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Ch 141 as of 13/12/22 - also on Tapas - getting harder to summarise … - ML’s father died when ML was really young. - His relatives cut ties with his poor family. - ML left home because he hated his personal situation and wanted to forget everything. He joined the military and was deployed overseas. He lived as if he was crazy and received the code name “Cain.” - ML’s brother Jeong-woo Cha (J-woo) wanted the cure-all elixir in the tower to save their dying mother. J-woo was eventually betrayed and killed by the people closest to him. - 5 swords pierced his heart: 3 swords were from ‘kings’, 1 sword was from his lover (Viera Dune, Witch of Stars), and 1 sword was from his close friend (Sir Leonte, the Fist god). - The 8 Great Guilds / Clans conspired together to destroy J-woo and his group Artia, since they couldn’t possess them. - ML already has extensive military experience. As J-woo’s successor, ML inherits these skills: Dragon Eyes (dragon visual prowess), Heightened 5 senses, Clairvoyance / Foresight (inherited memories through J-woo’s diary). - The tutorial tests if players are qualified to climb the tower and is split into 7 blocks (A to G). Blocks A-E are inside, while blocks E-G are outside. Players have 30 days to complete the tutorial. ML is starting a week late. - Mask-wearing ML meets Yool at end of Block A. He helps Yool get out in exchange for teaching him about magic and mana. ML saves Yool from his ex-team mates who betrayed him then try to kill him to keep him silent. - Build, an executive of the Arang group (backed by the Azure Sword Guild, 1 of the top 8 guilds. They have the 5 famous Martial gods that are top high rankers). He scouts players in Block B’s waiting room. He knew J-woo as he was close to Leonte. - Block B: ML chose the black door out of the 4 coloured doors. - Hidden quest: The Room of Frost and Fire. - ML eats white moss with the heart of the giant red centipede he killed. This repairs and strengthens his bones and muscles. - Extra skills: physical resistance, combat will. - Batori’s vampiric dagger: ML kills bats and giant ants to get to the Shrine of the Vampiric Monarch. He stabs himself with the dagger to reveal it's true form. This unique artifact extracts the life force from opponents and devours their souls. - After killing 1000 monsters, ML has obtained all of the pieces of the Flame Heart and Frost Crest. This gives him a reinforced anatomy. His body’s development and ascension process changes from “incomplete dragon body” to “immature dragon’s body”. - ML as ‘Cain’ agrees to team up with Doyle (Foxy Tail) and Khan (Blood Sword, son of tower ranker Iron Lion) to help them get “Hargan's crown” at Block E. This artifact increases the wearer’s commanding presence. - Blocks C, D: ML cleared solo. - Collecting tokens: can be used to get karma or buy from the mystery merchant. - Block E, Hidden quest: Lizardman King Hargan’s lair. - ML obtains the modified ‘flame infusion’ skill from the king. - ML sells the ownership of the lair to the mystery merchant. It’s highly likely the lair has high quality magic stones. - ML and co. release a group of human prisoners after killing the lizardmen. The freed humans betray the trio who are surrounded by the Scavengers. The trio kill everyone, then go their separate ways. - After seeing evidence of the Arang group supporting the Scavengers, Doyle and Khan decide to confront Build directly. The Arang group were supposedly formed to get rid of the Scavengers and their human farms, but instead are controlling them. - Hidden quest: Galliad the dark elf and J-woo’s 1st Master. - ML looks for Galliad to obtain Undine’s Glass, an artifact and spiritual gem that only he knows how to make. - ML passes the test of playing hide and seek with Galliad. ML catches him 7 times. ML learns the ‘Shunpo’ Blinking Steps skill from Galliad. It increases his movement speed and improves his stealth. ML seeks to further develop his body. - Hidden quest: Akashic snake resurrection ceremony. The orcs are conducting a ceremony to resurrect the snake that was killed by Phante and Edora. ML sets up a conflict between monsters to provide living sacrifices for the snake to consume and help it grow. - Humanoid mythical root 300yo: a divine root that increases magical potency. ML captured and consumed it, gaining the magic circulation skill. - Sudden quest: Monster rush. ML started a war between the monsters (orcs, goblins, lizardmen, kobolds, trolls, ogres) in Block E. They take out Arang’s 1st squad along the way, who were ordered to kill ML after what happened to the Scavengers. - ML kills the snake with the vampiric dagger. He consumes the snake’s core and his magical abilities increase. His body awakening progression and his growing dragon body continues. His reinforced anatomy changes to gold-plated body / adamantine physique. - ML returns a long-lost pendant with a photo of his family to Galliad, which ML happened to find. - Galliad administers Undine’s Glass to stabilise ML’s body after he consumed such a large core from the snake. - Black bracelet (wrist armour) and black magic: The bracelet is a unique artifact and belonged to the owner of the Akashic snake. It can reap souls and convert souls to magic that can be used to make cursed weapons. It also allows ML to see dead souls. - ML has achieved the title of Monster Hunter. He’s also attained the Eye of the Goblin and the Monster’s 5-Coloured Gem. - Block F: Arang group base. Doyle and Khan held prisoner there. - ML wipes out the Arang group then frees Doyle and Khan. Build swallows the forbidden philosopher’s stone that was made from the bodies and souls of countless players sourced from human farms. - ML takes off his mask for Build to recognise his face. ML lets the sacrificed souls finish off Build after ML tortured Build for info. ML obtains the incomplete philosopher’s stone and it stores itself near his heart. - Doyle and Khan decide to retire for now, and give their earnings to ML to use. After receiving tips from Doyle and Khan, ML finds Vigrid the demonic sword. It has both demonic and divine abilities because it used to be a holy sword. - Block G: Phante and Edora, siblings from the Cheongram family of the One Horned tribe. Ranked 2nd and 1st in the tutorial. - While fighting the siblings, ML distracts Edora and steals their tokens. He jumps to the top of the rankings by a huge margin, giving him the highest score in the history of tutorials. - ML refuses to enter his name into the rankings or the hall of fame, and he becomes known as “The Hoarder.” - ML receives Zeus’ key which is 1 of 12 keys needed to access the Treasury of Olympus. - ML enters the area of the Obelisk, Tower of god. - ML visits Henova the dwarf master blacksmith who used to work exclusively for Artia, and was like a father to ML’s brother. ML buys a special custom dagger and he commissions Henova to make the Eyes of Gyes. ML also learns blacksmith skills. - ML takes care of the Night Watch clan who harassed Henova. - Phante and Edora visit ML and Henova. Edora’s huge sword was made by Henova. Phante nags ML for a rematch fight but loses to ML again. - Bahal (Flame Fist) of the Red Dragon clan, former Artia member. - Henova finishes the Eyes of Gyes as both armour and amulet. - The Eyes have special defensive properties. It aids health recovery, while also enhancing and assimilating with one’s senses. - Henova also custom-made a demon mask for ML that’s a magical artifact with unique properties. - ML enters the Tower with Phante and Edora. He clears the beginner floors 1-10 in record time to obtain Hades’ key, the last one. The 12 keys combine and ML accesses the Treasury of Olympus. Hermès invites ML to be his apostle but ML declines. - ML tries to take Astrape (Zeus’ lightning bolt) but it shatters. Instead he receives the Black King’s Despair, a wrist guard cuff and arm chain made from divine iron. It’s abilities are Soul Collector, Spirit Familiar and Black Energy. The Black King was the owner of the Akashic snake. ML also receives Athena’s Aegis shield, a 9-layer holy item that can block most attacks. - Bahal led an ambush on Leonte and his group. Leonte escaped and now the Red Dragons are at war with the Azure Sword Guild. - 11th Floor: Nurture and hatch a mythical beast egg. The type of beast will change according to the dreams and devotion fed to it. - ML creates spirit familiars and trains with them, along with the Aegis shield. - ML helps to return a stolen Phoenix egg to it’s mother. He calls the hatchling Chirpy and forms a contract bond with it. ML collects materials to create the vessel for the Flames of Life. The mythical beast egg is infused with the Flames of Life many times from the Phoenix to help its growth. It grows to a huge size but refuses to hatch. The Phoenix believes the beast needs dreams to give it motivation to be born. - Phante and Edora are summoned back to their village. - Their father Nayu the Martial King says the village will be joining the war as mercenaries under the Azure Sword Guild, breaking the long-standing neutrality of the tribe. (NB: Flann is the Spear god of the Azure Sword Guild, and the uncle of Phante and Edora. The Sword god was a disciple of the Martial King). - ML is invited to the One Horned Tribe village and he takes his egg. The elders advise using a rare herb called the Lunar Seed. To get some, ML agrees to join the village as a mercenary in the war. - Jang Baeksun, half-brother of Phante and Edora. Jang challenges ML to prove himself. ML wins emphatically. - ML asks to learn the martial arts unique to the One Horned tribe. Nayu gives permission on the condition ML attains enlightenment on his own in 4 days. There will be a test which if he passes, Nayu will teach him the martial arts. ML agrees. - ML studies the tribe’s skill archives. He creates a new magic circuit concept, core theory and a new type of mugong. The gods and demons of the 98th floor show interest, as does Hermes. - ML passes the test with his Heavenly Wing Mana Control. - ML starts to learn the 8 Extreme Fists martial arts. - ML also becomes the successor of the Yin(g) Sword, an ancient vessel sword of great intelligence. - Edora inherited the Yang Sabre with her insight ability. - The tribe start the siege of Kuram City on the 11th floor against the Red Dragons. To see the progress of what ML’s learnt so far, Nayu takes the top 5 enemy warriors from the siege to fight 1-on-1 with ML. The last one is Shanon, a semi-ranker (cleared 50th floor) and the most challenging. ML learns about focal points that are the power to choose possibilities. - The Azure Sword Guild are hunting the legendary beasts. ML finds Chirpy alone, as the Sabre god killed the Phoenix. ML receives the Flame of Life / Holy Fire skill. Ebora followed ML and they go to save the other beasts (ie Void Dragon, Abyss Turtle, Sabretooth Tiger) but they’re too late. - ML becomes the Legendary Beasts’ Successor and feeds the spirit core of the Sabretooth Tiger to Chirpy. The Sabre god was most likely harvesting materials from the legendary beasts to use in treating his son who was born with a weak body. - Because of the Azure Sword Guild, ML leaves the One Horned tribe and says Nayu will always be his master. Edora and Phante follow him. ML approaches Bahal at the Red Dragon clan base. - ML gives Bahal a map of the Azure troop locations. ML is made team leader of 3000 mercenaries. To subdue them, ML gets Phante to break them then ML heals them. This happens over and over again. With the men fully subdued, Phante is left in charge of training them. - ML goes through the 12th to 15th floors with the help of his men. ML takes his men to the 16th floor to find the Sabre God’s son, Hanbin. They wreck havoc at the temple of the future (Skuld) and bring Hanbin back to base on the 11th floor. The Sabre god receives messages with a finger then an eye that his son is being held hostage for the philosopher’s stone. - ML upgrades his witch doctor spirit familiar named Bu to a lich, a magician of death. He also assigns the spirit of Shanon as his 1st Death Knight. They lead his ever growing ghost army. - The Sabre god leads a rebellion against the Sword god and Fist god (Leonte). Taking the Reverse Blood pill to increase his magic power, the Sabre god fights the Sword god but is still defeated. Before he dies, the Sabre god uses the now fused Legendary Beasts core to open a portal that allows the Summer Queen (in red dragon form) to teleport through with the Red Dragon forces. - ML absorbs the fused core and his dragon body transformation and awakening is complete. His adamantine physique has changed to complete draconic body. He’s also obtained the Territory, Knowledge and Authority of the Dragon. He’s awakened the power of the dragon, and can emit Dragon Fear to his opponents. - The One Horned tribe are not present for this battle. Nayu probably thought there was no point in continuing the alliance and broke it off. He may have been approached by Red Dragon too. - ML intervenes in the fight between Leonte and Bahal. Leonte had just badly injured Bahal by using the internal energy of the mythical dragon core, given to him by the Sword god, and Gungnir the legendary sword of Odin. ML cuts off Leonte’s head and after a fierce battle does the same with Bahal, who sees ML’s face behind the mask before he dies. - ML absorbs the mythical dragon core from Leonte, which was taken from J-woo. ML lets his ghost army take care of the remaining Red Dragon forces in the vicinity. - ML’s bracelet absorbs the many souls of the dead. ML, Edora and Phante withdraw from the battle. - The Bow god betrayed the Azure Sword Guild, and now the Sword god and Spear god are on the run. The Guild has collapsed and a new power struggle is expected to fill the vacuum. - ML receives lunar seeds from the tribe’s head elder. With these seeds, the ‘blessing of the 4 legendary beasts’ crystal that was created by the fused core, and the mythical dragon core, ML hatches his now massive egg by reviving / awakening the suspected legendary beast inside. It’s a demonic dragon that absorbed the energy of the 4 other legendary beasts, and was reborn from the mythical dragon that was connected to ML’s brother. - ML plans to make the beasts hatched by Phante and Edora to become legendary beasts that will take over the vacant positions on the 11th floor. He gives them the Bead of the Abyss created by the Void Dragon, and the Pure Flower of the Legendary Beasts elixir created by the tribe’s head elder. With these beasts, he’ll have control over the 11th floor. - ML interrogates the spirits of Leonte and Bahal. The philosopher’s stone was created using an emerald tablet (that is now broken). The Summer Queen has a broken dragon heart from her last fight with ML’s brother. She needs the stone to repair it. - A magic ring called the Key of Intrenian is given to ML by Bahal. It allows access to an infinite storage space and the Red Dragon treasury. ML finds the materials needed to complete the philosopher’s stone stored in the treasury. To do this, he needs help from Brahm the Exile, 1 of 2 alchemists that J-woo knew. He’s a ranker on the upper floors of the tower. - ML lets his ghosts eat the souls of Leonte and Bahal. - ML calls the spirit of the Sabre god who pledges his loyalty to ML when he learns his son Hanbin survived. The Sabre god becomes the 2nd Death Knight, Han Ryeong. - ML visits Henova to commission magic swords for use by his 2nd Death Knight, who needs strong swords to meet the requirements of his signature moves. - Nayu the Martial King conducts an inspection of ML and they have an epic spar. Although ML lost, his growth and strength impress Nayu who has nothing left to teach ML. Nayu tells him to continue going up the tower. - The Sword god is the lone survivor as he emerges from a cave and sees his men who died while protecting the entrance. His childhood friend the Spear god is also dead. He decides to use the forbidden qi ‘Cannibal’ which allows him to absorb the powers of the dead person whose heart is consumed. - After declining to join Red Dragon, the Bow god (now Zhang Wei) is given a mission by the Summer Queen to find someone. Zhang Wei is from Earth around the same place as ML and J-woo. - The Queen suspects the Red Dragons and the Azure Sword Guild were used as puppets by someone. Zhang Wei investigates the people close to Bahal. - ML commissions the Night Watch to search for Brahm the Exile. - On the 16th floor (Life’s Wheel), ML is invited to the temple of the past. He passes the trial of meeting the goddess Urd and breaks free of her will, which tried to trap him by using his past. She orders ML to be killed but he beheads her high elf apostle Hepburn instead. - ML escapes from the temple which implodes. His shadow knights take care of the soldiers that come after them. - ML uses the divine power from the apostle’s soul to cleanse and purify Vigrid the demonic sword. It’s returned to it’s original state. - ML progresses with record speed and achievements through the next few floors until he reaches the 20th floor and the Gate of the 5 Penance Mountains. The penances are sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. ML’s senses are already outstanding plus he has dragon senses. To increase the difficulty, ML puts away his magical equipment and limits his magical power. He learns to sense the wavelengths of objects around him. He concentrates using his combat will, becoming enlightened with Soul Control. - Being able to use Soul Control, Soul Power and one’s soul signifies the start of training to become a transcendent. ML’s shadow knights advise him to expand his 6th sense. - After the 5th penance, ML maxes out his sensory reinforcement skill and 6th sense skill. This leads to ML gaining the ultra sense skill, which gives him extrasensory cognition and perception. It includes the skills of intuition and automatic defenses. He is now also able to perceive the mana flow. - Khan suddenly reappears before ML and uses ‘open speech’ (telepathy?) to communicate. - There are people who live on the 20th floor to continually train under penance, and are called Sadhu. - Victoria, the Crimson Divine Tree. She’s one of the few rankers who can use rune magic, the language of the gods. - Kindred the Pestilence Ghost. He’s the 2nd Bishop of 9 bishops that lead the Demon Army. - Kindred suddenly attacks ML to test him. - ML goes all out and passes the test. As ML wants to be a Sadhu, Khan shows him to a hut he may use. - Night Watch contacts ML. Brahm is on the 23rd floor. - ML trains with his shadow knights to improve his swordsmanship and eventually create aura. His 8 Extreme Fists skill changes to 8 Extreme Sword Arts. As a Sadhu, ML gains the Hermit trait and Parallax Gap skill. - ML agrees to a deal with Victoria to let her study him for a month in exchange for teaching rune magic to him. Victoria is unable to learn anything as she can’t analyse a dragon’s mental system. - ML gets Bu the lich to carve rune magic onto his body. - ML has been a Sadhu for 6mths. - Victoria announces to everyone that Kindred is dead. - Sol Luna, the Dark Sword. A vampire swordsman. - Rebecca, a high ranker and apostle of Cernunnos, god of hunting. - Victoria received a hidden quest after she sensed Kindred’s death. It involves King Mihu (the monkey king). She wants to make a deal with all of the Sadhus to get her to where Kindred’s body is in the quest area. In exchange she’ll give the location of one person anywhere in the tower. Victoria, Rebecca, Khan and ML go to the dungeon called King Mihu’s Palace for the hidden quest. - ML’s cold blooded trait and ghost army help to resist the curses and avoid the traps. He takes the lead to guide them through the dungeon maze. Sol Luna is secretly following them. - They enter a room full of stone monkey statues before an empty throne. The Monkey King’s 72 divine transformations are etched into a large stone tablet. Kindred’s dead body lies in front of it. - Sudden quest: King Mihu’s terracotta soldiers. - Escape after memorising the 72 divine transformations and obtain the qualification to become the successor of King Mihu. - Kindred’s body turns out to be a fake. This was a trap set up by Kindred to get others to complete the quests. - The statues come to life and attack. Rebecca is killed while protecting Victoria. ML gets Khan and Victoria to escape first through another door. ML demonstrates 1 of the 72 transformations to pass the test. He passes the final test when he asks “Who are you” to a vision of the Monkey King. - ML obtains the title, Successor to the Monkey King. - He also obtains the skill, 72 divine transformations. - He clears the sudden and hidden quests to receive 25k karma pts. - Hidden quest: the Golden Cudgel’s Owner - ML receives a piece of the Monkey King’ holy artifact, the Golden Cudgel / Staff. With no time limit, the quest is to gather all of the pieces to complete this artifact. Once completed, ML will inherit the title “Great Sage, Heaven’s Equal”. - Black King’s Despair and the Golden Cudgel are made of divine iron, the only material that can imprison or seal gods or demons. - ML visits the One Horned tribe. The mythical beast eggs of Phante and Edora have hatched. They’re both griffins. - ML decides to name the demonic dragon after Nemesis, the goddess of revenge and laws. He renames Chirpy after Nike, the goddess of victory. - ML finally visits Henova to pick up the weapons for his shadow knights. ML commissions Henova to upgrade his armour, which means revealing his strengths and weaknesses to Henova. ML shares his player info. Later ML picks up the upgraded magic armour set. It is strengthened by the addition of Hell’s Tears that were a gift to Henova from J-woo. - ML checks the skills of Nemesis and Nike. - Nemesis: Dreaming Illusion (AA+), Violent Whirlwind (A). - Nike: Fire Spirit (resurrection and reincarnation of fire). - Blessing of the Blue Spirit skill from the Abyss Turtle. - ML infuses the Blue Spirit with Cernunnos’ apostle, Rebecca’s vestige. Then she absorbs the souls of Sol Luna and Urd’s apostle, Hepburn, and evolves into a high level spirit. - 21st floor: Break the shadow training hall. - Clear at least 20 of the 33 sections inside the hall. - You must defeat the shadows (illusions) of the ranked players from when they cleared this trial. - ML starts from the lowest ranked shadow player (165th) and progresses to the higher ranks. He tests his upgraded equipment and uses this trial as a training opportunity. - Carshina’s Dagger (A): Trainee’s Passion, Black Blade - One of the ranked shadow players is Valdebich the Rebel Swordsman. He is a giant who was a founding member of Artia and J-woo’s first friend. He went into hiding after J-woo’s death. He was the first one that led Artia’s downfall. - ML continues to progress as he defeats the shadows of Kindred, the Sword god and: - #11 Nocturne (Nayu’s 2nd disciple) - #5 Summer Queen - #4 J-woo, his brother (Ch 124) - #3 Hegel - #2 Nayu the Martial King - #1 Vivasvat, known as “All For One” - ML’s cold blooded trait is temporarily deactivated when he faces the shadow of J-woo. ML and Nemesis fight J-woo and his mythical dragon. ML has never lost to his brother and after an epic battle, ML wins. J-woo’s shadow smiles and says it was fun, then disappears. - ML thought J-woo had abandoned his family when he disappeared. Their mother asked ML to protect J-woo’s place at home for when he returned. - ML created a new and unique skill from his battle with J-woo. - Fire Wave: Fire Thunderbolt, Blazing Embers - Hegel is the archbishop of Satan’s army. - He’s a demon messenger with characteristics of a god. - After ML defeated Hegel, he receives a Golden Cudgel piece. - At first Nayu’s young shadow tries to trick ML but he doesn’t fall for it. ML utilises everything he’s learnt from the top ranked shadows and defeats this Nayu. - The shadow for Vivasat has been deleted (?) - It’s impossible for the gods and demons on the 98th floor to interfere. It’s a mystery how the system was changed. - ML automatically passes the trial for the 21st floor and ties with Vivasvat to be ranked 1st. - ML easily kills the Kraken on the 22nd floor. - At the 23rd floor, ML lets his shadow army deal with the spawn of the Devil Trees while he looks for Brahm. - The Elohim: a group of 8 clans. Only tribes of strong descent (ie high rankers or transcendents) can join. - Light of Aether, an Elohim Elder and ex-Artia member. He’s from the Protogenoi tribe, the highest order in Elohim. - Brahm was expelled from the Elohim. - Brahm is the incarnation of Brahma the high god. - Galliad is Brahm’s friend. Galliad attacks the Elohim who seem to be looking for Brahm. ML saves Galliad when the Elohim counterattack and they escape. Galliad takes ML through a massive and elaborate illusion barrier created by Brahm. - Brahm is protecting Sesha, a dragon human child (half dragon and half human). - Ananta, a dragon human who was in love with J-woo then later disappeared. Ananta was Brahm’s estranged daughter. She left Sesha with Brahm. Sesha is the daughter of J-woo and Viera Dune. - Brahm and ML make a deal. - ML will teach Sesha about dragons and act as her guardian. - Brahm will teach the Book of Mercury he wrote to ML. He will only teach about the alchemy from the book. - The Elohim project for ancient species renewal: to restore extinct dragons and giants, then subjugate them to the Elohim. - Phante and Edora took the griffins to the territory of the Abyss Turtle on the 11th floor. They meet ML on the 23rd floor. - Bloodland, 1 of the 8 Great Clans. - Baron Lao the Venomous Ice Snake and a ranker. - He has the 9 Snake Eye skill that allows him to see the characteristics and traits of others. - Hidden quest: Dinosaur annihilation - ML, Phante and Edora enter the dinosaur’s mouth and defeat it from the inside to prevent Lao from assessing their skills. - The dinosaur’s body is destroyed by a massive explosion that kills Lao, the Blood Land members and the Elohim pursuing ML. - ML obtains the Demonisation skill. - Brahm vs Kindred - Agaris, no.2 of the 72 demons from Hell. J-woo refused to make a contract with Agaris so Agaris came to take Sesha and ML. - Hermes and Athena - demonic factor: demonic gem? - 24th floor …

Ch 6 as of 28/05/21 - don’t want to read about cheating male bastards. DROPPED

Ch 78.5 as of 12/12/22

Ch 11 as of 12/09/21

Ch 19 as of 31/10/21

Ch 48 as of 01/11/21

Ch 21 as of 15/02/22 - also on Webtoon - Kim Minji 18yo, gets taken away be thugs when she’s knocked out with a rock by her high school nemesis and rich kid, Joo Hyeri. - Mr Kim (Code 66), Minji’s father. He’s a legendary, former North Korean spy with considerable military expertise. Minji doesn’t know about her father’s past. - Joo Kang Chan, CEO of Jooyoung Construction. - Hyeri’s father. He’s corrupt, powerful and influential. - Kang Guk Cheol, Director, National Special Ops Dept. - Kang is tracking Mr Kim and Minji using GPS. - Song Han Soo, National taekwondo gold medallist. - When Minji goes missing, Mr Kim questions Hyeri and her thug boyfriend after he finds Hyeri’s hair tie in an alley with lots of blood stains. Mr Kim beats up some loan sharks as he tries to find who took Minji. The police arrive and they’re all arrested. - When Mr Kim’s mobile rings with a call from Minji’s mobile, he breaks free from his handcuffs and knocks out everyone in the police station so he can answer his mobile. - Mr Kim seeks help from his friend Mr Song who has a van with all the latest surveillance tech. Since Mr Kim trashed the police station, Kang and his men have been pursuing Mr Kim. - Mr Kim and Mr Song enter a trashy high school for idiots and delinquents after tracking Minji’s mobile to that location. They fight their way through until they find the mobile in the pocket of a gang leader. - They find out the mobile was taken from a homeless man. They find the man who saw the mobile and wallet being thrown away. The man describes the car of the ones who threw out those items. - Using CCTV footage, they locate the car at the freight docks near the port. Mr Kim beats up the thugs at the docks and checks the freezer warehouse where Minji was being kept. - Minji already escaped herself and Mr Kim sees her trying to hitch a ride at the road nearby. Minji gets a lift from Mr Joo who had come to the docks for an arranged meeting with the thugs holding Minji. Mr Joo takes Minji to his villa. Before Minji is given a lethal injection, they’re interrupted by the appearance of Kang and his men. The Vice Minister calls and tells Kang to back off. Kang’s men manage to take Minji away before Mr Joo noticed. - Mr Kim and Mr Song were watching the villa. They stowed away in the cars of Kang and his men. Kang takes Minji back to HQ.