Walls Can Be Broken
Kang Yujun was taken aback.
They’re saying I trained him? Does something like this even count as training? This wasn’t in the Infinite Tower.
There were many ways to earn points inside the Infinite Tower, but the core method had always been directly training awakened individuals.
Can I really get points just by influencing people like this? No, wait. Is this an achievement point?
The message about achieving an accomplishment caught his eye.
Eloquent Guidance
You have trained someone who wasn’t even your assigned trainee through the power of words alone!
Your exceptional eloquence has earned you points.
Points Acquired:5P
This was a system that existed in the Infinite Tower as well.
Only then did it start to make sense.
Heh.
Yujun smiled at the unexpected points and achievement.
Five whole points.
Following awakened scan and awakened analysis, he planned to unlock a third skill for now.
If my memory serves me right…
Among the Lv.2 skills, there was one that could be called the true flower of the Awakened Training System.
I might reach it faster than I thought.
“Thank you.”
Team Leader Kim smiled back and left the room.
The points I can earn from achievements seem pretty substantial. In that case…
It looked like he should also consider training centered around achievements.
“I can broaden the scope even more.”
After Woo Hana came Kim Gyojun.
The two awakened individuals he had taken on through his contract with Sky Guild had both exploded with potential.
Thanks to them, Yujun had managed to accumulate quite a few points.
The total he currently held was a whopping 15P.
“I’ll unlock the third skill now.”
Yujun had only unlocked two of the available Lv.1 skills so far.
Awakened Scan and then Awakened Analysis.
I’ll open everything first and push straight to Lv.2.
“Skill unlock.”
Unlocking the final Lv.1 skill!
Lv.1 third skill has been unlocked!
You have acquired the Training Speed Increase skill!
“Training Speed Increase?”
Increases the training speed of the awakened you are teaching!
Current increase: 10%
Points can be invested to further raise the increase rate.
“Interesting.”
Lv.2 skill restrictions have been lifted.
You can now invest points to learn Lv.2 skills!
Having unlocked every Lv.1 skill, he could now access Lv.2 skills as well.
“Thirty points, huh.”
The cost to unlock the first Lv.2 skill was a steep 30P.
“Let’s take it slow.”
Of course, Yujun had no intention of only teaching the youth division forever.
At this rate, there’s no need to limit myself to the youth division.
His next target was the first-team awakened.
To train first-team awakened…
“I’ll use the remaining points first.”
Yujun immediately opened the skill tree.
“Physical Enhancement.”
Yujun poured all his remaining points into Physical Enhancement.
Shaaaaaaaah—!
Vitality surged through his entire body.
This should be enough.
He wouldn’t have to worry about running out of stamina while training first-team awakened.
“You want to try training first-team awakened?”
In the guild master’s office, Lee Hyeokjun beamed at Yujun. The ability Kang Yujun had displayed during the recent internal evaluation was truly remarkable.
Kim Gyojun, who had been dead last, had taken first place.
Many trainers had given up on the youth prospects, claiming they weren’t up to Sky Guild’s standards and adding them to the expulsion list.
Yujun had caused their hidden potential to erupt.
“We’re the ones who should be grateful!”
From Guild Master Lee Hyeokjun’s perspective, he was simply glad that Yujun was willing to work more for Sky Guild.
“I won’t forget this favor! Thank you!”
With those words, Guild Master Lee Hyeokjun pulled out an envelope. It looked far thicker than the previous performance bonus envelope.
“It’s not much, but I put about ten million won inside.”
“You’re giving me too much.”
“Compared to the results you produced, this is pocket change. Besides, you even offered to train our first-team awakened!”
This money was separate from what he was obligated to pay.
It still feels a bit surreal.
Until now, Yujun had never earned money through his own work.
Ever since becoming a youth prospect at Promise Guild, he had simply received activity funds.
This is the first time I’ve actually earned a significant amount.
If he kept receiving performance bonuses like this, his bank account would soon reach the hundred-million-won range.
I’ll have to think carefully about what to do with it.
“Thank you.”
“I’ll also deposit the contract fee separately!”
The guild master had given up on renewing Yujun’s contract and changed direction.
A renewal was impossible anyway.
Yujun was not someone Sky Guild could contain.
As a freelance trainer, he could sign with even better guilds and work with far stronger awakened at any time.
In that case, maintaining a good relationship like this was the best option.
Just the fact that the legend had begun at Sky Guild held considerable meaning.
“Shouldn’t you speak with the first-team trainers first?”
“I will. But there’s no need to worry about it.”
The guild master spoke as if telling him not to fret.
“Everyone already knows about the results you produced. They won’t give you a hard time. And if they do, I’ll cut them down.”
“You don’t have to go that far…”
“I do! Anyway, I’ll take care of it!”
After Yujun left the room, Executive Lee entered.
“He said he’s leaving? That’s truly a shame.”
At Executive Lee’s words, the guild master shook his head vigorously.
“He wants to teach the first team.”
“The first team, sir?”
Just like awakened, trainers also went through stages in their careers.
They started with the youth division, moved on to first-team awakened, and built their careers by training higher-ranked individuals among the first team.
Of course, some trainers would occasionally return to the youth division based on preference.
But most who went back to teaching youths were doing so to escape.
“The youths are used to learning every day. They absorb whatever you teach them. But the awakened working on the front lines…”
“Have massive egos and are quite rough. They don’t change easily.”
Even when first-team awakened had problems, fixing them was extremely difficult.
Youths were fundamentally open to learning, so trainers could teach them relatively easily.
But first-team awakened were different.
They were picky about everything and had oversized egos. Because of their abundant experience, their defensive mechanisms were also substantial.
As a result, trainers who taught first-team awakened needed incredibly strong mental fortitude.
Those who didn’t usually bounced right back to being youth trainers.
“It would be best if he could teach the first team with the same skill he showed with the youths. I’m worried. Among the first-team awakened, there are some who…”
“It’ll be fine. There isn’t a single awakened in the first team who doesn’t know who Kang Yujun is.”
Everyone currently in the first team knew about Kang Yujun.
The only problem was that they remembered him as the failed youth prospect Kang Yujun, not as the trainer Kang Yujun.
“They’ll be even less likely to listen. Wouldn’t it be better to let him build more experience with the youths first?”
Executive Lee’s suggestion made sense on the surface, but the guild master shook his head.
It was because Kang Yujun was completely different from any awakened trainer he had ever known.
“Let’s just watch for now.”
“I never imagined Gyojun would turn out like that.”
“Can someone really change that much in an instant?”
“The internal evaluation ended yesterday, and he was already out here training at dawn today. It’s no joke.”
After the internal evaluation, the youths kept talking about Kim Gyojun.
His transformation had been that shocking.
They hadn’t expected Kim Gyojun to display such skill, but Trainer Kang Yujun’s ability to bring it out was even more astonishing.
“Both Woo Hana and Gyojun changed so much after Trainer Kang only looked at them for a little while.”
“Do you think we could become like that if we get trained by Trainer Kang?”
The youths’ conversations eventually spread among Sky Guild’s first-team awakened as well.
“A new trainer?”
“I heard he’s a freelancer.”
Originally, the first-team awakened paid no attention to youth trainers who only taught the youth division.
The trainers led by Team Leader Kim were youth-exclusive trainers, while a separate group handled first-team awakened.
That was why the first team hadn’t paid much attention to this issue.
But the problem was Woo Hana.
“The trainer who taught Woo Hana turned the bottom ranker into the top ranker?”
Woo Hana had been called up to the first team and assigned to the lowest-ranked Sales Team 3, but after just one evaluation she had moved to Sales Team 1.
It was an unprecedented situation. The first-team awakened learned that a newly arrived trainer was at the center of it.
And now that same trainer had turned another youth into the top ranker. It was impossible not to be interested.
At the same time, however, there were those who sneered.
“It’s Kang Yujun, that guy.”
“He got kicked out because he couldn’t even awaken. Who is he to teach anyone?”
“He has training ability?”
“Then why couldn’t he raise his own ability with that skill?”
“Like they say, even a monk can’t shave his own head. Is that it?”
The first-team awakened chuckled at the ridiculous rumor.
“The youths are only at the youth level. You only understand once you reach the first team. Being number one among the youths means nothing.”
While they were talking, Kang Yujun arrived at the first-team training ground and opened the door.
The first-team awakened, who had been chatting excitedly, saw him enter.
They had been loud enough for their conversation to be heard from outside.
They’re having quite the interesting discussion.
They didn’t know why the trainer who taught the youths had come to the first-team training ground, but the first-team awakened glanced at Yujun and returned to their individual training.
They each had training sessions assigned by their own trainers, so they had no time to pay attention to him.
Swish—!
Thud— Thud—!
The first-team awakened each performed different exercises.
Yujun quietly sat down and observed them.
From Sales Team 1 to Team 3.
Everything about them began flowing into Yujun’s eyes.
Shaaaaah—.
Overflowing blue light.
Crack—.
And the severe fractures that came with it.
It’s much worse than with the youths. I suppose it can’t be helped.
All of that information entered Yujun’s vision.
He immediately stood up and walked toward the awakened emitting the strongest blue light.
“My name is Kang Yujun. I’m the freelance trainer who recently signed a contract with Sky Guild and has been teaching the youth division.”
“I know who you are. But I heard you were teaching the youths. What brings you to the first-team training ground?”
When Yujun extended his hand, the first-team awakened instinctively shook it.
However, he didn’t feel any particular favor or trust toward Yujun.
Why was this man suddenly greeting him?
“I received permission from the guild master. I will be participating in the first-team awakened training sessions.”
Yujun continued calmly.
“So I’ve been watching quietly, and I believe I can help you.”
There were a total of seven awakened in the first-team training room at that moment.
Being singled out like that made the first-team awakened feel unpleasant.
“You think you can help me?”
“Yes.”
“Why me?”
“Because you are the strongest one here.”
“I’m the strongest here, so why…?”
First-team awakened Kim Ojung asked with a puzzled expression.
Of course, his expression had brightened just a little.
“It looks like you’ve hit a wall. I believe I can break that wall for you.”
“Well… but everyone here is the same. Everyone has walls, don’t they? It’s been a long-standing weakness, not something that can be fixed easily. Besides.”
Kim Ojung looked at Yujun as if asking whether he even knew who he was.
After all, was there any awakened who hadn’t hit a wall?
Yujun grinned at those words.
“I can break it.”
“…Pardon?”
“Ten minutes is all it will take.”