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School of Shen Mountain Fist

    The Kung Fu Masters in general 
  • The Chosen One: Whichever of the two you train with the most will become one of the thirteen Champions.
  • Cutscene Power to the Max: The Ultimate Fire Ice Bomb used in cutscenes is fueled by both masters plus the Knight and is much stronger than the one available in gameplay.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: Both faced tragedy from an early age.
  • Human Resources: The one who joined the cast was used as a power source for an Invader robot that attacked the Knight and Little Princess in Chapter 15. Fortunately, their sheer amount of life force was so great that the robot didn't drain enough to cause them serious harm before they were rescued.
  • Kamehame Hadoken: Their strongest attack is the Ultimate Fire Ice Bomb, the ultimate technique of the Shen Mountain Fist.
  • Light 'em Up: Both are light element adventurers.
  • Mutually Exclusive Party Members: You can only recruit one of the masters depending on your choices during World 5. Enforced by the fact that the Kung Fu Master is the only character you cannot pull from the gacha until you have already recruited one of them. Becomes subverted in a later update where the players are now given the freedom of choice to change the Kung Fu Master's gender at any point in time after finishing World 5.
  • Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: Their normal attack, with the occasional boosted Double Palm Strike thrown in.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: Mei is the hotheaded and passionate red oni while Fei is the calm and controlled blue oni. Fittingly, they wear red and blue uniforms, respectively.
  • Sacrificial Lion: Their alternate counterpart was killed in an Invader ambush during the world 10 Time Skip.
  • Static Role, Exchangeable Character: One of the masters travels with you, while the other one stays behind to tend to the dojo. They are pretty much identical in either role and usually show up as a pair when called on to appear later in the story.
  • Took a Level in Badass: The Masters gained an ascension form that greatly enhanced their power.
  • Yin-Yang Bomb: The Ultimate Fire Ice Bomb, as the name implies, starts as a ball of fire and a ball of ice before the two are combined into a single massive ball of destructive energy.

    Kung Fu Master Fei 
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I am Fei of the Shen Mountain Fist. Let's do this.
JP artwork 

Fei is an apprentice of master Tao in the School of Shen Mountain Fist.

Before meeting master Tao, he was a member of the famed Tiger Clan. However, his lowly status eventually got him rejected from the clan. Despite all the hardships and unfairness, he firmly believes that good nature and strength lie within every person.

He goes the extra mile to treat people fairly, never to make anyone feel like he once did. He is well-mannered and calm but shows his soft sides when he is talking to animals.

Rarity: 2-star
Species: Human
Age: 20
Height and weight: 176cm/72kg
Element: Light
Role: Warrior
Exclusive Weapon: Pride of Fighter
Voiced by: Hideki Kojima (Japanese), Aleks Le (English)

  • Friend to All Living Things: He believes in the goodness of everyone and gets along well with animals.
  • Good Is Not Soft: Despite his usual fairness, he approves of the more brutal choices the Knight makes.
  • Overshadowed by Awesome: While talented in martial arts, he was kicked out of Tiger Clan Dojo as he wasn't of high societal status. He went to learn from Master Tao to prove he wasn't useless.

    Kung Fu Master Mei 
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I'm Mei of the Shen Mountain Fist. Let's do this.
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Mei is an apprentice of master Tao in the School of the Shen Mountain Fist.

Once prestigious, her family was destroyed by false treason accusations by their political rivals. She started training in martial arts to get her revenge but eventually got attracted to the level of depth, both physically and spiritually, that lies within the art.

She has a natural gift in martial arts. Before Master Tao took her in, she had already trained herself into a competent martial artist. She is hotheaded and impatient but is starting to learn to control herself through meditation.

Rarity: 2-star
Species: Human
Age: 20
Height and weight: 164cm/49kg
Element: Light
Role: Warrior
Exclusive Weapon: Pride of Fighter
Voiced by: Hina Aihara (Japanese, formerly), Mai Fuchigami (Japanese, current), Stephanie Sheh (English)

  • Impoverished Patrician: She's from a formerly powerful aristocratic family that lost their status due to false accusations from a rival clan.
  • Tame His Anger: She's worked to calm herself through meditation and let go of her old desires for revenge, but still occasionally flares up when angered or overly excited.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: She's one of the characters who most vehemently objects to the Knight taking any "evil" choice.

    Master Tao 
  • Cain and Abel: The Abel to the Viper Clan Leader's Cain.
  • Magic Feather: The final scroll Tao gives you is completely blank.
  • Mentor Occupational Hazard: He's eventually killed by his evil brother while trying to protect his students. He returns in spirit form to aid the Knight in After World Inc.
  • Passing the Torch: He's looking for a successor to the Shen Mountain Fist.
  • Training from Hell: The first half of world 5 is this as Tao trains the Knight, Fei, and Mei.

Dragon Talon Clan

    Dragon Talon Clan Ranpang 
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Together, the Dragon Talon Clan will dominate worldwide!
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Ranpang is the boss of Dragon Talon Clan, a ruthless clan that strikes terror into the hearts of Shen City's citizens while wearing the most intimidating and powerful armor ever made. At least, that's what she thinks she is. In reality, she and the Dragon Talon Clan mostly wind up helping the citizens of Shen City with minor problems while convincing themselves that it is all somehow great villainy and her "armor" is an adorable dragon mascot costume. She and the Dragon Talon Clan will conquer the world one day. At least, that's what Ranpang thinks.

Rarity: 2-star
Species: Human
Age: 21
Height and weight: 149cm/40kg
Element: Basic
Role: Tanker
Exclusive Weapon: Firm Determination
Voiced by: Yuki Aburano (Japanese), Shelby Young (English)
Illustrator: Wonchun Choi (GL/KR)

  • Break the Cutie: Was the sole survivor of a hidden bomb attack during the Bad Future Time Skip. Seeing everyone blown apart and being unable to fix them gave her PTSD.
  • Card-Carrying Villain: She's convinced that she's a terrifying villain no matter how helpful her actions really are.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: Ranpang lives in her own little world and rarely lets reality intrude on it.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: For all her self-declared villainy, Ranpang disapproves of any actually malicious acts the player can take saying that it's "too evil, even for [her]." She congratulates them for benevolent acts while proclaiming them her kind of "evil".
  • Harmless Villain: She and the rest of the Dragon Talon Clan claim to be great villains, but all their schemes usually amount to is doing various forms of community service and framing it as dastardly villainy to themselves. The fact that she does her "evil schemes" while wearing a stuffed dragon costume ensures that nobody in Shen City sees her as more than a kid playing pretend.
  • Insane Troll Logic: She says she wears a dragon mascot costume because it both intimidates all opponents and is the greatest armor that repels all blows. She applies that kind of "logic" to most of her activities.
  • Interface Spoiler: Is probably one of the worst offenders in regards to the fact that there's a Time Skip in the story to a Bad Future with a skin, card, and appearance in another character's background art.
  • Future Badass: She's ditched the suit entirely to go Rambo on the Invaders in Heavenhold Castle in World 11. She has such a high kill count that by the time you arrive that the Invader guards think the place is haunted.
  • Goofy Suit: Evidently has invented an entire martial arts style based on fighting in stuffed dragon or panda suits.
  • Pragmatic Villainy: She justifies all the helpful effects of her gang's "crimes" by accentuating the potential negative consequences of them as her "real goal" after the fact. Such as saving civilians and even enemies from Invaders to expand the Dragon Talon Gang's influence.
  • Poke the Poodle: The Dragon Talon Clan wants to Take Over the World with such heinous actions as... putting candy in the food storage to "poison" the populace with sugar, automating the torches to make people become lazy, and beating up Viper Clan ninja assaulting civilians on their way to spread their social media influence!
  • Shell-Shocked Veteran: She suffers from severe PTSD in the Unrecorded World after witnessing the deaths of Hosida and DaVinci during the Invader's attack on Shen City. She becomes a paranoid guerilla combatant against the Invaders afterwards, spending a decade alone brutally hunting them from the shadows in Heavenhold Castle. She nearly added the Knight to her victims before she recognizes who they were and breaking down in tears while venting all her traumas until she falls asleep out of a mix of relief and exhaustion. After the battle ends, she refuses to believe it, delusionally and violently protecting a set of volleyballs representing her old friends until Future Princess can talk her down into surrendering to go back to therapy.
  • Stone Wall: Given for a Tanker, but her final passive makes her even tougher to break by giving her 30% Damage Reduction under 50% HP.
  • Terrible Trio: She leads the Dragon Talon Clan. Consisting of her and her subordinates, Hoshida and DaVinci with the Knight as a part-timer.
  • True Companions: Her fellow Dragon Talon Clan members mean the world to her. Them being killed in the Unrecorded World leads her down a dark path of revenge.

    Dragon Talon Clan DaVinci 
DaVinci is an inventor of the Dragon Talon Clan rooted in the city of Shen. He is in charge of weapon development.

Rarity: 1-star
Species: Bear
Age: 22
Height and weight: 110cm/350kg
Element: Water
Role: Warrior

    Dragon Talon Clan Hoshida 
Hoshida is an underboss of the Dragon Talon Clan rooted in the city of Shen.

Rarity: 1-star
Species: Human
Age: 22
Height and weight: 92cm/20kg
Element: Dark
Role: Warrior

Other Characters

    Fire Dragon Girgas 
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I have no interest in humans. Make sure you don't get too attached.
JP redesign 
Girgas is a mischievous young dragon who got stuck looking like a half-human half-dragon due to a botched transformation spell.

Rarity: 2-star
Species: Dragon
Age: 75
Height and weight: 152cm/45kg
Element: Fire
Role: Ranged
Exclusive Weapon: Wrath of Dragon
Voiced by: Miho Okasaki (Japanese), Jamieson Price (English)
Illustrator: Wonchun Choi (GL/KR)

  • A Day in the Limelight: Has one with Neva in her short story.
  • Breath Weapon: Befitting of a dragon, his normal attack is a fire breath.
  • Big Eater: Most of the problems Neva has to deal with in her short story are because she's following Girgas, who had been eating everything he could find.
  • Crossdressing Voices: Girgas is voiced by a woman (Miho Okasaki) in the Japanese dub.
  • Inept Mage: He has little grasp of magic beyond the purely destructive. His mother banned him from using magic because of his lack of control.
  • Interface Spoiler: Girgas's bio simply says that he ran from home to use magic freely without his mother's oversight. The fact that he's the son of the Fire Dragon King is spoiled by Vishuvac's bio.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's abrasive, arrogant, and causes chaos with his thoughtless actions, but it's more due to his sheltered upbringing than any malice. He highly approves any compassionate decisions the Knight makes and disapproves of any corrupt ones.
  • Little Bit Beastly: His horns, scales, and tail are all aspects of his natural dragon body that he maintains in his humanoid form.
  • Pintsized Powerhouse: He may look and act like a human child, but he still has the raw magical power of a royal dragon.
  • Really 700 Years Old: He's in his mid-seventies, but still a child by dragon standards.
  • Rebel Prince: He ran away from his mother, the Fire Dragon King, so he could use magic without her supervision.
  • Royal Brat: Being both a prince and dragon has given him a superiority complex and sense of entitlement but prevented him from having to develop common sense. He tends to get run out of any establishment he goes to after his attitude and antics inevitably enrage the proprietors.
  • Shapeshifter Mode Lock: He's not naturally humanoid. His current form is the result of him screwing up a transformation spell and not having the skill to undo it himself. Part of his motivation for his wanderings is to find a way to undo the spell without his mother finding out. While Girgas becomes more dragon-like as you increase his evolution level, his true dragon form is only seen when he uses his EX Weapon skill.

    Baby White Tiger Kang 
A young white tiger cub found in Shen City.

Rarity: 1-star
Species: Tiger
Age: 1
Height and weight: 20cm/16kg
Element: Light
Role: Warrior

  • Beast and Beauty: Kang is an apparently normal white tiger while his sister Kanna is a white tiger anthromorph that can shift between human and tiger forms at will.
  • Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The "foolish" sibling to Kanna's "responsible" sibling due to their age difference.
  • Our Werebeasts Are Different: Like his sister, Kang is a weretiger capable of taking a humanoid form, but he is currently too young to transform out of his natural form yet.
  • Ridiculously Cute Critter: He's an adorable tiger cub about the size of a housecat.
  • Voluntary Shapeshifter: He hasn't learned how yet, but when he gets older, he'll be able to shift from tiger to human and in-between at will.

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