Sword Emperor

Manhwa

The **Sword Emperor** 검제(劍帝) or Bae Hu-ryeong (Guardian Ghost), the voluntary incomplete Sword Constellation from the World of a Thousand Swords/Swordsman World 만검세계 (劍俠世界).

## Appearance

A burly, muscular tanned man with red eyes at the height of 1.89 meters. He was large. If it wasn’t for his tattered martial arts clothes, he might’ve been mistaken for a gorilla. His physique was rather wide, even down to his eyebrows. He also has swept back, waist length wild stylish hair.

## Personality

Sword Emperor has a similar personality to Kim Gong-ja: strong headed, bias, unruly, selfish, childish and simple. Both willing to anger the other for humor. The deep similarity allows both to understand the other the best like twins. However, Sword Emperor can be serious and open-minded when needed and displays a desire to fight the strong (or exceptional martial artists). He is also intuitive towards other's intents and thoughts, especially towards Gong-ja.

Like Gong-ja, Sword Emperor wants to live his life and find meaning in it, wishing to change even a little to certify he is an individual human and not a cog in the world. Contrast to Gong-ja who embraces death and willingly become a true Constellation, Sword Emperor embraces life and desires to stay as spiritually mortal human as possible. With deep interactions between the two, Sword Emperor learns more about accepting death while Gong-ja learns about life.

## Background

In his world, the tower appeared in his hometown and conquered the tower faster than the other hunters but he failed to clear the 100th floor and died.

## History

### Sword Saint Marcus

The Sword Emperor seems to know Marcus pretty well and knows all of his skills since Marcus is his disciple. In his point of view, Marcus is a good old man and is usually pretty nice but goes crazy when it comes to his grandchildren. He talks a lot hence why Marcus keeps on telling him that he's noisy, Marcus was then rumored to be talking by himself in the eyes of the public.

### Copied By Kim Gong-ja

After Kim Gong-ja is killed by the Sword Saint, he incidentally chooses the 'Sword Emperor' skill to copy. This creates two Bae Hu-ryeongs. One with the Sword Saint and the other with Kim Gong-ja. Now copied and seperated from his old friend, Bae Hu-ryeong decides to become Kim Gong-ja's master after observing his indifference towards death.

## Abilities

* Character Psyche: 21st Floor
	+ Name: Sword Emperor 검제(劍帝)
	+ Favorability: 59
	+ Favorite Genre: [Martial Arts]
	+ Unfavorable Genre: [Everything except Martial Arts]
	+ Favorite Characters: [Macho], [Rival], [Mother]
	+ Unfavorable Characters: [Weak Guys], [Pushovers]
	+ Preferred Plot: [Victory], [Cider (사이다)]
	+ Undesired Plot: [Defeat], [Sweet potato (고구마)]

### Basic Abilities

**Martial Arts**

Void Form.

**Swordsmanship**

Void form:

* First sword:??

### Skills:

* **You Can Be Like Me** (나처럼 될 수 있다)
	+ **Rank:** F
	+ You can see all the skills your opponent has.
		- ※ However the enemy defeated by you can copy one of your skills and make it their own. Opponents that have already been defeated by you once are excluded by the skill. In addition, it randomly decides which skills are copied.

* His first awakened skill completely complements and completes Kim Gong-ja's first awakened skill: **I Want to Become Just Like You**.

* **Sword Constellation - Body** (검의 성좌 - 본(本))
	+ **Rank:** A+
	+ You can create a ghost of your life and give advice to those who climb the tower. Please whisper your experience of climbing the tower up to the 99th floor in their ear. The person who hears your advice will not stop being amazed by your wealth of knowledge.
		- ※ However, the person must have a skill that matches this skill. Those who don't won't see or hear you.
		- ※ Synchronization between you and your living ghost(or living ghosts) occurs at specific cycles. This cycle is usually one day, but it can be shorter or longer, depending on the class in which the speaker rises.
		- ※ The knowledge applied to your living ghost(or living ghosts) may be distorted or corrected during the process of going through the tower. These general guidelines are determined by the pillar meeting.

## Equipment

Unknown Great Sword - Resembles Berserk Guts' great sword Dragon Slayer.

## Quotes

* (To Kim Gong-ja) "Huhu. I'm already dead so you can't kill me. If you want to try then you'll have to die first! Ah, but you can't even die. You zombie bastard. Your name should be Kim Zom-bie not Kim Gong-ja."

## Trivia

* Sword Emperor is a divine master of both the Righteous Path (vessels to accept the world) and Demonic Path (nails that can scratch the world) of martial arts due to his unique birth.
* He was a slob with having a clean home, similar to Gong-ja.
* He is a master alchemic pharmacist through his recipes from drinking various poisons in his whole lifetime.
* He can immediately tell how talented a hunter is.
* He always hear that he is untidy when he was alive.
* He was called a genius when he was younger.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Chapter 9
2. ↑ Chapter 56
3. ↑ Sudden great and "happy" (straightforward low EQ protagonist) plot; Korean slang for the reader 'suddenly drinking a delicious soda and being dumbfounded'.
4. ↑ Stuffy (dense low EQ protagonist) plot; Korean Slang describing the reader 'throat choking on a steamed sweet potato that makes one uneasy and stuffed'.
5. ↑ Chapter 10
6. ↑ Chapter 12
7. ↑ Chapter 17