Dungeon Persons

> If that’s true, then it might even be possible to predict when and where dungeons will appear through reverse engineering.
>
> Seok Hayan, Chapter 31

## Webtoon appearances

### First mention

Episode 29 (unnamed)

**Dungeon Persons** (Korean: 던전 펄슨즈, RR: *deonjeon peolseunjeu*) was a USA-based research group that studied dungeon formation, eventually discovering the laws governing said formation.

## Members

As a research group, Dungeon Persons likely consisted of research professionals with a focus on Awakened people and dungeons.

### Known members

* Seok Hayan

Four other researchers are depicted in the webtoon, including:

* a short, fat, light-skinned woman with reddish-brown hair
* a tall woman with faintly tan skin, glasses, and brown hair cut at an angle
* an older, tan-skinned man with gray hair, moustache, and beard
* a tall, bald Black man with notable under-eye wrinkles

Han Yoojin mentions a "gray-haired elder" and a "middle-aged woman" who were members of Dungeon Persons alongside Seok Hayan; these descriptions could apply to some of these four researchers, suggesting the others were part of Dungeon Persons as well. Seok Hayan gives one of the men's names as being Jayden, though it's unknown who this refers to.

## Locations

* Unspecified lab, the United States of America (pre-regression)

## History

Dungeon Persons formed in the USA at an unknown time.

### Original timeline, pre-regression

Over three years after the appearance of the dungeons, Seok Hayan moved to America and joined Dungeon Persons alongside at least two other members of the research group D-Mate.

Six years after the appearance of the dungeons and two years prior to Han Yoojin's regression, they discovered the laws governing dungeon formation and promptly published them for public access, making significant amounts of money from the royalties. Their research continued, developing their understanding of the laws and making them more precise, the only research they made public from then on.

However, it's implied that they successfully managed to develop a method of *reverse-engineering* the laws of dungeon formation in order to predict where and when dungeons would appear, but that they were made to keep these results secret by the USA government, which used them to relocate its own major facilities to safe locations. Building off this, it was also hypothesized that the US government intended to release the predictive method research at a time that most major countries were in decline, when it would be most profitable.

## Synopsis

### New timeline, post-regression

As Seok Hayan did not move to America, having been promised data as well as lodgings and a research space by Han Yoojin, the fate of Dungeon Persons is unknown.

## Trivia

* Given the overlap between D-Mate and Dungeon Persons' research teams, it is possible that D-Mate was a precursor to Dungeon Persons, with the latter having gained more members and a stronger foundation due to their research.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 *The S-Ranks That I Raised* Novel: Chapter 31
2. ↑ *The S-Ranks That I Raised* Webtoon: Episode 29
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 *The S-Ranks That I Raised* Novel: Chapter 62