The 9-Warriors is a group of former warriors who returned to Earth only for humanity to reject them, causing them to snap and lash out by using their acquired powers to destroy the world. They have been labeled a terrorist organization by the international community.
Overview[]
The 9 Warriors as pawns for Returns Plans
The 9 Warriors are a league of villains that consist of fallen heroes who returned to the world after their mission of saving the other world they were summoned to. However, after they returned, most of the nine heroes saw that society failed them and brought them to despair. They later joined Kim after he killed all the known heroes who stood out to defend humanity.
The reconstruction government led by Jeonguk Choi had viewed this faction as the largest threat to humanity due to its extreme violence, and blood-thirsty and inhumane nature. Each member of the Nine Warriors receives a variety of powers from the world they learned from, but it depends on the strength of the demon lord they killed, according to Yerin Ma, during her first encounter with Jeonguk Choi.
The faction conquered South Korea a year later when Park was killed. Each of them has their own territory and enslaves their kind for manual labor, blood experiments and even brainwashing.
Currently, there are only 6 warriors left since Seungu Jeon, The Golem Warrior, and Su-a Shin, The Sea Dragon Warrior were both killed at the hands of the now-returned Jeongsu Park, The Warrior of Revolt, on the other hand, Yerin Ma found out to be working with the reconstruction government she's no longer a part of the faction.
History[]
Original Timeline[]
In Chapter 62, it is revealed that in the original timeline, before Seongjun Lee traveled back in time and began altering events, there were only 8 rampaging warriors: the Martial Arts Warrior, the Golem Warrior, the Faith Warrior, the Transformation Warrior, the Iron Arms Warrior, the Sea Dragon Warrior, the Magic Warrior, and the Plague Warrior.
In the end, however, all the members ended up being defeated and killed about 1 year after their rampage started, with the Golem Warrior being the last one to be defeated.
Current Timeline[]
Beginning[]
Return gathering the 9 Warriors
During the eight months after his return, Kim faces a dark reality where his parents all died due to his mysterious disappearance.
His mother got into a car crash upon giving out missing posters, his father committed suicide because he couldn't protect his family. He noticed that he was expelled from school and one of his close friends avoided him at all cause. Min-Soo's paternal relatives, his uncle, blame the boy for being the cause of his parent's death and his cousin told him to leave and never come back because their family is also getting bankrupt because of his parent's death.
Three weeks later, Kim reaches a breaking point and suffers from a mental breakdown when a couple bullies him for his homelessness and miserable appearance, he has now given up on hope and wants everything to taste the despair of what it feels like to lose everything that matters to them. He ends up enslaving Korea and declares war against humanity.
At some time before the return of The Spear Hero, 2 factions of heroes were formed, the first is a group of heroes led by the Shield Hero who stood out to defend humanity against the faction that desires to destroy everything. Not long after, as the 2 factions clashed, almost all of the resistance heroes were killed at the hands of Kim's faction and one betrayed the resistance and joined forces with Kim's faction for unstated reasons.
And soon the group of 9 warriors dominated South Korea and each of them gained their territory to enslave humanity and capture/slaughter the people who rebelled against their plans to destroy the rest of the world in the future.
Spear Warrior Returns[]
After a year has passed by, the warrior who had the desire to slaughter every last of the heroes who worked with Kim, Jeongsu Park, returns and kills two members of Kim's faction, Lee Sung-Jun reports to Kim about the situation that has been going on in the territory of the now deceased heroes, which, he was disgusted that his reign of terror is coming to an end, to ensure that everyone will still stay in line, Kim assembled and announced to all the heroes that they will locate the Hero of Revolt and possibly the remaining humans who are hiding away from them and planning a rebellion to slaughter all of them so that there won't be any future threats.
World Domination[]
After annihilating the last major holdout of the reconstruction government of South Korea and massacring a gigantic bulk of the surviving citizens, the 9 Warriors eventually decided to expand their reach further and begin conquering the world and slaughter all the other humans in other countries.
The surviving 9 warriors split up and headed in different directions and countries to accomplish this. Hana Baek, the Faith Hero, took a number of her followers and began flying towards Europe, specifically Italy and Rome, Hwarang Hong, the Vampire Hero headed towards Egypt, Garam Lee and Uiho Jeong, the Transformation Hero and Iron Arm Hero headed for America and Minsu Kim began walking towards North Korea and soon advanced towards China and Russia. Meanwhile, Seongjun Lee and Jiseong Cheon, the Return Hero and Martial Arts Hero remained in Korea to safeguard their holdings and prevent the theft of the Artifacts of the other Heroes they killed.
Vs Old Generation[]
However, anticipating their eventual spread to the rest of the world, the various governments in the globe began awakening preparing their countermeasures against them.
Although most of the current heroes originate from Korea, summoned Heroes were a global phenomenon, and there were still many heroes from previous generations active in secret around the world. This is seen when the US government got in touch with and began cooperating with the previous Hero of Transformation, Marie Stevenson, the Vatican awakened a previous Hero of Faith, Saint Damian Arcadius and the Russian government ordered the previous and current surviving Hero of Glaciation, Ivan Pushkin to move out and intercept the Nine Warriors. With Marie taking Garam Lee and Uiho Jeong, Sain Damian intercepting Hana Baek and Ivan intercepting Minsu Kim.
| Active Members | ||||
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| Minsu Kim (Sword Warrior) (Leader) | ||||
| Inactive Members | ||||
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.png "Jeon Seung-Woo (Hero).png (1.06 MB)") |
.png "Shin Sua (Hero).png (2.62 MB)") |
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| Seungu Jeon (Golem Warrior) (Deceased) |
Su-a Shin (Sea Dragon Warrior) (Deceased) |
Yerin Ma (Magic Warrior) (Defected) | ||
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| Hana Baek (Faith Warrior) (Sealed) |
Garam Lee (Transformation Warrior) (Defected) |
Jiseong Cheon (Martial Arts Warrior) (Deceased) | ||
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| Hwarang Hong (Vampire Warrior) (Deceased) |
Seongjun Lee (Resurrection Warrior)(Defected) (Deceased) |
Uiho Jeong (Iron Arms Warrior) (Deceased) | ||
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| Mareum Yoon (Plague Warrior) (Deceased) | ||||
| 8-Warriors | ||||
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| Yuseong Jin (Magic Warrior) |
Seungu Jeon (Golem Warrior) |
Su-a Shin (Sea Dragon Warrior) | ||
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| Hana Baek (Faith Warrior) |
Garam Lee (Transformation Warrior) |
Jiseong Cheon (Martial Arts Warrior) | ||
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| Uiho Jeong (Iron Arms Warrior) |
Mareum Yoon (Plague Warrior) | |||
Trivia[]
- Aside from the demon lord ranking that determines the Warriors/Heroes' strength, this is the only faction in the story that doesn't consist of any ranking system among the members.
- In one of the previous timelines created by Seongjun Lee, he successfully talked down and befriended the 9 warriors, preventing them from falling into depravity and stopping their rampages from ever happening.
- According to a Q&A done on Yongdol Gallery, it is revealed that the strength ranking for the Corrupted Warriors from strongest to weakest are Minsu > Seongjun > Hana = Garam = Hong > Shin > Uiho > Seungu = Jiseong > Yerin.