Monkey King (Shedding)

**The Monkey King's Shedding** is the exuviae/shedding left behind by the Monkey King, one of the "faces" of the Heavenly Demon within the 20th Floor of the Obelisk within the Five Mountains of Penance that was the originally his Prison.

## Personality

The Monkey King was shown to have a calm, cool headed and casual personality, as seen where he welcome Yeon-woo into his *Imaginary World* after passing through the test of the **Monkey King's Palace** and was amicable enough to make small talk with him and provide him with any information he wanted, as seen where he answered his question regarding the Black Bracelet.

The Monkey King was shown to also be incredibly bored and somewhat frustrated due to his position, this is seen where he showcased frustration at being confined to the Palace, unable to leave due to his role as a "Quest Giver" for the hidden quest "Monkey King's Inheritance" and has shown a strong desire to leave his imaginary world and the palace.

Its been stated by him that despite being a "shedding" left behind by the original, he has developed a level of independence and his own sense of thoughts, feelings and desires separate from the original Monkey King. This is seen where he made a point of emphasizing on how different he was from the original.

He has also stated that like the original, he was also greedy for anything that catches his interest or fancy, although at a much lesser extent then the original. With him claiming that the original Monkey King was much greedier than him.

As shown during his interactions with Yeon-woo within the world of his unconsciousness, The Monkey King was stated to have become a friendly ally towards him as he began fighting and absorbing Crawling Chaos and complemented him on his growth as he lent his assistance in fending of the Outer God.

Its been noted that due to him essentially being nothing more than a cloned copy of the original Heavenly Demon, The Monkey King possess a complex about the fact that he's essentially a "fake" and could disappear in any moment.

## History

After growing powerful enough and mastering and creating the 72 Bian Arts, the Original Monkey King created a Shedding of himself and left it behind confined to the 5 Mountains of Penance in his former prison in order for it to become a "quest giver" for the quest he created to collect pieces of his fragmented weapon, Ryu Bang. With him leaving behind some fragments of the weapon with his shedding to give to anyone that makes it to him, before leaving.

## Abilities

As observed by Yeon-woo, despite being nothing more than a shedding left behind by the original, The Monkey King possess monstrous amounts of power that easily surpasses the level of power of the Gods and Demons within the 98th Floor of the Obelisk, as seen where he observed that his overall power surpassed Urdr.

As shown during Yeon-woo confrontation against Crawling Chaos, he was strong enough to fight against an Outer God.

### Holy Power

The Monkey King Shedding was also stated to have access to Holy Power

* **Imaginary World:** The Shedding was shown to be powerful enough to create his own imaginary world dimension while confined within the Monkey King's Palace and was his place of residence while staying as a Quest Giver. The world itself was shown to be quite large and took the form of a tranquil meadow/forest surrounded by mountains.

### Arts

* **Heavenly Brackett: 72 Bian Arts:** As he was the inventor to the Bian Arts, his sheddings was shown to be able to also use it. The Monkey King was shown to have complete mastery over all 72 techniques of the Arts and be able to easily manipulate all five basic elements of the Chinese Magic System with ease. After Cha Yeon-woo absorbed the Monkey King's visage, his understanding and knowledge of the 72 Bian Arts was stated to have sky-rocketed as he gained the full knowledge of the arts.

### Familiar

* **Sung:** The Monkey King's Shedding also possessed his own dragon familiar that primarily took the shape of a eastern dragon. Its been stated that Sung had received the blessings of a Yinglong, an evolved dragon, so he can wander about the Tower. In terms of raw power, Yeon-woo described him to have strength of a Dragon God.

### Skills

* **Shukuchi:**
* **Eight Extremes of Sword Thunder:** After spending time inside Yeon-woo's unconsciousness, The Monkey King was stated to have also learned and gained the fundamentals of his signature Legendary Skill [Meteor Sword Art] and the Mugong Martial Arts, [Eight Extremes] that he learned from the Martial King and with the Summer Queen's help, successfully fused them together to form an entirely new Skill.
	+ **Heaven Thunder:**
	+ **Swamp Thunder:**
	+ **Fire Thunder:**
	+ **Lightning Thunder:**
	+ **Wind Thunder:**