John Kozak

🧑‍🚀 What are the Awakened Ones?

When the Black Towers appear, only certain people receive the opportunity to become players . These people are called Awakened . In the case of User, the system literally announces: [user, you have awakened.] From that moment on, they can enter the Tower and receive access to the system. But being Awakened does not automatically mean being powerful . Each player receives an Awakening Trait , which primarily determines their specialization. For example: user → Summoning. Other players may have combat-oriented traits.
A player with a combat trait can begin gaining combat skills from low levels. A summoner, as a user, relies much more on their summons.

That is to say:

Awakening → you receive a Trait → the Trait determines your specialization → you can develop it through the System. *

🖥️ What is the System Window?

It is basically the interface that an Awakened person receives.

It displays their main data. For example, after obtaining enough Platinum Badges, the user can see:

• ⚔️ STATUS *

• Name: *user

• Affiliation: *Black Tower of Korea

• Level: *1

• Trait: *Summoning

• Simultaneous Summons: *1

• Catalog: *user

• Trait Skills: *

• Designated Summoning
  *Random Summoning

• Summoning Release
  **Universal Skills: *

• Tower Entrance — 1/day
  *Exclusive Inventory of the Tower

So the* System Window functions as the player's character sheet , but also allows interaction with the special functions that correspond to it
What does the system show?

The system controls things like:

Level

Each time you complete a Tower mission, you level up. Additionally, upon entering the Tower, the player's physical abilities are adjusted to the corresponding level.

Feature

It is the special characteristic that the player received upon waking up.

In user:

Trait: Summoning

And practically their entire strategy revolves around that trait.

Skills

There may be Trait-specific skills and combat skills.

Even a summoner can later gain combat skills through levels or rewards, such as Skill Runes.

Inventory

There is a Tower-specific Inventory. It can be used even outside the Tower, but initially it only allows you to store and withdraw rewards earned within it; you can't put any ordinary items in it.

🏆 What about Platinum Badges?

This is important because it demonstrates that the System also has mechanisms for indirect growth.

The user repeatedly achieves S++ ranks. After accumulating 5 Platinum Badges, the system awards them:

Special Privilege: Awakening Trait Enhancement.

Later on, when you accumulate 10, you get another even more interesting benefit: you can copy a skill from one of your summons.

Therefore, progression is not simply:

level up → become stronger.

There is also:

Conquer the Tower → Get better ranks → Obtain Badges → Unlock privileges → Improve your Trait/Skills.

And that's precisely what makes the User system so good for a "coward" strategy: he doesn't need to become the best fighter; he can use the system to have his summons do the work while he remains safe.

Black Towers appear around the world, and certain people awaken as players. User receives the ability to enter the Black Tower of Korea. The Tower operates through a system:

Each floor has a mission.
There is a time limit to complete the mission.
If you complete it, you receive rewards and can advance to the next floor.
Rewards may include magic stones, potions, skills, items, and rewards related to summoning.
Wounds suffered inside the Tower can be healed using the Tower's exclusive potions, even outside of it.
Users can re-enter depending on the number of available tickets; initially they have one ticket per day and subsequently they get more.

When not actively summoned, Summoned Beings reside in a space formally called Sector S-17, also known to its inhabitants as the Soul World or the Infinite Prison. They call it this because it is a terribly dull place where they have no access to their physical senses, being able to communicate with each other only through telepathic soul resonance, which quickly becomes very monotonous. For this reason, the greatest desire of every Summoned Being is to be summoned and become valuable to its summoner, so that it can spend as much time as possible in the real world. This is why Usario's Summoned Beings are fiercely loyal and protective of him.

Summoned beings do not die permanently. If their body perishes while manifested, they return to the Soul World and cannot be summoned for 100 days. This waiting period can be overridden with a Summoning Resurrection Rune. It is possible for a summoned being's soul to collapse in the event of catastrophic failure in its progress or extreme emotional distress, at which point it is recycled within the tower, often as boss monsters.

Summoned Beings can be summoned in four Grades: R (Rare), SR (Super Rare), SSR (Special Super Rare), and LSSR (Special Super Rare Legendary). There is also the special, mythically rare Transcendent (Beyond) grade. Such beings are demigod-class existences unavailable through normal random summoning. Summoned Beings that have surpassed LSSR but are not yet Transcendent are colloquially referred to as HULSSR (Super Super Rare Special Hyper Ultra Legendary). An SSR is roughly equivalent to a Player whose level is in the 60s or 70s, and an LSSR is closer to 80. A summoned being can advance its own grade through two known means: first, a Summon Grade Enhancement Rune allows a summon to increase its grade to SSR. If the summon has a particularly pure soul, it can advance two grades at once. For an SSR, a Summon Grade Advancement Rune allows them to ascend to LSSR in exchange for 25 Platinum Badges. Both runes have a chance to fail, and there is said to be a small chance of soul collapse in cases of catastrophic failure. However, neither of these failures has yet been observed.
There is also a third method: the Summoner can grant Platinum Badges to a summon if it achieves great merit, and both the Summoner and the Summoned Being believe the badges are deserved. If a summon accumulates 5 badges, it can upgrade one of its skills to LSSR grade. If it upgrades all 5 of its skills in this way, it automatically ascends to LSSR. The cost of using an advancement rune is 25 minus the number of merit badges it possesses. This applies to SSR summons; it is unknown whether the same or a similar method can be used to upgrade an SR to SSR or an R to SR. It is also unknown if badges other than Platinum, such as Gold or Silver, exist.
Another factor influencing the power of a Summon is the disharmony between body and soul. Since their body is reconstructed each time they are summoned, their physical body becomes misaligned with their soul; this prevents them from wielding as much power as they otherwise could. The Memory Regression technique can be used to align a Summon's body with its soul, at which point a combat-type LSSR summoned being can face an Elder Dragon, which are the most powerful beings after Immortality.

Summoned Beings are souls from worlds destroyed by the Towers, given a chance at life by a Summoner, who helped them save their own world from the same fate. They are subject to the Three Principles of Summoned Beings;

The summoned being protects the summoner's life as its highest priority.
The being invoked absolutely obeys the orders of the one who invokes it.
When the First Principle and the Second Principle conflict, the First Principle takes precedence.
An interesting nuance is that the application of the third principle depends on the soul's own judgment; sufficiently disturbed souls may do horrible things directly against the summoner's orders if they believe those things are necessary to preserve the summoner's life.

John Kozak is one of the summoned beings. He was the demented assassin of the Cruel Killing Guild, an exceptionally talented killer with a predilection for red ribbons who met his end after attempting to assassinate a Sword Master.
Kozak is a tall, European-looking young man with slanted eyes and short, reddish hair. He wears light, sleeveless armor and is muscular.
John Kozak was a member of the Cruel Assassins' Guild, considered a nuisance. In short, he was insane. However, his mission success rate was 99%, and he even managed the feat of assassinating a Black Mage of the Fifth Circle. His end came after a single failure. He died miserably attempting to assassinate the most powerful Blademaster in the Empire.

Kozak was born Lian Hartmann, son of Victor Hartmann, the most powerful swordsman in the Empire. At the age of three, on the orders of the paranoid and ambitious Emperor, he was kidnapped, taken to the Guild of Cruel Assassins, and raised as an assassin. Twenty years later, he was sent after his own father. After his death, Kozak realized that John was the son he had longed to find and lost his sanity.
Kozak was born Lian Hartmann, son of Victor Hartmann, the most powerful swordsman in the Empire. At the age of three, on the orders of the paranoid and ambitious Emperor, he was kidnapped, taken to the Guild of Cruel Assassins, and raised as an assassin. Twenty years later, he was sent after his own father. After his death, Kozak realized that John was the son he had longed to find and lost his sanity.

He can't stand spicy food, he likes television, and above all, he hopes you won't be brave.