Kim Su-hyeun

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Chapter #0001(wuxiaworldsite) (Kim Sung-in)Chapter #0555(wuxiaworldsite) (Kim Su-hyeun)

**Kim Su-hyeun** is the main protagonist of the novel **The Hero Returns.**

## Appearance

He is handsome with blue eyes and black Hair.

## Personality

He was a good son, and at one point, he did consider himself a hero.

## Background

### Past Life

Dong-ha University was one of the top three renowned universities in Korea. Su-hyeun was still attending this school until the day before, when he was Sung-in in his past life.

### Current life

no one knew of the student named Kim Sung-in, even if he remembered their faces and names.

I’m Kim Su-hyeun. There was a question that he had been asking himself numerous times for the past month: Am I Su-hyeun or Sung-in? And the answer to his question finally came. I’m now… Su-hyeun.

During his life as Kim Sung-in, he couldn’t even remember his father’s face. He passed on just as Kim Sung-in was old enough to remember things.

That was why he couldn’t recall a face or any recollection of their shared past. The same thing applied to this life.

“He passed on when I reached 18, right?”

He learned about that fact during his frequent chat with Shin Su-yeong. She used to talk about her husband reasonably often.

Being 18 years old meant that he was not too young to remember. Never mind just their fathers’ faces, but ordinary people around that age should have quite a lot of shared memories to recall.

But such a thing didn’t apply to Su-hyeun.

## History

“Spell power of 9 grade? Was there such a magical awakener?”

“For a guy like you, it may be.”

“It might be possible. No, it has to be possible.”

“Do you think he may be able to restore our world?”

He’d heard those kinds of words many times.

At the time, he didn’t know what they meant. No, he knew what they meant but wasn’t able to understand.

They demanded a lot of things from him.

They said, “Sung-in, you are our hope.” “You know what a hero is? The person who can save the world. You should consider yourself a hero. You understand what Mommy means, right?” That was his mother.

He was a good son, and at one point, he did consider himself a hero.

“You are the hero.”

“Please, please, save this world.”

“Mr. Kim, you are the only one now.”

And at last he died inside Fafnir's mouth and was resurrected in the past by his unique ability

### He is Not a normal person

It was said that he was not an ordinary person. Su-hyeun had no reason to deny it and couldn't even deny this idea in the first place.

If it was 'normal', no one in this world would qualify to be called 'special', and this wasn't just a matter of being stronger or better than others.

He has lived many lives

There was something unique and different about him compared to anyone else.

### Aganist fafnir

He was the only one left in the whole world. In that state, he continued to fight, and he fought some more. While he kept telling himself that he simply had to kill that Fafnir somehow and that would be the only way to resolve the knot in his heart, he kept fighting, he kept running away, and then he started fighting again.

Then, one day, on this very day, he came to a decision.

He decided that he would go all out without holding back right until the end—that he would not run away even if his fatigue level hit its limit, he couldn’t breathe anymore, and his magical energy was drained until there was nothing left.

After all, he was the only one alive.

Just like that, Kim Sung-in began fighting the monsters.

Even though he could sense his impending demise, he continued to fight back.

In front of him were hundreds of millions of monsters, yet Kim Sung-in still chose to become a spear to dig into his enemies’ ranks.

At the end of this horde was Fafnir, a giant over four meters tall, a monster with a dragon’s head.

No, it was not a monster but a predator.

Kim Sung-in momentarily faltered at that creature’s entrance.

The ominous magical energy in the purplish hue began tightening around his body. That was Fafnir’s magic.

And right at that moment…

A hole suddenly opened up in Kim Sung-in’s body. He was struck by the rake belonging to “Ant Hell,” a boss monster found inside an indigo-colored dungeon.

If it was any other time, he wouldn’t have been struck like this. His other stats might not be as high, but Kim Sung-in’s reflex stat at least had reached the three-digit mark and allowed him to basically “see” his immediate future, after all.

However, seeing the future and evading it were two different matters. Indeed, even if he did see what might happen in the future, his body still had to answer his command to evade in the first place.

By this time, it wouldn’t be all that surprising to see Kim Sung-in collapse in exhaustion.

Just like that, he went down on his knees.

His strength had run out. He attempted to straighten his knees that didn’t want to listen to him, but even doing that was impossible now.

Crunch, stab—!

Several more bloody holes opened up in his body, and his limbs were torn off by the fangs of the monsters. Even then, Kim Sung-in didn’t make any pained expression. His body simply sagged without energy.

Only then did Fafnir walk up to where he was.

“Even though we were enemies, you have been an excellent foe until the end, oh hero of humanity.”

Su-hyeun couldn’t forget that bastard’s voice even now, and when Kim Sung-in heard those words, he sensed his death finally approaching.

“You are the last one.”

Kim Sung-in looked into Fafnir’s eyes.

How could he ever forget the light burning in those monstrous eyes?

He became too exhausted trying to fight against hundreds of millions of monsters. “If only that wasn’t it,” was what he told himself, but the moment he looked into the predator’s eyes, Kim Sung-in became acutely aware of the truth.

Even if he had been in perfect condition, the end result wouldn’t have changed all that much.

Fafnir’s massive maw split wide open.

“I shall devour you and prey on this world.”

Back then, Kim Sung-in had no idea what those words even meant. He was about to die anyway, so he didn’t feel the need to ponder their true meaning.

Honestly speaking, he could feel just one emotion back then.

“Now, let’s go and die.”

Those words were his attempt at self-hypnosis.

He kept thinking like this. Even if he clung to his life, this world was already finished, anyway. He told himself that there was no point in dragging out a fight he couldn’t win.

He thought that he shouldn’t be afraid of something like dying, and so, he hardened his resolve.

But the truth was he didn’t want to die.

Kim Sung-in wished for everything to revert to how it was.

Crunch—!

Just like that, Kim Sung-in was swallowed up by Fafnir.

Right at that moment…

[All conditions have been satisfied.]

[The first authority of “Unique Ability: Samsara – Six Paths of Heavenly Ways” is being activated.]

[Samsara – Heavenly Ways of Reincarnation]

[Time will now be wound back.]

A miracle had begun.

## Past Lives

### Cheon Mu-jin Heavenly Demon

Su-hyeun acquired the memories and experiences of Cheon Mu-jin, which also included the martial art techniques of the man referred to as the Heavenly Demon.

“Hah…”

This was the biggest reason why he felt complicated things right now.

Su-hyeun closed his eyes. The reason for Cheon Mu-jin’s memories being the most vivid out of everything was solely because his life happened just before Su-hyeun’s began.

When he closed his eyes, the view of Cheon Mu-jin filled up his mind, and in this vision, countless people were being mercilessly slaughtered—all by his own hands, no less.

“Justice or whatever, I’m sick of such pretenses!”

“Do I look like a demonic madman to you?”

“If so, then just as you said, I shall become a demon!”

Those things were what he said as Cheon Mu-jin.

That person’s whole life was filled with rage. His boiling anger and resentment gradually turned him into a demonic villain with every passing year.

He hated the world and randomly killed people. Everyone was Cheon Mu-jin’s enemies, not just the vast nations ruled by emperors. Even the martial arts practitioners belonging to the righteous sects were his foes since they stood in his path.

He drove that world to the brink of destruction, and in the end, he, too, was driven to death.

Su-hyeun didn’t have enough confidence to keep watching these memories and opened his eyes again, “Seriously now, I was one nasty piece of work, wasn’t I?”

He scratched his head in irritation. He just couldn’t stand watching those past memories.

That person of his past life felt so close yet so far. That was because, although Cheon Mu-jin must’ve been a real person judging from how vivid the memories and experiences were, it still felt quite disharmonious to Su-hyeun as if he was stealing someone else’s memories.

### Grand Wizard, “Arwen”

He didn’t have much trouble trying to inscribe a magic circle that he didn’t know anything about until now.

It was all thanks to the memories of Arwen the Grand Wizard, the greatest wizard in the history of his world, who also happened to be one of Su-hyeun’s many past lives.

“I mean, I can now instantly understand the grimoire I was having a tough time with recently, so…”

Su-hyeun tried to read again the grimoire Ellid the red dragon gave to him. Thanks to the Six Paths of Past Lives, a part of his unique ability Samsara, he acquired the memories of Arwen. At the same time, he also got his hands on the theories concerning magic, as well as all the related experiences that he had been sorely lacking.

All of this allowed him to reach the same height as Ellid in terms of magic. No, wait; it shouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that, considering all the qualifications of godhood in his possession, he had already surpassed the red dragon to enter an even loftier realm.

### Set

Set hated the world and wished for it to end. He held the same belief as Cheon Mu-jin and thus belonged to the side of perfect “evil.”

As such, Su-hyeun didn’t feel much disharmony at this revelation. He had already experienced multiple past lives similar to that one before and could recall all the associated memories, after all.

That didn’t mean he could remember all of his past lives, however. The older the memories were, the slower and harder it was for him to recall them. Unsurprisingly, he only got to recall Set’s life quite belatedly.

No, wait—maybe he would’ve never remembered it if it weren’t for Osiris.

There was only one reason he remembered it sooner than the “schedule” dictated: because Osiris deliberately jolted Su-hyeun’s memories awake.

This scene eerily reminded him of Cheon Mu-jin’s memories. That man also bathed Murim in blood and, with the company of devil-like villains, slaughtered countless people.

The current scene was the result of Set’s actions. In other words, Su-hyeun himself.

Crunch—!

“Keuhk…”

Right at that moment, Osiris descended from above and stomped Su-hyeun down to the ground.

One of his arms was grabbed and twisted while the stomping foot pressed down even harder to make sure Su-hyeun couldn’t move. He didn’t try to escape, however, and simply waited for Osiris to say something.

You’ve done it again, Set.

“You’ve done it again, Set!”

As expected.

Su-hyeun could recall every word he said now.

Even the retort “Su-hyeun” had made afterward, too. “After I did all this… Can you still ‘understand’ me?”

Osiris faltered for a moment when Su-hyeun said that.

A warm drop of liquid fell on top of Su-hyeun’s head. It was Osiris’s tear.

Among the victims cut down, ripped apart, and slaughtered by Set’s blade—among all these people Set had murdered—were the members of Osiris’s family.

Set had murdered every single one of them with his own hands.

“That’s right.” Despite that, Osiris replied, “I do understand where you’re coming from, Set.”

“…”

“Because in the world you speak of, my family and I would also be a part of it,” Osiris said those words as he plopped down on the ground.

He did say he understood, but that was only because he was trying very hard to understand. Honestly speaking, he was greatly affected by the deaths of his loved ones.

Su-hyeun, or Set in this case, stared at Osiris on the ground.

He remembered it now.

He remembered his emotions while witnessing his oldest friend wail in grief and sorrow.

\* \* \*

Step, step—

Su-hyeun turned around and walked away from Osiris.

He was trying to get away from here. It felt like he might end up doing something terrible if he remained.

When he closed his eyes, the scenes from moments ago quickly filled up his mind.

“I was trying to kill him.”

Squeeze…

He gripped the sword in his hand even tighter.

That sword had been pointing at Osiris as he sobbed on the ground just now.

For a moment there, “Set” hesitated.

That was his last chance.

Osiris was always better than Set in every way. Not even once had Set bested Osiris in anything, and the latter had no choice but to imprison the former who grew to resent the world.

This incident was the first thing Set had done after breaking through the seal meant to trap him.

And then, Set was that close to killing Osiris, who was trying to forgive his former friend for murdering his family.

## Arks

### the seven deadly sins Ark

Su-hyeun took a deep breath at a sudden feeling of rage welling up in his chest. Among the seven deadly sins, Su-hyeun was most weak to feelings of wrath. The seven deadly sins were pride, envy, wrath, sloth, greed, gluttony, and lust. Among them, the Su-hyeun felt the most and could control the least was wrath.

Whenever he felt intense, Su-hyeun thought of those days; the days when the world was doomed. Everyone had died, and Su-hyeun felt upset and promised himself revenge on the monsters. His emotions at that time were no different from Wrath’s right at the moment. There was only a difference in degree, but it was the same emotion.

### Final Wars

After the war, due to absorbing the ability to destroy and using his ability by force from Vishnu and Shiva, he burned his soul at the end of his body. He could not heal the damage and the ability, so he only had a hundred years left, a hundred years was a long time. Still, for someone, in particular, he was also very short. The time limit was long for Su-hyeun but short for Sun Wukong. As time passed, Su-hyeun gradually became weaker, and began to suffer more and more in pain as if he was ill. It was all due to the power of destruction spreading unchecked in his body and soul. Finally he died and reincarnated, after a very long time Sun Wukong found him but he was Su-hyeun a different person who was a child and no longer remembers his previous life but has the same spirit as a hero.

## Trivia

* A magical awakener Spell power of 9 grade.
* He was a good son, and at one point, he did consider himself a hero.
* **Hero, hero, hero… That almost drove him crazy. Stop calling me that. Are you not getting tired of the word?**
* Su-hyeun had chosen Level 8 in his past life. It was quite difficult, and as tough as it was, the bounty was quite rewarding.
* He become an S-rank after only two years.
* In his previous life, Su-hyeun was a model student. His mother taught him both college-preparatory level English and conversational English. The language skills he learned became more useful when he became the awakener. The world was in danger and people needed to cooperate with awakeners in other countries.
* The guild master of the Dump Guild was the worst human being that Su-hyeun knew.
* Su-hyeun learned something new a god’s tear literally lowered a god’s qualification of godhood and that the tear he consumed belonged to Zeus.
* Ellid had already taught Su-hyeun countless magic-related theories and magic circles.
* Su-hyeun died. He then returned to the past and was still fighting away. He silently shouldered the burden of the future only he knew and continued to run forward at full tilt hoping to prevent that very future from happening again.
* **Kim Su-hyeun** told Lee Ju-ho and Hak-joon that he is from the future and the events that took place.
* After reaching the realm of a demigod, Su-hyeun became able to wield a power called prana.
* Su-hyeun recalled the past he saw through the awakening of his unique ability, as well as the Heavenly Ways of Reincarnation—more specifically, that space where not a single thing, not even a speck of light, existed. Then, he remembered the giant creature with the head of a dragon floating within that space. Fafnir.
* The Heavenly Ways of Reincarnation didn’t just make one error while sending Su-hyeun back in time, which was sending him into someone else’s body. Indeed, that ability made two distinctive errors The second one being… Because that bastard also came back to the past along with Kim.” None other than Fafnir’s regression.
* Fafnir’s fangs stabbing deep into his body—that sensation remained with Su-hyeun. It stayed so vividly within his muscle memory.
* The ability that activated at the moment of his death—it activated right inside Fafnir’s mouth. Perhaps that was the reason for the errors of the reincarnation ability.
* He lingering regret is not Fafnir.
* Even if this was nothing more than an illusion, Su-hyeun’s animosity toward that creature remained strong despite him beginning to think that Fafnir was not his lingering regret after all, which the illusions had helped him realize.
* Still, that Predator bastard had some kind of link to his regret—that was for certain.
* The past—that was Su-hyeun’s biggest lingering regret.
* All those people he met in the past, the world that had been destroyed, his memories and experiences of the past, and the past version of “him”—all of his lingering regrets vanished alongside Kim Sung-in and finaly became Taoist God.
* He is an atheist.
* Kim Su-hyeun. The sword of the gods who is caught under an unfortunate fate.
* all past life they were Inner Demons
* Su-hyeun already possessed enough power to rival the gods of the Five Godly Sages tier. His growth rate was so alarmingly fast that even Osiris had to keep a wary eye on him. Still, this was simply too fast even for him.
* Soo Hyun is a divided soul for Brahma.
* During his life as Kim Sung-in, he couldn’t even remember his father’s face. He passed on just as Kim Sung-in was old enough to remember things.
* Yun Hui-yeon’s personality was the complete opposite of Shin Su-yeong’s. She was pretty conservative and rather inflexible, a perfectionist, and an authoritarian, too. She raised Sung-in to become a “perfect” human being. One could say that Yun Hui-yeon exerted the most significant influence in his life.
* Su-hyeun had become Yun Hui-yeon son once more. She probably had no idea of Su-hyeun’s reasoning for saying “mom,” not “mother.” At this moment, Su-hyeun was no longer afraid of Yun Hui-yeon. The word “mom” no longer terrified him like it used to.
* One hundred years as a span of time was long. Still, to someone, in particular, it was also too short. The exact length of time was long for Su-hyeun but short for Sun Wukong. As time passed, Su-hyeun progressively grew weaker, and he began suffering from pain more and more as if he was ill. It was all because the power of Destruction permeating his body and soul was spreading unchecked.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Chapter 1
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Chapter 555
3. ↑ Chapter 376
4. ↑ Chapter 451
5. ↑ Chapter 453
6. ↑ Chapter 497
7. ↑ Chapter 195
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Chapter 3
9. ↑ Chapter 55
10. ↑ Chapter 84
11. ↑ Chapter 96
12. ↑ Chapter 342
13. ↑ Chapter 347
14. ↑ Chapter 2
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Chapter 397
16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 Chapter 410
17. ↑ Chapter 411
18. ↑ Chapter 412
19. ↑ Chapter 421
20. ↑ Chapter 427
21. ↑ Chapter 500
22. ↑ Chapter 535
23. ↑ Chapter 537