God of War

We're introduced to the monk Kim Jun who was raised by monks and lives peacefully until war destroys his home. He gets separated from his childhood friend Wola and everyone he knows is imprisoned, but everyone refuses to tell the enemy any information about themselves.

The enemy believes that Kim Jun is up to something suspicious because he can't remember where he's from so they begin to torture him. Wola and the other woman are forced to become slaves, beginning their degrading training and are told they're no better than animals.

By chance, Wola and Musang pass each other on the street and try in vain to reach one another, but their captors and chains bind them. Later, the other female slaves help Wola complete her chores which were given to her as punishment, saying they're all in this situation together.

Even though he has lived the way of the pacifist monks until now, Musang will do whatever it takes to be free of servitude and save Wola, choosing to fight in the arena battles. Choe U's sons Manjong and Manjun are reprimanded for bullying a female slave.

Wola gets punished for trying to watch Kim Jun compete in the tournament but Songi takes pity on her and allows her to watch the games. Kim Jun is doing very well, raising his status slowly but surely, and is allowed more food and given less beatings.

After Kim Jun's incessant begging, Songi eventually allows him to go back into the arena, misjudging his determination by thinking it's all for her. During the arena battle, Kim Jun's condition gets the best of him for a little while but seeing his team defeated gives him a second wind.

Kim Jun wins the arena battle after a few close calls with the enemy, surprising and delighting everyone in crowd except the abbot and a frightened Wola. Songi finds herself exhilarated and fascinated by Kim Jun's performance, determination and courage, slowly but surely falling in love with him.

After winning the tournament and being granted entry into the guard corps, Kim Jun gets to make a single request. He asks for them to release Wola from servitude to let her live with abbot Subop at the monastery, shocking Songi and everyone around her.

Even though all the men laugh at Kim Jun because he fought to the death to save Wola, Lord Choe grants his request to release Wola into abbot Subop's care. Songi, feeling jealous and deceived, confronts Kim Jun about lying to her about his intentions from the beginning.

Kim Jun scolds Wola for staying behind since he worked so hard to let her be free, but she can't be happy if she were to leave him alone. When she calls him "Musang", he tells her that their old lives are gone forever and to call him "Kim Jun".

Abbot Subop comes to Wola and tells her that she must come back with him because being a slave is lower than being an animal and that her children will be born slaves as well. In order to take care of Wola, Kim Jun agrees to marry her.

During a battle Lord Choe is injured while his cowardly sons leave him behind and Kim Jun stays to protect him. With his successes in war and with the beautiful Wola, Kim Jun is warned that his kind of luck makes people jealous and to watch his back.

Wola is warned that her good fortune is making people jealous and to not be excited about her wedding. Songi is growing more and more jealous as the wedding approaches, becoming colder to Wola and scolding Lady Choe for giving away a slave for marriage.

Choe U takes his father's place and begins his reform of the government, exiling Choe Hyang and all of his followers. Songi, still bitter with jealousy, tells Wola that her happy life and marriage to Kim Jun were all possible only because she allowed it to happen.

Chunsim, having just been rejected by the man she loves, blames Kim Jun and Wola for everything and plans to kill them both. Songi seeks Kim Jun out and tells him that she thinks his marriage is wrong and asks him to run away with her.

Kim Jun is stunned after Songi asks him to stop his wedding and to escape with her instead but refuses because he says his duty is to be with his Lord. Songi replies by saying she has a feeling that something bad is going to happen to him soon.

Kim Jun brings Wola's body back to the monastery, destroyed inside that he couldn't save the woman he loved when she needed him the most. Songi is interrogated by her father about her part in Wola's rape and death and she confesses to him that she wants Kim Jun.

Songi disobeys her father's orders to never see Kim Jun again and tricks him into running away with her, telling him that they're only going to visit a shrine. Later, she confesses that she could have stopped what happened to Wola but she couldn't stand him being with her.

Six years after Songi's marriage she has a son and a daughter and her mother, on her death bed, tells Songi that her children and husband are the most important in her life. Her mother dies knowing that Songi's heart is forever divided and she still dreams of Kim Jun.

The wars become more intense and the common people are suffering from famine as the young are forced into slavery, leaving only the elderly to tend to the fields. Kim Jun watches in horror as all the women and children are burned alive so they can't be captured by Mongols.

Songi summons a servant of her husband in order to ask about Kim Jun, who tells her that Fort Cholju was attacked and there's no chance that Kim Jun survived. Before all of Song Kilyu and Choe Yangbaek's men could be slaughtered by mongols, the warrior monks rescue them.

The Mongol troops rejoice in their recent victories over the Koryo troops, laughing about the tens of thousands of men slaughtered. The warrior monks ambush Kim Jun and his men who mistake them for bandits, but they quickly recognize each other and are overjoyed to find one another alive.

The Mongols are approaching the capital, sending a warning to the Koryo troops by burning down the temples first. Songi and the other ladies are shocked when they see that Kim Jun has returned and the two have a reunion, one where Songi is emotional and Kim Jun is cold.

The emperor tells the men to open their gates to the Mongols since Koryo doesn't have enough soldiers left to fight them off and a treaty is enacted. Abbot Subop comes across a village where the monks are terrorizing the people, taxing them highly and throwing dirt in their faces.