Kronos

Kronos is the former supreme god of Olympus, the previous Apostle of the Black King, and the father of Yeon-woo and Jeong-woo. Once a conqueror whose domains of time and death approached an emperor's authority, he was corrupted by the Demonism, overthrown by his children, and reduced to a dormant corpse in Tartarus. His attempt to escape that history through reincarnation on Earth ultimately makes him an ordinary husband and father, and his later restoration gives him the chance to protect his family instead of ruling it.

Biography

The Prince of Olympus and the Swamp of Darkness

Kronos is the youngest of Uranus' adopted children and the favored candidate to inherit Olympus. He is an unruly prince who fights his siblings and resists ceremony, but his violence is not indiscriminate: he intervenes when the others mistreat Atlas and accepts punishment without abandoning him. Uranus sees both the danger and the potential in that temperament. While preparing for his own end, the first king entrusts Kronos with the dangerous swamp of darkness, hoping that his son can master a force outside ordinary creation and continue the war against Mother Earth. (Chapters 561–563)

Entering the swamp exposes Kronos to the Black King's power and begins his path as an Apostle. The darkness grants the domain of death, while Uranus' power changes within it to become the domain of time. Kronos does not receive these powers as a finished inheritance: he must organize them into a functioning system and withstand a presence capable of overwhelming even divine beings. His success gives Olympus a weapon against Mother Earth, but it also places the Demonism within reach of his consciousness. (Chapters 563–565)

Kronos rises against Uranus and eventually becomes supreme god, a choice later legends reduce to a son's betrayal. His recovered memories show a more conflicted motive. He loves Uranus and does not initially wish him an eternal sleep, yet he also believes taking the throne is necessary to preserve the order his father built. The victory makes Kronos a near-emperor who expands Olympus across universes, but kingship isolates him from the people who once checked his impulses. The same darkness that helped him secure the realm slowly turns his confidence into suspicion and possession. (Chapters 564–565)

A Cursed King and a Broken Household

Rhea initially comes from a people long opposed to Kronos' family, but their shared loyalty to Uranus brings them together. Their marriage and the births of Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon give Kronos a period of genuine domestic happiness. Rhea remembers the affectionate man beneath the crown even after his behavior worsens, which is why his growing distance wounds her more deeply than simple political tyranny would. (Chapters 563–566)

Mother Earth curses Kronos with the prophecy that his own child will overthrow him just as he overthrew Uranus. The Demonism magnifies his fear until he treats every relationship as a possible route to his destruction. Believing that the emptiness within him can preserve his children beyond the reach of enemies, he swallows them instead of trusting Rhea or confronting the curse. Rhea hides Zeus, frees the forces Kronos imprisoned, and helps their children rebel. The act Kronos imagines as protection therefore creates the very family coalition that brings him down. (Chapters 565–567)

During the Titanomachia, Kronos loses both authority and the structure that supports it. Hades takes the divine domain of death, Poseidon claims holy power, and Zeus gathers the faith and temples that make a king of gods. Before his final defeat, Kronos tears the clockwork springs from his being and casts them away. This deprives the Demonism of complete control and preserves a path to renewal, but it leaves his divine body paused in Tartarus and his ego separated from everyone he failed. His children inherit a wounded Olympus rather than the stable kingdom he meant to protect. (Chapters 566–568)

Reincarnation on Earth and a Father's Sacrifice

The discarded spring reaches Earth, where Kronos awakens as a mortal without the Demonism's madness. He names his restored clarity “Cold-blooded” and uses the combined qualities of time and death to reincarnate repeatedly. Across thousands of years, he lives as heroes whose deeds accumulate into legends and religions, intending to rebuild enough faith to exuviate. Earth's developing scientific civilization eventually turns those legends into folklore, and the plan stalls; the former king learns that even immense experience cannot force a world to keep believing in him. (Chapter 568)

In a South Korean orphanage, Kronos meets Shin Le-ah, Rhea's own reincarnation. Her scolding attention becomes affection, and marriage teaches him the value of work, dates, and an ordinary home—experiences absent from his reign. When she reveals her identity, he can finally express the remorse and love he denied her in Olympus. Their twin sons, Yeon-woo and Jeong-woo, deepen that change: the sight of them reminds him of the children he swallowed, but this time he chooses to be an excited, present father rather than a frightened king. (Chapter 568)

After Jeong-woo enters the Tower, Kronos follows and is confined by Allforone, whose duty is to prevent transcendents from breaking its laws. Kronos cannot defeat the World of Light directly, so he uses death to contaminate and bind it, then turns time through thousands of possible futures. Every route he observes ends in Jeong-woo's suffering, but he identifies Yeon-woo as a singularity capable of changing what prediction cannot. He breaks his remaining spring in two: time travels backward to become Jeong-woo's special benefit and the core of the Pocket Watch, while death and Kronos' accumulated legends become Vigrid for Yeon-woo. The transfer destroys his remaining ego in the prison, but it gives both sons the means to survive him. (Chapters 569–573)

The Qualification Test and a Second Life

Kronos' enormous corpse remains in Tartarus, where time has paused its decay and Titans use it as a landscape, weapon, and prospective king. When Yeon-woo reaches its conscious world, he finds legends arranged like written records and a shell seated on a throne without a complete ego. The resulting Qualification Test makes Yeon-woo restore the missing clockwork rather than merely absorb his father's Factors. By reliving Kronos' rise, curse, fall, and mortal lives, Yeon-woo learns that the absent father he resented had sacrificed himself for both twins, but understanding does not erase their years apart. (Chapters 551–573)

Releasing Vigrid's hidden true name restarts the spring of death and allows Kronos' ego to descend. His first task is to retake his legends from the Demonism occupying his body. Kronos can materialize his old Scythe and dominate the world of his own consciousness, but he no longer possesses the complete time domain and cannot simply erase the intruder's essence. Yeon-woo supplies the missing pressure while father and son argue, trade insults, and test one another. Their abrasive cooperation matters because it establishes a relationship based on present choices rather than inherited obedience. (Chapters 574–578)

Kronos ultimately survives through Vigrid as both a restored ego and Yeon-woo's familiar. He guides Yeon-woo through conflicts with Persephone, Mother Earth, and Olympus while confronting the children and responsibilities he abandoned. His remorse does not lead him to reclaim the throne; instead, he supports Yeon-woo's rise and accepts that Hades' sacrifice, Athena's persistence, and the other gods' decisions belong to a generation shaped by his failures. Helping defeat Mother Earth's immediate scheme therefore restores more than his power: it gives him a place beside his son without making that son his successor in the old, destructive sense. (Chapters 579–600)

Scythe, Unity, and the Recovered Family

Kronos remains within Vigrid as Yeon-woo prepares for greater wars, advising him and lending the experiences accumulated across countless incarnations. To overcome Allforone, they reconstruct Scythe, reconnect its functions to Kronos' springs, and use Unity to combine their complementary qualities. Kronos momentarily applies the Martial King's yang sword while Yeon-woo supplies the yin sword, producing an attack neither can complete alone. Their partnership helps break Allforone's seemingly absolute light, turning Kronos' former jailer into an opponent his son can surpass rather than another inherited grievance. (Chapters 601–700)

The same bond carries into the struggle surrounding Day, Night, and the Black King. Kronos can become Scythe for either Yeon-woo or Jeong-woo, and Unity transfers not only power but thought, emotion, and combat data between them. This lets him protect both sons while respecting their distinct roles: Yeon-woo bears the Black King's darkness, while Jeong-woo grows as the being who regulates it. Kronos' old impulse would have been to seize every authority himself; his later contribution is to strengthen his children and let them decide the shape of the worlds that follow. (Chapters 701–800)

After the principal war, Kronos and Rhea regain independent lives and make their family home on Earth. Kronos remains formidable enough to track Sesha into a sealed world, cut an enemy's power off from the time in which it activates, and reap the attacker with Scythe, but he now uses that authority as a protective grandfather rather than a universal ruler. He also accompanies Yeon-woo as new star-fragment threats emerge and, after seeing Allforone reunited with Min Chae-young, lets go of much of his remaining resentment. By the latest events, his priorities are Rhea, their children and granddaughter, and the weddings and journeys that allow the family to live beyond the tragedies he once caused. (Chapters 804–861)

Appearance and personality

In his original divine form, Kronos has the same face Yeon-woo remembers from his human father, with red eyes, a red crown, and dark royal clothing. His dead true body is so immense that it forms a mountain range across Tartarus; its stopped time prevents ordinary decay. After restoration, he can alternate between a human manifestation and the weapon that houses his legend, first Vigrid and later Scythe. By the side stories his soul and Scythe have separated, leaving him with an independent body while the weapon retains his time-and-death power. (Chapters 551, 559–560, 597–603, 837)

Kronos' personality moves between defiance, pride, and intense attachment. As a prince he is abrasive enough to fight his siblings yet compassionate enough to protect Atlas; as king, fear and the Demonism turn those traits into tyranny. His Earth lives restore his humor and capacity for ordinary affection, though “Cold-blooded” rationality never makes him emotionally detached from his family. Once reunited with his sons, he is quick to complain, boast, or threaten anyone who embarrasses him, but he is also openly proud of Yeon-woo's humanity and increasingly willing to admit that his own hunger for power was weakness rather than greatness. (Chapters 561–568, 576–589, 682, 837–845)

Abilities and powers

Clockwork of time and death

Kronos' defining system is a clockwork that organizes his legends beneath the domains of time and death. Its springs are not accessories but the core of his ego, energy, and divine authority. Time originates from Uranus' power after it changes within the Black King's darkness; death comes through Kronos' Apostleship. At full strength, the mechanism lets him stop or wind time, interfere with the point at which an action occurs, reincarnate through the junction of death and renewal, and harvest souls. The small wheel governs local rewinding, while greater turns carry proportionally greater effects and causality. (Chapters 565–568, 571–573, 721, 837–839)

His foresight is a time-domain application rather than perfect omniscience. In Allforone's prison, Kronos accelerates his thoughts and examines thousands of possible futures, but every calculated branch still leads to Jeong-woo's ruin. He can identify conditions and singularities that might overturn those results, not guarantee the outcome himself. Likewise, losing Hades' death domain and dividing the spring leaves him unable to use the complete clockwork until its pieces are restored through his sons and artifacts. The greatest turns of the wheel also require sufficient power and must contend with causality rather than freely rewriting all events. (Chapters 566–573, 604, 656–659)

At his latest known state, Kronos again controls time through the completed Scythe even though his soul is independent of it. Pneuma's Sky allows him to cut an enemy's ability away from the moment of activation, effectively stopping the power before it can exist, and the weapon couples that interruption with death. This development exceeds the incomplete consciousness-world Scythe he used after first returning, when the loss of time kept him from reliably striking the Demonism's essence. (Chapters 576–578, 837–839)

Reincarnation, legends, and Cold-blooded

Because his spring bears both time and death, Kronos can move through repeated mortal lives without losing the foundation of his ego. Each heroic incarnation adds folklore, experience, and faith to a composite legend, giving him an unusually broad basis for later techniques. Those achievements become the contents of Vigrid and allow him to interpret unfamiliar systems quickly enough to approximate the Martial King's yang sword during Unity. They also make his resurrection possible: restoring the legends restores the conceptual being named Kronos rather than simply animating his corpse. (Chapters 568, 572–576, 676–683)

“Cold-blooded” is the mental clarity Kronos recognizes after separating from the Demonism. It helps him suppress panic, preserve reason, and plan across unfamiliar conditions, but it is not immunity to emotion or outside influence. The trait repeatedly fails when his sons are endangered or when recovered memories overwhelm him, and even his original identity nearly fades after lives in which no one remembers the name Kronos. The ability therefore supports his judgment without replacing the relationships that ultimately determine his choices. (Chapters 568–573)

The Black King's darkness and the Demonism

As the Black King's former Apostle, Kronos can handle darkness and emptiness on a scale unavailable to ordinary Olympian gods. He uses the connection between darkness and emptiness to send his divided springs across time and space, and he can corrupt Allforone's light with death, legends, and a curse that binds the jailer to him. The same inheritance makes his body and weapons compatible with Yeon-woo's Black King authority, which is essential to their later Unity. (Chapters 565, 570–573, 574–578, 676–700)

The power carries a central limit: the Demonism is not a passive resource. Mother Earth's curse and the Demonism's pressure erode Kronos' judgment until fear governs his kingship, while the separated entity later occupies his paused body and devours his legends. Kronos can dominate his own conscious world and use Scythe to injure it, but without the complete time domain he cannot confidently destroy its essence alone. Recovery requires Yeon-woo to release Kronos' name, preserve Vigrid, and fight beside the returning ego. (Chapters 565–568, 573–578)

Divine combat, Scythe, and Unity

Even apart from his conceptual domains, Kronos is a veteran divine combatant who once conquered many universes. He can twist and cross space, impose divine pressure, materialize holy weapons, and use accumulated experience to read opponents. His preferred weapon is Scythe, the great artifact built around his legend to magnify time and death. Its edge can cut through physical defenses, powers, time, and souls, but the original was destroyed after Zeus' rebellion and had to be reconstructed from Vigrid, Olympus' treasures, adamantine, and the repaired springs. (Chapters 551, 576–578, 604–605, 651–659, 837)

Unity joins Kronos' soul and legend to one of his sons, synchronizing their thoughts, domains, and fighting systems. With Yeon-woo it stabilizes an overloaded divine vessel and lets yin and yang techniques meet within Scythe; with Jeong-woo it supplies the same immense legend to the Opponent. The technique is powerful because the participants remain distinct enough to contribute complementary strengths. It also carries the danger of overload and blurred identity, so it depends on the wielder's capacity and on Kronos' willingness to cooperate rather than dominate. (Chapters 615, 676–683, 721, 762–790)

Power progression

Relationships

• Yeon-woo: Kronos' elder twin son and the inheritor of the spring of death. Their reunion begins with suspicion and arguments, then develops into a partnership in which Kronos advises, fights beside, and openly takes pride in him. (Chapters 559–600, 601–861)
• Jeong-woo: Kronos' younger twin son and the intended recipient of the spring of time. Kronos cannot find a future that spares him, so he gives Jeong-woo the special benefit and trusts him to turn it into a path for Yeon-woo; after the family's recovery, he also fights through Scythe and Unity beside him. (Chapters 569–573, 762–800)
• Rhea: His wife in Olympus and again on Earth as Shin Le-ah. Kronos' curse-driven tyranny destroys their first household, but their mortal reunion gives both a second life, and their restored relationship becomes the center of his later family. (Chapters 563–568, 804–861)
• Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon: Sons whose rebellion ends Kronos' reign. Kronos later confronts the consequences of swallowing and neglecting them, supporting Olympus without trying to repossess the domains and throne they inherited. (Chapters 565–568, 585–600)
• Black King: Kronos' former patron and the source of death and darkness that made him an Apostle. The relationship gives him extraordinary power while exposing him to the Demonism, and it later makes him uniquely able to support Yeon-woo's Black King authority. (Chapters 563–565, 573–578, 701–800)
• Mother Earth: The enemy of Uranus and author of the curse that exploits Kronos' fear of his children. Her pressure and the Demonism shape his fall, and his later battle against her is inseparable from accepting responsibility for that fall. (Chapters 561–568, 579–600)
• Allforone: His jailer in the Tower and later the opponent he helps Yeon-woo overcome. Kronos initially treats him as the obstacle that forced his final sacrifice, but after defeating him and witnessing his human attachments, he releases much of that resentment. (Chapters 569–573, 651–700, 845)

Items

• Vigrid: The transformed spring of death, containing Kronos' Earth legends and serving as his alter ego, resurrection vessel, and means of accompanying Yeon-woo. Its hidden true name is Kronos, and restoring that name restarts the spring. (Chapters 572–576, 588–605)
• Scythe: Kronos' signature divine weapon and the completed form built from Vigrid's legend. It amplifies time and death, enables Unity, and later remains a separate artifact containing his powers after his soul regains an independent body. (Chapters 576–578, 604–605, 651–683, 837–839)