History Webcomic / SurvivalStoryOfASwordKingInAFantasyWorld

* SpottingTheThread: The heroes wind up using this [[spoiler:as a means of [[LoopholeAbuse side-stepping]] the lethal effects of the [[ToungeTied forbiddance spell]] upon leslie, preventing her making a HeroicSacrifice to tell them the same information about their true enemies and the backers behind Great Earth's actions. Atisse deduces from the complexity of the forbiddance spell Leslie used to free the now-human "Ghost" maiden and the similar spells at her mansion/testing lab for Great Earth, along with the fact that no Otherworlders can create new magic themselves, that it can only be the head of the Thinker's guild herself, Zenovia the Archmage, directing their actions through the spells. Furthermore, Hanbin recalls how Alejandro said that he "received" the Dragon's Nest he was using as a base from his superiors, and since Garhan the lightning lord is the one that manages affairs between humans and the slumbering Ancient Dragons who made the nests originally to prevent unnecessary conflict, he too must be involved]]. Leslie is stunned that they could correctly deduce the necessary info without her aid.

* TrappedInAnotherWorld: Hanbin is stuck in a fantasy world, but according to his Guideline, he can go home as a reward for killing one of the six goddesses ruling over this world. He dismisses this possibility, reasoning that he can't trust the promises of the shady being that kidnapped him and put him through unimaginable hell. [[spoiler: However, once the goddesses learn that Hanbin is interfering with Ormphlaus's plans, they offer to send him home as a reward for helping to save their world.]]

* ApeShallNeverKillApe: This in deliberately inverted and invoked by the gods who gave the Otherworlders their guidelines. [[spoiler: Not only do they gain massive experience for easy levelling if they kill the native Ratharians of the fantasy world, but they are also 'rewarded' automatically with an injection of 'Ormphlaus's Joy'- a drug that helps psychoactively warp their minds to cloud any feelings of guilt whilst also causing them to feel intense joy and pleasure upon killing, to the point that many Otherworlders literally [[MurderMakesYouCrazy become addicted to killing in order to get their fix.]] Of course, Otherworlders are never told of this when they enter the fantasy world, so the first time they kill a native Ratharian, even in self-defense, they start to spiral down the path to becoming the AxCrazy murderers everybody sees them as.]] Hanbin is warned by an elderly gentleman who is aware of his true origins that he needs to stick to this trope in order to avoid becoming a monster, though it's left unclear if Hanbin's busted guideline would even work properly should he do so. Luckily, humans that have [[OneWingedAngel transformed into monsters]] [[LoopholeAbuse don't count,]] so Harbin can [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman kill them without any consequence.]]

** The titular Sword King, Patault, is considered this to the Rathian people, his deeds of killing legendary beasts and unparalleled might in defeating the Otherworlders making him revered across the land. [[spoiler:Garhan and Zenova acknowledge that the greatest upset to their plans is Patault finding out about them and opposing them before they're ready, implicitly saying that he alone is stronger than two of the four legendary heroes fighting together]]. When he and Hanbin finally meet in season 3, it transpires that he's Hanbin's equal in speed, strength and durability, but is able to curb-stomp him in a fight because he's far more ''[[StrongAndSkilled skilled]]'' in utilising his own assets than Hanbin. [[spoiler:The climatic fight against Garhan, empowered into a godly-being, reveals that Patault likewise managed to achieve the status of a demigod through the skilful manipulation and compression of his aura, fighting him as his equal despite developing the power on his own through relentless TrainingFromHell]]. That said, Patault privately admits to Martin that Hanbin actually has ''far'' more aura and in denser qualities than himself, it's just that Patault's decades of experience lets him make better use of it, implying that if he can control his Aura, Hanbin would out-preform Patault.

** The titular Sword King, Patault, is considered this to the Rathian people, his deeds of killing legendary beasts and unparalleled might in defeating the Otherworlders making him revered across the land. [[spoiler:Garhan and Zenova acknowledge that the greatest upset to their plans is Patault finding out about them and opposing them before they're ready, implicitly saying that he alone is stronger than two of the four legendary heroes fighting together]]. When he and Hanbin finally meet in season 3, it transpires that he's Hanbin's equal in speed, strength and durability, but is able to curb-stomp him in a fight because he's far more [[StrongAndSkilled skilled]]'' in utilising his own assets than Hanbin. [[spoiler:The climatic fight against Garhan, empowered into a godly-being, reveals that Patault likewise managed to achieve the status of a demigod through the skilful manipulation and compression of his aura, fighting him as his equal despite developing the power on his own through relentless TrainingFromHell]]. That said, Patault privately admits to Martin that Hanbin actually has ''far'' more aura and in denser qualities than himself, it's just that Patault's decades of experience lets him make better use of it, implying that if he can control his Aura, Hanbin would out-preform Patault.

* WorldsStrongestMan: It's unclear if he's ''actually'' the strongest, but at the very least, Hanbin's glitched Guideline has resulted in him gaining physical strength and fighting abilities greater than most opponents he encounters, to the point that his sword swings can re-arrange the landscape, and the most damage he takes in a fight thus far comes from him finally unlocking his [[BattleAura aura]] subconsciously during an intense fight, which is so powerful that it proves as damaging to Hanbin as it is to his opponent, which is arguably self-inflicted. It's to the point that Hanbin often has to be [[DeusExitMachina absent or separated]] from his allies in order for them to have any serious stakes in the plot, and Hanbin is often waylaid by external factors that mean he doesn't want to or can't utilize his full strength in a fight, the main one being that, if he shows off his strength too much, [[CoverBlowingSuperpower people might identify him as an otherworlder.]]
** Later in the story [[spoiler: once he's reached level 6 after having to mercy kill Patault]], it's no longer unclear, he ''is'' the strongest being in Rath'nia, further proven by the fact that he solo killed a Godly Beast, an act only Patault has done before him and he implied it took him either a ''few weeks'' or a '''''few months''''' of battle to kill it, whilst suffering under ''all'' of the de-buffs that it forces on him because of his Guideline level, it takes a Goddess' Blessing for anyone to actually be a threat to him.

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* TheUnChosenOne: Hanbin is one of [[TheChosenMany many selected Otherworlders]] abducted and thrown into Rath'nia to serve as their {{Jerkass Gods}}' UnwittingPawn, with it being clear that had things progressed normally for him he'd have just been another statistic in their conflict. Thanks to his 'glitching' and the oversight of his handler though, Hanbin instead has immense strength and the capability to use said strength to protect the natives instead of harming them, when in fact the god that send him into Rath'nia was [[UriahGambit fully counting on him getting killed]] because of his low level to cover up his mistake.

* ShameIfSomeThingHappened: Hanbin's first meeting with Inquisitor Leonheart ends this way, with Leonheart repeating a tale about a previous Otherworlder who built a life and family for himself in Rathana, only to eventually be forced to reveal himself as an Otherworlder in order to protect his adventuring party from a [[KillerRabbit deceptively powerful monster]]. Whilst he [[HoldTheLine stayed back to give them time to flee from it]], his party leader instead [[UngratefulBastard revealed his identity as an Otherworlder to the Inquisitors for protection]], leading to a mob burning down his house and killing and his wife and child whilst he was away, out of fear of his nature as an Otherworlder. Notably, this is presented as a more benevolent example than most, as Leonheart initially believes that Hanbin is merely a level 5 adventurer who is being taken advantage of as a mule to sell an artefact taken from the recently-closed dungeon, suspecting his higher-leveled teammates of being the Otherworlder he's searching for, and warning him about how associating with Otherworlders inevitably brings [[DoomMagnet ruin and misfortune on those around them]]. This affects Hanbin enough he completely abandons the identity of 'Eric Garrune' and tries to live under the radar for several months, especially after it becomes clear that Leonheart correctly suspects him of being his target after catching him and Atis in a lie, but due to lacking concrete evidence and a more plausible suspect in [[ButtMonkey Loude]] at the time, he's forced to let them go.

* ShameIfSomeThingHappened: Hanbin's first meeting with Inquisitor Leonheart ends this way, with Leonheart repeating a tale about a previous Otherworlder who built a life and family for himself in Rathana, only to eventually be forced to reveal himself as an Otherworlder in order to protect his adventuring party from a [[KillerRabbit deceptively powerful monster]]. Whilst he [[HoldTheLine stayed back to give them time to flee from it]], his party instead [[UngratefulBastard organised a mob to attack his home]] and kill his wife and child whilst he was away, out of fear of his nature as an Otherworlder. Notably, this is presented as a more benevolent example than most, as Leonheart is greatly hinted to be unfooled by Hanbin's attempts to disguise the fact he's an Otherworlder, but due to lacking concrete evidence and having a more plausible suspect in [[ButtMonkey Loude]] at the time he cannot arrest him. Nonetheless, he relates the tale to Hanbin as a warning as to how his adventuring companions will be [[GuiltByAssociation persecuted and possibly lynched]] should Hanbin be definitely proven as an Otherworlder, which affects Hanbin enough he completely abandons the identity of 'Eric Garrune' and tries to live under the radar for several months

* DramaticIrony: Whilst the reader is well aware of the reason that Hanbin got dumped into Rath'nia -- his 'overseer' in the mysterious beings behind the Otherworlders discovered his glitched existence and sent him into the world, hoping his low level would result in [[UriahGambit him being swiftly killed to cover up his mistake]] -- as far as Hanbin can tell he was jsut randomly let out of his eternal prison one day with no prior warning. On the flip side, said being is unaware that Hanbin's glitched guideline means that on a surface level he only has the stats of a level 5, he's actually accumulated ''additional'' stats behind those every time he 'levelled', resulting in his actual strength far eclipsing his low level. Accordingly, Hanbin turns out to be arguably the most powerful Otherworlder in Rath'nia in terms of raw might, and is left with [[RageAgainstTheHeavens a massive grudge]] against the beings that callously exploited his existence for their own aims.

* DramaticIrony: Whilst the reader is well aware of the reason that Hanbin got dumped into Rath'nia -- his 'overseer' in the mysterious beings behind the Otherworlders discovered his cliched existence and sent him into the world, hoping his low level would result in [[UriahGambit him being swiftly killed to cover up his mistake]] -- as far as Hanbin can tell he was jsut randomly let out of his eternal prison one day with no prior warning. On the flip side, said being is unaware that Hanbin's glitched guideline means that on a surface level he only has the stats of a level 5, he's actually accumulated ''additional'' stats behind those every time he 'levelled', resulting in his actual strength far eclipsing his low level. Accordingly, Hanbin turns out to be arguably the most powerful Otherworlder in Rath'nia in terms of raw might, and is left with [[RageAgainstTheHeavens a massive grudge]] against the beings that callously exploited his existence for their own aims.

** This at the same time decontructs RPGMechanicsVerse: The world of Rath'nia was NOT this originally, but the Guideline imposed by Ormphlaus on the Otherworlders makes them see it that way. [[spoiler: By presenting the world of Rath'nia as a game, it makes much easier for the Otherworlders to kill Rath'nians without guilt, as they see them as mere NPCs.]]

* DramaticIrony: Whilst the reader is well aware of the reason that Hanbin got dumped into Rath'nia -- his 'overseer' in the mysterious beings behind the Otherworlders discovered his cliched existence and sent him into the world, hoping his low level would result in him being swiftly killed to cover up his mistake -- as far as Hanbin can tell he was jsut randomly let out of his eternal prison one day with no prior warning. On the flip side, said being is unaware that Hanbin's glitched guideline means that on a surface level he only has the stats of a level 5, he's actually accumulated ''additional'' stats behind those every time he 'levelled', resulting in his actual strength far eclipsing his low level. Accordingly, Hanbin turns out to be arguably the most powerful Otherworlder in Rath'nia in terms of raw might, and is left with [[RageAgainstTheHeavens a massive grudge]] against the beings that callously exploited his existence for their own aims.

** Hanbin's original situation deconstructs the idea of a MassSuperEmpoweringEvent. He is one of thousands of randomly selected candidates kidnapped from Earth and implanted with a [[SuddenGameInterface Guideline]], enabling him to theoretically access magic and combat skills despite not having been born with or trained for them, but the sheer number of candidates [[TheGodsMustBeLazy motivated their abductors]] to try a new method of implanting the Guideline in a single go rather than one-by-one, with Hanbin's group being the first recipients. This new method resulted in a mistake being made in implanting Hanbin's guideline, and because of how impersonal the new process was, this was overlooked and not corrected, resulting in Harbin becoming 'glitched' and trapped in the tutorial area, and later levelling himself up to frightening level of power through their oversight. Such mistreatment also means Hanbin is extremely motivated to get {{Revenge}} on his exploiters when he finally gets out, because of how much he suffered due to their callousness.

* GodOfEvil: Ormphlaus, the demon god who created dungeons filled with monsters and summoned the Otherworlders as part of his plan to take over the world.

Hanbin is sent alone to a otherworldly mountain to train until he reaches Level 5. There's just one problem: his "guideline" is malfunctioning, causing his Level to continuously revert to level 1 every time he's about to reach level 5, trapping Hanbin in an endless cycle of levelling and restarting for YEARS!. On top of that, the enemies keep continuously matching his combat prowess, meaning every single fight he must endure is [[EarlyGameHell a life-or-death match, no matter his actual improved combat abilities.]]

** The idea of a SuddenGameInterface is also deconstructed through the [[StatOVision guidelines]] the Otherworlders receive from their 'gift'. Whilst they can see useful information about themselves and their opponents, to native Rathians it looks like the Otherworlders have a habit of randomly staring off into thin air at times. To those who are experienced enough in facing Otherwordlers, this CharacterTic is a sure-fire way of [[DamnYouMuscleMemory identifying any of them]] who are trying to go undercover or obscure their true identity. Since Hanbin barely uses his guideline due to it's faults, this doesn't really affect him, [[spoiler:but when forced into combat with a captured angel as part of Pautault's TrainingFromHell, his constant checking of the messages the guideline sends him telling him he cannot attack it tips off Pautault as to his true identity. Thankfully, he's able to tell Hanbin's not the same as the rest of the murder-crazed Otherwolders, and so spares him]].

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*** It also deconstructs the idea of InstantExpert. The Guideline implants the knowledge and ability to pull off powerful skills within the Otherworlders, enabling even those of them without combat experience to survive the live-or-death fighting in the tutorial, and further enabling them to learn more advanced abilities far quicker than learning them through training. However, this makes the Otherworlders reliant on the guideline to be effective in combat, and when Kibier enables her connection to Kivryelle, Goddess of Darkness, which short-circuits the Guidelines in her presence, it effectively [[{{Nerf}} shuts down the Otherworlder's ability to fight]], rendering them little more than ordinary people with high levels and mediocre fighting skills. The only exception to this are Otherworlders who ''actually'' trained in combat to become genuinely skilled without the Guideline's aid, like Hanbin. [[spoiler:Or Richard]].