Character list for Auto Hunting. Warning, spoilers may be unmarked. Read with caution if not caught up to chapter 92.
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Main Character
Oh Yunsung
When he first starts out
While drinking away his sorrows after being dumped by his girlfriend of 10 years for petty reasons, he and his brother are attacked by monsters during an unforecasted fracture. As he's about to die, the Auto Hunting feature appears and lights up in his face. He clicks it and then takes up the Hunter career after seeing how lucrative it can be. His main motivation, however, is protecting civilians from the monster threat.
- The Ace: Not only does he graduate Hunter Academy in first place, but he rises through the ranks in record time to become among the top 10 Hunters in the world.
- Badass Abnormal: Before he got his "auto hunting" ability, he was on the lower end of a mid-level ordinary human. The ability itself didn't give him superpowers, but the way it guides how he trains his body, lets him master techniques he's read about, learned, or copied, and distributes Core Energy makes him someone to be reckoned with.
- Becoming the Mask: Narrowly avoided. Jinwi Baek lampshades how he was getting a bit "too comfortable" with China's Arrogant Kungfu Guy culture, so he drops the act and turns back into the genuine Nice Guy he actually is, to the shock of Seo Yoo.
- Berserk Button: Do not insult his master Kim Sunguk, or he will duel you and utterly stomp you.
- Beware the Nice Ones: He is a very gentle soul, but if you've got evil intentions towards him or his, and act on them, he won't pull any punches.
- The Cape: He's got superpowers, and while the rewards are nice, he primarily hunts monsters to protect the civilian population, his fellow hunters and protects the innocent from evil.
- Good Is Not Soft: Come at him with force and he will fight back in kind. If you try to kill him, you will wish he had killed you because while he may not wish to dirty his own hands, he won't lift a finger to come to your aid in a place swarming with monsters.
- Instant Expert: Justified. One of the perks of his Auto Hunting ability is that he can master any ki technique he witnesses and in record time, sometimes even surpassing the technique's creator in the process.
- I Work Alone: Downplayed. He has no problems working with other Hunters as a team, but he is strictly a free-lance agent. If he has to take orders from people, he'd lose out on most, if not all, of his advantages from the Auto Hunting ability, as it takes control of his body to do what it wants.
- Language Barrier: Truth in Television. Although he gradually improves via immersion, he needs a translator when he finds himself working as a Hunter in China, dealing with Chinese citizens and Hunters.
- Magnetic Hero: Despite being a foreigner in China, during the Shanghai Fracture disaster, he managed to get the mutually antagonistic Red Dragon Gale and Deathly Dragon clans to work side by side seamlessly and then when he lent a hand during the cleanup just because the two clans also came to his aid of their own volition, reducing the projected time from ten days to less than one, and finding rescuees trapped beneath some rubble. The narration calls both events "Miracles."
- Necessary Drawback: His Auto Hunting ability isn't a Deus ex Machina that will automatically bail him out of any difficulty. It can only make him do what he's capable of doing in the most efficient manner at the limits of his strength. If he wants to be a Flying Brick, he needs to put in the effort to boost his body too.
- Official Couple: With Yang Biyeon. See her Wacky Marriage Proposal for details.
- Post-Victory Collapse: After fighting particularly dangerous foes, he collapses to the ground the instant he's out of danger.
- Power Parasite: Thanks to the aptly named "Ki Parasite" technique he learns early in his Hunter career, he can, and does, copy any ki technique he witnesses, and thanks to Auto Hunting, masters it in record time, even surpassing its original creator on occasion.
- Spirited Competitor: He loves to fight strong opponents and monsters for the thrill of the challenge and to improve himself as a Hunter.
- Took a Level in Badass: Grinds them like crazy. In a little over 10 months, he goes from a complete neophyte to one of the top 10 Hunters in the world.
KIB
Chae Shinyoung
Yes, the salary is terrible considering you put your life on the line, but if you really want to know what the Shark Ape you hunted is worth, you should check it out yourself.
- One-Shot Character: She's a government agent who shows up to investigate and compensate Oh Yunsung and his brother for the damages caused by the unforecasted Fracture in the earliest chapters and is never seen again.
- Stealth Mentor: She leads Oh Yunsung into his Hunter Career and fame by dropping some cryptic hints to attend Hunter Academy.
Kim Sunguk
I'm looking for a talented new hunter, and if you sign on with me, I'll give you this folder with the contents of the Hunter's License exam so you pass with a 100% score, what do you say?
The teacher in charge of the special Hunter's Academy class. He lets Oh Yunsung attend when his score was only 98 out of the 100 needed to enter because he saw the latter's potential for growth, tests his character, and then signs a lifetime contract to be his Hunter sponsor and mentor.
- Game-Breaking Injury: During his Hunter career, he fell afoul of a rare monster's venom when the monster was in its death throes. While he survived the experience, he had to give up his beloved career because the poison trashed his ability to use Ki. Searching for 10 years failed to find a cure. Oh Yungsung introduces him to the CEO of Tenz who has a viable treatment, but the price to get said treatment is rather steep...
- Mentor Archetype: He enters a master-apprentice contract with Oh Yunsung in return for giving the latter his own CE core and waving the prohibitively expensive fees involved in the installation.
- Secret Test of Character: He offers Oh Yunsung the opportunity to cheat the entrance exam for the Hunter License if he agrees to be Kim's apprentice. Yunsung passed the test because he left the office in disgust.
QR Corporation
Yoon Changhoal
Damn it! Calling a retreat? Not in our contract? What kind of job do those idiots think this is? Hunters are supposed to keep fighting even if all their arms and legs are broken to protect the civilians!
The CEO of QR. He takes an immediate liking to Oh Yunsung and wants to have the guy recruited to the company, whatever it takes.- Benevolent Boss: Even when he was rightly enraged that his employees and free-lance agents were welching on their duties to contain a fracture, he doesn't try to force them and instead takes to the front lines in person to make up the shortfall.
- Honest Corporate Executive: Even though he was desperate to tie Oh Yunsug to his company, he is honest and above board in his efforts, and treats his men with respect.
- Realpolitik: He tries to tie Oh Yunsung to his company after seeing the latter's talent in action.
- Serious Business: QR Company is his baby and he's not going to give it up or sell it to anyone. Also, he firmly believes that contract or no, the primary job of Hunter is to protect the civilians from monsters as long as they're alive, even if all their limbs are crushed, torn, or destroyed.
Jang Youngchul
Just stay and watch, out of the way, quietly doing nothing!
The leader of Team Alpha, a unit of talented hunters assembled by Yoon Changhoal himself. He takes an immediate dislike to Oh Yunsung because he sees the guy as an outsider and a possible threat to his authority. He winds up eating crow when Yungung saves his life after the targets he and his group were hunting turned out to be more than he could chew.
- Break the Haughty: He starts out extremely dismissive of Oh Yunsung and sought to haze him for "being unprepared" but then Yunsung's custom-ordered battle gear arrives, forged from a queen ant carapace that Yunsung himself hunted just days earlier. He then tries to wow Yunsung into humility by showing off his team's sheer awesomeness but has to be bailed out when his, admittedly well-crafted, plan falls apart.
- Ironic Echo: When he and his team start their assigned hunt, he orders Yunsung to shut up and stand aside, doing nothing. When he winds up getting both his arms broken and was rescued by Yunsung, Oh Yunsung first puts him at the top of a multi-story building for his safety and then tells him to stand aside, do nothing, and keep quiet.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: When the fracture starts spitting out more monsters than expected, and a species that normally appears in North America, with his team is neither trained nor equipped to deal with, not to mention his own broken arms and cracked ribs, he calls for a retreat and regroup.
Shin Yoohee
So he went and hid? Good for him, it's the right tactical decision.
The leader of the second QR team Oh Yunsung helps in dealing with a problematic fracture. Unlike Jang Youngchul, she not only treats him fairly and with respect during the hunt, but vouches for him during the meeting where the dive participants are being chosen.
- Entertainingly Wrong: On both ends. After his experiences with Youngchoul, Yunsung expected a hazing attempt. He met with a true leader instead. When the fracture started spitting out a swarm of fliers, she presumes Yunsung fled and hid, and admired his valid tactical decision, only to be shocked when he returns with a harpoon gun that was provided to Team Alpha in their hunt, impressing her with his resourcefulness.
- A Mother to Her Men: She takes the fate of her men seriously and was disheartened when she took Oh Yunsung into the fracture only to find her second unit was completely wiped out as they were attempting to use the machinery to seal the fracture.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: When Oh Yunsung showed up to join her team, she didn't give him a hard time, but instructed him to do his best to stay out of the way if he couldn't help. She was also open to his opinions when they found themselves facing a boss monster in the fracture, and he suggested she charge the machine to close it while he kept the boss busy, then came up with a plan to use the boss to escape, successfully riding the monster out and then killing it in flight to save the civilians nearby.
- Smoking Is Cool: In between monster waves, she de-stresses by puffing on a vape pen.
2F4T
Cha Jaegil
That insolent punk, how dare he show me up at the meeting!
First introduced during the meeting announcing the new fracture dive policy, he takes an immediate dislike to Oh Yunsung because the latter had the cheek to be chosen as one of the Korean Hunters to pioneer fracture diving.
- Digging Yourself Deeper: His initial protest had merit. After all, Oh Yunsung is a rookie whose merits inside the fracture are unknown, but when top members of QR went to vouch for Oh Yunsung, because they fought by his side inside the fracture, he just keeps going, winding up with egg on his face when Oh Yunsung destroys his position at a demonstration he himself demanded.
- Irrational Hatred: He hates Oh Yunsung to the atomic level, not for anything he's done, but simply because Oh Yunsung was chosen as one of the first Full Dive Hunters.
- Tall Poppy Syndrome: He loathes and wants to humiliate Oh Yunsung simply because the latter outshines him despite being far newer to the Hunter business.
Yoo Gi Suk
You don't get it, Changhoal! China already has an insurmountable wall over us; we can't compete. Our best chances is to join them and gain access to their techniques!
The Ceo. He has a bitter rivalry with the number one hunter, Lee Jaehak, who he can never surpass. This rivalry is pinged accidentally when Oh Yunsung takes to the stage and the media starts calling him "the next Jaehak."
- Always Someone Better: Try as he might, he is always going to be inferior to Jaehak and now Yunsung, and he hates it.
- Despair Event Horizon: At some point in the past, he had given up hope that Korean Hunter companies can compete with China's companies on an even field, seeing China as so far ahead that nothing Korea does will allow them to catch up.
- Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: Feeling butt-hurt that Jinwi Baek had him waiting in his reception area for hours and then dismissed him with a "sorry, I'm tired today," he grabs the latter's arm. He, fortunately, gets away with no more than a Death Glare and a stern lecture.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: He looks to make himself superior to everyone else because he feels inferior to Lee Jaehak.
Team Sukyoung
You may be talented, but you've never faced a team with teamwork as impeccable as ours, Oh Yunsung! You won't get out of this alive!
The "rescue" team that was guarding the exit of his first official Deep Fracture Dive. In reality, they were agents under the employ of Lee Hwi Min, who accuse Oh Yunsung of being Jinwi Baek's disciple, try to steal the herbal medicine, hit him with a blow intended to permanently cripple him, and when all that fails, try to kill him.
- Did Not Think This Through: They forgot that Oh Yunsung has video and audio cameras, so he didn't have to kill them to end their threat. He just turned them over to the authorities, and their careers were over.
- Entertainingly Wrong: They were spying on Jinwhi Baek and saw him meet Oh Yunsung, so presumed the latter was the apprentice of the former.
- Faceless Mooks: Aside from their unnamed leader, they all wear masks during their entire screen time.
- Game-Breaking Injury: Attempted but averted. Their leader strikes Oh Yunsung with a martial arts strike that should have destroyed tle latter's ability to generate Ki, and leave him paralyzed. Oh Yunsung's Auto Hunting ability had him completely recover and turn the tables.
- The Mole: They are touted as employees of 2F4T, but are in fact employees of Ancient Dragon Company.
- Wrong Assumption: They presumed they were dominating the fight because Oh Yunsung kept missing. Unfortunately, he missed, on purpose, and the bullets he fired launched themselves out of the ground, taking them all out.
Tenz
Chu Seojin
Seojin is the one speaking.
A scout who came from Tenz to attend the meeting where the international policy allowing for the legal extended fracture dives was announced. He takes an immediate interest in Oh Yunsung.
- Bit Character: He doesn't have much of a presence in the story.
- Small Role, Big Impact: His clumsy attempt to try and scout Oh Yunsung got the attention of Be Jinwin and directly resulted in Oh Yunsung's China junket.
- Twisting the Words: When he translates Oh Yunsung's polite refusal to join Tenz, he adds some insults to the Tenz martial arts styles, just to rile up Chu Yeop, trying to display said style's alleged superiority in a duel. He has to eat crow when Oh Yunsung beats up Yeop.
Chu Yeop
Fight me, you Korean coward! Your master must be a coward too!
Chu Seojin's nephew. He immediately tries to demand a duel with Oh Yunsung when the two meet but fails because of Language Barrier. When Oh Yunsung politely declines to join Tenz, due to the strict "no outside fighting styles or techniques used without permission" policy, Seojin deliberately provokes him by adding insults to the translation from Oh Yunsung.
- Blood Knight: Nothing pleases him more than demanding duels from people he sees as strong, so he can relish beating them and flexing his self-perceived superiority.
- Straw Hypocrite: He loves to insult other Hunters, even calling Oh Yunsung a coward and besmirching Oh Yunsung's master, yet he dares to fly into a frenzied rage on the implication that his martial arts technique.
- Suicidal Overconfidence: When he manages to provoke Oh Yunsung into the ring with him, he grants the former three free attacks. He gets a nice taste of tarmac as a result.
Jinwi Baek
Unless my ears deceive me, I've been greatly insulted, and by a rookie at that!
The Ceo of Tenz.
- Affably Evil: Very jovial and polite, but he loves to cause chaos by acts of wickedness.
- The Bet: He proposes to let Oh Yunsung have the very rare and expensive herbal medicine if he can either take it or manage to touch him once as he's running away. Oh Yunsung manages to do both.
- Blood Knight: He loves to fight and beat down strong opponents. It's been years since he's faced someone even of Oh Yunsung's caliber, who managed to give him a challenge.
- Evil Old Folks: Although affable and polite, he's no less vicious than when he was an active hunter and has been known to make death threats and kill people who annoy him.
- Fair-Play Villain: He may not like to admit it when he loses, but he abides by the terms he sets down in any contest.
- Hidden Eyes: He prefers to wear sunglasses, regardless of the time of day, to hide his eyes, but they can sometimes be seen in panel close-ups.
- Pragmatic Villainy: He plays fair so he's trustworthy when he offers, or is offered a Deal with the Devil, even providing the herbal medicine that is a viable cure for Oh Yunsung's master, so the man can go back to being an active Hunter, at the price of five fracture dives... which he later shortens to three if Oh Yunsung would be willing to spend an extended dive on the third one, engaged in a secret mission.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: When his eyes glow red, that's a warning that he's not happy, and someone is about to get hurt.
- Retired Badass: He almost never takes to the front lines, but his badass cred has not faded.
- Silver Fox: He's old enough to have grey hair and he's still Mr. Fanservice.
- Sore Loser: He will never willingly admit when he's beaten. He tells people that he gave Oh Yunsung the herbal medicine, freely, as a gift, but this doesn't fool anybody.
Seo Yoo
How dare you address Master without honorifics!
Oh Yunsung's secretary while he's in China working for Tenz.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: She grows to like Oh Yunsung as she realizes he's a Benevolent Boss who cares about her well-being, while her own clan threw her out as a "disappointment."
- Blessed with Suck: She was born with a rare Psy ability that allows her to boost others by diminishing her own strength, but she's just barely above an average human Hunter to begin with.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: She tends to be enraged with disgusting ease.
- Hypercompetent Side Kick: She's an excellent secretary and provided Oh Yunsung with an impeccable schedule to maximize his Hunter effectiveness.
- My Master, Right or Wrong: She obeys the words of her boss, regardless if she understands or agrees with them. When she witnesses Jinwi Baek and Oh Yunsung fighting, she jumps between them, ruining the former's fun and getting kicked aside by the latter, to keep her from getting killed by the former.
- Mission Control: During the Shanghai unforecasted fracture event, Oh Yunsung left her in charge of coordinating the local Hunter clans to minimize the number of casualties.
- Omniglot: She's fluent in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, at a minimum.
- Tsundere: A perfect 50/50 split. Angry and violent on one side, sweet and sensitive on the other.
Red Dragon Gale
Yang Biyeong
The first daughter of the Red Dragon Gale clan and the first Chinese Hunter Oh Yunsung works with. They officially start dating after he defeats a Wretched Tricker, saving her and her men.
- Accidental Hand-Hold: She drops her cell phone while visiting Oh Yunsung in the hospital, as she was using a translation app to present her Wacky Marriage Proposal to him. They both reach out to catch it at the same time. Cue Power Incontinence.
- Altar Diplomacy: AND it was her idea! She offered herself up to be Oh Yunsung's fiance to bring his talents to her clan. He accepted on the spot.
- Awesome by Analysis: She really pays attention to Oh Yunsung's actions. She's the only one who picked up on the fact that he moves his hand like he's pushing a button only he can see when he activates his Auto Hunting ability. So when he's laid low by a combination of Won Kyucheon's treachery and Chiwen's might, she moves his arm for him to the spot where the "Auto Hunting" button is and pushes it for him, breaking him free of his paralysis and teaching the dragon the meaning of fear...
- Badass Adorable: She's as cute as a button and can kick major ass when need be. In fact, she's introduced able to slice a bull-type monster at least 10 times her size in half, vertically, with a single swing of her naginata.
- Big Damn Heroes: When Oh Yunsung is about to take a dragon's breath to the face, thanks to the machinations of Lee Hwi Min and his lackeys, she shows up, performs a Diving Save and princess carries him out of danger, but her own leg is damaged in the process.
- Break His Heart to Save Him: On the receiving end in chapter 83. Oh Yunsung paralyzes her, hides her in a forest and calls her a clingy nuisance so she doesn't throw her life away fighting the Chiwen dragon. When Oh Yunsung is literally backstabbed by Won Kyuncheoun, she still comes to his rescue, saving his life.
- Breakout Character: When she goes to the hospital where Oh Yunsung is being treated, after rescuing her and her men from the Wretched Tricker, and asks him to go out with her, with the end goal being marriage, she all but takes over the plot, and immediately wins over the fanbase, featuring prominently in promotional materials.
- Devoted to You: She really wants to be Oh Yunsung's bride. She even went through the incredible effort to become proficient in Korean over 10 days of study, while Oh Yunsung was hospitalized. Her reward for saving his life in chapter 89? A date!
- Drives Like Crazy: Her persistant flaw. She is a total lead foot and drives without taking her foot off the gas pedal, taking turns at ridiculous rates of speed and leaving skid marks as she parks. During fractures, this can be justified by the fact that there are monsters everywhere and seconds can mean the difference between life and death, but she does it all the time.
- Endearingly Dorky: Oh Yunsung finds her unfathomably cute because she's socially clumsy and easily flustered. We can't blame him.
- Entertainingly Wrong: When Oh Yunsung attacked her during their joint fracture drive, paralyzed her and laid her on the ground atop a cliff, she thought he was planning to assault her sexually, until he brought the rest of their group and laid them beside her, and then she started hearing her own voice from the area below, cue a Mass "Oh, Crap!" as everyone realized a Wretched Tricker was in the area.
- Fiery Redhead: She sports red hair and has inherited the fire-type Psy technique pioneered by her father.
- Inadequate Inheritor: Her father groomed her since infancy to run the clan, but despite her unflinching efforts and impeccable character, she's simply not cut out for it.
- I Owe You My Life: She offers herself up for marriage, not only to get Oh Yunsung into her clan, but as thanks for being rescued from the Wretched Tricker.
- Lady of War: Downplayed. When she's on the battlefield, she's very elegant and deadly. In private, she's very shy and socially awkward.
- Logical Weakness: Her foot technique allows her to accelerate in short bursts by igniting small explosions of flame under her feet, but she can only accelerate in straight lines.
- Ms. Fanservice: Her official combat armor is very form-fitting and leaves precious little to the imagination. She also accidentally burns her clothes off at one point, giving Oh Yunsung an eyeful, though as a gentleman, he douses her flames with water and then hands her a spare shirt to wear, with his back turned to her as she puts it on.
- Official Couple: With Oh Yunsung.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: She is indeed a powerful, talented, and diligent Hunter and Martial artist, but she can't hold a candle, literally or figuratively, to either her father or Oh Yunsung.
- Playing with Fire: Her family psy technique cloaks her and her ancestral naganata with flames.
- Power Incontinence: Since her flame Psy technique is fueled by emotion, she easily loses control when she's flustered.
- Smart People Wear Glasses: She needs reading glasses and she's smart enough to become fluent in reading, writing, and speaking Korean in just 10 days without any prior coaching.
- Universally Beloved Leader: Her entire clan absolutely adores her and would put their lives on the line for her if she just gave the word.
- Wacky Marriage Proposal: When she's visiting Oh Yunsung in the hospital, after he successfully hunted the Wretched Tricker, she uses a translation app to ask to date him, with the end goal of marriage. Once he gets over the shock, Oh Yunsung accepts immediately.
Yang Jeongchion
I dare you, say that again. WORD FOR WORD!
Biyeon's father and the patriarch of the clan.
- An Arm and a Leg: He loses his left arm in the duel with Oh Yunsung."Don't thing unnecessary things. If you hadn't taken my arm, I would have taken your head."
- Bumbling Dad: He does love his daughter and wants her happy, but he's overly strict and rigid.
- Catchphrase: "No Excuses!"
- Dual Wielding: He fights with one naginata in each hand.
- Engagement Challenge: Even though he's very much in favor of getting Oh Yunsung as an Heir-In-Law, he still demanded a duel to the death with him. Although they both walk away from the duel alive, he winds up missing an arm.
- Graceful Loser: He takes his loss to Oh Yusung with class and bears no grudge for losing an arm.
- Heir-In-Law: His plans for Oh Yunsung.
- Our Founder: He founded the Red Dragon Gale clan.
- Playing with Fire: He developed the family psy technique that allows its user to summon flames.
- Retired Badass: He is officially the number 2 hunter in the world, but hasn't taken to the front lines in years.
Deathly Dragon
Jin Choong
Right. I'm not Yang Jeongchion's rival. I just like to pretend I'm his rival. I never really wanted to fight him.
The leader of the clan and one of Professor Pain's flunkies.
- Asshole Victim: Since he was trying to murder Oh Yunsung for cash and steal his kill of the dragon inside the fracture, no tears were shed when said dragon literally stomped him flat.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: Crushed beneath a dragon's foot with no fanfare.
- Miles Gloriosus: By his own internal admission as he's about to die, he admits that he's based his entire clan around the premise of being an Unknown Rival to Yang Jeongchion. He only pretended to quarrel with the latter, never intending to actually fight. He also notes that Yang was well aware of this but didn't see the need to make him lose face about it.
- Token Evil Teammate: The rest of his clan have shown that they're actually decent sots all around, even the jerkiest of them. When push comes to shove, they were willing to put their pride aside and work side by side with their "rivals" Red Dragon Gale, boasting that it was to protect their street cred purely for bravado and worked to protect the helpless civilians without asking for a reward. He is a man who would happily murder a local hero for cash the moment he thinks he can get away with it.
Ancient Dragon Company
Lee Hwi Min
You have wronged me three times, Oh Yunsung! You denied me the herbal medicine that I was planning to take from Be Jiwin. You got my man arrested after he attacked you! And now you stole the 10th place ranking from the man I raised with great care, making me waste my investment. You will die today!
The CEO. He makes himself a major thorn to Oh Yunsung during his stay in China over a self-righteous grudge.
- Beard of Evil: Well, chin spike of evil, but yeah.
- Con Man: He passes himself off as a hunter, but he's actually just a manipulator who tricks people into serving him, allowing him to rob them blind, or otherwise exploit them.
- Dirty Coward: He talks a big game when he's in charge or thinks he's in charge. The moment he's at a disadvantage, he tries to run, hide, or beg for mercy.
- Evil Makes You Ugly: Whenever he's convinced one of his evil plots or schemes is sure to succeed, his face warps until it goes right into the deepest part of uncanny valley.
- Faux Affably Evil: His veneer of civility is so thin a sheet of paper would look thick in comparison. He looks on everybody else with unbridled contempt and drops the act the instant he's even mildly inconvenienced, real or imagined.
- Four Eyes, Zero Soul: He wears glasses and is a shameless asshat who only sees other people as resources or obstacles.
- I Control My Minions Through...: Money, fear, blackmail, and their own basest desires. He often takes people in dire straits, some of which he actively engineers, ropes them into his company with promises of wealth, fame, and power then exploits the hell out of them, and has them do so many terrible things that they can't go anywhere else, and then rewards them with Evil Feels Good.
- In-Universe Nickname: He's known as "Professor Pain" for his jackassery.
- Jerkass: And that's putting it mildly.
- Join or Die: He repeatedly orders Oh Yunsung to naturalize as a Chinese citizen and serve under him, attempting murder when he refuses. On the final attempt, he throws in a Just Think of the Potential! to sweeten the deal. Oh Yunsung, not being willing to trust this guy for a split second always refuses and fights him off, which he then demands vengeance for.
- Just Think of the Potential!: The very last time he "offers" Oh Yunsung the chance to serve under him "letting bygones be bygones", he makes a very impassioned plea asking Oh Yunsung to lend his strength in discovering the mysteries of Fractures. Oh Yunsung pointedly tells him that he's not interested in having a con man as a business partner.
- Left for Dead: Justified. Not being an idiot, an exhausted Oh Yunsung, hands full rescuing Yang Biyeon, leaves him with a broken leg that he broke himself in the fracture, not willing to take the insane risk necessary to rescue a completely unrepentant murderer that tried to straight up kill him and his loved ones on a repeated basis.
- Malicious Slander: In the wake of the Shanghai unforcasted fracture event, he schemes to lure Oh Yunsung into a fracture dive with him, and then holds a press conference without informing Oh Yunsung in advance, presenting him like a coward for not being present. This backfires when Oh Yunsung shows up and flash-steps right past Ha Yook Il who tried to punch him in front of a live press corps.
- Marionette Master: When he has to fight himself, he summons and commands a golem to fight on his behalf.
- Master of Illusion: He uses ki-based spells and talismans to cast illusions on himself or others to disguise appearances, locations, and other such trickery.
- An Offer You Can't Refuse: He "persuades" Hunters to join him by using threats of violence.
- Revenge Myopia: He sends agents to infiltrate the conglomerate 2F4T and has them attack Oh Yunsung at the exit of the first government-approved full fracture drive, with said agents trying to permanently cripple him and steal the herbal medicine he rightly won from the CEO of Tenz, attacks Oh Yunsung in the apartment suite provided by Tenz, and calls himself the wronged party when Oh Yunsung fights back.
- Smug Snake: He always thinks he's the unflinchingly smartest and strongest man in the room.
- Stealing the Credit: He's officially the fourth-ranked Hunter in China, if not the world, but he doesn't actually have the skills or strength to back that up. He hides behind minions or assassinations to make it look like he has the accomplishments to be that strong.
- Underestimating Badassery: He's got a real knack for underestimating Oh Yunsung. He picks up on it but then goes on to underestimate how much he underestimates him.
Ha Yook Il
Now that I, Ha Yook Il, am here, I'm not going to let you act all arrogant any more, Kuhuk, Kuhuk, Kuhuk!
Lee Hwi Min's Dragon.
- An Arm and a Leg: When Oh Yunsung retaliates to Professor Pain's conspiracy for the last time, Yunsung comes at him from below the ground and crushes the bones in his legs, right above the ankles, to dust, painfully.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Inverted and subverted. He acts as if he's met Yunsung before, but the fact is that the two have met for the first time in chapter 60.
- Did Not Think This Through: He, more than Oh Yunsung, ruins Professor Pain's press conference by jumping up and attacking the latter, in front of numerous cameras during a live broadcast.
- The Dragon: He's almost constantly following Lee Hwi Min around and doing the latter's bidding.
- Left for Dead: Justified. Since this yahoo absolutely refuses to stop trying to kill Oh Yunsung and is pathologically incapable of recognizing Oh Yunsung as the clearly superior fighter, Oh Yunsung leaves him, legs crippled, in the fracture, where monster swarms could come on him at any moment.
- Psychological Projection: Since he's an arrogant asshat, he presumes whoever he disagrees with is the arrogant one while he's the one who's blameless.
- They Just Dont Get It: No matter how many times Oh Yunsung beats him down in a fight he himself started, he just can't get it through his thick skull that Yunsung is the stronger and better fighter, period.
Final Spectre
Won Kyungcheon
You dodged that? Let's see how long you can dance away from my arrows, Oh Yunsung! Bwahahaha!
One of professor Pain's lackeys that was brought in to help murder Oh Yunsung for cash. He treats this murder conspiracy as merely an indifferent job until Oh Yunsung declares his intent To Be a Master. At this point, he goes completely nuts and takes it as a personal insult that merits the death penalty.
- Diabolus ex Machina: As Oh Yunsung is hunting Chiwen, he appears out of nowhere and shoots through Yunsung's wrist-mounted sword as the latter was about to stab through the dragon's eye. A few panels later, a flashback reveals that he coats all his arrows with a special musk and that he keeps a pack of short-lived, untameable, specially-bred foxes to track said musk for him, again with no foreshadowing or prior explanation.
- Disproportionate Retribution: He goes completely murder-crazy after a bit of trash-talking from Oh Yunsung, in a China setting where everyone trash-talks.
- Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: He comes from a very frugal house where he had to hunt as a child with his father so they could have enough food on the table, even in winter, but this does nothing to justify his sadistic cruelty towards people who never met him before.
- Ignored Epiphany: As the dragon he tries to steal from Oh Yunsung is about to breathe a torrent of fire in his direction, he flashbacks to his childhood and has an epiphany that Professor Pain is not a man worth his time and his actions against Oh Yunsung are wrong, but when the dragon is defeated, he goes right back to trying to murder Yunsung, using Biyeon as a hostage to give him leverage.
- I Have Your Wife: In Chapter 90, he pins an unconscious Yang Biyeon to the ground, puts Aura on his foot and threatens to stomp her ribcage into her heart and lungs if Oh Yunsung does anything but let himself get shot at. Fortunately for Biyeon, he grossly underestimated Yunsung and got a literal curb stomping in response.
- Left for Dead: Since he's an arrogant asshat who thinks it's an honor to try and kill Oh Yunsung, the latter leaves him unconscious with his two "buddies" Ha Yook Il and Lee Hwi Min, in the fracture, most that Oh Yunsung is going to do is tell a rescue crew the last known location of all three, and with the camera evidence that all three gloated about how they intended to murder him for petty reasons, and acted on it, even if he's rescued, his hunter career is over, and jail time waits for him.
- Moral Myopia: He repeatedly tries to murder Oh Yunsung, but Yunsung's the bastard for fighting back.
- Red Baron: "The Demon Archer"
- Sadist: He lives for making others suffer.
Unaffiliated Hunters
Kang Jaekyun
Hey, why is that 98 guy here! I scored 165! I'm the ace not him!
A random Hunter trainee in the Special class with Oh Yunsung. He almost immediately takes offense to and begins antagonizing him.- The Brute: He barely even knows how to throw a punch. All he's got going for him is raw strength, which makes him a terrible hunter, as is immediately obvious when he's sparring with the training dummy called "Uncanny Mannequin" and gets knocked down and then he loses his temper, crushing its chest by stomping on it.
- The Bully: He lets his high fitness score go straight to his head and almost immediately begins antagonizing Oh Yunsung for shits and giggles.
- Bullying a Dragon: Even after seeing that Oh Yunsung is a much better fighter than him, he still goes and tries something when all the Hunter trainees are in a bar and grill together. Oh Yunsung shuts him down hard with a Death Glare after this yahoo grabs him by the shirt and starts making threats.
- Dumb Muscle: He's all brawns, no brains.
- Miles Gloriosus: He loves to brag about how he's the best of the class when all he's really got going for him is raw strength.
Lee Jaehak
When a bunch of dogs part ways, they must be facing a lion, and when that lion meets another animal that doesn't run away, it must be another lion, even if it's just a cub that doesn't know its way in the world yet.
The official #1 Hunter in Korea if not the world.- Beware the Silly Ones: He's a total goofball, but he's dangerous when provoked.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He's odd, to put it mildly, but he's the top Hunter for a reason.
- Famed In-Story: Just about everyone knows the name "Lee Jaehak" and reveres the man himself.
- The Unfought: He doesn't have an on-screen fight with monsters or other hunters, so there's really no way for the reader to gauge his strength.
Lee Unseol
What does my brother see in him? He's nothing special. I'm the one who will walk away in first place!
Lee Jaehak's younger sister.
- Always Someone Better: The harsh lesson she learned in the Hunter Exam fighting Oh Yunsung. She's forced to show him gratitude for teaching her this in a non-lethal environment, and early in her career so she can outgrow her haughtiness.
- The Apprentice: She is the first Korean Hunter to be welcomed in China after receiving an engraved invitation to train in one of the Chinese clans.
- Assumed Win: She presumed that she would walk away with first place in the Hunter Exam, since Lee Jaehak trained her personally. She was saved by the bell, mere seconds away from being defeated by Oh Yunsung, thus allowing her to walk out in second place, with a score that is half of his.
- Humble Pie: She is forced by her brother to bow and thank Oh Yunsung for taking her down a peg and teaching her humility.
Unaffiliated Civilians
An Ji Young
You have no ambition. All my friends are showing off their very rich and well-dressed boyfriends while you, what, work in a restaurant pinching pennies!
Oh Yunsung's ex.
- Appeal to Popularity: She berates Oh Yunsung as a "bad boyfriend" because his hard-working and unglamorous lifestyle is unpopular.
- Armor-Piercing Question: On the wrong end when she stops to take a breath in berating Oh Yunsung's lack of wealth and he asks her "is your life any better than mine?"
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: She's only shown at the beginning and discussed immediately after breaking up with Oh Yunsung, and then it's like everyone forgets she even exists.
- Green-Eyed Monster: By her own admission, she's breaking up with Oh Yunsung, not because he's done anything wrong to her, or in general, but because she's envious that all her lady friends are showing off rich and well-dressed boyfriends, while she's dating a guy who works in a restaurant, pinching pennies with the dream of opening his own business one day.
- Hysterical Woman: While they're in the cafe and Oh Yunsung clearly sees through her "it's all your fault I'm breaking up with you because you have no ambition" tirade, he states his points calmly, clearly, and rationally, while she's shouting, pounding on the table, and ends the discussion by grabbing some dark-colored drink and literally throwing it in his face, then storming out.
- Never My Fault: She's the problem in the relationship, she just refuses to admit it. Her economic status is in no way superior to his, and she spends all her time in unstated vocational education while he holds down the fort with a job, and can't even rebuff him when he proclaims that he's never been stingy with her.
- No, You: She deflects every one of Oh Yunsung's rebuffs to her tirades by proclaiming "you make me sound like a snob when you do that."
- Slobs Versus Snobs: Clearly the "snob" of the equation. During her entire on-screen appearance, she does nothing but figuratively and literally stare down her nose at Oh Yunsung because she feels superior to him, though she refuses to admit it.
Prominent Monsters
Shark Ape
The first monster Oh Yunsung fights.
- Mix-and-Match Critter: It sports the head of a shark and the body of some kind of primate, hence its species name.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: By attacking Oh Yunsung and his brother, it set him on his destiny as "the next Jaehak."
- Starter Villain: The first monster Oh Yunsung has to fight.
- Super-Toughness: Oh Yunsung states he felt like he was punching rubber when he punches it in the bread basket.
Uncanny Mannequin
This guy is here to get beat up, but it won't be for free. It will fight back.
The practice dummy in Hunter Academy.
- Healing Factor: It will regenerate almost all kinds of damage done to it during practice spars.
- Uncanny Valley: In-universe. It's called "uncanny mannequin" for a reason.
- Wake-Up Call Boss: Downplayed. It exists to make cocky Hunter trainees realize that raw strength without technique or style is a demerit.
Ant Queen
Skreee!
A surprise raid boss that appears during Oh Yunsung's first official hunt. He soon after sports armor made from its carapace.
- Beef Gate: For rookie hunters, it's a dangerous foe. More experienced hunters can take one down with relative ease.
- Beware My Stinger Tail: It can launch projectile attacks from a stinger in its rear abdomen.
- Flight: The reason it's a four-star monster is that it can fly to launch hit-and-run attacks from outside a Hunter's range.
- Hit-and-Run Tactics: When it finds itself at a disadvantage, it takes to the air and starts dive-bombing Hunters then flying out of range to avoid counters.
- I Am a Humanitarian: It is shown eating several Hunters on-screen.
- It Can Think: The first of the monsters that actually display strategies and tactics, and responds to human speech, though lacking the means to reply coherently.
- Non-Mammal Mammaries: As can be seen in the page image, its carapace sports mounds that look like breasts, but it's an insect.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: By attacking Oh Yunsung, its carapace became his signature armor until he upgrades around chapter 90.
Whipper
The field boss of Oh Yunsung's second hunt.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: It's tall enough to reach the top of a three or four-story building.
- Combat Tentacles: It has tentacles in place of arms and uses them to fight and grab things.
- Dumb Muscle: They are very big and strong but are just mindless beasts. Two or more of them in the area, at best, can only recognize each other as "not enemies."
- Hoist by His Own Petard: When Oh Yunsung has to fight two of them at the same time, he deliberately increases the number of tentacles they both have so while they're busy trying to catch and eat him, they wind up completely and helplessly entangled with each other by their own tentacles. Oh Yunsung then winds up turning them in, alive and completely intact. Ka-ching!
Shanti-ga prime
Graaarrggghhh!!!
The surprise boss monster in the fracture QR was trying to close as part of Oh Yunsung's second official hunt.
- Attack Its Weak Point: Invoked and exploited. Oh Yunsung manages to pierce its hide with a harpoon gun, but out of ammo, he has Shin Yoohee shoot the wound with an aura bullet, killing the beast.
- Disk-One Final Boss: The final boss in the QR territory fracture hunt. Stronger and more dangerous monsters would appear in later chapters.
- Hero Killer: It's responsible for completely annihilating an entire squad from QR.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Its own panicked attempt to flee the fracture is what allows Oh Yunsung and Shin Yoohee to escape before the fracture sealing equipment closes the breech.
- Near-Villain Victory: It killed off the entire squad that was trying to close the fracture and actually managed to escape into Korean air-space before the fracture was sealed by Oh Yunsung and Shin Yoohee, but because it had a harpoon sticking out of its chest and the harpoon's rope was held by both Yunsung and Yoohee, it gets shot in the wound, killing it, and Yoohee managed to activate the device to close the fracture, sealing the fracture behind them.
Monkey Viper
Ook! Ook! EEK! EEEEEEKKKKK!!!!
The field monsters in Oh Yunsung's first fracture dive.
- Maniac Monkeys: Being half-monkey and half-snake, with a propensity to swarm their enemies, they certainly qualify.
- Mix-and-Match Critter: Top half is a monkey, the bottom half is a snake.
- Zerg Rush: Their only tactic is to just swarm whatever it is they're attacking and exploit their numerical advantage.
Wretched Tricker
Clear! Clear! Clear! SSSSSSKKKKKKKRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEAAAAACCCCCCHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
The surprise boss monster found in the first Shanghai gate where Oh Yunsung was paired with the Red Dragon Gale squad led by Yang Biyeon.
- Combat Pragmatist: It's highly intelligent and boosts its combat proficiency by herding Thorn Bull stampedes and hiding in the dust they kick up, fakes the voices of hunters to lure them into traps, and just generally fights dirty.
- Combat Tentacles: It's basically just a giant mass of tentacles and mouths and uses them all to fight.
- The Dreaded: It is known as one of "The deadly four" species for a damn good reason.
- It Can Think: It shows surprisingly good tactics and strategies when Oh Yunsung is fighting it.
- Scary Teeth: Its teeth are so long, sharp, and pointy that they could be confused for stalactites and stalagmites.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After launching its "Sonic Boom" attack at Oh Yunsung at point-blank range repeatedly, with little visible effect, it tries to flee the moment it runs out of stamina. Oh Yunsung uses the opportunity to finish it off, for good, as it tries to flee the fracture, Oh Yunsung riding its back.
- Staring Down Cthulhu: An almost literal example, and the way Oh Yunsung manages to beat it. After doing nothing but just standing there taking multiple "sonic boom" attacks to the face, Oh Yunsung moves to end this thing's existence when it panics after seeing that its trump card is having little to no visible effect.
- Super-Scream: Its deadliest weapon is a sonic-boom attack where it yells so loudly that the sound waves rupture ear drums, damage auditory nerves, and turn internal organs into salsa. If not for his Auto Hunting ability, Oh Yunsung would never have survived a direct confrontation with this thing.
- Super-Toughness: It shrugs off everything Oh Yunsung throws at it, including Yang Biyeon's spear, which Oh Yunsung borrowed without permission. He had to attack it with aura bullets that he caused to blow up from the inside before it started to receive damage.
- Tentacled Terror: It's a writhing mass of tentacles and mouths and is known as one of "the deadly four" for a reason.
- Voice Changeling: The mouths on its tentacles can copy and fake any voice they hear, on screen luring one of Yang Biyeon's men to death.
Chiwen
RRRRAAAARRRGGGGHHHH!!!!
The dragon Oh Yunsung was sent to hunt by Jinwi Baek.
- Attack Its Weak Point: Double subverted. Its weakest point is its eyes, but it can generate a ki aura of incredible heat to protect them. This still doesn't help when Oh Yunsung stabs it in the eye with Yang Biyeong's spear which consumes fire-based ki!
- Breath Weapon: It breathes a powerful torrent of flames so hot they vaporize the ground on contact.
- Feed It with Fire: It uses fire-ki to protect its eyes from Oh Yunsung, which makes him stronger because he absorbs said ki with Biyeong's spear and then uses alchemy to boost his Queen Ant Carapce armor.
- Humans Are Insects: It sees humans as annoying bugs that it has to squash at all costs.
- Impossibly Graceful Giant: It's as tall as a skyscraper and so fast its movements can barely be seen by the naked eye, even for "The Demon Archer."
- It Can Think: It has at least human-level intelligence and adapts to whatever it's fighting at an incredible rate, learning from its mistakes.
- Kaiju: It's big, it's fast, it's all but invulnerable to normal weapons, and it can use ki to protect its weak spots.
- Mêlée à Trois: When Lee Hwi Min and his lackeys ambush Oh Yunsung, it quickly devolves into a three-way battle, with the lackeys trying to kill Oh Yunsung and this dragon, and the dragon trying to kill the lackeys and Yunsung.
- Our Dragons Are Different: It's a giant snake with two forearms.
- Wowing Cthulhu: It should be able to easily kill Oh Yunsung, but his skill and determination cause it to feel fear, by its own internal monologue, for the first time in centuries.
