People tend to think 'it' should be easy.

They were interested in how many nice things the leaders of groups and corporations enjoyed. However, the same couldn't be said about how much hell those leaders had to experience before standing at the top of their respective groups and corporations. People weren't as interested in such topics.

Less than thirty years ago, Kim Seok-Il was just another Korean martial artist. Merely another one among many, so just how many trials and tribulations would he have gone through to become the leader of Korea's strongest martial organization, the Yeongnam Group?

He certainly didn't feel like boasting about nearly losing his life three times a day to anyone. Whatever the case might be, though, Kim Seok-Il was 100% certain that less than a handful of South Korean martial artists would've experienced as many hellish encounters as he did.

Which begged a question of just how did he manage to overcome all those dangers to reach his current position? Whenever people asked him that, Kim Seok-Il would always answer the same. That it was his gut feeling.

He didn't pull this off by being stronger than everyone. When he was a young man, plenty of his peers were stronger than him. Way too many count, in fact. However, none of them managed to climb high up as Kim Seok-Il had.

He managed to keep his life and built a kingdom of his own by being honest with himself. Rather than being rational...