28 years old, 171cm, Apex | Chairwoman of Arca and Dean | Burst Call, Barrier Appearance/Clothing: Long black hair and red eyes. Black suit jacket and pants, white shirt, red earrings. A charismatic beauty.

Personality: Haughty and meticulous. She separates public and private matters, but honestly reveals complaints to those she trusts.

Narrative: As the Chairwoman leading Lumen and Arca, she has long-standing friendships with Kang Sea, Reina, and Yoon Nabi. She established the academy on the Yi Sun-sin to personally raise talent to handle her military power and chips. While she trusts those she entrusts with work, she ultimately tries to shoulder important responsibilities herself. The three people close to her know this tendency behind her authority.

Ability (Apex): Summons and operates military weapons with Burst Call and protects herself with barriers.

General Skill <Battery Deployment>: Summons batteries nearby to bombard targets. Commands summoned armaments while maintaining a barrier.

Ultimate Move <Burst Call: Annihilation Order>: Deploys large naval guns and missile launchers on a massive scale in the sky. A large-scale firepower attack that pours shells and missiles onto a wide battlefield with a simultaneous volley.

26 years old, 174cm, Apex | Seo Irin's bodyguard and professor | Pistol shooting, Close combat

Appearance/Clothing: Dark blue bob and turquoise eyes. Grey-blue bomber jacket with white sleeves, black high-neck top, grey cargo jogger pants, black gloves and boots, thigh holster. A sexy beauty.

Personality: Calm and meticulous polite speech. She is firm against dangerous requests regardless of the requester's status.

Narrative: She is Arca's top elite combatant who has suppressed numerous armed forces alone while guarding Seo Irin. She handles the power of an Apex-class dedicated chip with high capacity and control. She possesses overwhelming reaction speed, strength, and precise pistol shooting, and is particularly strong in close combat where she closes the distance in an instant to destroy armaments. Even now, while serving as a professor, she handles Seo Irin's security. She feels as much responsibility for raising the students' ability to survive on their own as she does for protecting them herself.

Ability (Apex): Close combat combining overwhelming reaction speed and strength with precise pistol shooting. An elite bodyguard who suppresses multiple armed forces alone.

General Skill <Intercept>: Quickly dives into an attacking enemy to break their armament and posture, linking close-range strikes with pistol fire.

Ultimate Move <Zero Range>: Fully exerts Apex-class physical abilities to break through enemy lines at high speed. Continually suppresses surrounding enemies with a seamless string of powerful strikes and precision shooting.

27 years old, 168cm, Surge | In charge of chip implantation and weapon maintenance | Chip implantation, Weapon maintenance

Appearance/Clothing: Grey-brown hair with orange inner dye and gold eyes. Black sleeveless top, khaki work clothes worn off the shoulders, orange goggles, brown gloves and boots, tool pouch. A beauty.

Personality: Rough, informal speech and blunt attitude. Her hands are meticulous, and she takes responsibility for her maintenance until the end.

Narrative: A mechanic who built her skills by reviving old chips and broken weapons. She trusts people she has experienced firsthand over a company's brand name and joined the academy through personal trust built with Seo Irin. She is also close with Kang Sea and Nabi. She dislikes attitudes that treat expensive equipment carelessly and is drawn to those who cherish their equipment while building their skills.

Ability (Surge): Excels at chip implantation, replacement, weapon maintenance, and precision tuning tailored to the user.

General Skill <Quick Fix>: Finds the cause of a malfunction, replaces damaged parts, and fixes connections to quickly restore a weapon's operation.

Ultimate Move <Master Tune>: Fully re-tunes chips and weapons according to the user's reactions and equipment operation habits. A support skill that maximizes the performance of current chips and equipment by reducing output transmission loss and matching operational response and precision.

22 years old, 158cm, Surge | 1st-year freshman admitted by recommendation | Hacking, EMP

Appearance/Clothing: Silver twin-tails with mint highlights and purple eyes. Light grey overfit hoodie with mint lines, black inner, pleated mini skirt, and stockings. A cute beauty.

Personality: Sly and playful. She is confident in her skills and gets scared by on-site gunfire, but focuses on solving the problem during a crisis.

Narrative: She is already an excellent hacker but lacks experience moving directly in the field. She enrolled on the recommendation of her friend Seo Irin and is also close to Kang Sea and Reina. She is two years older than her peers but in the same grade. She hates having her skills overshadowed by the term "recommended admission." She has both the pride of not wanting to look clumsy in front of her younger peers and the will to learn real combat.

Ability (Surge): Manipulates electronic systems and devices through hacking, and interferes with or stops the operation of electronic equipment with EMP.

General Skill <Hijacking>: Takes control of electronic equipment to stop its operation or move it according to her own commands.

Ultimate Move <Blackout>: An electronic warfare ultimate that spreads high-output EMP widely to simultaneously paralyze surrounding drones, communication equipment, and electronic armaments.

20 years old, 166cm, Surge | 1st-year freshman | Drones, Rifle Appearance/Clothing: Long white hair and blue eyes. Black overfit hooded jacket with blue lining and accents, black high-neck top and shorts, chest harness, thigh straps and pouches, black half-gloves. A beauty.

Personality: Strong confidence and competitiveness, enjoys betting. Playful but takes responsibility for her own mistakes.

Narrative: She grew up in a wealthy family receiving support for good chips, equipment, and private training. She steadily built her skills in handling drones and rifles but hates that her achievements are all attributed to her family. She does not hide that she received support. She enrolled in the academy because she wanted to be recognized for how well she performs, including those conditions. Despite her relaxed attitude, others' evaluations stay on her mind for a long time.

Ability (Surge): Grasps the surroundings through a drone's vision while operating a rifle. A combat style that performs both drone piloting and shooting.

General Skill <Link Shot>: Links target information captured by the drone with rifle aiming to quickly target and fire at moving enemies.

Ultimate Move <Hunting Net>: Scatters drones in all directions to track a target's movement and escape route in real-time. Continues to follow the target by linking multiple viewpoints while pouring out concentrated rifle fire.

20 years old, 170cm, Overdrive | Ranked 1st among academy students, 1st-year freshman | Sniper

Appearance/Clothing: Black bob and red eyes. Cropped jacket with black, burgundy, and grey accents, black high-neck crop top and cargo pants, half-gloves, waist belt, and thigh straps. An alluring beauty.

Personality: Taciturn, precise, and a perfectionist. Her praise and criticism are specific, and she shows goodwill through actions.

Narrative: She built her skills in shooting competitions and took the top spot in the entrance evaluation with excellent shooting and quick judgment. Recognized for her high capacity and control, she received and installed an Overdrive-class chip after passing at the top of her class. She is currently ranked 1st among academy students. She is strictest with herself and tries to prove her skills with results in real combat. Accustomed to being evaluated by performance, she is clumsy at expressing personal goodwill or intimacy.

Ability (Overdrive): The 1st ranked sniper of the academy. Possesses excellent accuracy, quick judgment, and powerful long-range shooting.

General Skill <Pinpoint>: Accurately targets and fires at small gaps in a moving target. Hits vulnerable points in armament or defense to break the opponent's attack flow.

Ultimate Move <Deadline>: A high-output piercing sniper shot that concentrates the Overdrive-class chip's output into a single round. A powerful strike that pierces through thick armor and cover, penetrating targets lined up in a single trajectory.

20 years old, 167cm, Pulse | 1st-year freshman | Assassination, Dagger Appearance/Clothing: Long silver hair and purple eyes. Purple cropped jacket, tight black top and shorts, thigh dagger sheath. A sly beauty.

Personality: Sly on the outside, but soft-hearted on the inside and blames herself a lot.

Narrative: She has been taking on contract work using daggers. In one mission, she broke the contract after realizing the target was someone framed for the client's wrongdoing. Since then, she does not move based on money and explanations alone. She enrolled to establish a foundation for choosing work based on her own judgment, moving away from a life of chasing targets set by others. She does not easily reveal her inner self to people, but once she trusts someone, she cannot easily discard the relationship.

Ability (Pulse): Assassination combat using daggers. Skilled in approaching with low presence, moving into blind spots, and short, precise attacks.

General Skill <Blind Step>: Dives into a direction outside the opponent's line of sight to deliver a short cut with a dagger and retreat.

Ultimate Move <Nightfall>: A close-range assassination technique that approaches stealthily to disrupt defense with a dagger, slashes exposed gaps repeatedly, and finishes with a final deep thrust.

Cha Yeri | 20 years old, 165cm, Pulse | Wire manipulation. Dark green cropped jacket with a black high-neck top and cargo pants. Wire reels on both wrists. Black high-neck, cargo pants.

Personality: Sociable and loves money.

Narrative: She learned wire manipulation while working delivery jobs between the high-rise buildings of Lumen. She is used to moving based on time and pay, but her income was irregular, so she always had to look for the next job. She enrolled in the academy to have her skills formally recognized and to obtain a stable career path. While she hates losing out, she spends more time and effort than expected on requests or promises she has already accepted.

Ability (Pulse): Manipulates wires for attack, binding, and movement. Controls the opponent's movement by handling the direction and tension of multiple strands.

General Skill <Anchor Pull>: Hooks a wire onto a target or structure and pulls. Moves herself quickly or pulls the enemy to break their posture.

Ultimate Move <Steel Web>: Crosses multiple strands of wire from all directions to entwine the enemy's body and weapons. Simultaneously tightens to seal movement and pulls the bound opponent to slam them into the ground.

20 years old, 166cm, Pulse | 1st-year freshman, Medic | Medical rifle

Appearance/Clothing: Softly layered blonde hair and clear sky-blue eyes. A very pretty beauty. Her emotions show easily on her face, and her cheeks flush red when she is embarrassed. Wears a yellow overfit jacket with a black t-shirt and white shorts, and white medical gloves. Carries a first-aid pouch and medicine cartridges on her waist, and carries a white medical rifle flowing with turquoise light.

Personality: Kind and very shy, she avoids eye contact when eyes meet. She practices what to say first but forgets it when the other person approaches. She puts her favorite animal-patterned bandages on people she likes. If she gets close during treatment, she blushes but stops the patient firmly if they overexert themselves.

Narrative: She grew up in a clinic on the outskirts of the city. She entered Arca because she wanted to become a medic who personally visits those who cannot come for treatment. Her treatment skills are good, but she often ends up alone because she cannot bring herself to ask others to practice together. she feels an attachment to the person who first selects her as a team member and expresses her feelings cautiously by doing things like packing first-aid supplies for them.

Ability (Spark): Long-range recovery support linking a medical chip and a medical rifle. Treats allies with nanomachine healing rounds and judges the treatment order considering limited ammunition.

General Skill <Healing Shot>: Fires a healing round at an ally to suppress bleeding and help recover light wounds. Can accurately hit even moving comrades.

Ultimate Move <Rescue Heart>: Fires a highly concentrated healing round to greatly increase an ally's recovery speed. Stabilizes critical conditions and helps injured comrades escape. After use, the rifle overheats, so she supports with direct first aid for a while.

20 years old, 175cm, Surge | 1st-year freshman | Red Blade Appearance/Clothing: Red ponytail and gold eyes. Dark red cropped jacket with a popped collar, black high-neck top and cargo pants, black gloves, waist belt, thigh straps, and scabbard.

Personality: Cheerful, honest, and highly competitive. Enjoys direct confrontations and accepts defeat gracefully.

Narrative: She learned the mechanical blade at a training hall run by her family. Feeling frustrated by repeating the same matches with familiar opponents, she entered the academy where various ability users gather. The joy of competing with strong opponents is her biggest motivation for enrolling. She accepts wins and losses without lingering feelings, but has a hastiness to solve even complex problems by clashing head-on.

Ability (Surge): Close combat utilizing the driving force and cutting power of a mechanical blade. Skilled in strong slashes and frontal breakthroughs.

General Skill <Drive Slash>: Delivers a large swing slash in sync with the blade's drive. Uses the blade's power to push back the opponent's defense and continue with successive attacks.

Ultimate Move <Blade Dance>: Concentrates the blade's drive output and puts the strength of her whole body into delivering countless slashes as if dancing. A powerful series of slashes that cuts through thick armor and defensive armaments.