Seo Jiwoo

Bright green eyes and short, dark hair give Seo Jiwoo a striking presence. Her kit for the High Orc dungeon raid put her in a blue crop top above a side-slit skirt built for combat, the two pieces alike in their black dragon motifs and gold trim. Armor finished the look: golden guards over her shoulders, gauntlets across her hands, and silver boots up her shins.

For all her standing among the heavier hitters, Jiwoo battles self-doubt and trains relentlessly to better tame the force she already wields. That blend of determination and uncertainty makes her at once skilled and hesitant, a Hunter forever questioning how far she can go. The work itself thrills her, though, and she breaks into delight after striking down a high orc soldier.

Having awakened at A-Rank somewhere in her past, Jiwoo eventually chose to join the Hunters Guild. During the Hunters Guild Gate operation, her team entered a Gate and dispatched packs of Dungeon Jackals with little trouble. Pressing deeper, they met a small force of high orc soldiers and were forced into a desperate fight, pulling through only when their courier slipped in under Stealth and poisoned the orcs, weakening the enemy enough for the Hunters to finish them.

The revised timeline saw her return far stronger, reawakened at S-Rank. She told Suho she had once sunk into the Eternal Slumber, drifting alone and disoriented through a black sea until she came upon the submerged roots of an enormous tree; the instant she reached out and touched them, she snapped awake both from her slumber and into her new S-Rank power. Antares identified that tree as the World Tree and explained the phenomenon: the Slumber is a rare state in which gifted souls wander the border of life and death, and those who endure long enough may brush against fragments of the Tree, with a chance to reawaken stronger if they touch its roots. He also cautioned about Nightmare Buds, which feed on the trapped souls and keep them from ever waking.

Later, at Hapjeong Station, she came along with Suho, returning to the very spot where a Nightmare Bud had once attacked her inside a double dungeon and plunged her into the Slumber. To probe for dimensional interference and pin down both the World Tree and the afterlife sea, Harmakan raised an Instant Dungeon within the station to serve as a detection zone, tracing every Dimensional Gap that fed into the afterlife's own sea. The work confirmed that the station tied into the space-time fragment cradling the Tree's roots together with that drowned realm of the dead.