Kim Soohyun

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## Kim Soohyun

* Manhwa (Current)
* Manhwa (Prologue)
* Cover

### Aliases

Dad
Naruto (SCOG)
Martial God (SCOG)
Brightest Star (SCOG)
Chaos Constellation (SCOG)

## Description

### Species

Human (Player)
Demigod (Ending)

God (SCOG)

### Age

33 (Past Life)
23 (Beginning)
28 (Ending)
38 (Mentally)

30 (SCOG)
40 (SCOG; Mentally)

### Height

181.5cm (Web Novel)180.2cm (Visual Novel)

## Player Status

* Current
* Former
* Past Timeline

### Class

Sovereign of the Sword (검의 군주) (Secret Awakening Class)

### Title

Zenith
The Sovereign of the Sword
Demon

### Title

The One Who Contemplates the World Seeking Seclusion
The One Who Needs to Prove Qualification
Potential User

### Title

The One Who Contemplates the World Seeking SeclusionZenith

## Relationships

### Lovers

Seraph
Ahn Sol
Yi Yoojung(3)
Kim Hanbyul
Go Yeonju(2)
Vivian La Clarydas
Jung Hayeon(1)
Han Soyoung
Hwajung
Im Hannah(4)
Cha Sorim
Nam Daeun
Jegal Haesol
Gehenna(5)
Yoo Hyun-Ah
Mercedes

### Relatives

Kim Yoohyun (Brother)
Suna (Daughter with Gehenna)
Hyunju (Daughter with Go Yeonju)
Sohyun (Daughter with Han Soyoung)
Nahyun (Daughter with Im Hannah)
Silaf/Slyraph (Daughter with Seraph)
Mar (Adoptive Daughter)

### Friends

Ahn Hyun
Shin Sang Yong
Yumi (Unicorn) pet
Dodo (Pegasus) pet

### Enemies

Celestial Realm (Heaven Realm)Infernal Realm (Great Realm)

**Kim Soohyun** is the main character of **MEMORIZE** (메모라이즈) and is the very first person to obtain and wield the Zero Code. Using it he had travel back in time and later became the founding leader of the famous Mercenary Clan. And later becomes known as the Martial God in **Second Coming of Gluttony**, the sequel.

## Appearance

Soohyun has black hair and black eyes, 181.5 cm tall (5'11" foot), muscular and has a cold demeanor. He is described to be handsome by Go Yeonju. He wears a suit of black armor and adorning a fluttering crimson cape.

## Personality

As a veteran of the Hall Plain, Kim Soo-Hyun is a decisive individual who doesn't hesitate when dispatching his foes whether they are human or not. Kim Soo-Hyun is determined to rectify the mistakes he made in his first life and protect those he cares about. He is warm to his allies and ruthless to his enemies. Due to the constant loss of his friends during his first life in the Hall Plain, he stopped seeing other players as human and just as players/tools to prevent the emotional pain of their deaths.

After he traveled back in time, Kim Soo-Hyun prioritized finding powerful allies to ally with, even if they had shady pasts or were hostile to him as long as he could control them. This can be seen when he recruited Vivian after conquering the dungeon she resided in and discovered her high value as a wizard despite her inhumane actions against other players.

Kim Soo-Hyun was also prone to bias and wariness against his rivals as well as other powerful players in his first life. If they couldn't be turned into allies, he would more often than not seek to eliminate them early even if they hadn't displayed any hostility. However, throughout the course of the story, he becomes more open minded and focuses more on their potential as an ally rather than as potential enemies.

Due to the fact that his recklessness and rashness caused the deaths of those he cared about, Kim Soo-Hyun abhors any rash actions from his clan members. For example, he expelled Ahn Hyun from the clan for his rash actions despite Ahn Hyun's status as a founding member of the clan.

He hates Angels for dragging Earthlings to the Hall Plain and Demons for their deeds in his first life. Like a majority of Hall Plain players, Kim Soo-Hyun also views Vagrants as enemies.

Following the war for the Zero Code, and coming to possess it, Soohyun was now freed of his responsibility of saving everyone and the burden associated with it. He was able to cry for the very first time in 15 years and no longer being shackled with the guilt of losing everyone.

Despite finally eradicating all the demons in Hall Plain Soohyun had lost his will to continue with no more goals insight he had slowly begun to lose himself. With his humanity lost over the course of 15 years in Hall Plain and with no more motivation to move forward, he had slowly become distant and was to become a "demon" in the future if not for the Seraph's plan

After returning back to Earth Soohyun had regained his humanity with the help of those around him and lost much of the edge of his personality becoming more forgiving of others and even kinder to his surroundings. Willing to give the newly reformed Golden Lion a chance, unlike his previous self who had destroyed the Koran Alliance after being annoyed by them.

However, the core of his personality still remained even after returning to Earth.  (i'll continue this later)

## Background

Kim Soo-Hyun has faced many adversities and losses during his first life despite this before entering Hall Plain Kim Soo-Hyun's life was that of an ordinary person. Having a strong relationship with both his parents and his brother, Soohyun was no much different from anyone else and had just finished his military service.

However, after falling asleep on the train while travelling back home Soohyun was teleported to Hall Plain. Completely and utterly confused Soohyun was thrown into the Rite of Passage witnessing countless people die before him and was just barely able to survive. And after entering Hall Plain he had joined the Istantel Law clan. During his times within the clan he grew fond of his fellow clan members and had fallen in love with the clan leader, Han Soyoung, and soon became lovers.

But being in Hall Plain Soohyun peaceful times do not last as the demon Belphegor had wiped out the Istantel Law clan and had kidnapped and raped Soyoung. Being blinded with rage by what Belphegor had done to Han Soyoung, Kim Soo-Hyun had recklessly chased him down.

Due to his foolishness, Soohyun was defeated and was held captive by Belphegor until his brother, Kim Yoohyun and the entirety of the Haemil clan arrive to rescue him. Despite facing hundreds of players Belphegor was able to erase everyone and even kill his brother.

With the loss of his lover, brother, and even his entire clan. All because he did not have the ability to protect them. After losing countless loved ones Soohyun had finally snapped and had gone on a conquest with his lust for vengeance. Hunting dozens of demons of the likes of the 14 demon monarchs and even of the 7 great demons, Lilith.

After surviving for 10 difficult years Soohyun was finally able to achieve the Zero Code. However, after learning that he is unable to bring his lover and brother back home he chooses to reverse time back to the very moment he arrived in hope that he could do right this time and be able to finally go back home with them

## Power and abilities

As a veteran player who has survived through numerous battles and wars in Hall Plain for ten years Kim Soo-Hyun has accumulated a vast amount of experience. With just a basic normal class Kim Soo-Hyun was able to kill numerous demons during his first life in Hall Plain. Despite this, he had always lacked magic power which had limited his overall strength and therefore was never able to become one of the top players in Hall Plain as he could not grow his strength since he had stagnated.

However, after returning back to the very moment he was summoned to Hall Plain Kim Soo-Hyun was gifted certain privileges that caused to propel him forward. One of those privileges was the boost to his magic power, luck, stamina, and strength stats. As such, the magic power that had held him back for so long was boosted to the upper nineties and was able to catch up the rest of his stats.

In addition to the boost in stats, Kim Soo-Hyun was granted the ability to pick and choose his class. Consequently, he had picked one of the strongest swordsman classes possible, the secret class; Sword Specialist. With it, he could take on and fight multiple mages, that are normally unbeatable to a normal swordsman. And with its authority, he can cut through anything that exists in the world.

Moreover, he was given the ability to select his own unique, special, and two of the 4 latent abilities. With the option presented he had an overwhelming advantage compared to other players as special and latent abilities developed based on a player's inclinations and not of their choice. As a result, he had chosen each ability which allowed them to synchronise well with each other and strengthen himself.

This had lead Kim Soo-Hyun to become one of the strongest players comparable to the Ten who are the most powerful players just on the first day of returning to Hall Plain. With his newfound powers, he was easily able to pressure Go Yeonju one of the ten strongest, and later he was able to murder multiple players who were to join the ten in the future. Furthermore, due to his overwhelming dominance, he is able to fight against dozens of players single-handedly as shown in multiple instances.

However his last privilege is arguably the greatest of all, the ability granted was the right to choose an item. With it, he had selected the Hwajung, an eternally blazing flame the can burn anything to cinders and can cause the angels to fear it. After obtaining it he is capable of a multitude of things such as turning ablaze, boosting his general power, and purifying himself from status effects. Later, during his confrontation with the demon, Belphegor, Kim Soo-Hyun was able to annihilate him while continuously mocking him with the power of the Hwajung that has not even reached its first awakening and kill multiple of the 14 demon monarchs

After reaching a stamina stat of 90 he reaches the first awakening and with it, he can declare a region of area where can spread his flames. At a stat of 100, it goes through the second awakening, and at 101 it goes through its last awakening which had allowed Soohyun to go face to face against the Duke of Hell. When reaching its last awakening the Hwajung is able to talk to the user much more freely and assist Sooyhun in battle. As shown in multiple instances the Hwajung often advises Soohyun to dodge certain attacks or when to attack using her superior knowledge and intuition as a goddess.

Although, the Hwajung does carry its fair share of risks. If the user's stamina stat is below the very minimum of 90, it can cause severe repercussions to the user and if it's used frequently it can cause permanent stat loss to the user. Even when attaining a health stat of 101 Soohyun is still at risk if he uses the Hwajung. And if he pushed the Hwajung to it's utmost he will face the consequence of death.

During his time in his second life, Soohyun continues to advance his prowess by improving his combat style. With the use of the Hwajung, he is able to control multiple swords and launch them at his foes or even create flaming blades in its place.

In the final parts of the story Soohyun reaches new heights, breaking the limits of his stamina stat and possessing a "vessel" strong enough to truly bring out the raw might of the Hwajung, going so far as to allow for her to manifest her real body in the world. This immense increase in power allowed for him to be able to "edit the rules of the world" with a single strike of his sword elevating his prowess to rival that of even Heaven Rank 9. Allowing for him to render hordes of elite players dead and even erasing one of the great demons, Lilith, with just a simple swing of his sword, perplexing even himself to his newfound strength. His new leap in power, which is comparable to the benefits he first received when entering Hall Plain, had led the angels in Hall Plain to tremble in fear to the extent that they had all fled from him not even risking a potential confrontation with Soohyun...

After returning to Earth, Soohyun had lost many status effects he had formerly had such as the ancient witch tattoo on his heart, the x2 magic speed as well as other effects which had vanished and although losing these substantial benefits Soohyun notices that he has grown even stronger then he has ever been before despite the fact he has not picked up a sword in over five years.

However that is not the end of his strength, when donning his equipment he becomes an existence that is comparable to that of Heaven Rank 10 being. As the true master of Excalibur the sword of legends, which grants him a boost to all of his stats as well as his abilities by several levels, and his heavenly armour which is resistant to weapons below the calibre of weapons of the like of Excalibur or the Sura Demon Spear, reaching a level that no other entity that could dare to challenge him.

**I'LL NEED TO REREAD TO FINISH THIS PART UP**

At the end of the story Soohyun becomes one of the first (reminder to check) people to ascend to godhood

(I'll continue this later when I am bothered )

## Differences

### in the Visual Novel

* He's a little shorter and lighter than Ahn Hyun.

## Tarot Cards

15 Cards : First 4 is Destiny, Second 4 is Love, Third 4 is the Future, last 3 is \_?. - Chapters 356 and 357

1. Soon the big bloody puddle on the table and the man screaming in it = originally in a very rough way.
2. Clocks going backwards = ?
3. A sunny fire that burns a will = ?
4. Cards with a sword standing on the chest and a man standing alone in the landscape were unfolded in order = Changed Destiny, but could end up as a double-edged sword.
5. Split into 4 squares with a women in each; blood and iron, beautiful but very wounded sword, shadow, sacred atmosphere but women is crying.
6. The painting itself was so small that it was hard to see, because there were so many paintings of people, animals, swords, flying dragons and so on.
7. There was a baby in the centre of the card, and a clear flame and a flaming flame were wrapping around the baby in an insane manner.
8. Only one male wearing a crown.
9. King with a bright sword. = King on the first card was smiling at them with a cold smile. Is it a coincidence that a shining sword in his hand is aiming for the right direction?
10. An ugly demon. = Generally a sign of a danger or crisis to the original target. But the demon of the card now on the table was quite miserable. The whole body was covered with wounds, blood was flowing from the whole body, and it was like begging for a flat on the ground.
11. Fallen queen with golden hair. = The whole body was not naked, and she was spreading her legs wide open. There was a remarkable difference from the majestic queen who lived on the floor and spit in silence.
12. A forked path. = The crossroads drawn on the fourth card have a meaning that leads to a situation where you have to select one or the other in a certain situation.
13. This card depicts a man sitting on his knees with all his body collapsed.
14. Once again a card with a crossroads was drawn.
15. There were a total of two men and women on the card. The picture was very prominent, especially for women, but it seemed to represent an angel from the perspective of wings. At first glance, the angel was faceless, but when we looked closely, he was shedding a tear. And there is one male in the tears of angel's bosom. One of the unusual points is that the wings of angels were painted in black.

## Trivia

* The web novel's cover for the series resembles this art of Mars and Venus
* His given name **Soohyun** means "gather, harvest" (**수**) (**su**) and "virtuous, worthy, able" (**현**) (**hyeon**).
* His surname **Kim** means "gold, iron" (**김**) (**gim**)
* His name is similar to the one of the most highest paid South Korean actor, Kim Soo-Hyun
* Similar to his brother Kim Yoohyun, he has a habit of tapping whenever he's thinking about something.
* Kim Yoohyun is the first person to know that Soohyun has regressed 10 years.
* Similar to Seol Jihu from Second Coming of Gluttony, Kim Soo-Hyun is very attracted to breasts.
* Within Soohyun's harem the women are apart of different factions like the S.F. and the W.E.F.