There was a time when Human, Heaven and Devil worlds co-existed peacefully. This peace was broke when the Devil world leader, Macheonru, tried to conquer the other two, starting “the Great War”, a global conflict between these worlds. The War was about to be won by Macheonru, but the glorious hero King Pacheon, thanks to the power of his sword, the Lion Sword, eventually brought the final victory to the Heaven world. After the end of this cruel war, King Pacheon, decided to shatter the powerful sword that allowed him to defeat the Devil world in 4 pieces. Each piece was sent in a different location. One piece was buried in the Heaven-world while another one was buried at Budran, in the Human World. The location of the other two pieces was kept secret. Even if the war was ended, the minions of Macheonru were continually trying to cause havoc in the other two worlds. Chungyong , the Great Lord and king of the Human world soon understood that facing them alone would have been impossible. He first went to Chungoong to steal Heaven Lord’s Holy Sword. Then he searched for someone worth to wield it. Amongst thousands of warriors, he chose Soma.
Soma fought bravely against the Devil world with the power and talent of the Holy Sword and the help of the friends he made during the numerous battles: General Dong, one of the generals of Chungoong, Ninjatoong the thief, Chuldoo and Ryu Hadeung, who also was a childhood friend. Together they defeated many powerful enemies such as Gugumajae, Barurugo and Wolyohon. In the final battle, fought at Budran (where a piece of the Lion Sword was buried), they fought bravely, killing thousands of enemies and also killing Macheonru by offering their own lives. When the battle was over, the bodies of the five mythological heroes were not recovered so their death and their story become a legend. One year after the bloody battle of Budran, the followers of Macheonru gathered again their forces and started to threaten the Human world: they were trying to obtain the control of all the three worlds starting from the domination of the Human one. Another long war was going to start. By that time, the human world was divided into two large parts, Western and Eastern. . Some cities in the Western part swore loyalty to devil-world, while other fought for their independence. In the Eastern part of the continent, people gathered together under the control of General Lion Kahn with the name of “Continental Alliance Army” looking for peace, and trying to stop the brutality of the Devil world and their allies.
The Continental Army still exists and still continues its struggle against the powers of the Devil world: small and large scale battles still take place sometimes. There was another small army in the Human world, formed by mercenaries, who fought against Devil world. Due to lack of success in their battles and high number of casualties, they disbanded and formed a wandering group of thieves under the command of a man called Mangjong. Amongst them, many were worshipping Soma and his friends. Soma was, and still is, called “King of Thieves”. Their faith in them is very strong. They eventually settled into an island called Wow Island but the rest of the Human world considered them wicked ones and called them ‘Evils of Wow Island”. Those mercenary do not have any concept of good or bad and miss any kind of relationship with all the other powers of the Human world.
A prophecy said that another hero such as Soma that would have brought a durable peace. He or she would have born in Soma’s hometown, Thousand Years Tree Town. This is the city where the story of your own hero starts...
