Son Kihoon

An athletic frame, spiky black hair, and an open, friendly face describe Kihoon. His debut had him in gray armor highlighted with brass, a blue midsection, and a flowing purple cape patterned in white. Into battle he carried a tower shield edged in gray and gold, alongside a one-handed arming sword whose guard and pommel shone gold.

Warm and dependable, Kihoon dreams of a promotion that would make him the official head of the second strike squad his guild fields. Cunning lives in him too, as when he went along with the high orcs to set up a chance at killing their leader. Sheer willpower rounds him out: though frightened, he alone among his squad charged headlong at Kargalgan.

On his first day acting as head of the second strike squad, Kihoon's porter never arrived, so he asked the mining and hauling crews for a volunteer. Sung Jinwoo stepped up when no one else would, and Kihoon led the team through the Gate. Dungeon jackals attacked on arrival, startling Han Semi since the creatures were only C-Rank, but the real danger came when High Orcs descended. The squad barely survived thanks to Jinwoo's quiet help, and Kihoon proposed retreating for reinforcements only to find the gate sealed and the team surrounded. He then suggested a feigned surrender to reach the boss and buy Jinwoo time to escape. In the orc lair, terrified by the aura of the shaman king Kargalgan, Kihoon still charged forward to assassinate him, only for Kargalgan to block it with an energy shield and nearly pulverize him with telekinesis. Jinwoo stepped in to battle the horde of orcs, and as Han Semi tended Kihoon's wounds he pulled through, later thanking Jinwoo in person.

Kihoon later joined the Double Dungeon raid to support Jinwoo, scraping out alive against the immense power of the Architect's statue. In the Final Battle he stood among the many Hunters resisting the monsters the Monarchs had loosed upon the world. While fighting those creatures in the streets, he watched a brilliant glow erupt as the Rulers triggered the Cup of Reincarnation, which swept over the world and rewound time ten years to before the Gates first appeared. Within that reshaped timeline, every memory of his Hunter days slipped away from Kihoon, and he settled into office work under his old Guildmaster.

Holding A-Rank and leading the second strike squad for his guild, Kihoon ranks among its stronger members, though against truly overwhelming foes, the Architect's statue or Kargalgan among them, he is helpless. His Enhanced Strength let him trade blows evenly with a high orc, and his Enhanced Speed allowed him to react in time to a hurled javelin. His Enhanced Durability let him take a high orc's javelin head-on, losing his shield in the trade, and pull through Kargalgan's gravity magic despite grievous wounds. As a swordsman he held his own against several high orcs and cleaved one in half, yet his blade could never reach Kargalgan through that Hunter's overwhelming magic.