Second Life Ranker
After his twin's death reveals a hidden tower and a record of betrayal, veteran Cha Yeon-woo climbs Obelisk with a pocket-watch diary. His campaign of revenge grows into a struggle to recover his family, protect the bonds he forms, and confront the divine powers behind the Tower.
- Author
- Sadoyeon (사도연)
- Status
- Completed
About the novel
Second Life Ranker begins when Cha Yeon-woo returns from military service and learns the truth behind his missing twin Jeong-woo's death. A damaged pocket watch contains Jeong-woo's recorded memories of Obelisk, a Tower connecting many worlds, and of the companions who betrayed his clan Arthia. Yeon-woo enters the Tower under a mask with his brother's knowledge, abilities, and unresolved promises, initially treating every floor as another step in a campaign of revenge.
The climb gradually restores connections that vengeance alone cannot explain. The One-horned Tribe, Jeong-woo's surviving allies, divine inheritances, and Yeon-woo's own recovered family turn his objective from punishing betrayal into protecting a household rebuilt across life and death. His association with the Black King also places him inside struggles among gods, demons, Titans, Giants, and the powers that maintain the Tower.
World and the Tower
Obelisk is divided into floors with trials, societies, clans, administrators, and rewards. Players develop attributes, skills, titles, authorities, and specialized factors while acquiring artifacts and inheritances left by earlier climbers. Knowledge of a trial's hidden rules can be as important as combat strength, which makes Jeong-woo's diary a powerful but incomplete guide for Yeon-woo.
Above ordinary players stand transcendent beings bound to myths, domains, and divine societies. The Tower connects the living world to Tartarus, the Underworld, and realms outside familiar causality. Yeon-woo's draconic and demonic factors, shadow-related powers, and connection to the Black King do not form a simple linear class; they must be reconciled without allowing inherited identities to consume the person using them.
