Atran

* Ch.144
* First Appearance

**Atran** is a Mysterious Merchant. It is unknown whether Mysterious Merchant as an organic being or one created by the Tower for the players' convenience.

## Personality

Atran has been shown to have the typical mindset of a merchant, with him typically acting hospitable and respectful to any potential customers he comes across while angling of how to make the most profit from them. With Atran in particular being known for being a highly intelligent and insightful merchant, with him typically "reading" his potential customers prior to doing business with them. Atran has also shown to be very shrewd and mocking side to his personality that he typically hides behind his modest merchant façade, this is seen where he inwardly insults and mocks those he deems to be "easy", in other words, fools that he could easily scam and manipulate to earn huge profit without effort, while manipulating them to sell him highly valuable items for dirt cheap prices due to them being oblivious to the item's actual worth. Atran has also shown to be ambitious, having been shown to work hard in order to work his way up the Merchant Union of the Mysterious Merchants and was delighted at his promotion after acquiring the "Emerald Tablet".

As shown, despite his general personality, Atran himself prioritizes his success over any personal grudge or feeling. This is seen where he still does business with the "Hoarder " despite his aggressive haggling and later despite being manipulated into helping him spark the fall of Walpurgisnacht, immediately jumped at the latter's offer for the Yaltabo's Safe's due to knowing that he could easily make his comeback into the higher ranks of the Merchant's Unions using them.

Atran has also shown to have strong pride as a merchant, having been enraged after his auction of the so called "Emerald Tablets" was ruined by Red Dragon and later vengefully hiring a large group of S-class Mercenary Rankers and getting mixed up in Red Dragon's war with Walpurgisnacht in order to get revenge against the Summer Queen and restore his rank within the other Mysterious Merchants's Union. However, due to him not being a Ranker or even a Player, Atran was oblivious to just how powerful the Summer Queen was and upon seeing her full might during her fight against the Martial King, Atran was traumatized at the sheer destruction they could cause without effort and cursed himself for ever thinking he could even come close to killing beings as powerful as them. Furthermore, due to seeing the psychotic glee the One-Horned Tribe took at massacring Red Dragon and anyone else in their way during Walpurgisnacht's fall and combined with the fear he developed for the Martial King during his fight against the Summer Queen, Atran has developed a severe phobia for One-Horned Humans in general.

## History

### **Volume 1**

He appeared in front of the sleeping Yeon-wo Cha inside the safe zone of Section A of the Tutorial. Yeon-woo bought 10 Return Scrolls to redo Section A in exchange for his over 50 stat points.

### **Volume 2**

He appeared in Hargan's Lair after Yeon-woo obtained ownership of it.

## Abilities

### Merchant Authorities

As a Mysterious Merchant of the Obelisk, Atran has access to several unique privileges private only to merchants and un-accessible to the Players and Rankers of the Tower.

Atran is capable of freely teleporting into any of the Floors within the Tower he desires for business trade purposes without needing to complete the Floor's trial due to him not being a Player, he can absorb and take a Players qualities such as speed, strength, endurance and other qualities as payment for the items he sells, he can access the Mysterious Merchant Unions various warehouses and storage houses and take whatever item he needs during a trade transaction, claim unclaimed territories such as mines and former lairs of Monsters in order to mine materials there for his business and the power to open screening gateways to observe and spy on players, similar to Floor Guardians, albeit at a much weaker level due to still being detectable.

## Relationships

* Cha Yeon-woo:
* Ice King: Atran had hired the Ice King to help him in his attempt against the Summer Queen, with him taking pride at having successfully done so and believed that having the Ice King's aid increased the chances of his vendetta working.
* Zang Wei: Atran had hired the former Bow God during his attempt at the Summer Queen's life during Red Dragon's raid against Walpurgisnacht. Due to him using an alias however, Atran did not know Zang Wei's identity as the former Bow God of Cheonghwado and simply took note of his exceptional strength.
* Nocturn: Atran had hired him to help him on his attempt at the Summer Queen's life during Red Dragon's raid at Walpurgisnacht. Atran himself did not know his actual identity as he used an alias, but he noted on his strength.
* Red Dragon Clan: Initially Atran had a good perception of Red Dragon due to their size and resources as one of the wealthiest clans in the Tower and as such good customers for his business as a Mysterious Merchant. However this changed after the debacle over the false Philosophers Stone tablet in the Kelart Auction incident, where Red Dragon attacked his merchant union and ruined the auction he oversaw that then blacklisted him in the Merchant Union. This then caused Atran to hunger for vengeance against them and hire an entire legion of S-Rank mercenaries in an attempt to attack Red Dragon during their raid against Walpurgisnacht. However after seeing the Summer Queen and later seeing her fight against the Martial King Nayu, Atran soon regretted his decision due to seeing their massive power and realized it was a pipe dream to even think that he could do anything against them.
* One-Horned Tribe: Initially Atran had a amicable view of the One-Horned Tribe due to them being counted as one of the Top Ten Clans within the Tower and as such valuable potential customers for his business as a Mysterious Merchant. However upon getting a front seat to the Tribe's battle against Red Dragon, he witnessed first hand the brutality and savagery the One-Horned Tribe possessed while in the throes of battle and blood-lust, having been shown to have been greatly disturbed and unnerved by the One-Horned Tribe's actions and antics while in battle and was shown to be visibly disturbed, neurotic, paranoid and uncomfortable when being in close proximity to One-Horned Humans.