Seol Jihu/History

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At a young age Seol discovered that he had a special ability, namely when this ability activated, he saw the world in the green color. He still didn't know what this special ability was, but he knew that he was different from other children. One time when he was on a safari trip with his family, he saw a lion and got scared as that was the first thing that he ever saw with a color other than green. An unknown woman comforted him and told him that he had beautiful eyes in the colors of the rainbow, she also told him to visit her if he needed help in the future.

As he grew older, he realized that his power could be of great help, so he began to experiment with it, in the Hope's of understanding it better.

However as he grew a taste for the finer things in life, Seol began to drown in the ecstasy of materialism, abusing his ability more and more, slowly marking out the moment his life spiraled out of control. Once his ability disappeared as a result of over-abusing it and breaking his Magic Circuit, he began to gamble without restraint, believing that his ability would once again resurface, leading him to succumb to substance abuse and sunk-cost fallacy.

As a result of his gambling addiction, his relationship with his family worsened to the point of being denounced by them. His girlfriend Yoo Seonhwa also ended up leaving him.

After becoming agonizingly self-aware of the irreparable nature of his sins, Seol chose escapism, running away to the Lost Paradise with the desire to find somewhere he could belong, and perhaps, even more fleetingly, to find a way to atone for his sins. He was scouted as a Red Mark Contracted by Kim Hannah, indentured to Sinyoung in a slave-like contract but eventually became a spear-wielding Warrior who possessed a formidable strength despite his average talent and was even dubbed the 'Demon of the Battlefield'. The details about the rest of his life remain mostly unknown.

He was a man who was not chosen by the Seven Gods. But was a man who participated in battles against the Seven Armies nine times, and survived nine times He was the only Earthling who, in collaboration with the Federation, exterminated Abhorrent Charity (Caritas).

Yet despite his strength, he ultimately still fell in humanity's last stand in Paradise, with his body charred beyond recognition. Towards the final moments of his life, Gula, one of the Seven Gods arrived, to grant him a wish for fulfilling his promise of barely surviving the battlefield that left him half-dead. What the goddess did not expect was Seol's ardent wish to turn back time and start over. However, he was fiercely rebuked by Gula and denied this wish, to which he asked for his emotions to be sent back instead. Even then, Gula was still unable to grant his wish, as Seol’s achievements were still not enough, requiring a dozen more feats like the one he had just accomplished, which had left him half dead. Left with no hope, he simply laughed sorrowfully and died.

It was at this time that a mortally wounded Teresa Hussey, who had been spectating this conversation, intervened. Grateful to the Earthling who had fought and died like a dog, bargained with Gula to grants Seol’s wish, presenting the Royal Oath. Even Gula was surprised by her choice and determination and acquiesced, stating that she could not wait until she met the two of them once again.

### The Beginning

After receiving the evanescent, fervent, and lamenting emotions of his former self, who had spent his entire life in the Lost Paradise, in the form of a dream, in a process that could only be described as a punch to the gut or the jump-start of a defibrillator, Seol's consciousness was quite literally shocked back into reality. With the strong emotions of his previous life coming to him as a dream, the events started to differ from his life when he met Kim Hannah. Instead of becoming a contracted for Sinyoung, he convinced her to give him the Gold Mark, which she received from Gula. After signing the contract with Hannah, he received an invitation letter from her. Reading trough it, he found out that he didn't have much time left before he would be teleported to Lost Paradise. Realizing some of his past mistakes, he withdrew the money that he had previously borrowed from his ex-grlfriend, Yoo Seonhwa, and returned to her apartment. Finding that she wasn't home, he shoved the money into the mail slot on the door. Shortly afterwards, he was teleported to Lost Paradise.

### Tutorial

* Seol arrived at the tutorial zone; met maid Maria Yeriel and Guide Han, both meant to look after participants.
* He opened three Necessary Boxes, unlike the other Invited, who received Random Boxes; first box evolved Seol's unknown Innate Ability into **Nine Eyes** and it unlocked the Green color - General Observation; second box unlocked the left direction of his Nine Eyes i.e. Yellow, Orange, and Red; and third Box gave him a blank Paper Talisman, 5,000 Survival Points, a Mark of Survival and the Diary of an Unknown Student.
* Tutorial's first mission caused a humanoid monster called Gaekgwi to appear and kill Yi Seol-Ah before killing many other participants.
* Seol stood up to it and chased it off thanks to his previous self's bloodlust.
* Tutorial's second mission required participants to go through traps but Seol unlocked all traps thanks to his Nine Eyes.
* Tutorial's third mission required participants to find coins across a school. Seol used the Diary of an Unknown Student to find the most coins.
* He killed the Gaekgwi in the school using the spell balls he bought.
* Kang Seok attempted to trap him and kill him but he was able to outsmart him before he died, but not before Kang Seok
* and his cronies crippled Yun Seora's right arm.
* After clearing Tutorial, Seol's status updated. He earned a total of 26,500 SP during the entire Tutorial. Highest score in history.

### Neutral Zone

* Eight remaining participants, now known as survivors, came to Neutral Zone run by Taciana Cinzia, the head of Sicilia and one of Lost Paradise's bigshots.
* Survivors had one month to earn at least 1,000 SP to enter Lost Paradise.
* Seol gets food and drinks for free and a 30% discount at all other stores in Neutral Zone. He also gets best room in Neutral Zone for free.
* Seol did Normal mission for 100 SP for a few hours before going to rest.
* He tried Hard mission that gave 1,000 SP and required destroying 20 skeletons; he almost got killed but survived thanks to the Mirror of Understanding that destroys Deceased.
* Seol returned back to his room, depressed; he suddenly remembered the Guide's note and learned about VIP Store's Special Competence which lasts for 24 hours while giving the user an 8X boost to their training at the cost of 400 SP.
* He bought all 60 bottles which cost him a total of 16,800 SP after the 30% discount.
* He did Basic mission that involved running ten laps; he struggled through it and decided to spend all his time training.
* 14 days later, Claire Agnes, Taciana Cinzia's deputy and a trainer, offered to train him and he agreed. Over the next two weeks, Seol went through the harshest training of his life.
* On the 30th day, Taciana Cinzia announced that the survivors' two more months in the Neutral Zone.
* She also informed them about the Chamber of Awakening which would allow the survivors to gain classes that suit them and improve themselves in their specialty.
* Odelette Delphine became the only Magician.
* Seol was going to be given Magician class but he chose Warrior to use the spear.
* Seol began mana training which he finished in just a few seconds thanks to his abundant mana.
* He then practiced with the spear for next two weeks before he resumed missions to gain combat experience.
* He did all missions easily; he did the Hard skeleton mission repeatedly before the skeleton killed itself.
* He learnt about Yun Seora from Hyun Sangmin and Shin Sang-Ah.
* Seol went to VIP Store and bought two Ambrosia and the Divine Elixir for Mana.
* He drank the two Ambrosia and evolved his Nine Eyes that unlocked the lower direction, Black - Escape Immediately and the upper direction, Gold.
* He reached his room and found Kim Hannah who asked him to help Yun Seora as a favor.
* He found Yun Seora unconscious and took her to his room to recuperate.
* Maria Yeriel informed him that her arm had to be amputated or he had to spend 82,000 SP for a Ceremony to fix it.
* He agreed and went to earn SP where he met Odelette Delphine and her companions: Hao Win, Leorda Salvatore, Tong Chai and a Priest.
* He joined their team and started doing mission; they let him take 43,720 SP he needed for the Ceremony as a signing bonus.
* Maria Yeriel did the Ceremony and Yun Seora's arm was fixed.
* Next day, Seol bought multiple sets of armor for a total of 14,000 SP that his teammates loaned him.
* He then did the first Very Hard mission with his team; they managed to complete without much difficulty thanks to their high level of skill; each member of the party got a share of 1,667 SP from the 10,000 SP reward.
* Soon, they did the toughest Very Hard mission that paid 60,000 SP where Leorda Salvatore received a fatal blow; they only managed to clear it due to luck as Seol's poison spell balls proved to be effective against the sprites.
* Seol asked Hyun Sangmin and Shin Sang-Ah to look after Yi Seol-Ah, Yi Sungjin and Yun Seora from Oh Minyoung and promised to help their teams with Hard missions.
* The two did save Yi Seol-Ah from being harassed by Oh Minyoung.
* On the Neutral Zone's final day, Seol decided to do the Impossible mission, relying on his blank spell talisman that would self-destruct, tomorrow.
* As he suspected, it was a Necessary Talisman that casted any spell deemed necessary to user; it used Limited Area: Great Earthquake spell which launched an earthquake measuring 12 in magnitude under the entire mountain deemed to be the Sanctuary.
* Seol earned a One-time use VIP coupon and 172,800 SP, making his grand total reach 477,997 SP.
* He bought seven vials of Divine Elixirs worth 210,000 SP and Psychi's Tears worth 250,000 SP; he bought Divine Stigmata worth 300,000 SP with the One-time use VIP coupon.
* He returned to his room and drank the entire vial of Psychi's Tears which restored and, even, improved his damaged mana veins.
* The next day, the survivors entered Lost Paradise and waited for their contract or inviter to arrive.

### Leaving the Neutral Zone

* While waiting, a Cartel member assaulted Hyun Sangmin for a conflict inside the Neutral Zone.
* Seol meddled in and he tried to harm as well but was overpowered by Seol despite being a level 3.
* Kim Hannah appeared and beat him to a pulp before he left after giving apologies and leaving behind Oh Minyoung and his follower that attacked Yun Seora in the Neutral Zone.
* Yun Seora is the younger daughter of the President of Sinyoung, the largest power in Lost Paradise.
* Shin Hansung, a Sinyoung employee, informed Yun Seora that she had to kill Oh Minyoung and the man that attacked her in the Neutral Zone as per her father's orders or she would be sent back to Earth.
* Yun Seora did it after only a slight hesitation.
* Seol was given a Sinyoung contract that gave him a lot of money but was very restrictive, almost like a slave contract and Kim Hannah's personal contract which gave him freedom to choose between.
* He chose Kim Hannah's personal contract, thanks to Kim Hannah's secret advice, ignoring the pleas of Shin Hansung.
* Kim Hannah took him to Scheherazade from where he returned to Earth before telling Yun Seora that his real name was Seol Jihu.

### First Return to Earth

* He was told by Kim Hannah that he was given a large sum of money before he returned to Earth.
* When he returned, he immediately left to head to the casino. There, he applied for a ban.
* He went to a pawnshop and recovered the car he gave away long ago.
* He also bought the latest notebook from a computer store and also fully calculated the amount he owed to his family and ex.
* After collecting everything he went to visit his family's house. He entered the building and encountered his brother, Seol Wooseok who wordlessly slammed the door on him.
* He left an envelope containing 50 million won in his brother's room and entered his sister's. Seol Jinhee, room. There, he left an envelope containing 5 million won and the keys to the car he recovered in her handbag as well as the notebook on her desk. This woke up her though and soon their brother entered her room too.
* While they believed it was money gained through gambling, Seol Wooseok confirmed the ban from the casino by calling them. While their attitude softened, they remained unconvinced. They immediately asked how Seol had gotten this money.
* Seol had to bluff that he had gotten a job that was introduced by an acquaintance and that he had gotten a huge bonus. He told them that he was busy. He asked his brother to speak to his parents.
* Next, Seol headed for the café that Yoo Seonhwa worked in.
* When Seol left a month ago in Earth's time, he had left an old bank card and a mobile phone before he was summoned to the Tutorial. Seonhwa believed that Seol was making an excuse for himself to see her.
* Similar to his interaction with his siblings, Seonhwa did not believe that he had applied for a ban from the casino and called the casino herself.
* After Seol apologized, she gave him the 2 million won she owed him in order to finally sever the connection between them and told him to ask for her forgiveness from actions rather than words and hoped that they could talk to each other with smiles on their faces once more.
* Seol understood what Seonhwa was saying but he wanted to pay back the amount he owed at the very least. When he gave her the envelope of money, Seonhwa was shocked and even stepped back. Seol thought she didn't want the money so he grabbed her hand to place the envelope there.
* Meanwhile, Seonhwa was stunned and called Seol Wooseok and realised that the last time Seol went to the casino was March 16th leaving her shocked. It was hinted here that she knew about Paradise and the way it operates. Immediately she ran after him but couldn't find him. She went to his apartment but Seol was walking the streets sulking so she didn't catch him. Soon after she left the apartment, Seol returned and fell asleep sitting against the wall.
* While Seol slept, Kim Hannah was trying to contact him. She ended up barging into his room and seeing the mess, she cleaned everything up. Seol saw this in a half-asleep state and thought it was Seonhwa. He woke up to a clean room and the smell of ramen.
* Kim Hannah was upset that Seol had spent a large amount of the money she gave him and was dumbfounded at the difference of the Seol in Paradise and the Seol in Earth.
* When Seol expressed his desire to go back to Paradise even though it had been only one day, Kim Hannah showed concern. When people were seduced by the charm of the Lost Paradise and discarded their lives here on Earth, they would lose their lives pretty early on often getting drunk on the adrenaline of battles and going for more and more danger.
* He signed the contract with Gula and questioned why Kim Hannah wanted a private contract when a contract with Sinyoung would give her a promotion or more. Kim Hannah explained that Seol would likely be seen as a replacement of Sung Shihyun, a Gold mark who had similar achievements to Seol in the Neutral Zone. Seol would be worked like a slave like the Seol Jihu of the dreams Seol had. Also, if Seol was contracted to Kim Hannah, then Seol's accomplishments would be a backing to Kim Hannah's voice in Sinyoung. Overall there would be more benefit in a private contract for both Kim Hannah as well as Seol Jihu.
* Seol Jihu and Kim Hannah returned to Paradise seconds before Seonhwa entered his room looking for him.

### Haramark

* When Seol returned from Earth, he was advised by Kim Hannah to immediately leave for Haramark since it is the only city free from the influence of Sinyoung.
* When riding a carriage to Haramark, he met Alex and Richard Hugo as well as an archer.
* The archer as well as the driver of the carriage were killed due to an ambush by Moles that the archer was unable to identify. These Moles were taken care of by Hugo, Alex as well as Seol. This allowed Seol to leave a good impression on the other two.
* Once arriving in Haramark, Seol stayed at an inn. He visited the plaza where he found a notice that Carpe Diem is looking for another recruit. This notice was shining in a gold color when he turned on his Nine Eyes ability signifying the Golden Commandment.
* Afterwards, he goes to Eat, Drink And Enjoy, a multi-purpose pub mentioned by Hugo and Alex. There he eats and finds out that Carpe Diem is actually one of the Haramark's best teams.
* After getting directions for the building for Carpe Diem by the bartender, Seol enters the building to find Hugo and Chung Chohong and is soon introduced to Edward Dylan, the leader of the team.
* He tells them that he was there to join and when being interviewed, the team is amazed by Seol's achievements in the Neutral Zone as well as the Tutorial to the point that it seems unbelievable. This manages to upset Chohong as she believed that Seol was lying. This misunderstanding is cleared up when Dylan calls Cinzia to confirm Seol's achievements.
* Given the achievements as well as the Gold Mark Seol had, the team questioned why he did not approach a better team. Seol was troubled as to what to reply as he did not wish to reveal his innate ability, something that was incredibly rare in Paradise. He replied that he simply wanted to utilize the training facilities the team had which was not a good enough reason as he was rejected. Dylan tells Hugo that Carpe Diem is not the team that Seol should join because it would limit his potential (I think. I'm unsure about this part).
* After being rejected, Seol returned to Eat, Drink And Enjoy where he decided to join as a porter in an expedition that was disguised as an exploration to the Forest of Denial. The leader of this expedition was Samuel. Alex was part of this team and vouched for Seol's competence.
* After Seol joined the team, the team left to discuss the details of the expedition in the inn that Seol was actually staying in. He was surprised to meet Carpe Diem soon after being rejected. Carpe Diem was also asked by Samuel to take part in this expedition along with the Royal Mage Ian Denzel. Ian is the person who had informed Samuel of a tomb that resided in the Forest of Denial. After discussing the path and plan to follow, the team decided to meet up in the next morning at the south gate of the city.

### Forest of Denial

* The next morning, Seol meets up with his team, which was Samuel, Alex, Grace, and Clara; Carpe Diem which was Hugo, Dylan and Chohong; and finally Ian, commonly known as Master Ian.
* They set off in carriages and stopped at the edge of what was considered the safe area, the area where the carriages could return without the protection of the expedition team.
* The plan was to reach Napal Hill and then stop before entering the Forest of Denial as they needed to prepare countermeasures against the magic that is set over the forest.
* When going to Napal Hill, the team had to fight Cave Ettins, which were easily taken care of since this was not the first joint mission between Samuel's team and Carpe Diem.
* Seol carried everything by himself causing Samuel's worries for the weight of the bag but he was only told not to worry. This made him upset at the other porters he brought with him as they were not doing anything.
* As the forest's magic makes its victims deny something, it can be quite dangerous. What it denies is random so it can have minor effects like denying a speck of dirt to something extreme denying someone's life. For this reason, Master Ian prepared special potions as countermeasures as well as spells that would calm the mind. This did not grant immunity to the magic and the team was still advised to restrict their emotions.
* When finally exploring the forest, the team came across Kahn's corpse which made Samuel lose his emotions and come under the magic of the forest. This made him deny his sexual orientation. It was hinted that he became attracted to Seol.
* Later, the team unexpectedly had an encounter with Lioners, monsters that should not be in the Forest of Denial. Overall, this was a tough battle, one which would have resulted in a loss if Master Ian had not turned the tides at the last minute.
* Unexpectedly, a female Lioner had showed up above the team and only Seol had noticed it with the help of his Nine Eyes. As he was the only one to notice it attacking one of the team's members (I think Ian), Seol had chased it to block it's attack with his spear. A female lioner is stronger than the male. While the male can go toe-to-toe with a level 4 Warriors, a female surpasses that and can fight against a level 5 Warrior. Due to that, Seol was almost killed at this moment. However, due to his strength and the female lioner mockingly going easy on him initially, Seol had managed to block the attack. After a lot of willpower to survive, Seol managed to use his mana to overpower the female lioner even when the lioner was trying its best although this ended up breaking one of his spears. Soon, the battle ended with all the members surviving.
* As Seol impressed all the members of the team, he was asked to become an actual warrior in the team instead of a porter. Since this was something Seol wanted from the beginning and this gave him better rewards, he had no reason to refuse.
* After traversing deeper into the forest, the team reached the tomb that they were looking for. There, they found traces of Kahn's team and figured that they were chased out from the tomb. They also realized that one of the Lioners were carrying Kahn's weapon. This made them realize that there might be an enemy in the tomb but still decided to enter since this was the purpose of the expedition anyway.
* The soul in the tomb, Flone, was the last-born daughter of the Rothschear family. She was buried with her deceased husband alive against her will which resulted in a lot of hatred making her a vengeful spirit.
* When the team had decided to enter the tomb immediately, Seol stopped them since he saw that the tomb was pitch-black which would have basically been suicide if he went in there.
* When the team planned to go in despite Seol's protests, he decided to convince them by using one of the SPECIAL items he got in the Tutorial, the Quill Pen of Flowing Consciousness. This showed the murderous thoughts of the soul inside of the tomb. Finally, he decided to appease the soul which worked as the danger level had dropped from pitch black to yellow.
* Flone had written her thoughts once again using the Quill Pen of Flowing Consciousness, saying that most of the valuables in the tomb can be taken, thanking Seol for appeasing her.
* All the valuables in the tomb were expensive which would result in the expedition resulting in a success however despite that, the greed of some of the members of the team made them want everything including items that Flone had asked not to take such as the Proof of Castitas, a highly sought-after artifact by the priests of Paradise, as well as some other artifacts. Seol had to defend the artifacts as his life as well as the other team member's lives were on the line. This resulted in a vote on whether to take the items or not and Seol had ended up winning.
* Finally leaving the tomb, the members set up a camp nearby as they had not taken a break since they entered the forest.
* Samuel, Grace, Clara as well as Alex took this opportunity to secretly take the prohibited valuables that remained in the tomb. Upon realizing what was happening, Seol immediately headed for the tomb only to find the deaths of Samuel's team. Despite his immense fear, he picked up the artifacts that were on the ground next to the bodies and placed it on the sarcophagus, their original position.
* Not wanting to leave the tomb as is, he decided to clean the tomb and even talked to Flone. He did not know her name yet and simply called her Ghost Saintess. Grateful for his efforts, Flone gifted him the Proof of Castitas as well the Festina Earrings which Seol accepted due to Flone's persistence.
* When he left the tomb, he informed the rest of the team and they finally departed to leave the forest.
* Master Ian had received a call from Haramark and he was informed to go and aid the Arden Valley Fortress as it was under attack by Parasites when it was not fully constructed yet. Carpe Diem and Seol Jihu agreed to escort him there.
* Master Ian was deeply impressed by Seol's achievements throughout the expedition and even offered to partner up with him since he was planning on quitting his position as the Royal Mage soon.

### Arden Fortress

* Seol, Carpe Diem and Master Ian met with Teresa Hussey before marching together to the fortress. She emitted a golden hue signifying the Golden Commandment.
* Teresa Hussey is one of the only, if not the only Paradisian who uses the System the seven sins created for Earthlings.
* Teresa Hussey left a deep impression on Seol as he had an unknown attraction to her.
* Approaching the fortress the team found out that the Parasites had not taken over yet and were still defending hoping for reinforcements.
* When the fortress was visible, the team saw many parasites including a Medusa, many said that they should abandon it and recapture it later however Teresa did not want to do that.
* While Teresa had come up with a tactic, she was soon stopped by Seol, who had activated Future Vision, as this strategy was too dangerous.
* Seol proposed a different strategy. He would use spell balls to deal damange to the Medusa and anger it. The other parasites, upon being ordered by the angered Medusa to chase Seol, had left the fortress to chase after Seol.
* Seol ran and often dodged the Parasite's attacks and even using the Festina Earrings to speed up.
* Eventually he reached a valley below the remaining army. There, Ian used magic to cut a rock at the edge of the valley. While the rock fell, it brock apart into several pieces and landed on the chasing Parasites.
* One parasite managed to escape the falling rocks and was about to attack Seol but was killed by Teresa instead. Soon Seol was unwillingly kissed by Teresa because of Seol being "so hot and sexy right now".
* While the plan was to take out half of the parasites with the rocks, this ended up taking 80% of the army and left the remaining stuck in a net unable to put up a proper resistance. This allowed the human army to easily take out the rest.
* With everything finished up, Seol and everyone took a carriage back to Haramark. Under the pretext of taking care of Chohong and Hugo, Dylan asked Seol to join the team. Due to the Golden Commandment, Seol agreed.
* With his achievements in the Forest of Denial as well as Arden Valley, he was able to reach Level 2, Mana Spearman. Despite Gula's excellent naming sense, Seol wanted to change his class name as it was too uncool. This resulted in him getting smacked in the head.
* He also got rewards equating several hundred silver coins as well as a new spear gifted by Teresa. According to Chohong, with this spear, Seol would not have to worry about changing equipment until Level 4.

### Before the Ramman Village Mission

* The team decided to sell off some of the loot. While each member decided what to do with their loot on their own, they decided to go to Scheherazade together. Chohong and Hugo would sell their loot in an auction. Dylan would use his connections to sell at a higher price. Similarly, Seol planned to talk to Kim Hannah about his loot as well.
* While the team moved to Scheherazade, Seol heard about a rookie from the Neutral Zone. It was greatly hinted that it was Yun Seora but Seol would not believe it is her since the description of the rookie was different from Seol's perception of Yun Seora.
* Seol also heard about the Daughter of Luxuria returning, though it was not confirmed.
* Four days later, the team arrived in Scheherazade. Everyone decided to split up and Seol found himself at Sinyoung's HQ. There he asked for Kim Hannah. Soon after the receptionist informed Kim Hannah of Seol's presence, Kim Hannah put up a cheery front and left the building with Seol and took him to a side street.
* Kim Hannah was upset since she asked Seol not to come back to Scheherazade unless he had someone backing him. Since Seol was well acquainted with Teresa Hussey and Ian Denzel and he was also a member of Carpe Diem, he was confident that he would be fine even entering Sinyoung's HQ.
* Soon Kim Hannah had to leave for a bit and Seol moved in order to smoke. He moved to an alley near "Teahouse of the Winds and Fairies" where he was stopped by a woman from smoking. This lady was Seo Yuhui, the Daughter of Luxuria, though Seol did not know of her importance and just reminded him of the lady he met at the zoo as well as his ex, Yoo Seonhwa.
* Upon Kim Hannah's return, surprise and apologies, Seo Yuhui invited the two inside because they seemed to want to talk. While the two talked Seo Yuhui was listening as well and got upset along with Kim Hannah when she heard of the dangers Seol, a Level 1 Warrior went through.
* Seol asked Kim Hannah to sell the tree-shaped jewelry, the loot that he got from his previous missions. Kim Hannah takes it and says that it can go for 500 silver coins if he is lucky.
* Finally when the talk ended, Kim Hannah told Seol to inform her of everything he does including missions he participates in. She leaves the teahouse, leaving Yuhui and Seol alone.
* Soon Seol gets up to leave too but is stopped by Yuhui's questions. She finds out he lives in Haramark. Soon, a new building starts being constructed next to Carpe Diem.
* Returning to Haramark, Seol takes care of minor missions such as escort missions.

### Ramman Village Mission

* When returning from one of these missions with Chohong, he finds ten Earthlings, members of Sicilia standing outside the third floor entrance of Carpe Diem.
* Entering the office, he finds the rest of Carpe Diem as well Cinzia and others including Agnes. There was a mission being arranged where only High Rankers or above were allowed to participate. Hugo was also going as a warrior close to Dylan.
* Dylan and the participants of the mission besides Agnes had to go somewhere. Agnes was ordered to stay behind to catch up with Seol. The two went to a bar and caught up. Seol was advised to learn the origins of Javelin throwing if he wanted to progress in manually learning his skills. He needed to learn to walk before running.
* After returning to Carpe Diem, Dylan assigned another mission to Seol. Monsters periodically showed up in Ramman Village and Seol was assigned to take care of these monsters. Although the monsters showed up periodically, no colony or nest could be found nearby.
* Seol decided to take on the mission. They needed an archer and priests. He was advised to look for Maria Yeriel as she was a Level 4 Priest and it would be good to get to know her. After putting down some coin pouches, Maria, decided to participate in the mission.
* Seol decided he needed to research into this mission since he wanted to get rid of the problem of monsters showing up periodically. He went to the library where he meets Ian. Ian was one of the few that were participating in the top-secret mission that Dylan and Hugo were going to. After informing Ian of Seol's situation, Ian immediately left to get some books and gave them to him. Upon Seol's questioning, Ian told Seol that he tried to fix Ramman Village's problem as well but he failed in the end.
* The next day in Eat, Drink And Enjoy, in the middle of Chohong and Maria's arguments, Seol was searching for an archer when Chohong calls two men and one woman that had just entered the pub. These turned out to be Mikhailov, Veronika and Gierszal, a level 3 Sword Runner, a Level 3 Sharp Ranger and a Level 3 Guard respectively. After convincing them of joining, the team had an archer and was good to go with the average level of 3.2.
* They arrived in the village without encountering any monsters or bandits. There, the team heard an old woman talking about a white ship lowering its anchors.
* They decided to camp nearby and while the team was relaxing, Seol decided to explore the village in hopes for some information. He found two children, one girl that was pleading for the bread that Seol had, and one boy who was the girl's brother. The brother was more cautious knowing that Seol was an Earthling.
* Seol gave them food and found out about three taboos that would take someone to another world if they were broken:
	+ Never go towards the voice coming out from the fog.
	+ Never go where the hand is beckoning you.
	+ If you see people wearing grey clothes, don't go near and run away.
* He asked for the directions to the village head, the poster of the mission. When he talked to the village head, he found out that he was the second to ask him questions besides Like 'em Titties, which was Ian Denzel.
* The village head started issuing requests after suffering casualties in trying to get rid of the mutants.
* Seol returned to his camp and everyone decided to take care of the mutants before nightfall, which they did.
* When night came and the camp was set up, the team took turns in taking watch. While it was Seol's turn, he was upset since he made no progress in figuring out the mystery of Ramman village. He was staring at the half moon when he saw black lines rising from the fog. He saw that a portion of the fog had changed to yellow after using Nine Eyes. Seol remembered the old woman talking about the white ship and its anchors.
* He told Maria to wake everyone up and ran for to the nght fog. The black lines slunk back similar to a white ship lowering its anchors. He saw that the yellow color was getting smaller into the ground, different from when it would usually disappear or fade out.
* He started digging into the spot where he saw the color disappearing. Chohong and the others soon followed suit.
* While digging, he clarified about the three taboos previously mentioned:
	+ The sound was an eerie call when he saw the white ship and its anchors
	+ The waving hands were a figurative description, something Seol saw disappearing below the Night Fog Zone (possibly the black lines).
	+ The grey clothed people were simply the mutants that they fought.
	+ The "another world" was a rumor somebody had cooked up to hide something
* The Night Fog Zone was a hilly region. Due to that, it was easy to hide another hill. This hill hid an entrance to a rocky cavern.
* When entering the cavern, it seemed empty. Seol believed this was a research centre. While the main research centre was in the Delphinion Duchy, there were satellite research centre dotted around the countryside.
* Seol soon stopped everyone. He activated Nine Eyes and found the color to be orange.
* Similar to the situation in the tomb in the Forest of Denial, the team decided to leave the decision to a vote. The ending result was to search further in and Seol had to comply.
* Going further in, the team encountered a Nest and this resulted in a fight. Many could barely leave a scratch on it and often had to defend themselves against the numerous tentacles. Gierszal and the others were assigned roles in the fight.
* Soon everything fell apart when Veronika was slammed by a tentacle and the same thing happened to Mikhail due to his loss of concentration. Maria told Gierszal to bring them back however he jumped over Veronika and ran past Mikhail and tried escaping on his own behind the Nest. The fighting prowess of the team had suffered a serious blow as their numbers had almost halved.
* Chohong, realizing the dire situation, activated the most powerful Level 4 manifestation spell, the Valkyrie Skirt. Maria too prepared a ceremony to use a spell named "Mjolnir".
* Seol, who was meant to attack the Nest for a final blow had to run to protect Maria as she was defenseless and an attack from the tentacle would definitely kill her.
* However, he felt no impact from the incoming tentacle and realized Chohong had protected him. She collapsed, missing a left arm, saying what seemed like her last words to Seol.
* The Nest lived and had absorbed Gierszal, who died when he tried to escape, and recovered its health.
* Maria was in agony when she realized that something was happening to Seol as his heartbeat was abnormally.
* Seol activated Future Vision.
* Using this ability, Seol was able to take care of the Nest using abilities far surpassing his Level 2 capabilities. He even turn it into "meat paste".
* After the fight and Chohong's emergency treatment, everyone left the cavern and returned to their initial campsite. The next morning Mikhail and Veronika woke up and found out about their ex-comrade's betrayal. They moved to Ramman Village.
* After getting the largest room in the inn, Seol left to meet the village head once again. He had figured out that the village head was a famous mage that worked in the Delphinion Duchy.
* The project to create special soldiers to fight against Parasites had been cancelled and the village head, Arbor Muto, was against this. Realizing that his protests fall on deaf ears, he decided to steal some Rudium, a tool to control the Nest that was fought earlier. The village found out about the village head and asked him for protection to which the village head agreed.
* Seol found out that Haramark could not accept the village since the city was already full. Not only would the king of Haramark have to let the villagers enter, he would need to take care of them as well.
* When Seol was asked how he figured the mystery out, Seol gave a riddle as a response: "When there are nine eyes, what will it be?", hinting his innate ability, Nine Eyes.
* Finally, Seol decided not to expose the village head but said that he was in his debt.
* When on the way back to Haramark, Chohong woke up and was a victim of one of Seol's pranks where he acted that they were going to Ramman Village making Chohong think they had gone back in time.

### Pre-Delphinion Duchy Rescue Mission

* Everyone arrived in Haramark and split up soon after. Chohong and Seol went to the pub before returning to the office where they rested. Hugo and Dylan had not returned however this was expected since the mission had only high rankers leaving the impression that the mission was relatively important.
* Both Chohong and Seol went to temples. Seol found out that the debt of the village head had more worth and was praised by Gula but it wasn't enough to turn Level 3 yet. He was advised not to anyway since he had not learned any level 2 skills abilities yet.
* He waited outside the temple for Chohong but instead a messenger from the temple of Ira informed him that Chohong will be late today and not to wait and go back to the office.
* Even when she came back to the office and the days after that, Chohong seemed troubled and busy. Despite Seol's pestering, he was told not to worry about it.
* One day, he decided to visit Maria as she had lost her crucifix and she had done a ceremony in the previous mission. Seol felt terrible because of this.
* When visiting Maria, Maria pretended to be in pain because she feared to be sick but her attitude immediately changed when she saw the food he came with. He realised Maria knew more about why Chohong was worried and busy so he tried to sneakily pry the information out of her. He was told he can find her in a nearby room in the temple.
* He left to the room but found many voices including Cinzia's. When peeking in, he found Ian and Agnes, Agnes more injured than the other. Agnes found Seol looking from the door and so did Cinzia. Since he was discovered, Seol entered the room and inspected the bed-ridden Agnes surrounded by towels soaked in blood.
* He found out the details of the top-secret mission that Dylan and Hugo as well as Ian participated in. There was a facility that was mass producing mutated Orcs. The original mission was to infiltrate and destroy this facility as it would deal a blow to the Parasites. While most of the mission went smoothly, they were discovered at the end and had to run away. Only Agnes and Ian had escaped while the rest were captured.
* For maybe a week, they had been holding meetings in order to come up with a plan to rescue everyone in the facility. The original mission that was to destroy the facility failed even when almost all the members were High rankers. Since the rescue operation did not have the manpower that the original had, it was bound to fail too. Also, since they were discovered when escaping, the security would be much higher as well. Due to this the members of the meeting were in a stump.
* Seol found out that the Delphinion Duchy was the facility that was mass producing the orcs. As soon as the meeting ended, he headed to Ramman Village to talk to the village head.
* There, the village head criticized the members of the original mission wondering why they thought it was a good plan. He proposed a different plan to Seol, bringing out the rudium he presented before. The plan was as follows:
	+ There is a secret hidden room in the Dutchy that contains a transport circle. This allows them to move to the Dutchy from a specific transport circle.
	+ There is a need for a mage to hold the circle open. The circle can only be open for either 30 minutes or when the mage is exhausted, whatever comes first. Once the circle is closed, it cannot be opened for 72 hours.
	+ The circle transports everyone to basement level 1 of the facility. The captured are likely in level 1 or level 2 of the basement.
	+ When in the facility, the rudium can be used to command low to mid level parasites. It won't work on high level parasites however. Also, the rudium is a consumable not an artifact. It can run out. The village head says that the remaining rudium is plenty enough for 30 minutes. He was willing to give it all since the Nest under his care died and he no longer needed the rudium.
	+ There is also a weight limit on the circle.
* Amazed at the capabilities of the village head, Seol was grateful and was told that he in turn is in debt to the village head and told to come back alive in order to pay back that debt.
* He returned to Haramark and proposed the plan to the members of the meeting leaving them stunned. A solution that they could not find for a week was found in less than a day by Seol.
* Eventually the plan was accepted.
* Seol insisted that he go with them. This was likely due to the princess of the city also captured in the dutchy. The remaining could not refuse as Seol had too big of a voice as the proposer of the plan. He was in charge of the rudium.

### Delphinion Duchy Rescue Mission

* There were six people to be rescued:
	2. Ayase Yui, Level 5
	3. Edward Dylan, Level 5
	4. Erica Lawrence, Level 6
	5. Ibrahim Ali, Level 5
	6. Teresa Hussey, Level 5
	7. Richard Hugo, Level 4
* Considering the weight limitation, six people were decided to go on the rescue operation.
	1. Seol Jihu, Level 2 Warrior
	2. Ayase Kazuki, Level 5 Archer
	3. Ian Denzel, Level 4 Magician
	4. Chung Chohong, Level 4 Warrior
	5. Mary Rhine, Level 4 Priese
	6. Yasser Rahdi, Level 4 Warrior
* Seol and the rescue team left for one of the valleys in the Arden mountain range. This is where the hideout containing the transfer circle was.
* While Agnes and Ian escaped, Agnes was severely wounded by an unknown sniper. She warned Seol of the same enemy.
* While Seol was really afraid, his emotions were driving him to do something this dangerous.
* Finally, the mission began and they were transported.
* There were no parasites nearby.
* Ayase Kazuki, the header of the group, checked the nearby bookcase and after 20 seconds, he took out books in a specific order and eventually pushed the bookcase to the side just enough for a person to pass through and put the bookcase back to how it was leaving a very small gap.
* Beyond the bookcase was an empty hallway. As they moved through the hallway, a doorway approached.
* They went through the room and soon encountered a bridge. The area they were in was the research area and past the bridge was the prison area. The stairs to the second basement floor was also in the prison area.
* Seol used rudium to command the parasites to stay still and to also view them as allies. This allowed them to go past a group of orcs. They were now in the prison block.
* There were three areas to explore. Seol and Yasser were to go on the right. There they found Hugo hooked. This was meant to drain his stamina before he was turned into a parasite. When they returned, they realized the team going to the right, Chohong, Mary Rhine and Ayase Kazuki, were taking too long so he went there too leaving Yasser to protect Hugo.
* When Seol left to the left area, he found the three with pale and sick faces. Beyond them was a metallic door. (I think it contained limbs of people that were turned to parasites soon after).
* Coming back from the left area, Chohong was told to take Hugo back.
* In the area at the front, the team found Ibrahim Ali and Edward Dylan in the middle of turning into Parasites. As it was already too late, the team had to end their lives so that they would not turn to parasites. Dylan left Seol a few parting words mentioning that he was happy that he came to rescue him and that in a state of being a parsite, he'd be neither dead nor alive. Finally he asked if he could help with killing him.
* Dylan's death awoke a fire in Seol's desire to save the participate in the mission. While the team insisted he return, he said he was fine and that they needed three people to rescue the remaining three captives.
* After going down a level, they found an orc guarding a barrel of aphrodisiac, finding this suspicious they removed something from the barrel and this turned out to be a naked Erica Lawrence with her limbs broken. The parasites had likely planned to use her to create more mutated orcs.
* After healing her, Kazuki asked Mary to take her back, which she wordlessly did. So far, four of the six members were taken care of where two were alive and the other two were taken care of.
* Further ahead, there were cages containing many prisoners including non-humans. Kazuki found his sister, Ayase Yui however she had already turned to a parasite. Kazuki kept his goodbyes short and Yui's neck was separated from her body. They had one more person to find.
* They decided to search seperately. Kazuki would contact when he was going back but Seol was allowed to search fora bit longer since his speed with Festina Earrings would be faster than Kazuki's.
* Seol realized that there was a chance that Teresa was treated differently amongst the Parasites because of her Royal Oath. Therefore, she would not necessarily be in the hatchery at all. Teresa would either be in the ground floor or above or the experimentation area. If she was taken above, Seol could not save her.
* Seol had reached the experimentation area when he activated the Nine Eyes and followed where it was saying there was danger. To confirm if Teresa was there he used rudium to make an orc go inside and check if there was a human inside.
* Once he found out there was one, he entered to find Teresa pinned to a X-shaped frame. He informed Kazuki but soon a high ranking parasite entered.
* The parasite tried to extract information about the seven sins from the princess in exchange for her life in hopes to evolve to a superior being.
* Once the parasite had finally gone away, Seol quickly freed Teresa and left the area. Soon the high ranking parasite found out about the princess' absence and alerted all the parasites in the building. This caused Seol to run away from the incoming Orcs.
* With the help of the Festina Earrings and Teresa holding his spear for him, he was able to escape and dodge the oncoming parasites.
* Due the alert, parasites from the floors above ground were starting to come down too.
* Once he arrived at the bridge, he was told to jump through the communication crystal.
* Once he did, the bridge exploded (unsure) and any flying creatures were taken care of the archers.
* From here, everyone believed that it would be easy, everyone had Seol's back and Seol could make it back to the circle in time. However, the previously mentioned unseen sniper, had shot Seol's left shoulder blowing it off leaving Seol in shock. He reached out to Chohong but since the 30 minute timer had ended, everyone had disappeared.
* Finally, he tried to reach into his pockets and Teresa noticed that. She felt his pockets and took out a map and Seol marked a spot on the map indicating to go there. This was a second hideout Arbor Muto had set up and told him to use as a last resort.

### Escape from the Delphinion Duchy

* Teresa took Seol to the second hideout and by using his clothes, wraps his left shoulder that was shot earlier.
* Soon after she was done, she heard a commotion outside before she fell asleep.
* In the hideout they were in, there was another magic circle that connected to the Empire where the Parasite Queen is.
* Seol woke up next to Teresa with intense pain in his shoulder. The two had to either walk to Haramark themselves or wait 72 hours for the magic circle. Since they were seen during the infiltration earlier, the magic circle would most likely have been discovered and destroyed.
* They decided to leave the room to check the state of the magic circle. Surprisingly, Nine Eyes showed a green color showing that it was relatively safe to leave the room. As they did, they found no parasites around and rushed to original hideout which had a transfer circle to Arden Valley.
* Seol and Teresa found that the circle was unusable and found a bag containing rope, a canteen of water as well as healing potions and daggers. The rescue team brought this just in case.
* Where the sky bridge was, there was a huge hole on the ceiling and Seol could see the night sky. Teresa climbed the wall and threw the rope down to pull Seol up.
* Outside the building, Teresa found scraps of Thunder, an item crafted by the dwarves and a weapon used in the Federation. This showed that the Federation was likely the cause of the hole in the ceiling.
* Seol and Teresa spent days travelling to Arden Valley which was meant to be a couple of days worth of walk however they had to slow down to a crawl since Seol's Nine Eyes warned them of approaching enemies often.
* By the fourth day, the water had run out and they often had to resort to drinking urine. Due to past experience, this was easier for Teresa however it was never easy for Seol. Since they had to drink and pee and drink that same pee, it became harder and harder to drink.
* On the fifth day, they realized that Arden Valley was not safe as it was emitting a red color. They decided to go back.
* On the sixth day, they had picked up pursuers giving them very little time to rest. Seol had to use up the remaining rudium.
* By the seventh day, they no longer talked, preserving what little energy they had.
* On the eighth day, Seol collapsed and Teresa left to find food and water but the pursuers had caught up. While he tried to fight back, he could not do much with the strength he had. He was saved by the Fallen Angels.
* Seol woke up biting into a Dulce, a very bitter and sour fruit. He was in the company of the fallen angels and Sky fairies.
* These fallen angels had bombed the Delphinion Duchy when there was an opening caused by Seol and Teresa attempting to escape. As they were both in the hideout, they were relatively safe from the Thunder.
* The group had started to plan a way to break through Arden Valley to the Forest of Denial.
* The original plan involved sacrifices which Seol did not like so he proposed a new idea. (I did not properly understand the plan in the novel even though I read it twice. I'm skipping this bit.)
* The new idea worked and there were less sacrifices. Seol and the Sky Fairy carrying him crashed in the Forest of Denial.
* By a similar sniper, Seol got shot in the thigh. He was saved by Flone, who carried Seol into the tomb.
* Upon Teresa's persistence, Flone made the leader of the Fallen Angels enter the tomb and perform any emergency treatment on Seol.
* Seol woke up and found himself in the Forest of Denial's tomb. He was relatively treated. He had thought about all he had gone through and upon Flone's consolation, he started crying. To try and make Seol stop crying, Flone offered him a bracelet, another artifact that was important to her.
* With Seol finally treated, the fallen angel left. Before leaving she asked Seol's name and Seol did the same. Her name is Mikael. She gave Teresa and Seol cloaks to cover themselves
* Seol soon left as well. He was not able to give back the bracelet so he kept it. Teresa and Seol soon found water and spent some time drinking and bathing in it.
* They finally returned to Haramark. Seol was told that he'll be invited to the Royal Palace soon.
* Since Carpe Diem was locked, he left to the Temple of Luxuria to get some treatment and this caused some commotion due to the severity of his wounds. While he did not know it, he was taken care of by Seo Yuhui. While under her care, he ate many different medicines.
* While he was unconcious, he was spoiled by Yuhui which was a shock to a bishop since Yuhui was famous for being unapproachable for even Sung Shihyun.
* Chohong and others found out he was alive and he became famous around Paradise.
* Kim Hannah was upset since she wasn't told of the dangerous mission that Seol would be participating in. Seol decided not to call her because he knew she would say no even though this was something he had to do.
* Chohong was a victim of yet another prank from Seol, albeit a poor one. This time he feigned amnesia.
* Seol was told to return to Earth and call Kim Hannah immediately. Seol, being addicted to Paradise, was reluctant but soon complied when he realized he could research into his class abilities.

## Second Return to Earth

* Once he returned to Earth, he immediately turned on his phone to find out that his mother called twice and his brother called him once.
* He found the unknown number that called him on April 17th, the day of his first return on Earth, and called it. As soon as he started ringing, he was met with a series of curses.
* Kim Hannah and Seol Jihu met at a coffee shop. After a lengthy discussion, Kim Hannah decided to trust him. This was an example of the negative side of the Golden Commandment to Seol Jihu.
* Seol received 252.5 million won for the jewel tree he gave Kim Hannah. The equivalent is 500 silver coins.
* Since Earthlings need a safe environment to travel to and from Paradise as well as a source of their income, Kim Hannah said that Seol will working with Sinyoung. While there is no problem on the surface, this gives Sinyoung a way to contact Seol. Declining the offer will create enemies for Seol as well as trouble for Kim Hannah.
* Seol's parents' anniversary was coming up and he needed to write them a congratulations card. Kim Hannah planned for him to go later in the day to congratulate his parents. While he did meet his parents, his father got really angry and slammed the door on him and his mother tried to talk to his father. His brother was much more understanding and inviting while his sister was the same as the last visit.
* When he tried to leave, the gift basket that he came with was thrown at him shattering the wine bottles. He bent down to pick up the glass pieces and while Yo Seonhwa tried to help him, Seol rejected her help and said to leave the pieces to him.
* He finally left and met with Kim Hannah. He knew that he shouldn't expect much and that he deserved everything that he got but he still cried. Kim Hannah in return spent the next day cheering him up and even buying him new workout clothes.
* For several days he worked out and studied in the library. One day when he was returning he was greeted by a driver from Sinyoung, asking him to come with him. While he was reluctant because he had to be cautious around Sinyoung, he did not want to arouse suspicion for himself or trouble for Kim Hannah.
* The man took Seol Jihu to a high quality Chinese restaurant. While Seol was expecting to meet Yun Seohui so he was nervous, he ended up meeting Yun Seora, who was delighted to meet him.
* Yun Seora wanted Seol to apply in his department to which Seol agreed.
* After catching up and eating together (Although Seol ate almost everything), Seol found himself in the car again with Yun Seora. She had fallen asleep while on Seol's arm and the driver asked if he wanted to drive around. This was to give Seora more time to sleep.
* Finally returning home, he continued studying while texting and promising Yun Seora to a dinner.
* Ten days later, he returned to Paradise.

### Returning to Paradise

* Once he returned to Paradise, he started training. Seol decided not to visit Gula until he mastered the skills available for level 2. As Gula and Kim Hannah mentioned, leveling up is useless if you do not use ability points and do not learn any skills.
* Seol had two skills to learn: Mana Spear and Mana Circulation.
* Mana Circulation was easily learnt due to his studying of qi on Earth.
* Along with learning Mana Circulation, he realized that his mana pool had actually increased.
* While on one of his morning jog, he met Agnes. He informed that he learned Mana Circulation and was advised that he should train his mana everyday for four hours. The purer the mana, the stronger it is.
* Agnes was surprised to hear that Seol's mana pool had increased as this was not part of Mana Circulation and then mentioned that he must be absorbing the energy of precious medicine. This medicine was likely given to him by Seo Yuhui when she was taking care of him.
* The next stage after Mana Circulation is Mana Cultivation and then after that is Mana Technique.
* Agnes was unable to learn Mana Technique without spending contribution points.
* Seol with his divine power to add aliases to Agnes, had unknowingly added, "Cold-Faced Super Maid Who Secretly Loves Cute Underwear" to her list of aliases.
* Returning to Carpe Diem, he found out he was invited by the princess for dinner.
* Promising he would not eat everything again like before, he went to the Royal Palace with Jan Sanctus, who advised him to have at least basic manners.
* Reaching the palace, he met with the king of the city, Prihi Tussey, as well as Teresa Hussey, the princess.
* Prihi immediately thanked Seol for what he had done for the city and the three left for dinner.
* Prihi talked about how disrespectful the Earthlings he talked to were. One introduced himself as "Prihi's Belly King-Sized Belly" and the other as "Teresa Pink". This led the royal family to think that there was a spy since they could not have known something so personal.
* For Seol's many accomplishments, the king decided to give him a gold bar. Seol however rejected this and in return asked the king to give shelter and a living to the people of Ramman Village. He had informed them of the value of the village head and also asked for appeasing the ghost saintess in the Forest of Denial. The king accepted once he was convinced of Seol's reasonings.
* Seol ate a dessert named "Teresa Hussey", a cake made the day Teresa was born and a tool used by the author to make the readers misunderstand.
* Seol was gifted a mace, "+2 Thorn of Steel", a crucifix artifact, and a black belt enchanted with Pocket magic allowing him to store two bags' worth of items and finally 500 silver coins.
* Seol checked the bracelet he got from the Flone with his Nine Eyes. It was named Blessing of the Circum.
* Seol started training Javelin Throw but he was having trouble but he met Jang Maldong and with his help, he was able to learn Javeline Throw as well as Aura, something which which was meant to be learnt at Level 3.
* Seol visited Gula and became level 3, Mana Lancer. The new skills to learn in the level were Flash Step and Mana Spear - Multiple.
* Jang Maldong decided to stay which made everyone in a cheery mood.
* Seol and Chohong exchanged gifts. Seol gave her the Thorn of Steel and Chohong gave sandbags, leaving Hugo sulking.
* Kazuki had been pressured by the Japanese Business Federation for participating in the Delphinion Duchy Resue Mission even though he was told not to. Due to this, half of the elite members of Umi Tsubame to a seperate team.
* Kazuki came to Carpe Diem in hopes to working with them and the Triads.
* Hao Win was chosen to be the leader on the Triad's team.
* Seol expressed his desire for Carpe Diem to participate. When told he can participate as an Archer as his Mana Spear was strong, he refused and insisted on going as a Warrior. This angered Jang Maldong and he decided for a training trip in the Huge Stone Rocky Mountain. If Seol could survive and pass the training regime that Jang Maldong would give him, he'd be allowed to go as a Warrior.
* Seol went there with Hugo, Kazuki, Agnes and Jang Maldong.
* Before going there he met Arbor Muto again who had given him a request from one of his hideouts in Huge Stone Rocky Mountain. His reward for the request is there as well.

### Huge Stone Rocky Mountain Pre-Banquet Training

* This is the first of Seol's Most Desperate And Brutal Battles.
* The team found a group of Cave Ettins in the hideout. Jang Maldong told Seol to fight them himself. While his Mana Spear impressed Kazuki, he was not proficient in a physical fight.
* Seol recovered the items of Arbor Muto's requests as well as many valuable potions including Competence, Healing and Stamina potions.
* Jang Maldong believed that Seol needed to realize that being a Warrior in the Banquet was beyond him himself. Due to that, his training was designed to make him quit in two days.
* The training started with him wearing sandbags and doing the three basic spear techniques until his stamina was drained. Once his stamina was drained, he had to run back and forth between two points in a rugged area 50 times. Seol estimated that if his stamina would not be depleted, he would be able to make 8 rounds. With his stamina drained, two rounds was difficult enough.
* His training became harder and harder as time passed. His eyes became dull and he became a mindless machine. Running between the two points increased from 50 to a 100 laps and he had to drain his stamina every 10 laps.
* When Kazuki, who was watching him, suggested he should not overwork himself, Seol got upset and said as the Banquet is an unpredictable event, he had to prepare such that he can not rely on his team members all the time.
* On one of his runs, Seol unknowingly collapsed. When he realized he did, he subconsciously wanted to faint after all, that wouldn't have counted as giving up since it was uncontrollable. With his desire to overcome his limitations, he stood up and reached the peak of the hill. With this, his Stamina increased a rank and Jang Maldong decided to give up and train him properly.
* Seol started to train his sixth sense. He developed Intuition with a special training from Jang Maldong and also started to learn more about Flash Step. He decided to figure the technique out himself in order to be more independant. According to Jang Maldong, only a small fraction of the High Rankers are true High Rankers, Earthlings that are able to think for themselves.
* After doing his monthly ritual of giving Agnes another name, "Evil Butt", Seol soon ended his training in Huge Stone Rocky Mountain.
* Chohong had come to pick them up. Seol was training his Intuition and broke his record and dodged (I think) over 300 logs. This surprised Chohong since this was his first time doing this training. Although it took her a year, her record was over a thousand logs.
* Chohong informed everyone that hundreds of Ramman villagers have moved in and the Temple of Luxuria supported the move.
* Chohong also gave shocking news. Seo Yuhui had moved next to Carpe Diem (how shocking). It was suggested that she was the one to support the villagers' move.
* Due to the pressure from the Japanese Business Federation, Kazuki was unable to find a Priest for the team for the banquet. Every one of his connections said that they had already joined another team.
* Overall in the training, Seol raised his stats to the equivalent of 4 ability points. He learned Intuition and Mana Spear -Multiple as well as rank up some other abilities. Seol considered himself a proper Level 3 with this.

### Post-Training

* Seol needed armor as his had broken during the mission in the Delphinion Duchy. Kim Hannah decided to pay for the armor herself and sent it within days.
* Since Kazuki was unable to find a Priest, he asked Seol to find one for the team. He suggested Maria. Later, it was mentioned that he would not normally accept Maria if it was not for the dire situation of the team. He said to not worry about it if he couldn't bring Maria since he had a plan of his own. He looked across the street from Carpe Diem.
* Attracted by 80 silver coins, Maria decided to join the team. Kazuki had also managed to find a priest. She was introduced to be Level 5. She was robed and did not talk. Her identity was kept a secret however she was trusted as she was recommended by Seo Yuhui.
* Seol did some research on the Banquets. A lot of it was shrouded in mystery. There were three stages in each Banquet and most people wanted to reach at least Stage 2. Beating Stage 2 would yield a Dissonant Wish and beating stage 3 would yield a Harmonious Wish. Since there was opportunity to receive rewards and even rank up, any decent Earthling would want to participate in the Banquet.
* Harmark had banned Earthlings from participating in the Banquet but they changed their mind due to the increasing amount of High Ranker deaths. The reason they banned this is because of the previous Banquet where there were no survivors from Stage 3. All were presumed dead.
* In the Third Banquet, an Eartthling named Baek Haeju had to kill everyone besides the sole esappee as it was a Battle Royale instead of a cooperative mission.
* Two days before the departure, 8 members met together to hold a meeting. Of this, 7 were participating:
	+ Seol Jihu
	+ Nameless Priest
	+ Maria Yeriel
	+ Ayase Kazuki
	+ Richard Hugo
	+ Sakamoto Jun
	+ Chung Chohong
* The Triads would be joining the team in Stage 1 or Stage 2.
* The Nameless Priest was introduced however her identity was kept a secret, Chohong was upset since she'd be leaving her life in her hands however the team soon accepted her when they found out she was recommended by Seo Yuhui.
* Finally, everything was ready and the team departed.

### The Banquet

* A team of 7 members left (See above for the list of members). They were being followed by many Earthlings that were hoping to jump into the entrance with them. As each entrance accepts up to 10 members, there was a leeway of 3 people. Kazuki had purposefully gathered only 7. It was to make an unspoken rule to not bother them if they offer the three remaining positions. The following Earthlings accepted but did not hide their hostility. Jun reassured Seol that even if they were to attack, most of the team was Level 4 or 5 with many famous members and that they would not stand a chance.
* Seol was complimented on his armor and the Nameless Priest nodded in agreement.
* Two days after the departure, the team reached Salt Desert's oasis. Seol had to carry Maria. Soon the team reached a pond. This was the entrance. One by one, the team jumped in only to disappear a moment later. The Earthlings following them started fighting or bolting to the pond.

#### Stage 1

* Seol had landed on top of Maria in a room that had two people besides them in it. These two people were unknown to Seol and Maria. The two realized that they had been separated from the team.
* The room had no doors and they could do nothing but wait. Seol noticed that the whole room was emitting a golden hue with his Nine Eyes.
* Eventually, the room gathered seven people. An eighth member had landed but he was severely wounded and poisoned all over. The members judged that he was beyond saving. After the man died, a door opened up and one of the Earthlings, a woman Seol named "Straight Face", opened the door and immediately killed any incoming enemies with her quickdraw skills, amazing Seol. Stage 1 was believed to have begun.
* The seven people were:
	+ Seol Jihu
	+ Maria Yeriel
	+ Oh Rahee (Straight Face)
	+ Audrey Basler (Snake Eyes)
	+ Lara Wolff
	+ Sophie Chalet
	+ Oana Halep (Girl with white headband)
* In the room that they entered, there were more doors and even more beyond that. They believed to be in a labyrinth of rooms. Straight Face, with the help of Snake Eyes, Seol Jihu and Maria, opened 40 doors. Snake Eyes believed that Seol might be a Level 5 instead of Level 4 but in fact he was Level 3.
* 40 doors later, a trap was triggered by one of the members that weren't helping which angered Straight Face. She told the rest to clear 20 doors as an "apology" for hurting her feelings. Seol believed Straight Face was a sadist.
* They only managed to clear 8 doors when Sophie's shield broke. With that the only combatant was Lara, an Archer.
* The team decided to take a break. While many were fighting, Seol caught the white headband girl laughing. When called upon, she clarified that she thought this was some kind of play. She mentions that the team might not have been chosen randomly but instead counterparts were chosen. As an example, the white headband girl was the counterpart to Maria. Snake Eyes was the counterpart of Sophia or Lara while Straight Face was the counterpart of the other. Seol was expected to be the counterpart of the man who died at the beginning. Also, if one member had skill, theiir counterpart was believed to be relatively unskilled.
* The white headband girl could not figure out Seol Jihu's personality and believed that he was the key to Stage 1. He had to lead the others.
* Seol returned to the team and mentioned that they should quickly finish Stage 1 as there was a chance that it was timed. Out of all the previous Banquets there was a 25% chance that a Stage was timed. With this, Seol cleared 120 rooms by himself even when he was told to do only 40. His skills amazed everyone including Straight Face. His Mana Spear's explosive power was especially impressive.
* After the 120 rooms, the team had to take another break as Maria could not keep up. Straight Face had approached Seol and suggested that they abandon Lara and Sophie and work on escaping the labyrinth on their own. Seol, knowing that Straight Face just wanted to see him abandon the two, convinced her that it was a bad idea. The previous Banquet Stages were tests of cooperation. However, cooperation was not needed in this one. Seol believed that this was a test. His idea was drived by the golden hue of the labyrinth as well as the white headband girl's words. With some annoyance, Straight Face had to agree.
* The team returned to find Lara very excited. She had gone back and opened some rooms and figured out the structure of the labyrinth. She believed it was a 40 x 122 rectangle. Since the team had no clue where the exit was, they had no choice but to explore every single room. Sophie suggested going around the labyrinth in a counter clockwise movement to ensure that they went past every single room.
* Either by the team's bad luck or that they had to open almost every door (they still had 39 rooms to explore), they had found the exit in a room that had only one door, the door they used to enter it. Soon the door they used to enter closed. The team initially thought this was a trap but the ceiling opened up and the floor started ascending.
* As they ascended they passed pillars. There were a total of 8 pillars until they reached the peak. The team looked around and saw many groups were climbing the staircase and had to fight monsters on the way up. It seemed that each group exited the labyrinth the same way as Seol's group did but depending on the number of members exiting, they stopped midway and had to climb the rest of the way. For example, a group of 4 leaving the labyrinth would go up 4 pillars and had to climb the rest of the distance. A group of 2 would stop soon after leaving the labyrinth.
* Seol's group had seven members. As one had died as soon as he joined, they expected to stop at the seventh pillar. Unexpectedly, the lift went past the seventh pillar and reached the peak. The group did not have to fight anything. They believed that the Banquet had a mind of its own and knew that they could not save the eighth member and given them a pass.
* Seol's group arrived second. The first group was another team that had the Nameless Priest that Kazuki brought to the team. As soon as they reached the peak, the first group started communicating. One of the men joked that he was surrounded by women and that he must have had a good time. Seol thought he couldn't be more wrong.
* Soon the nameless priest started inspecting Seol for any injuries immediately acting like a mother duck that had found its lost duckling.
* The man and Seol talked. Seol found out he could not help those that were going up the stairs as the first group had already tried various methods. The man mentioned that the nameless priest talked and told them that the world between the mountaintop and the stairway had been seperated. Seol was surprised to hear that the nameless priest could talk. This suggested that she just did not talk around Seol.
* Soon Chohong, who had used her manifestation, and Hugo, who was injured and had to be healed, reached the peak. Seol was waiting for Stage 1 to end when Kazuki approached him and mentioned that he can not find Sakamoto Jun.
* Seol was disappointed in himself from the way he handled Stage 1. While it did get him the result he wanted, he felt more like a mediator than a leader.
* Kazuki suggested that Seol should have begun by introducing himself and using Carpe Diem and his fame to make others listen.
* While Seol tried to reason with everyone, Kazuki said that is not the kind of leader he is. He is a more chaotic leader like when Seol shoved his spear to Kazuki in Huge Stone Rocky Mountain.
* Seol believed that Stage 1 would be the first of many failures he would have in his path as a leader as he still had a lot to learn and experience.
* A portal opened up when Stage 1 was over and Seol Jihu and Kazuki walked through it.

#### Stage 2

* Seol and everyone found themselves in a grassy field. There were two large holes next to each other 10 meters apart from each other. There was a stone stele in the middle and a giant hourglass above it. While Seol was somewhat calm because of his talk with Kazuki, everyone else was agitated including Chohong leaving a somewhat hostile atmosphere. Suddenly, like Synchronization, Seol and everyone could feel knowledge entering his brain. It was the details of Stage 2.
* The hole on the left, known as the Plaza of Sacrifice activated once 6 people entered its area and the exit is blocked once it is activated. The exit can only open when the enemies inside are defeated or every challenger dies. The difficulty is static. There was no upper limit on the number of Earthlings using the Plaza of Sacrifice.
* The hole on the right, known as the Plaza of Dissonant Wish, activates everytime the Plaza of Sacrifice is activated. At most 6 people can enter the Plaza. This is where the Earthlings can attain the Dissonant Wish. Stepping on the red alter will transport the Earthlings back to Paradise or to Stage 3 but leaving through the exit returns them to Stage 2.
* Like previously, 10 people can enter Stage 3. If Plaza of Sacrifice is beaten 20 times, the Plaza of Dissonant Wish opens up permanently and there is no limitation on the number of people that can use it at one time. If the plaza of sacrifice is not activated until the sand completely trickles down, a group of monsters will appear in the field.
* These conditions left everyone speechless as they knew how terrible the conditions were.
* While one suggested that everyone should go into the Plaza of Sacrifice as this meant that they had the highest chance to survive and assess the danger level, many others were against this since they planned to leave the Banquet after getting their Dissonant Wish in Stage 2. They believed that this should be left to the Earthlings planning to go to Stage 3. This was also not possible as one could go to Stage 3 instead of Paradise.
* A Grand Pathfinder, Evangeline Rose volunteered to participate in the Plaza of Sacrifice along with eleven to scout the difficulty but in exchange, two of her organization members that were Level 2 were to be sent to the Plaza of Dissonant Wish and leave to Paradise. As the first team to enter the Plaza of Sacrifice, they negotiated for 4 slots of the six slots for the Plaza of Dissonant Wish. The remaining two slots were taken by two members of a 10 man group.
* Finally, the 20 man group disappeared into the left hole. Later, they came back as corpses. Kazuki thought that the group had to deal with Devourers. While one devourer wouldn't be able to kill the group, a group of 10 devourers would.
* Those who planned to leave the Banquet after Stage 2 were generally weaker than those who planned to go to Stage 3. The consensus after Evangeline Rose's death was that everyone had to participate in the Plaza of Sacrifice.
* After dragging or intimidating the weak into participating as well, the Earthlings went into the Plaza of Sacrifice.
* They had to fight Lioners this time. Over 20 Lioners came out of each of the 10 doors. Although with 12 casualties, the Earthlings won. Mathematically, this would mean 130 people remained but in fact it was 128. Two people had sneaked into the Plaza of Dissonant Wish under the commotion.
* The hourglass stopped moving once the Plaza of Sacrifice was conquered once. Though there was no guarantee that it would move again.
* With the hourglass stopped, leaders decided to hold a conference though it was moving really slowly with the many different opinions.
* When the meeting was getting violent, a slick-haired man suggested resting since those who came from Stage 1 at the end did not have a single moment to rest.
* As it turned out, this was a trap by the slick-haired man. He and five others had forced six people to go into the Plaza of Sacrifice and escaped by themselves. With this, the remaining people were numbered 116.
* This made a huge impact on all the people remaining. The weak decided to stick together but Seol thought that this wasn't enough. An opportunity could be made artificially. The majority(strong) and minority(weak) stayed apart.
* Seol tried to search for the girl with white headband in the minority's side when he realized that something was off. Perhaps it was the eerie silence. He ran to the Plaza of Sacrifice and found six shadowy figures trying to throw something into the Plaza of Sacrifice. He used his Festina Earrings and threw a Mana Spear.
* The shadowy figures had used a sleeping incense and planned to throw the six sleeping people into the Plaza of Sacrifice.
* Seol stopped them and realized that one of the shadowy figure was actually the leader of the minority group. One of the sleeping people in the pit, a giant who was the brother of the white headband girl and one of the last to arrive from Stage 1, woke up carrying the white headband girl out of the pit. Since the pit lost two people, it wouldn't activate and the commotion brought attention to everyone around them. Everyone in the pit was rescued and the six perpetrators were killed by the angry crowd leaving 110 people.
* Finding out one of the perpetrators was the leader of the minority faction left an irreparable crack in the faction.
* After consoling the white headband girl, Seol was resolved to lead everyone safely out of Stage 2. He went to Kazuki to discuss the next step.
* Kazuki was unsure what to do next. The ideal time to make a move had passed and Seol agreed.
* While the current relationship between the majority faction and the minority faction was one of parasitic, Seol believed that he had a plan to change this relationship to one of symbiosis. Kazuki was surprised to see Seol's determination and mentioned that he had to be a proper leader unlike in Stage 1. Surprisingly, Seol agreed. Seol mentioned that he is starting to understand what Kazuki meant by wearing clothes that fit him when he was talking with Seol before Stage 2 started.
* Seol walked to the minority faction and under the intense hostile glares, he decided to speak up. When he mentioned everyone needed to participate in the Plaza of Sacrifice, everyone sighed but then Seol volunteered to be their shield. It was asking too much for the minority faction to trust him but he asked them to give him a chance to make them trust him.
* A conference was held between all 110 people. The minority faction was sitting with Carpe Diem and Umi Tsubame's alliance team. Kazuki had set the stage for Seol Jihu to speak.
* Seol asked the 110 people to be divided into teams. Since there were seven doors (A contradiction to the previously mentioned 10 doors), the 110 people would be divided so that there was 15 to 16 people to handle each door. Also, all of the members of the minority faction would be divided equally amongst all the teams. People understood that this was something that needed to be done but understanding it and accepting was a different matter.
* Aurdrey Basler, Snake Eyes, spoke up immediately calling Seol spoiled. At this point she was interrupted by Hao Win and the Triads.
* While the participants were easily able to beat the Plaza of Sacrifice when there were 140 people, expecting the same with 110 people was greedy. Also, with the remaining 19 attempts of beating the Plaza of Sacrifice, it was expected that there will be casualties. To counter that, people needed a way to reinforce their fighting prowess.
* The plan was to make six people go to the Plaza of Dissonant Wish and come back with their wishes. These wishes were expected to make them stronger.
* The six people to go through the Plaza of Dissonant Wish will be chosen by the representative of the seven teams. 4 would be from the majority side and the remaining 2 would be from the minority. Each of the six would be unrelated to each other so they can not cooperate with each other.
* As this was considered a good compromise, everyone considered the plan. Once again, Audrey Basler interrupted. She complained that this was volunteer work and this was just to protect the minority faction not leaving Seol a chance to talk. In the end she provoked Seol and made fun of the minority faction saying that another incident where they will be sacrificed will happen.
* Seol tilted his head up. Audrey realized he was getting upset but continued to provoke him.
* The world wasn't so kind to make everything fair. Giving one didn't mean receiving one. If everything was fair, the world would have been dyed in Gold with Nine Eyes. Seol realized this. Seol decided that instead of waiting around or searching for the Golden Rule. He would become the Golden Rule itself.
* Seol was no ally of justice. He decided to live out his life adapting to the world around him. Simply put, he would be kind to those kind to him and ruthless against those ruthless against him. With this resolution, his "Chaotic" level of cognition changed to "Golden Rule" and such Seol threw away the mask he wore before.
* Seol told Basler to sit but of course it didn't work. Surprised, Basler continued to provoke him asking if he wants her to act like a dog like the minority would to survive. Seol agreed and even suggested that she should pee with one leg up. Basler attempts once again to anger him saying that she isn't afraid of Seol, she is afraid of Umi Tsubame, Carpe Diem and the Triads but Seol provokes her back saying he is enough to take on Basler.
* Basler who was waiting for him to say that, finally stood up and got ready to fight. When she charged at him, she was surprised to find out that Seol, a Warrior, was able to keep up with her in terms of speed even though she is an Archer. Unwilling to accept this, she pulls out a dagger but it is kicked away by Seol. Seol starts punching her all the while calmly explaining that even though they were to sacrifice the 32 people of the minority faction, only 30 will be able to escape leaving 48 people of the majority faction to fight by themselves. Basler lost several teeth and her face was plastered with blood. Her hair was disheveled.
* Realizing the graveness of the situation, Basler's comrades tried to stop Seol but were immediately stopped by the Triads and Hugo. Hoping that Kazuki would stop this mess, the man looked at him but realized he was not going to stop Seol.
* When Seol never seemed like he would stop, Basler started begging him to spare her and even started barking. Seol saw that her color changed from yellow to colorless. He asked her if this was all necessary for her to understand.
* He said that if anyone had a problem with his plan, he is open to discussion. Oh Rahee was laughing inwardly and came up to Seol and told him that she will be the first to enter the Plaza of Dissonant Wish and make sure to bring everyone back.
* Seol asked Chohong to take care of Basler. Oh Rahee asked for Seol's last name. Realizing her misunderstanding, he told her, and everyone staring at him, that his name is Seol Jihu.
* Once preparation was finished, 104 people entered the Plaza of Sacrifice and 6 people entered the Plaza of Dissonant Wish. Seol was nervous as there were factors that he could not control but he believed he did everything he could.
* Soon after the Plaza of Sacrifice was activated, the doors started opening. Surprisingly, Orcs, a race thought to be extinct, were coming out. The Banquet prevented the Earthlings from shooting arrows before the Orcs had left the doors as there was an invisible barrier.
* Two Orc Champions, Orcs that were a head taller and bulkier than Orc Warriors, as well as an Orc Shaman appeared in the field. With this Chohong was sent to the group with one of the Orc Champion in exchange for the white headband girl's brother and a male Archer.
* The Orc Shaman chanted a spell that made all the Orcs including the Orc Champion berserk. The loud roars of the Orc Champions was enough to stagger many but Seol was calm thanks to the chants of the Nameless Priest.
* Once the invisible barrier disappeared, both sides shot their loaded arrows but since both sides had methods to deal with the showering arrows, none got hurt.
* There were a total of 120 Orcs.
* With the help of his comrades, Seol was able to kill several Orcs before he had to retreat. He felt danger and soon found the reason why. The Orc Champion was glaring at him and soon charged at him. The distance shortened instantaneously and Seol was pushed back. Seol continued to retreat in a straight line but the Orc Champion was able to shorten the gap even when it was going in a zigzag. The fast speed amazed Seol.
* Seol was completely overwhelmed by the Orc Champion. White disks of light protected him several times from lethal blows and the Orc Champion was getting irritated.
* As the Orc Champion had spent to much time on Seol, the rest of the Earthlings had time to kill the Orc Shaman. Once the Shaman died, they came to reinforce the groups fighting the Orc Champions. This included Seol's enemy.
* However, Seol could not understand what was happening around him. He was suffering from a concussion and a seizure. He heard bits of conversations including Kazuki asking an unknown individual to help. This individual could not do anything beyond the capabilities of a High Ranker as long as they were in the Banquet even though they used a Divine Wish.
* Someone who has cleared the Banquet before can not enter it again. This indivual used a Divine Wish to re-enter but restrictions were placed on their abilities.
* Seol recovered. While he had done well for a Level 3 Warrior, people had expected more from him. He started shaking recalling all the attacks of the Orc Champion. He couldn't control his fear but admitted that if he ran away now, he'd be the same as Audrey Basler. He decided that the Orc Champion needed to be killed in one move and asked Kazuki to create an opening.
* The plan was for Kazuki to shoot an arrow to make the Orc Champion dodge and have Seol do the finishing blow but unexpectedly, the Orc Champion reduced the damage of the arrow and let it hit it. This is because it knew Seol was aiming for it. Kazuki realized that he shouldn't have killed the Orc Shaman. While the physical prowess of the Orc decreased, it regained its intelligence. It had planned everything and even put the Priest's barriers into calculations.
* Realizing the grave mistake, Kazuki yelled to fall back but Seol was already charging for the Orc and even used the final boost of the Festina Earrings.
* The Orc Champion dashed at Seol and swung one of his dual axes. This attack was meant to be a feint for the barrier. Seol dodged the first attack by ducking because he saw it coming but did not know it was a feint. By "Intuition", he realized this was not the end of the Orc's attacks and dodged to the right barely passing by the second falling axe. This stunned Kazuki as Seol would need Intuition, which he had, to be able to pull this off. Intuition was an ability that only the gifted have. Dodging Jang Maldong's logs 10,000 times may not be enough to learn it.
* Bending his body like a bow, Seol's body shot forward and his spear penetrated the Orc's armor. The attack came from so close, the Orc could not react in time.
* This was an injury the Orc could endure. When he tried to fight back with his axe, they were held back by chains from the white headband girl's brother. Leaving the axe was the only option and the orc tried to grab the spear that was piercing into him but Seol's Mana Spear had hit his chin underneath the helmet. Soon after that, Seol decapitated the Orc Champion.
* Losing both their champions as well as the Shaman, the orcs' were shocked and some even dropped their weapons.
* Seol found it hard to believe that he won. He found that he learned Flash Step at the Lowest rank.
* In the end, all 104 people made it back alive.
* While it was expected that the 6 people from the Plaza of Dissonant Wish come back first, they actually came back after. Many were disappointed with their terrible wish. As an example, Oh Rahee, who wanted a sword, got an axe.
* As the name suggests, the rewards the six Earthlings got were Dissonant, lacking in harmony. More than likely, a reward received by one person was sought by another. As each Earthling was cautious of the rest, they had not said a word, let alone discussed their rewards. Seol noticed that Hugo had a longsword and suggested a trade with Oh Rahee which worked out for the both of them. The same goes for the remaining four Earthlings.
* After this, the group conquered the Plaza of Sacrifice several times daily.
* Many people haggled and traded their wishes. Seol who received Competence, traded it for something that he would likely use on the Ghost Saintess. Hugo, who traded with Oh Rahee, was still upset. He got an excpetional weapon but this was an intelligent weapon, one that chose its user. Hugo resorted to torturing the axe by sitting on it and farting. Maria got caught up in the explosion.
* The next day, they cleared Stage 2.
* Seol approached the nameless Priest. He was very curious and suspicious of her. He felt like she was paying a lot of attention to him. To avoid being rude, he simply thanked her. She returned with a nod and reached to stroke his head. Seol Jihu instinctively lowered his head which made him flustered. The priest seemed flustered as well and with a small bow, she walked away.
* Everyone approached the red alter. Kazuki reminded everyone not to lower their guard until they were back to Paradise since there was a chance they would be sent to Stage 3. Kazuki used the altar and found himself back in the oasis. He had returned to Paradise. He found Sakamoto Jun, who had been eliminated in Stage 1. Five of the seven members of the alliance team were there. Two were missing.

#### Stage 3

* (Stage 3 was somewhat confusing for me so I am not sure if this is all accurate)

* Seol Jihu found himself in a room with a bed and a desk in a ship the middle of the open sea. He realized he was in Stage 3.
* There was no exit to the room so Seol ate and drank and lied in bed waiting. Eventually, a part of the wall became undone and became a revolving door.
* The wall rotated 180 degrees and after Synchronization took place displayed characters that he could read. Soon after that, Seol found himself in a daze. Like a puppet, he left the room.
* When he regained control of his body, he could only see a door infront of him. Opening the doorknob, information of Stage 3 entered his brain again. The information wasn't complicated but it was several times more shocking compared to Stage 2.
* He entered the room and found nine doors in front of him. In front of each of those doors were 9 people, in a similar situation as him.
* One of the people he met was the slick-haired man who sacrificed some of the minority to escape. Two others were his teammates. Three of his other teammates were missing.
* Besides them, the people who were chosen for Stage 3 were:
	+ Oh Rahee
	+ Audrey Basler
	+ Vlad Halep (white headband girl's brother)
	+ The priest Kazuki invited
	+ 2 others who Seol recognized but did not know the name of.
* Everyone sat around the table that was filled with delicacies. Oh Rahee decided to fool Slick Hair into thinking that they sacrificed some people to get to Stage 3.
* Slick Hair claimed that the word on the wall of his cabin said "Wolf". Seol Jihu decided to turn on his Nine Eyes. When he looked at Slick Hair, he saw a vision of six people sacrificing 6 in the Plaza of Sacrifice and entering the Plaza of Dissonant Wish. After all six got their wish, 3 of them killed the remaining three and looted them. The three remaining were in Stage 3 sitting around the table.
* Oh Rahee used the knife she was eating her steak with and stabbed Slick Hair's throat. Not even Slick Hair's comrades could react in time.
* Stage 3 seemed to be a mixture of the Mafia game and Lupus in Tabula.
* Oh Rahee's role was the Hyena. She had to kill the Rat/Townsman to join the Mafia, or in this case, the Wolves.
* Audrey Basler, who was also a Hyena, and the brother killed the other two. This was a way to appeal to the wolf. With this, the number of survivors remaining was 7.
* Oh Rahee mentioned that there the game was pre-determined from the beginning. The priest, who is the doctor/guard is innocent so the villagers can not lynch her. She is also on Seol's, the wolf, side. Therefore, the two are invincible. Because of this, the wolf will eventually kill everyone else so the best way to win this would be to join the wolf's side.
* Oh Rahee suspecting Slick Hair of lying when he said that he was the Wolf but I am unsure how she knew that Seol was the real Wolf.
* The two unnamed people apparantly smelled of blood according to Basler and were accused of killing before entering Stage 3.
* Seol saw another vision he saw the two with his Nine Eyes. He saw the two killing Lara Wolff and escaping.
* Angry at the man and woman duo, he approached them with his spear. When yelling and asking why they killed Lara, the man, in a fluster, said that they killed a man, not a woman. Seol was surprised to hear that his vision was wrong but killed them anyway. There were five people remaining.
* After confirming the innoncence of Oh Rahee and Basler, his gaze landed on the brother. He saw another vision where he saw the giant going around killing the seven people in his room mercilessly in Stage 1. When he asked why he killed all seven, the giant said he killed only six. Six had apparantly schemed against him and so he had to kill them. The giant and the other person in his group had to climb the stairs from the second pillar but the second person died from a monster attack.
* Seol felt frustrated and finally yelled that he was done and that he would not kill anyone else as if to speak to the host of the Banquet. Soon the other four figures collapsed.
* Soon the seven gods appeared. They were the host of the Banquet. The original purpose of the Banquet was to help the Earthlings who could not reach a High Rank by rewarding them. However, these rewards soon brewed greed amongst the Earthlings. With that, the purpose of the Banquet changed as well and it was to filter out the Earthlings that were against the will of Paradise in Stage 1 and Stage 2 and execute them in Stage 3.
* Seol was given the role of the Wolf. His victory condition was to determine the life and death of every participant in the room besides the priest, who was revealed to be the Daughter of Luxuria, Seo Yuhui (What a surprise).
* Ira, the Goddess of Wrath, asked Seol to kill the brother. He could have resolved the matter with words but he killed the six because he was dissatisfied.
* Seol believed that even though he killed six in Stage 1, it was not necessary to kill him since he hadn't done anything to him. The Gods revealed that the burly man is a demon born with the spirit of the Heaven-Slaughtering Star, destined to kill thousands in the future. This may include Seol's comrades.
* The current Seol was very different compared to the Red Mark Seol. Similarly, he believed that he could altar the cause that would give birth to the Heaven-Slaughtering Star and change the the burly man becomes in the future. This was a very idealisitic thought process and 5 of the 7 gods burst out laughing as this was something that not even the Martial God was able to achieve. Luxuria mentioned that it is possible for Seol to do that.
* Gula suggested ending this discussion as they had manifested too long and Seol was being overwhelmed similar to in the Chamber of Awakenings in the Neutral Zone. It was suggested that an Earthling would not be overwhelmed if they were in the God's territory, the temples. The gods decided to leave Stage 3 to Seol and Seol made his decision.
* Finally, they decided to reward him with the Harmonious Wish. While the right side of his Nine Eyes was meant to be unlocked together, Ira decided to take responsibility and unlock one of the colors on the right side.

### Post-Banquet:

* Seol teleported back to the oasis in Paradise. His mind was very exhausted and he needed to drink a healing potion and needed to rest. Seo Yuhui did not come with him so Kazuki was really worried.
* Seol figured that the other four Stage 3 participants would be given their reward and sent to Paradise soon after.
* Soon, the priest fell into the oasis and as she got out her hood fell back.
* She chanted an ancient spell, which was a very rare spell according to Maria, and a green orb of vitality was created and absorbed by Seol Jihu through his nose. Recovering and standing up, Seol immediately thanked Seo Yuhui and also apologized to her. Seol believed that Seo Yuhui had been forced by the seven gods to participate in the banquet and guard him. Seo Yuhui replied that Seol was the same as always apologizing for something meaningless which was a surprise to Seol as he did not know her.
* Chohong was upset that the priest revealed her identity and that the priest could have saved many in Stage 2. Seo Yuhui said that as someone who participated and passed Stage 3 before, she could not normally participate in the Banquet. Her participating in the Banquet again was a very special case and her reasons were personal. She used a Divine Wish to re-enter the Banquet but she still had to hide her identity and her abilities would be restricted. Chohong, who was vulnerable to politeness, became embarassed.

### Freeing the Ghost Saintess

* Seol returned from the Banquet and talked to Jang Maldone and Ian about the Banquet. He realized that he could not talk about Stage 3 even if he wanted to.
* Wondering about the new color of Nine Eyes he unlocked, he asked Ian about destiny. Ian said that it was a fate that one would arrive in no matter what.

* Returning from the Banquet, Seol found out that Flone had been upset because of his absence and immediately left for the tomb.
* He met Flone and after appeasing her with ramen, he decided to free her with the item he traded for in Stage 2 of the Banquet.
* Flone realized that Seol's plan worked and hurriedly gave him a gift, a necklace that her mother asked her to protect. It's name was Promise of Temperance and then, Flone disappeared.
* Thinking that her soul was freed and remembering his time with her, Seol squeezed the necklace and heard an unexpected "Ouch". Flone had possessed the necklace because she wanted to stay with Seol.
* Returning from the tomb, he encountered some man-eating monsters that had ambushed him. He had to fight them twice. Flone took out the nearby nest of these monsters. They had kept livestock of humans and they were able to be freed because of the monsters' absence. One of the humans that was freed was Marcel Ghionea, an excellent archer with great combat prowess but terrible tracking abilities.

### Becoming the Leader of Carpe Diem

* He returned to Carpe Diem. As the team still had no leader, they needed to assign one immediately. They immediately decided on picking Seol Jihu.
* Chohong was the one who suggested him being the leader.
* Hugo was too absorbed at looking at Seo Yuhui but did not object at Seol Jihu's consent for being the leader.
* As the leader, Seol had to maintain relations with many people and organizations. He met Sicilia and as a token of goodwill, Cinzia offered him directions to the Indian Assassins, a source of information. He headed there was immediately treated as a VIP, likely because of his time in the Neutral Zone.
* Meanwhile, Seo Yuhui was still moving to Haramark and a white robed priest was helping her. Seo Yuhui had many precious ingredients on her. She mentioned that they were for her "son". She also had a bag full of equipment. She mentioned that no matter what, there is someone who can not die or he will revert to the way he was. It was greatly hinted that the "son" and the person who can not die, is Seol Jihu.
* The team desperately needed to search for an Archer. While Jang Maldong had many candidates, he was unsure of which to choose.
* Both Seol Jihu and Jang Maldong headed to the White Rose Guild for the Yi Siblings. Seol remembered that Yi Seol-Ah had a high potential. There, he met Phi Sora for the first time.
* The White Rose made a deal that was surprisingly benefitting Carpe Diem. White Rose wanted Seol Jihu to participate in an expedition on emporer's villa that they had been planning. This expedition was expected to have a high profit. Not only would Carpe DIem have a cut of the profits but they would also get the Yi siblings for just participating. Not only that, there were reassured that they would not be used. An example of the reassurance is the veto that was given to Seol Jihu on the decisions that came during the expedition.
* Suspecting that something was wrong, he used his Nine Eyes. He saw the leader, Bok Jungsik, shining in a danger color and Phi Sora, in blue. As soon as he saw Phi Sora's color he got a vision of Phi Sora getting on top of a chair, smiling and hanging herself leaving him shocked.
* When asked if he wanted to participate in the expedition, Seol Jihu immediately declined and even advised White Rose on not participating as he figured this expedition is the cause of Phi Sora's hanging. This was not taken well by Phi Sora however and she left and planned to go through with the expedition anyway.
* White Rose tried to get the help of the Haramark Royal Family in replacement of Carpe Diem's rejection. While Teresa was originally planning on participating, she immediately decided not to when she realized that Seol did not want her to. She knew that Seol Jihu had declined their offer and decided to trust him. During their escape form the Delphinion Duchy, she realized that Seol has a power that allows him to sense danger.
* Bok Jungsik decided to cancel the expedition since they could not find anyone to help them. Phi Sora went ahead and left for the villa anyway.
* PAX, an international organization, had filed a complaint on White Rose that White Rose was planning an expedition that they had already been planning. Seol Jihu found out that Bok Jungsik had bought the information from the person who originally sold it to PAX. Bok Jungsik was called to court but he deserted. With this Phi Sora was the leader.
* Seol found out that Phi Sora had already left and knew she was going to be in a mess. If she came back from the expedition alive, she would be held responsible for going through with the expedition even though it was cancelled.
* Seol heard about the emporer's villa from Flone. The emporer killed many leaders of noble houses for their wealth. One of the leaders was Flone's grandfather. While it was commonly known what the villa was for, they could not refuse as it would mean going against the emperor's wishes. Before he left, he hid the Rothschear wealth and gave the blue necklace, that was considered the key to the wealth, to Flone's mother.
* While Flone was subconciously fearful of the villa, Sacrificium, she realized she was already dead and she could freely explore the villa. With her urgency, Seol Jihu and Flone left for the villa from the City of Nur. Flone carried Seol Jihu and flew to the villa.

### Phi Sora's Rescue in Sacrificium and the Recruitment of the Yi Siblings

* Phi Sora's team had looted the majority of the floors of the villa. It was very easy up to the fourth floor where they encountered trouble. He original team of 18, including herself, was greatly shrinking. The team members were missing the moment eyes were taken away from them. While Phi Sora would have originally left a long time ago, they could not find the stairs leading downwards either and they were going in a cycle. They had been there for days.
* Seol Jihu arrived to the villa and realized that unexpectedly the surrounding area was more dangerous than the villa itself according to the Nine Eyes. Worried that he would be discovered by Parasites, he decided to go in with Flone.
* Inside, there was almost no treasure to be found. Flone and Seol discovered an evil spirit but it did not stand a chance to Flone. Occasionally, Seol found treasures includiong golden eggs worth a couple of gold coins. Once they arrived at the fourth floor they encountered another spirit which was chased away by Flone.
* Soon Seol found a hung priest. She seemed to be dead but her harmless spirit was urging Seol and Flone to another room asking for help. Seol went to the room and found a hung Phi Sora, similar to the vision he saw. He cut her down and encountered another ghost. This one seemed different and Flone identified it to be her grandfather. The two spirits caught up and chatted happily.
* Soon Seol Jihu could feel a hostile presence, one that was far stronger than Flone. Flone's grandfather, shocked that the spirit left the emporer's bedroom, urged Seol and Flone to escape. Seol ran with Phi Sora's unconcious body out of the villa. He noticed several spirits including Flone's grandfather stopping the hostile spirit.
* Seol made it outside and put down Phi Sora and panted. He noticed that Phi Sora wasn't breathing and quickly administered CPR despite Flone's pouts. Phi Sora was able to wake up and caught up to what was happening. Once she tried to go back in the villa to save the rest of her team, she found out that her team died and was sad about it since she was the one who decided to go through with the expedition.
* Flone carried Seol, who carried Phi Sora, to Nur.
* Phi Sora had to deal with the conspiracy against White Rose and ended up selling all her equipment as well as the land. She disbanded White Rose.
* Even when everyone tried to buy the Yi siblings, she declined expecting Seol to come for them. She expected a couple hundred silver coins for the siblings which was a lot less than what others offered. Instead, he offered her two gold eggs, worth 4 gold coins which made her shocked. Seol explained it was for the people that died in the expedition.
* Seol met the siblings and while eating, he ripped apart the contracts telling them they were free. He said they can join Carpe Diem but not if they think of Paradise as a game. They joined the team in the end.
* Heading back to Carpe Diem, they met Phi Sora in the carriage. While it was somewhat awkward since Phi Sora had been tough on the Yi siblings, the carriage arrived in Haramark. Suspiciously, Phi Sora followed them while pretending to be going to somewhere else such as a place to get food.
* Eventually, the three arrived in front of Carpe Diem when Phi Sora was not around. The three entered but soon Phi Sora followed suit.
* Phi Sora believed that Jang Maldong was the owner of the building that Carpe Diem worked in and hoped that he would give her residency. Jang Maldong informed her that the owner of the building was actually Seol Jihu. Immediately, she was kicked out of the building.
* Because of Jang Maldong's silent request, he let her stay in the office for a month. She had to leave and get work because many organisations and teams would be willing to accept someone of Phi Sora's caliber.
* Phi Sora accepted but was disappointed since she hoped Seol would try to recruit her. In fact, she believed she was better than what the team could ask for but was soon proven wrong by the connections of the team. Seol met many people including Cinzia, Agnes, and Teresa. Most surprising of all though, Seo Yuhui had visited Carpe Diem in hopes to get someone to help her unpack since she was still moving to Haramark. Seol Jihu immediately offered to help and Seo Yuhui happily accepted. She declined other offers under the pretext that one person was enough.
* Seol was holding himself back from hugging Seo Yuhui even though he had no clue why he felt this way. He realized that his thoughts were retarded and tried to distance himself. Seo Yuhui knew of how Seol was as she had taken care of him before and mentioned that he was surprisingly holding back well.
* She asked if he could come again later to help but he declined as he was going to Huge Stone Rocky Mountain so that the siblings could train. Yuhui decided to tag along since she had a mission there.

### Training in Huge Stone Rocky Mountain

* While Hugo and Chohong ran away at the mention of training, the rest of the team, Phi Sora, and Seo Yuhui left for the mountain.
* Seol, the training masochist he is, immediately started training and the siblings followed suit but were amazed by his capabilities.
* The training for Seol had a schedule. He would train all day, take a bath and have late night snacks with Seo Yuhui. She cooked him various dishes but did not want others to have her food as she stopped Seol from waking the others up under the pretext that they are tired and they should get some rest.
* Seol noticed a significant increase in his stats to the point he realized that this was abnormal. He was suspicious of Seo Yuhui's cookings but decided to accept the change.
* Phi Sora helped YI Sungjin due to Jang Maldong's request. She also caught Yi Seol-Ah crying in the middle of her training and mentioned that she cried as well so she had no right to criticize her. Seol Jihu had caught her crying as well and cheered her up. Jang Maldong's training was designed for the person to break his/her limits so many people cried including Seol Jihu himself.
* Seol had to learn Mana Cultivation but this step could be skipped because of the Essence of Soma. The Essence of Soma gives the user lightning anti-evil energy. Seo Yuhui offered the Essence to him but in exchange she asked for him to be closer with her. Remembering the suspicion he had about her cooking, Seol confronted Yuhui and asked why she was unusually nice to him. Yuhui explained that he had given her good memories but Seol did not understand since the two barely knew each other. Yuhui eventually gave up on an explanation and added to her request. In addition of being closer to her, he had to help her reach Level 8. To do this, she needed to reach the rank of her Luck stat. Also, she needed to find two specific artfacts. These were the Proof of Castitas and the Proof of Devotion.
* Seol realized he could help her immediately and accepted the deal. Jang Maldong also mentioned that this was a fair deal. The Essence of Soma was applied to Seol Jihu and it took several days for him to absorb it. The two also agreed to call each other "Noona" and "Jihu", though it was a bit awkward.
* Chohong and Hugo called Seol to inform him that Marcel Ghionea was heading to Huge Stone Rocky Mountain looking for him. Hugo found out that Yuhui was with him there and immediately left for the mountain.
* Marcel Ghionea found Seol and asked to join his team explaining that he wanted to repay his debts. Seol eventually accepted as someone of Marcel's caliber could be of great use. Though, his equipment was not good since he had lost it when he was treated as livestock.
* Soon, an emergency occured. He woke up and found himself receiving 4 different calls at the same time. He found out that there was a draft call and the parasite army was approaching Haramark. Everyone immediately left to Haramark on the carriage that Hugo arrived in.

### Arden Fortress War

* As soon as Seol arrived in Haramark, he went to the temple and found many Earthlings leaving to Earth. He realized they were escaping from the war. He grabbed the Divine Elixers for Luck as well as the Proof of Castitas and Proof of Devotion and gave them to Seo Yuhui who was about to leave for Scheherazade. She handed him a bag of equipment and mentioned that Luxuria wanted him to have this. She promised that she would help Seol in the war.
* Haramark's leaders, including Seol, had a meeting discussing the war.
* Seol gave Teresa a longsword that he was meant to give long ago. He gave Marcel a crossbow that had a rapid-firing feature. He gave Phi Sora equipment.
* Soon, the team left for the fortress.
* Phi Sora gets into war by asking Seol Jihu to hire her for six months under a short-term contract.
* Oh Rahee joins Seol because Kim Hannah gave Blood Line a couple handful of silver coins.
* Undying Diligence, Unsightly Humility, Vulgar Chastity attack Arden Fortress, and demand them to give Seol Jihu in exchange for sparing their lives.
* Taciana Cinzia is revealed to be Goddess of Sloth's Apostle.
* Undying Diligence tries to absorb the remaining Divinity in Flonecia Lusignan La Rothschear.
* All the participants get captured and asked infromation about Seol Jihu.
* The Executor join the battle, and rescue Jihu and the others.
* Ian Denzel dies while in the hands of Seol Jihu.
* Seol Jihu loses himself and runs away while crying and closing his ears, and was attacked but Chung Chohong took the hit for him and was nearly dead.
* He looks around with his Nine Eyes and sees the entire battle field Black in color.
* Seol Jihu uses his 9 Ability points on Mana.
* Seol Jihu awakens Level 7 Highlander, Awakening Skill — Berserk.
* Seol Jihu fights with Undying Diligence and kills him, while heavily injuring Vulgar Chastity.
* Jihu gets so heavily wounded that Seo Yuhui couldn't describe with words.
* Seo Yuhui uses a Ceremony to heal him and loses her rank.
* He falls into a coma for 15 weeks. And is later saved by the combined effects of Federation, Jang Maldong and Seo Yuhui he woke up.

### Third Return to Earth and Returning to Paradise

* He goes to the Pork Belly shop which Jang Maldong suggested, and meets Phi Sora who works there. They get drunk and sleep together with Seol clinging onto her like a kid.
* He exchanges phone numbers with Phi Sora and text each other.
* Seol asks Kim Hannah to make a solid background to convince his family of his change.
* Seol meets with his brother Seol Wooseok, and shows him that he will change for the better. He meets Yun Seohui who came unannounced, along with his brother.
* He returns to paradise with the doubt that Yoo Seonhwa is Seo Yuhui and confirms that they are different person, he gives a gift to her and Jang Maldong.
* And makes a plan for his future growth, when Maldong explains that should take Divine Elixer after he max's out his potential so he can grow more.
* He visits Gula in the temple for Job advancement and his Innate Ability, Future Vision evolves into Nine Eyes.
* his Innate Abilities fuse and evolved to ‘Future-Gauging Nine Eyes’.
* His Job changes to Level 5 Lance of Nemesis. Ch.193
* He gave everyone of his acquaintances underwear.(note: This stupid mf)

### The Attack on Seo Yuhui [Ch.195]

* Seol and his teammates went to the pub to celebrate his new promotion, but some team tried to rile them up for a fight. Sensing something suspicious Jang Maldong stopped them from fighting, and contacted Taciana Cinzia about thier details.
* After coming out of the pub he saw a large number of people in front of Seo Yuhui house and was told that she got attacked and was hurt.
* Hero Besmirching Starts ‘Again’. Seol gets blamed and suspected for the attack on Seo Yuhui, the king comes to help him from the interrogation.
* He says he will create a new organization in Eva with help of the Triads.
* Seo Yuhui dropped to a Level 1 or 2 Priest, because of her helping Seol jihu
* Seol Jihu asks Seo Yuhui to join his team temporarily until he get her enough offerings to get back her level.
* When he worries about the financial cost of setting up a new organization, Flone reminds him of her grandfather's inheritance.

### Pagoda of Dreams/Infection Expedition[Ch.206]

* Flonecia Lusignan La Rothschear grandfather hid their family treasures in 5 different places each sorted by their category.
* Goddess of Chastity bestowed a spear to the Rothschear family, which Seol Jihu searches for.
* He meets a foxman child Haeryeo while travelling to Pagoda of Dreams.
* He saves Haeryeo sister Haeya from poachers and meets their leader.
* He goes to meet the Federation to return the sisters to them.
* Seol meets Yuirel Antrum Valenheim, who is the federation leader.
* First mention of Twisted Kindness, last Dragon. Mentioned to be male which is a contradiction later on.
* They enter the Pagoda of Dreams with help of Sky Fairies. [Ch.214]
* Meets Roselle La Grazia in Pagoda of Dreams, and she offers her inheritance if they help her fight against the Empire, She freaks out after hearing that Empire has collapsed 10yrs ago.
* Roselle La Grazia tells him about Eternal Light of Wisdom.
* The team splits up the rewards of the expedition. Seol Jihu, despite having more than 80% of the contribution, decided to split the rewards equally. Teresa suggested that Seol gets two shares in consideration of Flone. Seol Jihu was able to obtain hundreds of gold coins.
* He gets the Spear of Purity from Rothschear's inheritance along with a treasure chest.
* Seol Jihu get a Pheonix egg, and 2 books regarding the Spear of Purity.
* The Spear of Purity reminded Seol Jihu of Lü Bu's twin crescent blade halberd.
* Of the two books. one was Righteous Heart, a mana cultivation technique designed to purify the mana of the user, and the other was Crescent Blade Spear Technique, a technique that supposedly surpassed Baek Haeju's Jade Spear Technique.
* He tell Teresa Hussey that he is going to set up an organization, she gets excited and tells him that she will give her share of gold for the organization. But he tells her he's leaving Haramark to go to Eva, she runs away and cries the whole night, and Seol Jihu decides not to do anything.
* Jang Maldong tells him that Kim Hannah kept calling the communication crystal, and when he answered and told her that he went to an expedition she cuts the call.
* Seol Jihu went to visit Luxuria to give the Arcus Spirit divine power and learned of the power of the Spear of Purity.
* The egg starts to move in chapter 227.
* Seol goes to Scheherazade to participate in the auction. Seol himself did not buy anything worth mentioning but Hugo went on a shopping spree.

### Recruiting Kim Hannah and Seo Yuhui

* Meets Kim Hannah and goes for dinner and drinks, she tells him her situation.
* Wanting to see her status window, Seol uses Nine Eyes on her but sees a vision of Kim Hannah, after defecting to the Parasites and becoming a Succubus, staring down at a destroyed Scheherazade. She had many enemies and used Sinyoung as a shield. Since Sinyoung abandoned her, she had to resort to defecting to the Parasites.
* Seol Jihu offers Kim Hannah to join his organization after convincing her that he had the capabilities of making one.
* Kim Hannah askes for 3 things: 1. Authority to the equivalent of a Queen. While she was fine being beneath the King, she did not want anyone else above her. She was fine with someone else having the same level of Authority as her such as Jang Maldong. 2. She needs him to become bigger than Sinyoung, able to look down on it. 3. To never betray her. He accepts as long as she doesn't betray him first.
* Kim Hannah comes with the group to Haramark and immediately starts working as the groups administrator starting with keeping records of the group's funds and introducing herself to everyone as the administrator as well as the proxy leader.
* In return for being considered to be a founder of the organization, Kim Hannah asked everyone to pay 20% of their rewards from the Pagoda of Dreams expedition. Seol Jihu, as the primary founder would still pay the most.
* Kim Hannah also settled the issue with the borrowed equipment with Marcel Ghionea and Phi Sora.
* Seo Yuhui joined Carpe Diem. She is not to join Carpe Diem in outside activities but concentrate on her recovery.

### Creating Valhalla

* Send's letters to Eva, hoping to create an organization there.
* Eva accepts them with open arms and sends Sorg Kühne to finalize the deal. Sorg Kuhne asks Seol to find land in Eva on his own and to find a Priest.
* Before going to Eva to look for land, the team recruits Maria baiting her for future expeditions like the Pagoda of Dreams.
* Kim Hannah, Seol Jihu, Flone scam Park Dongchun into buying a land for 29gold.
* When they reach Eva Kim Hannah takes Seol Jihu to the dark side of the city and show him how Paradisians and Non-Human beings are treated. The enraged Seol Jihu starts hunting down the auction house and kills Sombat La-ongmanee, who is a member of Eva Alliance.
* Kim Hannah proposed a plan : They will give money to Paradisians who are drowning in debt, espacialy those who works in the Adult entertainment. That way they will poach the workers, and get contribution points.

### The Four Most Desperate And Brutal Battles Seol Jihu Fought

Thought Seol Jihu’s life in Paradise there are four battles that are described as his most desperate and brutal battles that he fought. These are :

1. The first battle against his self in the crazy training regime by Jang Maldong (Starts Ch 106)
2. The second battle against Undying Diligence at Arden fortress (Starts Ch 173)
3. The third battle against Twisted Kindness and Raging Temperance in the spirit realm (Starts Ch 327)
4. The fourth and final battle against all the Army Commanders and the Parasite Queen (Starts Ch 438)

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 176
2. ↑ Chapter 255