Origin (元)

For other versions of the "Lacerate", see Lacerate (Disambiguation).

“This isn't a physical attack...!! This is a feeling of being erased from the origin of my existence!! Original, just how did you reach such a level..!!”
 ― Nightmare The Best Swordsman

Origin (元)
Name	Origin(元)
Hangul	원(元)
Romaja	won
WEBTOON	Core (元)
Alternative Names	Source (元)
Information
Skill Category	Active Skill
Skill Type	Swordsmanship
Skill Effect	Attack Skill
Parent Skills	Lacerate (切)
Derived Skills	None
First Appearance
Webtoon	Hardcore Leveling Warrior Season 2 Episode 89
Users
The Best Swordsman

Origin (元) is a swordsmanship skill in Lucid Adventure, and Earth. It's a skill created by The Best Swordsman to improve his half-lacerate.

Overview

It is the strongest skill of the The Best Swordsman's swordsmanship, which he made by overlapping countless incomplete lacerates to reach the extremes of a swordsman.

If the Perfect Lacerate completely cuts off the form of an existence from its concept, the 'origin' of The Best Swordsman is an extremely compressed dot of sword attacks, which repeatedly stabs the enemy at transcendental speeds. The extinction dots of nanometer size are repeated to form an extinction line, and the lines gather to form a surface.

The skill consumes a lot of mana and the caster cannot move when the skill is executed.

Usage

Instance	Game	Description
HCLW Season 2 Episode 89	Lucid Adventure	After having his precious memories defiled by Nightmare The Best Swordsman, The Best Swordsman used Origin to completely destroy Nightmare The Best Swordsman's body, leaving not even a single trace left. The Best Swordsman should not have used the skill since his damaged body could not regenerate mana, but he could not forgive the Nightmare that defiled his happy memories, which were the only precious thing he had left of the lost people and broken relationships. His mana reserves went from 31% to 0.5%.
HCLW Season 2 Episode 98	Lucid Adventure	The Best Swordsman used Origin(元) to counter Hardcore Leveling Warrior's Lacerate. The skill not only countered Hardcore Leveling Warrior's Lacerate, but it broke his sword as well.
HCLW Season 2 Episode 99	Lucid Adventure	The Best Swordsman used Origin(元) to take of the head of Han Gun-Ho. Han Gun-Ho instantly recovered by switching bodies to another one of his dummies.
HCLW Season 2 Episode 101	Lucid Adventure	The Best Swordsman used Origin(元) to neutralise the magic spells fired by the Level 66 Demon King Hardcore Leveling Warrior in order to clear a path for Constant to use The Last Lie.
HCLW Season 2 Episode 104	Lucid Adventure	After sealing himself and the LV.66 Demon King Hardcore Leveling Warrior in the Uldolmok Field, The Best Swordsman uses Origin as Hardcore Leveling Warrior simultaneously uses Lacerate (節). The skills neutralised each other.
HCLW Season 2 Episode 107	Lucid Adventure	After immobilising the Demon King Hardcore Leveling Warrior with Sea Dragon Ascension (海龍昇天), The Best Swordsman used Origin(元) 4 times to rip apart Demon King Hardcore Leveling Warrior's body apart, but Hardcore Leveling Warrior instantly regenerated due to the Demon King Passive.
HCLW Season 2 Episode 107	Lucid Adventure	In order to hold Hardcore Leveling Warrior back and buy time for the Superscale Mass Transfer that would transfer the Primordial Dragons to his location, The Best Swordsman used Origin(元) 5 times on the on rushing Demon King Hardcore Leveling Warrior and tore Hardcore Leveling Warrior's body apart. Hardcore Leveling Warrior instantly regenerated due to the Demon King Passive.
HCLW Season 3 Episode 20	Earth
HCLW Season 3 Episode 20	Earth

Translation Notes

WEBTOON Translation

Main Article: Hardcore Leveling Warrior WEBTOON Translation

원(元) is translated as Core by WEBTOON.

원 is the hangul form of the 元, which means "cause; origin; source", "beginning; first; prime", "basis; foundation", "(finance) capital" or "principal".

Origin or Source fits in best with the definition of the skill as Nightmare The Best Swordsman even said he felt like he was being "erased from the source(근원)" of his existence (LINE translated it as "origin of his existence"). 근원 means "root, cause, source, origin" which is a play on the skill's name and which LINE Webtoon themselves translated as The Origin for Zero's base.

Curiously, in Chapter 2 Episode 132 of Gosu, '존재의 근원이' was translated as "Source of Existence", this further shows the inconsistency of WEBTOON's translations across the Korean webtoons.

The skill is meant to cut the very source, origin of a person's existence which is why WEBTOON may have translated it as "core". The skill cuts the very essence of the person aka the core of a person. While the WEBTOON translation contains the "spirit" of the skills function, "Origin" is the literal definition so it will be used.

International Translations

Name	Platform	Language
원(元)	NAVER WEBTOON	Korean
元 (Yuán)	WEBTOON	Traditional Chinese
Core(元)	WEBTOON	English (U.S.A)
One	WEBTOON	French

Gallery

Webtoons

• Hardcore Leveling Warrior
• Hardcore Leveling Warrior Season 3: Earth Game

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The Best Swordsman initiating Origin(元)...

...to create the lines of extinctions...

...which form an extinction plane that are fired at the target at transcendental speeds...

...that erases the existence of Nightmare The Best Swordsman

The Best Swordsman getting into his Origin(元) stance...

...and destroying Han Gun-Ho's head with Origin(元)

The Best Swordsman's Origin(元) clashing with Hardcore Leveling Warrior's Lacerate(節)

Notes & Trivia

• Some Naver fans have questioned why The Best Swordsman did not use this skill during his fight with Ruud Ra Kan as he would not have had time to practice the skill while he was injured.