Seo Joo-Heon/Past Life

## Seo Joo-Heon's Past Life

In the year 2025, strange tombs appeared all over the world that caused earthquakes and contained relics based on mythology, great historical figures, legends, folk tales, and popular novels which brought forth innovation and wealth, allowing anyone to increase their status. People started to dedicate their lives in search of these relics. Seo Joo-Heon, for instance, started on this journey five years later than others since he was stuck slaving away for Park Kyung-Tae and Park Kyung-Joo at the Xiang Gallery until his adoptive father, Kim Geon-Woo, got severely injured and lost a leg from protecting innocent civilians from a tomb appearance which granted him the opportunity to put his life on the line and escape while almost ending up as a human trafficking victim. However, he needed money to take care of Kim Geon-Woo and his family since Kim Geon-Woo needed an organ transplant because of Relic Syndrome and the leaders of Korea and members of Pandora provided no assistance except for a useless paper certificate praising Kim Geon-Woo for his heroic sacrifice and donations that were quickly taken away by people claiming to have blood relations with him. Unfortunately for him, Pandora denied him a relic user permit and large evacuation teams blacklisted him as a thieving bastard when he did nothing wrong except being a helpless victim even though he worked hard and discovered and developed his talent as a relic user. Not even infiltrating the Vatican and seducing the nuns present there worked out in the end. Thankfully, he soon got his chance and managed to participate in a tomb evacuation attempt at the hardest and last of the Seven Great Tombs, the Tomb of Greed with a group led by a high school girl. After spending three months inside the Tomb of Greed alone due to the death of his comrades, Seo Joo-Heon managed to conquer the tomb without any relics and obtain a powerful relic known as Mammon's Relic. Using this relic, he was able to continue to clear important tombs that even large excavation teams have perished in and became known as the first and only regular person who cleared one of the seven Great Tombs containing Seven Deadly Sins Relics. He soon formed his small evacuation team known as the Guerrilla Excavation Team with John Harper as his right-hand man to conquer tombs until John Harper, who was secretly Pandora's watchdog sent to spy on Seo Joo-Heon under the belief that the latter was the former Majesty's descendant, betrayed the team by leading the other members into a fatal trap inside the Devil's Labyrinth, M-1. Consequently, Seo Joo-Heon furiously executed John Harper and disbanded the team after the latter compromised his position. This incident would then make Seo Joo-Heon fall into despair, lose his confidence, and adopt the mindset that he was an incompetent leader who was better off working alone as he is unable to protect anyone who follows him. However, before he could continue his new life as a powerful relic user, Pandora and the greedy monopolizers implemented unfair laws to monopolize and limit the usage of relics. This resulted in the downfall of the middle class and the world being divided into two, the 1% and the 99%. Those who monopolized the good relics became so wealthy that even the governments could not ignore them and changed the social structure to benefit themselves. The ones who did not have them ended up as slaves suffering in poverty. The only way to get out of poverty was to work for a power-hungry monopolizer. Consequently, Seo Joo-Heon ended up joining TKBM as the leader and ace of the newly established Team 13 with Lee Seol-Ah as his first subordinate and the one who helped him regain his confidence, accept new people as his team members and subordinates, and realize his dream of having a future with comrades with whom he shall develop strong chemistry after Chairman Kwon Tae-Joon recognized and became envious of his exceptional tomb evacuation skills and talents. Chairman Kwon Tae-Joon also told Seo Joo-Heon that he would pay him well and would even use his relics to cure him and his family members from Relic Syndrome and other illnesses in exchange for Seo Joo-Heon to do all sorts of dirty and dangerous work for him. Although he received better offers from people such as Irene Holton, Seo Joo-Heon decided to willingly serve as Chairman Kwon Tae-Joon's slave to cure his adoptive parents and twin sister from Relic Syndrome as about 40% of the world's population suffered from this disease with Seo Joo-Heon as no exception. As a result, Seo Joo-Heon ended up placing his life in danger countless times as he committed smuggling, theft, and spying operations. He even had to get close with numerous famous and influential female professors, wealthy heiresses, Hollywood actresses, politicians, and princesses such as Jin Chae Won to the point where he even slept with some of them to assassinate them, obtain information, or steal relics from them. But of course, the work Seo Joo-Heon did the most was tomb raiding in which he would lead his teammates towards obtaining relics and taking down Chairman Kwon Tae-Joon's toughest competitors such as Jin Chae Won and Keira Clark after Seo Joo-Heon helped polish both his own and his teammates' skills to the best of his ability. Years later, Chairman Kwon Tae-Joon became the strongest relic user in the world thanks to Seo Joo-Heon and his team producing massive results and stealing and confiscating a large variety of relics for him. As the Chairman rise in status and rank, Seo Joo-Heon and his team became more despised by other relic users serving other monopolizers and were called trash that worked for the foot of a dictator and trashy slave bastards who were leeching off a wealthy man. Nevertheless, Seo Joo-Heon and his team took all their insults and mocking in and continued to work hard since for him, only Chairman Kwon Tae-Joon had the money and relics to help support him and his family and what else can he do in a world drunk with the power of relics. After all, the world became a living mess and his only comforts in life were tomb raiding and interactions with his comrades of Team 13 whom he treated like family. However, after Seo Joo-Heon and his team secured Chairman Kwon Tae-Joon's position in the number one spot in the King lineup after more than 10 long years, the shameless Chairman soon sent them on an impossible and deadly mission inside a recently discovered unconfirmed highest-grade tomb called The Great Prison since he felt threatened by Seo Joo-Heon and his team's outstanding skills and talents instead of keeping his promise and fulfilling the terms of the contract which stated that in exchange for Seo Joo-Heon helping Chairman Kwon Tae-Joon rise to the top and achieve everything he wanted to achieve, the Chairman must hand over the Qin Shi Huang's Elixir Plant to Seo Joo-Heon so that the latter can cure his family and subordinates' illnesses. Although Seo Joo-Heon quickly realized that he and his team were betrayed and thrown away by Chairman Kwon Tae-Joon and the other members of TKBM inside the monstrous tomb and tried to do whatever he could to get his subordinates out alive after some of them perished, it proved to be futile as eventually, Seo Joo-Heon ended up becoming the last one alive with blood dripping out of his body, all of his bones broken, and both of his legs chopped off and missing. Hurt from betrayal and grudges and furious that the large snakes surrounding him still wanted to devour him even after his precious teammates became food for them, he started to laugh like a madman and vowed to take revenge against TKBM after his death. Just as the snakes approach closer to him to finish him off, he hears the voice of a relic who tells him that he is too loud. When Seo Joo-Heon responds, the relic became intrigued. Seo Joo-Heon then asks for the relic to help him get out in which the relic asks if he can survive in that fatal condition before calling him a thief who was greedy for the treasures of gods, entered without fear, and would perish like a fool. The relic then acknowledges that he possesses rare talent but he was unable to indulge in and use his power to its full potential as he was born too late and was placed in a terrible time where he would only suffer. Seo Joo-Heon then angrily responds that the relic shouldn't talk like it knows him as he became furious thinking about Chairman Kwon Tae-Joon and the societal changes that forced him to live like this. The relic then became amused and reveals its identity and appearance as the Crow. The Crow then acknowledge that it would be a waste for a talented individual like Seo Joo-Heon to perish here. The Crow then tells Seo Joo-Heon that it has decided to give him a chance to try and claim the throne of a king this time as it forms and concludes a partial contract with him and uses the power of the Administrator to send his consciousness back in time 15 years to January 1, 2025, and enable him to have all of his memories, emotions, and experiences intact.