After returning to Korea, I told coach Gabriel about the player who will be loaned out this winter.
"Is Paul Collins really hot?"
Director Gabriel made a surprised face.
"Yeah, I think I can use it for next year. By the way, do you know Paul Collins?"
"Don't you know who the prospect the Berlin Blitz worked on? His natural strength is excellent and his psychic ability, which makes his body as hard as steel, is perfect for tanking."
Hearing those words, Seo Moon-yeop remembered Paul Collins, whom he had met not too long ago.
Contrary to his appearance, the troubled, large black youth seemed to be a tycoon who attracted quite a bit of attention.
Even director Gabriel, who took a break for a long time in the aftermath of the divorce, knew about it.
"The trend of classic tanks these days isn't very good, so to change their style, they're reducing their muscles and focusing on agility training."
"Oh, there is no guarantee that it will fit your body if you suddenly change your style."
"Yeah, that wasn't right. Agility was a constitution that showed the limit. I just lost my strength for no reason."
"The problem of raising the strength again must be urgent. I will prepare in advance. He is a promising young player who has been recognized for his talent, so he will be a tank that can be entrusted to the front line. But then we will have 5 tanks in our club."
YSM's tankers were Seo Moon-yeop, Choi Hyuk, Noh Jeong-hwan, and Kim Jin-su.
Seo Moon-yeop is a hybrid tank capable of tanking, melee attacks, and ranged attacks.
Kim Jin-soo, a new tank brought in from Tongyeong, was a speedy tanker who ran diligently with good agility and endurance, although his strength was only 80.
On the other hand, Choi Hyuk is said to have been a melee dealer at one time, but that only works at the level of the Korean league, and he was a typical classic tank with a strength of 900,000.
Because of his good offensive superpowers and long experience as a melee dealer, he was only able to play the role of infiltrating often, but most of his play is in the frontline blocking role.
Noh Jeong-hwan, who has been the captain of YSM ever since the days of limited unemployment, is also a classic tank with 87 strength and physical strength.
This is like bringing in more classic tanks, so there are only 3 classic tanks out of 5 tanks, going backwards in time.
"There are several options I have been thinking about for that as well."
Seo Moon-yeop wrote his thoughts on the whiteboard.
In this tactic, Seo Moon-yeop and Choi Hyuk play the role of fake tanks infiltrating the enemy lines.
Seo Mun-yeop is extremely agile and excels in close combat, so it's only natural.
Also, Choi Hyuk is a classic tank in terms of his abilities, but his superpower called 'Aura Concentration' is easy to attack, so it's not bad to take on an offensive role. A fact that was proven in the A match against England the other day.
The frontline tank in charge of defense is Paul Collins.
After that, the assistant tank was Noh Jeong-hwan.
Kim Jin-soo, who is left behind, works diligently here and there as another auxiliary tank, patching up the weak spots in our formation.
Kim Jin-soo has good agility, but he has no talent for offense, so he can't play an infiltration role. His specialty is shield control, and his psychic abilities are 'sacrifice' and 'regeneration', which are far from offensive.
After placing the magnets with the players' names on them and explaining, coach Gabriel nodded.
"It's fine. If Paul Collins can fill the frontline tank role well enough, we can turn Hyuk Choi into a fake tank. However, the downside is that the number of melee or ranged dealers decreases when you play 5 tanks, so the team's attack power is weakened."
Seo Moon-yeop answered this simply.
"I'm with you. Pietro is there too."
"That's true, but..."
"Anyway. All but a few of my kids are lame at the World Champions level. I can't see a big effect when the idiots increase the number of dealers and strengthen their attack power."
"Are you going to defend and counterattack?"
Defense and counterattack were typical patterns used by weak teams against strong teams.
Seo Moon-yeop nodded.
"If you have a lot of tanks, you can defend well, so you can survive for a long time without dying easily, right?"
After playing the A match against England, Seo Mun-yeop took a weak team and thought hard about how to deal with a strong team.
The conclusion was this.
don't want much Just don't give up kills easily, hold on until the end and survive!
Fortunately, Pietro was there, and Gary Williams and Paul Collins would soon join, so it would be better than the Korean national team, which had to run wild alone.
"Okay, and another one is this."
Seo Moon-yeop wrote another tactic on the whiteboard.
This is a tactic that uses Paul Collins, Choi Hyuk, and Roh Jung-hwan as tanks.
And Seo Moon-yeop becomes a dealer and takes on free rolls.
"In a 3-tank system, it's not good for all tanks to be classic tanks. Because they are slow, there are no tanks to follow them at the same tempo as the damage team, so attack and defense are played separately. It would be better to remove Noh Jeong-hwan and add Kim Jin-soo."
"No, Paul Collins and Choi Hyuk couldn't survive the World Champions. Noh Jeong-hwan should be with me too. I'll take care of airlift control, so it'll be fine."
"Then the burden on the owner must be great."
"It's okay, it's okay."
When was the last time you didn't shoulder a huge burden?
Since hard carry was his life, Seo Moon-yeop did not feel any pressure.
Seo Moon-yeop's strategy was twofold.
After careful consideration, Gabriel admitted that both tactics were the most appropriate for YSM's current situation.
"The owner's thoughts are very good. Based on that, I will weave in more detail."
"Let it be."
Seo Moon-yeop only thought of tanks, so he left the other positions to coach Gabriel.
Even if the tactics were the same, changes were inevitable depending on the terrain of the dungeon.
Even if Seo Moon-yeop conceived it, the ability of director Gabriel to realize it was more important.
Anyway, if the two players promised during the winter transfer window join after the second half of the season, YSM will have the following composition.
-Tanks: Munyeop Seo, Hyuk Choi, Junghwan Noh, Jinsu Kim, Paul Collins.
-Melee dealers: Saniya Akhmetova, Namgung Ji-hoon, Park Young-min, Choi Jung-min.
-Dealer: Gary Williams, Lee Na-yeon, Shim Young-soo, Pietro Anella.
- Supporter: Cho Seung-ho.
All of them consisted only of players recruited or raised by Seo Moon-yeop.
Other than that, the players who couldn't help in terms of power were all sorted out immediately.
'It's finally become a team like a team.'
Seo Moon-yeop was proud.
It was a great sense of achievement to buy the weakest player in the KB-2 league and raise it to this point.
Someday, I wanted to make it a truly world-class club. Such a strong team that is competitive on the world stage even without him and Pietro.
It has to be a club that first-class players want to come to, and for that to happen, KB-1's league level has to be high as well.
Currently, Seo Moon-yeop used his reputation and discernment to persuade players to bring them in, but he couldn't keep running on his feet forever, meeting players and begging them to come to our team.
Did you read Seo Moon-yeop's thoughts?
After the tactical discussion, coach Gabriel suddenly said.
"Thanks to the owner, I think I was able to come quickly by taking a shortcut. Normally, there would be no way for Gary Williams, who has a lot of experience in the big leagues, or Paul Collins, who was once a world-class prospect, to come to Korea."
"They are not players who will stay on our team forever."
Seo Moon-yeop grumbled.
"Paul Collins was rented from the beginning, and Gary Williams would try to move somewhere else after only experiencing the World Champions next year? Is that all? When Saniya grows up, he will advance to the big leagues."
Seo Moon-yeop sighed.
"Then I will have to look for a player that I can use in the next World Champions. Hey, it's my seller."
"But what if we finish in the semifinals or better at the World Champions next year?"
"huh?"
"And even if you struggle, what if you manage to recruit good players and then go up to the semifinals in the next World Champions?"
"hmm······."
"It is not difficult to advance to the World Champions itself. It is perceived that there will always be an underdog team that gets lucky in the Asian or African Champions."
"Yeah, but."
Of course, there are large Chinese clubs with a lot of money and high level of players in the Asian Champions League, but the prejudice against the big leagues in the West remains.
"But if you win once and go to the quarterfinals and another win to advance to the semifinals, it's a different story. You can't get lucky and beat the strong teams in the World Champions."
"If we show that kind of performance for two consecutive years, we will be recognized as a world-class strong team."
"yes. A ticket to the World Champions becomes a guaranteed club and thus has its own appeal to the players. but······."
Director Gabriel continued.
"In the long run, we also have to nurture young talent ourselves. We have to make sure that players who grow up watching only our club from a young age and who are loyal to it emerge."
"You do need a youth team."
Even if not, Seo Moon-yeop also watched the youth team of the Berlin Blitz. He was very envious of luxurious facilities and prospects.
"Let's do it when we have money. Facilities are facilities, but hiring good leaders is also money."
It was late at night when the story ended.
Seo Moon-yeop was also about to get off work on a bike.
But that was then.
Dig!
Suddenly, Pietro appeared in front of me through space movement.
"Hey man, don't use space travel recklessly here!"
"I confirmed that there are no eyes to see."
It was Pietro, who responded calmly.
"But what happened all of a sudden?"
"I have been contacted by the Queen."
"what?"
Seo Moon-yeop was taken aback.
It wouldn't be trivial if the Queen had contacted her first.
maybe,
"Did you find something?"
Pietro nodded.
"I traced the movement traces in the dungeon you told me about, and there seems to be something."
"Is it the first high-ranking priest or the lair of a madman?"
"I don't know. The person who went searching for the location recorded in the movement trace has lost contact."
The queen has been making regular contact with the subterraneans who assist her in searching the subterranean world.
If contact was lost, it meant that something had happened.
It was most likely that he was killed while going to a dangerous place.
"Looks like there's something there."
"Yes. So they asked us to help. The Queen's servants can search, but their fighting skills are poor."
Most of the Queen's subordinates were people from the subterranean world, who were gathered after the fall of civilization and wandered around, and settled in nests prepared on the ground.
They are loyal to the queen, who has guided them to the Land of Light, but unfortunately there are few professional combatants.
Most of the powerful underground people of high rank were followers of the high priest. He would either be dead or follow the first high priest.
Seo Moon-yeop nodded.
"Yeah, I just wanted to have a good fight, and it went well. Why don't we go together?"
"i get it. When are you going?"
"tomorrow. I'm going to go armed this time, so wear a battlesuit as well."
"That doesn't mean anything to me, but I'll follow it because it might be of some help."
next day.
Seo Moon-yeop wore a battle suit and armor, and also packed 8 spears.
He also took hearthstones, and prepared combat rations and water just in case.
Pietro, on the other hand, was lightly dressed with only a long coat over a battle suit.
"For now, go to the dungeon where there is a trace of movement."
Pietro couldn't use space movement because he didn't know the location of the dungeon.
So I decided to go to Gangwon-do by means of transportation.
"Hehe, it's been a long time since I've been in an exciting dungeon raid."
Seo Moon-yeop was smiling.
It was different from Battlefield.
It was thrilling to risk my life.