Alandal

Alandal is the institution Kang Woojin builds after returning from Alphen: first a Korean dungeon guild, then an independent city-state, a Dimensional Domain, and a network of Colonies spanning Earth and Alphen. Its name carries the memory of the kingdom Woojin ruled on Alphen, but the Earth organization is not simply a restored medieval court. It combines Awakened fighters, civilian administrators, Woojin's undead Familiars, protected families, foreign allies, and dimensional infrastructure into a state designed to continue functioning while its king fights elsewhere. (Chapters 16–24, 35, 49–55, and 76–80)

Alandal matters because it converts Woojin's personal power into durable protection. He can destroy a dungeon or hostile lord himself, but he cannot negotiate every treaty, evacuate every family, manage every portal, or defend every world at once. Jung Minchan builds the civil administration, Bibi operates the Domain and mobile Colony, Do Jaemin wins Dimensional Battles, and Alandal's living and undead forces hold territory in Woojin's absence. By the final crisis, its survival depends on the judgment and loyalty of that wider structure rather than on an invulnerable monarch. (Chapters 48–62, 69–80, and 87–93)

Structure and operating principles

Guild, state, Domain, and Colony

“Alandal” describes several overlapping structures whose boundaries are important. Alandal Guild is the registered organization founded to raid dungeons, employ Awakened, sell loot, and provide the support work surrounding Woojin's campaigns. Alandal the state emerges when Woojin declares independence and Minchan constructs a constitutional monarchy, citizenship system, treaties, and civilian administration. Alandal's Dimensional Domain is the supernatural territory created from a Dimensional Proof at Seoul Station's First Exit. Bibi's Castle is a mobile Colony City seeded on an aircraft carrier, while Sauraus Colony is the later Alphen settlement. They serve one king and frequently share people and resources, but they are not interchangeable names for one building. (Chapters 23–24, 49–60, 72, and 76–82)

The distinction explains Alandal's unusual resilience. A guild office can be evacuated without dissolving the state; the king can travel to Alphen while a Domain vassal handles local challenges; and a mobile Colony can move residents and energy toward a threatened battlefield. It also creates dependencies. The Domain and Colonies operate through finite Energy and Points, portals obey planetary Code restrictions, and civil policy still requires staff, housing, transport, and international cooperation. Supernatural sovereignty does not remove administration. (Chapters 51–62, 69–80, and 82–93)

Delegated rule

Woojin establishes the direction, reserves final military authority, and treats the people under Alandal as his responsibility. His leadership is personal and often abrupt: he appoints officers directly, accepts vassals, decides which enemies must be destroyed, and refuses outside control over his family or army. Yet he also delegates unusually broad authority because his war against the Dimensional Lords repeatedly takes him away. That combination makes Alandal monarchical without reducing it to one person's daily attention. (Chapters 31–35, 49–55, and 65–93)

Minchan supplies the civil counterpart. He registers the guild, recruits and screens staff, inventories loot, schedules dungeons, manages the press, negotiates international agreements, and eventually drafts the machinery of sovereignty. He objects when Woojin's declaration outruns its legal foundation, but once the objective is fixed, he converts it into treaties, citizenship, employment, and operating policy. His authority is institutional rather than Awakened: he cannot fight a Dungeon Break, but he can keep a chain of command functioning while the fighters are absent. (Chapters 17–32, 42–60, and 68–81)

Bibi governs the supernatural infrastructure. Registered as a vassal and appointed Domain butler, she buys facilities, manages residents, controls authorized portal use, spends allocated Energy, and can represent Woojin in Dimensional Battles. Her authority later expands to Bibi's Castle, whose barriers, weapons, specialists, patrols, stores, and movement she coordinates. Do Jaemin complements her as the better tactical Dimensional Battle player, earning Points that Bibi can spend on defense. (Chapters 49–62, 76–80, and 91–93)

Protection, preparation, and useful independence

Alandal's central rule is that protection requires people who can act without Woojin. He trains Hong Sunggoo harshly because Earth cannot depend on one Dungeon Clearer. Sunggoo becomes the strongest active Alandal fighter after Woojin, a director, royal-guard commander, and later a Dragon Human. Che Haesol adds taming, scouting, and rescue capacity. Kiba receives command of the Domain's defenses and permission to spend Energy, while Jaenis can lead the Familiars and undead when Woojin delegates the army. (Chapters 31–35, 42–51, 65–76, and 84–93)

The same principle governs civilians. Employment can bring citizenship and family support, and Bibi uses her construction authority to create homes, gardens, shops, and social spaces rather than leaving the Domain as an empty fortress. Minchan publicly distinguishes the forces rescuing civilians from those attacking the dimensional cause and promises that Alandal will go where help is needed. The state remains centered on Woojin's chosen people, but it grows from a private refuge into an institution claiming responsibility beyond its borders. (Chapters 51–55, 69–81)

History

Founding the guild

Woojin initially needs a structure that can reserve dungeons, process loot, handle regulations, and protect his family from the attention his rapid rise attracts. He refuses to join Hammer Guild because serving another organization's priorities would compromise the independence he learned on Alphen. Instead, he recruits Hammer support-team leader Jung Minchan and Kim Haemin, keeps Sunggoo as his first Awakened subordinate, and brings Woo Soonghoon into the founding team. Minchan chooses the uncertain new guild because Hammer's established founders impose a ceiling on his work; Woojin offers responsibility proportional to ability. (Chapters 17–24)

The first division of labor is already recognizable. Woojin clears dungeons and chooses the organization's direction. Minchan manages registration and administration, Haemin supplies dungeon-support expertise, Soonghoon handles transport and later diplomacy, and Sunggoo develops as the second field fighter. Alandal therefore begins as more than a legal shell for one raider. Its early staff make Woojin's speed and combat power commercially and logistically usable, while his victories give their small organization bargaining power far beyond its size. (Chapters 23–32)

The Daegu Dungeon Break makes the guild a public force. Woojin enters a forbidden high-risk zone, defeats the central threat, and confronts rivals who have endangered others for prestige. Alandal must then manage loot rights, press pressure, family security, and government relations around a figure whose decisions exceed ordinary guild assumptions. Minchan's ability to absorb those consequences becomes as essential as Woojin's fighting. (Chapters 27–32)

From national guild to international power

Woojin's warning about simultaneous Dungeon Breaks changes Alandal's purpose from profitable raiding to preparation for a planetary war. The Pyongyang operation brings Che Haesol into the guild and yields a Dimensional Fragment, while Woojin's confrontation with the North Korean leadership demonstrates that he will negotiate with states but not accept their control over his people. The United States expedition produces an alliance with Titan Guild and a public reputation that Minchan and Soonghoon must translate into continuing relationships. (Chapters 32–43)

The same expedition confirms that Alandal's nonhuman members are family, not replaceable summons. Rashmode's forces destroy Bibi's materialized body, and Woojin prioritizes restoring her over ceremony and international acclaim. His response makes the organization's loyalty intelligible to the Familiars: Alandal asks them to fight and govern, but its king does not treat their destruction as an inexpensive tactical loss. That reciprocal attachment later sustains the army when Woojin is absent. (Chapters 39–46)

When Dungeon Breaks strike Seoul, Minchan evacuates employee families, verifies the safety of Woojin's household, and keeps the organization moving while Woojin confronts the attacking forces. This crisis establishes the practical basis for later sovereignty. Alandal already behaves as a protection network with its own intelligence, evacuation, fighters, dependents, and command structure before Woojin formally calls it a state. (Chapters 47–51)

Claiming the Dimensional Domain

Woojin combines three Dimensional Fragments into a Proof and claims Seoul Station's First Exit as his Domain. The new territory gains castle facilities, gates, stores, production, defenses, and a system for vassals and Dimensional Battles. It also becomes visible to other Lords and subject to their rules. Woojin accepts that exposure because a defended node gives him a base from which to study the system rather than waiting for each invasion to arrive through someone else's dungeon. (Chapters 49–55)

Bibi turns that foothold into a community. She gives Jaemin a home, purchases useful residents and facilities, manages visitors, and communicates with Woojin when he is outside. Her early spending is excessive and her first proxy battle ends in defeat, costing Points and property, but she studies with Jaemin and wins a later battle through a coordinated Orc Rider and Wyvern strategy. The failure matters because Alandal's stewardship improves through experience rather than arriving complete with lordship. (Chapters 51–62)

The Domain also changes individual belonging. After Jaemin becomes a vampire and cannot be cured, Woojin registers him as a vassal rather than casting him out. Kiba becomes Defense Commander with Wyverns and an Energy allowance. Visitors such as Dread can bring diplomatic gifts, including the Domain-Growth Totem, without becoming citizens or allies automatically. Alandal thus incorporates monsters, undead, humans, and dimensional beings through explicit duties rather than through species. (Chapters 51–58)

Declaration of sovereignty

Woojin declares Alandal independent after a political hearing reveals that Korean institutions will continue trying to direct or exploit his power. The declaration is impulsive, but his underlying objective is consistent: the people and dimensional assets for which he is responsible need an authority capable of acting during the coming collapse. He appoints Minchan to govern rather than trying to turn combat dominance into personal mastery of law. (Chapters 54–55)

Minchan, Haemin, Soonghoon, and Lee Kangjin then supply what the declaration lacks. They construct agreements, seek external leverage when domestic negotiations stall, define the constitutional monarchy, and build an administration capable of employing citizens and dealing with foreign states. Alandal's international recognition rests partly on Woojin's power and partly on the practical value of a force clearing linked dungeons around the world. Woojin refuses territorial expansion that would create administrative burdens without improving defense, keeping the state focused rather than imperial. (Chapters 55–72)

The Dungeon Closing Tour demonstrates the bargain behind that recognition. Alandal destroys Dimensional Lords and severs dangerous connections, while host governments provide access, intelligence, or negotiated compensation. The title “Dungeon Clearer” makes Woojin a global figure, but he repeatedly insists that his personal presence cannot answer every crisis. The tour therefore strengthens Alandal politically while exposing the reason it must continue developing independent responders. (Chapters 56–64)

Bibi's Castle and return to Alphen

Woojin combines two Fragments into a Dimensional Shard and seeds a Colony on an aircraft carrier. Under Bibi's management, the carrier becomes Bibi's Castle, a flying Colony City with barriers, all-direction weapons, Wyvern patrols, technical specialists, living quarters, shops, and portals. Its mobility lets Alandal carry both a protected population and a source of Domain power toward global Dungeon Breaks. Its finite stores prevent it from being an invulnerable ark: every defense, summoned force, and repair consumes Points or Energy. (Chapters 76–80)

The expedition to Alphen creates a second front. Woojin establishes Sauraus Colony with forces drawn from both worlds and entrusts its administration to Melody, whose knowledge of Alphen and local coalition resources makes her more suitable than an imported Earth official. Bibi's Castle and Sauraus are connected by Alandal's campaign, but their managers answer different practical needs: one is a mobile Earth fortress, the other a reclaimed settlement whose legitimacy depends on Alphen's people. (Chapters 77–89)

This expansion also brings the organization's older identity full circle. The Earth Alandal was named from Woojin's lost kingdom; the new colonies allow living Earth allies, undead veterans, and Alphen survivors to cooperate without pretending the original defeat never occurred. Woojin's search for the Holy Items and planetary Codes uses the colonies as bases, while the people left behind continue the work of defense and rebuilding. (Chapters 77–90)

Defense without the king

Woojin's disappearance in the final crisis is the strongest test of Alandal's design. Black Armor advances while Bibi's Castle supplies energy to the Familiars, Jaemin conducts Dimensional Battles to earn Points, Minchan keeps the human organization together, Sunggoo protects Woojin's family, and the undead debate how best to obey their last order. Bibi and Minchan favor retreat because Woojin ordered them to protect Kang Sooah; Kiba argues that only victory can provide the protection their king intended. The disagreement is about duty, not disloyalty. (Chapters 91–93)

The defenders ultimately stand. Jaenis empties the magical reserve tied to his Life Vessel into Ryongryong, Bibi spends Jaemin's newly earned Points to restore the failing barrier, and Sunggoo intervenes against threats inside the protected household. The Colony crashes after its Energy is exhausted, but its people survive. Woojin returns before Black Armor can complete the destruction and ends the battle. Alandal does not win without him, yet it accomplishes the purpose for which he delegated power: it preserves his people and continues resisting long enough for his return to matter. (Chapters 92–93)

Leadership and principal forces

The table records demonstrated responsibilities, not a complete constitutional order. Alandal has additional employees, Awakened, soldiers, purchased specialists, residents, Familiars, and allies whose exact final offices are not enumerated in the corpus. Woojin's family and protected civilians are central to the state's purpose without automatically holding government posts. (Chapters 69–93)

Military and dimensional capabilities

Living and undead forces

Alandal's field strength combines living Awakened with the Immortal Army. Sunggoo supplies mobile firepower and later a living-flame body; Haesol contributes taming and rescue skills; Jaemin supplies vampiric force and strategic play. Woojin's Familiars add scouting, illusion, golem power, flight, magic, and battlefield command. Death Knights organize Skeleton formations that can act beyond Woojin's immediate Control, while Jaenis coordinates Skeleton Magicians and catastrophic area magic. The army's diversity is deliberate, but much of its maximum scale still depends on Woojin's levels, souls, items, or nearby Domain energy. (Chapters 43–51, 64–71, and 84–93)

The force has clear limits. Holy Power can interfere with necromancy, individual Familiars can be sealed or destroyed, and Domain reserves can be exhausted. Bibi's mental attacks depend on the target's awareness and resistance; Kiba can be overwhelmed despite defensive authority; Jaenis cannot replenish magic through souls as Woojin does; and Bibi's Castle can crash once its barrier and flight systems run out of power. Alandal succeeds by combining specialties and reserves, not because every component is independently inexhaustible. (Chapters 39–49, 57–65, 82–93)

Domains, Points, Energy, and Codes

Dimensional Fragments are the scarce material behind Alandal's supernatural growth. Three form a Dimensional Proof used to claim the first Domain; individual Fragments can purchase dungeons; two can form the Shard that seeds a Colony. Battles, captured connections, and residents produce or award resources, while construction, defenses, portals, and army support consume them. A resource gained in one layer of Alandal can therefore preserve another, as when Jaemin's battle Points restore Bibi's barrier. (Chapters 39, 49–62, 69–80, and 93)

Planetary Codes limit that network. The Return Portal Marble can bypass dungeon barriers and support dimensional transit, but Woojin cannot use it freely on Alphen without Alphen's Code. Colonies, purchased dungeons, and valid gates remain necessary connections. This prevents Alandal's reach across two worlds from becoming unrestricted teleportation and makes the defense of each foothold strategically important. (Chapters 27–28, 53–58, and 81–82)

External relationships

Alandal maintains alliances without absorbing every partner. Titan Guild cooperates after the American expedition, governments negotiate dungeon access and recognition, and Alphen coalitions work through Sauraus. Dread's visits show that even another Dimensional Lord can attempt diplomacy. These relationships remain conditional: Woojin rejects coercion, evaluates gifts and treaties by their practical value, and destroys Lords whose continued existence threatens Earth or his colonies. (Chapters 35–43, 56–73, and 77–89)

Its relationship with Korea is especially complex. Alandal grows from a Korean guild and its core Earth territory remains at Seoul Station, but sovereignty is declared in response to political interference and the failure of ordinary institutions to match dimensional danger. Recognition does not erase shared geography, citizens, or rescue obligations. Minchan continues engaging Korean and foreign officials because independence is intended to make protection workable, not to isolate the Domain from the world around it. (Chapters 48–60 and 68–81)

The Church of Aria and the Alphen alliance likewise cooperate without becoming identical to Alandal. Melody's Holy Power can support living fighters but clashes with the undead, and her later break with Aria changes her own authority. Woojin still entrusts Sauraus to her because local knowledge and commitment matter more than theological uniformity. The resulting coalition is uneasy by design: former enemies work toward survival without pretending their powers or histories are naturally compatible. (Chapters 39–44, 56–68, and 77–91)

Identity and legacy

Alandal's emblematic achievement is not territorial size. It is the conversion of a solitary returnee's promise into a layered institution. The guild gives Woojin a civilian and commercial base; the state gives his dependents citizenship and political standing; the Domain gives them supernatural defenses; the Colonies connect protection to mobility and reconstruction; and delegated leaders let those systems continue when Woojin is absent. Each layer solves a limitation exposed by the one before it. (Chapters 23–24, 49–60, and 76–93)

Its internal culture remains marked by Woojin's possessive definition of “his people.” That can produce autocratic decisions and violent retaliation, but it also crosses the categories that other institutions use to exclude: a succubus can govern, a vampire can become a vassal and tactician, undead can serve as officers, non-Awakened professionals can run the state, and Alphen survivors can administer their own colony. Belonging is demonstrated through responsibility and loyalty rather than humanity, nationality, or living status. (Chapters 42–55, 65–89)

At the end of the supplied corpus, Alandal has suffered catastrophic depletion but has not dissolved. Bibi's Castle falls without losing its population, the leaders maintain their allegiance through disagreement and exhaustion, and Woojin returns to the people who refused to let his absence become their ending. The organization therefore fulfills the logic of his final rejection of Reset: a damaged world and community are to be carried forward, not erased and replaced by an ideal copy. (Chapters 90–93)