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Bayluk, commonly called Anti-Venom, is an alchemist and toxicologist whose research helps Arthia accelerate its early growth before he turns the clan and Jeong-woo into experimental material. His pursuit of an artificial Divine Human leads him into collaboration with Vieira Dune, Elohim, Mother Earth, and the Crawling Chaos. Those alliances greatly expand the scale of his work, but they also reduce his promised transcendence to a borrowed system whose central connection Yeon-woo can break.

Biography

Anti-Venom Makes Arthia an Experiment

Within the original Arthia, Bayluk was both a comrade and the researcher most willing to turn dangerous ideas into practical growth. He developed the Strengthening Item by combining monster blood, body parts, hidden pieces, and alchemy to alter a user's foundation rather than merely add temporary power. The process consumed extraordinary time and materials, but Jeong-woo and the other members joined the experiments because the results increased the quality of their magic and accelerated the clan's development. Bayluk's impatience therefore served Arthia before it became one of the forces that destroyed it. (Chapters 127–128)

His work with Jeong-woo also included adapting dangerous substances to unusual bodies. Bayluk identified a way to refine the demonic energy of purple Devil Flowers so Jeong-woo's half-human Dragon Body could absorb it, using a Ceratopsian Dinosaur's heart to reduce the flowers' toxicity. On the thirtieth floor, he refused to purge soul poison because he considered it too rare to waste, acclimated his body to it, and eventually developed Poison Blood. These choices established his recurring method: turn a harmful substance into an internal resource, accept extreme risk, and treat the body itself as laboratory equipment. (Chapters 191 and 289)

A Hidden Laboratory Conceals a Planned Betrayal

Jeong-woo gave Bayluk access to a hidden island near the River of Souls because its lifeforms and spiritual environment matched his interest in poison. Bayluk fortified the island, expanded it into a small research city, and stopped giving meaningful answers about what happened inside. When Yeon-woo later entered the abandoned facility, he found laboratories, unfinished work, suspicious elixirs, and evidence of extensive experimentation, but not a complete explanation of its goal. The site demonstrated Bayluk's capacity and secrecy; the later Divine Human project supplied context, not proof that every abandoned experiment had already reached that end. (Chapters 271 and 284–285)

Bayluk eventually admitted that he had selected Jeong-woo as the best available material for a Divine Human. He administered Red Lotus Eye slowly enough to evade detection, collected genetic and spiritual information, fed Arthia's enemies information, and directed Valdebich toward genuine giant ruins so the clan's bodyguard would be absent at the decisive moment. The betrayal was therefore a long research operation rather than a single change of allegiance. Arthia's collapse gave Bayluk access to the damaged subject he wanted, but it also made Yeon-woo's vengeance and Jeong-woo's enduring hatred unavoidable consequences of the project. (Chapters 361, 435, and 443)

Vieira Dune Opens a Path to the Crawling Chaos

Bayluk did not create the later network alone. According to his own explanation, he began cooperating with Vieira Dune while they were still connected to Arthia: she helped poison Jeong-woo, he studied the Soulstone she obtained, and his work contributed to her becoming Mother Earth. Vieira then provided the opportunity through which Bayluk contracted with the Crawling Chaos. Their ambitions divided the field between them—Vieira pursued power in the heavenly world while Bayluk continued the Divine Human project below—so collaboration let each betrayal reinforce the other without making either researcher subordinate to the other's personal goal. (Chapter 448)

The contract supplied knowledge, Gray Fragments, items, and holy power that Bayluk's earlier alchemy did not independently possess. Elohim added its ancient records, laboratories, bodies, and long-standing effort to restore extinct species. Bayluk combined those resources into homunculi and viable vessels for ancient beings, then used his poison to save Elohim's assembly from Hanryeong and turn public opinion in his favor. The Elder Assembly made the outsider Dictator and general, giving his research military protection and political reach, but his prominence also made Elohim's population and accumulated heritage available for sacrifice to his final experiment. (Chapters 436, 442–444, and 449–450)

Disposable Clones Drive a War Against Arthia

When Arthia returned, Bayluk tried to destroy not only its members but clans that had merely considered cooperating with it. He poisoned Hanatan without detection, spread Poison Fog over the assembled players, and deployed multiple Jeong-woo homunculi against Yeon-woo, Shanon, and Hanryeong. The clones reproduced much of Jeong-woo's former combat information, but Bayluk forced their artificial wings to consume their potential and short lifespans for immediate output. This tactical use exposed the ethical center of his work: a successful body was still disposable once its data and violence advanced the Divine Human project. (Chapters 442–444)

His final plan treated every alliance the same way. Bayluk and Mother Earth used Elohim deaths and Divine Factors as payment for ancient-species vessels into which Giants could descend, while he expected the Devil Army to seize Kalatus's legacy. He intended to take Yeon-woo's body as material, leave the soul and throne to Mother Earth, receive recognition and legends from the Crawling Chaos, and use the completed Divine Human to bring his own dead brother back. The plan linked grief to ambition, but it also consumed the people who had elevated him and assumed borrowed gods, clones, and contracts would remain controllable. (Chapters 449–450)

Borrowed Immortality Becomes Captivity

The Crawling Chaos's blessing transformed Bayluk during the battle, covering much of his body in tentacles, supplying regeneration and acidic attacks, and channeling holy power through a magic core. He believed the connection would extend his legend and make him effectively immortal, but Yeon-woo found the core in his right shoulder and broke it. Once that conduit cracked, Bayluk could no longer regulate the holy power; the tentacles failed, regeneration stopped overcoming the damage, and the inability to die immediately became prolonged suffering rather than victory. Yeon-woo captured him instead of granting the quick death he requested. (Chapters 450–452)

Bayluk's defeat did not end the consequences of his research. Yeon-woo and Brahm tortured his captured soul for memories, reconstructed the Crawling Chaos's distinct Emerald Tablet fragment, used his homunculus knowledge to make Phante an artificial arm, and improved the vessel prepared for Jeong-woo. Yeon-woo also derived a stronger spiritual poison from the information extracted from him. Bayluk is last directly shown as a soul trapped in a burning glass cube, still begging to live; later chapters call him killed, while his data continues serving the reconstituted Arthia he had betrayed. (Chapters 458–461 and 522)

Appearance and personality

Bayluk initially appears physically unexceptional enough that observers can mistake him for a scholar who depends on preparation rather than bodily combat. During his confrontation with the returning Arthia, he hangs back beneath a hood and lets a homunculus intercept attacks his own reactions cannot match. His more distinctive physical presence is poisonous: the air around him can sicken passersby, and his fog turns a battlefield into hostile territory. After accepting greater otherworld power, half his body is overtaken by enormous tentacles surrounded by ashen mist; Yeon-woo's destruction of the core leaves only a mutilated torso and head before the body is lost. (Chapters 285, 436, 441–443, and 450–452)

He is intensely curious, impatient with ordinary development, and capable of productive collaboration when other people share the risk and supply useful ideas. The same traits become predatory because he values a person's body, potential, and information above consent or loyalty. Bayluk commonly speaks with an easy or twisted smile, explains his achievements at length, and treats betrayal as justified by a research objective. He is also politically sly enough to convert a rescue into leadership of Elohim. His composure depends on believing he controls the experiment: when Yeon-woo destroys the homunculi and breaks his core, scholarly arrogance gives way to terror and an overriding desire to survive. (Chapters 127–128, 361, 436, 442–443, and 450–459)

Abilities and powers

Bayluk's demonstrated abilities come from three overlapping sources: his own alchemical and toxicological expertise, organizations that supply laboratories and biological resources, and the Crawling Chaos's foreign knowledge and holy power. The first source makes him dangerous before any contract; the latter two enable his most advanced homunculi, ancient-species vessels, and transformed body. Claims that he is approaching a perfect Divine Human describe his objective and confidence, not a completed creation shown in the corpus. (Chapters 127–128, 289, 436, 443–444, and 449–452)

Strengthening Item and medicinal alchemy

The Strengthening Item is Bayluk's method for raising the quality of a target rather than merely applying a temporary enhancement. It refines monster blood, organs, hidden pieces, and other materials so that their properties can alter the recipient's foundation and improve the purity and efficiency of magic power. Arthia's participation demonstrates that it can produce exceptional growth, while the Devil Flower refinement shows Bayluk tailoring a formula to a subject's mixed physiology instead of assuming a substance safe for a full dragon will work identically in a half-human body. (Chapters 127–128 and 191)

This method is demanding rather than universally convenient. Jeong-woo's account emphasizes the time and quantity of materials required, and the Devil Flower procedure needs a second rare ingredient to lower toxicity before absorption. Bayluk's later research broadens into souls, bodies, and artificial life, but the corpus does not establish that Strengthening Item alone can reproduce those results. Its demonstrated function is foundational enhancement through carefully selected biological and magical ingredients, with cost, compatibility, and refinement remaining practical limits. (Chapters 127–128, 187, and 191)

Poison Blood, Red Lotus Eye, and battlefield poison

Bayluk creates Poison Blood by incorporating soul poison into his own body instead of expelling it, slowly adapting until his blood and presence carry weaponized toxicity. This self-modification supports the reputation that nearby people can become ill and even his breath can kill vegetation. In direct combat he uses acidic liquid, green Poison Fog, and poisons outside ordinary elemental categories. Poison Fog spreads across a wide area and melts what it contacts, allowing him to establish a hazardous territory without matching a martial specialist's speed or close-range technique. (Chapters 285, 289, 436, 442, and 452)

Red Lotus Eye demonstrates the opposite application: gradual, covert poisoning intended to remain unnoticed until recovery is impossible. Bayluk fed it to Jeong-woo over time until it reached the marrow and damaged the Dragon Heart, while also gathering data from the weakening subject. Its success depended on access, patience, and concealment rather than an instant attack. The poison's devastation does not make it irresistible; Jeong-woo endured longer than Bayluk calculated, and later antidotes, fire, sufficient resistance, or the destruction of Bayluk's delivery platform can counter different poisons under the right conditions. (Chapters 361, 435, 443, and 451–452)

Spirit Powder Poison and spiritual targeting

Spirit Powder Poison uses spiritual rather than ordinary physical matter, allowing it to damage souls, shadows, and undead bodies that conventional toxins cannot readily affect. Bayluk's version melts portions of Yeon-woo's shadow army, gravely injures the Death Noble Hanryeong, and can be embedded into homunculus techniques. Its advanced formula is foreign enough that the weakened Brahm cannot initially decode it, and analysis links its system to the Crawling Chaos. These feats show Bayluk applying the poison successfully, while its ultimate theoretical origin and complete architecture come from contracted knowledge rather than an unaided invention. (Chapters 435–436 and 443–444)

The homunculi's Spirit Powder Poison Wings use poison to draw out Jeong-woo's copied information and spend their remaining lifespan to raise immediate performance. Wave of Spirit Powder Poison then imitates the shape of Jeong-woo's Wave of Light as a corrosive spiritual blast. Bayluk also pursued a shapeless poison, and Yeon-woo later extracts what he regards as a beta-stage basis for his own Formless Poison. That later unique skill additionally combines Yeon-woo's body, Throne of Death, and other poisons, so its complete mechanics and achievements do not belong to Bayluk. (Chapters 443, 458–461)

Homunculi and the Divine Human project

Bayluk's Jeong-woo homunculi combine genetic and spiritual data gathered during Arthia's fall with Elohim's ancient knowledge and Gray Fragments supplied by the Crawling Chaos. The resulting bodies are intelligent-looking combat machines programmed to obey a designated master. Bayluk says they reproduce roughly seventy to eighty percent of Jeong-woo's former physical information, blessings, powers, graces, and skills; in battle, individual copies can intercept Yeon-woo and several can reproduce wings and wave-like attacks. These demonstrations support formidable imitation, not an authentic return of Jeong-woo's soul or personality. (Chapters 443–444)

The project remains incomplete. Copies lack emotion and independent reason, cannot reproduce every recorded ability, contain exploitable flaws, and burn through their potential when ordered to maximize output. Yeon-woo destroys several in one attack, and captured specimens reveal a command algorithm rather than a resurrected identity. The ancient-species bodies developed with Elohim similarly function as vessels through which Giants manifest under lower-world restraints. Bayluk calls the intended synthesis a Divine Human, but he never completes the body meant for his brother before his defeat. (Chapters 443–444 and 447–450)

Crawling Chaos contract, core, and transformation

The Crawling Chaos contract gives Bayluk a different fragment of the Emerald Tablet from Faust's, Gray Fragments, otherworld items, holy power, and a knowledge system that exceeds the contemporary Tower's normal magical foundations. Bayluk integrates those resources rather than merely carrying them: the homunculi, ancient-species vessels, Spirit Powder research, and magic core all combine his expertise with the contract's inputs. However, some explanations first appear as Yeon-woo's and Brahm's deductions; the later confrontation confirms the contract and its resources, but not every detail they initially hypothesize about when each experiment began. (Chapters 443–444, 448–450, and 458–459)

During the final battle, the core in Bayluk's right shoulder connects him to the Crawling Chaos's holy power. That channel produces massive tentacles, rapid regeneration, acidic discharge, and a form of immortality while power remains. Severed tentacles can regrow or propagate through the ground, but the system has a central weakness: once Yeon-woo pierces and cracks the core, holy power leaks beyond Bayluk's control, regeneration fails, and the transformation collapses. His expected recognition and higher legend never mature into a stable personal divinity. (Chapters 450–452)

Captured knowledge and latest state

After Bayluk's bodily defeat, Yeon-woo holds his soul and uses the Purgatory Furnace to force out memories, including information Bayluk had forgotten. Those records let Yeon-woo and Brahm reconstruct another Emerald Tablet section, compare it with Faust's version, improve artificial bodies, and make an arm compatible with Phante's genetic information. This post-defeat usefulness arises from extracted knowledge rather than Bayluk's voluntary collaboration, reversing the logic by which he once reduced Arthia's members to materials for his own experiments. (Chapters 458–459)

The latest chapters do not show Bayluk escaping, regaining a body, or completing transcendence. He remains a tortured soul when last directly depicted, while later narration states that Yeon-woo killed him and contrasts his failure with the Crawling Chaos's more complete cloning knowledge. His techniques continue indirectly through Yeon-woo's poison and the research used for Jeong-woo, but those applications are controlled and further developed by other people. Bayluk's latest state is therefore dead and captive in legacy: personally inactive, yet consequential through knowledge taken from him. (Chapters 459, 461, and 522)

Relationships

Jeong-woo: Bayluk's Arthia comrade, research collaborator, and chosen Divine Human material. Bayluk slowly poisons him, collects his data, and engineers the clan's collapse; the resulting homunculi imitate Jeong-woo without restoring his identity.
Yeon-woo: The avenger who follows Bayluk's research trail, defeats his clones, breaks his Crawling Chaos core, and captures his soul. Yeon-woo later redirects Bayluk's extracted knowledge toward Arthia and Jeong-woo.
Crawling Chaos: The otherworld god whose contract supplies Bayluk with foreign knowledge, Gray Fragments, holy power, and the core behind his transformation. The dependence enlarges Bayluk's work while leaving it vulnerable to a broken channel.
Vieira Dune: His co-conspirator from the Arthia period. Their exchange joins her Soulstone and heavenly ambitions to his lower-world research and ultimately opens his contact with the Crawling Chaos.
Mother Earth: Vieira Dune's later divine identity and Bayluk's partner in the final experiment. They divide Yeon-woo's intended body and soul between their goals and sacrifice Elohim to support divine manifestations.
Brahm: A fellow alchemist who initially cannot decode the foreign homunculus system. After Bayluk's capture, Brahm analyzes his extracted knowledge and turns it toward artificial limbs, Jeong-woo's vessel, and a broader Emerald Tablet reconstruction.
Boo: A researcher linked to the Crawling Chaos through his former identity as Faust. His knowledge helps Brahm identify the otherworld foundation behind Bayluk's system and study what remains after Bayluk's defeat.
Hanryeong: An Arthia Death Noble whom Bayluk defeats and nearly destroys with Spirit Powder Poison, demonstrating that his toxins can attack spiritual and undead bodies.
Shanon: An Arthia familiar who fights Bayluk's Jeong-woo homunculi and confronts research designed to reproduce high-ranker abilities through disposable bodies.

Items

No separately cataloged item is assigned to Bayluk in the supplied roster. His Emerald Tablet fragment, magic core, and laboratory systems are discussed as components of his research and contract rather than linked item articles.