A New Trainee and Hidden Potential
Woo Hana felt something overwhelming rise within her at those words.
It was the first time in her life.
A feeling of freedom.
“This is my ability? Then all this time, I’ve been…”
“You simply weren’t utilizing it properly.”
And he had drawn all of it out using his trainer abilities.
Woo Hana blinked rapidly.
The situation felt like a lie.
Kang Yujun asked her gently.
“How does it feel? Since this is the first time you’ve used Acceleration after training, there are still quite a few awkward parts.”
She couldn’t control her speed on her own, so her posture had collapsed. The aftereffects left cracks visible all over her body.
This must be the first time she’s ever moved at this speed.
That was why, in Yujun’s eyes right now, there were an enormous number of areas that needed correction.
“The training isn’t over yet. Please focus.”
This wasn’t the end?
Woo Hana shook her head vigorously and immediately focused on Yujun.
“First, your posture.”
Yujun had been carefully watching the moments when she accelerated.
For a brief instant, cracks had appeared.
Originally, Yujun had always been good at catching other people’s strengths and weaknesses.
This was the result of combining that natural talent with the power of an S-class trainer.
Yujun made simple adjustments to her posture, focusing mainly on the areas where cracks had formed.
Immediately, a blue light began to emanate from those cracked spots.
Trained the awakened Woo Hana!
A new awakened has been registered to the Awakened Trainer List!
Yujun saw something he hadn’t noticed before.
Trainee list?
Ranks were written next to the names. Kim Minseok was D-rank, and Woo Hana was C-rank.
It’s telling me to manage the trainees efficiently.
And it seemed he could change their ranks through correction.
Points can be earned according to the rank of the awakened you teach.
Upgrade the ranks of your awakened trainees through training!
Points can be earned based on the number and ranks of trainees.
The proficiency of the Awakened Training System has increased.
As proficiency rises, more information becomes visible.
Something new began to appear in Yujun’s eyes.
The blue light that had spread across Woo Hana’s entire body was fading one by one. On top of that, even the existing blue light had grown faint.
Is she exhausted?
Woo Hana had experienced an explosive mana circulation she had never properly felt before, along with using a proper Acceleration ability.
It was only natural she would be tired.
Body Reinforcement [Lv.1] skill has been unlocked!
Good.
The current Yujun was essentially no different from an unawakened person who only possessed skills.
That was why unlocking this new skill felt like rain in a drought.
This should solve the stamina issue.
Shaaaaaaa—.
Of course, since it was only Body Reinforcement Lv. 1, his physical abilities hadn’t improved dramatically, but it was still far better than before he awakened.
So this is what it feels like.
Yujun found the sensation incredibly fascinating.
So this is the default state for awakened people?
Experiencing it firsthand made him understand why unawakened individuals couldn’t enter the tower.
He could also understand why unawakened people had limits as trainers.
But this foundational skill is the most important one.
Even in the Infinite Tower, simply rushing to raise skill trees wouldn’t allow for a long run.
Build the basics solidly from the ground up.
Yujun smiled faintly.
“For today, this concludes the training.”
“Thank… you.”
It had only been thirty minutes.
Yet through this short thirty-minute training session, Woo Hana had felt an entirely different sensation.
All the other trainers she had worked with before had told her to focus on and control the mana circulation in her flank.
But Woo Hana had never been able to understand that sensation.
Even when they injected mana directly to show her, she couldn’t feel the sensation itself, and no matter how they explained it in words, it never clicked.
She had to connect the mana circulation in her flank properly through mana control. She knew it would compensate for her weakness, but she simply couldn’t change it.
Yet now she had realized that sensation.
She could clearly feel how she needed to control the mana circulation in her flank.
This person was different.
Kang Yujun was unlike any trainer she had ever learned from.
“Um…!”
Woo Hana’s heart was racing.
At first, she had secretly looked down on him because he had switched to being a trainer after failing to awaken despite his talent. But now, her view was completely different.
She wanted to receive more training from him.
The sense of exhilaration she had felt while training with him had vanished like a lie.
But the memory remained clear in her mind.
If she learned from this person, she would surely feel that sensation again.
“Thank you so much. That part has been blocked for so long. To think it was this easy… No, not easy, but… I think it’s all thanks to how incredibly well Trainer Kang Yujun taught me! I learned so much!”
As Woo Hana bowed deeply with genuine gratitude, Kang Yujun smiled and replied.
“I should be the one thanking you. It was my first training session, but you followed along so well that it went smoothly.”
“…Pardon?”
Woo Hana was shocked by his words. First training session?
“Does that mean… I’m Trainer Kang Yujun’s first disciple?”
“…Yes. You could say that.”
Trainer.
Woo Hana’s words struck deep into Yujun’s ears.
That’s right. He had now become a trainer.
In Kim Minseok’s case, while he had trained him, he couldn’t exactly call him a disciple.
His talent as an awakened was lacking.
If he scanned himself with the Awakened Scan, it would probably show up completely clean without a single crack.
But that doesn’t matter.
He would forget the days when he had been treated as a burden for failing to awaken.
From now on, Yujun was a trainer.
I failed.
He had struggled countless times.
For over a decade, he had failed, failed, and failed again.
That was why he understood better than anyone.
I know better than anyone how to succeed as an awakened.
It was time to get used to this new identity.
From now on, I am an awakened trainer.
And he would achieve everything he had failed to accomplish before.
Woo Hana’s training has been completed!
Training Score: 5/10
Points have been earned based on the training score.
Training score.
And points.
It’s a shame.
A training score of 5 probably meant it was an average level of training.
Of course, that was average by Yujun’s standards. In the Infinite Tower, 3 was average and 5 was considered excellent.
But I have a feel for it now.
Yujun first checked his points.
[2P]
I need to unlock some skills first.
* * *
Section Chief Han muttered to himself as he headed toward the training ground.
“I’m worried. His skills are the real deal, but he got handed such a difficult task right from the start.”
The skills he had personally witnessed from Kang Yujun were genuine.
They were so solid that it was hard to believe he had been from the youth training days.
“I should tell him he can take it slow.”
He planned to tell him that even the trainers belonging to Sky Guild had failed to completely train Woo Hana.
So there was no need to feel burdened—just show what he could do.
Thud—! Thud—!
But the private training room was noisy.
“Is he still training?”
When he stepped inside, he saw Kang Yujun with a deeply focused expression.
“…!”
And in front of him… Woo Hana was moving at an insanely fast speed.
“What in the world…”
Section Chief Han knew Woo Hana’s condition well.
She possessed high potential, but a massive flaw had prevented her from unleashing it.
“She can move at that speed?”
Yet the speed at which Woo Hana was moving now was an overwhelming pace he had never seen before.
In front of her, Kang Yujun was calmly instructing her.
“Circulate your mana a little faster! The faster the speed, the more your posture collapses!”
“Yes!”
“Don’t focus only on your posture. Think of it as flowing!”
Every single word Kang Yujun gave her improved Woo Hana’s condition.
Watching the scene, Section Chief Han was left speechless.
It was perfect training.
Until now, Woo Hana had never once displayed such explosive mana.
More precisely, she had never been able to show it.
Due to her chronic mana circulation and poor control issues, the guild’s trainers had been unable to teach her properly.
It wasn’t that those trainers had taught her incorrectly, but it had been difficult for her to understand.
Yet Kang Yujun had turned Woo Hana into an entirely different awakened with just a few simple words and posture corrections.
Having observed Woo Hana for quite a long time, Section Chief Han watched her movements in awe.
“That’s the Woo Hana we’ve always wanted.”
When they first saw her potential, they had thought she would become the guild’s face and representative awakened. Now, that potential had finally exploded.
With a heart full of emotion, Section Chief Han looked at Kang Yujun.
“I thought he was a raw gem, but…”
He wasn’t a raw gem.
He was already shining on his own.
“You’re here, Section Chief Han. I’m currently in the middle of training Awakened Woo Hana. Her potential is truly remarkable.”
Only then did Yujun notice Han Seokyul and smiled as he spoke.
“Did you come to check on us?”
“Well, actually…”
Section Chief Han replied with an awkward expression.
In truth, he hadn’t come to check on Woo Hana’s training.
Since none of the Sky Guild’s trainers had been able to fix her flaw, he had come to tell him not to feel too much pressure.
But in the meantime, Woo Hana’s flaw had been corrected.
It hadn’t even taken days.
Just a few hours.
In just a few hours, the problem that had held Woo Hana back for so long had been fixed.
Instead, Section Chief Han now wanted to ask something else.
“How did you do it? Trainee Woo Hana had a major flaw. That problem has been resolved!”
Section Chief Han spoke as if the words were bursting out of him.
“None of our guild’s trainers could do it. So how on earth did you…”
“I can see it.”
Yujun smiled faintly.
“How it needs to be fixed.”
* * *
Yujun’s studio apartment.
Once he returned home, Yujun immediately invested his skill points.
First Kim Minseok, and now Woo Hana.
In Kim Minseok’s case, it had been difficult to call it proper training, and since it was the first time, he hadn’t earned any points.
But with Woo Hana, he had filled her cracks through genuine training.
On top of that, I even created additional blue light.
This Awakened Training System was similar to the Infinite Tower, yet different in certain ways.
Things that were expressed rather vaguely there are shown in extreme detail here. But removing cracks doesn’t automatically convert them into blue light.
It seemed that depending on how he corrected them, light would appear or grow stronger.
Kim Minseok’s knee and Woo Hana’s flank.
The intensity of the light each displayed was clearly different.
“I can train them even more precisely.”
Yujun’s innate eyes were important, but the influence of the skill that let him see cracks and blue light could not be ignored.
This is the level of assistance provided by the Awakened Training System.
Without the skill’s influence, no matter how well he observed and trained them, it wouldn’t have any meaningful effect.
In that case, the answer was simple.
Amplify the abilities I already possess.
[2P]
The points he currently possessed were two points.
They were the points earned from training Kim Minseok and Woo Hana.
With held points, you can unlock or strengthen linked skills.
“So I can unlock training-related skills like Linguistic Correction?”
In short, it meant he could unlock new skills with points.
“Check Lv. 1 skills.”
Currently, Yujun had only unlocked the Awakened Scan ability among his Lv. 1 skills.
“Two are still locked.”
Yujun selected the second skill.
If I remember correctly, the second skill is that one.
1 point is required to unlock the skill.
Unlocking Lv.1 skill.
1 point has been consumed.
You have learned a new skill!
Awakened Analysis has been unlocked!
“It’s unlocked.”
Yujun immediately used Awakened Analysis on himself.
But just like with Awakened Scan, it didn’t apply to himself.
“As expected, it doesn’t work. It’s exactly like the Infinite Tower.”
Awakened Analysis was a skill that activated simultaneously with Awakened Scan.
“Now I can see potential as well.”
* * *
Sky Guild’s guild master office.
“Section Chief Han. I’m about to notify Trainer Kang of the training fee. This amount should be fine, right?”
The day after the short-term contract was signed.
Guild Leader Lee Hyeokjun had set the training fee for Kang Yujun.
Since he wasn’t a guild-affiliated trainer, they couldn’t pay him a large sum.
“Two thousand for the training fee. For a newcomer, this is quite generous. I put in some extra consideration since you were the one who brought him in, Section Chief Han.”
Twenty million won for a new trainer was a considerable amount.
Moreover, Kang Yujun was a complete newcomer with zero experience in trainer-related work.
In that sense, this amount could be seen as Guild Leader Lee Hyeokjun showing considerable consideration.
But from Section Chief Han Seokyul’s perspective, he simply couldn’t accept it as is.
“Actually, I was planning to report this to you today…”
“Why are you hesitating so much? You’re not going to ask me to withdraw the training for Woo Hana, are you?”
“That’s not it.”
Although Section Chief Han denied it, he hesitated on his next words, so Guild Leader Lee Hyeokjun smiled bitterly and tried to persuade him.
“I know it’s a difficult task. But didn’t I say I would watch over it, Section Chief Han?”
“Woo Hana’s problem has been resolved.”
“…What?”
The guild leader frowned as if he had heard something strange.
“Didn’t you just… start yesterday?”
“Yes.”
“And it’s already resolved?”
It truly felt like a lie.