Yuseong Jin was a minor antagonist in The Warrior Returns. He was the Magic Warrior and one of the Resistance Warriors who sided with the South Korean government against the 9-Warriors, though he only did so for his own selfish reasons. At some point before the main story, he was slain by Minsu Kim.
Appearance[]
Yuseong Jin had short black hair, gold eyes, and wore glasses. He wore a white dress, black tie, and a vest underneath a blue work robe.
Personality[]
As noted by Yeji Ahn, Yuseong was a narcissist with a messiah complex, something even he himself was aware of to some degree. Prior to becoming a Warrior, he hated being average, be it his living situation or his abilities, with his greatest fear being getting forgotten by the world. As a result, after becoming a Warrior, he grew extremely corrupt on his new powers, taking whatever he wanted and forcing the inhabitants of his other world to worship him.
After returning to Earth with his newly acquired ego, Yuseong now found his mundane life to be "hellish" and believed that he was going to snap, something that actually happened in alternate timelines. As a result, he was actually overjoyed when Minsu Kim began his rampage, believing he could once again be a Warrior. To this end, he willingly approached the South Korean government and blackmailed them, offering to combat the Sword Warrior only in return for political power and a vast sum of money.
He was also extremely overconfident in his own abilities, being completely convinced that he could easily defeat Minsu and being unable to comprehend how he could easily endure his most powerful attack. He even openly insulting his former teachers once he surpassed them, calling their spellcasting archaic. Yuseong's arrogance led to his own demise as he hadn't faced warriors who experienced fighting and killing mage type fighters.
History[]
Youth[]
Growing up in the hyper competitive education system of South Korea, Yuseong was always envious of those who he considered "successful". At the same time, he hated himself for only being "average", be it his grades, family status, physical abilities, relationships, or other miscellaneous skills. In the end, these feelings of inferiority bottled up until he finally snapped, ranting to himself that he does not want to end up being forgotten by the world. At that moment, he was summoned to another world.
Other World[]
After being summoned to his otherworld, Yuseong was greeted by his summoners, who were presumably four master magicians/wizards of that world, who then proceeded to train him in the native magic of their world and help him combat the Demon King’s forces.
After training him, the four wizards would presumably teach him their magic and their goal of creating new magic circles. However, Yuseong, having mastered the magic taught to him, instead created a new method of utilizing the existing magic circles by piling them up each other in order to create new forms of magic.
Warrior Crisis[]
At some point after defeating his other world's Demon Lord, Yuseong returned to Earth. However, having had a taste of "success", he now despised his mundane life even more than before, hating having to mingle with "ordinary" people, to the point of wanting to use his new powers to "destroy everything".
Current Timeline[]
In the current timeline, Yuseong Jin did not go through the same trauma he went through in the original timeline, having instead become one of the heroes who sided with the government to stop the rampaging heroes.
During the botched operation (dubbed the "Fighting Ring") of the government to stop the 9 warriors, they had each of their heroes fight 1 on 1 against the 9 warriors, instead of having them team up together in order to ambush and corner each of the 9 warriors individually. This operation was initiated by the incompetent government agents placed in charge of the heroes, who due to the immense power possessed by Heroes, feared them and believed that they could lose control and go on a rampage like the 9 warriors had. Causing them to instead pit them 1 on 1 against each other in the hopes that they would kill each other, or at least weaken the surviving victor for them to easily kill them.
Following this plan, Yuseong Jin was pitted against Minsu Kim. Jin was shown to have initially been very confident, as he believed his magic and long range firepower gave him an edge against close quarter fighters like the Sword Hero. This is in spite of the fact that Minsu had taken Yuseong's most powerful spell without a scratch. When Minsu decapitates him in one attack, Yuseong's last thoughts are of shock and confusion.
Original Timeline[]
In the original timeline, because Minsu Kim did not go on a rampage for him to take advantage of, Yuseong eventually snapped from his "hellish mundane life" and went on a rampage himself. Together with the other 8-warriors of this world, he caused mass destruction until he was killed by the Resistance Warriors, which in this timeline included Seongjun Lee and Minsu Kim.
Synopsis[]
Yuseong Jin’s remains
A year after his death and defeat, the remains of the Korean Government made their final operation in defiance to the 9-Warriors. In order to empower the Spear Hero, the single remaining hero strong enough to fight the other mad heroes, the Government launched an operation to collect the Relics, the equipment left behind by the deceased Heroes who sided with them, in order to give to the Spear Hero and empower him enough to kill the insane Heroes.
To achieve that, the Reconstruction Government successfully excavated his skeletal remains in order to retrieve his staff and spell book.
Powers & Abilities[]
As the Hero of Magic, Yuseong was shown to be a mage type fighter, using powerful long range magic spells to attack and fight.
- Magic Circle System: During his time summoned in his otherworld, Yuseong mastered the world's native magic system, allowing him to utilize multiple elements by conjuring different kinds of magic circles.
- Fire Magic: As shown in the flashbacks, Yuseong Jin is able to create powerful blasts of fire using his magic by conjuring magic circles. Yuseong himself was also shown to conjure birds of fire.
- Ignis - 12th Circle Magic Circle - Hellfire 8x: Yuseong conjures and combines 8 fire magic circles together to form a new powerful spell.
- ?? Circle Chain Magic Circle -Hell’s Filler: A powerful spell where Yuseong conjures a huge pillar of fire beneath his target.
- ?? Circles Summon Magic Circle - Roar of Pheonix: A summoning spell where Yuseong summons four pheonixes to attack his opponent. As shown, the Pheonixes are powerful enough to preoccupy Minsu Kim and attack him with blasts of fire.
- Ignis - 12th Circle Magic Circle - Hellfire 8x: Yuseong conjures and combines 8 fire magic circles together to form a new powerful spell.
- Ice Magic: Yuseong was shown to be able to freeze a soldier to halt his movements by incasing him in ice.
- ?? Circle Combined Magic Circle - Ice Age: A powerful spell able to freeze Minsu Kim solid.
- Tree Magic:: Yuseong was shown to be able to restrain multiple soldiers by conjuring multiple tree vines to ensnare them in.
- Intangibility: Yuseong also showcased the ability to make parts of his body intangible. As shown where he made his wrists intangible to slip out of handcuffs and slip them back on.
- Storage Space: By Conjuring a magic circle, Yuseong has shown to be able to store items, likely in a pocket dimension. As shown where he had stored the contract agreement to his terms with working with the government in taking down Minsu Kim. He also uses this magic to store his equipment.
- Magic Circle Pile: Likely due to his nature as a summoned hero, Yuseong possessed the ability to "ignore" the rules of the world he was summoned in. This ability allowed him to break the rules regarding the magic system of the world he was summoned in, allowing him to "pile" multiple magic circles of the existing magics he learned from that world on top of each other, allowing him to combine them and create new magic.
- 63 Layers of Magic Circles - Compress: A technique where Yuseong conjures over 63 layers of magic circles on top of each other before compressing all of them together to create an entirely new spell.
- ?? Circle Magic Circle - Light of Creation: Magic created after compressing over 63 layers of magic circles, an extremely powerful spell able to create a blast of light capable of annihilating an entire district of Korea and leave behind a gigantic crater. Despite its immense power, Yuseong admitted that its overall range and area of effect is smaller than the 12th circle magic circle spells he possess, despite possessing immense destructive power. However, as shown despite its strength, it is not powerful enough to penetrate Minsu Kim's defenses he receives by using the Goddess Seraphine’s blessings.
- 63 Layers of Magic Circles - Compress: A technique where Yuseong conjures over 63 layers of magic circles on top of each other before compressing all of them together to create an entirely new spell.
- Wind Magic: Yuseong has shown to be able to cast wind based spells.
- Ventus - Casting Twenty 12th Circles Magic Circles: A powerful wind spell where Yuseong creates over 20 wind spells by conjuring 20 12th circle magic circles.
- Water Magic: Yuseong has shown to be able to cast water based spells.
- Aqua - Casting Thirteen 12th Circle Magic Circles: A powerful water spell where Yuseong creates over 13 water spells by conjuring 13 12th circle magic circles.
- Earth Magic: Yuseong has shown to be able to cast earth based spells.
- Tera - Casting Thirteen 12th Circle Magic Circles: A powerful earth spell where Yuseong creates over 13 earth spells by conjuring 13 12th circle magic circles.
- 11th Circle of Tera Magic: Earthquake x5: A earth spell that allows Yuseong to alter the terrain of his surroundings by manipulating the earth. As shown, Yuseong can literally lift huge piles of earth in order to gain a higher vantage point to fire and bombard his targets from higher ground.
- Fire Magic: As shown in the flashbacks, Yuseong Jin is able to create powerful blasts of fire using his magic by conjuring magic circles. Yuseong himself was also shown to conjure birds of fire.
Items[]
As a hero, Yuseong managed to acquire equipment from the otherworld he was summoned to. After his death, his equipment was acquired and given to the Spear Hero.
- Staff: Yuseong has shown to have used a wooden, tree root like magic staff to channel his magic.
- Tome: Yuseong has also shown to have a spellbook to help him cast magic.
Trivia[]
- Yuseong Jin seems to be based on Harry Potter from the Harry Potter franchise, both having rounded glasses and similar hair.
- According to Narak's Q&A session with Yongdol Gallery, it was clarified that the difference between Yuseong's World of Magic and Yerin Ma's World of Magic is that Yuseong is the world of wizards.