Genius Martial Arts Trainer

Grrrrrr!

The chimera swung its foreleg violently at Choi Kanghyuk, who had come within striking distance.

Choi Kanghyuk also willingly swung his fist to meet it.

𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

The foreleg and his right fist collided, and an explosive roar burst out.

Bang!!

He was not pushed back at all in the contest of strength.

It did not even end with a single exchange.

Every time the chimera swung its forelegs and tail, Choi Kanghyuk willingly thrust out his fists to meet them.

Bang! Bang!!

Only then did Kim Jicheol come to his senses and hurriedly launch himself forward.

“I will help you!”

Park Gyuchul also collected himself and aimed an arrow.

He had not detected the core yet, but he could target an obvious weakness.

Paht!!

The arrow Park Gyuchul fired flew toward the left eye of the chimera’s lion head.

Rooooaaaar!!

The chimera violently twisted its head.

Unfortunately, Park Gyuchul’s arrow missed, but it was not a major problem.

While the wolf head’s gaze remained fixed on Choi Kanghyuk.

Bang!!

Because the lion head had turned aside, creating a blind spot on its flank.

“That was good, Gyuchul!”

Kim Jicheol, who had slipped into that opening, planted his foot against the ground.

A rotation rose from the tip of his foot and traveled up his leg.

That flow reached its peak at the tip of Kim Jicheol’s hand.

Whiiiiir.

The awakened ability known as Vortex flew toward the chimera’s flank.

As expected of an A-rank hunter’s awakened ability, the spearhead tore through the chimera’s hide.

Cr-r-r-r-rip!!

Blood sprayed out along with a harsh noise.

Perhaps because of the pain, the chimera began thrashing wildly.

Rooooooaaaar!!

Then the chains that had barely been holding together burst apart with a loud noise.

Clang!!

Just as Choi Kanghyuk had expected, the chains had already reached their limit.

However, to the other hunters, it merely looked as though they had snapped from the impact of the battle.

Freed from its seal, the chimera began rampaging even more violently.

It swung its two forelegs and tail like mad, and its range of movement also expanded considerably.

When another of Park Gyuchul’s arrows flew toward its eye, the chimera’s gaze shifted.

Rooaar!

The chimera abruptly charged toward Park Gyuchul and the two hunters who had stayed in the rear.

However, the chimera’s forelegs could not reach them.

“Where do you think you are going!!”

Before anyone realized it, Choi Kanghyuk had launched himself forward, and both of his arms were gripping the chimera’s snake-like tail.

A contest of strength continued between the chimera trying to move forward and Choi Kanghyuk.

The sight looked exactly like an owner restraining a vicious dog that had begun going berserk.

While Choi Kanghyuk held the tail and endured.

“Now!!”

“Huaaaaaat!”

Kim Jicheol and Park Gyuchul. And the hunter assigned to the ranged-damage position unleashed an all-out assault.

Blood burst out along with explosive roars.

However, the hunters’ expressions were not very good.

“It seems they used a troll as one of the chimera’s materials.”

“It is already healing again!”

The chimera’s wounds were rapidly closing.

Even the hole Kim Jicheol had first opened in its flank had almost completely recovered.

After the difficult battle continued for a while. Park Gyuchul hurriedly shouted.

“I found it!! The center of the lower abdomen. The core is near the navel!”

“The lower abdomen?!”

“How are we supposed to aim there!!”

It might have been possible if it were a bipedal monster. But the chimera was a four-legged beast.

To target its navel, they would have to place themselves in a position as though they were pinned beneath the chimera.

At that very moment.

Choi Kanghyuk’s thunderous shout burst out.

“Uryaaaaaa!!!”

At the same time, the hunters’ mouths fell open.

“Crazy.”

Choi Kanghyuk had been holding the chimera’s tail like a dog owner restraining his pet.

Before they knew it, he was lifting the chimera while holding its right hind leg with one hand and its tail with the other.

Yelp?

The chimera floated upward and then fell under the combined force of centrifugal force and gravity.

It was a move called a suplex, or an overhead throw.

Thud!

With a loud noise, the chimera landed on the floor back-first.

Was it said that dogs showed their bellies when acting affectionately toward their owners?

The way it had fallen flat onto its back looked surprisingly convincing.

Rooooaaaar!!

Choi Kanghyuk, the chimera’s owner, did not stop there.

“Haat!”

He leaped into the air, then drove his own body down toward the chimera’s torso.

He was not aiming for the navel where the core was located.

Choi Kanghyuk landed on the chest of the chimera lying on its back.

Bang!!

Kieeeek!!

The chimera, whose chest was being crushed beneath Choi Kanghyuk, thrashed violently.

Amazingly, the chimera could not raise its body.

Choi Kanghyuk was using the Thousand-Catty Drop with all his strength to suppress the chimera.

“Now!!”

Kim Jicheol, who had been stunned by Choi Kanghyuk’s monstrous strength, hurriedly launched himself forward.

The chimera had been flipped onto its back and restrained.

Its vulnerable navel was fully exposed.

At exactly the right moment, Park Gyuchul fired an arrow.

The arrow he fired struck the chimera’s lower abdomen.

Thud!

However, perhaps because it lacked power, it merely hung loosely from the hide.

But that did not matter.

“There, Senior!!”

Because the purpose had been to indicate the exact location of the weakness from the beginning.

“Haaaaat!”

Kim Jicheol’s spear, imbued with Vortex, plunged down toward the spot where the arrow was embedded.

Cr-r-r-r-rip!!

Blood poured out as hide and muscle were torn apart.

The chimera continued convulsing.

Its two heads thrust their teeth toward Choi Kanghyuk, who was sitting on its chest, and its two forelegs flew toward him.

Clang! Clang!!

Metallic noises rang out everywhere.

Its hind legs and tail also thrashed violently.

However, as expected of an A-rank hunter, Kim Jicheol was not easily struck.

He twisted his body this way and that, avoiding the hind legs and tail.

The support hunter also used his awakened ability to assist him.

A translucent barrier appeared in front of the tail flying toward Kim Jicheol.

Clang!!!

Taking advantage of that opening, Kim Jicheol drove his spear down again.

Cr-r-r-rack! Snap!

The sound of something breaking burst out.

Yelp! Yel-yel-yel-yelp!!!

The monster screamed and convulsed even more violently.

However, it was a final burst before death. Or something close to a death throe.

The monster’s body no longer recovered quickly.

Even pus began forming along the scars that looked like needle marks, and rotten blood flowed out.

Before long, the chimera went limp while giving off a rotten stench.

Park Gyuchul covered his nose and muttered.

“Whew. Is it because it has been so long? This felt a little difficult for a B-rank gate.”

“The boss and the traps were both rather troublesome, were they not?”

At Park Gyuchul and Kim Jicheol’s conversation, Choi Kanghyuk tilted his head.

“Was it?”

It had not felt particularly burdensome.

It had been at the level where everything was resolved by simply taking it with his body.

'Honestly, it was easier than last time.'

The members were good.

During the previous abnormal gate incident, everyone except Choi Kanghyuk had been a D-rank hunter.

It had practically been the same as Choi Kanghyuk clearing the place, which had transformed into a B-rank gate, by himself.

“Ahem. F-for now, let us search the room.”

“Yes. Something may be here.”

After leaving the chimera’s corpse behind and searching the spacious room for a while.

Park Gyuchul called everyone over.

“Over here!!”

Inside a small chest hidden within a table.

A necklace had been placed there.

***

A space prepared in one corner of the Hunter Association building.

Choi Kanghyuk and the hunters were waiting with expectant expressions.

This was the space occupied by an appraisal-type awakened person hired by the Association.

In other words, they were waiting for the appraisal results of the necklace they had discovered inside the gate.

Just then, the door opened, and a middle-aged man came outside.

The necklace from earlier was in the man’s hand.

“After examining it, I found that it contains an effect that rapidly increases the wearer’s regenerative ability.”

The scene they had witnessed inside the gate came to mind for Choi Kanghyuk and the hunters.

The sight of the chimera’s wounds rapidly closing.

“Ooh. Then is it a good item?”

“How much would it be worth?”

“Hmm. Realistically, it can be considered a C-rank artifact.”

“What?”

“It came from a B-rank gate, but it is only C-rank?”

The appraiser answered the hunters’ reactions in a calm tone.

“First, the problem is that it enhances regeneration rather than creating a barrier.”

Naturally, preventing injuries before they occurred was far better.

Because this was reality, not a game.

“Furthermore, this regenerative ability is somewhat ambiguous. It does accelerate healing, but not to the extent that it could restore someone who was nearly dead to perfect health.”

“Ah.......”

“And lastly, it is rechargeable. It requires mana. Every time it is used, energy must be injected into it with a magic stone. Its cost-effectiveness is poor.”

“.......”

The expressions of the hunters who had dreamed of striking it rich crumpled.

Except for exactly two people.

“Well, it cannot be helped.”

One of them was Kim Jicheol.

Because he had never been a hunter for money in the first place.

Kim Jicheol spoke in order to settle the situation.

“Then what would you like to do? Shall we entrust it to the Association for auction? Or is there anyone here who wants it?”

It might only be C-rank, but even a C-rank artifact was worth tens of millions of won.

The problem was that B-rank artifacts were worth hundreds of millions.

The one who spoke in response to Kim Jicheol’s question was Choi Kanghyuk.

“It is an item I need.”

His expression was not bad either.

No, it was actually quite good.

“Ah. Now that I think about it, it really would be useful for a tank.”

“As long as the injury is not severe, you would continue recovering while fighting.”

Kim Jicheol and Park Gyuchul. The other two hunters also nodded as though they understood.

Then Kim Jicheol went one step further.

“Since you practically cleared today’s gate by yourself anyway, Gym Owner, I will give up my share.”

A C-rank artifact worth tens of millions of won.

Even if divided into fifths, it would still be at least five to ten million won.

Kim Jicheol willingly gave up that money.

At that, Park Gyuchul hesitated for a moment, then burst into a hearty laugh.

“Hahahaha!! I-I was thinking the same thing! Naturally, I should yield my share to you! Yes!”

The remaining two hunters then wore troubled expressions.

They knew as well.

That they had merely ridden the bus.

If Choi Kanghyuk had done half the work by himself, then the two A-rank hunters had done nearly the other half.

They had barely done anything.

However, they could not simply give up the income from an entire day of work.

“Um, I apologize, but in that case, could you perhaps transfer only about one day’s wages to us?”

“Yes. We would only ask for approximately the average earnings from a B-rank gate.”

***

That evening.

Choi Kanghyuk had entered the office gate while carrying the artifact he had obtained today. The Troll Necklace.

The other hunters were greatly mistaken.

They thought he had bought the artifact so that he could rapidly recover from injuries during actual combat.

Of course, it could also be used for that purpose.

“Now I can finally train external cultivation properly.”

In reality, it was for training.

Had it not been said that the trial that did not kill a person made him stronger?

The stronger the stimulation, the faster the level of his Iron Shirt would rise.

However, until now, he had been forced to control his strength to some extent because of the risk of injury.

And now, that limit had effectively been removed.

Choi Kanghyuk grinned and lifted the item he had bought from a hardware store.

Vrrrrrrr.

Whiiiiiiiiir.

It was a chainsaw.

He willingly recited the mnemonic formula of the Iron Shirt and brought the saw blade against his arm.

Clang-clang-clang-clang-clang-clang!!

Metallic noises burst out repeatedly.

Along with a stinging pain, his skin was gradually torn.

Then, at some point, the sound changed strangely.

“Hmm?”

When he turned off the chainsaw, all of its teeth had already broken off.

“Tsk. I only wasted money.”

Clicking his tongue, Choi Kanghyuk looked at his forearm.

A light scratch had formed.

Choi Kanghyuk put on the Troll Necklace.

A certain energy flowed out through the necklace and gathered around his forearm.

“Oho.”

Then the scratch on his forearm healed in an instant.

“I do not know about serious injuries, but it seems light wounds heal immediately?”

Choi Kanghyuk nodded and drew up his internal energy.

There was one more thing he needed to check.

'Is there really any need to recharge it with magic stones?'

This time, Choi Kanghyuk’s internal energy flowed into the Troll Necklace instead.

Then the depleted energy of the Troll Necklace filled back up.

That much internal energy was consumed, but it did not matter.

Because extremely dense natural energy flowed inside the office gate.

“Inhale. Exhale.”

After taking several deep breaths through his energy circuit, his dantian filled again.

The completion of an infinite power source for external cultivation training.

At that, Choi Kanghyuk grinned and muttered.

“At this level, I could move on to the Jade Vajra Art immediately.”