Mulack Armelt

Mulack Armelt is the Dream Demon who created Jaehwan's Tower, led the first Abyss Expedition, and left the Record of the Abyss. His long effort to end cultivation ultimately carries him through Transcendence and into the position of Big Brother, where he becomes the final defender of the System he once opposed.

Biography

The Last Walker and the Broken Tower to Arrival in Chaos and Gorgon

Mulack enters Jaehwan's story through the Fortress of Regret, the second Tower he made and a work completed before he reached the rank of Master. Beastrein bought the Tower and used it to cultivate Earth as a Product, while its summons drew those who accepted them into a dream. Mulack's undocumented Stone of Regression scenario made the Fortress the first regression Tower, and its success inspired a wider fashion for the device. What other Dream Demons treated as an eccentric artistic choice therefore became the mechanism by which most of Jaehwan's fellow Walkers abandoned their existing timeline. (Chapters 4 and 8)

Mulack also left graffiti beyond the Fortress's normal scenario. It identifies Towers as Roots supporting the First Nightmare at the summit of the Phantasmal Tree and directs anyone who sees through the Tower toward that origin. Jaehwan discovers the message after rejecting Beastrein's cultivation offer and breaking the Tower, so Mulack's hidden testimony turns the wreckage of his own creation into a route out of it. The Tower thus preserves both sides of Mulack's history: his complicity in cultivation and an earlier attempt to point a successful rebel toward the structure behind it. (Chapters 8 and 11)

Arrival in Chaos and Gorgon to Catastrophe and the Abyss Expedition

Nine hundred years before Jaehwan reaches 《Chaos》, Mulack enters it alive through the Dream Demon treasure called the Narrow Door. He becomes known there as a first-grade Threat Point whose ability, judgment, and sense of justice exceed even ninth-stage Adapters. He accepts the still-incomplete Chunghuh, organizes the first Abyss Expedition, and states a purpose broader than obtaining the Fruit: he wants to end cultivation itself. Tower-making has become a sin to him, and he regards that guilt as his to carry even though an apology cannot undo the suffering of Products. (Chapters 36–38, 52, 56, and 58)

The expedition reaches farther than later history first admits. A Fruit falls from the Branches, indicating that Mulack attained the upper reaches of the Phantasmal Tree, but the Great Lands' House Heads take it when the expedition returns. Mulack then vanishes after declaring that he has both failed and not failed. Along the way he confronts the true body of Catastrophe, cannot overcome the Ancient God, and makes an unfulfilled promise that remains meaningful centuries later. Jaehwan invokes that promise to win passage into the Abyss, continuing a route Mulack opened but did not visibly complete. (Chapters 37–38, 41, 62, and 87–90)

Mulack's influence also survives through Sirwen Armelt, the Dream Demon whose Egg he found at the Winter Root and whom he raised as a goddaughter. His Soul-Centrism shapes her values, while his work shapes her magic: she uses Eight Gates of Hell, the legendary illusion he created. Its final gate holds the Record of the Abyss, a fragmented set of his memories from the expedition's formation to shortly before its final challenge. The fragments document his companions, the stages of Awakening, and the route upward, but their gaps and disordered form force Jaehwan and Sirwen to interpret rather than simply replay Mulack's experience. (Chapters 69, 76, 78–79, and 82–85)

The Metaverse and Its Gods to The Great Forest and the Rift

In the Abyss, the Record becomes a partial guide rather than a complete map. Mulack's name remains second in 〈Metaverse〉's all-time rankings, proof that he followed the competitive route toward its summit, while scattered entries surface as Jaehwan reaches places Mulack once crossed. The document recognizes the Great Forest's Long-Lived Clan and the trials later reflected in Eight Gates of Hell, but sometimes supplies little more than a name. Its incompleteness preserves the practical limit of recorded memory: Jaehwan can inherit clues and perspective from Mulack without inheriting the journey's missing answers. (Chapters 104, 127, 168, 195, 198, and 200)

The Great Forest finally provides a way to read beyond the Record's original fragments. La-Hamad identifies it as the Clothes Mulack left behind and reveals that Mulack was the first outsider to reach the end of Purgatory and take Gestalt's Eye. After Jaehwan obtains Gestalt's Eye, he can look into those Clothes directly. The recovered account establishes that Mulack climbed the Phantasmal Tree to prevent cultivation, endured a long succession of despair and unreachable hopes, and knowingly modeled Eight Gates of Hell on trials he had passed. What seemed to be an abandoned travelogue becomes the surviving continuity of his anti-cultivation self. (Chapters 200 and 206)

Only One World to The First Nightmare and Revision

Mulack's disappearance and his later presence at the Nest are separated by radically different experiences of time, not by two separate identities. After reaching the Time Waterfall, he undergoes Transcendence and becomes the current Big Brother, manager of the Panopticon. He explains that every Master is eventually drawn toward the First Nightmare, driven mad by the Waterfall, and recovered into one of the Panopticon's tanks. Cultivation across Towers, Chaos, the Great Lands, and the Abyss is ultimately arranged to produce possible successors; Jaehwan is offered the position of 1,131st Big Brother. Mulack now dismisses his ancient opposition as the fragile view of a younger self and sees ordinary existences as insects whose worlds can be administered from above. (Chapters 242–244)

That change produces his final conflict with Jaehwan. Mulack argues that the System is optimized and stable, and that destroying it in the name of liberation would trample the lives and choices already formed within it. When persuasion fails, he uses the Panopticon itself as a battlefield, attacks through space and time, and draws weapons and abilities from the former Big Brothers stored in its tanks. Jaehwan's transcendent Clothes eventually destroy Mulack's armaments and most of the Panopticon's screens, but even after his body begins collapsing, Mulack continues offering recognition and a truce rather than surrendering the institution he protects. (Chapters 244–249)

Defeated, Mulack admits that he had wanted only to make a good world. He identifies the First Nightmare as the home and origin of every Tower: a world where the System is not visibly symbolized, its irrationality passes unnoticed, and Jaehwan does not exist. His later maintenance of conspicuous cultivation and exaggerated Unique Worlds was meant to keep that deeper nightmare from descending. Before he can fully explain the danger, Jaehwan's Clothes seize the Void Sword, kill him, and scatter his soul. Jaehwan later retains Mulack's warning, leaving the failed Master's final testimony to guide the next stage just as his graffiti and Record had done before. (Chapters 249–250 and 261)

Appearance and personality

Mulack is nearly human in appearance but retains the visible traits of a Dream Demon: small horns at his temples and tiny wings at his shoulder blades. His prolonged existence at the Panopticon leaves that body replaceable and visibly damaged. By the end of his battle with Jaehwan, one eye is blind, his lost left arm has been replaced by a Part taken from Deus, his legs are assembled from former Big Brother Parts, and World Power leaks from his torn abdomen. (Chapters 242 and 248)

The historical Mulack is remembered as exceptionally just and wise. He loves the infant Sirwen, accepts Chunghuh despite the latter's incomplete Awakening, and treats his work on Towers as a moral injury for which he—not his Products—must bear responsibility. Transcendence does not erase those memories, but it alters the scale at which he values them. As Big Brother he can speak warmly while regarding ordinary lives as insects and defending an imposed order for their supposed protection. His dying wish for a good world shows that the older motive survives beneath the contempt, even after its practical conclusion has reversed. (Chapters 52, 56, 76, 83, 243, and 250)

Powers and limitations

Mulack's abilities belong to distinct periods. Before Transcendence he is a Dream Demon, Master Tower-maker, expedition leader, and combatant above ordinary high-stage Adapters. At the Panopticon he has become a transcendent Big Brother whose body, environment, and borrowed Parts operate on a much larger scale. The corpus does not give a single numerical measure that can validly compare every point in that development. (Chapters 52, 56, 76, 242–244)

Dream Demon craft and Eight Gates of Hell

As one of the Great Thirteen Masters, Mulack designs Towers and can anticipate trends within Dream Demon craft. The Fortress of Regret is only his second Tower and predates his Master rank, yet its regression mechanic is novel enough to reshape the market. His other named creation, Eight Gates of Hell, is a layered illusion based on the Great Forest's Purgatory trials. Its seventh gate confronts a victim with selves accumulated across their life, while the eighth serves as a reward space containing the Record. Sirwen, rather than Mulack, demonstrates the spell in the present, so the text does not establish whether his personal casting had the same limitations as hers. (Chapters 4, 8, 69, 72, 76, and 200)

The Record of the Abyss is both an informational work and a remnant of Mulack's Clothes. It conveys memories, historical observations, and knowledge of Awakening, but it is neither continuous nor exhaustive. New context and Gestalt's Eye can recover or expose further memories, while ordinary access may yield only disconnected passages. Its most important limitation is its final absence: it stops before the expedition's final challenge and cannot answer every question about Mulack's disappearance without later evidence. (Chapters 78–79, 82–85, 198, and 206)

Transcendent space and time

At the Panopticon, Mulack's power is identified with the surrounding space. He can make the entire environment batter Jaehwan, condense and hurl distorted clumps of space, vary the passage of time, and use the facility's spatial pressure to dissolve a target's soul and existence. This authority overwhelms Jaehwan's initial Destruction and Three Divine Artifacts because it is not a conventional projectile or bodily strike: the arena itself becomes Mulack's weapon. The same dependence is a vulnerability. When Destruction devastates the Panopticon, Mulack loses much of the controlled structure through which he fights. (Chapters 244–246 and 249)

His command of time is demonstrated as local acceleration, deceleration, and contraction during the battle, not as unrestricted travel into and revision of the past. Mulack himself has endured the Time Waterfall and an immense subjective span, but the story does not attribute ordinary chronology-changing power to him. Transcendence also carries a psychological limitation: the time and perspective that grant him authority estrange him from the justice of his historical self and from the individual lives he claims to preserve. (Chapters 243–246 and 250)

Former Big Brother Parts and Panopticon support

Mulack can draw on weapons and body Parts stored from earlier Big Brothers, including named armaments such as World Breaker, Kaiser Wing, Soul That Never Returns, and Guardian Iron Wall. When he equips a former Big Brother's Part, he reproduces that predecessor's ability at his own level of Transcendence rather than merely imitating its outward form. He can awaken stored Big Brothers to form barriers or supply power, replace destroyed limbs with their Parts, and continue fighting with hundreds of armaments after severe bodily damage. (Chapters 246–248)

These resources are extensive but finite and externally housed. Jaehwan's transcendent Clothes can break individual armaments, and the three-billion-year Destruction of 66666 destroys the remaining arsenal and approximately eighty percent of the Panopticon's screens. Mulack can repair or replace his body while the facility and its tanks remain available, but he does not recover after the system supporting that replacement is ruined. The Void Sword then extinguishes his exposed soul, ending both his personal techniques and his control of the Panopticon. (Chapters 248–250)

Power progression

Relationships

• Jaehwan: Mulack's Tower, graffiti, Record, and final warning successively guide Jaehwan toward the First Nightmare. At the Nest, he seeks to make Jaehwan his successor and then fights him to preserve the System; their shared wish for a better world leads to opposite judgments about imposed order.
• Sirwen Armelt: Mulack finds Sirwen's Egg at the Winter Root, raises her as his goddaughter, and shapes her Soul-Centrism. She learns his Eight Gates of Hell and follows Jaehwan partly to discover what happened to him.
• Chunghuh: Mulack accepts the incomplete Awakened One into the first Abyss Expedition. Chunghuh's memories preserve Mulack as a just and formidable leader after the official history of the expedition has been distorted.
• Catastrophe: Mulack challenges Catastrophe during the first expedition and is unable to harm the Ancient God. The promise he leaves unfulfilled becomes the precedent through which Jaehwan negotiates his own contract and passage to the Abyss.
• Gestalt: Mulack reaches Gestalt's Purgatory, obtains Gestalt's Eye, and leaves Clothes that the artifact later lets Jaehwan read. That interaction restores the purpose concealed by the Record's gaps.
• Deus: At the Panopticon, Mulack uses a Part from Deus to replace his destroyed left arm. This is an equipment-derived repair, not evidence that Mulack possesses Deus's full identity or independent power.

Items

• Fortress of Regret: Mulack's second Tower and the first Tower built around regression; its hidden graffiti directs a successful rebel toward the First Nightmare.
• Eight Gates of Hell: A layered illusion created from trials Mulack encountered in the Great Forest; its final gate contains his Record.
• Record of the Abyss: Mulack's fragmented memories and surviving Clothes, recording much of the first Abyss Expedition but omitting its final challenge.
• Former Big Brother Parts: Weapons, replacement limbs, and defensive resources drawn from the Panopticon's stored predecessors. They let Mulack reproduce their abilities at his transcendent level but are destroyed during his final battle.