Seo Joo-Heon (Tomb Raider King)

Seo Joo-Heon is the main protagonist of the webnovel and webtoon series, Tomb Raider King. He was betrayed and killed by his boss, but he was saved by a mighty relic by sending my mind back 15 years ago. Now with an understanding of the future, he will seek revenge on his boss, stop a large evil corporation from dominating the world, and become the King of the Relics.
==Personality==
He is very arrogant, confident, greedy, and selfish, but never goes too far. He acts like he only cares about himself, but he truly cares about those closest to him, especially his subordinates, which makes him a radical tsundere. He treats them like family and enjoys spending a lot of attention and time towards helping them improve their skills to their full potential and become better people despite blatantly discriminating against them and working them like slaves. Also, he would always put on a brave front when he is with them to prevent people, especially his lovers, from worrying about him and nagging him. Furthermore, he would not hesitate to abandon his goals once he discovers that the people he cares about are in real danger.
He is ruthless and is not afraid of slaughtering, torturing, and deceiving his enemies every day which are people whom he treats as pawns and toys.
He is so dirty and petty that he would break all the rules and scam everyone to get everything that he wanted. His passion and obsession to obtain relics and take down his enemies are stronger and hotter than anybody else. He is relentless and would continue to reach greater heights to enact vengeance on his enemies. However, he is also extremely rational and cold like a wild beast that did not show its fangs unless it needed to do so. He has no proper sense of etiquette and lacks conventional heroic qualities but can be very charismatic. He has a "What's yours is mine, what's mine is mine" mentality
==Origins/History==
In the year 2025, mysterious tombs appeared worldwide, filled with relics inspired by myths and legends. People dedicated their lives to finding these treasures. Seo Joo-Heon joined the search late due to personal hardships but eventually became a skilled relic user. He conquered the Tomb of Greed alone, obtaining Mammon's Relic. Using his newfound power, he cleared dangerous tombs and became the first to conquer one of the Seven Great Tombs. Seo Joo-Heon formed the Guerrilla Excavation Team but faced betrayal from his right-hand man, John Harper. Despite the challenges, he joined TKBM and worked to cure his adoptive family's Relic Syndrome.Chairman Kwon recognized Seo Joo-Heon's exceptional skills and talents as a tomb raider and sought to harness them for his own gain. He made promises to Seo Joo-Heon, offering him wealth, support for his family's illnesses, and a position of importance within his organization, TKBM. 
Seo Joo-Heon, driven by the desperation to cure his adoptive family's Relic Syndrome, reluctantly agreed to serve Chairman Kwon. Despite receiving better offers from other influential figures, Seo Joo-Heon saw Chairman Kwon as the only one capable of fulfilling his needs. He became Chairman Kwon's loyal servant, undertaking dangerous and morally questionable missions, such as smuggling, theft, and even assassination.
Under Chairman Kwon's command, Seo Joo-Heon formed and led Team 13, a group of skilled relic users within TKBM. Their primary objective was to secure relics and eliminate Chairman Kwon's rivals and competitors. Through their efforts, Chairman Kwon rose to become the strongest relic user in the world, with Seo Joo-Heon and his team playing a crucial role in his success.
However, as Chairman Kwon's power and influence grew, Seo Joo-Heon and his team faced increasing disdain and contempt from other relic users. They were seen as pawns serving a dictator and were subjected to insults and mockery. Despite the criticisms, Seo Joo-Heon remained committed to Chairman Kwon, believing that only he had the resources and relics necessary to support his family.
But, as their ultimate mission inside The Great Prison tomb approached, Seo Joo-Heon began to realize that Chairman Kwon had betrayed him and his team. Instead of fulfilling their agreement, Chairman Kwon sent them into a deadly trap, leaving Seo Joo-Heon as the sole survivor, severely injured and filled with resentment.
This betrayal marked a turning point for Seo Joo-Heon. Fueled by anger and a thirst for revenge, he vowed to take down TKBM and Chairman Kwon, even if it meant his own demise. It was in this desperate moment that the Crow relic offered him a chance to change his fate and rewrite history. The Crow then transported his consciousness back in time to January 1, 2025, allowing him to retain all his memories and experiences.
Now, with an understanding of the future, he will seek revenge on his boss, stop a major evil syndicate from dominating the world, and become the King of the Relics. 
==Powers and Abilities==
=== Tomb Excavation ===
He is too talented and dangerous that he can evacuate tombs by himself.
=== Relic Proficiency ===
He can bring about close to 100% of a relic's power and discover new abilities with certain relics whereas most relic users can only draw out 70% at max and Kings can draw out 90% but never get close to 100%. He can also use lower grade relics to take down higher grade relics.
=== Memories of the Future that Happened in the Past ===
He has access to all the memories, experiences, and knowledge he accumulated from his past life where he was the greatest evacuator in the world. Thanks to his good memory, he remembered all of the important relics and tombs he learned and encountered in his past life in addition to other valuable information.
=== Knowledge of Law, Politics, History, and Culture ===
He has a thorough and deep understanding of these four concepts which enables him to deal with legal and political issues and deduce the identities of unfamiliar relics as well as their abilities, risks, weaknesses, and/or requirements.
=== Combat Skills ===
He is an extremely talented fighter who can easily and quickly incapacitate or execute a horde of talented relic users including Hunters in an enclosed space by himself. He can use a variety of weapons like trained professionals and infamous homicidal murderers. He can beat Lee Seol-Ah who is a talented martial arts fighter and former National Special Agent but is unknown whether he can beat Im Hae Jin who is a legendary Hunter and tanker whose immense strength and tough skin earned him the titles of Asura and the Ghost of Death.
=== Teaching Skills ===
He is a godly teacher who can improve and polish an individual's skills and talents to a extremely high level in less than a month.
== Allies ==
Sasaki Yuka
She is a third year middle school student who works for TKBM as a seer since she is the owner of Prince Shōtoku's Future Guide, a relic that an reveal the potential future of someone the user has made eye contact with but only to the user in poetic Kanji. In the original timeline, she was eventually killed by Joshua Jackson.
In new timeline, after Seo Joo-Heon destroyed her relic, she now lives a normal life and became the manager of Seo Joo-Heon's Fan Club which secretly consists of talented female relic users of all ages and backgrounds in order to compensate for a lack of manpower in Seo Joo-Heon's tomb raiding team.
Seo Joo-Heon's Fan Club
Seo Joo-Heon Fan Club is a club that gathers talented female Relic users of all ages and backgrounds such as celebrities, nobles, students, teachers, and more. Seo Joo-Heon was originally formed just to upgrade Zoroaster's Avesta (relic) and use it to its full potential but it was later used to make up for the shortage of manpower in  Seo Joo-Heon's tomb raiding team
Edward
He is a world renowned weapons and information merchant and illegal arms dealer. He used to work as a secret agent until he racked up infamy and disappear into the underworld. He served as Chairman Kwon Tae-Joon's middleman and sold relics from Chairman Kwon Tae-Joon to other national governments or influential people for hefty sums.
He currently works as the CEO (in name only) of Grave Corporation ever since Seo Joo-Heon helped him regain his honor and reputation after he was attacked by Keira Clark.
=== Chloe Laurent (Past live teammate) ===
Chloe Laurent was a member of TKBM's Team 13 under the command of Seo Joo-Heon. She is a medic skilled at healing the injured and suppressing risks caused by relics. She can store relic risks inside bottles and use them on people.
=== Ilya Volgof (Past live teammate) ===
Ilya Volgof was a member of TKBM's Team 13 under the command of Seo Joo-Heon. He is the most skilled of the Aftermath Clean-up Crew which specializes in modifying memories and disbanding tomb raiding teams.
=== Im Hae Jin (Past live teammate) ===
Im Hae Jin was a member of TKBM's Team 13 under the command of Seo Joo-Heon. He is a legendary Hunter and tanker whose immense strength and tough skin earned him the titles of Asura and the Ghost of Death. He is like a human weapon that allowed Seo Joo-Heon to only focus on tomb evacuation. All of the bounty hunters, assassins, monopolizers, and the team's enemies had to first get past him who shed no blood and tears as an indestructible iron wall and guard of the team. Unfortunately for them, most of them were ripped to shreds before they could even get close and consequently, everyone quaked in fear of him. Even Ilya Volgof who never got close to anyone in the team did not want to think of angering or even attacking him.
=== Julian Miller (Past live teammate) ===
Julian Miller was the strategist and vice leader of TKBM's Team 13 under the command of Seo Joo-Heon. He was a talented executive human rights lawyer who had a perfect record with no losses and successfully took care of every legal matters involving Team 13 and TKBM.
=== June (Past live teammate) ===
June was a member of TKBM's Team 13 under the command of Seo Joo-Heon. He was an intern and a young boy who graduated from high school and made mistakes every so often but was pretty talented and sharp that Seo Joo-Heon cherished him. He is a relic hiding among the humans similar to how Prometheus's Relic had taken a human form and had been the way even before he joined Seo Joo-Heon's team in TKBM.
=== Lee Seol-Ah (Past live teammate) ===
Lee Seol-Ah was a member of TKBM's Team 13 under the command of Seo Joo-Heon. She is a spy and scout skilled at finding people and relics throughout the world. She is also a talented martial arts fighter and a loyal secretary and advisor of Seo Joo-Heon.
=== Yoo Jae-Ha (Past live teammate) ===
He was Chairman Kwon Tae-Joon's personal restorer and a member of TKBM's Team 13 under the command of Seo Joo-Heon. He was the Monarch of Fraud who frequently scammed everyone in the world thanks to the Relic, Leonardo da Vinci's Notebook of Ideas.
Kwon Hyuk Soo
He is the sworn younger bloodbrother of Chairman Kwon Tae-Joon, the shadow boss of TKBM, one of the world's top three influential figures in the finance world, and a major player in the underworld who committed a variety of crimes such as destroying evidence, modifying global events, and planning assassinations for his amusement. If Chairman Kwon Tae-Joon was the CEO and visual face of TKBM, he was the man who operated TKBM in the shadows. After Seo Joo-Heon convinced him to use The Copy of the Raven’s Tears (A relic can partially restore a target's memories, emotions, and experiences from an alternative timeline) on himself, he immediately betrayed Chairman Kwon Tae-Joon and later refused to cooperate with the Knights of the Round Table in rescuing Prometheus when Prometheus was imprisoned in The Great Prison by Seo Joo-Heon. Instead, he allowed Seo Joo-Heon to do as he please and left the Knights of the Round Table since he always admired Seo Joo-Heon's talents, believed that Seo Joo-Heon would become the final victor in the war for relics, and wanted to make Seo Joo-Heon his number one disciple to receive benefits.
== Enemies ==
James Rothschild (Prometheus's Relic)
It is one of the supreme leaders, like the Gu Poison Relic. It is the one who introduced relics into the world and created Pandora to accomplish its goal of controlling the world and enslaving humans.
Gu Poison Relic
It is one of the two supreme leaders with the other being Prometheus's Relic. It was originally a human until it was eaten by a relic and reborn as the Gu poison Relic. Although it has been human in the past, he seeks to eliminate all humans
Pandora (Organization)
Pandora is a global organization that manages and controls tombs worldwide. They not only seek to conquer these tombs, but also use relics to spread terror in countries that refuse to join Pandora. After witnessing the horrors caused by the relics, they forcefully compel these countries to participate. While claiming to maintain order, Pandora's members are driven by greed and power, caring little for the well-being of others. Led by the relic Prometheus and the monopolists, their ultimate objective is world domination and enslavement. They go to extreme lengths, even resorting to creating artificial relics from human remains. 
Eve Rockefeller
She is the director of Pandora and a member of the Executive Board of Pandora and the Knights of the Round Table, who are responsible for spreading the Relic Syndrome and using their corpses as ingredients to create Artificial Relics. She was the power player behind her family that was creating Kings and the Four Emperors. She has Merlin Relic which could raise a person's Dominance up to the level of a King. 
Four Emperors
The four great factions in which their leaders, the Monarchs among Monarchs, serve as the core relic users who will control the flow of the world. These Kings are in positions where they have access to amazing manpower, abilities, and wealth. They are also in spots where it is difficult to eliminate them. Once the four of them are announced to the world, the only way someone else can become a Emperor is if one of the four decides to give away his or her position to that person. Even if one of them dies, there cannot be a replacement Emperors
* Kwon Tae-Joon
He is the CEO of TKBM. In the original timeline, he betrayed Team 13 when he viewed Seo Joo-Heon and his teammates as too talented and dangerous even though they eliminated most of TKBM's toughest competitors such as Jin Chae Won and Keira Clark and raised him to the number one spot in the Four Emperors. As one of the  Four Emperors, he obtained the title of King of Conquest by using the powerful Caesar's Relic, which allows him to sway the wills of those who are weaker in spirit and making them obey his every command, cementing his status as one of the Four Emperors
* Keira Clark
She is a U.S. army general who is in charge of relic missions issued by the United States. In the original timeline, she was the King of War and one of the Four Emperors who monopolized all map type relics, caused numerous world wars with the help of U.S. President Jacob Grey and relics stored in the Pentagon. Like the other Four Emperors, Keira Clark possesses a powerful relic that helped her ascend to the position and maintain her power: Sekhmet's Relic. This Relic grants the user the ability to obliterate anything in the world, as long as they know its location. In the original timeline, Keira caused World War III with Sekhmet's relic, but thanks to the intervention of the MC, Seo Joo-Heon, this catastrophe was averted in the new timeline.
* Jin Chae Won (Ex-Girlfriend)
Jin Chae Won is the leader of the C-R Alliance(China-Russia Alliance) and is known as the Monarch of Gluttony thanks to her Gu Poison Relic. In the original timeline, she was the strongest of the Four Emperors 
* Ali
He is the leader of Ali's Terrorist Organization and is known as the King of Evangelism thanks to Zoroaster's Avesta. He was the weakest of the Four Emperors. In the original timeline, he and his entire empire in the Middle East were completely destroyed by Seo Joo-Heon and his teammates. After Seo Joo-Heon noticed that his Zoroaster's Avesta was currently in the hands of Austin Rockefeller, he stole it which, in turn, weakened his influence and power. Even though he still became a Monarch and one of the Four Emperors like he had accomplish in the original timeline, he is significantly weaker and is under attack by the capricious Jin Chae Won.
=== Yang Chen (Traitor) ===
He was originally the last member to join Team 13 after being kicked out from the top ranked evacuation team in TKBM. The reason for him being kicked out was that he became crippled due to the risk of his Apollo's Relic which also resulted in him being removed from the King lineup. Although Seo Joo-Heon knew this, he pretended not to know and helped him recover. Although he was treated like a fellow comrade, he still chose to betray the team when he was promised the director spot of TKBM by Chairman Kwon Tae-Joon. After the Time and Space Relic forcibly send Seo Joo-Heon's consciousness back to the past, Yang Chen soon perished when Seo Joo-Heon used this opportunity to confront him for betraying the team when he was promised the director spot of TKBM by Chairman Kwon Tae-Joon and personally give him a painful demise.
=== Joshua Jackson ===
Joshua Jackson, a 22-year-old English hikikomori gaming otaku, is the enigmatic Monarch of Fate. As a member of Pandora's Executive Board, he wields immense power, pulling the strings behind the world's influential leaders. Utilizing the Delphi Shrine (relic) and Nostradamus' Prophecies (relic), he possesses the ability to control and predict the future, making him a formidable puppeteer. Joshua manipulates the wealthy and politicians, amassing wealth, fame, and influence by offering glimpses into their destinies. After Seo Joo-Heon abducted him and had Ilya Volgof use his Freud's Relic to use and control him for Seo Joo-Heon's intricate plan of monopolizing the Heirlooms and removing the other Kings from their positions, he had no choice but to betray Pandora and become the leader of a cult worshipping Seo Joo-Heon to protect himself from the angry monopolizers who wanted someone to blame for the Heirlooms issue.
=== Wade Harman ===
Wade Harman (aka: King of Propaganda/Gossip) led the Sino-Soviet Evacuation Team Alliance and possessed a powerful relic known as the Goebbels' Relic. This relic granted him the ability to manipulate information and control media outlets. With this relic, Wade could alter news reports, spread propaganda, and influence public opinion to serve his own agenda. The Goebbels' Relic was a formidable tool that allowed Wade to shape narratives and deceive others, further enhancing his influence and control over modern society. However, after being poisoned by Seo Joo-Heon's Nergal's Relic and had his Goebbels' Relic taken, he rushed to Jin Chae Won who instead of curing his inflictions, chose to execute him for his failure.
=== Matthew Tyler ===
He is a U.S. soldier who is possession of Hitler's Relic and is secretly a spy who is allied with Ali and the other terrorists in the Middle East. He tried to establish a business relationship with Seo Joo-Heon by offering to help him in his tomb evacuations in order to obtain Goebbels' Relic. However, Seo Joo-Heon politely declined his offer after knowing who he is and where his allegiances lies.
=== Benjani ===
The leader of the terrorist organization named Noah that aims to eradicate all relics and return the world to a state before the appearance of tombs and relics. In reality, she is just like all the other greedy monopolizers. As she ordered her followers to annihilate all relic users, she secretly collected those relics for herself. In the original timeline, she forcibly sold Chloe Laurent off to TKBM under the condition that she becomes a King.
=== John Harper (Traitor) ===
John Harper was a member of TKBM's Team 13 under the command of Seo Joo-Heon. He is Pandora/Vatican's watchdog and a member of the Knights of the Round Table who was sent to spy on Seo Joo-Heon under the pretense of becoming Seo Joo-Heon's right hand man. However, after his position was compromised, he was executed by Seo Joo-Heon. He then used Jesus of Nazareth's Relic to revive himself and adopt a new appearance and identity: Samuel before joining Seo Joo-Heon's team to continue his spy task.
=== Allenby Family ===
A rich and influential family of white supremacists in the United States who serve Pandora. They were ordered by Eve Rockefeller and Henry to adopt Seo Joo-Heon and Seo Joo-Won back when the two of them were orphans and were suspected of being Norus's distant descendants or reincarnations with the use of The Emperor's Throne. However, they decided to only adopt Seo Joo-Won after Seo Joo-Heon stole their wallets and set their car on fire. They were also the same ones who caused Seo Joo-Won to suffer and perish from a severe case of Relic Syndrome with the help of Eve Rockefeller and Henry after forcing her to advance Pandora with her relic engineering skills and preparing her as a sacrifice for Un-Known(artificial relics) in the original timeline.
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