The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 203

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Chapter 203. Going to the School Building

 

 

First half opening ceremony.

Peng Do-yul climbed onto the platform and gave a speech while looking around at the cadets.

The start of the first half was different from the start of the second half.

First-year cadets.

It was because new students were entering.

The opening ceremony and entrance ceremony were held simultaneously.

Jamryong Corps, Waryong Corps, Maengryong Corps.

Just by looking, you could tell who the new cadets were.

‘I wonder what kind of guys we’ll have this year.’

Peng Do-yul thought as he came down from the platform after finishing his speech.

He had already memorized all the personal details of the new cadets.

This year was truly a peculiar year.

‘It’s probably because of the last Winter Tournament.’

Those who normally wouldn’t enter Gyoryong Hall.

Many such people had entered.

It must be because of the rumors about the Winter Tournament.

The results had been so tremendous.

And also.

Maengryong Corps was also different from last year.

Maengryong Corps, where most who entered didn’t even know the Basic First Form.

However, this year most of them had learned martial arts.

There were even disciples from fairly well-known small and medium sects.

The starting point of this change.

Peng Do-yul briefly looked toward where Maengryong Corps 7th Unit was located.

After the opening ceremony ended, the instructors led the cadets.

The first-year cadets left first.

“What a good time.”

Dang Jin-san muttered while watching that scene.

Chuckle.

Baek Ri-pyeong, Nak U-jin, Dan Mok Un-rae, and Yeon Ha-min.

All four people laughed at the same time.

“Huh? What?”

Dang Jin-san looked around at his group members.

This day last year.

These five people clearly remembered how each of them had been.

So they couldn’t help but laugh at Dang Jin-san’s words.

Those who had gathered here full of tension.

Each with their own circumstances and stories.

There were those who had nowhere to go if they left this place, and those who had come to hide.

And there were those who had come for their livelihood.

One year is a long time if you consider it long, and a short time if you consider it short.

For them, one year had been short.

Yet they had changed beyond recognition.

An appearance that their past selves from last year could never have imagined.

That was what they looked like now.

Han Seol-bing approached them.

“Stop chattering and gather up.”

Her face showed slight irritation.

She had good reason.

Ha Mu-baek had even dumped the task of leading the 7th Unit on her.

He didn’t participate today, saying he hadn’t rested enough.

Two people from the Twentieth Group and five people from the 7th Unit.

The place they were heading to with all seven was.

“We’re going to the school building.”

Han Seol-bing said briefly.

“Huh? Why there?”

Along with Dang Jin-san’s muttering, the cadets’ questioning gazes turned toward Han Seol-bing.

“The curriculum changes somewhat starting from the second year.”

She had also received this information from Maengryong Corps Director Moyong Jin-ho two days ago.

It was content that all the existing instructors knew, but a fact that she and Ha Mu-baek, being new instructors, didn’t know.

Han Seol-bing had attended that meeting alone.

Ha Mu-baek was truly resting intensely, hidden somewhere impossible to find.

She had barely found him yesterday, only to get the answer that he needed to rest one more day and would leave today’s work to her.

Even thinking about it again made heat rise above her head.

“What? It changes?”

Ha Seol-ran tilted her head and asked.

“Yes. Originally, Gyoryong Hall doesn’t only conduct classes by groups.”

“That’s right. Jamryong Corps and Waryong Corps have classes they attend together in large units, sometimes they group several units together for classes, and sometimes they have classes by individual groups.”

Dang Jin-san answered.

Being from the Tang Family, he knew this information.

“Maengryong Corps does the same starting from the second year.”

“What?”

He didn’t know that.

“You’ll attend classes together with Jamryong Corps and Waryong Corps first-years.”

The movement of all seven people stopped abruptly.

It seemed like they had heard wrong.

“First-years?”

Baek Ri-pyeong asked.

“Yes, first-years.”

Several cadets frowned.

“Whew.”

Han Seol-bing sighed as if she understood.

“You guys are special. According to what I heard from Director Moyong, even Maengryong Corps second-years are far below the level of Jamryong Corps or Waryong Corps first-years, so those two corps actually dislike it.”

At that explanation, Dang Jin-san’s mouth, which had been about to complain, stopped.

It was true.

Considering the general level of Maengryong Corps.

“Even so, the Academy Director forcibly made it so that you must learn the basic things a murim person should know before leaving. He said that while it’s meaningless in the first year, there should be at least something to gain in the second year. And that would be enough.”

Han Seol-bing spoke while starting to walk again.

The cadets also began moving again this time.

They pondered her explanation.

Again, it was true.

The reality of Maengryong Corps.

After all, Maengryong Corps was a place where even those who didn’t know the Basic First Form and had no connection to martial arts or murim could enter.

Just look at Group Seven alone – weren’t Dan Mok Un-rae, Nak U-jin, and Yeon Ha-min like that?

If they had been put together with the first-year cadets from Jamryong Corps and Waryong Corps?

They wouldn’t have lasted even seven days.

Now it’s different.

One year belonging only to Maengryong Corps Group Seven.

That had transformed them beyond recognition.

It was all thanks to Ha Mu-baek.

The instructor who had openly shown his annoyance, telling them to go home immediately.

Hadn’t he made them achieve remarkable results in the Winter Competition?

“So the classes we take together will be handled by instructors from Jamryong Corps and Waryong Corps. Most of them are theory classes. Well, it seems like there aren’t many capable ones among those instructors either. That’s why there are quite a lot of people.”

When they arrived in front of the school building, numerous people were lining up to enter.

There was a reason why the school building was the largest in Gyoryong Hall.

Actually, they could have come here during their first year too.

Maengryong Corps instructors also used the small classrooms in the school building to teach basic theory to cadets who knew nothing.

But Group Seven was different.

The first day they came here was just to take shelter from the rain.

Moreover, thanks to Dang Jin-san’s loose tongue, they had done self-study in the school’s library that day.

Those who couldn’t even read secret manuals properly.

‘Come to think of it, I saw a secret manual here before.’

Dan Mok Un-rae thought as he looked up at the school pavilion.

He had thought he first saw a martial arts secret manual in his family’s secret vault.

That wasn’t right.

Though he didn’t know how he had completely forgotten about what happened here, he had first seen a martial arts secret manual here.

‘Was it the Five Elements Divine Fist?’

Despite its grandiose name, it was an extremely basic martial art.

Rather than a secret manual, it was more like an introductory book.

Each stance of the fist technique was drawn out, with detailed annotations.

It was correct that he first saw a true secret manual in his family’s secret vault.

Upon entering the school building, he saw several familiar faces.

They were Maengryong Corps cadets.

And it was also full of unfamiliar people.

They too showed clear signs of nervousness.

It was natural.

They were new cadets from Jamryong Corps and Waryong Corps.

‘Didn’t they say they weren’t sending anyone this year?’

Dang Jin-san recalled his elder sister’s words.

The Dang Family had said they wouldn’t send disciples to Gyoryong Hall this year.

Glancing at Baek Ri-pyeong, it seemed there were no disciples from Zhongnan either.

It seemed like the instructor had caused some trouble when he went to Zhongnan during the break period, and this might be because of that.

They looked at each other with wariness.

They had no choice.

Maengryong Corps were second-years.

Having experienced disdain from Jamryong Corps and Waryong Corps cadets for the past year, they naturally became wary.

For the first-year cadets, today was their first day at Gyoryong Hall.

It was time to be wary of everything.

Instructors from Jamryong Corps and Waryong Corps came out to organize the surroundings.

They checked their assigned groups and confirmed their classes.

They entered a large classroom like that.

Sitting down in a classroom that could accommodate about fifty people.

Shortly after, an instructor entered.

Han Seol-bing with a deeply frowning face.

“Huh?”

“Hmm?”

Puzzlement appeared on the faces of the Group Seven cadets.

It was natural.

Hadn’t she said so in front of the school building?

That she wouldn’t have anything to teach.

Yet here she was, entering like this.

The faces of the first-year cadets from Jamryong Corps and Waryong Corps lit up.

It was natural.

An incredibly beautiful woman had entered as their instructor.

“Sigh. I’m Han Seol-bing, a Maengryong Corps instructor who will be teaching the class called ‘Basics and Understanding of Formations.'”

A self-introduction that began with a sigh.

The cadets from Group Seven and Group Twenty nodded upon hearing the class name.

They had directly experienced Han Seol-bing’s formations.

‘Damn it. Why is Instructor Zhuge the only person in this vast Gyoryong Hall who knows about formations?’

Zhuge Ming was an instructor with a schedule so busy that even two bodies wouldn’t be enough.

On top of that, he was even teaching shield techniques to Maengryong Corps.

So when Zhuge Ming directly asked Han Seol-bing to take on the formation classes, she simply couldn’t refuse.

That had happened just moments ago.

Thus began the first class of the first half.

 

When class ended and they were leaving the school building.

“Now it feels like we’ve really entered Gyoryong Hall, doesn’t it?”

Dan Mok Un-rae said, glancing back at the school building.

Nak U-jin and Yeon Ha-min nodded.

“Right. At least it’s not self-study.”

Dang Jin-san said with a chuckle.

Now they could tell just by looking whether it was self-study or not.

The remaining schedule for today was self-study.

The instructor was nowhere to be seen.

“Let’s eat first.”

At Baek Ri-pyeong’s words, the group headed to Damryong East Pavilion.

They were thinking of the route to the Training Ground afterward.

Numerous cadets were already eating.

Among them were new cadets as well.

Those eating while glancing around nervously in the most secluded corner.

They were Maengryong Corps new cadets.

They kept stealing glances and surveying their surroundings.

Come to think of it, those five were all of Maengryong Corps present here.

The Maengryong Corps second-year cadets mainly used Damryong South Hall, perhaps due to their initial memories.

Though they did come to Damryong East Pavilion occasionally.

Those cadets probably just entered here without knowing better since it was closer.

Thanks to that, they were receiving a lot of attention from those around them.

However.

When Baek Ri-pyeong’s group entered, their gazes disappeared as if washed away.

They had no choice.

Baek Ri-pyeong and Ju U-myeong were the runner-up and winner of the last Winter Competition.

In other words.

It meant they were the two strongest people among those present here.

“Sigh.”

Dang Jin-san let out a deep sigh.

Then he went and sat at a dining table in a corner.

It was next to a new cadet of the Maengryong Corps.

All the surrounding dining tables were empty.

As Dang Jin-san moved, the other members of his group also sat at that table and filled the seats.

The cadets kept glancing over.

However, the atmosphere was different.

If a moment ago it was an atmosphere of openly staring and wondering what those guys were doing here.

Now it was more like why are those guys here making us feel awkward by sitting like that.

This was the atmosphere.

Just as they brought food on their trays and were about to take their first spoonful.

“Um…”

A first-year cadet sitting at the next table cautiously spoke up.

All eyes turned to him.

“You’re the second-year seniors from the Maengryong Corps, right?”

The first-year cadet asked cautiously.

He was a young boy who still had a youthful appearance.

“I watched the Eastern Tournament last year. I was so moved by that performance that I volunteered for the Maengryong Corps.”

His gaze was fixed on Ju U-myeong and Baek Ri-pyeong.

The two who received such passionate attention wore awkward expressions.

“Hmm. Junior.”

Dang Jin-san called out to that first-year cadet.

“Yes, senior. My name is Cho Mu-ha.”

“I see, I see. Junior Cho. Do you know what kind of place the Maengryong Corps is?”

Dang Jin-san’s question.

Cho Mu-ha closed his mouth for a moment, then soon nodded and answered.

“Yes. I know.”

“Really? You know what happens after completing the two-year program?”

Dang Jin-san asked once more.

Cho Mu-ha nodded once again.

“Go home.”

Dang Jin-san said firmly.

His companions, who had been quietly watching what he was doing, looked stunned at those words.

‘What is he saying right now?’

‘Why is Jin-san acting like this?’

Just as such thoughts arose.

Dang Jin-san spoke once more.

“Go home.”

Cho Mu-ha stared blankly at Dang Jin-san with a face that showed he couldn’t understand.

The same was true for the other first-year cadets sitting at the table.

 

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