Jeongsu Park

* Warrior
* Pre-Warrior

**Jeongsu Park** is the main protagonist of **Hero Has Returned**. He is a formerly normal teenager who was caught up in Minsu Kim's rampage but survived thanks to being summoned to another world and becoming a Warrior. Returning as the *Spear Warrior*, he fights against the 9-Warriors to save his world and avenge his family.

## Appearance

### Pre-Hero

Jeongsu initially looked very plain, with an unremarkable haircut, a thin build, and glasses. He wore a typical school uniform.

### Post-Hero

Following his year-long stint in the Spear World, Jeongsu's appearance radically changed. He grew taller, gained a muscular build, and was covered in scars. His hair became spiky and windswept, his face was noticeably chiseled and he lost his glasses, giving him a wild, ruggedly handsome look. His eyes had a depressed look. He wears a ragged blue cape with the armor of the Spear World's Demon Lord.

## Personality

### Pre-Hero

Before his transportation to another world, Park was known to be a kind, helpful, and caring boy.

### Post-Hero

Park is a violent, callous, pessimistic, and almost apathetic person who doesn't want anything other than to succeed in his revenge against the Heroes who have killed his loved ones. It is noted by one of his otherworldly allies that Park has a determination that pushes him to his utter limits, the same determination that was motivated by his thirst and twisted desire to kill the 9-Heroes, especially Minsu Kim.

Losing almost all of his emotions and at the edge of giving in to despair, he is hellbent on revenge and will do anything to end it as soon as possible, it is known that he didn't kill the heroes to save the world, but this was more of a way for him to seek a possible salvation for himself and satisfy the burden, sorrow, and selfish desires he was forced to carry over the past year. When the Reconstructed Government puts up an act with Somin, Jeongsu even threatens to kill her if she dares to continue to get in his way to defend the fake Iron Arm Warrior, he doesn't even care what humans view him, he states that he's willing to let other see him as a villain.

However, while Park sees his goal of killing the 9 Warriors as a top priority, that doesn't mean he would abandon an innocent life to die, as he protects Somin when the Hero of Golem uses her as a distraction.

## History

### Original Timeline

In chapter 62, it is revealed that in the original timeline, before Seongjun Lee traveled back in time and began altering events, Jeongsu was not chosen to be a Hero, with Somin Jeong being the *Spear Hero* instead. It is revealed in a Q&A that Seongjun, out of "inconsiderate consideration", caused Somin to not die at the time when she would have been summoned, conversely causing Jeongsu to be summoned instead due to him dying earlier than he was destined to.

### Current Timeline

Jeongsu Park was a normal student that is born into a family with a father, who served as a naval officer, when Minsu began his rampage, he and his family evacuated from Seoul City to get to a safer place while their father joined the war effort to neutralize the Sword Hero, which heavily implied he died in the end.

While Park and his family were stuck in a traffic jam, they suddenly received a report of the Sword Hero catching up to all of them, in shock, everyone all got out of their vehicles and began running for their lives, Park's sister, Dabin, asked him to retrieve her plushie doll that her father bought for her, he was hesitant at first, but decides to retrieve it after reminiscing about the time where his sister receives her gift.

Park's attempt to retrieve the doll resulted in him being the only survivor of the Sword Hero's massacre, where he now harbors a strong hatred for Minsu after taking away his family's life, this hatred and sorrow he develops will be with him even after a year have passed of his experience in another world.

## Prototype

[The prototype version of the story can only be found on an only Korean-language website of Hero has Returned]

Before its serialization even began on Webtoon Naver, Hero Has Returned, was originally published on a Korean website called **Aspiring Cartoonist Gallery**.

The premise of the prototype story however is different from the original, the Spear Hero, unlike the original Jeongsu Park, who serves as a vengeful anti-hero and also the hated main protagonist of the series, was already someone who finished his duties from another world and returned.

During the chaos that ensues within South Korea caused by Minsu Kim, the government begs Park to help them defeat the evil hero, however, the Spear Hero doesn't just rush in at once, he declares that he would defeat Minsu, in exchange that the government would repay him anything he wishes.

Unfortunately, in the end, he is overpowered by Minsu and dies. In the main story, the point of view of the character changes to Jeongsu Park as the reactionary character, the creative hero, becomes the true main protagonist of the series.

## Abilities & Powers

During his time summoned to another world, Jeongsu pushed himself to the absolute limit to acquire abilities and skills for his end goal of killing the Sword Hero. As noted by the Wizard who summoned him, Jeongsu had already become the strongest Spear Hero in her world’s history, and out of all the Hero, Seongjun Lee deemed him to have the most powerful potential and was the only one with the ability to become strong enough to defeat the Demon King Minsu Kim.

* **Magic:** Jeongsu had demonstrated the ability to cast enchantments on his spears in order to grant them additional attributes for his attacks. Jeongsu himself showcased knowledge and understanding of the mechanics of Magic and easily analyzed the abilities and skills of the Sea Dragon Hero’s abilities to overpower her.
	+ **Apply Element:** The magic skill that Jeongsu uses in order to apply elemental magic to his spears and other weapons to grant them additional attributes.
		- **Apply Element - Flame x5: Pentagram of Fire:** A skill where Jeongsu applies five flame magic circles in a pentagram formation in his desired target and then detonates them to create a powerful explosion.
	+ **Activate Ability: Lightning:** An ability, where by activating the magic runes inscribed in his forearms covered by bandages, Jeongsu can create and produce lightning and electricity. This ability is used in tandem with “Lightning Spear Skill: God’s Wrath”.
* **Spear Skills:** As the Spear Hero, Jeongsu possesses numerous skills and abilities focused on using spears as his main weapons, specifically the spears he had acquired and learned to use when he was summoned to his other world.
	+ **Holy Demon Attack System: Void Unity:** A dual-handed spear skill that combines the usage of the Holy Spear Paul and the Demon Spear Daryl where by using and combining the two abilities of both spears, he can then fire a powerful blast of energy that possesses both Holy and Demonic energies. As seen, the skill itself is powerful enough to create a gigantic crater and disintegrate the Faith Hero Hana Baek and force the Martial Arts Hero,Jiseong Cheon to hide behind Minsu Kim to survive. The Hero of Transformation, Garam Lee noted that the power behind it was immense and set him apart from the other Heroes.
	+ **Apply Element - Great Earth:** A skill that allows Jeongsu to place powerful Earth magic into his spear.
		- **Great Earth Spear Technique: Earth Shattering:** A technique used together with the Ground Spear Heo Eui, this grants the spear the ability to seemingly alter and destabilize the ground it pierces, causing it to begin swallowing anything standing in the area of its effect.
	+ **Dragon Spear - Chachatier Inherent Ability: Dragon Spirit:** A skill possessed by the Dragon Spear Chcachtier that allows Jeongsu to attack his target with a dragon spirit manifested by the spear.
	+ **Apply Elements - Electricity/Ice/Great Earth/Flame/Atmosphere: Power Explosion:** A skill used in tandem with the Fragment Spear Artier. This skill allows Jeongsu to enchant numerous elements into his spear attack to create a powerful explosion.
	+ **Frozen Spear Technique - Glacial Path:** A spear skill that infuses ice magic into his spear and is presumably originally used using the Ice Spar Vasnes. During his fight against the Sea Dragon Hero, Jeongsu successfully obtained her trident, where he then used this skill to fire it against her. As shown, the skill combined with the trident was powerful enough to break through most of the layers of her Grand Shield of Atlas Barrier.
	+ **Lightning Spear Skill: God’s Wrath:** A spear skill where by using the Lightning Spear and Activate Ability: Lightning to pour lightning into the spear, Jeongus is able to throw an extremely powerful spear throw infused with lightning. As shown, this skill is powerful enough to completely obliterate the Golem Hero’s “Flower of Prayer”, destroying all his golems and piercing a huge hole right through his chest, obliterating his heart and a large chunk of his chest and torso.

### Original Weapons

During his time summoned to another world, Jeongsu acquired and was given access to numerous items and weapons from that world, specifically spears forged by the world’s most skilled blacksmiths and magicians.

As shown, the Spears he can access are summoned from the Spear World. Allowing Jeongsu to summon anyone of his spears into his hands in anytime. If the spears are damaged or otherwise destroyed, Jeongsu can send whatever remains of the spears back to the spear world’s armory for repair. As shown, the wizard of the Spear World can actually provide him with more assistance by giving him new weapons.

However, the number of Spears he can summon at once is limited due to the number of podiums to place them in to be summoned. In order to summon other spears, the people of the Spear World have to manually swap out certain spears in the podiums for different ones when Jeongsu sends them back.

**Spears:**

* Shield Spear Ancile - A spear resembling a cross. As shown, Jeongsu primarily uses this spear as a defensive weapon, due to its possessing the ability to create powerful shields and defensive barriers using magic.
* Ground Spear Yeo Eui - A spear resembling a Chinese Polearm. The spear possesses earth-based magic.
* Holy Spear Paulo - Spear possessing holy attributes and the ability to manipulate light.
* Demon Spear Daryl - A demonic-looking spear that likely possesses demon-based abilities.
* Flame Spear Ignit - A spear possessing fire-based abilities.
* Ice Spear Vasnes - A spear possesses ice based abilities.
* Dragon Spear Chachatier - A spear implied to possess the abilities of a dragon and can unleash a dragon spirit at Jeongsu’s target.
* Fragment Spear Artier
* Savage Spear Baton
* Poison Spear Skola - A spear possessing the ability to release poisonous gas in the general area it lands in after being thrown. As shown, the poison was strong enough to momentarily damage Minsu Kim after she inhaled some.
* Short Spear Filgain
* Iron Lance Heukto - A new spear created by the Wizard and Smiths of the Spear World for Jeongsu. This new spear possesses immense piercing power and can operate similarly to a drill. Another additional ability is its power to animate the unicorn-horse-like statue in the lance, allowing Jeongsu to ride it and granting him additional mobility, speed, and strength to pierce his target using the lance.

Jeongsu’s SpearsIce Spear VassnesFire Spear IgnitDark Spear DarilHoly Spear PauloEarth Spear YeouiShield Spear AncileShort Spear FilganeIron Lance HeuktoHeukto’s unicorn-horse mount
**Armor:**

* Dark Armor Didantium (The Demon Lord's armor) - The armor of the Demon Lord of the World of Spears that Jeongsu defeated.

Dark Armor Didantium
### Hero Relics

After his first defeat by the Sword Hero, Jeongsu Park was given access to the weapons and Relics belonging to the other deceased Heroes who attempted to stop the 9-Warriors. Additionally, Jeongsu himself also acquired additional weapons and artifacts after killing some of the 9 Warriors themselves.

**Relics**

* Hero of Transformation’s Belt
* Magic Tome and Magic Staff of the Sorcery Hero
* Shield of the Shield Hero
* Trident of the Sea Dragon Hero
* Hammer and Stakes of the Exorcist Hero
* Demon Hammer Chronos
* Key of the Combination Hero

Transformation ArmorDemon Hammer Chronos
### Reformation

In order to efficiently use all the weapons of the other heroes, Jeongsu had Garam Lee surgically and cybernetically grant him two mechanical arms behind his back, allowing him four arms to use four weapons at the same time. However, a severe draw back to this is the fact that his “reformation” is only partially complete. Due to the fact that the needed medical equipment is not found on Earth, the forebrain operation needed to safely use his new limbs was not done, risking severe damage to his nervous system if he overuses or abuses his new limbs.

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## Trivia

* Jeongsu Park's designs were found out to be literally same as the designs of a character name Durandal whom belongs to a video game called Dungeon Fighter. Thus, the creator was been suspected of plagiarizing the character from another franchise. Image can be found here.
* One of Jeongsu’s predecessors as the Spear Hero is **Shi Huang**, who after returning to Earth and his native homeland, proceeded to become its emperor using his newfound powers as a Hero.
* The prototype traits of Jeongsu Park was eventually given to Yuseong Jin.