Jooheon Suh, a tomb raider betrayed by his employer and left to die, is given a second chance by a mysterious crow and wakes fifteen years in the past, before the tombs appeared. With his memories of which relics surface where, he starts buying up the future before anyone else knows it is for sale.
Jooheon funds his new life by raiding the earliest tombs himself, turning small relics into seed money while staying ahead of TKBM, the company that used him before. His old boss Chairman Kwon notices the unknown raider beating him to prize after prize and starts hunting for who is behind it.
The fight with Chairman Kwon turns open as Jooheon crashes a Las Vegas auction for a deity-class relic and recruits Yoo Jae-Ha, a forger-turned-restoration specialist who can repair what battles break. Each side starts treating the other as its main enemy, and Jooheon declares he will take everything Kwon has.
Chasing gold-type relics and the map fragments that point to bigger tombs, Jooheon runs into Keira Clark, the American general known as the King of War, who wants the same maps. He takes a job from her while planning to destroy the map relics she already holds, so her war machine never gets aimed.
The hunt for Xu Fu's relic and the Herb of Eternal Youth pulls Jooheon across the sea, where the crow's warnings start making sense and old monarchs begin gathering in one place. Irene Holton's cursed relic awakens, and saving her family puts Jooheon on a direct course with Keira's end.
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Past-life monarchs start remembering who they were, and Jooheon has to decide whose memories are worth restoring and whose are safer left buried. The race for the era's greatest artifacts narrows to a few tombs, with Pandora, the international relic authority, watching every excavation.
Welcomed as the Monarch of Plunder, Jooheon turns his crew into a force that tombs and companies alike have to reckon with. Julian Miller, his old strategist, rejoins after getting his memories back, and the team starts dismantling rival strongholds instead of just robbing them.
The tomb of The Art of War forces Jooheon into a battle of strategy rather than strength, while a scandal he engineers shakes the rival factions. His father-figure ties to old comrades resurface, and what happened in the past starts catching up with the new timeline.
An Egyptian tomb lays a pharaoh's curse on Jooheon himself, and lifting it costs him more than relics. Hijackings, auctions, and a direct confrontation with Chairman Kwon's people follow, as the team learns that changing the past has put a price on Jooheon's own head.
The Monarch's Tomb opens, and tricking the entire world becomes Jooheon's plan for surviving it. Old teammates abducted or scattered in the new timeline are gathered one by one, each regained memory making the crew stronger and their enemies more desperate to stop the tomb from being claimed.
Avarice descends as four factions collide over the remaining great tombs, from a Jack the Ripper tomb to exhibition heists. Jooheon plays the factions against each other, but the relics start demanding prices in curses and memories that gold cannot pay.
With artifacts choosing sides and tears that carry their will, Jooheon closes in on the supreme seat over all relics. A wedding forces the team to pause between battles, though even the celebration becomes another stage for relic politics and old promises.
The key to the Great Prison turns, and a Majesty emerges above all relic holders. Jooheon dismantles the enemy strongholds one by one while rivals crown their own candidates, racing toward a final treasure that will decide whose history survives.
Thrones, crowns, and the crow's true design converge as Ragnarok begins and the final treasure is claimed. Jooheon faces the last question the story has asked since his return: what a Tomb Raider King owes the world he looted to save it.
After the main story, short episodes follow the crew home: Jae-Ha's spring, Seol-Ah's confession, Julian's tangled engagements, and Jooheon's own wedding plans getting destroyed and rebuilt. Not every side story was adapted to the webtoon.
The novel's epilogue closes Jooheon's story after the wedding chaos settles. It was not adapted to the webtoon.
* Arc names chosen by Arc Almanac, because the books don’t name them.
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