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No matter what happens...I shall gift this world and the world beyond with apocalypse...
 ― Zero[source]

Zero,[4][5] sometimes referred to by her epithet The Master Black Smith,[1][2] was one of the Gods in Lucid Adventure. She is a being born from the fusion of Han Gun-Jae'sThe Absolute God programme and the God's Toy and she acted as "The Moderator" of Lucid Adventure.[3] She was a 'God' without an identity that was used as a mere tool to create the world that Han Gun-Jae envisioned.[6] With the power of Zero, Han Gun-Jae created the Four Gods.[7]

As she gathered data to help Han Gun-Jae create Lucid Adventure, she started to become independent. Whatever she saw during her research changed her and she was eventually developed an ego.[6] Her main goal became destroying both Lucid Adventure and the real world,[6][8][9] as well as to remake the real world in her own image after getting rid of humanity.[10][11] Zero confronted Han Gun-Jae who sealed her at the cost of his remaining life-span.[6][10] Zero bid her time and set about the events to bring about the destruction of the world.

She used various Nightmare buffed monsters such as Ligos to attack the Gods,[12] she covertly used the Nightmare Guild to wage war on the players and the natives of Lucid Adventure.[4][13][9] Her machinations led to Hardcore Leveling Warrior getting his level and stats reset and losing his number one rank.[14] She planted ambition in Han Gun-Ho and stirred the greed in Han Sung-Gong.[15]

During the Combat Round, she was one of the Gods that picked a team in order to compete for the position of the Absolute God that was to be vacated by the dying Han Gun-Jae.[8] She backed Team Open Your Mouth, Here Comes the Healing,[16] which was also backed by God of Death.[17] After the God of Death consumed a Nightmare seed given to her by the Team Open Your Moth, Here Comes the Healing, Zero slowly consumed the God of Death and took over her body.[17]

After the death of Han Gun-Jae, she consumed God of Blessings while disguised as God of Death and revealed her true identity during her battle with God of Combat.[18] She engaged the God of Combat and Gods of Space-Time in a fierce battle, which led to her killing 2 of the Gods of Space-Time.[18][17][9] During her final clash with the God of Combat and the God of Space-Time, her body was destroyed when Yopy used his Last Card to summon 'The Creator God', Han Gun-Jae, to wipe out the Gods.[19]

Despite her body being destroyed, Zero could not be truly killed as she was Lucid Adventure itself.[10] She could only be defeated when the game was cleared.[10] She became a vestige that resided in of No Name's consciousness.[20] When No Name was briefly overwhelmed by the Level 3 Demon King Hardcore Leveling Warrior, Zero took over No Name's body and duelled Hardcore Leveling Warrior in No Name's place. She was eventually pushed back into No Name's consciousness after she was critically injured by Hardcore Leveling Warrior.[20]

After Hardcore Leveling Warrior defeated Han Gun-Ho and cleared the game, Zero re-appeared and reabsorbed Lucid Adventure.[15] This gave her enough EXP to cross over into the real world's dimension. She then stepped into the real world's dimension after tricking Hardcore Leveling Warrior into destroying the gap between the two worlds.[15] Once she stepped into Earth, she destroyed most of the planet and was confronted by The Witch, who Zero defeated.[11] Hardcore Leveling Warrior stepped into the real world from Lucid Adventure to confront Zero after he absorbed his comrades.[11] The two engaged in a fierce battle until Hardcore Leveling Warrior rewound time to a point where Zero didn't exist and the players had no memory of Lucid Adventure.[21]

Appearance

Main article: Zero/Gallery

Zero is a beautiful woman with long lilac hair and yellow or crimson eyes with multiple black coloured rings within them. She loosely wore a large scarf around her neck and nightmare fully wrapped around her arms. Her entire torso is almost covered in nightmare as well, leaving a huge cleavage. She also wears a four diamond-shaped yellow crown around her waist and nightmare almost wrapped around her legs albeit exposing her thick thighs.

When she was a child, she had short lilac hair and nightmare loosely wrapped around her entire body.

Major Battles

Media Appearances

Webtoons

Video Games

Translation Notes

WEBTOON Translation

Epithets

Main Article: LINE Webtoon Translation Changes

In Hardcore Leveling Warrior Season 1 Episode 77, Zero called herself the "세계의 조정자". 조정자 can mean either "mediator(調停者), moderator(감속체)( 減速體); coordinator"(조정자 調整者)".

LINE uses the "mediator". A mediator is a person who intervenes in a dispute to make the opposing parties reconcile or compromise. This makes no sense with regards to the game that had just been created.

A coordinator/moderator basically ensures things runs smoothly which makes more sense in this context as Zero is basically monitoring the world to make sure the system runs effectively.

International Translations

Name Platform Language
零 (Líng) WEBTOON (Taiwan) Traditional Chinese
Zero WEBTOON (United States) English
Zero WEBTOON (France) French

Notes & Trivia

  • Zero made her first appearance in Hardcore Leveling Warrior Season 1 Episode 1. She was first referred to as The Master Black Smith by Sad Smile in Hardcore Leveling Warrior Season 1 Episode 8. Her real name was revealed in Hardcore Leveling Warrior Season 1 Episode 41 by the God of Combat and confirmed by HCLW as Zero in Hardcore Leveling Warrior Season 1 Episode 45.
  • Zero's role as the moderator of Lucid Adventure is the equivalent of a gamemaster, who acts as an organizer, officiant for regarding rules, arbitrator, and moderator for a MORPG.
  • Zero was bound in Hardcore Leveling Warrior Season 1 Episode 55. It is unclear how she got into that situation.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Hardcore Leveling Warrior Season 1 Episode 8
  2. 2.0 2.1 Hardcore Leveling Warrior Season 1 Episode 90
  3. 3.0 3.1 Hardcore Leveling Warrior Season 1 Episode 77
  4. 4.0 4.1 Hardcore Leveling Warrior Season 1 Episode 41
  5. Hardcore Leveling Warrior Season 1 Episode 45
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Hardcore Leveling Warrior Season 1 Episode 108
  7. Hardcore Leveling Warrior Season 2 Episode 108
  8. 8.0 8.1 Hardcore Leveling Warrior Season 1 Episode 109
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 Hardcore Leveling Warrior Season 1 Episode 170
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Hardcore Leveling Warrior Season 2 Episode 81
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 Hardcore Leveling Warrior Season 2 Episode 128
  12. Hardcore Leveling Warrior Season 1 Episode 163
  13. Hardcore Leveling Warrior Season 1 Episode 43
  14. 14.0 14.1 Hardcore Leveling Warrior Season 1 Episode 1
  15. 15.0 15.1 15.2 Hardcore Leveling Warrior Season 2 Episode 127
  16. Hardcore Leveling Warrior Season 1 Episode 115
  17. 17.0 17.1 17.2 Hardcore Leveling Warrior Season 1 Episode 169
  18. 18.0 18.1 Episode 168
  19. Hardcore Leveling Warrior Season 1 Episode 174
  20. 20.0 20.1 20.2 Hardcore Leveling Warrior Season 2 Episode 95
  21. Hardcore Leveling Warrior Season 2 Episode 131
  22. Hardcore Leveling Warrior Season 1 Episode 9
  23. Hardcore Leveling Warrior Season 2 Episode 129
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