Koret Lim

Koret Lim is a green-blue Urivan adventurer and a member of the group preparing to delve a dungeon. Although he is not the group’s spokesman, his doubts provide the clearest measure of how extraordinary Raine and Leese appear to outsiders: he recognizes that their claimed abilities may exceed the normal limits of the local rank structure, yet he remains cautious about accepting their claims. His eventual agreement helps establish a working connection between the newly arrived sisters and the Uriv Lineage adventurers.

Identity and First Assessment

Koret appears during the aftermath of Raine and Leese’s remarkably rapid dungeon clear. Raine reports that they cleared the entire dungeon in six hours, then uses Appraise, a Skill she acquired during the run, to assess the waiting adventurers. The group includes Harik Lim, Koret Lim, Mokri Stek, and Orek En-Stek, with Koret identified as Harik’s slightly smaller brother. His physical description as a green-blue Urivan places him within the Urivan Lineage while distinguishing him visually from the human-presenting newcomers.

Koret immediately responds with distrust rather than enthusiasm. When Leese proposes helping the group locate and kill a Peak Gold World Elite, Koret makes clear that the offer is not yet welcome. His comment that the group has not decided which World Elite to pursue is a polite dismissal, telling the outsiders to keep out of the decision. The resistance is reasonable: Raine and Leese have only recently entered the System, and their extraordinary competence is not yet supported by a reputation the adventurers can verify.

Skepticism and Rank-Based Reasoning

Koret’s skepticism becomes more explicit when the group speculates about Raine and Leese’s origin and strength. After Orek expresses immediate admiration, Mokri suggests that the sisters might be a project from the Core Worlds, perhaps even Azoth-level beings. Koret challenges that escalation, asking whether they truly need to be assumed so powerful and arguing that a Platinum could accomplish a great deal without invoking a monster from the Core Worlds.

This exchange shows Koret thinking through the System’s rank hierarchy rather than simply accepting the most dramatic explanation. Orek counters that Platinums, despite their strength, do not surpass their limits until Bismuth, while Harik recalls having heard of only two Urivans who ever reached Azoth. Koret therefore occupies the position of the group’s rational check: he does not deny that Raine and Leese are unusual, but he resists converting unusual ability into an unsupported conclusion about their rank or origin.

Decision to Accept Their Help

Koret’s caution does not become permanent opposition. Leese frames the proposed alliance in practical terms: Raine and Leese can locate World Elites through information ultimately supplied by Cato’s observation satellites, but they need companions who can travel offworld. They offer to help the Urivans kill a Peak Gold World Elite in exchange for accompanying the group later. The proposal turns their apparent dependence on the group into a reciprocal arrangement, while also giving the sisters a way to build contacts despite having only just appeared within the System.

Koret does not accept immediately. Harik notes that the group must first delve the dungeon, and the adventurers continue to weigh the proposal. After hearing the sisters’ instruction and observing their specialized knowledge, however, the group reaches a conditional agreement: if Raine and Leese are still available when the adventurers emerge, they will accept the offer. Koret is part of that unanimous decision. His movement from guarded dismissal to conditional cooperation is not a conversion into blind trust; it is a practical judgment that the opportunity is worth pursuing after the group’s immediate dungeon obligation is complete.

Relationships and Narrative Function

Koret’s most important relationship is with his fellow Urivan adventurers, especially his brother Harik. The group’s discussion presents him as someone whose doubts are heard within the party and whose assessment contributes to collective decision-making. He does not control the conversation, but his challenge to the Azoth theory prevents the group from treating speculation as fact. His role is therefore both familial and deliberative: he helps the party test extraordinary claims before committing itself.

His relationship with Raine and Leese begins under mutual uncertainty. Koret does not know whether they are trustworthy, whether their strength has been exaggerated, or whether their knowledge comes from an origin far beyond the group’s reach. At the same time, Raine and Leese recognize that the Urivans can provide precisely what they lack: contacts and offworld companionship. The sisters’ offer is thus both assistance and networking, while Koret’s response demonstrates the negotiation required to turn dazzling expertise into an alliance.

Koret also becomes an indirect beneficiary of the combat instruction Raine and Leese provide to Orek. Orek possesses a rare growth weapon and returning chakrams, but lacks a teacher capable of helping him develop the weapon Skill beyond F-tier. Raine and Leese identify improvements in his grip, angle, timing, and rhythm after watching his Cascading Volley Skill. Koret’s eventual agreement occurs in a group that has witnessed this concrete value, making the proposed partnership more credible than the sisters’ boast about locating World Elites alone.

Characterization and Significance

Koret is defined by disciplined uncertainty. He neither collapses into awe at Raine and Leese’s abilities nor rejects them because their claims seem implausible. Instead, he tests the explanation against known ranks, remembered examples of Urivans who reached Azoth, and the immediate practical demands of the dungeon. That balance makes him a grounded observer of the System’s hierarchy and a useful counterpoint to Orek’s instant admiration and Mokri’s protective skepticism.

His decision matters because it marks the first stage of Raine and Leese’s integration into a wider adventuring network. They have existed within the System for only eight hours and are, in social terms, nobody; Koret’s group supplies a possible route toward recognition, travel, and future World Elite hunts. The agreement remains conditional, but it converts the sisters’ unprecedented performance into a concrete social consequence: a cautious Urivan party is willing to work with them once their immediate dungeon expedition is complete.