Jung Minchan

Jung Minchan is a founding member of Alandal and its principal civil administrator. A veteran dungeon-support specialist, he first tries to recruit Kang Woojin into Hammer Guild, but ultimately resigns to help Woojin establish a new organization. His willingness to handle the regulations, personnel, negotiations, and public consequences that Woojin dislikes carries him from support-team leader to general director, vice president, and finally Prime Minister of Alandal. (Chapters 17–24, 27, 42–43, 55–60)

Biography

Recruiting Kang Woojin

Minchan begins as the leader of Hammer Guild's Fourth Support Team, where his work combines dungeon management with identifying unaffiliated talent. When Woojin and Hong Sunggoo clear beyond their recorded ranks, Minchan trusts his practiced eye over their official F-rank files. He suppresses the immediate report to rival scouts, arranges access to a four-star dungeon as “bait,” and tries to make Hammer indispensable through information, equipment, and favors. His salesmanship is calculating, but not indifferent: after realizing the survival kit meant for the pair did not reach them, he waits at the barrier and worries that humanity may lose an exceptional Awakened even if Woojin never signs with Hammer. (Chapters 17, 20–21)

Woojin's successive clears prove Minchan's instincts correct while defeating his recruitment strategy. Minchan updates the pair's ranks, shields Woojin from reporters, explains dungeon rules, and keeps offering increasingly generous Hammer positions. Those services build enough trust that Woojin asks Minchan and Kim Haemin to found a guild with him instead. The offer exposes Minchan's own stalled position: although he has risen through ability, Hammer's founders occupy the management tier above him. Even a surprise promotion cannot erase that ceiling. Minchan submits his resignation, accepts responsibility for the failed recruitment, and deliberately chooses the uncertain “seed” of Woojin's guild over the secure “fruit” of Hammer. (Chapters 21–24)

As Alandal Guild's general director, Minchan immediately turns that wager into functioning infrastructure. He prepares registration papers, schedules and documents dungeons, evaluates artifacts, organizes inventory, recruits support personnel, arranges Woojin's rank assessment, and manages the press. Woojin delegates these matters because Minchan can translate abrupt commands into legal and commercial action, but their partnership is not passive obedience. Minchan warns him when violence or a public statement will produce avoidable consequences, then handles the damage when Woojin refuses restraint. His loyalty also extends beyond office work: during the Daegu break he helps reach Woojin, protects communication with Woojin's family, and remains to negotiate the guild's share rather than chase publicity. (Chapters 24, 26–32)

The United States consortium widens Minchan's responsibility from domestic support to international representation. He accompanies Woojin because the guild needs someone who understands schedules, officials, contracts, and protocol, then continues its business after an attack separates them. Once Woojin returns, Minchan helps negotiate the alliance between Alandal and Titan Guild and recognizes that supporting Woojin means attending to the strain on the man, not merely proclaiming that they will save the world. Woojin's casual promotion of him to vice president is comic in delivery, but it formalizes an important division of labor: Woojin chooses the direction and fights, while Minchan keeps institutions and relationships from collapsing behind him. (Chapters 35–43)

Building and governing Alandal

When large-scale Dungeon Breaks strike Seoul, Minchan organizes the evacuation of guild families and calmly guides ordinary employees out of danger. He assures Woojin that his mother and Sooah are safe, allowing Woojin to return immediately to combat rather than divide his attention. After Woojin claims a Dimensional Domain, Minchan secures the new building near Seoul Station and continues to treat extraordinary orders as logistical problems that require a workable path. This reliability makes him central when Woojin confronts politicians and abruptly declares Alandal independent: the same aide who once registered a guild is now expected to draft a treaty and build a country. (Chapters 48–55)

Minchan does not seek that promotion without fear. He objects that sovereignty cannot be created by a declaration alone, worries that Woojin has underestimated the work, and asks for a direction he can convert into policy. Once Woojin confirms the goal, however, Minchan stops resisting and assembles the legal and diplomatic framework with Lee Kangjin, Haemin, and Woo Soonghoon. He seeks external leverage when Korean cooperation stalls and develops exacting agreements rather than relying on Woojin's reputation. By the time the treaty is resolved, the former support leader has become Prime Minister of a constitutional monarchy, personally responsible for Alandal's daily government while its king is away. (Chapters 55, 59–60, 66, 68–72)

Government expands Minchan's earlier personnel work rather than replacing it. He handpicks Alandal's civilian employees, screens applicants, recruits Awakened support staff, provides for new recruits' families, and ensures that contracts carry citizenship as well as employment. He also learns to delegate: Soonghoon's command of languages and negotiations earns Minchan's approval and room to lead. On Bibi's Castle, Minchan works with Bibi to reconcile a supernatural Colony's buildings and stores with the needs of residents, reporters, aircraft, and an expedition to Alphen. His strength lies in making Woojin's impossible-scale decisions operational for people who still require housing, transport, wages, and clear instructions. (Chapters 69, 72–80)

Minchan's public voice also grows more independent. When reporters accuse Alandal of becoming a refuge only for elites, he promises that its forces will go wherever help is needed and distinguishes the “rescue team” protecting civilians from the “firefighting team” confronting the dimensional cause. Under pressure, he answers with a roughness that surprises even himself, then realizes that years of repairing Woojin's incidents have changed his standard for decisive leadership. He remains wary of international opinion, but his deeper fear is that human selfishness will make Woojin abandon Earth. Public relations therefore becomes an attempt to preserve cooperation between an exhausted protector and the world demanding protection. (Chapters 80–81)

During the final crisis, Minchan remains Alandal's institutional anchor despite having no Awakened powers. He monitors foreign threats, employee security, Lee Sahngho's reappearance, and requests from rulers while Woojin pursues the dimensional truth. Learning that their Earth may be virtual shakes him precisely because a non-Awakened administrator has no alternate existence or combat identity to rely on. Even so, he shares Woojin's information with Sunggoo, turns back to the immediate danger, and joins Alandal's leaders in choosing resistance against Black Armor. His despair when their energy fails is not surrender; it marks the limit of an administrator who has kept the state alive until its absent king can return. (Chapters 87–93)

Appearance and personality

Minchan is regularly presented in a clean business suit, carrying documents, a briefcase, or a phone appropriate to his administrative work. Stress gradually disrupts that professional composure: dark circles deepen beneath his eyes, his hair becomes messy, and he massages his temple or collapses on a sofa after Woojin creates another international problem. He also suffers conspicuous motion sickness aboard Bibi's Castle. His most consistent personal ritual is hand-brewed morning coffee, which he regards as a leisurely source of joy and will abandon only when urgent work or an exceptional prospect demands it. (Chapters 17, 24, 43, 55, 80, 87)

He consciously prefers logic over emotion and is quick to read a person's mood, commercial value, and likely reaction. That self-image coexists with ambition, pride in recognition, and a comic tendency to panic when Woojin ignores ordinary rules. Minchan initially wants career advancement, but not the scale of authority he eventually receives. What keeps him in office is less a desire for status than confidence in his own judgment and a growing sense of responsibility for the people affected by Woojin's choices. He can be cautious, but once a decision is made he acts quickly, works through exhaustion, and accepts blame rather than concealing failure. (Chapters 17, 21, 24, 36, 55, 69, 76)

Abilities and class

Minchan is explicitly non-Awakened and demonstrates no supernatural class or combat technique. His importance comes from professional knowledge, judgment, and the authority delegated to him by Alandal. That limitation remains consequential: he cannot enter many battles, personally stop a Dungeon Break, or replace Woojin's army, so his plans depend on accurate information and trustworthy Awakened. His later power as Prime Minister is institutional rather than magical, extending across Alandal's employees and policies but not granting the dimensional abilities available to Woojin or Bibi. (Chapters 17, 48, 60, 72, 78, 92–93)

Talent scouting and dungeon operations

Five years of dungeon-related work give Minchan a strong grasp of rank restrictions, clear times, energy measurement, survival needs, artifact markets, and support-team structure. His signature judgment is recognizing ability that official measurements miss: he recruited Park Jinwoo for Hammer and identifies Woojin as something more mature than an ordinary high-potential novice. The method is experienced intuition supported by observed performance, not a supernatural appraisal, and it can leave him with incomplete information. Even so, his early rank corrections, access arrangements, artifact estimates, and recruitment decisions repeatedly give both Hammer and Alandal an advantage. (Chapters 17, 20–21, 23–24, 27)

Administration and personnel management

Minchan can build and scale support organizations around unusually powerful Awakened. He processes guild registration, inventories loot, assesses staffing ratios, recruits experienced workers, schedules interviews, and selects civilian employees with attention to reliability. As Alandal grows, the same skills extend to citizenship, housing, family support, fleet staffing, and Colony development. His authority is broad but not solitary: Haemin handles support operations, Soonghoon increasingly conducts diplomacy, Bibi controls the Dimensional Domain, and specialists such as Lee Kangjin supply knowledge Minchan lacks. His demonstrated strength is coordinating those competencies into a continuing institution rather than pretending to master each field himself. (Chapters 24, 27, 32, 43, 55, 69, 72–78, 89)

Diplomacy and crisis communication

Minchan shields Woojin from reporters, prepares statements, negotiates dungeon ownership, represents Alandal at international meetings, and later drafts treaties as Prime Minister. He chooses language by anticipating both Woojin's temperament and the public consequence of a statement, sometimes refusing to pass sensitive answers to foreign officials even when he personally wants them. This mediation has limits: he cannot compel Woojin, prevent every leaked announcement, or fully control the reaction to Alandal's independence. His development is visible when he stops merely apologizing for Woojin and articulates Alandal's mission in his own terms, even accepting the political fallout of a forceful answer. (Chapters 23, 30, 36–43, 54–60, 68–72, 76, 80–81, 91)

Emergency leadership

During breaks and attacks, Minchan gives calm evacuation instructions, verifies the safety of dependents, restricts civilians when communications fail, and keeps information moving among Alandal's fighters and officials. He is especially effective at absorbing uncertainty long enough for others to act: Woojin can fight knowing his family is protected, while employees receive a chain of command even when the king is unreachable. The role also exposes his limits. He becomes visibly anxious whenever Woojin disappears, and during Black Armor's assault he can evaluate Alandal's failing position but cannot replenish its energy or defeat the enemy himself. (Chapters 28–32, 37–39, 47–51, 87, 89–93)

Relationships

• Kang Woojin: Minchan first views Woojin as the greatest recruitment opportunity of his career, then risks that career to become his founding aide. Their partnership rests on complementary strengths: Woojin trusts Minchan to make his intentions workable, while Minchan challenges avoidable recklessness but ultimately supports the direction Woojin chooses. (Chapters 17–24, 27–32, 42–55, 69–93)
• Kim Haemin: Haemin is Minchan's most trusted colleague in Hammer's support team and follows him into Alandal. Their shared professional instincts and repeated exchanges of resignation letters, worried glances, and late-night work make Haemin Minchan's closest operational partner. (Chapters 17, 20–24, 27, 43, 55, 59)
• Woo Soonghoon: Minchan initially treats Soonghoon as another founding member to integrate, then comes to rely on his languages, preparation, and negotiating ability. As Alandal becomes a state, Minchan delegates important diplomacy to him while retaining final civil responsibility. (Chapters 24, 30, 68–72, 80–81)
• Hong Sunggoo: Minchan helps correct Sunggoo's underestimated rank and supports his rapid growth. Their roles diverge deliberately: Sunggoo becomes Alandal's strongest active fighter after Woojin, while Minchan builds the organization that equips, deploys, and protects its Awakened. (Chapters 17–23, 31–32, 43, 48–51, 92–93)
• Bibi: Minchan's first meeting with the talking cat leaves him bewildered, but he later works with Bibi as the authority over Alandal's Dimensional Domain and mobile Colony. Their discussions connect her system-level construction powers with his responsibility for residents and operations. (Chapters 42, 55, 78, 87, 92–93)
• Melody: Melody's knowledge of Alphen and Woojin's past makes her an important ally whom Minchan helps receive and accommodate. They also share the difficult task of moderating Woojin during political crises, though Melody's religious interpretation of his acts often differs from Minchan's practical concerns. (Chapters 31, 39–42, 52, 54–55)

Items

Minchan handles, prices, inventories, and negotiates the sale of many artifacts as part of Alandal's Support Division, but the scoped inventory does not assign him an individually notable personal item. His briefcase, phones, documents, and coffee equipment are ordinary tools of office rather than generated artifacts. (Chapters 17, 24, 27, 36, 43, 69, 89)