History Characters / LevelOnePlayer

* LogicalFallacy: He and his staff rebuffed all the complaints and protests of the Choi family by just repeating "there's no legal problem" and "petition to renounce inheritance" over and over again, never bothering to check the actual merit of the claims against the Choi estate that they're pursuing, with the intent of making the Chois just give up and go away. When Choi Hyungsung is in his office and tells him, to his face, that the initial claims are completely senseless, he flies into a profanity and insult laden rant.

* LogicalFallacy: He excuses his own faux-pas against Choi Hyungsung by accusing the other guilds of doing the same, and worse. Hyungsung is not fooled.

* ApologizesAlot: Which only comes off as part of his attempt to fool his targets. He will usually say something offensive to get Hyungsung's attention (such as suggesting to speak at the latter's home) and then "apologizes" in order to keep the dialog going. For his part, Hyungsung is wise to his attempts.

--> "What kind of bullshit is this?!"

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The aftermath of his scandal reaching the press has him forced to resign in disgrace, his fellow conspirators going into hiding, the guilds benefiting from his corruption (like Seowoo) being forced to make public apologies, and all other guilds and independent players going on strike. And the government is now very, very wary of Choi Hyungsung.

* CursedWithAwesome: Because his unique skill rewards him with points rather than experience for killing monsters, he can't get past level 1. However, because he can't level up, he winds up receiving unique titles and boosts that normal players can't get, such as [Fox Massacrer] and [First to get a Heroic Title]. He can also point and laugh at the [Rule of 20] because he gets better loot drops, thanks to being a much lower level than the monsters he fights, while normal players are forced to find monsters on their own level, since they become penalized when hunting monsters with lower levels and monsters with higher levels are too strong.

[[folder: Takashi]]

* BladeOnAStick: He fought with a spear.

* BladeOnAStick: She fights with a glaive.

* ActingUnnatural: Hyungsung notes he's extremely untrustworthy due to his fast-talking and his [[SchumuckBait too-good-to-be-true]] job offers.

! Protagonist

[[caption-width-right:350:I have got to upgrade my shop rank to buy that elixir my father needs to recover from [Mana Reflux Syndrome]. In the meantime, let's go hunt some monsters.]] 27-year-old Choi Hyungsung is desperate to become a Player so his family doesn't have to struggle so hard to raise the money for his ailing father's medical treatment. His wish is answered when he comes home from his construction work day-job to get the message [You Have Awakened]. He checks his status to see that his stats are abysmal and he has no offensive, defensive, or supporting skills, but he does have the [Unique] [Buy] and [Sell] skill, and checks the interdimensional market, that allows him to grow stronger, fast, at a price. While hunting monsters, he also learns, to his horror, that he can't level up. But this turns out to be a blessing in disguise...

* AccidentalDiscovery: He gets the [Rare] Vampire Blade dagger as a result of killing over a 100 vampire bat monsters at once using a skill, realizing that the grade of a loot drop can be artificially inflated by hunting a large group of monsters together. He tries this several other times to learn that there are other hidden mechanics at play.

* CursedWithAwesome: Because his unique skill rewards him with points rather than exp for killing monsters, he can't get past level 1. However, because he can't level up, he winds up receiving unique titles and boosts that normal players can't get, such as [Fox Massacrer] and [First to get a Heroic Title]. He can also point and laugh at the [Rule of 20] because he gets better loot drops, thanks to being a much lower level than the monsters he fights, while normal players have to hunt monsters around their own level as they're penalized when hunting monsters lower leveled than themselves and monsters above their level are too strong.
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Thanks to the passive [Regeneration] skill he got from defeating the Three Headed Panther, he can recover from any injury. As such, when he's swallowed by the Blue Drake, he regenerates faster than the beast's stomach acid can digest him, much faster. He kills the beast, ''from the inside'' by hacking through the beast's flesh and then piercing its heart with his broken dagger, which proceeds to evolve as well...

* GuileHero: He is dangerously cunning and clever. When Seowoo guild comes at him with recruitment contracts, he takes the contracts to a lawyer before he signs the dotted line. This allows him to learn of the hidden traps the guild had planned for him.

* HeartDrive: As a result of defeating the [Three Headed Panther] and absorbing the loot drop skill book, he not only gains a powerful HealingFactor, he becomes immortal as long as his head is not entirely destroyed. This skill later evolves to making him immortal if his head and heart aren't destroyed simultaneously.

* LosingYourHead: Shortly after Hyunsung joins the Player's Association, affiliated with the Korean government, the butt-hurt former Vice leader of the Seowoo guild comes at him in a dungeon. The guy not only utterly stomps him, tortures him, and gloats, but then casually beheads him for laughs. Hyungsung responds by having his body punch a hole through the guy's chest and then picks up his own head, putting it back on, to the lout's utter confusion.
* NecessaryDrawback: His [Buy] and [Sell] skill allows him to sell goods to an interdimensional market, but he has no way to contact the buyers or sellers directly, and the interface is LawfulStupid, doing nothing at all to screen complaints against his merchandise. So, he repeatedly gets hit with suspensions due to his goods being marked as "defective" thanks to the otherworlders gaming the system.

* SpringtimeForHitler: He starts the story just trying to earn money for his ailing father while remaining BeneathNotice from the big guilds, seeing as they're less than entirely trustworthy and would either exploit or eliminate him if they learned of his unusual status. This fails entirely when Seowoo Guild employees using a stealth skill watch him take down monsters way too easily for a newbie and the guild sends assassins after him for daring to say "no" to their repeated and intrusive recruitment drives. He winds up being ensnared by Shin Yoon-Ah of the Player's Association, by law, when she tricks him into revealing he has a [Unique] skill, but at least she's a BenevolentBoss and ReasonableAuthorityFigure who keeps an eye on his family, providing them bodyguards, and bends over backwards to keep him happy.

! Seowoo Guild

[[folder: Lee Soohee]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Oh. What a big fish! I got to get him for our guild!]] She encounters Choi Hyunsung in the horned rabbit dungeon by chance as she was looking for the dungeon boss as part of her class-up quest. When she sees that he's a newbie but is still one-shotting the monsters, she becomes intrigued and tries to recruit him to the Seowoo guild. Unfortunately, she asks for him to reveal his stats sheet, which he's simply unwilling to do. This drags Hyunsung into an inter-faction conflict between the Vice president and president of the guild. The end result is ... not pretty.

* CleavageWindow: Her official hunter armor is a very form fitting plate that covers her chest and torso, her arms and legs have chain-mail greaves and leggings, but her cleavage is completely unprotected.
* ContrivedCoincidence: InUniverse. She first meets Hyunsung by chance, true, but she later tries to pass it off as "coincidence" when she hounds him outside dungeons because she's actually tracking him illegally by peeking at where and when he sells monster stones and other loot drops.

* StalkerWithoutACrush: She repeatedly tracks down and hounds Choi Hyunsung to try and recruit him to Seowoo guild, because that's what her boss, the President, orders her to do.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: When Hyunsung is roped into the inter-faction conflict, the results are messy, and it wouldn't have happened if she wasn't so persistent in trying to recruit him, by hook or crook.
* YouHaveFailedMe: The president of Seowoo is on-screen yelling at her for daring to fail to recruit Hyunsung, and continues to berate her when she can't just simply nab him for his faction.

[[caption-width-right:350:What's this bastard's identity?!]] The president of Seowoo guild. He is first seen yelling at Lee Soohee because she failed to recruit Choi Hyungsung on sight. He and his Vice President hate each other to the core.

[[folder: Go Jinsung]]

[[caption-width-right:350:It seems I offended you, I must sincerely apologize for that.]]A man who is supposedly the guild's top negotiator and recruiter. He almost immediately pings Choi Hyungsung's BS radar because he's a fast-talking borderline conman who apologizes way too frequently and insincerely.

* ActingUnnatural: By speaking fast and making offers that are way too generous, he comes across as extremely untrustworthy.
* ApologizesAlot: Which lacks sincerity. He intentionally says something offensive to get Hyungsung's attention, like suggesting going where he lives with his family and then "apologizes" to keep the dialog going. Hyungsung isn't fooled in the slightest.
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: Everything he tries to recruit Hyungsung only makes him more suspicious and drives him away harder.
* LogicalFallacy: He excuses his own faux-pas against Choi Hyungsung by accusing the other guilds of doing the same, and worse. For his part, Hyungsung is not fooled.
* SchmuckBait: Attempted and averted. He provides Hyungsung with a written contract that does indeed deliver a promised amount half of the 100 billion won sign-on bonus he wants, but before he signs the dotted line, Hyungsung wisely takes the contract to a lawyer who points out the pitfalls. There are three glaring traps, but the most damning is that if Hyungsung reveals his stats and they're found wanting, he'd have to pay back five times the sign-on bonus.

[[folder: Seo Daeoong]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:This disrespectful little...]] The lackey of Jung Sunwoo who first proposed going after Choi Hyungsung for the VP's faction.

* DespairGambit: Enraged at getting blown off after darkening the Choi family's door and getting a voice recording of himself being sent to Go Jinsung and vice-versa, trolling the both of them because they just refuse to accept the fact that "no" is a full sentence, he goes and hires a guild notorious for ambushing Players in dungeons to go after Choi Hyungsung to beat him down until he's crawling back to Seowoo guild in desperation. This goes poorly.
* MoralMyopia: He constantly hounds Choi Hyunsung, even stopping by the family's home uninvited and unannounced, yet Choi Hyungsung is the "disrespectful little brat" for saying no to their guild's SchmuckBait contracts and getting angry, cutting off calls, and telling these pushy wheelers and dealers to take a hike.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Repeatedly. First, he's responsible for greatly depopulating the VP's faction in his own guild when the audio files of him trying to poach Hyungsung from the President's faction and the inverse are sent to each other, and he's also responsible for killing off the rest when he sends assassins at Hyungsung and gets the Player's Association involved, because their Chief Shin Yoon-Ah just happened to be interested in Hyunsung and was following him around, witnessing the attempt.

[[folder: Jung Sunwoo]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:I had considered going after your family as well, show you what it's like to lose everything, but you were prepared. Sure. I could have gone through the bodyguards you had like a laxative and killed them anyway, but it would hamper my attempts to flee the country. You really should have just obediently joined the Seowoo guild under me and lick my boots like the dog you are.]]The Vice President of the Seowoo guild. He and Ma Jihun hate each other to the core. When he learns from a subordinate that the President is trying to recruit Hyungsung using subordinates, he tries to rope in the guy, personally. After being caught engaged in several felonies, and evading arrest, he interrogates and tortures Hyungsung in a dungeon before fleeing the country. This goes poorly for him.

* DidNotSeeThatComing: People usually die when you chop off their heads. He chops off Hyungsung's head for laughs only to stare down at his own chest in horror when the guy's headless body punches a hole through it from behind, and as he lays on the ground bleeding out, Hyungsung picks up his head and puts it back on.
---> "What kind of bullshit is this?!"
* MisplacedRetribution: His life fell apart because Mah Jihun hung him out to dry, taking advantage of the legal complaints of one Shin Yoon-Ah. He shifts all the blame for it to Hyungsung who he thinks would be easy prey, and were it not for Hyungsung earlier getting the [Book of Immortality] skill from the Three Headed Jaguar some time earlier, and evolving it, he would have been right.
* EyesAlwaysShut: His eyes are shut when he's acting smug, but when he's surprised or angry, they open.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: After he's dead, Hyungsung burns his body to ash with fire magic and dismantles the equipment he was using to hide his identity, so he's never found and Hyungsung can't be connected to his death.
* RevengeByProxy: Discussed. When he's got Hyungsung cornered in a dungeon, he taunts his victim by stating he could have gone after the guy's family for laughs, but chose not to because it would be inconvenient.
* RevengeMyopia: He is booted from Seowoo guild and starts being chased by the police after committing several felonies, including hiring assassins in the pursuit of Choi Hyungsung, and then comes at the guy for revenge when it all falls apart.
* SchmuckBait: Just like with Go Jinsung, he sends an email with the contract, which Choi Hyungsung takes to a lawyer. The lawyer in question finds several traps that would nullify the contract at the discretion of the guild's top management and would be dangerous if the guild came at him with malice. The most glaring of these is that if the contract was nullified at the fault of the contractee, the fee for breach would be '''ten times''' the sign-on bonus. Hyungsung considers that a total deal-breaker.
* SmugSuper: He's a very powerful Player at a level well over 300, and knows it. He loves to walk around as if he's untouchable.
* SoftSpokenSadist: As he's just stabbing and slashing at Hyungsung, taking his sweet time to draw out the suffering, as well as doing a lot of EvilGloating, he does it all in an eerily matter-of-fact tone that's quite unnerving.
* TantrumThrowing: After Hyungsung has gone completely off the grid for a few months, with his underlings utterly unable to find, never mind corral him, he grabs a shot of whiskey on the rocks and throws the glass at his office's door as his top underling is walking out.

! Player Association

[[caption-width-right:350:A monster, a real monster!]]A safety officer in the red-furred wolf dungeon that has the misfortune of being the first to meet the Three Headed Panther. He and his partner die to the beast.

* AnArmAndALeg: He loses his spear-arm to the Three Headed Jaguar when he tries to fight back.

* OffWithHisHead: The Three Headed Jaguar ripped his head off as he tried to run away.
* RedShirt: His only purpose in the story was to die to the Three Headed Jaguar. He and his partner don't even get a funeral service, despite their ID's being collected by Yoon Shin-Ah when she and some much higher leveled Players come to investigate.

* TheWorfEffect: He's shown as a level 71 player and dies to the Three Headed Panther like a total amateur.

[[caption-width-right:350:Lee Hang-gu! Are you saying you'll bill me with "Non-compliance" and "Breach of Contract" fees the moment I die in battle?!]] The second of the Player Association members introduced to the audience and the first Choi Hyungsung meets. She's in charge of the "Kill Squadron", a rapid response team of Player Hunters designed to respond to emergency situations. She successfully recruits Hyungsung to the organization with a variation of an internship contract and respects his desire to keep his status window secret.

* ForWantOfANail: After she's signed on Choi Hyungsung with a make-shift internship contract, she realizes that she could have avoided being trapped in the Player Association in a contract bordering on slavery if she had been a bit more cynical instead of taking the promises she was provided at face value.

* RightForTheWrongReasons: She decides to search for Choi Hyungsung after failing to find the Three Headed Jaguar-Godon because he's alone and it might be dangerous for him if the beast somehow managed to slip past her group. Turns out she was right to be suspicious as he had sent her group on a merry wild-goose chase to hide the fact that he defeated the beast which was over 100 levels higher than himself.
* ServileSnarker: She's grown wise over the years that a life-time contract for whatever sign-on bonus she got wasn't as great an idea as it seemed at the time. As such, she loves to snark at ''her'' boss, the President of the Player's Association, who got her into the association with a life-time contract and then slaved her away for pathetic wages, and would have kept paying her in peanuts if she didn't object, all the way to the present. Yet the guy won't release her from her contract and loves to belly-ache about how acerbic she is.

** It's especially prominent in chapter 47 when she's greeting Choi Hyungsung after learning he not only survived his encounter with the Blue Drake, but successfully killed it. She hugs him like a lover greeting her husband coming back from war, blushes like crazy when she realizes he's naked under the tarp he salvaged from a storefront to protect his dignity, gets possessive when her old team that was with her way back on the hunt for the Three Headed Jaguar starts ribbing her about him, and then drags him off like a girlfriend who is worried that another girl's got her eye on her man when one of the female members of the team starts flirting with him.

* SpottingTheThread: She realizes Choi Hyungsung is the one who defeated the Three Headed Jaguar while investigating the battle scene with a proper [Tracker] who relays that the beast was beaten in a one-on-one fight.

[[caption-width-right:350:A single player managed to solo the Three Headed Jaguar, but I can only track monsters, not Players.]] A monster tracking specialist Shin Yoon-Ah brought in to try and find the Three Headed Jaguar, for the sake of public safety and so the Red Maned Wolf dungeon can be reopened. He tracks the beast's final moments and proclaims that it was killed in single combat. Shin Yoon-Ah immediately pings Choi Hyunsung as the culprit, since she met him alone, when her team was tasked with the initial emergency.

[[caption-width-right:350:Oh which god did I offend to get stuck with this woman?]] Shin Yoon-Ah's boss and the president of the Player's Association. With some unstated sign-on bonus, he managed to get her into a life-time contract, that she's grown rather tired of. Although he loves to belly-ache about her, he utterly refuses to release her from her contract.

[[caption-width-right:350:Sorry, this brat has no manners.]]Hyungsung's trainer when he goes in to start working for the Player's Association as part of the emergency response team. He's pleasant enough, but his co-trainer, Soo-young is rather unpleasant, thinking he's a teenage brat, until she learns he's actually two years older then gets really polite all of a sudden.

[[caption-width-right:350:Her were-leopard form.]]Hyungsung's handler and the only one available to deal with new level 100 and under members. She starts out ''extremely'' rude to Hyungsung, to the point that he wondered if he had somehow earned her ire, until she learns he's actually two-years her elder and suddenly gets really polite.

[[caption-width-right:350:Who do you think I am that you can speak so insolently?! ... Just because you luckily awakened after doing nothing but eating and shitting your entire life, you dare insult me? A punk like you who's less than a bug thinks he can---]]The Minister of Dimensional Affairs and a former congressman. He gets the "brilliant" idea to file a bunch of ridiculous claims against Choi Hyungsung's estate ''the instant he receives word that Choi died in battle'', and refuses to back-off despite repeated warnings and protests. He honestly believes he's done nothing wrong and is just trying to enforce the rules, right up until Choi Hyungsung confronts him directly, asking for nothing more than a simple apology for going after him and his family unjustly, at which point he reveals that he sees Players like Choi Hyungsung as being lower than bugs and thinks himself vastly superior to them just because he's a Minister and a former Congressman.

* BringMeMyBrownPants: When Choi retorts to his insults, profanity, and temper tantrum by calmly asking "Should I just kill you?", he's shown having a trail of urine going down his pants leg onto the carpet of his office.

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Which Hyungsung calls him out on. After interrupting his rant with a credible death-threat, that manages to finally flip his brain to "on," Hyungsung touches his forehead with the statement that it's not just there for decoration and he should really be thinking very carefully if what he's going to say is worth saying aloud. Then goes on to reveal he recorded the conversation and the Ministers profanity laden insults are actionable in civil court, before proclaiming his intent to sue. Lee Hang-gu can only scream in impotent rage as Hyungsung is walking out the door.

** "Illegal gifts": Not only were Choi's earnings legally his, he gave them to his family for living expenses, and the house they are living in was bought ''before joining the Player Organization.'' So billing the Choi family to try and get them back and trying to boot them out of their home can't possibly be justified.

* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem: He thinks that just because he's a Minister and Former Congressman, he can do whatever he wants and the law will always back him up.

* StupidEvil: Which Choi Hyunsgung calls him out on. Even if being Minister is an appointed position, being a congressman should be an elected position. So he should understand optics and public relations. How in the hell did he think going after Hyungsung's assets and family upon hearing of the guy's death in battle was going to go well for any length of time, or at all?
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The aftermath of his scandal-gate reaching the press has him forced to resign in disgrace, his fellow conspirators going into hiding, the guilds benefiting from his corruption (like Seowoo) being forced to make public apologies, and all other guilds and independent players going on strike. And the government is now very, very wary of Choi Hyungsung.

! Otherworlders

[[caption-width-right:350:This "smartphone" is such a wonderful product! Too bad I can't understand most of what it's telling me!]]One of the first buyers of Hyungsung's goods. She's fascinated by an antique cell-phone and takes selfies with it for 6 hours before the battery dies.

* GuideDangIt: Since she's from a world without electricity or electronics, she can't understand how a cell-phone works. So her complaint about it failing to work after 6 hours of use is one of the few valid complaints to Hyungsung's merchandise. Fortunately, after providing chargers fed by monster stones, the complaint was cleared up.

[[caption-width-right:350:(Gasp!) NEW PRODUCTS! [[GottaCatchEmAll Got to buy them all!]]]] Bored out of her mind just seeing the same products sold day in and day out, she is ecstatic to see the new stuff Hyungsung put on the market. Impatient and irascible, she tries, and fails, to buy them all. Her most common "complaint" is "sell more stuff!"

[[caption-width-right:350:After I force your business into shutting down a few times, you will have no choice but to bow your head and do as I say. BWAHAHAHA!]]A tribal warlord from a backwater world. He exploits the "complaint" system to force sellers into selling on his terms and then makes himself a middleman. He tries this on Hyungsung to realize, too late, just how bad it is to try and corner a market with a very, very fast production and turn around rate.

* LaserGuidedKarma: He tries to buy out and lock down Hyungung's market only to learn that Hyunsung can supply much, much faster than he can buy. And then Hyungsung comes out with a better product, leaving him stuck with a bunch of battery two-packs that he can't use and can't sell because the market's moved on.
* TakeOverTheWorld: He used his unique [Buy] and [Sell] ability to grow strong enough to outright conquer his homeworld and became its ruler in off-screen backstory.

! Others

[[caption-width-right:350:(Sniff) It's been so difficult.]] Hyungsung's mother and sister. Along with Hyungsung himself, they worked themselves to the bone trying to afford the treatment for the father's illness. Hyungsung [Awakening] changed all that for the better.

* PerpetualPoverty: Due to the patriarch's illness putting him into a coma, with the only viable treatment being extremely rare and expensive, they all worked themselves to the bone, the sister cashed in her intended dowry, the brother had to drop out of college, and the mother had to take up ''two'' full-time jobs back to back. Fortunately, Hyungsung awakening as a Player and striking it rich with his "found" skill-book put an end to all that, allowing them to live comfortably in a house big enough for separate bedrooms. Signing on with the Player's Association allowed him to give them enough living expenses for ''ten years'', provided that's not a translation error.

[[folder: Jang Woo-hyun]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Tch. This noob blocked my skill? This bastard. Guess just one leg won't be enough, have to take an extra arm too!]]The guild leader of the criminal guild hired to go after Hyungsung. He tries to cripple Hyunsung until Shin Yoon-Ah steps in and then tries to paint himself and his criminal guild-mates as the victims. It doesn't end well for him.

* BlatantLies: When Shin Yoon-Ah first arrives on the scene, he tries to paint himself as the victim by claiming Hyungsung was the aggressor. Further, his gang mugs Hyungsung, demanding compensation in the form of all his equipment for trespassing in "their" hunting grounds.

[[caption-width-right:350:I have got to upgrade my shop rank to buy that elixir my father needs to recover from [Mana Reflux Syndrome]. In the meantime, lets go hunt some monsters.]] 27-year-old Choi Hyungsung is desperate to become a Player so his family doesn't have to struggle so hard to raise the money for his ailing father's medical treatment. His wish is answered when he comes home from his construction work day-job to get the message [You Have Awakened]. He checks his status to see that his stats are abysmal and he has no offensive, defensive, or supporting skills, but he does have the [Unique] [Buy] and [Sell] skill, and checks the interdimensional market, that allows him to grow stronger, fast, at a price. While hunting monsters, he also learns, to his horror, that he can't level up. But this turns out to be a blessing in disguise...

* CastFromLifespan: After going on a shopping spree soon after getting his unique skill, he goes to the Player's guild to register and is turned away. Confused, he looks at a mirror to realize that the points he spent were taken from his remaining life-span, resulting in RapidAging. He then goes and sells off random items he owns to try and recover. Fortunately, the sheer novelty of what he's selling results in otherworldly beings buying them.
* CursedWithAwesome: Because his unique skill rewards him with points rather than exp for killing monsters, he can't get past level 1. However, because he can't level up, he winds up receiving unique titles and boosts that normal players can't get, such as [Fox Massacrerer] and [First to get a Heroic Title]. He can also point and laugh at the [Rule of 20] because he gets better loot drops, thanks to being a much lower level than the monsters he fights, while normal players have to hunt monsters around their own level as they're penalized when hunting monsters lower leveled than themselves and monsters above their level are too strong.

* NecessaryDrawback: His [Buy] and [Sell] skill allows him to sell goods to an interdimensional market, but he has no way to contact the buyers or sellers directly, and the interface is LawfulStupid, doing nothing at all to screen complaints against his merchandise. So he repeatedly gets hit with suspensions due to his goods being marked as "defective" thanks to the otherworlders gaming the system.

* SpringtimeForHitler: He starts the story just trying to earn money for his ailing father while remaining BeneathNotice from the big guilds, seeing as they're less than entirely trustworthy and would either exploit or eliminate him if they learned of his unusual status. This fails entirely when Seowoo Guild employees using a stealth skill watch him take down monsters way too easily for a newbie and the guild sends assassins after him for daring to say "no" to their repeated and intrusive recruitment drives. He winds up being ensnared by Shin Yoon-Ah of the player association, by law, when she tricks him into revealing he has a [Unique] skill, but at least she's a BenevolentBoss and ReasonableAuthorityFigure who keeps an eye on his family, providing them bodyguards, and bends over backwards to keep him happy.

[[caption-width-right:350:Oh. What a big fish! I got to get him for our guild!]] She encounters Choi Hyunsung in the horned rabbit dungeon by chance as she was looking for the dungeon boss as part of her class-up quest. When she sees that he's a newbie but is still one-shoting the monsters, she becomes intrigued and tries to recruit him to the Seowoo guild. Unfortunately, she asks for him to reveal his stats sheet, which he's simply unwilling to do. This drags Hyunsung into an inter-faction conflict between the Vice president and president of the guild. The end result is ... not pretty.

* ContrivedCoincidence: In universe. She first meets Hyunsung by chance, true, but she later tries to pass it off as "coincidence" when she hounds him outside dungeons because she's actually tracking him illegally by peeking at where and when he sells monster stones and other loot drops.

[[caption-width-right:350:What's this bastard's identity?! (referring to Choi Hyungsung]] The president of Seowoo guild. He is first seen yelling at Lee Soohee because she failed to recruit Choi Hyungsung on sight. He and his Vice President hate each other to the core.

* OpportunisticBastard: Shin Yoon-ha was pleasantly surprised that the prosecutor's office, normally very friendly with Seowoo guild, would be very cooperative with filing criminal charges against guild-members on behalf of Choi Hyungsung. Turns out he ordered the prosecutor's office to be as cooperative as possible in order to clean out the faction working under then VP Jung Sunwoo.

* TheyJustDontGetIt: No matter how he's told "no" has his number blocked, or is flat-out told to take a hike, he just refuses to believe Hyungsung doesn't want to sign up.

[[caption-width-right:350:This disrespectful little..]] The lackey of Jung Sunwoo who first proposed going after Choi Hyungsung for the VP's faction.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Repeatedly. First, he's responsible for greatly depopulating the VP's faction in his own guild when the audio files of him trying to poach Hyungsung from the President's faction and the inverse are sent to each other, and he's also responsible for killing off the rest when he sends assassins at Hyungsung and gets the Player's Association involved, because their Chief Shin Yoon-ha just happened to be interested in Hyunsung and was following him around, witnessing the attempt.

[[caption-width-right:350:I had considered going after your family as well, show you what it's like to lose everything, but you were prepared. Sure. I could have gone through the bodyguards you had like a laxative and killed them anyway, but it would hamper my attempts to flee the country. You really should have just obediently joined the Seowoo guild under me and lick my boots like the dog you are.]]The Vice President of the Seowoo guild. He and Ma Jihun hate each other to the core. When he learns from a subordinate that the President is trying to recruit Hungsung using subordinates, he tries to rope in the guy, personally. After being caught engaged in several felonies, and evading arrest, he interrogates and tortures Hyngsung in a dungeon before fleeing the country. This goes poorly for him.

* MisplacedRetribution: His life fell apart because Mah Jihun hung him out to dry, taking advantage of the legal complaints of one Shin Yoon-ha. He shifts all the blame for it to Hyungsung who he thinks would be easy prey, and were it not for Hyungsung earlier getting the [Book of Immortality] skill from the Three Headed Jaguar some time earlier, and evolving it, he would have been right.

* NoBodyLeftBehind: After he's dead, Hyungsung burns his body to ash with fire magic and dismantles the equipment he was using to hide his identity, so he's never found and Hyunsung can't be connected to his death.

* SmugSuper: He's a very powerful Player at a level well over 300, and knows it. So he loves to walk around as if he's untouchable.

[[folder: Captain Shin Yoon-ah]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Lee Hang-gu! Are you saying you'll bill me with "Non compliance" and "Breach of Contract" fees the moment I die in battle?!]] The second of the Player Association members introduced to the audience and the first Choi Hyungsung meets. She's in charge of the "Kill Squadron," a rapid response team of Player Hunters designed to respond to emergency situations. She successfully recruits Hyungsung to the organization with a variation of an internship contract and respects his desire to keep his status window secret.

* SpottingTheThread: She realizes Choi Hyungsung is the one who defeated the Three Headed Jaguar while investigating the battle scene with a proper [Tracker] who relays that the beast was beaten in a one on one fight.

[[caption-width-right:350:A single player managed to solo the Three Headed Jaguar, but I can only track monsters, not Players.]] A monster tracking specialist Shin Yoon-ha brought in to try and find the Three Headed Jaguar, for the sake of public safety and so the Red Maned Wolf dungeon can be reopened. He tracks the beast's final moments and proclaims that it was killed in single combat. Shin Yoon-ha immediately pings Choi Hyunsung as the culprit, since she met him alone, when her team was tasked with the initial emergency.

[[caption-width-right:350:Oh which god did I offend to get stuck with this woman?]] Shin Yoon-ha's boss and the president of the Player's Association. With some unstated sign-on bonus, he managed to get her into a life-time contract, that she's grown rather tired of. Although he loves to belly-ache about her, he utterly refuses to release her from her contract.

* OrcusOnHisThrone: One wonders what he does as President since he's only seen once in his office and did nothing in regards to Lee Hang-gu's antics. Shin Yoonha had to call the Minister to task instead.

[[caption-width-right:350:Sorry, this brat has no manners.]]Hyungsung's trainer when he goes in to start working for the Player's Association as part of the emergency response team. He's pleasant enough, but his co-trainer, Soo-young is rather unpleasant, thinking he's a teenage brat, until she learns he's actually two years older then gets real polite all of a sudden.

[[caption-width-right:350:Her were-leopard form.]]Hyungsung's handler and the only one available to deal with new level 100 and under members. She starts out ''extremely'' rude to Hyungsung, to the point that he wondered if he had somehow earned her ire, until she learns he's actually two-years her elder and suddenly gets real polite.

* SuperSenses: Her sense of smell is stronger than a bloodhounds.

* OhCrap: When Shin Yoon-ah angrily protest that she'd quit the association, even if it means eating the "breach of contract" penalty, and would go to ''his'' superiors in the government if he doesn't reverse his rulings against the Choi family, he momentarily drops his smug demeanor and hangs up, before he provokes her any further. Either he reverses his ridiculous rulings or authorizes Shin Yoon-ha to because she's able to reverse the situation later.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The aftermath of his scandal-gate reaching the press has him forced to resign in disgrace, his fellow conspirators going into hiding, the guilds, like Seowoo, who were benefiting from his corruption making public apologies, and the Players independent, small, and medium guild affiliated went on strike, and now the government is very, very wary of Choi Hyungsung.

[[caption-width-right:350:Tch. This noob blocked my skill? This bastard. Guess just one leg won't be enough, have to take an extra arm too!]]The guild leader of the criminal guild hired to go after Hyungsung. He tries to cripple Hyunsung until Shin Yoon-ha steps in and then tries to paint himself and his criminal guild-mates as the victims. It doesn't end well for him.

* BlatantLies: When Shin Yoon-ha first arrives on the scene, he tries to paint himself as the victim by claiming Hyungsung was the aggressor. Further, his gang mugs Hyungsung, demanding compensation in the form of all his equipment for trespassing in "their" hunting grounds.

* PlayingTheVictimCard: He and his gang set up an ambush and try to rob, cripple, and if things turned bad, kill Hyungsung, but when Shin Yoon-ha arrives on the scene, he tries to paint himself and his gang as the wounded party, and objects, loudly, when Shin Yoon-ha, who was watching from the start, calls him out on his lies, interrogates, and arrests him.
* StrawHypocrite: He and his gang mug and murder people in dungeons, because getting evidence to the police is rather difficult, seeing as electronic devices don't work in dungeons. When Shin Yoon-ha takes him aside for some "enhanced interrogation," he tries to protest that the police won't let her get away with it, at which point she reminds him of his own policy of going after people in dungeons because there's no evidence, and declares that their intended victim is extremely unlikely to testify on their behalf, but just in case, she has Hyungsung step out of sight and hearing so he can't testify about what she did.
* VillainsWantMercy: When it becomes clear that Shin Yoon-ha is going to beat the tar out of him, for information and a bit of vigilante justice, he begs to be spared.

* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: Korea, like most Asiatic countries, takes the phrase "respect your elders" as SeriousBusiness, but he takes it to an extreme. He considers anyone telling him anything other than "yes, sir. You are correct, sir" as an unabashed insult. When he first learns that Choi Hyungsung demanded an apology from him, personally, for putting his family in jeopardy by attempting to force them to give up their inheritance, billing them with insane and ridiculous fees, and trying to evict them from the house he provided them, he starts pounding on his office furniture, calling him a "cheeky brat" to his underlings, and conspiring to try and find a way to ''punish'' Choi Hyungsung for the perceived "disrespect" and gets all dismissive when he meets Hyungsung in person, stating "you look to be around the same age as my grandson, why are young kids these days always---" before being cut off and Hyunsung asking for the apology he was promised.

* SmugSuper: He's a very powerful Player at a level well over 200, and knows it. So he loves to walk around as if he's untouchable.