Kang Woojin

Kang Woojin is a returned Awakened, the founder and king of Alandal, and the commander of the Immortal Army. Although only five years pass on Earth after his disappearance, he experiences twenty years on Alphen, where he becomes the Necromancer called Immortal and fights Trahnet's forces. His return initially strips away his accumulated levels and sealed followers, forcing him to rebuild his power while deciding whether Earth is merely another doomed battlefield or a home worth reorganizing and defending. (Chapters 1–3, 35)

Biography

Return to a changed Seoul (Chapters 1–31)

Woojin reappears at Mido High School in the body of a young man, expecting the Seoul he left twenty subjective years earlier. Saving Do Jaemin from bullies gives him his first measure of the changed world: Jaemin remembers Woojin as a student who vanished only five years ago. Woojin's urgent journey home is interrupted when a subway station closes into a dungeon. Deprived of the magic and undead army he once commanded, he survives with improvised weapons and the combat judgment learned on Alphen; the dungeon's experience system then restores his status and lets him raise Skeleton Soldiers again. (Chapters 1–3)

The reunion he wants is inseparable from loss. His family's old neighborhood was destroyed during the Dungeon Shock, his father is dead, and his mother and younger sister Kang Sooah live under severe financial pressure. Woojin therefore registers as an Awakened and raids dungeons less from civic idealism than from a direct need to make his family secure. His early F-rank result understates him because the examination measures only a newly restored skeleton, while his Alphen experience lets him turn scarce magic, corpses, terrain, and crude equipment into decisive advantages. Even after buying a home, he sometimes keeps his distance at night because the spirits surrounding his sleep make ordinary domestic peace difficult. (Chapters 4–7, 12–19)

His first party experience also shapes how he builds loyalty. Bae Dohsoo's group tries to murder and rob him inside a dungeon, and Woojin kills the conspirators without accepting their plea that dungeon law excuses betrayal. He spares Hong Sunggoo, who did not join the attack, then treats him as both subordinate and investment: Sunggoo receives equipment, income, instruction, and increasingly brutal survival training. Woojin's methods are domineering, but their purpose changes from convenience to preparation. He wants Sunggoo strong enough to live when Woojin cannot rescue him, a demand rooted in Woojin's knowledge that Trahnet's invasions destroy the unprepared first. (Chapters 7–16, 25, 31)

At level ten Woojin gains a second, Warrior class and the shapeshifting Warrior's Weapon. More importantly, recovering sealed Familiars and recognizing Alphen creatures in Earth's dungeons convinces him that the two worlds are connected. He refuses the Hammer Guild because service under another leader conflicts with the independence that kept him alive on Alphen. Instead, he founds Alandal Guild with Jung Minchan, Kim Haemin, Sunggoo, and Woo Soonghoon, combining his personal combat power with people capable of managing money, information, and logistics. The guild is initially a practical vehicle, but it becomes the institutional form of his promise to protect his chosen people. (Chapters 16–24)

The Daegu Dungeon Break turns that private promise into public responsibility. Woojin enters Tareut's Plateau despite official restrictions because the dungeon resembles Alphen and offers the levels needed to restore his army. He emerges after defeating the break's central threat, but the victory also proves that Earth is already part of Trahnet's war. His confrontation with Hwarang Guild and the death of Lee Yunhwee show that he will not tolerate rivals who endanger others for prestige. At the same time, his bond with Do Jiwon reveals a gentler standard: he treats her scar as neither shame nor identity, gives her Regeneration Salve, and allows affection to become another reason to return alive. (Chapters 22, 27–31)

Alandal and the dimensional war (Chapters 32–62)

Woojin's growing fame does not soften his assessment of the coming war. He warns that simultaneous Dungeon Breaks could kill half of humanity and trains Sunggoo so harshly because Alandal cannot depend on one invincible king. During the Pyongyang operation, an assassination attempt and suicide bomber lead him to confront North Korea's leadership directly. He uses Ggaebi to uncover responsibility, but chooses coercion and a workable settlement over indiscriminate revenge. He also brings Che Haesol into Alandal and secures a Dimensional Fragment, widening both the guild's human capabilities and his understanding of the dimensional system. (Chapters 32–35)

When Woojin finally tells Alandal's leaders about his twenty years on Alphen, he frames his severity as preparation rather than justice. He expects ordinary law and national authority to fail under Trahnet's pressure, so he intends to create an order capable of surviving that failure. The United States expedition tests the personal cost of that conviction. Rashmode's forces destroy Bibi's summoned body, and Woojin's rage comes from regarding the Familiar as family rather than expendable magic. After defeating Rashmode and obtaining the Dragon's Heart, he spends a subjectively extended month grinding dungeons so that he can restore Bibi, placing a companion's return above ceremony and international acclaim. (Chapters 35–42)

Restored levels give Woojin the Death Knights and enough strength to answer crises beyond Korea, but command makes his limits clearer. The Seoul break caused by Juliel forces him to secure his family while fighting a threat that can arrive through a dungeon at any time. By combining three Dimensional Fragments into proof of lordship, he claims Seoul Station's First Exit as Alandal's Dimensional Domain. The decision is defensive and defiant: a domain supplies gates, stores, fortifications, and energy, yet also places him inside the rules of Dimensional Battles. Woojin accepts that vulnerability because controlling a node gives him a place from which to study the system and eventually overturn Trahnet's law. (Chapters 43–50)

Woojin's response to Do Jaemin demonstrates how that state remains grounded in individual obligations. When a vampire outbreak leaves Jaemin incurably transformed, Woojin cannot remove the curse with healing or necromancy. He instead helps Jaemin survive as a true vampire, gives him a place within the Domain, and treats survival in an altered body as preferable to death. He shows comparable restraint at the political hearing. Though he arrives prepared to punish officials who used Alandal, seeing their fear redirects his anger toward a durable solution: he declares Alandal an independent city-state and appoints Minchan to govern it. The king who once solved betrayal by killing now distinguishes enemies from frightened, useful people. (Chapters 51–55)

The Dungeon Closing Tour expands this lesson globally. Woojin negotiates access, destroys linked Dimensional Lords, and refuses territory that would create administrative burdens without strengthening Alandal. He earns the media title “Dungeon Clearer,” but he repeatedly emphasizes that one raider cannot answer every break. His domain battles, including the confrontation with Liah, supply points and knowledge while Bibi, Minchan, Jaemin, and the guild make sovereignty function in his absence. By the end of this phase, Alandal is not simply Woojin's old royal title transplanted to Earth. It is a refuge, military platform, and network of specialists built to continue fighting when its founder is elsewhere. (Chapters 56–62)

Holy Items and the final reset (Chapters 63–93)

Mivich, once an Alphen hero, embodies the choice Woojin rejects: accepting Trahnet's order because resistance appears futile. Woojin kills him in a costly duel, then returns to find synchronized invasions accelerating across Earth. He rescues Jiwon from Sharot and unlocks his former teacher, the Lich Jaenis, but the expanding army does not make him omnipresent. Jaenis and the other Familiars must hold cities and colonies without killing the people they defend. Woojin's discovery that Sooah carries Earth's “God's Seed” also makes the cosmic conflict intimate; the world's system now has a target inside his own family. (Chapters 63–66)

Doctor Toppler gives Woojin a theory rather than trustworthy guidance. He describes the connected worlds as a supernatural network, calls Dimensional Lords a spreading infection, and argues that Woojin can become its cure through Thrash's hidden authority. Woojin neither accepts nor dismisses the claim. He consults Jaenis, continues gathering fragments, and seeks the Holy Items that can be remade into Thrash's equipment. This is characteristic of his strategy: uncertain information becomes a reason to acquire options, not surrender judgment. Even while global treaties recognize Alandal, he treats political legitimacy as secondary to gaining enough leverage to sever Earth's dependence on the dimensional system. (Chapters 67–76)

Returning to Alphen gives Woojin a second chance at the kingdom he could not save. He establishes the Sauraus Colony with allies from both worlds and begins reclaiming territory, but Aria's temple reveals that the Holy Items are planetary Codes rather than merely powerful artifacts. The five visible Codes preserve or rule Alphen, while Thrash's hidden Code carries the authority to Delete. The revelation also limits him: the Return Portal Marble cannot simply take him away from a world whose Code he lacks. When the gateway is attacked, he stays to defend the colony, choosing responsibility for the people he brought there over a safe retreat to Earth. (Chapters 77–82)

Woojin completes the Alphen portion of his quest with Heres' Belt, while Skia's Boots, Lecia's Gloves, and Aria's Circlet become components of Thrash's authority. He entrusts Melody with colony administration even after acknowledging the possibility of betrayal, because rebuilding Alphen requires someone who belongs to its people. Back on Earth, the fight with Iello pushes him to level ninety-nine. He destroys Iello's soul with Thrash's Punishment, gains the Recovery Code, and uses the Combination Box to finish Thrash's Set. Its restored abilities make him stronger, but Toppler's explanation turns the apparent victory into a moral test. (Chapters 83–90)

Toppler claims Woojin's Earth is one of many virtual worlds and that resetting the original planet requires Earth's Code, which would mean sacrificing Sooah. Woojin refuses both the sacrifice and the premise that a damaged world should be erased for a cleaner version. His attempt to confront the Dimensional Administrator briefly separates him from Alandal, and his consciousness reaches the future Moon World where humanity watches a dead Earth. There he manifests Thrash's Executioner through the Warrior's Weapon, restores color to the original planet, returns to his embattled people, and cuts down Black Armor. His final choice resolves the conflict that began with his own return: life should move forward with its losses and relationships intact, not retreat into an idealized reset. (Chapters 90–93)

Appearance and personality

Woojin returns looking roughly twenty-four despite having lived about twenty additional years on Alphen. He has a trained, muscular build, tanned skin, and an intimidating gaze that becomes especially pronounced when he releases killing intent. His youthful Earth body therefore contrasts with the habits of an experienced monarch and battlefield commander. In quieter moments he pinches his temple while thinking, watches television, plays familiar games, drinks soju, and enjoys ordinary foods such as tangerines and beef entrails—small comforts that reconnect him to the Seoul he lost. (Chapters 1, 12, 32, 53)

He is blunt, impatient with ceremony, and openly contemptuous of authority that cannot enforce its promises. Betrayal or predation can provoke immediate lethal violence, yet he is not indiscriminate: he spares Sunggoo, declines to massacre frightened politicians, and repeatedly offers capable opponents or survivors a useful place. His loyalty is intensely personal. Family, Familiars, and subordinates are “his people,” and threats against them strip away his usual calculation. That possessiveness can look autocratic, but it also makes his promises unusually dependable. (Chapters 8–16, 35, 41, 54)

Woojin values self-reliance because he knows he may disappear again. His training of Sunggoo and delegation to Minchan, Bibi, Jaemin, and Melody are therefore forms of care as much as command. The spirits that crowd his sleep initially appear to be punishment for the lives he took; near the end, he understands that they have also protected his soul. This changes the meaning of his title “Immortal”: his endurance is not isolation from the dead, but a burdened relationship with those whose souls remain beside him. (Chapters 31–32, 55, 87, 91–93)

Abilities and class

Awakened growth and dual class

Woojin's Earth abilities are organized through levels, stats, skills, and an Achievement Shop. Dimensional transport resets his former level and seals his Familiars, so early victories restore powers rather than create his experience from nothing. Leveling replenishes stamina and magical energy, while milestone levels unlock classes and followers. At level ten he adds the Warrior class to Necromancer, and he reaches the system's level ninety-nine limit during the battle with Iello. Magic and Control determine how much necromancy he can sustain, but exhaustion remains real: powerful techniques can consume nearly all available magic or stored souls. (Chapters 2–3, 16, 41, 90)

Necromancy

Woojin raises Skeleton Soldiers and Skeleton Magicians from corpses, improves them through Control and skills, and eventually fields formations led by Death Knights. Corpses provide the medium and enemy souls replenish the engine of his army, so a long battle with plentiful fallen enemies favors him while separation from the Necromancer leaves his undead unable to replace losses. He uses bone spears, walls, prisons, poison magic, Phantom Armor, and later Death Field to shape the battlefield rather than merely overwhelm it. Soul Extraction can store spirits, restore resources, and reinforce defenses, but it cannot automatically reverse conditions such as Jaemin's vampirism; destruction of an enemy's soul is instead demonstrated through Thrash's Punishment. (Chapters 3, 31, 51, 65, 90, 93)

His Familiars are powerful autonomous companions rather than interchangeable summons. Bibi creates illusions and nightmares and manages the Domain; Ggaebi scouts through shadows and stolen senses; Dolsae supplies golem strength; Shingshing provides extreme mobility; Jaenis contributes high-order magic and counsel; and Kiba leads the Death Knights. Ryongryong becomes a Bone and Blood Dragon. They can be sealed by Woojin's lost levels or temporarily destroyed, and they depend on his or the Domain's energy, but their independent decisions repeatedly preserve Alandal when Woojin is absent. (Chapters 16, 31, 40–42, 65–66, 92–93)

Warrior techniques

The Warrior's Weapon is a mentally summoned armament that Woojin reshapes into a staff, glaive, hammer, sword, axe, knives, whip, bow, or scythe according to range and opponent. Warrior skills such as Rage, Sprint, Throw, strengthened senses, and aerial movement supplement the physical technique acquired on Alphen. This class is especially important when anti-magic pressure, depleted souls, or a duel makes mass necromancy inefficient. At the conclusion, it also supplies the form through which Thrash's Executioner appears, joining Woojin's learned weapon mastery to an authority greater than an ordinary class skill. (Chapters 16, 29, 41, 63, 90, 93)

Dimensional lordship and Thrash's authority

The Dimensional Proof allows Woojin to declare Alandal as his Domain. He can construct facilities, open portals, recruit vassals, purchase defenses, and spend energy generated through residents and victories. Domain Battles give him access to other worlds and resources, but they also expose Alandal to invasion and impose protection periods and Code restrictions. A Domain-Growth Totem assists the colony's expansion, while Dimensional Fragments function as the scarce material behind proofs, dungeons, and dimensional development. These are system and domain resources, not innate necromancy. (Chapters 49–55, 61, 77–82)

The five-piece Thrash equipment is likewise item-derived. Thrash's Protection removes the soul-storage limit on Phantom Armor, expanding the reserve that sustains the armor's automatic defense; the transformed boots, gloves, belt, and circlet grant the authorities called March, Punishment, Dignity, and Glory. Completing the set multiplies his Control, restores former foundational abilities, and unlocks Death Field. Punishment can extract or annihilate a soul at enormous magical cost. The Executioner is distinct from those five pieces: it is the hidden Delete authority that finally manifests as an immense scythe capable of affecting a planet and cutting down Black Armor. (Chapters 71, 81–91, and 93)

Power progression

Relationships

• Kang Sooah: Woojin's younger sister is one of the clearest boundaries on his ambition. When Toppler's proposed reset requires Earth's Code and therefore Sooah's sacrifice, Woojin orders Alandal to protect her even at catastrophic cost and rejects the reset entirely. (Chapters 4, 65, 90–92)
• Hong Sunggoo: Sunggoo begins as the one dungeon-party member Woojin spares and becomes his first subordinate, trainee, and guild's second-ranked fighter. Woojin's harsh instruction is paired with equipment, opportunity, and trust; Sunggoo ultimately helps sustain Alandal when its king is absent. (Chapters 8–16, 31–32, 92–93)
• Do Jaemin: Woojin first protects Jaemin as a bullied student and later treats him as a younger brother. When vampirism cannot be cured, he helps Jaemin survive as a true vampire and vassal rather than abandoning him as a monster, then later raises him to a Count-ranked Vampire Lord. (Chapters 1, 12–19, 51–55, and 72)
• Do Jiwon: Jiwon connects Woojin to his pre-disappearance life without demanding that he become his old self. His acceptance of her scar, gift of salve, and repeated rescues develop into a romantic bond that gives his wars a personal destination. (Chapters 22, 30, 36, 65)
• Bibi: Bibi is Woojin's first restored Familiar, but their relationship is familial rather than contractual. Her temporary destruction provokes one of his fiercest campaigns, and her intelligence later makes her Alandal's domain manager and defensive coordinator. (Chapters 16, 40–42, 50–55, 93)
• Jung Minchan: Minchan translates Woojin's decisions into an operating guild and country. Woojin trusts him with administration and ultimately appoints him prime minister, allowing military power and civil governance to remain separate. (Chapters 17–24, 53–62)
• Melody: Alphen's Holy Maiden recognizes Woojin's earlier legend and becomes an uneasy ally. He later entrusts her with the Sauraus Colony despite acknowledging that she may betray him, because Alphen's recovery needs legitimate local leadership. (Chapters 39–42, 79–87)
• Jaenis: Jaenis was Woojin's teacher before becoming his Lich Familiar. His high-order magic and knowledge of Alphen make him both battlefield asset and counselor when Woojin must interpret Toppler's claims and the Holy Items. (Chapters 59, 65–68, 90–93)
• Doctor Toppler: Toppler is an indispensable but distrusted source on the dimensional system. His desire to reset Earth opposes Woojin's commitment to the people already living through its damage, making their conflict philosophical as well as strategic. (Chapters 68, 89–93)

Items

• Warrior's Weapon: A dual-class reward that Woojin summons and reshapes into the weapon best suited to the fight; it eventually takes the form of Thrash's Executioner.
• Combination Box: A system crafting container used with recipes and materials, including the transformations required to complete Thrash's equipment.
• Return Portal Marble: A return and gateway tool whose operation is limited when Woojin lacks the relevant planet's Code.
• Regeneration Salve: An Achievement Shop medicine Woojin personally applies to Jiwon's scar because its ownership rules prevent ordinary transfer.
• Dragon's Heart: A potent material recovered after Rashmode's defeat and associated with later Dragon-linked transformations and crafting.
• Thrash's Protection: The defensive component of Thrash's equipment, removing Phantom Armor's soul-storage cap and expanding the reserve that sustains its automatic barrier.
• Thrash's Set: The completed five-piece equipment that multiplies Control, restores former capabilities, and enables Death Field.
• Thrash's Executioner: The hidden Delete authority, distinct from the five-piece set, which manifests through the Warrior's Weapon in the final confrontation.
• Skia's Boots: An Alphen Holy Item transformed into Thrash's March, strengthening Woojin's movement and aerial mobility.
• Lecia's Gloves: An Alphen Holy Item transformed into Thrash's Punishment, allowing the costly extraction or destruction of souls.
• Aria's Circlet: Aria's Holy Item, temporarily returned to Melody before being used to complete Thrash's Glory.
• Heres' Belt: The last Alphen Holy Item Woojin secures, transformed into Thrash's Dignity.
• Domain-Growth Totem: A domain resource used to expand and develop the colony rather than a personal combat ability.
• Dimensional Fragment: A dimensional resource collected from dungeons and defeated lords; multiple fragments can become proof and support domain development.