Groups

The Ahjin Guild is Korea's strongest Hunter guild, founded by Sung Jinwoo. Though it holds only three official members and a single S-Rank, his shadow army pushes it past every rival in both raw power and numbers worldwide.

A Korean game corporation Yoo Jinho started in the revised timeline once he walked away from Yoojin Construction. It is best known for Beautiful World, a VR hit that led the market in both earnings and player count for years.

The Asura Guild stands at the top of India's hunter scene, recognized as the most powerful organization of its kind in the country. Its title borrows from the asura of Indian myth, a race of demigods, and it operates under the leadership of an S-Rank fighter.

Hidden beneath the misty hills of Yangpyeong, the Black Market is a temple-shaped underground bazaar where demons and hunters trade contraband, run auctions, and stage gambling bouts. Built to dodge taxes and government watch, it stays invisible to the Hunter Association.

Operating out of Seoul in the revised timeline, the Black Tortoise Guild is a sizable and well-known South Korean hunter organization. It lacks the prestige of the White Tiger or Fiend Guilds yet remains a recognized name, and it carries a rivalry with the White Tiger Guild.

A minor South Korean guild built mostly from C-Rank hunters. Leaning on Stardust let it punch up to B-Rank gates. The group shows up only in the manhua of Ragnarok, never in the other versions of the story.

A Collecting Team is the unit inside a guild responsible for gathering and hauling out magic beast corpses once a dungeon raid winds down. Working alongside the Mining Team, it enters only after the Strike Team has cleared every monster but the boss.

The Courage Guild was a small-to-medium South Korean hunter organization. Its strike team is best remembered for entering a B-Rank dungeon at a former high school site, where Sung Jinwoo warned them away from a deadly trap before clearing the place himself.

Also called the Blade Guild, the Draw Sword Guild ranked as Japan's mightiest hunter organization and the second largest in Asia. Its fortunes collapsed after the Ant King slaughtered seven of its eleven S-Ranks during the fourth Jeju Island Raid.

Counted among Korea's top five guilds, the Fame Guild bases its operations in the Honam region. Its roster leans heavily toward Mages rather than Fighters, and it answers to its S-Rank tanker guild master.

The Federal Bureau of Hunters is the American government body charged with regulating the country's hunters, guilds, and gates. It functions as the United States equivalent of the national associations that supervise the hunting industry elsewhere.

One of Korea's top five guilds, the Fiend Guild is also called the Grim Reapers or Reapers Guild. It once held the title of Korea's strongest organization until a wave of departing members founded the White Tiger Guild under Baek Yoonho.

The Gold Dragon Guild was a major Chinese hunter organization. It met its end when an Arch Lich annihilated the entire guild, triggering a near-catastrophic dungeon break that only Liu Zhigang managed to contain.

Guilds are organized bands of hunters devoted to raiding gates and clearing dungeons. Each is headed by a Guild Master, and at the elite level that leader is usually an S-Rank hunter. They sit at the center of the economy and politics built around the gate crisis.

Operating out of the Seoul metropolitan area, the Hunters Guild stands as the biggest and most powerful of South Korea's leading five guilds, and the only one in the nation that can claim two S-Rank hunters on its roster.

Working the area around Gwanak mountain, the Hyena Guild is a small Seoul outfit notorious for its membership of ex-gangsters, a criminal streak that masks how feeble its hunters actually are.

A minor Indian guild founded by the former beggar Ali Hassan in his home city of Imphal, this group lived under the thumb of the Asura Guild before becoming the first allies of Sung Suho against Siddharth Bachchan.

The Japanese Hunters Association is the state body that regulates Japan's hunters, gates, and guilds, serving as the national counterpart to similar organizations in other countries.

Ranked among South Korea's leading five guilds, the Knights Guild fields no S-Rank hunters yet boasts more A-Rank members than any other organization in the country, anchoring its presence in the Yeongnam region.

The Korean Hunters Association is the state body overseeing the country's hunters, gates, and guilds, running its operations from headquarters in Seoul's Guro district.

The Korean Hunters Auction is a marketplace, run both online and in person, where the country's hunters trade and sell the magic-laden gear and materials they pull from dungeons.

The Richter Guild holds the title of Germany's most powerful guild, led by the S-Rank hunter Lennart Niermann.

The Scavenger Guild ranks as America's most powerful guild, large enough to run operations nationwide and to dispatch its hunters abroad to nations that cannot clear their own gates.

Ranked among Korea's five strongest guilds, this Seoul-based organization is recognized for an unusual approach to development: newcomers earn experience by clearing low-rank gates while veteran hunters fight beside them.

Founded by Sung Suho in Seoul, the Woojin Guild is a young but already formidable Korean guild whose entire approach to picking dungeons comes down to one goal: leveling up as fast as possible.

Belonging to the revised timeline, the World Hunter Association coordinates cooperation across national Hunter Associations and guilds, working to keep hunters positioned as humanity's shield rather than instruments of warfare.

Yoojin Construction is a major South Korean building firm led by Yoo Myunghan, father of Yoo Jinho. The clustering of his relatives in its top posts strongly suggests the business operates as a family-owned conglomerate.

The Yoojin Guild is a hunter guild tied to Yoojin Construction, founded by Yoo Myunghan and handed to his eldest son Yoo Jinsung. Meant to give the family its own muscle, the venture stalled and never became a real force.