Hanryeong

* Alive
* Death Knight

**Hanryeong** was a high-ranker of Cheonghwado. He was dubbed the **Saber God** and was one of the clan's five leaders.

## Appearance

### Alive

He is a middle-aged man but has kept his fitness. Due to his many battles, his face is filled with numerous small scars.

### Ghost

Upon being summoned by Cha Yeon-woo as a Ghost after his soul was collected, Hanryeong was shown to more or less physically resemble his appearance as a living person, only now being ghostly and see through and being surrounded by black mist like aura.

### Death Knight

After dying and agreeing to become an undead familiar to Yeon-woo, Hanryeong transformed into a humanoid figure wearing pitch black armor, with the armor itself being more form fitting and lighter in comparison to Shanon. Hanryeong now wears a Knight helmet that completely hides his face, with two ram like horn and a single long helmet tassel adorning it. Hanryeong was now shown to ooze out the same blue-black aura and mist as the rest of Yeon-woo's familiars. Underneath his helmet, Hanryeong retains his physical appearance when alive, albeit he now has black sclera.

Hanryeong as a young manHanryeong as the Saber God of CheonghwadoHanryeong as a SpiritClose upAs a Death Knight without his helmet
## Personality

Like most of Cheonghwado's members, he is someone that pursues the path of becoming a master of a certain weapon rather than simply becoming a high-ranker. This is the main reason why Leonte, who relies on "tricks," is not very well respected in the clan despite being among the top five of the clan. As the Saber God, Hanryeong was known to be obsessives in training and expanding his power and rarely had any other thoughts or activities outside his goal of becoming stronger.

One of his main weaknesses is his apparent love for his deceased lover and his son, this is seen where his grief at having lost his lover due to complications of his sons birth had caused him to become over fixated in protecting and caring for his child to the point that he began to spoil him extremely. This is seen where he had apparently begun allowing him to use his status as a High Ranker to get whatever he wanted and allowed his drug/alcohol/sex addiction to go out of control and let him get away with anything. This overindulgence was likely due to him pitying his son's condition of being unable to stack up or generate mana within his body, a fatal weakness for one born in the Tower. As seen during the war of Red Dragon and Cheonghwado, Hanryoeong was willing to do anything to save his son and even turn against his own clan.

Hanryeong was also shown to have been passionately in love with his lover, having been completely taken by surprise at himself due to having fallen in love with her despite his obsessive focus for training usually taking his attention away from romance. After her death, he was stated to have been deeply devastated and swore to only love her and refused to love anyone else the same way ever again.

As stated and admitted by him, Hanryeong was a battle maniac during his time as a living ranker and took delight at picking fights with powerful opponents during his hayday. This is seen where he had previous encounters with members of Arthia, the Elite of Elohim and had several fights with Blood Land's higher ups, however he never fought the Emperor's strongest Dukes.

## Background

Sometime after becoming Cheonghwado's Saber God, he met a woman and fell in love. Together, they had a son who was, unfortunately, not able to use mana or train his body due to his weak constitution. Normally, this would not be a big deal outside the Tower, but inside the Tower where the law of the jungle prevailed, it was a death sentence. His lover died while giving birth and, as a result, and due to his son's fragile health combined with his unique condition, he began to dote on his son excessively to the point that he shared his own mana with his son even at the cost of his strength regressing and spoil him to the extreme by allowing him to use his influence as the Saber God to get away with whatever he wanted.

Wanting to protect him from his various enemies, he left his son at Skuld's Temple on the 16th floor where the Three Platform Goddesses resided through an agreement with the Temple's priests had him hidden and attended to by his subordinates.

## History

### **Volume 4**

He was ordered by Sword God to kill the Four Legendary Beasts residing on the 11th floor and obtain their cores so that Red Dragon, their enemy, would not be able to do so themselves. Sword God gave him permission to use "six and seven" which were in fact the sixth and seventh of his nine swords. Due to regressing as a result of sharing mana with his son, Saber God was barely able to use ninth sword before becoming exhausted. Although using the sixth and seventh swords was a bit easier, it similarly left him exhausted.

### **Volume 5**

He killed the Phoenix and her children, except Chirpy who was hidden by her prior to the battle. Phoenix then passed on her **Holy Fire** and legacy to Cha Yeon-woo in exchange for him keeping Chirpy safe.

He then killed the Void Dragon who didn't truly die since it resided in the Void. After he left, Yeon-woo arrived and Void Dragon also granted him its legacy in exchange for him killing Hanryeong.

He then killed Abyss Turtle who similarly didn't truly die due to its unending vitality. Noticing the legacies of the Phoenix and the Void Dragon it also granted Yeon-woo its legacy in exchange for him finding a successor for it. Unlike the Phoenix, Abyss Turtle was two beasts in one and, therefore, unable to find a mate and leave behind a successor. Yeon-woo was given the ques to find Abyss Turtle's successor.

Yeon-woo reached the Sabertooth Tiger before Hanryeong who was exhausted due to having fought three Legendary Beasts. He tried to warn it to run away, however, the prideful Sabertooth Tiger refused. Left with no choice, Yeon-woo left since he was unable to confront Hanryeong, just yet. Afterwards, Hanryeong arrived and killed the Sabertooth Tiger. As he left, Yeon-woo arrived and used Bathory's Vampiric Dagger on the Sabertooth Tiger's soul that attempted to eat him.

### **Volume 6**

Hanryeong attacked Leonte after he learned that his son, Hanbin, had been kidnapped by Red Dragon. Red Dragon wanted the stone in Leonte's possession in exchange for Hanbin. Initially, Hanryeong managed to overpower Leonte who was slightly weaker than the rest of the leaders of Cheonghwado, however, Sword God intervened since he established the policy that all five leaders of Cheonghwado were equal. Hanryeong laughed at him and claimed that Sword God was just spinning tall tales. In reality, he wanted the stone for himself.

When Sword God refused to back down, Hanryeong decided to attack him, as well. He was confident since his power had grown tremendously after he absorbed the cores of the Four Legendary Beasts. However, he was shocked to realize that Sword God was able to break through his full-powered attacks, easily. He was in disbelief when he realized that while he had found a lover and had a son, Sword God had been continuously training. While he had lost his mana to treat his son, he had gained more mana through training. While he had lost his battle instincts, Sword God had further sharpened his battle instincts. Finally, he was stabbed in the heart by Sword God's four **Godkiller** swords and began to leak the energy of the Four Legendary Beasts that he had forcefully used.

Sword God whispered in Saber God's ear that he had already planned to kill him to obtain the energy of the Four Legendary Beasts after the latter purified it. Hanryeong realized that he had always been a mere pawn of Sword God's. Unwilling to die like this, he used the remaining energy of the Four Legendary Beasts to open a portal to the coordinates of Red Dragon provided to him previously. Before Sword God could stop him, he managed to fully open the portal and saw Summer Queen in her giant draconic form cross over through the portal. Saber God died with a smile on his face after having foiled Sword God's plan and having saved his son's life.

Yeon-woo also appeared through the portal, having infiltrated into Red Dragon. As soon as he crossed over, he felt the presence of the energy of the Four Legendary Beasts due to his title **Legendary Beasts' Successor**. Thus, he used Bathory's Vampiric Dagger to absorb it. The massive amount of energy easily merged with him due to his title and he managed to finally complete the succession process and awaken his Dragon Body.

Due to having absorbed the Neiden of the Legenday Beasts from Hanryeong, Yeon-woo had also collected Saber God's soul as well. Where after interrogating the souls of Bahal and Leonte, he had successfully convinced Hanryeong to become his subordinate and resurrect him as a Death Knight by offering to save his son. Who Yeon had successfully smuggled to safety after Bahal ordered him to dispose of him.

## Powers and Abilities

As a High-Ranker and one of the former Martial Gods of Cheonghwado, Hanryeong was an extremely powerful Ranker. And his abilities, skills and overall powers allowed him to easily slaughter powerful opponents. As seen where he overpower and killed all Four of the Four Legendary Beasts.

Having been given the title of **Saber God** of the Five Martial Gods, Hanryeong was extremely skilled in the usage of Sabers that he was given the title of God. Later upon defeating and killing the Four Legendary Beasts, Hanryeong had also devoured their "Neiden" that then drastically increased his own powers further. He was shown to be powerful enough to easily overpower the "Fist God" and challenge both the Sword and Spear God while in possession of the Neiden.

### Skills

* **Unknown Berserker Skill:**As seen during his battle against the Four Legendary Beasts, Hanryeong possess a unique skill that allows him to boost his power and combat ability to immense levels of power to successfully defeat and kill a Legendary Beast. However activating this skill was noted by Yeon to greatly put a strain on Hanryeong's body and causes him to seemingly enter into a berserk like state when in effect.
* **Saber Skill:** Hanryeing also possessed an unknown Skill that allowed him to fight using nine sabers simultaneously in combat.
* **Swordsmanship:** Hanryeong was noted to be an exceptionally talented swordsman and one of the most powerful and formidable sword users in the entire Obelisk. Having created and gained numerous skills using Swordplay.
	+ **Sword Dance:** Hanryeong was noted to have developed a sword style that revolves the usage of nine separate swords. His movements using this techniques was noted to be so fluid that it was comparable to a "dance".
	+ **Whirlpool of Blades:** A double sword technique of his "Sword Dance" that compromises of a fluid liquid like motion and sword attacks that creates a pattern similar to a Whirlpool.
	+ **Tomb of Nine Swords:** A sword technique that makes use of all nine of his swords and during his time as the Saber God of Cheonghwado, was his strongest attack.
* **Undead Skills:** After dying and his soul collected and stored inside the Despair of the Black King and later resurrected into a Undead Death Knight by Yeon-woo, Hanryeong had successfully gained access to all the standard abilities and powers as an Undead.
	+ **Soul Eating:** As seen where like Shanon he could increase his power by devouring and eating souls and the chances of him taking their skills is also now possible as well.
	+ **Connection to Cha Yeon-woo:** Hanryeong as a familiar to Yeon-woo possess a telepathic connection to him, allowing him to send him what he experiences, share his thoughts and information with him and directly send him the souls of whoever he kills for his soul collection.Hanryeong's Berserker Skill

### Arts

* **72 Bian:** Hanryeong was later to have also begun learning the Bian arts via his connection to Yeon-woo to further boost his power.
	+ **Heaven Bracket:** Hanryeong in particular was noted to have begun training and learning its most advanced techniques.
		- **Flowing Water:**
		- **Geumkangpo:**

### Authority

After 200 years Yeon-woo spent within the Changgong Library, Hanryeong was stated to have successfully reached the level of Transcendent Being. Its been stated that divine position of Monster and reached the divine position of War.

* **Abyss:** As the familiar who leads those who have turned against his master on the path of death, Hanryeong has the power to rule the abyss. He will spread his master’s will across the land as the second-in-command, faithful knight, and great general.
* **War:** After gaining Transcendence, Hanryeong now represents one of the four paths of death, War.

### Items

* **Nine Saber Blades:** As the "**Saber God**" of Cheonghwado, Hanryeong collected nine high ranked Artifact class swords that he used during his time as a Martial God during the course of the many battles he fought as a High Ranker.
* **Reverse Blood Pill:** A pill Hanryeong had won after battling and defeating the 6th Bishop of the Devil Army, this Pill was stated to be powerful supplement that once ingested, amplifies and strengthens the eaters power and potential to the next level. However this comes at the cost of causing their bodies to inevitably self destruct. Because of this, the Pill itself is an item used as a last resort.
* **Nine Divine Level Sabers:** After being killed and reborn as a Death Knight servant under him, Yeon had commissioned Henova to forge nine divine level sword sabers for Hanryeong's personal use. Each of the Saber's was named after a God and therefore received their blessings and due to being forged by Heonova, they are of the highest caliber weapons and possess immense power.

The Nine Swords he used as a Martial GodThe Reverse Blood Pill.
## Trivia

* After the events of the story, Hanryeong was stated to have begun traveling various worlds together with his son.