The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 210

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Chapter 210. Too Easy?

 

 

The Great Training Ground was filled with cadets.

Maengryong Corps first-year cadets and second-year cadets.

All were gathered in one place.

At the very front of the cadets.

Even the Maengryong Corps instructors had gathered there.

With expressions wondering what this was all about.

They too had assembled at the instruction of Maengryong Corps Commander Moyong Jin-ho.

Moyong Jin-ho had received orders from Academy Director Peng Do-yul.

Moyong Jin-ho was also standing with the instructors, his expression peculiar.

In the place facing them.

There stood Peng Do-yul, Ha Mu-baek, and Han Seol-bing.

Since it was the first day, Zhuge Ming had also come out to provide assistance.

“We plan to make changes to the Maengryong Corps training process. The purpose is to increase the survival rate.”

Peng Do-yul, who had stepped onto the platform, spoke with a voice infused with internal energy.

His words reached clearly to the ears of everyone gathered in the Great Training Ground.

“Huh? What does that mean?”

“What on earth…?”

Murmurs and commotion arose from here and there.

It was because this was too sudden.

This was the same not only for the cadets but also for the instructors.

Maengryong Corps Commander Moyong Jin-ho didn’t show much disturbance since he had been given advance notice.

He only showed an increasingly troubled expression.

“From now on, all Maengryong Corps training will focus on survival in the Sanwol Demon Forest. Equipment support will also be provided accordingly. And all training will be overseen by Instructor Ha Mu-baek here.”

Peng Do-yul’s declaration.

At those words, the commotion grew even louder.

When Maengryong Corps Commander Moyong Jin-ho was present, how could a regular instructor be responsible for all training?

“Regarding Maengryong Corps training, Instructor Ha Mu-baek’s authority is equal to mine, so if you do not follow his instructions, it will be treated as insubordination against the Academy Director. That is all.”

Peng Do-yul said only that much and stepped down from the platform.

Ha Mu-baek took his place.

“I’ll work you all so hard that you’ll think dying would be better. Whether you’re cadets or instructors.”

A cold voice.

At those words, it was actually the instructors who widened their eyes.

He was going to work the instructors hard too?

“What I will teach and train from now on is something the current instructors don’t know either. To teach cadets befitting their position as instructors, the instructors must also learn. Forget the cushy life you’ve been living until now.”

The instructors’ faces turned red.

A cushy life? Did that bastard even know about the disregard and contempt they suffered from the Jamryong Corps and Waryong Corps instructors?

Even the cadets of Jamryong Corps and Waryong Corps looked down on Maengryong Corps instructors.

They had no choice.

Most Maengryong Corps instructors were martial artists with about second-rate level skills in Gangho.

Most were those without any particularly reliable backing.

Since the purpose of Maengryong Corps itself was to educate sacrificial lambs for the Sanwol Demon Forest, there was no need for outstanding instructors.

The only person in Maengryong Corps who could be called a proper martial artist was Corps Commander Moyong Jin-ho, just one person.

Until Ha Mu-baek arrived.

“Grr.”

One of the instructors was about to vent his anger.

Just as he was about to open his mouth.

Ha Mu-baek’s gaze turned toward him.

Their eyes met directly.

“Ugh… urgh.”

At the same time, tremendous pressure pressed down on his entire body.

He couldn’t withstand it.

His body gradually crumpled.

He knelt on one knee just like that.

It was such tremendous force that he couldn’t even think of voicing complaints.

“Gulp.”

Someone who saw that scene swallowed dry saliva.

What is this?

Why is such a monster in Maengryong Corps?

Such gazes.

Having seen last year’s Hatuje and Winter Competition, they thought he wouldn’t be an ordinary person.

But this exceeded their imagination.

Not only the instructor who had tried to voice complaints and ended up kneeling on one knee.

The others also felt pressure constricting their entire bodies.

Even Moyong Jin-ho.

“Pick up your swords and shields.”

Ha Mu-baek’s brief instruction.

At the same time, workers carried in swords and shields.

Among those workers was Wi Ji-gun as well.

Identical swords and shields were distributed to both cadets and instructors.

They hesitantly picked them up.

“Huh?”

The expressions of the Maengryong Corps second-year cadets who picked up the shields changed.

They had no choice.

It was different from the shields they used last year.

First, it was heavier.

And it looked sturdier.

“Those are for training. Combat versions are being prepared separately.”

Ha Mu-baek’s simple explanation.

“This is definitely…”

“Right?”

Baek Ri-pyeong and Dang Jin-san exchanged glances and nodded at each other.

The moment they held the shields, Maengryong Corps 7th Unit could tell.

This wasn’t the weight of an ordinary shield.

If they used shields like this, it would only slow their movements in actual combat, making it more dangerous.

Having fought in actual combat with shields, they could easily tell.

In the end, they had deliberately prepared shields of this weight to make training more difficult.

“Then…”

Yeon Ha-min’s gaze turned to the sword. A practice sword without an edge.

It also looked like it was for training.

This would be heavy too.

Yeon Ha-min picked up the sword.

As expected.

Just as anticipated, it had tremendous weight.

Just carrying these things around was enough to quickly exhaust all their strength.

Cries of distress erupted from here and there.

Among the first-year cadets, there were those who struggled just to hold a sword and shield.

“The cadets will be taught by Instructor Han here. I’ll teach the instructors. Now, everyone gather in front of your respective instructor.”

Ha Mu-baek and Han Seol-bing moved to opposite ends of the Great Training Ground.

Accordingly, the Maengryong Corps instructors and cadets also moved to where they were positioned.

Since Ha Mu-baek had already overwhelmed them with his tremendous aura.

The instructors wore displeased expressions but obediently followed.

After all, even the head instructor Moyong Jin-ho was obediently following those orders.

‘Academy Director. What on earth are you thinking…’

When he had heard hints about this the day before, Moyong Jin-ho had seriously considered insubordination and resignation.

However, he didn’t want to leave this place.

Life at Gyoryong Hall was quite satisfactory for him.

He knew well how ruthless a place Gangho was.

And he didn’t dare think of rebelling against Ha Mu-baek.

Hadn’t he already heard from the Academy Director what kind of person he was when he first came to Gyoryong Hall?

It was unbelievable, but he had to believe it.

The Academy Director wasn’t someone who would spout nonsense about such things.

“Since it’s the first day today, we’ll go easy. Watch carefully. This is the basic stance.”

Ha Mu-baek held a shield and sword and assumed a stance.

The instructors glanced at him sideways.

“From now on, assume the basic stance. Execute!”

At Ha Mu-baek’s command, the instructors awkwardly assumed their stances.

Among them, only Moyong Jin-ho assumed the correct posture.

He was also the only one seriously giving his best effort.

The others were half-hearted and lazy.

Despite being overwhelmed by Ha Mu-baek’s crushing aura just moments ago, they seemed to have quickly forgotten it.

Their intelligence was worse than that of fish.

Chuckle.

Ha Mu-baek smiled lightly.

And then.

Lightly kicking off the ground.

Thwack! Thwack thwack! Thwack! Thwack thwack thwack!

“Urgh.”

“Ahhh!”

“What is this…”

He struck the instructors with his sheathed sword.

“Posture correction.”

A calm statement.

That’s exactly what it was.

The places Ha Mu-baek struck were where their postures were wrong.

Each time Ha Mu-baek’s sword moved, their postures became slightly more proper.

However.

The instructors’ faces contorted in pain.

“Ahhh! I can’t stand it!”

In the midst of this, one instructor of wanderer origin covered in scars charged at Ha Mu-baek.

Thwack!

Crack!

The sword moved mercilessly.

That instructor spat blood and teeth from his mouth.

Then came the sound of bones breaking somewhere.

“Get lost.”

Ha Mu-baek’s cold words.

“Uuu…”

He trembled all over.

It was because he couldn’t see how the sword had moved at all.

Moreover, the terrifying killing intent that had enveloped his entire body when the sword flew at him.

Being of wanderer origin, he was even more sensitive to killing intent.

He felt as if he had experienced death several times in that instant.

And he trembled uncontrollably, unable to escape from that terror.

Thud.

Ha Mu-baek’s toe struck his stomach.

“Kuhek.”

A pained groan escaped.

“I told you to get lost.”

He staggered and barely managed to leave the formation.

“Anyone else? Anyone else want to charge at me?”

The instructors watching that scene immediately turned their heads at those words.

Then they tried their best to assume the basic stance.

“Th-that…”

“Phew. How brutal.”

“Is it fortunate that Instructor Han is in charge of us?”

When the Maengryong Corps Group Seven cadets glanced at that scene from afar and muttered such things in conversation.

Thwack!

Thwack thwack!

Eerie sounds of flesh being struck could be heard from here as well.

Dismayed expressions appeared on the Group Seven cadets’ faces.

They had momentarily forgotten who Instructor Han served under.

In the end, both were the same type of person.

 

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“Uugh…”

“Urgh…”

Half a hour after training began.

Both instructors and cadets alike were all groaning.

All they had done during that time was basic stance training.

Simple training where they assumed the basic stance when “ready” was called, and rested when “at ease” was called.

Just repeating that made their whole bodies shaky and their arms feel like they would fall off.

The only ones maintaining a decent appearance were the Group Seven and Twentieth Group cadets.

Hadn’t they already experienced Ha Mu-baek before?

Glance.

Ha Mu-baek’s gaze turned toward them.

The cadets immediately felt that look.

Snap snap snap.

Their movements became more precise, more forceful, more diligent.

The Group Seven cadets reacted immediately.

The instructor had definitely said.

He would really put them through proper training.

But this level now, while it might be different for others, wasn’t proper training for them.

Just then, Ha Mu-baek’s gaze turned toward them.

They had to show they were working as hard and diligently as possible.

“Half-hour break! Everyone rest comfortably!”

That’s when Ha Mu-baek shouted.

“Phew.”

“Haa.”

“We’re alive.”

Everyone collapsed flat on the ground with a thud.

Some even lay down completely.

Thud thud.

Without giving those people even a glance, Ha Mu-baek walked straight over.

“Switch.”

Ha Mu-baek came to where Han Seol-bing was and spoke briefly.

“Yes.”

Han Seol-bing headed toward where the instructors were.

At that sight, Dang Jin-san’s face turned deathly pale.

So that’s why he was watching this place.

Ha Mu-baek had initially taken charge of them to break the instructors’ spirit.

It was Ha Mu-baek who had received full authority from Peng Do-yul.

The half-hour really was short.

People staggering to their feet at Ha Mu-baek’s instruction.

“Ready!”

Ha Mu-baek’s shout rang out again.

The cadets diligently took their positions.

Though distant, they also stole glances.

At Ha Mu-baek mercilessly beating down the instructors.

Ha Mu-baek walked among the cadets.

Still beating them down.

The difference was.

It was much weaker than when he beat the instructors.

He especially went easy on the first-year cadets.

At least he maintained discrimination based on skill level.

That Ha Mu-baek arrived in front of the Group Seven and Twentieth Group cadets.

Gulp.

The cadets swallowed dry saliva.

Ha Mu-baek stared at them intently while continuing to shout ready and rest.

The Group Seven and Twentieth Group cadets moved their swords and shields even more diligently.

“Too easy?”

Ha Mu-baek’s question directed at them.

No one answered.

Pook. Pook.

Ha Mu-baek’s lightly released finger wind.

It struck the vital points of seven people.

“Kuk.”

“Urk.”

And they immediately realized their internal energy wouldn’t move.

He had simply restricted their internal energy.

“This is how we make it at least equal. Instructor Han is too soft.”

And he continued standing in front of them.

Even so, he ghostily noticed cadets with incorrect postures and shot finger wind at them.

After an hour passed like this.

Dang Jin-san’s arms began to tremble.

It was inevitable.

He had exhausted all his internal energy in the martial duel, hadn’t eaten, and his physical strength was considerably depleted too.

He had been enduring by gradually recovering his internal energy since the training was manageable.

Ha Mu-baek stared piercingly at Dang Jin-san alone among the Group Seven cadets.

‘Ah, why! Why! Why only pick on me!’

He shouted all sorts of complaints in his mind, but they didn’t come out of his mouth.

Finally.

Thwack!

“Kuk.”

Ha Mu-baek’s sword flew toward Dang Jin-san whose posture had faltered.

“Tsk. This is why you got beaten so pathetically.”

Dang Jin-san’s face contorted with anger.

‘I won! I won!’

He couldn’t bring himself to say those words out loud.

But his face was saying it.

“Are you proud of winning like that?”

Thwack.

Along with those words, the sword flew at him.

In that moment, his shield’s angle had shifted slightly.

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