Eoduksi

Eoduksi, originally the human Awakened One Kim Siwoon, is the God of Ashes and the leader who controls the Metaverse through the Alliance. His six-hundred-year attempt to rewind the Great Disappearance makes him both an institutional obstacle to Jaehwan and, after that plan fails, one of the veteran gods who defend the Abyss beside him.

Biography

Six centuries of questions in the Metaverse

Before becoming a god, Kim Siwoon is a Division Commander of 「Rift」 and one of the survivors shaped by the Great Disappearance. The deaths of his Companions leave him consumed by the desire to return seven hundred years and restore them. After entering the Abyss about six hundred years before Jaehwan, he becomes the first of the Seven Stars, rises near the highest divine ranks, and serves at Chronos's right hand. As Eoduksi, he builds the Alliance, administers the Metaverse, and completes the Driver's tasks because the final reward appears to offer the impossible world-scale reversal that his lost Sanctuary cannot provide. (Chapters 157–166 and 172–175)

Eoduksi's rule relies on promises, trust, and severe standards of fairness. He repairs and preserves the Metaverse's miniature floors, suppresses cheaters, and allows Jaehwan's party to climb because Jaehwan may be able to answer the questions that defeated him on the final floor. When Andersen sends Jaehwan to him, Eoduksi explains that the system divides an unanswerable question into smaller ones, then grants three days before enforcing the climb rather than discarding six centuries of accumulated trust for a stranger. His offer is coercive as well as philosophical: the miniature containing Martial World Inn gives him leverage over the people Jaehwan wants to protect. (Chapters 136, 148, and 157–158)

Yu Seolha, who knew him as Senior Brother and former Second Commander Kim Siwoon, attacks the Alliance palace to bring him back to 「Rift」. Eoduksi refuses because he no longer believes he can return as one of her Companions, while she accuses him of imprisoning himself inside a question. When her Sanctuary resists Time Rewind, he seals her in a reinforced Time Cube. He then faces Jaehwan with a one-on-one combination of Ash Sword, Ash Pentagon, and repeated Time Rewind. About eighteen hundred reversals let him study Jaehwan's attack patterns, but Jaehwan's timeless Sanctuary stops the loop and forces Eoduksi to confront a world resembling the Commander he had wanted to avenge himself upon. (Chapters 159–166)

Jaehwan tries to spare the defeated god, but Chronos uses their connection to possess Eoduksi and demand Jaehwan's death until Catastrophe expels the possessing presence from Metaverse. After the Ninth Floor exposes the Metaverse's demand that one participant kill the rest, the Tenth Floor reveals that even the Driver cannot simply grant Eoduksi's true wish. He has kept every promise, founded the Alliance, and worked for six centuries only to be offered the role of the next Driver. Jaehwan forces him to see that a thousand repeated worlds would not restore the dead people he remembers. Eoduksi rejects the succession, attacks the Driver's spacecraft, and uses an incomplete Time Acceleration to help break the frozen moment, allowing the Metaverse and its preserved miniatures to become a funeral rather than another loop. (Chapters 167 and 172–175)

Fighting without Chronos or the Alliance

Three months after the Metaverse falls, Eoduksi is no longer the Alliance Leader or the first Seven Star, yet he remains one of the Abyss's strongest independent gods. He stays at the Seventh Site, casually eats dumplings, and joins Russell against an assault by Cheonryung Eight Heaven and its Gigantes. Chronos's expelled connection has taken Time Rewind and the advantages of the Divine Throne from him, so he cannot erase mistakes as he did against Jaehwan. His Metallic Ash cracks beneath the enemy's force, but his underlying swordsmanship and World Power let him continue fighting until Jaehwan intervenes. (Chapters 211–212)

Eoduksi later helps defend the Seventh Site from Great Lord Barcant. He understands that invoking Ash Pentagon against a vastly stronger enemy would be suicidal and instead fights in coordination with Russell and the other gods. Their combined pressure creates the opening for Ash Sword to cut and corrode Barcant's shoulder, demonstrating a marked change from the isolated duels and absolute control of his Metaverse reign. The victory remains beyond him: Barcant's Gigantes and Dragon Dignity overwhelm the defenders, leave Eoduksi sprawled among the wounded, and prevent him from saving Runald when the child faces the Great Lord alone. (Chapters 228–230)

Eoduksi survives the war and appears behind the Committee members when they confront Jaehwan over his decision to leave the reconstructed Abyss. He does not join their attempt to confine Jaehwan, nor does he step forward as a new absolute ruler after losing the Alliance. Instead, he promises that the Abyss will remember him. The statement closes Eoduksi's movement away from a system built to force every traveler through his questions: having failed to recover his own dead by controlling repetition, he accepts another person's departure and remains among those responsible for the world left behind. (Chapters 236–237)

Appearance and personality

Eoduksi appears as a thin, frail-looking middle-aged man with half-gray hair, a small refined face, and blue irises whose clear gaze seems unusually sincere. His voice is compared to ash spreading through darkness. By the battle at the Seventh Site, his back looks gaunt and his face stubborn, reinforcing the contrast between an unimposing body and the authority of a supreme god candidate. (Chapters 157 and 228)

Measured and patient, Eoduksi speaks like a teacher who has spent centuries refining a question. He values promises enough to preserve the Metaverse and its inhabitants long after personal hope has narrowed into obsession, but his fairness remains defined by rules he controls: he crushes those he considers cheaters, holds miniature worlds as leverage, and makes refusal nearly impossible. His deepest weakness is an inability to release the dead. Once Jaehwan makes the endless repetition behind that wish undeniable, Eoduksi can abandon his reward and redirect the same resolve toward preventing another Great Disappearance. (Chapters 157–175)

Powers and limitations

Divine World Power and martial skill

As the God of Ashes, Eoduksi was the first Seven Star, one of the Abyss's leading gods, and a candidate for the supreme divine rank. His former career as a 「Rift」 Division Commander also leaves him with elite Awakened combat experience. Even after losing Chronos's connection and his Seven Star position, he can confront two high-ranking gods supported by a Gigantes and later wound a Great Lord through coordinated combat. Rank does not remove the power gap above him: Gigantes-class force cracks his ash defense, while Barcant's full power leaves him unable to rise or protect Runald. (Chapters 157, 164–166, 211–212, and 228–230)

Eoduksi explicitly no longer possesses a Sanctuary. The supplied chapters do not explain when or how it was lost, only that its absence prevents him from reaching seven hundred years into the past by his own Awakening. He therefore depends on Chronos's limited time Setting and the Driver's promised reward for his restoration plan. This distinction is decisive: immense World Power makes Eoduksi formidable inside existing rules, but it cannot supply the personal world needed to realize the wish that governs his life. (Chapters 158–166 and 172–175)

Metallic Ash, Ash Sword, and Ash Pentagon

Metallic Ash is Eoduksi's ash-based Part, used as a hard defensive layer and as material for weapons or fragments. It withstands ordinary divine attacks but cracks when Cheonryung's Gigantes amplifies the assault. Ash Sword, a Part designed for one-on-one combat, makes its cuts spread corrosive ash through the opponent and can expand into a massive blade. The weapon fails to affect Jaehwan for a reason the combatants cannot prove; its possible relation to the original Void Sword is raised but not confirmed. Against Barcant, a successful cut visibly eats into the Great Lord's shoulder. (Chapters 164–166, 212, and 228)

Ash Pentagon creates an enclosed one-on-one law in which outside aid and escape are blocked until the hourglass runs out. Despite the name, its boundary is described as a hexagonal ring. The Setting favors Eoduksi's specialized sword and denies an opponent reinforcements, but it binds its caster to a lethal condition: he must kill the target before the sand empties or suffer a fatal blow himself. Eoduksi declines to use it against Barcant because the Great Lord is too strong, showing that the Setting enforces a duel rather than guaranteeing its outcome. (Chapters 164–166 and 228)

Time Rewind and Time Acceleration

Time Rewind is a power supplied through Eoduksi's connection to Chronos. It reconstructs an area's particles into an earlier arrangement and normally resets the consciousness of those caught within it, letting Eoduksi repeat several minutes of combat while retaining knowledge of the previous sequence. He uses roughly eighteen hundred repetitions to learn Jaehwan's patterns. The technique is not true universal reversal: its range and duration are limited, it consumes World Power, Jaehwan gradually senses the repetitions, and a Sanctuary without Yesterday halts its effect. Chronos can also exploit the same connection to possess Eoduksi, and Catastrophe's expulsion of Chronos removes the Setting from him. (Chapters 158–167 and 212)

Time Acceleration is Eoduksi's improvised application of Chronos's unique Time Rewind in reverse. After Catastrophe has expelled Chronos's possessing presence, Eoduksi remains the only person able to move inside the Driver's frozen Metaverse and forces this newly improvised Setting into effect, giving Jaehwan an opportunity to continue destroying the Tower. The incomplete method makes silver blood run from his nose and mouth. Later evidence explicitly says Eoduksi's link with Chronos was severed in the Metaverse and that he can no longer use Time Rewind; no post-Metaverse chapter shows Time Acceleration again. (Chapters 167, 174–175, and 212)

Exclusive Contract

Exclusive Contract is a many-on-one Setting used against Eoduksi by Cheonryung rather than a power he owns. Within a five-kilometer radius, it blocks Eoduksi from invoking Ash Sword or Ash Pentagon and grants one side a twenty-percent World Power advantage. His struggle under the contract demonstrates the dependence of his strongest ash techniques on their activation rules: when those Parts and Settings are prohibited, he must rely on Metallic Ash, ordinary weapons, experience, and residual divine strength. (Chapter 212)

Power progression

Relationships

• Jaehwan: Eoduksi first treats Jaehwan as a possible successor to his unanswered question and then as an opponent to be forced through the Metaverse. Their duel destroys his confidence in repetition, while Jaehwan's refusal of the Driver helps him release the hope of restoring his Companions. Eoduksi later fights beside Jaehwan and accepts his departure from the Abyss.

• Yu Seolha: Seolha knew Eoduksi as Senior Brother Kim Siwoon and wants him to return to 「Rift」. He refuses, seals her rather than defeating her directly, and later hears her threaten to destroy 「Rift」 if it causes another Great Disappearance. Their bond preserves shared history but cannot restore their former comradeship.

• Chronos: Chronos is the only god said to have defeated Eoduksi when he arrived in the Abyss, then makes him a right-hand subordinate and supplies Time Rewind. The relationship gives Eoduksi enormous power while allowing Chronos to possess him. Once Catastrophe severs the link, Eoduksi loses both that control and those time abilities.

• The Driver and his Companions: Eoduksi serves the Driver's system for six hundred years because he believes its reward can restore the people killed in the Great Disappearance. He preserves their miniatures and memories until the final floors show that repetition cannot resurrect the particular lives he lost, after which he attacks the Driver and lets the miniatures crumble as a funeral.

• Russell: After the Alliance falls, Eoduksi joins Russell in defending the Seventh Site. Their cooperation against Cheonryung and Barcant replaces the isolated one-on-one authority of Eoduksi's former reign with a willingness to fight as one member of a larger defense.

Items

• Ash Sword: Eoduksi's one-on-one Part spreads corrosive ash from a successful cut and works with Ash Pentagon to isolate a target. It fails against Jaehwan under unexplained circumstances, is blocked by Exclusive Contract, and later wounds Barcant when Eoduksi fights with allies. (Chapters 164–166, 212, and 228)

• Time Cube: Eoduksi uses a reinforced Cube to imprison Seolha after her Sanctuary resists Time Rewind. The Cube contains her for three days despite sustained attacks from within, providing a containment solution where his direct time technique cannot force the desired result. (Chapters 159, 163, and 167)

• Metaverse miniatures: Eoduksi maintains miniature versions of the Metaverse's floors and inhabitants, including representations tied to his dead Companions. They are instruments of control as well as memorials: he can threaten a floor through its miniature, but their collapse during the Driver's destruction finally marks his acceptance that preservation is not restoration. (Chapters 157–158 and 172–175)