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    Lloyd Frontera 

Lloyd Frontera (Suho Kim)

A young Korean man who served in the army, and has a knack for construction. When he's off-work, Suho would spend his free time reading up on the web novel, "Knight of Blood and Iron." One day, a strange event happens where Suho is suddenly transported into the fantasy world of "Knight of Blood and Iron," where his mind has taken over the body of the drunkard and no-good baron's son, Lloyd Frontera.

With the help provided from the System that sent him off to the fantasy world, Suho as Lloyd uses his background in modern construction to go about creating a new life for himself. Lloyd does this alongside Javier Asrahan, the protagonist of the novel's story who's been assigned to serve as Lloyd's escort. However, the original Lloyd's awful antics has left Javier with a bad impression of him, which everyone else shares. Thus, along with building up his new life, Lloyd has to also go about repairing his reputation. He does this mostly through his construction projects that provide better lives for the people, but he also learns how to properly fight, gaining a reputation as someone who fights with a shovel. The System also provides him with a group of familiars that support him at every turn, whether it be for construction or battle.

  • The Ace: Lloyd goes from a Spoiled Brat to the most outstanding estate developer who is hailed as a Universally Beloved Leader by his people. Queen Alicia views Lloyd as the most competent citizen of the kingdom and often commissions him for important projects.
  • Achievements in Ignorance: Lloyd accidentally gives himself a Manaheart when he uses a Triple Mana Burst after being given a concussion in the midst of his battle with the Gigatitan.
  • Actually, That's My Assistant: When a number of noblemen's daughters come to court him, many of them mistake Javier for him due to Javier's good looks and general aura of nobility.
  • Bad Boss:
    • Specifically with Tordes, the Con Man who originally put the Frontera estate into debt and lead to the entire place's downfall, Arcos and Marbella's suicide, and Julian's homelessness and eventual death on the streets. He turns him into a debt slave who has to work off the money he defrauded the family (amounting to 520 years of hard labour) with his only other option being taken to court for summary execution for his crimes.On going through Lupellan's belongings, Lloyd finds a book of dark magic that apparently gives him an idea to help the estate...only to rush straight to Tordes toiling away in the mines to give him the good news — the book contained a spell that lets him turn a dead body into a controllable corpse, so Tordes can keep working for the Fronteras for the whole 520 years!
    Lloyd: Hey. Am I the only one excited about this? Smile.
    Tordes forces a warbling smile through his Broken Tears.
    The System: The ruler of the underworld is impressed by you and would like to offer you a position.
    • Later on, when building an underground waterway in the desert, Lloyd explains that the final blow to break open the underground water vein was usually a death sentence, traditionally performed as a Heroic Sacrifice by the oldest member of the workforce to allow their loved ones and community to survive whilst they were drowned by the rushing waters. To that end, he "volunteers" Tordes to be the one to make the sacrificial play...except by this point, Lloyd has gained 30 undead skeleton workers from the fallout of Namaran, whom could easily do the job without risking anything and actually fetched Tordes to bring him to the site. Understandably, he calls Lloyd out on needlessly asking him to die whilst Lloyd considers it a noble act that would make something worthwhile of Tordes' worthless life. When one of said workers does end up doing the deed, Lloyd is clearly still dissatisfied by Tordes' non-compliance.
    • Later on, when visiting actual, literal Hell and needing to utilise the local demon population for a construction project, Lloyd embraces this full-force, making full use of his Nightmare Face and Jerkass capabilities to bully and berate his workforce into getting the job done, aided by physical beatings by himself or Javier as needed. Due to the standards of that particular race, it flips around to being a Benevolent Boss for them, as they're left in awe at how much of a colossal scumbag he is to them, and willingly follow him for more abusive working conditions.
  • Benevolent Boss: For all of his love of money and profit, Lloyd is consistently this. He repeatedly shouts at all of his workers to put their safety first, evacuates them from a digging project at the first sign of danger, and ensures they all have break times and overtime pay. When he proposes raising taxes, he ensures that it's never beyond his people's ability to pay and raises wages proportionately with the region's growing prosperity. It gets to the point that when Lloyd is on the verge of going into debt to construct a new sewer system, all of Frontera rises up and offers to work for him for free to help finish the project. He responds by telling them all to shut up and drafting work contracts so each and every one of them gets paid.
  • Brains and Brawn: He's the brains to Javier's brawn. While Javier is by no means stupid, he doesn't have Lloyd's encyclopedic knowledge of modern civil engineering, which is needed to turn the Fronteras' fortunes around. What Javier does have is enormous talent as a swordsman and an incredibly sturdy physique, which is useful both as a bodyguard to Lloyd and for performing hard labor.
  • Brainy Brunette: In contrast to Javier's shining silver hair, Lloyd's hair is a mundane brown. Given that he brings knowledge of civil engineering from a civilization centuries ahead of the setting of the novel, he appears to be practically a magician to the people of the setting.
  • Bitch Slap: Delivers brutal ones to each of Julian's bullies.
  • Brilliant, but Lazy:
    • Lloyd's dream is to live as a rich bum living off his income from taxes paid to his family estate and royalties from his construction projects. To this end, he uses his knowledge of modern construction techniques in hopes of raking in enough money to never have to work again. Unfortunately, his penchant for excellence only ratchets up demand for his services, keeping him perpetually busy.
    • Alicia knows this and volunteers him as Magentano's diplomat solely because he's so lazy that he'll do something miraculous just to get back to being a bum.
  • Bully Hunter: While Lloyd initially has little attachment to Julian because of how minor of a character Julian was in the book, he jumps to Julian's defense after realizing that he's being attacked by the son of Viscount Lacona. He then proceeds to assault all of Julian's bullies to put the fear of death into them before having Alicia's inquisitors expose the corruption the noble courts and the academy via their Confession spell.
  • Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Lloyd is... quirky to work with, his methods aren't quite what most would expect and his personality definitely takes a bit to get used to. But he is extremely talented in construction and gets the job done at almost any cost.
  • Close to Home:
    • As selfish as he is, Lloyd cannot bear to see the poor and hungry suffer because he spent his last days as Suho Kim just barely scraping by. When he finishes his insulated, heated apartment complex for the refugees flooding into Frontera territory, the first people allowed in are the women, children, and elderly. When these same people offer to work for him for free as thanks for saving for their lives, he tells them all to shut up and starts drafting equitable working contracts for all of them.
    • After being shanghaied into becoming Magentano's representative in Asfahan, Lloyd's party is given the "padashar", an amulet that would let them purchase anything in Asfahan on the sultan's tab in an attempt to humiliate the delegation by making them into beggars. Lloyd promptly and shamelessly goes on a spending spree with it. But before he does, he buys out the most expensive inn in the entire country and signs away the rights to a homeless orphan struggling to make ends meet, giving her a home and a business that will keep her comfortable for the rest of her days.
  • Combat Pragmatist: Nearly every fight he's in, Lloyd uses some kind of dirty trick or field advantage to get one up on his opponent.
  • Conveniently Orphaned: Suho had no friends, family, or loved ones left before taking on the role of Lloyd. As a result, he has no attachments to his former life and adapts to being Lloyd very quickly.
  • The Corruptor: Parodied. Everyone except for Javier and the orcs gradually start adopting Lloyd's Anti-Hero tendencies.
  • Dissonant Serenity: After beating the daylights out of Diego, Viscount Lacona's son, Lloyd tells Julian not to worry, as Diego can't bully Julian if Diego is dead. Julian is creeped out that Lloyd can say this with such a bright, happy expression.
  • Dreadful Musician: Lloyd's singing is so awful that even Suho's loving parents asked him to never, ever sing. His music teacher hurled a pipe organ at him for trying to sing during lessons while a priest declared him a demon for trying to sing along at church. Lloyd's singing is so awful that a demon of Hell more powerful than any swordmaster recoils in agony from listening to his voice. Even Javier covers his ears in aura to block out the sound of Lloyd's singing voice. When told that the only way to reach the Mermaid kingdom is to have them determine if he's a friend of foe by singing, both Javier and Lloyd think it's a bust from the get-go, only being convinced to try it when the sea captain tells them the tale of how he met and was rescued by the mermaids. Since he'd fallen overboard at sea at the time, his singing was understandably terrible from his lack of composure and struggling to keep his head above water, but despite that, the mermaids still helped him because they didn't pay attention to rhyme or tone, but how true the singer's sincerity is. Lloyd does indeed give it a go, and it appears to be working... only for blood to burst from the listeners' ears and them to attack en masse at the "Declaration of War". When Lloyd confronts the captain over this, he punches Lloyd in the face for "reciting some curse" instead of singing, causing Lloyd to break down in tears.
  • Equal-Opportunity Evil: Inverted, seeing as how he's not technically evil despite what appearances may suggest. Lloyd will employ just about anyone, regardless of their age, gender or even species, as long as they have the kind of skills/resources that are necessary for construction work.
  • Face of a Thug: Normally his face is pretty average but he is prone to making absolutely demonic and villainous expressions. It's so bad that a being from Hell called his face scary and asked him if he was from Hell.
  • Goal in Life: His goal is to become someone who can live a rich, lazy and peaceful life until dying of old age. Given all the dangers of the "Knight of Blood and Iron" fantasy world he was transported to, Suho knows that it will take a lot of work to reach such a goal.
  • Got Volunteered: Alicia selects Lloyd to be her delegate to Asfahan. Not because he's especially diplomatic or a particularly good representative of Magentano, but because he has a track record of coming up with miraculous solutions to an issue because he's so desperate to get out of work.
  • Hard Work Hardly Works: In his past life as Suho, he tried desperately to work his way out of poverty, but none of his efforts amounted to anything. But armed with his new supernatural powers, Javier's help, his knowledge of the book's events, Lloyd's incredible amounts of elbow grease pay off now.
  • Idea Bulb: Lloyd will have a "lightbulb" moment any time he gets an idea to fix the problem he's currently working on.
  • Heroic Comedic Sociopath: The lengths he goes through to exploit others and punish his enemies can get outright devilish, but he's so over-the-top about it that it's hilarious. That he genuinely gives the people working under him better lives despite his manipulations and that his enemies always deserve the treatment he gives them helps a lot.
  • Improvisational Ingenuity: Lloyd is great at coming up with plans on the fly, whether it's making modifications to a building project, figuring out a way to deal with a rampaging monster, or how to convince others to give them money. His reputation for ingenuity gets to the point that Alicia starts throwing him at every problem she can't solve, believing (rightfully so) that he'll figure something out.
  • Improvised Weapon: Lloyd's primary weapon is a shovel, given his Korean background in construction. He tends to use the shovel like a sword after Javier teaches him some sword techniques, though the basis of his techniques is bayonet training from his time in the military.
  • Informed Deformity: Disregarding his frequent display of devilish faces while scheming, Lloyd's ordinary appearance looks like any other young man in the series. Nonetheless, he's been called ugly more than once and his looks are even compared to that of a plain potato, especially when contrasted with his handsome escort Javier.
  • Jerkass Realization: When his summoned helpers all beg him for attention, he orders them to stop bothering him while he works on a recipe for cement. But seeing their disappointed faces reminds him of his dog, the last living member of his family, and how he regretted not being more affectionate to it before it passed away. That's when he decides to shelve the experimentation and go an evening walk with them, where he sincerely apologizes for treating them like living machinery rather than living beings with their own needs.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Although outwardly his motives are always purely monetary, many of his projects are meant to make other people's lives better. On top of that he legitimately can't turn away when people are suffering. However, whenever anyone calls him out on his more altruistic moments he either denies them or gets embarrassed and tries to downplay it.
  • Laborious Laziness: In his quest to become an Idle Rich Lazy Bum, Lloyd institutes enormously successful infrastructure projects, gives refugees lodging and jobs, and quashes corruption at home and in the imperial capital. No matter how much he'd rather kick back and relax, he always winds up finding something to devote all of his time and energy to.
  • Large Ham: Lloyd is outrageously expressive when he's feeling smug (which is often), fantasizing about money (which is often), or angry at a setback (which is often). His face contorts in blatantly impossible ways in the webcomic adaptation and he's often shouting and screaming about the money he's making (or not making).
  • Manipulative Bastard: Lloyd. Constantly. He is always looking for the best way to make the best profit and he manipulates everything and everyone around him to get it.
  • Minored in Ass-Kicking: He learned some swordsmanship from Javier in order to win his duel with a corrupt knight. While Lloyd will never approach Javier's level, he's still very strong in his own right from dumping his RP in mana-boosting skills and even giving himself a Manaheart by throwing a Mana Burst that would have otherwised killed him. As a result, nobles expecting an easy duel with him are quickly pounded into the pavement by his shovel. Lloyd can easily take out the best students of the Royal Academy with little effort.
  • Money Fetish: Lloyd becomes physically ill when he starts depleting his funds for his apartment complex project... until Javier returns from the royal capital with more money, at which point Lloyd instantly recovers and jumps out of his bed with a wicked grin on his face.
    Lloyd: Money is the f***ing best! If you think money can't buy you happiness, you just don't have enough money!
  • Mr. Fanservice: Less prominent than Javier due to fewer shirtless moments and his over-the-top facial expressions, but he is still a decently toned Pretty Boy.
  • Mundane Utility: He accidentally acquires a Manaheart, which human swordsmen usually gain after years of intense training, granting them superhuman strength and endurance as well as other mystical abilities. His immediate thought is how much easier it will make digging quarries for future construction projects.
  • New Life in Another World Bonus: Lloyd has access to the System for instant powerups and the ability to summon helpful creations based on his "reputation points", which he gains for improving his relationships with "key characters" like his family, Javier, and Queen Alicia.
  • New Powers as the Plot Demands: Lloyd develops several abilities that are well suited to whatever situation he finds himself in, but justified In-Universe as he has a system that allows him to choose what ability he wants to develop in that moment. Many times he has to come up with some arbitrary excuse like carrying around a book about summoning or just being some sort of talented genius like how Javier naturally is with swordsmanship. Eventually, Javier trusts him enough to even help him come up with excuses for the eerily convenient new abilities he learns.
  • Nightmare Face: Played for Laughs. Whenever he's feeling particularly greedy or devious, expect some combination of Slasher Smile, Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises, Psychotic Smirk, Maniac Tongue, or Glowing Eyes of Doom that makes everyone around him uncomfortable if not outright horrified.
  • Non-Idle Rich: One of the recurring punchlines of the series is that Lloyd's dream is to become a a noble who lives the easy life while his estate makes him money on its own, but the powers that be (in particular the Queen) refuse to let him live a dull, uneventful life because he's too good at what he does.
  • Oblivious to Love: Justified. Lloyd has been rejected by countless women and often faced ridicule for his ugly looks. Naturally, it doesn't even occur to him that someone might have a crush on him, and the person is question is none other than the Queen Regnant herself.
  • Pinocchio Nose: Lloyd tends to make a perfectly still face devoid of inflection whenever he's hiding something or wants to change the subject, particularly when it comes to the subject of where he's getting his engineering knowledge from. It tends to make people more suspicious rather than less. The webcomic represents this as his face suddenly gaining the texture of metal. Doubles as a Visual Pun as Javier describes his face as becoming strangely brazen.
  • Plain Jane: It's a Running Gag that Lloyd's decidedly plain appearance next to Pretty Boy Javier means that the latter is often mistaken for the former. Combined with Lloyd's propensity for making ridiculous sneering faces, he's called lacking in appearance in many ways. Alicia even compares him to a potato.
  • Prone to Tears: Particularly in the webnovel, Lloyd is prone to tearing up by all sorts of reasons, though the most common one is when he's frustrated or has been insulted so pointedly he can't give a good comeback.
  • The Reliable One: Deconstructed in Suho Kim's past life; because he once did a job too well while in the military, his superiors constantly saddled him with increasingly menial work, taking his expertise for granted.
  • Shipper with an Agenda: Played for Laughs. Lloyd supports his brother, Julian's marriage to Princess Serajard of Asfahan in an attempt to escape from Alicia's authority. Julian is married, but Lloyd doesn't achieve his intended objective.
  • Shovel Strike: Lloyd became a master of the shovel from his time in the Korean Army. He even has a passive skill that boosts his physical stats while he's using a shovel. This expertise, combined with the knowledge of swordfighting he gets from Javier, makes Lloyd a surprisingly formidable melee combatant who wields a solid iron shovel in combat.
  • Summon Magic: Lloyd pretends to be someone capable of this in order to explain where the little familiars that help him out with construction came from, when in truth he used reputation points to purchase new familiars from the System. After the familiars are summoned into Lloyd's world, however, the familiars actually stick around permanently. Since the familiars are small, they tend to hide within Lloyd's clothing until the times come for him to bring them out.
  • Took a Level in Badass: After nearly killing himself by accidentally using a Triple Core Mana Blast, Lloyd inadvertently unlocks his own Manaheart, a prerequisite for using advanced sword techniques.
  • Universally Beloved Leader: As Lloyd's projects bring an incredible standard of living to Frontera, the people of the land go from hating his guts to worshipping the ground he walks on. His workers venerate him with cult-like reverence and treat being berated by a hologram of him as a reason to jump for joy. Lloyd himself is perplexed by this behavior and wonders who made them like that, much to Javier's befuddlement.
  • Unskilled, but Strong: Between Javier's training him and his System, he can use mana like a knight, and has built up a considerable amount of it, but he isn't exactly a combat specialist.
  • Walking Shirtless Scene: After Scheherazade accidentally destroys most his clothes with an aura sword while sparring with Javier, Lloyd spends the rest of his time in Asfahan wearing nothing but boots, a pair of boxers, and robes worn like a cape. A couple people are rather bewildered by it, but he cheerfully comes up with an excuse every time.
  • Wowing Cthulhu: Lloyd's actions when dealing with those who have slighted him and his family are so ruthless that even the King of the Underworld is impressed and wants to meet with him personally.

    Javier Asrahan 

Javier Asrahan

The original protagonist of the web novel "Knight of Blood and Iron." The web novel's story has Javier go on a long and bloody revenge quest after the fall of the Frontera estate, who took Javier in as their adopted son. Before starting his revenge quest, Javier was assigned to serve as the escort who protects the eldest son, Lloyd Frontera, whom he ends up not liking due to Lloyd's awful persona and antics. However, Javier puts up with it out of loyalty to Arcos and Marbella.

In the timeline where Suho Kim takes over Lloyd's body, Javier no longer has to go on his revenge quest, and instead continues to serve as an escort despite growing suspicions that Lloyd's acting as someone completely different. While still learning to become a better sword fighter, Javier goes about supporting Lloyd with his construction projects along with teaching him how to fight. Though some of Lloyd's antics still tend to really annoy him, Javier grows to respect Lloyd after witnessing his efforts to help people all around the world.

  • The Ace: As befitting of the original main character of that world, Javier is incredibly talented in everything he does, becoming a Sword Master in his twenties when most people only achieve that after years if not decades of training and is generally considered a prodigy.
  • Adaptational Curves: In the original novel, Javier is described as slim enough to easily pass for a woman when he has a wig on. In the webcomic, the artist's love for drawing muscles leads Javier to instead have a Heroic Build, making him an Amazonian Beauty when disguised in drag.
  • Adaptational Dye-Job: Javier's hair is described as silver in both the novels and the webcomic, but colored a light mint green in the comic. This is because the artist struggled to give Javier silver hair without making it look old and grey.
  • Attractive Bent-Gender: Played straight in the webnovel where he can easily pass as a young lady with a simple disguise, his slim figure allowing him to "turn into a stunner". Parodied and Double Subverted in the webcomic. Because of his Heroic Build, his attempt at crossdressing ends up making him look like an Amazonian Beauty, bordering on a Brawn Hilda were it not for his bishounen face. Fortunately for him, the town's male population is mostly made of Amazon Chasers.
  • Blue Is Heroic: He usually wears a blue coat and is practically co-protagonists with Lloyd.
  • Chronic Hero Syndrome: As someone who was rescued by Arcos' goodwill and kindness, Javier cannot stand idly by when others are in trouble. He rushes headlong into the fray to save those in need, even when he's clearly outmatched. His opinion of Lloyd improves as Lloyd's actions help the less fortunate, but falls when Lloyd is acting selfishly.
  • Demoted to Extra: In-universe. In the original novel that Suho read, Javier is the central character whose actions change the world. But due to Lloyd's actions, Javier retains his position as a guard and servant of the Fronteras and thus acts as a subordinate to Lloyd.
  • Doom Magnet: In "Knight of Blood and Iron", Javier loses everyone he loves and cherishes. The Fronteras who took him in, the love of his life, along with many of the people he swore to protect. It's said that Javier is destined to be alone because of his boundless strength, turning his tale into a tragic adventure. Lloyd's actions prevent many of these tragic events and Javier remains at the Frontera estate as a result.
  • Dragon-in-Chief: Heroically inverted and Played for Laughs. Due to their different rankings in the social ladder, Javier can't directly retaliate against Lloyd's antics despite being far more powerful than Lloyd will ever be. Nonetheless, Javier often menages to provoke Lloyd via a Stealth Insult, leading to comical moments where Lloyd uselessly tries to physically punish Javier, only for the knight to effortlessly repel him with one hand.
  • Having a Blast: Javier can fire a magic blast from the tip of his sword by carefully channeling his mana. Lloyd convinces him to try it on a rock to use it as impromptu dynamite; the point-blank explosion burns Javier's shirt off.
  • Heroes Prefer Swords: He's the hero protagonist of "Knight of Blood and Iron," and his primary means of fighting is with a sword.
  • Hot Men at Work: Often participates in Lloyd's construction projects and is usually the only shirtless non-orc male at the construction site.
  • Ideal Hero: In stark contrast to Lloyd, Javier is earnest, polite, and entirely selfless, helping those in need without a second thought.
  • The Insomniac: Javier couldn't sleep on his own due to his enhanced senses. He relies on Lloyd to get him to sleep by Lloyd reciting math textbooks. Even after Javier claims to have control of his senses to not need Lloyd anymore, he's gotten so used to being bored to sleep that he can't doze off without Lloyd's help.
  • Instant Expert: Javier is noted to have enormous talent in all parts of being a swordsman, from bladework to aura manipulation to footwork. While being chased through elven territory, Javier imitates the elves' foot work to be able to traverse the forest quickly without harming a single plant. This shocks his pursuers, as he mastered a technique that usually takes 100 years to master in less than an hour.
  • Jerkass to One: Javier is a Servile Snarker to Lloyd and only Lloyd. Javier rarely passes up on an opportunity to mock Lloyd directly or indirectly and has to use mana to contain his laughter when women turn their noses up at the thought of an Arranged Marriage between Lloyd and them. To everyone else, Javier is the perfect gentleman.
  • Magic Knight: His Super-Strength and Nigh-Invulnerability are powered by mana. He can also form his mana into physical shapes and release explosive ranged blasts.
  • Master Swordsman: At the start of the series, Javier has reached the level of a High Sword Expert in his early 20s when most people spend decades of their lives trying to achieve that level of mastery. And in his fight with Sir Kyle, Javier becomes a Swordmaster in earnest who overpowers Kyle.
  • Mr. Fanservice: The most common source of Female Gaze in the webtoon, being a tall and handsome young man who regularly displays his chiseled physique.
  • Mundane Utility: Lloyd finds plenty of ways to put his Magic Knight skills to use for construction, much to Javier's shame.
  • One-Man Army: Javier is consistently shown to be capable of slaughtering monsters by the dozens, though he has his limits, such as when he's nearly overwhelmed by a swarm of wild ants due to how difficult it is to breathe in the coal mines. After becoming a Swordmaster, he's considered capable of destroying a small nation on his own.
  • Powerful and Helpless: Javier is an unbelievably talented swordsman and the original hero of "Knight of Blood and Iron". But for all of his strength, he lacks the business acumen or the revolutionary ideas required to dig the Fronteras out of their debt. Seeing Lloyd's accomplishments convinces Javier to protect him in earnest because Lloyd is the family's only hope of survival.
  • Secret Secret-Keeper: Javier has long deduced that the current Lloyd Frontera is an entirely different person from the original. The only question is what "Lloyd" is and how he replaced the original Lloyd. After Suho comes clean to Javier and admits that he didn't mean to take over Lloyd's body, Javier accepts Suho's word and goes to bed, as Lloyd is clearly being sincere given his lack of a Pinocchio Nose.
  • Servile Snarker: Javier is officially in the employ of the Fronteras, thus making Lloyd his superior. But Javier is so disgusted by Lloyd's obsession with money and willingness to blackmail and manipulate others for profit that he mocks Lloyd constantly on the sly.
  • Sour Supporter: Javier will follow Lloyd to the end of the world and face heaven and hell to protect him. He will complain about it while finding immense, sadistic pleasure in watching Lloyd get beat up in ways that are not life-threatening.
  • Undying Loyalty:
    • Javier was once a homeless vagrant after losing his parents before being taken in by Arcos, who gave him a home and a purpose. This is why he's forever loyal to Arcos and, to a lesser extent, Lloyd. Even when offered positions that would offer much better pay and prestige, Javier turns them down without hesitation even under threat of death.
    • In the original novel, he went on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge after discovering the treachery that led to Arcos's and Marbella's deaths.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: Over time, this becomes Lloyd's and Javier's relationship. Both of them snipe at each other constantly, with Lloyd damaging Javier's pride with menial tasks and Javier struggling to hold in his laughter at Lloyd's inability to get a date. But both of them thoroughly believe in each other's abilities and hold a great deal of respect for one another.

The Frontera Estate

     Arcos Frontera 

Arcos Frontera

Lloyd's father and head of the estate.

  • A Day in the Limelight: A couple of the Episodes of the webcomic are entirely from his perspective.
  • Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: He and his wife, especially when Lloyd gets involved in a dangerous situation. They will fuss and worry about him until he gets flustered.
  • Character Death: Arcos died in the original "Knight of Blood and Iron" novel where he and Marbella committed suicide after falling for a conman's scheme resulted in them losing their land and fortune. This doesn't happen in Lloyd's timeline where Suho Kim managed to save their land, and brought the conman to justice.
  • Good Is Impotent: He's acknowledged as a good, honest man which some of his people respect. However he's so trusting that he doesn't realize he's being manipulated or exploited by his Commanding Knight until Lloyd exposes the fraud. A lot of the massive debt that the Frontera Estate has accrued at the beginning of the story is implied to be the result of Arcos simply being too easy of a mark. He mostly outgrows this over time, even showing signs of becoming more ruthless like Lloyd with regards to their enemies.
  • Happily Married: He and Marbella are stated to still be quite in love with each other even after all these years and both of them believe that mutual happiness and love are a necessary component to marriage, even among nobility.
  • Like Father, Like Son: A reverse example, as Arcos starts as a rather meek and mild mannered individual but develops some of Lloyd's more vindictive personality traits. He's still gentle and loving to his people and family, but those who previously looked down on him as a pushover are surprised to find he's developed some ruthless personality traits.
  • Open-Minded Parent: As a Parental Substitute to Javier, his reaction to Javier returning home while wearing his "Javiella" disguise is to hug him. He then earnestly comforts him over how hard it must have been to hide that side of him and that there's nothing wrong with being a little different. Played for Laughs as Javier's only dressing that way after losing a bet with Lloyd in the midst of a fierce battle. Naturally, Lloyd laughs his ass off over this whole spectacle.
  • Parental Substitute: The closest that Javier has to a father figure after the death of Javier's biological family.
  • Parents as People: He and his wife truly love their children, but are also willing to accept that the OG!Lloyd's behaviour was nothing short of shameful.

     Marbella Frontera 

Marbella Frontera

Lloyd's mother.

  • Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Especially when Lloyd gets involved in a dangerous situation. She even made him a pink teddy bear for him to sleep with to scare away the nightmares, much to his dismay. He did take it though.
  • Character Death: Marbella died in the original "Knight of Blood and Iron" novel where she and Arcos committed suicide after falling for a conman's scheme resulted in them losing their land and fortune. This doesn't happen in Lloyd's timeline where Suho Kim managed to save their land, and brought the conman to justice.
  • Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Always presents as a proper noble lady but she has her moments:
    • She boasts about being a better horse rider than her husband.
    • She doesn't hesitate to fight monsters to save her people, stabbing a huge wolf monster with a dagger in one instance and smashing a dog-sized locust with a chair in another.
    • While Arcos balks at the idea of using the corpses of countless locust monsters that Lloyd had stored, Marbella simply crouches down and starts chomping on one. She already saw that the Orcs liked eating them and after trying one herself, she found that they taste like shrimp.
  • Happily Married: Still quite in love with her husband even after decades of marriage and raising two adult children. In fact both she and her husband believe that love is an absolute must in a marriage.
  • Like Father, Like Son: A bit of a reverse example similar to her husband Arcos. She initially marvels at the extravagant jewelry that Lloyd purchased from Asfahan. Then she turns around to Arcos with a devious grin, laughing smugly about selling them to overly vain nobles at a hefty markup.
  • Parents as People: Greatly cares for her sons' well-being, but also recognized that the OG!Lloyd was a seriously flawed Spoiled Brat.
  • Silk Hiding Steel: Despite of her usual gentle demeanor, she is perfectly willing to engage in combat if the situation calls for it.

     Julian Frontera 

Julian Frontera

Lloyd's younger brother.

  • Big Brother Worship: Inverted initially. Due to the original Lloyd being a remorseless Big Brother Bully, Julian hates Lloyd and wishes he would get out of his life, so he rebukes the current Lloyd when they first meet and complains that Lloyd's assault of his bullies would only make his life harder. However, Lloyd helps build up Julian's confidence by having Julian participate in the suspension bridge project. Although he's bewildered by Lloyd's sudden change in character, Julian starts looking up to Lloyd for his actions and calls himself proud to be Lloyd's brother... before both of them instantly cringe at how sappy the moment is.
  • Bully Magnet: Was this at the academy due to the Frontera's not being seen as a house of any repute, making it easy for others to torment him without reprisal. Even the teachers wouldn't intervene despite knowing of it because they'd rather get cozy with the bullies' richer parents.
  • Clark Kent Outfit: When Scheherazade first sees him in the webcomic sitting by the roadside in his school uniform, she remarks upon how weak he seems and imagines him as a helpless bunny rabbit. Then he offers to help push a boulder off the road, taking off his shirt to reveal the muscular physique he developed after helping Lloyd construct a suspension bridge. Amusingly, the bunny in Scheherazade's imagination now has unfitting huge muscles.
  • Geek Physique: Julian is small, skinny, and bookish. He's smart enough to attend one of the finest schools in the capital, but his diminutive stature means that he's easy for cliques to bully. It's also mentioned that he found a sword too heavy to carry, making it impossible for Javier to teach him swordsmanship to defend himself. However, Lloyd has Julian participate in the laborious suspension bridge project, helping Julian build up his muscles and his confidence so this won't be a problem anymore.
  • Happily Married: To Princess Serajard of Asfahan.
  • Killed Offscreen: His original fate in the "Knight of Blood and Iron" novel is to unceremoniously die in a ditch after being jumped by bandits in an alleyway. Due to Lloyd cleaning up corruption in the imperial capital and at the Academy, Julian is spared and becomes his school's finest pupil. He also marries Serajard, Princess of Asfahan.
  • Older Than They Look: He's the same age as Javier, but baby-faced and about half of Javier's height, making Julian look like a young teenager rather than someone in his early 20s.
  • Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Julian has a Geek Physique, in contrast to his wife.
  • You Remind Me of X: Julian reminds Lloyd of his past life as Suho, as he too was bullied by others for being impoverished despite working hard and getting good grades.

     OG!Lloyd Frontera 

OG!Lloyd Frontera

The original Lloyd Frontera before he was suplanted by Kim Suho.

  • 0% Approval Rating: The original Lloyd had pretty much nothing good about him. He's a Big Brother Bully, The Alcoholic, a violent drunkard, and someone who did nothing to help his family or his people. It's no wonder that he was universally hated. Even his own family wanted nothing to do with him. Even after Javier has pieced together that the current Lloyd is an entirely different person, it's clear that Javier has no real love toward the original Lloyd.
  • The Alcoholic: He spent most of his time drinking, even wasting the money that was supposed to be for his education on that and in the original novel he drank himself to death.
  • The Atoner: After seeing how accomplished and hard-working Suho Kim in his body is and realizing that he did nothing in life except bring others misery, he's stunned into silence. When Suho gives him a chance to finally reincarnate, he vows to do better with his new life. Before leaving, he also asks Suho to apologize to Javier for him for breaking his wooden sword as a child.
  • Bad Boss: He harassed and abused the staff working on the Frontera mansion.
  • Barred from the Afterlife: A higher power gave Kim Suho his body and kicked him out of it. As far as the afterlife bureaucracy was concerned, he was considered to be neither alive nor dead. Since it was the first time such a thing had ever happened in this world and wasn't a thing expected to happen very often in the future either, the King of Hell decided to just keep him in Hell and prevent him from reincarnating until his body dies. After some heated arguments with Suho Kim in Lloyd's body, Suho finally helps give him a chance to.
  • Beggar with a Signboard: Not so much the signboard part, but it's said in the original "Knight of Blood and Iron" novel that OG!Lloyd became a homeless and drunk beggar after a conman's scheme destroyed his family and fortune. That doesn't happen in Lloyd's timeline where OG!Lloyd's soul is instead sent off to Hell after Suho Kim took over his body.
  • Big Brother Bully: He was particularly cruel with his younger brother, physically and verbally abusing him to the point that Julian is genuinely weirded out and suspicious when Lloyd doesn't immediately insult or hit him when he goes to visit him at the Academia, as one of the last conversations they had involved OG!Lloyd throwing a glass bottle at him that shattered and nicked him on the face.
  • Character Death: In the original "Knight of Blood and Iron" novel, OG!Lloyd drank himself to death after he was forced to become a beggar due to a conman's scheme that ruined his family and caused his parents to commit suicide. That doesn't happen in Lloyd's timeline where his body is taken over by Suho Kim, and the OG!Lloyd's soul is left as a wandering spirit until he's sent off to Hell.
  • Flipping the Table: Suho pictures OG!Lloyd as the kind of person who would angrily flip a table out of rejection when it comes to being asked to perform any sort of work.
  • Hate Sink: He has no real redeeming qualities. He never helped his parents, was a Big Brother Bully to Julian, and had no empathy for his own subjects. Lloyd spent his days doing nothing but laze around and get himself drunk at the tavern. Little wonder his soul ended up in Hell after Suho takes over his body.
  • Jerkass: Very much so. Particularly egregious because he has no real reason for it beyond a general dissatisfaction with his life, mostly related to the fact that he's a noble of a tiny barony without anything much going on.

     Bayern 

Sir Bayern

A knight of the Frontera estate.

  • The Everyman: Despite being a knight, comes across as this. He is not a particularly strong fighter (especially compared to the other monster fighters in the series), is average enough in appearance for an early middle aged man, and doesn't come from a particularly noteworthy or illustrious noble lineage. However he is a hard worker and typically is the one who deals with the day to day problems of the estate.
  • Hidden Depths: As a knight, his swordsman skills are slightly below average at best, but it turns out that he actually has an incredible talent for logistics and project management. Lloyd believes that if Bayer had been born in Korea, he could have easily been the managing director of a large corporation.
  • The Reliable One: Lloyd trusts him to manage all of his projects whenever he's not around, having realized how skilled he is, promising to pay him more if he keeps doing so.

Lloyd's Summons

     Tropes that apply to all of them 

Special familiars that Lloyd receives via the system's gacha function. They usually serve as improvised construction machines, but are also often serving as back up in battle, especially if Javier is not around.

  • Early-Bird Cameo: They are all shown in the very first chapter, dozens of episode before most of them are actually summoned.
  • Elemental Powers: Upon closer look, one can tell that Lloyd's four summons that he got from the System are themed around the four primary elements. Ppodong is an earth hamster that digs and throws around dirt. Bangul is a fire snake that forges hot steel beams from its poop, and shoots fire. Hamang is a water hippo that can suck up water and shoot it. Ggoming is a bird, and while it doesn't have any wind-based skills, being a bird that can fly is usually associated with the air element.
  • Gentle Giant: Unless they are currently engaging in combat, they are very docile in their giant forms and are easy to work with.
  • Make My Monster Grow: Rare Heroic Example. By consuming special seeds, they can temporarily grow to outrageous size. Usually used for construction work, but is obliviously practical for battle as well.
  • The Power of Friendship: After Lloyd apologizes for neglecting their needs and treating them as living machinery, his relationship status with the team grows, resulting in them gaining new abilities once he invests more RP into them. Bangul gains the ability to excrete volcanic ash, allowing her to provide the last remaining ingredient needed to make Roman concrete.
  • Ridiculously Cute Critter: All of them are small, adorable animals in their default forms.
  • This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: Usually summoned when Lloyd needs a surogate for a specific construction machine, but then they tend to gain additional niches.
  • True Companions: To the point that they are willing to go on a strike if one of their own is too exhausted or otherwise troubled from work. They also provide emotional support to each other.

    Ppodong 

Ppodong

A hamster-like Summoned Creature and the first one that Lloyd summons.

  • Dishing Out Dirt: Usually used for digging and otherwise reshaping soil.
  • The Leader: Seemingly the default leader of Lloyd's Summoned Creatures, presumably due to being his first summon.
  • Rodents of Unusual Size: A hamster who is Lloyd's first summon and the one who showcases the gigantification ability of his fellow Summoned Creatures.

    Bangul 

Bangul

A cutesy snake-like Summoned Creature. Lloyd's second summon.

    Hamang 

Hamang

A hippo-like Summoned Creature. Lloyd's third summon.

  • Huggy, Huggy Hippos: Resembles a hippopotamus and is possibly the jolliest among Lloyd's summons.
  • Making a Splash: His ability is the drink a huge amount of water in one sitting and then releasing it elsewhere. Needless to say, this makes him incredibly useful for farming.

    Ggoming 

Ggoming

The last of Lloyd's summons. A bird that carries a small backpack from which he shoots spiderweb.

  • Awesome Backpack: It fires spider-like web.
  • Brilliant, but Lazy: His most notable character trait is that while effective at work, he is incredibly lazy and uninterested.
  • Dreary Half-Lidded Eyes: Emphasizing his bored, lackadaisical personality.
  • Informed Species: Is most similar to a long-tailed tit, yet officially called a crow-tit.
  • Lazy Bum: The most glaring flaw that sets him apart from all of other Summoned Creatures is that he prefers to not get involved in work at all, even in a life-or-death situation.
  • Lost in Translation: The above entry in Informed Species is seemingly caused by a very specific case of mistranslation due to numerous context-specific factors.
  • Projectile Webbing: His main weapon is the sticky web he shoots from his backpack.

    Bibeong 

Bibeong

A giant beaver responsible for the creation of Lake Kapua. Prior to Lloyd taking him under his wing, Bibeong was known as the legendary beast King Storma.

  • Busy Beaver: More than anything, Bibeong is fixated on repairing his dam whenever it's broken. Once he's conscripted into Lloyd's team, Bibeong becomes one of the major demolition workers when sufficiently motivated by Bangul.
  • Love at First Sight: Falls in love with Bangul the moment he sees her for the very first time.
  • Sixth Ranger: Was NOT summoned by Lloyd like the others, but is functionally serving the same role as any of them and is even capable of using the blue and red sunflower seeds to alter his size.

Magentano Royal Family

    Queen Alicia Termina Magentano 

Alicia Termina Magentano

The incumbent queen regnant of the Magentano kingdom, who resides in the royal capital of Magenta.

  • Batman Gambit: Out of all the characters, she probably understands Lloyd's character, mindset, and modus operandi best. She figures that if she forces him to act as a foreign diplomat to Asfahan on behalf of Magenta, he would initially throw a childish fit. However, his desperation to return back home to live a peaceful, lazy life would then drive him to be all the more effective in improvising an effective plan to negotiate a splendid deal with the uncooperative neighboring kingdom. She is proven right.
  • Benevolent Boss: Lloyd views Alicia as the greatest obstacle in his dream to achieve a rich, unemployed life in the countryside. Although the queen is strict and demanding towards Lloyd, she does appreciate his achievements and reward him generously. She promptly fulfils all his requests related to work, no matter how strange they sound, and provides him with all necessary resources for his projects.
  • The Chains of Commanding: Alicia is always seen doing paperwork or training when she is not holding court. She is often stressed from work, which is one of the reasons she wants a competent and trustworthy person like Lloyd by her side to ease her workload.
  • Chemically-Induced Insanity: Her descent into villainy as the "Dark Queen" in the original novel wasn't just caused by the trauma of betrayal, it was also caused by a side-effect of the poison itself, even after she forced most of it out of her body. In the new timeline, Lloyd and Javier's intervention reduces the effects and slows them down, but does not actually stop them.
  • Face–Heel Turn: Alicia is a magnanimous, just queen who wishes the best for her people. But in the original timeline, she suffers Sanity Slippage from being nearly assassinated by someone close, turning her into the "Dark Queen". Lloyd and Javier foiling this attempt on her life saves her sanity and her idealism, preventing this from happening.
  • The High Queen: She does care for her subjects and attempts to strive to be this for them. In the novel's plot, she turned into a tyrant after she was nearly assassinated and lost her left arm in the process.
  • Master Swordsman: She's one of the two known swordmasters in the setting along with her Number Two, Sir Kyle.
  • Ms. Fanservice: A charismatic, red-haired Statuesque Stunner.
  • Rank Scales with Asskicking: She is the queen and one of the strongest sword masters of the story. She sometimes leads military campaigns and does not hesitate to get into the thick of action.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: She's strict, but benevolent. In the original novel, however, a tragedy twists her into The Caligula.
  • Royals Who Actually Do Something: Perfectly ready to personally participate in battle and use her political power to help the people.
  • Sanity Slippage: Lloyd and Javier's intervention prevents her from going mad all at once, but doesn't stop it, with her slowly but surely feeling more paranoid and more ruthless, even as she tries to talk herself out of it. She is also divided between a paranoid need to kill Lloyd for the threat he poses and being desperate for his support as a Living Emotional Crutch.
  • Tough Leader Façade: Her default public image.
  • Tsundere: She is strict and professional towards Lloyd, viewing him as a talented subject she wants by her side. She also starts having feelings for Lloyd, although she isn't aware of it.
  • Worf Had the Flu: Her debut arc has her greatly weakened by poison, with Javier and Lloyd barely saving the day.

Other Nobles

    Lacona 

Viscount Lacona

Viscount Lacona debuts as a minor antagonist, trying to seize the farmland that Lloyd had just revitalized. Later on he becomes the primary Butt-Monkey of the story.

    Diego Lacona 

Diego Lacona

The son of Viscount Lacona and Julian's bully.

  • The Bully: Relentlessly bullied Julian until Lloyd gave him a well-deserved smackdown.
  • Conflict Killer: Lloyd's inability to gain Julian's trust is quickly alleviated once he learns of Diego's bullying of Julian; he subsequently delivers Diego a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, starting by delivering him a Bitch Slap that literally wipes the floor with him.
  • Gag Nose: One easy way of telling he and Viscount Lacona are related.
  • Generation Xerox: He bullies Julian. His father exploits and pressures Julian's father. Both of them end up suffering from Lloyd's wrath because of it.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: Lloyd makes sure that Diego suffers greatly for all the bullying he subjected Julian to. When he later comes across Julian coercing two workers on his family land into beating each other up for idle amusement otherwise their families might starve, he immediately asks if he can join in, using his own noble status to pummel Julian as fellow nobles of higher standing (the other option being having Julian fight Javier, and makes sure to include this incident as an example of his behaviour whilst sending an appeal for Julian to rejoin the royal academy as a "favour" to his father.

Asfahan

    Samarkand 

    Serajard 

Others

    The System 

An enigmatic entity that oversees Kim Suho's second life as Lloyd Frontera. It is also responsible for providing Lloyd with the Summoned Creatures.

  • Adaptational Comic Relief: Constantly makes fun of Lloyd and provides him with a banter partner in the webcomic, in contrast with the webnovel where it has no dialogue and just provides useful info.
  • Adaptation Personality Change: The system has much more personality in the webcomic than it does in the webnovel. Whereas in the webnovel the system is very impersonal and limits itself to informing Lloyd of the most basic facts, in the webcomic it turns into a character in itself, teasing and chatting with Lloyd constantly, even in moments when it has no need to show itself.
  • Flashy Teleportation: How its summoning mechanic manifests itself.
  • The Genie Knows Jack Nicholson: Well it definitely knows enough to understand and play off of Lloyd referencing Pokémon
  • Nonstandard Skill Learning: Grants several of these to Lloyd over the course of the story.
  • Our Angels Are Different: It is a servant of a higher power and is occassionaly referred to as a "Messenger".
  • Troll: Will mock or otherwise ridicule Lloyd anytime the chance presents itself.

    Tordes 

A Con Man who happens to be the reason the Frontera estate is in debt.

  • Butt-Monkey: After he becomes a debt slave, Lloyd occasionally takes the opportunity to make sadistic fun of him.
    • In one instance, Lloyd cheerfully informs him that it won't be a problem for him to work off the debt since he will be raised as an undead after his natural lifespan is used up.
    • On another occasion, Lloyd gives him the chance to work off the debt all at once... by sacrificing his life to open up an underground water channel.
  • Con Man: He makes a living by cheating gullible marks. In both timelines, he set the story in motion by defrauding the incompetent Frontera head in a real estate deal.
  • Indentured Servitude: He lost most of the money he stole gambling. When Lloyd manages to capture him, he gives him the choice of being executed in court or working for the Frontera territory for the next few centuries with a huge salary deduction.

    Lupellan 

A sorcerer obsessed with avenging the death of his wife and son, as well as bringing them back via necromancy.

  • The Farmer and the Viper: In the original novel, despite Javier giving him a chance to start anew, Lupellan instead continued to antagonize Javier and further loses his humanity due to constant body modifications.
  • Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: The tragic loss of his family in no way justifies any of the evil he has commited since.
  • Killed Off for Real: Lloyd makes sure that Lupellan dies specifically because the events of the original novel (where Javier spared him) have shown that Lupellan is too far gone and would just continue with his madness until someone finally ends him once and for all.
  • Necromantic: Practices necromancy in hopes of someday resurrecting his deceased loved ones.

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