The Miracle of One Day
The Neverland Guild members, returning from their injuries, threw themselves into a full-scale tower raid.
“It’s your first day back from injury, so please don’t push yourselves too hard.”
“We’ll just rack up the points like always and head straight back!”
Today marked their first raid since coming back from serious injuries. That was exactly why they had to be meticulous about managing their bodies.
The goal was simple: meet the guild’s quota. The work had nearly been handed off to a mercenary guild, so the pressure wasn’t overwhelming.
Even so, everyone was worried. Normally, after recovering from injury, hunters would take one to two weeks to rebuild their combat instincts. But the situation was urgent, so they had been thrown straight back into the field without any buffer.
“Prepare to enter.”
At the sales team leader’s signal, the tower raid began immediately.
Oh Yunseok, waiting in the rear, felt a slight tension coil in his stomach. His own injuries had been comparatively light, allowing faster rehabilitation, but many of the vanguard members had suffered far worse.
In a standard raid, the vanguard was everything. That was where the heaviest casualties had occurred. No matter how effective the rehabilitation, matching their previous performance seemed nearly impossible.
“Everyone, don’t overdo it! Leave the front to us and fall back if you need to!”
When Oh Yunseok shouted, understanding gestures came from the vanguard.
Grrrrrrrr—.
Silver wolf monsters soon appeared. Their massive frames and coordinated attack patterns meant that getting caught even once could end in catastrophe.
“After we paralyze them—!”
The rear long-range awakeners had barely finished speaking when a monster with violently bloodshot eyes burst from the pack of silver wolves.
An irregular monster.
“……!”
“Irregular reaction detected!”
Towers never followed the same script. Occasionally, overwhelmingly powerful specimens like this would appear among ordinary monsters. Those were called irregulars.
“Fall back—”
Kwaaaang—!
But the vanguard charged forward instead.
“……?”
Confusion rippled through them.
“It’s exactly the same……?”
Their movements were identical to before the injuries. Today was supposed to be their first day back in real combat after rehabilitation.
“How is this possible……”
“What kind of rehabilitation training did we get yesterday……?”
The vanguard awakeners were stunned.
“Trainer Kang Yujun… just who the hell is he……?”
“It’s that Kang Yujun.”
“How can someone who switched to being a trainer produce results like this……”
It was beyond comprehension. There was simply no way rehabilitation completed in a single day could be this effective.
Grrrr—!
Bark! Bark!
The remaining silver wolves charged. This time the dealers and long-range awakeners in the rear unleashed their abilities.
Shaaaaaaaak—.
Crunch—! Slash—!
“Whoa……”
“There’s no pain at all.”
“No restrictions in my movements either.”
Not a single person here had escaped injury before. They had all undergone rehabilitation dozens of times.
“This is the best rehabilitation I’ve ever received.”
“This feels like I was never injured in the first place.”
The awakeners who, only yesterday, had been seriously considering retirement or lamenting how brutal rehabilitation was, fell completely silent. Then the same thought occurred to all of them at once.
“Does this even make sense……?”
“This isn’t just bravado. You all know it. This is actually impossible. Right, team leader?”
Everyone turned to the sales team leader. He was the one who had suffered the most injuries in the guild—easily fifty rounds of rehabilitation.
“……It doesn’t make sense.”
Even he had to admit it.
“Ha… I really wish we could just bring him into our guild.”
They spoke from the heart.
“Please, come be our trainer.”
“The guild master has plenty of money, doesn’t he?”
“Does the guild have any spare funds?”
“Should we just earn some extra cash today? It doesn’t even feel like we need to be careful.”
But reality quickly settled back in. A trainer with this level of skill would naturally be headed for bigger things.
“But he said he doesn’t have a license.”
“If he took the licensing exam… what rank do you think he’d get?”
“I heard the highest score on a first measurement was B-rank.”
“He’d definitely pull at least B-rank.”
“Maybe one day just receiving training from him will be considered an honor in itself.”
The tower raid that should have ended in about an hour stretched into the usual five.
Guild Master’s Office.
“Where is he right now?”
“He’s in the training room. With Jena unnie.”
“……?”
The guild master looked puzzled.
“Why?”
“They’re probably talking. About Jena unnie.”
“……What exactly?”
The guild master tilted his head.
“I’m not sure of the details. While he was doing rehabilitation training for our awakeners, he said Jena unnie was in an extremely dangerous condition.”
“……!”
The guild master shot to his feet.
“I was already planning to entrust Jena to Trainer Kang Yujun.”
Rather than full entrustment, he had intended to arrange at least a meeting. He never expected the trainer to bring it up directly.
Just then, someone knocked on the office door.
Knock knock—.
“Head Team Leader reporting.”
“Come in.”
The head team leader entered.
“I’ve come to deliver a report. It’s the status update on the awakeners who completed rehabilitation training and returned to duty today.”
“How did it go?”
The guild master replayed the video sent by the sales team, carefully observing each awakener’s condition while listening to the explanation.
“……They say the hunters are moving as if they were never injured at all.”
“Krrrrrrr.”
The guild master shook his head in delight.
“It’s different. Completely different.”
“Yes, sir.”
Since both the head team leader and the trainers themselves acknowledged this truth, no one took offense. Yujun had accomplished what they could not. His emergence would likely energize the entire trainer market even further.
With genius trainer Han Gyujin already driving massive interest in the profession, the appearance of a brilliant new star like Yujun was something every trainer could celebrate.
“I have one question.”
“Please ask.”
“Could Trainer Kang Yujun train Jena?”
Yu Jena was an S-class awakener. Teaching an S-class required at least an A-class license. The head team leader himself held an A-class license and had been personally overseeing her training alongside her private trainer.
“……Hmm.”
This was difficult to answer.
Kang Yujun’s ability was outstanding. However, what he had demonstrated so far was rehabilitation training. That was why he had been able to perform so well even when most of his clients were A-class.
“I believe Trainer Kang Yujun could currently handle up to A-class awakeners.”
“Then?”
“He would not be able to teach Director Yu Jena.”
Training Yu Jena was impossible. S-class awakeners existed on an entirely different plane.
“What’s your opinion on solving Jena’s problem?”
“That goes beyond impossible—it’s simply absurd.”
Kang Yujun was an excellent trainer. Despite his short career, he produced incredible results without any apparent limits.
“In my estimation, if Trainer Kang Yujun continues growing at his current pace, he will soon be capable of teaching S-class awakeners as well.”
“But not yet?”
“Correct.”
S-class awakeners were different. And the problem Yu Jena carried—one that bordered on an actual injury—would be even harder to resolve.
“That isn’t something simple training can fix.”
The head team leader also desperately wanted to restore Yu Jena to perfect condition.
“From her youth until now… Director Yu Jena has lived under an enormous sense of responsibility.”
She felt she had to repay Neverland, which had believed in her and nurtured her talent. She had to perform in a manner befitting an S-class. She had to serve as a role model for every other awakener.
Countless burdens. Endless responsibility. All of it had shaped the person she was today. She had grown quickly, but at the cost of a crippling flaw.
“Unintentionally, we placed yet another burden on Director Yu Jena. Her condition… may have worsened.”
This incident had been entirely his fault.
“I… got a little too excited.”
He had believed her problem was finally solved. The girl he had watched grow up had finally smiled. She had laughed several times a day, saying the new training method finally suited her perfectly. So he had hoped. If this legendary method could solve even her issue, then every awakener in Neverland could grow stronger.
That was what he had believed.
“……”
The guild master stroked his chin after hearing everything.
“Then before Trainer Kang Yujun experiences failure……”
“Yes. We cannot allow Trainer Kang Yujun to be broken now.”
Yujun was currently on the rise, in the midst of fully awakening his talent.
“Trainer Kang Yujun has only just begun to bloom. He could bring an entirely new wind to the trainer world.”
The importance of trainers had grown dramatically in recent years. As star trainers began producing S-class and even higher awakeners, their value had skyrocketed. In the head team leader’s view, Yujun had the potential to turn that wind into a powerful storm.
Therefore, he could not be allowed to falter here—not just for his own sake, but for the entire market.
“……”
The guild master nodded in agreement.
“Where did you say she was, Suyeon?”
“She should be in the training room.”
“Let’s go immediately. At the very least, we need to stop this before it goes too far.”
The guild master stood up abruptly.
“We’ll go together.”
The head team leader and Lee Suyeon followed him out.
“I’ve created a training session just for you, Miss Yu Jena!”
Several trainers had said those exact words before. They were hollow echoes from people desperate to be chosen by an S-class awakener. Though they claimed the training was tailored exclusively for her, it was really just another line for their résumés. As a result, Yu Jena had never achieved any meaningful growth.
Yet now a trainer was saying the same thing right in front of her.
Yu Jena stared at Yujun.
“Is training truly possible just for me?”
She felt both hope and despair at once. Expectations were always betrayed.
“Yes, it is possible.”
Yujun observed her carefully.
“However, you must trust me completely.”
I need to dismantle Yu Jena’s defensive mechanisms first.
She had carried this problem for a very long time. The slightest negative remark could cause her trust to vanish. Therefore, her defenses had to be torn down before anything else.
“If you can do that, we’ll begin.”
“……I’ll trust you. I’ll try trusting you.”
“Good.”
Yujun immediately pointed out her core issue.
“It’s overload. You’re exerting far too much force. The resulting immaturity in mana control is the root cause. Because your mana control is immature, you end up using excessive power.”
“Mana control… immaturity?”
To call an S-class awakener’s mana control immature was unheard of. Yu Jena had worked with countless trainers, yet she had never heard anything like this. Strangely, it intrigued her.
“When you move your mana, don’t you have to exert a great deal of strength?”
“……Yes, that’s correct.”
“You also use excessive power when activating your abilities.”
“Yes.”
She nodded, almost entranced by his words. Everything he said was true. How could he know all this without her ever telling him? Could he truly see everything just by looking?
Her trust in him began to grow. Watching her eyes change, Yujun smiled faintly.
Now.
This was the moment she was beginning to trust him. He had to seize it.
“Please use Volcano once more, exactly as you did earlier. Put on the VR machine.”
Following his instructions, Yu Jena equipped the VR device in the training room.
Shaaaaak—.
It’s actually a simple problem.
To create a training session exclusively for her, he needed to view the situation with absolute clarity.
The reason overload occurs is because her mana control is immature.
But there was no way an S-class awakener could have immature mana control. Yujun placed his hand on Yu Jena’s body.
Shaaaaaaaaak—.
Focus.
The Focus skill originally had two forms: seeing with the eyes, and seeing with the eyes closed. However, Yujun had not yet learned the latter version.
Then he would awaken it.
Consuming points to raise Focus skill level!
I have to use them now.
This was the perfect moment to spend the points he had saved.
Shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak—!
Focus skill has been enhanced.
40P consumed.
‘I can see it!’