Gungtan

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**Gungtan** is the main antagonist of ***Island Part 2.*** He is a part of Ksitigarbha Sect and seems to cause mayhem on Jeju Island for fun.

## Appearance

He is a handsome man with a greyish silver bowl-shaped hair. His outfit consists of a monk robe. The robe is reddish brown with no sleeve for the right arm. In the middle of his chest there is a sort of knot tying the robe. There is also Chinese or Japanese writing on it. Underneath is a black robe. Finally he wears black slipper shoes.

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## Background

Nothing is particularlly known of his past. He at somepoint became a monk of the Ksitigarbha Sect and known Van.

## Plot Overview

### Meddling of a Monk

He is first seen observing Johan and Miho saving Gu Anyeong. He found it intriguing in Johan's ability to defeat his water demon. Later, he arrived at avillage, received money from the residents, and held a ancestral rite in front of the spiritual tree. Van, who notices that Gungtan is plotting a plan by using monsters, throws the varja into the spirit tree and explodes it, and when he approaches him, he appears to know him and begins the battle with excitement. Throughout the battle, Gungtan fought Van and later Johan. Gungtan revealed a little bit of Van's past but is severely beaten by Van. Injured, he was to ambush them but Suki Kang stops him.

Afterwards , he arrived back at the sect and is laughed at by other members for his injuries. He explains that he knew Van's weakness and has a plan.

### Hidden Camera in Bathroom

He is briefly seen observing Gyobin Lee being bullied and uses him for his plan.

### Kali's Summoning

The sect leader summons Gungtan, who addresses himself as monk no.88. The leader tells Gungtan that he has left too many traces and now there are people scooping around. He warns Gungtan that Van had already faced Kali before. Gungtan tells him not to worry and mentions how Kali feeds off blood and how the last incident will result in more deaths. This way, Kali will be able to be restored in her body and Van will not be a problem. The sect leader reminds Gungtan that they will eventually offer up Jeju Island to Kali so that they can protect humanity from a greater danger. Gungtan assures him again to not worry as he has a plan. As people started protesting, Gungtan sends his mosquito familiars to stir up anger and kill each other. Gungtan had explained to the sect master that this way, it wouldn’t implicate the sect as no one would know they were involved.

Gungtan appears behind Suki as she is watching Van and Kali fight. He overhears Suki muttering to herself whether Kali is almost complete and answers her "almost". Gungtan greets her and says now he knows who she is. Suddenly Van uses an explosive spell, so large that Suki and Gungtan are taken back. Suki tells Gungtan that she is the Adjuster, to balance the world, so it will not go astray. Gungtan is confused, but Suki just leaves into the battlefield.

In the distance, Gungtan mutters to himself saying the time is finally here and tells one of his creatures to notify the Ksitigarbha Sect leader. As a huge tornado appears in the distance, Gungtan becomes aware that his plan had failed and is quite upset as a mere girl thwarted his plans. Gungtan explains that as Kali is from the realm of the 33 gods, if there is no talisman connecting her to this world, she cannot appear in her physical form. As Gungtan approaches, he notices that Van has summoned Shiva. Shiva appears from the tornado and both Shiva and Kali charge up a sphere blast in front of their mouths and blast it at each other causing a huge explosion.

Shiva and Kali fight, but Kali is on the losing end and decides to implode, taking down Van with her. However, Van is able to dissipate the explosion by slicing her into pieces. However, as result of Kali’s explosion, Gungtan receives the rebound of the spell, destroying half his body. He crawls back to base with half his body gone. The sect commander is surprised Gungtan could it even make it back. He asks him if his wounds were caused by summoning Kali or because of Shiva. Gungtan answers saying it is not a big deal, just a backfiring of the spell and asks for another chance and complains that he no idea Van could summon Shiva with such ease. Gungtan reminisces the whole grueling process of summoning Kali and how it was all to stop the destruction of the world or more specifically Shiva’s appearance which represents destruction. However, the very process intended to stop destruction brought upon the summoning of Shiva ahead of time. The leader of the sects tells Gungtan that it is a shame, perhaps if Van had not found the nest, then maybe he would have had a chance. He then opens his palm and the letter “白” (White) appears in bright yellow and absorbs Gungtan’s life force. As Gungtan disappears he wonders where he went wrong. After Gungtan’s death, Seraphina finds the staff and picks it up. Apparently, Seraphina most likely sneaked into the sect HQ and overheard the conversation.

## Relationships

**Allies**

* Commander (unnamed)
* Kali

**Enemies**

* Van -
* Johan Skelf
* Miho Won
* Suki Kang - she shows out of nowhere and defeats Gungtan, embarassing him greatly before his peers.
* Gu Anyeong -

## Abilities and Weapons

**Weapons:**

* Buddhist Staff
* Talisman - Gungtan places magical talismans into some of the summoned demons so that they can regenerate. These demons are only destroyed fully if the talisman is destroyed.

**General Abilities:**

* Regeneration - he is able to regenerate parts of his body, even whne dismembered, such as when is his arm is cut off. He does so using his familiars. He can even survive when half his body is gone.
* Summoning - Gungtan is able to freely summon demons, although high-level demons require more sacrifices. He has also placed talismans in the demons so they can regenerate infinitely unless the talisman is destroyed.

**Summons:**

## Trivia

* In the novel, he was almost killed by Van several times in the past. He was supposedly inherently greedy and arrogant, and no one in the Sect liked him
* In the anticipating official drama, Gungtan is played by actor, Sung Joon.

## Gallery

### Short Gallery

Van exploding Gungtan's head.pngVan violently beating up Gungtan.pngGungtan's Damaged face.pngGungtan summoning Kali.png
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## References

1. ↑ Island Part 2, Ep. 19
2. ↑ Island, Ep. 19
3. ↑ Island, Part 2, Ep.47
4. ↑ Island, Part 2, Ep.50
5. ↑ Island, Part 2, Ep.55
6. ↑ Island, Part 2, Ep.59
7. ↑ Island, Part 2, Ep.63
8. ↑ Island, Part 2, Ep.13
9. ↑ Island, Part 2, Ep.28
10. ↑ Island, Part 2, Ep.28
11. ↑ https://namu.wiki/w/%EA%B6%81%ED%83%84#s-5