064. How to move forward
“Hey, did you have a good debut?”
“… … .”
When Ryu Jae-jun, who usually twitched and twitched so much, answered Jo Yeon-hwa’s question with silence, something struck her.
I’m sure you’re listening since you picked up the phone, but you’re not answering?
I don’t want to talk about it.
What does Ryu Jae-jun not want to talk about?
‘I guess his debut match wasn’t very good.’
Ryu Jae-jun’s reaction made me want to watch the game myself.
That guy won’t give you a proper answer since he’s Jin.
I could understand that feeling of distress. I thought he was similar to me and thought the 3rd division was nothing special.
It probably isn’t a good feeling to have already experienced a bitter defeat.
But I sympathize with that, and is it because I learned together with Lee Geun-taek and Jo Jun-ho?
The words that came out were words that poked at Ryu Jae-jun’s wounds.
“Hello? Why aren’t you answering? You… … did you lose the game? In the third part?”
Thinking about how angry Ryu Jae-jun would be made me feel a little better.
I could clearly see Ryu Jae-jun trembling on the other end of the phone.
“You said the 1st division wasn’t that bad, but in the 3rd division? You got caught up in the closest thing to amateurs?”
“hey!”
“Why are you yelling all of a sudden?”
“If you’re going to keep talking nonsense, then hang up.”
It seemed like he was really angry. However, I had no intention of hanging up because it was not something I could see Ryu Jae-jun, who had strong pride, being defeated and having his mentality shaken up every time.
“Or was the opponent a bit strong? I heard he’s quite famous. What do you think?”
“Even if it’s a third-tier league, the level is all around the same.”
“But why did you lose?”
“I was just shaken for a moment by an unexpected situation.”
“Okay, I’ll say that.”
At those words, Ryu Jae-jun just hung up the phone. Well, that guy was the kind of guy who would get so angry at me if I lost to him back when we were learning together.
At best, they must have been watching with the same level as the first division players, so their pride must have been hurt when they lost to a third division player.
‘But that guy Lee Chang-hyun, maybe… … .’
No. This may be a hasty thought. Huh… … I guess I was also mentally shaken.
So what if that guy is actually strong, and so what if he is actually weak?
I was so distracted by that trivial argument from last time that I was doing something I never used to do. Suddenly, I felt ashamed of myself.
No matter what he says, no matter how great he is, nothing will change for me.
I’m stuck at a wall, and furthermore, at this age, I’m already thinking about retirement. I’m a person who has stopped.
‘Let’s close it.’
I don’t even know what I did uselessly now.
I thought I should check out some footage of that guy’s game.
However, I felt that I should go to the Hunter Union Training Center to calm my complicated mind.
Even in a situation where a thousand thoughts come to mind, I was able to focus only on that situation by fighting and sparring without thinking.
Because that was my only mental refuge. I headed to the Hunter Union Training Center to leave my complicated thoughts behind and clear my head.
***
What is the most important thing to become a great Hunters League player? If I had to pick the most important thing, the first would be talent.
This board has a clear divide in skill and status limits, so if you don’t have talent, you’re bound to fall behind.
And even if you fill it with mana equipment or other skills, it is bound to be very disadvantageous since the starting line is different.
So, can you get to the top just by having talent?
Surprisingly, no. There are as many talented people on Earth as there are people on Earth.
And in the Hunter version, most of them are average, except for a few people with overwhelming talent and skills. That’s where the top and bottom ranks are separated.
That depends on how well you “figure out” what kind of player you want to become based on what you have now.
I wonder how [Piercing Eyes] can be used to provide information about the skill.
We tend to read what the limits are and what the potential is, but that is not allowed for others.
You just have to learn the skills the way you want by using the talent that suddenly comes to you at some point.
Without knowing what position to take in the Hunter’s League or how to proceed.
‘If you study on your own without a teacher, it is difficult to get out of the category of ordinary people unless you are a genius.’
That was the case even if you had talent.
So, practically speaking, when evaluating a Hunters League team, the infrastructure that trains the hunters is also the most important evaluation factor.
That’s why teams like LTD, which have a sort of step-by-step training system across parts 1, 2, and 3, are receiving such high ratings.
Before his return, Yoon Han-gyeol would have constantly received such training as he joined a prestigious team in his original life.
That’s why I had to take care of Yoon Han-gyeol myself. If I left him alone, thinking he’d be fine on his own, maybe.
There was a good chance that the guy wouldn’t progress any further from there.
“Yoon Han-gyeol. Do you understand now? The most powerful thing about your sword is that it doesn’t use the ‘human body,’ and the flying sword doesn’t need to consider the ‘defensive elements’ of swordsmanship at all.”
So, even though I was quite upset, I couldn’t help it.
‘It’s a good thing I was right next to him so I could immediately catch him taking it so stupidly… ‘
If Yoon Han-gyeol had understood it correctly and moved on, there would have been a disaster in the next game.
Fortunately, as a result of teaching him one-on-one like this, Yoon Han-gyeol seemed to understand a little bit what was wrong.
“… … I understand. What do you mean when you say not to think of using traditional swordsmanship?”
Yoon Han-gyeol nodded with a serious face.
But perhaps because I was hit in the back of the head once, I couldn’t easily believe it.
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“How is it, are you confident?”
“There are a few things that come to mind.”
“Let’s go play ranked matches again. I’ll keep telling you what you need to pay attention to.”
Yoon Han-gyeol opened his eyes wide for a moment at those words, then smiled. Perhaps it was an expression of his confidence that he could show a different side of himself.
“okay.”
***
‘No… … What a coincidence… … .’
Jo Yeon-hwa, who stopped by the Hunter Union Training Center to clear her head, simply sighed. She came here to train to clear her head, but who would have thought that a guy who made her dizzy would be at that training center?
I was trying to have a good sweat by playing ranked matches without thinking about anything and only focusing on my opponent.
Well, since it had come to this, I was a bit concerned about him, so I decided to just watch from behind.
Lee Chang-hyun was watching a guy who seemed to be his teammate with his coach. He was a dealer with the supernatural power to swing swords.
‘His abilities are pretty good. His fighting style is a bit strange though.’
I wondered if it was some kind of groundless fight to throw a sword like a throwing weapon out of the blue. Or was it because of a limitation in ability that he couldn’t control it in detail?
That thought lasted only a moment, and the guy finished, received some advice from Lee Chang-hyun, and came out looking different.
Then I started fighting in the ideal way I had imagined.
Three swords flying at the same time. And the opponent had to block the individual combat of the three swords, as if three people were attacking together.
‘Yes. That’s normal for someone who can handle a sword.’
It was a pretty good skill, hard to believe it was from the 3rd division. He’s probably a talent that will rise quickly.
And the guy who won that ranking match went back to Lee Chang-hyun and listened to his advice again.
A heavy atmosphere, as if something is wrong and needs to be fixed.
‘In that state, isn’t there no other way than simply improving one’s swordsmanship skills…?’
And that kind of advice isn’t something that can be conveyed simply by speaking, nor is it something that can be acquired in a short period of time. I wondered if it was really necessary to say it like that now.
However, I had no choice but to change my mind in the ranking match that followed.
Three swords flying simultaneously, just like before.
But something was different. It was hard to put my finger on it. The three swordsmen were all individually practicing swordsmanship… …
Sigh -.
The result was absurdly fast, unlike the previous game. The boy who could swing the sword won.
‘What the…? Was the opponent weaker?’
Certainly, it seemed like something had changed after hearing Lee Chang-hyun’s advice, but I couldn’t tell exactly what it was.
Well, I guess. Swordsmanship and things like that can also grow greatly depending on a single detail or realization.
Or maybe the opponent you’re matched with this time around is just a little weaker.
Lee Chang-hyun, who returned again, appears to be ordering something to the boy swinging the sword… … .
A pretty strong opponent appeared in this match.
Although he was in the lower ranks of the first division, he was a close range dealer who held a solid position in the front line.
Since the opponent was probably someone who knew how to handle a sword, there was a high possibility that the boy who could handle a sword would be greatly pushed back.
Even if he swings three swords, the gap in swordsmanship is so large that the boy will eventually lose.
I expected it to be like that. No matter how much I thought about it, even though the boy I just saw had great skill potential, his swordsmanship and martial arts skills weren’t strong enough to match those of Part 1.
But then another unbelievable thing happened.
Very absurdly. Vainly, as if repeating the previous game.
No, even more easily than in the previous game, the boy who swung the sword won.
As if seeing a deja vu, three flying swords flew and performed a swordsmanship, and it seemed as if they were combining by striking several times, but something was strange… … The attack immediately cut through the melee dealer.
‘No… … You’re allowing an attack that easily?’
I didn’t understand. Something… something… I felt uneasy, like I was missing something. I was so easily defeated that some people said I lost on purpose.
This is all because Lee Chang-hyun gave the guy some advice. Giving him some advice on swordsmanship shouldn’t have changed anything that much.
But, clearly, ‘something’ about swordsmanship changed just a little bit, subtly. That led to a big result. And that was definitely something that Lee Chang-hyun had told me.
Jo Yeon-hwa only learned swordsmanship from Jo Jun-ho when she was young, and since she doesn’t use it now, she doesn’t know the exact difference.
but…….
Without realizing it, an indescribable sense of strangeness and curiosity was rising up in Lee Chang-hyun.
‘Maybe… … that guy turned a team that lost three times into a team in first place in an instant… … .’
It may not be luck or mere coincidence.
That’s what I thought.
And this may just be a vain hope… …
Maybe there was a way forward hidden within me, like that guy who was swinging his sword… …
That’s what I thought.
fantasy,
