with various actions.

Because sensory aspects were difficult to make someone understand through mere words.

Especially posture correction or mana control correction for mana circulation was quite difficult.

They had no choice but to take risks and flow their own mana into the other person, or teach through repetitive instruction.

But for Yujun, it was simply a matter of speaking.

What other trainers couldn’t do or had to do with difficulty, Yujun could do easily and simply.

“Ms. Woo Ha-na, that’s enough. While maintaining that mana.”

Shaaaaa-.

Fierce mana circulated through Woo Ha-na’s body.

Right now was the timing.

“Please use your ability.”

Woo Ha-na’s ability was acceleration.

It was an awakening technique that wrapped mana around the body to momentarily enhance physical abilities, and using this acceleration well required quite delicate mana control.

But Woo Ha-na’s ability to control mana was a mess. Because mana circulation wasn’t working properly in her side.

“Please try using acceleration while circulating mana exactly as I just told you.”

Acceleration required explosive mana.

Though temporary, since mana circulation was now working properly in Woo Ha-na’s side, a different situation would unfold than before.

‘Right now I’ve forcibly fixed it for her.’

It wasn’t perfectly corrected. Since it was temporarily fixed through Verbal Correction, the effect wouldn’t last very long.

‘Consistent training is needed. She needs to realize that sensation on her own without Verbal Correction.’

If he continued to awaken that sensation, it would be perfectly corrected.

‘So I’ll make sure she can feel it clearly here.’

Just how much stronger the corrected mana circulation through Yujun’s training would make her.

Shaaaaaa-!

Woo Ha-na, who drew up her mana and used acceleration, suddenly showed a surprised expression.

Because the mana inside her body moved explosively.

She had never once emitted such intense mana until now.

She couldn’t emit it even when she wanted to.

So she couldn’t help but be flustered by the mana bursting from her own body.

Acceleration.

Then her awakening ability was cast.

Swoosh-.

In an instant she disappeared and a strong gust swept through the Training Ground.

“Huff… huff… The, the speed. The speed was so fast…”

Woo Ha-na reappeared, panting heavily.

Her whole body was drenched in sweat and she looked so exhausted she might collapse at a touch.

But she looked at Yujun as if she couldn’t believe this situation.

She had never moved at such speed before.

Just by correcting her mana circulation method, she could run at such speed.

It was the moment when Woo Ha-na’s weakness transformed into a strength.

“Ms. Woo Ha-na.”

Yujun looked at Woo Ha-na and calmly declared.

“That is the acceleration ability you possess.”

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