Valdebich

**Valdebich** is a former member of Arthia and one of its three founding members and a half-Giant.

## Physical Appearance

Due to his heritage as a Half-Giant, Valdebich was stated to be a gigantic (by Human Standards) humanoid over 5 feet tall during his first meeting with Cha Jeong-woo and later during his climb up into the 21st Floor's "Shadow Dojo".

## Personality

As stated by Jeong-woo, Valdebich possess a simplistic, but friendly personality. Upon first coming to the Tower, Valdbich was the first friend he had made in the Tutorials and was the one who had helped him understand the Tower's System and how to use the Player Window, having instantly become friends with him after. Due to his Giant background, Valdebich was noted to have a straight forward approach when entering into battle. This was due to the Giant Race's traditions of focusing on power and strength, where they would completely focus on developing their combat prowess to the point that they would forgo developing their intellectual abilities. Veldebich himself was stated to have not receive much education other than physical training to increase his strength and power by his birth family and thus did not know how to properly read and write or even speak complex words or sentences, resulting in him having initially possessed a limited vocabulary and simplistic speech patterns. Due to this, Valdebich had the tendency to rely more on his physical strength and power in a fight instead of intelligence and cunning.

However, thanks to Jeong-woo, Valdebich himself had successfully learned how to read, write and speak properly due to him learning from him. However, when experiencing strong emotions, such as panic, delight or fear, Valdebich would revert to his original simplistic speech pattern.

## History

### Background

Valdebich was a Half-Giant/Half-Human born to a Giant Father and a Human Mother and as such possess powerful potential and immense innate talent due to his heritage as a Giant, one of the Top 4 Races within the Tower that had power to compete against the Gods, High Class Demons and Dragons within the Tower.

Valdebich like all Players within the Tower, had entered into the Tutorials, where he had begun making massive waves due to his accomplishments, power and heritage. This in turn eventually lead him to be noticed by several individuals who desired to team up with him to take advantage of his powers, one of them being Viera Dune.

Somehow Valdebich befriended fellow newbie,Cha Jeong-woo who had difficulty coping with the supernatural due to his complete inexperience with it due to originating from a world devoid of magic and helped him understand the basic mechanics behind the **Status Window** and other basics of the Tutorial. Although somewhat scared and startled by his gigantic size, Jeong-woo eventually grew used to him and teamed up together with him to pass the Tutorial and enter into the Tower, accompanied together with Viera Dune as a three man team.

Eventually the trio would soon become the first and founding members of the Clan Arthia, where they soon began making waves within the Tower Floors Hall of Fame and gaining more and more members. During which the Clan would soon enter open conflict against the other Top Clans within the Tower as the ascended the Floors, with Valdebich having been noted to have battled against both Red Dragon and Cheonghwado's Rankers in battle, specifically he was noted to have faced both Shanon and Hanryeong as they were leaders in high position within the two clans.

During their time together, Valdebich was noted to have become close friends with Jeong-woo and trusted and liked him enough to show him the Giant Race's Martial Art's called **Mercuri** and gave him demonstration to its usage that would later be recorded in his journal. Valdebich in particular would adjust the techniques in order to better accommodate a human sized user and train Jeong-woo in its usage.

However despite their time together and friendship, Valdebich ended up becoming the first member of Arthia to pull out when it was becoming apparent that the other Top 8 Clans was planning to team up together to destroy them. Inevitably triggering its other members to also abandon the clan in favor of saving themselves.

Currently his his location and activities are unknown and he was known to now rarely appear before any public locations.

It was later revealed that Bayluk lured out Valdebich by giving him coordinates of giant ruins. Valdebich, thinking that he could get there and come back within a short amount of time, decided to check the ruins. It turned out that the ruins really did contain traces of the Giant species and Valdebich's obssession with his family and identity made him forget entirely about Arthia. It's only when Cha-Jeong-Woo died that he realised his sin of abandonning his friend

He rescues Cha Yeon-woo when he enters the hidden stage where the Outer Gods has infested. Here was where all the Half-Giants have fallen to, suppressed by the Outer Gods.

After talking with Yeon-woo, he confesses that it was indeed he who sent Cha Jeong-woo's body back to earth. It was his version of atonement to his friend, giving up the chance at the time of finding his roots.

## Abilities

As a Half-Giant, Valdebich naturally possess immense physical power, speed, strength, endurance and durability far above normal humans or even other demi-humans due to the giant race's innate power.

And due to his time in Arthia, its shown that Valdebich managed to successfully reach the Level of a powerful High Ranker and acquire numerous powers, skills and abilities along the way.

After Cha Yeon-woo becomes king and god of the Giants, the half-giants are then freed from their shackles by the outer god and becomes a full fledge giant. After setting up the sanctuary of the giants, he becomes the second apostle of Yeon-woo and leads the undead giants in the name of their new god.

### Mercuri

Valdebich was stated to be a master in the usage of his giant heritage martial arts called "Mercuri". That was stated to completely take advantage of the 8 foot tall build of the Giant race to make smooth and powerful fighting forms and styles despite their gigantic build. It was later stated by Jeong-woo that when Valdebich demonstrated it to him, he was stated to cut entire mountains.

Thanks to this fighting style, Valdebich was able to maximize the usage of the Dragon Killer Lances despite their gigantic sizes and strange weight distributions and shape. Valdebich was also stated to use spears and sword together with this martial art.

The Dragon Killer was stated to be a perfect weapon for him since he preferred spears over bows and arrows. However, it was so expensive that he couldn’t use it as often as he liked on the lower floors, and by the time he reached the upper ones, he no longer needed them. Despite this, Valdebich showcased immense skill in their use, with Cha Jeong-woo describing it as "*The best way to describe it is that it moved mountains. The atmosphere around Valdebich when he lifted the Dragon Killer was so destructive that when the Dragon Killer targeted a Draconian, it would sweep away not only the Draconian but also everything around it."*

Valdebich using the Dragon Killer Lance
### Skills

* **War Cry:** A superior skill derived from the Giant Race's "Jotunheimr Shout" that by screaming/shouting, Valdebich can make his opponents feel weak. Typically used by Valdebich as a opening attack to weaken his opponents before confronting them.
* **Amplified Explosion:** A powerful skill that allows its user to enter into a confused mental state akin to going Berserk. However despite the decrease in mental faculties, this skill increases its user's dexterity and attack power would be increased by 300%-500%.

War Cry
## Trivia

* Upon first meeting Jeong-woo, Veldebich was noted by him to be almost completely illiterate, having only enough knowledge to write his own name. Due to the Giant Race's traditions of focusing only training to grow in strength and power, his parents ended up almost completely neglected to properly educate him. Due to this, Jeong-woo himself ended having to teach him how to read and write properly.

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