Tomb Raider King Volumes 6, 7 and 8 Review
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After conquering the Tomb of Sloth and defeating General Kiera Clark, Jooheon’s troubles are not over. There are six more Great Tombs to clear and many more enemies who want to stop him. Can he defeat them all and steal, oops, I mean acquire all the relics?
The next of the Seven Great Tombs to appear is the Tomb of Lust, right in Jooheon’s home country of South Korea. However, once he gets to the tomb, he encounters a couple of formidable relics… and they are not even the tomb’s boss! Jooehon will need all the luck he can muster and the jealousy of Irene to be able to defeat them and their boss. But using too much of Irene’s power will bring some side effects that make Irene’s feelings even clearer. Now it’s up to her to decide if she wants to keep helping Jooheon and face her own powers’ consequences, no matter how shameful they are, or walk away.
Jooheon instead keeps taking advantage of everyone and everything—from humans to relics. He has never doubted his goal to get revenge against Taejoon, and he seems he’s getting closer and closer whenever he messes up Taejoon’s lackeys and Pandora and the newly announced relics rules. Although Jooheon doesn’t hesitate to use his underlings, he also takes care of them, and now it’s time to make Jean Richard pay for what he did to Jaeha in the past, and in the present. In fact, Jean dares to kidnap Jaeha and sends him straight to a newly opened Great Tomb! Jaeha will need to use every loophole he can find to survive one of the Great Tombs while he waits for his boss (aka master) to come and pick him up.
But not all is lost as Jooheon is able to acquire more underlings, Seolah Lee and Julian Miller, who were both his comrades in his previous life. If they are willing underlings this time is still to be confirmed, but they will also be used to achieve Jooheon’s goal. If then a mysterious relic is able to bring back their memories from their alternative life, it’s even more welcome.
Tomb Raider King introduced Jooheon as an antihero due to his manipulative and moral-lacking attitude, and the more volumes I read, the more I realize he would be considered the villain if the readers didn’t know his reasons for behaving this way. His actions are not excusable, but the weight of them is balanced out by the humorous settings that the author and illustrator introduce to lighten up the events, such as kidnapping a bunch of women and using them as bait just to stop an enemy’s relic. On the other hand, he’s loyal to a fault, and he will mess up anyone who dares try to harm the people he cares about. No matter if it’s a person or an international organisation, whoever dares to touch what’s his, and yes, even people are included, they will pay the consequences.
In these volumes, we are also re-introduced to a few of Jooheon’s past comrades who appear as enemies as they don’t remember what happened to them previously, since the Crow relic turned back time. If they get in Jooheon’s way, he’ll deal with them, but if he can turn them into his subordinates, it’s even better. However, his secret risks being exposed when a powerful enemy, Chaewon Jin, comes to him directly, and he’ll have to deal with her and her relics face-to-face. However, Chaewon’s relic is the Chief Commander of all relics! It won’t be easy for Jooheon to beat them when all his relics refuse to go against their Commander. This opens up new questions about relics, their king and what became of them all.
The story is mostly fantasy and action, but there is still some mystery involved, starting on what, or better who, the Crow relic is. The readers and the narrator are not omniscient, so we find out hints and truths at the same time that Jooheon does. These volumes are full of battle scenes from start to finish, whether it’s to clear a tomb or proving Jaeha’s truth against Jean Richard. The volumes rely a lot on the characters’ expressions to narrate the story, which also helps to enhance that comical aspect.
Tomb Raider King is written by SAN.G and started as a web novel before being adapted into a manhwa with art by 3B2S and the adaptation by Yuns (REDICE STUDIO). The series is now complete on Tapas, where it was released chapter by chapter, but the publication in volume format is still ongoing. Ize Press publishes it in the English language. Volume 9 is already out.
Our review copies from Ize Press were supplied by Diamond Book Distributors UK.
