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    Helck 

Voiced by: Katsuyuki Konishi (Japanese), Andrew Love (English)

A Hero who hates humans, he enters into the tournament to become the next Demon King at the start of the series.

Power Level: 99

  • Achievements in Ignorance: He's been fighting off the Will of the World since childhood without realizing it.
  • Almighty Janitor: Helck is one of the strongest people in the world, but before becoming a hero was a construction worker. He only started fighting monsters because he was drafted in the army, and even then was just a foot soldier.
  • Anti-Hero: Helck is a good guy, but his main goal is the total eradication of all humans.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: On the thankfully rare occasions Helck snaps, he erupts in a nightmarish storm of rage, his anger practically manifesting in physical form. Fortunately, it's possible to calm him down before things go too far.
  • Big Brother Instinct: Helck loves his brother Cless, and from when they were kids to full adulthood has always been fiercely protective of him. When they come to blows later in the story, Helck outright says he's never ever been angry at him, scolded him, or fought with him until that moment.
  • Broken Ace: He's good at everything he does, but he's lost just about everyone he cared about as a result.
  • But Now I Must Go: After everything's said and done, he decides to go on a journey with Alicia to help people in need, as he realized that he could prevent others from becoming enthralled by the Will of the World by pulling them out of the pits of despair.
  • Chekhov's Skill: Inverted. His comically improbable cooking and building skills are explained by his lifestyle in the Whole Episode Flashback.
  • The Chosen One: Much to Vermilio's surprise, Helck has been an awakened hero since he was a small child. It probably accounts for why he is such a high level for a human.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: Helck has not had the easiest life. He grew up as a penniless and reviled street urchin in the capital along with his brother after the destruction of his village, and even after they're saved from the streets, Helck learns of the conspiracy formulated by the very people who saved his life to awaken the commoners and make them the thralls of the nobility. His friends' plans to stop them fails and results in his brother's death, and all his allies fall one by one to be later awakened. And even when he manages to rescue Alicia from her execution, he's unable to save her from awakening and she turns right in his arms. And ultimately, his last-ditch attempt to slay the king fails and results in him being teleported to the demon world, which is where his story starts as he enters the tournament.
  • Earn Your Happy Ending: After all the hell he endures throughout his life, he ends the story having successfully saved the world and with all his loved ones alive, well, and by his side once again.
  • Friendly Enemy: He comes off this way to his former companions turned enemies. He doesn't want to fight them, but he knows that he has to. For the most part, it's reciprocated.
  • Heroic Willpower: No matter how bleak things seem, he'll still push through nonetheless through sheer force of will. It's later revealed he's been fighting off the Will of the World since childhood.
  • Humans Are Bastards: Implied to be part of Helck's motives for wanting to see humanity eradicated. It turns out that this isn' wholly the case, as while he has indeed seen how low humanity can sink and how self-serving they can be, he's more concerned with stopping the masterminds behind the awakenings in order to put humanity out of its misery as mindless slaves of the king.
  • Humble Hero: Helck doesn't really think much of himself, and no matter what he does is quick to praise others as more amazing.
  • I Owe You My Life: Not himself, but Rafaed saved his brother and he feels this way towards him. But he can't just let what he did to his brother and his friends go.
  • Intrinsic Vow: He promises to never, ever hurt Vermilio even if his Unstoppable Rage gets the best of him. Even after going fully berserk, he keeps his word.
  • Kill the Ones You Love: Averted Trope. Alicia begged him to Mercy Kill her before she finished awakening, but he refused to do so. He attempts to go through with it in chapter 69, only to be stopped by Vermilio, who suggests they Take a Third Option.
  • Locked into Strangeness: His blue hair turns black in the final chapters as a final mark of his temporary fall to madness.
  • Nice Guy: Helck is an incredibly nice and humble guy.
  • Oblivious to Love: He didn't pick up on Alicia's feelings for him.
  • One-Man Army: Showcased in chapter 51, as he tears through the people after the bounty on his head and the kingdom's awakened soldiers while his mind is on other things.
  • Progressively Prettier: Helck's initial appearance in the manga is practically a caricature, with a comically tiny face and very boxy proportions. However, coinciding with the tonal shift in the story, his proportions start evening out. Near the end, he has a more conventional Heroic Build and Lantern Jaw of Justice, which consequently make him more traditionally handsome. The anime averts this, having him start off with a more attractive appearance than in the manga.
  • Resting Recovery: A side bonus of being a hero is shaking off most injuries by flexing and resting.
  • Ridiculously Fast Construction: He's able to near-instantly build a house of cards and later on a wooden cabin proper in no time at all. His backstory reveals that he used to be a simple construction worker in the past.
  • Shipper on Deck: On board with Cless and Sharuami's budding relationship, even knowing the problems in their way.
  • Stepford Smiler: Chapter 52's omake suggests he's always been like this to some extent; sometimes his smile is real, sometimes it isn't, but it's impossible to tell either way. Chapter 52 itself suggests Helck's now actively putting on a smile to honor the last promise he made to Alicia. Following Chapter 69, the smile seems to be genuine again.
  • Superpower Lottery: Hit the jackpot in terms of power level, with Super-Strength, Super-Speed, the ability to regenerate, and resistance to mind control. It turns out he, like Mikaros, came into contact with the Will of the World and awakened when he was just a child... except he's been ignoring it.
  • Supreme Chef: He's a very good chef, it turns out.
  • Theme Naming: Helck & Cless together make Heracles. Whether Helck is based directly on the Greek myths or just parodies the retro jRPG interpretation from the 1987 Glory of Heracles* has yet to be seen.
  • Unskilled, but Strong: Helck doesn't have much combat knowledge and can't use weapons very well (most swords break if he tries fighting seriously), so his usual fighting strategy is to "Hit until the opponent stops moving".
  • Unstoppable Rage: Played for Drama, in a call-back to the original Heracles. Helck fears this most about himself, that one day he'll lose control to the anger and hurt his friends.
  • Walking Shirtless Scene: Wears only a cape over his torso. Alicia keeps calling him the "topless warrior/soldier".

    Vermilio the Red / Anne-from-management 

Voiced by: Mikako Komatsu (Japanese), Kira Vincent-Davis (English)

One of the Four Heavenly Kings in charge of overseeing the Demon King tournament, she opposes Helck's advancement and later becomes his traveling companion and confidant.

Power Level: 78
Acting Level: 2

  • Berserk Button: Don't add "-chan" to her name, or anyone else's.
  • Character Development: She starts out as rude and close-minded, with a literally explosive temper, to boot. Over her travels with Helck she learns to calm down and be more accepting of both him and the rest of humanity, and in particular both empathize with Helck and truly understand him.
  • Cute Little Fangs: They're not quite vampire-length, but she does have pronounced canines.
  • Fiery Red Head: Vermilio has red hair, fire based powers, and a very short fuse.
  • Four-Star Badass: One of the Four Heavenly Kings.
  • Honor Before Reason: During the tournament one of the roadblocks Vermilio makes is to have a cooking contest where she herself will be a judge, thinking there is no way Helck can cook and even if he could she will just give him a bad score. Turns out Helck is such an amazing cook that Vermilio can't help but give him full marks.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Vermilio has a short temper and a sharp tongue, but under the surface she's a lot nicer than she appears.
  • Little Miss Badass: She looks like a girl in her early to mid teens, but is still one of the most powerful characters in the series after Helck.
  • Lethal Joke Weapon: Twiglion looks like a very average stick that a young Vermilio used as a child, but in truth it's an Amplifier Artifact made from a branch of Yggdrasil that vastly boosted her powers even during childhood, and makes her an even deadlier combatant when she wields it in the present.
  • Missing Mom: The child of a Truly Single Parent, the previous generation's Red Heavenly King, who exposed her flame to give birth just before her death.
  • Morality Pet: For Helck, actually; a couple characters, including Helck himself, have noticed that underneath his kind and loving exterior is an intense darkness that threatens to overwhelm him. Vermilio acts as his guiding light to bring him out of that darkness, and if that should fail Helck has given her the means and permission to end him.
  • Only Sane Woman: She's the only one who displays even a bit of caution about a human trying to become the next Demon King, reasonably believing that it might be an attempt to thwart the demons from the inside. Additionally, she frequently finds herself questioning the other demons' intelligence due to even the most blatant attempts at sabotaging Helck completely flying over their heads.
  • Our Elves Are Different: She's identified as one, and has the pointy ears to demonstrate.
  • Paper-Thin Disguise: Vermilio as "Anne", which is just Vermilio in civilian clothes and with her hair cut short. All the other Demon King candidates notice that it's her after just one chapter. As for Helck, he only knows her as one of the judges to a segment of the competition until she finally reveals who she is in chapter 53.
  • Perpetual Frowner: The rare times she smiles are generally to look meaner and evoke the cross-eyed, toothy grin of Dragon Quest demon lords, though she's still capable of a genuine smile at times.
  • Playing with Fire: Vermilio is an incredibly powerful fire-user.
  • Pragmatic Villainy: Red is all for using underhanded means to make sure Helck loses the tournament or is disqualified. However, she often gets angry at Hon's more blatant attempts at it under the belief that anyone would see through it, which would cause an uproar due to Helck's popularity with the audience and even his competitors. Fortunately (or unfortunately), these blatant attempts at undermining Helck tend to completely fly over everyone else's heads.
  • Theme Naming: Vermilio, the Vermilion Bird.
  • The Unmasking: Reveals her true identity and position to Helck in chapter 53.
  • Vague Age: She mentions that she didn't think it possible for a human to live long enough to become level 99; she herself is level 78. She also mentions humans having short lives a couple of times, which hints that despite looking like she is in her mid teens or so she is probably far older. However, some of the other demons have referred to her as a "child" on several occasions, so regardless of her actual age, she is considered young by demon standards.
    • The second special chapter released puts this in doubt however, depending on whether the reader interprets one frame as an Easter Egg or not. The chapter itself has Vermilio, as a young girl, flying off in a hot air balloon. One of the earlier chapters in Helck's flashback shows... a hot air balloon flying off in the background.

    Piwi / Fluffy 

Voiced by: Shiori Izawa (Japanese), Jessica Boone (English)

A small creature that followed Vermilio and Helck from the island they ended up on.

  • Magic Music: His singing weakens any powers that are not of the world.
  • Punny Name: He looks like a kiwi.
  • Spell My Name With An S: His name was Piuy in the scanlations before the official sources revealed it's actually spelled Piwi.
  • Team Pet: An unusually useless ball of fluff, at least until the revelation of his Magic Music.

Demons

    Blue Azudora 

Voiced by: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka (Japanese), Joe Daniels (English)

One of the Four Heavenly Kings, he is the one who recommended Helck take the Demon King's place.

Power Level: 73

    Hon 

Voiced by: Akira Ishida

Vermilio's assistant and the one in charge of handling most aspects of the tournament with her oversight.

Secretary Level: 48

    Swift Kenros 

Voiced by: Hiroyuki Yoshino

A friendly demon who enters the tournament alongside Helck.

Power Level: 38
  • Genki Guy: The energetic optimist outside short pangs of realizing danger.
  • Martial Pacifist: Has the skills but rarely the intent (or weapon) to harm.
  • Nice Guy: One of the first demons to befriend Helck and zero worries about his allegiance. In fact, he's the one who found him when he first entered the Empire and invited him to his village.
  • Super-Speed: Kenros is able to keep up with Helck in terms of speed despite being only level 38. In fact, he's actually faster than a non-berserk Helck!
  • Theme Naming: Kentauros for fast running.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom:
    • Played for Laughs, but he prevents Hon and Vermilio from being able to disqualify Helck by misinterpreting what the objectives of the strange contests at the tournament are.
    • Also inverted in that he met Helck right after Helck's entire life fell apart and, despite not knowing him, took him back to his village and treated him kindly; this was the reason Helck decided to fight for the demon world.

    Immortal Hyura 

Voiced by: Rena Maeda

A skilled competitor for the Demon King title, she becomes a finalist.

Power Level: 52

    Iron Wall Doruushi 

Voiced by: Takuya Nakashima

A finalist for the Demon King title.

Power Level: 45

    Agent Asuta 

Voiced by: Shiki Aoki (Japanese), Kara Greenberg (English)

A spy who works for Vermilio.

Spy Level: 55
  • Bifauxnen: Both in-universe and out, many mistook Asuta as a boy when first introduced.
  • Cat Girl: Like her sister, she has cat ears.
  • She Cleans Up Nicely: When Asuta is forced to wear a dress by her sister Isuta, she looks gorgeous.
  • The Spymaster: Thanks to she and her sister's telepathy ability, she spies on the human world for the demon empire, keeping everyone, including the audience, informed of what's going on.
  • Telepathy: She is able to mentally speak with her sister no matter the distance thanks to her secondary ability, though only when they are both drinking hot coffee. (It's also possible with tea, apparently.)
  • Theme Naming: Astarte and Ishtar with her telepathically connected sister, two names for the same goddess.
  • Tomboy and Girly Girl: The tomboy to her sister's girly girl, though a special chapter shows she's really pretty when she dresses up.
  • To the Pain: One winged soldier that kept their sanity mentions his plans to torture her simply because he could until Sharuami told him to beat it.
  • Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Is able to trick her torturer into thinking he broke her, sadly for him he wasn't even close.
  • Useless Accessory: She has many spy tools, all of which are pointless because as a cat demon she already has super hearing, night vision and the ability to easily climb walls.

    Agent Isuta 

Voiced by: Haruka Shiraishi

A spy who works for Vermilio, though she often also acts as an assistant.

Spy Level: 48

    Announcer Rococo 

Voiced by: Sora Tokui

    Witch-sama / Shunova 

Voiced by: Yukana

A witch that lives on the island that Helck and Vamiros ended up on.

  • Adventurer Archaeologist: Frequently explores the ruins around her island.
  • Hot Witch: Like all demons, she looks younger than her age despite Piuy referring to her as Granny.
  • Mysterious Woman: Seems to have a connection to both the empire and Vermilio herself. She also has more than a passing resemblance to a more grown-up version of Vermilio. It turns out she's a relative of Vamiro's, the older sister of the first generation's Red Heavenly King.

    Augis 

Voiced by: Jeremy Gee (English)

A dark-clad warrior who took on a dark power in order to save his people; the power eventually drove him mad and turned him into a killing machine.

Power Level: 90

    Harupii 
A rookie tracker attached to the search party looking for Vermilio. Due to a monster attack she is the lone uninjured member of her party and is forced to continue the search alone. Once she finds Vermilio, and the rest of her party gets patched up, she gets assigned to accompany Vermilio's group.

Tracking Level: 29

Humans

    General 
Tropes that apply to humans as a whole

Average Power Level: 30note 
  • Anti-Villain: With the exception of Mikaros, Refaed and his unaware daughter, and possibly the king, most humans are just mindless tools and those that have sentience are still suffering from the effects of the forced awakening making them bloodthirsty. Most of the humans we see weren't all that much better before being forcibly Awakened, honestly.
  • Boisterous Weakling: Zig-Zagged. For all intents and purposes, the Hero-turned humans are certainly a massive threat, thanks to their invididual strength and their large numbers. However, this boost in power has made a lot of them arrogant, and their victories are usually because they're either dealing with Mooks or have enough of a numbers advantage, helped by their ability to revive, to overwhelm the enemy. However, against much stronger and more competent warriors, they're shown to have a harder time winning and, due to their arrogance, assume that whoever they're fighting in that moment is some kind of big shot. This is shown when a large group of them is subjected to a Curb-Stomp Battle by Blue Azudora and they assume that he must be the Demon King, only for Azudora to state that he's actually one of the Four Heavenly Kings; significant, but hardly the scale that they immediately assumed.
  • Death Is a Slap on the Wrist: Invoked. If Awakened Humans are killed, all that happens is that their bodies disappear and reappear before the Human King alive and fully-healed with no apparent penalty to their development or strength. Thus suicide (or killing someone in a losing battle) is a valid way to avoid capture (which would keep the Awakened Human from fighting and leveling up). This is why destroying the Human King and his power of resurrection becomes a priority for the Demon Kingdom.
  • Human Sacrifice: Mikaros uses them to power a spell that could potentially destroy the world.
  • Level Grinding: Normally it takes a lot of experience to level, to the point the most humans with their short lifetimes never achieve the high levels demons can. Awakened Human Heroes, however, gain a great deal of experience every time they fight—faster than demons do. As such, even though the Demon Kingdom is able to hold off the Awakened Humans for a while, every time they skirmish the enemy gets stronger. It still wouldn't be much of a problem if they could be killed for good.
  • Magikarp Power: The ability to awaken is something all humans have the potential for, but very few ever manage to do it.
  • Power Gives You Wings: The current awakened humans all gain angel like wings after being awakened. This seems to be a new feature as past awakened beings, forced or natural, did not have wings.
  • With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: The mass majority of humans forcibly awakened are mindless drones, but those that retain their minds have had massive personality switches, being far more aggressive and blood thirsty then they were before the change.
    • We see later that if the "Will of the King" is removed the winged soldiers become literal monsters killing anything and everything in their way. They also gain a huge power boost going from level thirty to level 50.

    Edil 

Voiced by: Hiroki Nanami

A former companion of Helck who's village came under attack, he served with Helck in the army and with Alicia.

Power Level: 36/70 after removing the "Will of the King."
  • Anti-Villain: Technically, he has to obey the King and he didn't try to fight Helck considering their past.
  • Death of Personality: Mikaros does this to him in 64.1, making him into a stronger monster than before.
  • Driven by Envy: Despite being forced to become a winged soldier, he doesn't mind it so much because he is finally able to become strong like Helck.
  • Foe Romance Subtext: The other sentient winged soldiers have commented on the fact that he is always fighting and losing to Hyura, and they suspect it's because she is an attractive woman.
    • Even other demons mention this, especially after the mere mention that she was in the castle was enough to send him flying off to find her.
      • It's so strong that it's hinted at being one of the reasons he's slowly breaking free of the King's control.
  • Heroic Willpower: Chapter 62 shows that he is slowly breaking free of the King's obedience... which Mikaros takes care of by using a Mind Wipe spell, turning him into a monster.
  • If It's You, It's Okay: A non-romantic type... probably. Edil seeks out Hyura to fight because she is the only one he feels okay about fighting.
  • Worthy Opponent: He sees Hyura as one. He doesn't care how many times he loses to her, not just because he gets stronger from it, but just because it's fun.

    Cless 

Voiced by: Motoharu Ono

Helck's brother and a Hero, he defeated the Demon King prior to the start of the series.

  • Big Brother Worship: He really respects Helck and is fully aware his older brother is stronger than him even after Cless has become humanity's number 1 hero.
  • The Chosen One: Like Helck, a naturally awakened hero.
  • Heroic Suicide: Kills himself rather than obey a mind-control command to kill Helck. As the focus for the human mass awakening spell, his death should have stopped it... but didn't, because Mikaros kept him alive in a grotesque form of life-support.
    • After being resurrected again, he regains his senses and goes into Hyperspace to return the Winged Warriors back to the world, losing the energy to return.
  • Heroes Prefer Swords: Unlike his brother, Cless is a master swordsman.
  • Human Resources: Kept alive to serve Mikaros' ends after his attempted suicide.
  • Kill the Ones You Love: In Hyperspace, he has to kill all his former friends who had been turned into Winged Soldiers to return them to the world.
  • Rags to Royalty: He goes from a common street rat to the new Human King.
  • Sibling Yin-Yang: While Helck was content to stay in the shadows, Cless used his abilities openly as a warrior and soon became the champion of the human race.
  • Theme Naming: See Helck's entry above.
  • Together in Death: Or close enough. No longer having the energy to escape Hyperspace, he's at least grateful he can stay with Shiraumi. Helck and Vermilio manage to save them.

    Alicia 

Voiced by: Reina Kondo (Japanese), Melissa Engler (English)

The leader of a mercenary group, she comes from a long-line of warriors.

  • Action Girl: She was on the front-lines with her men, fighting monsters.
  • Body Horror: Her left eye and forehead are horribly deformed from the forced awakening.
  • Bow and Sword in Accord: She's both a great archer and a better swordsman than Edil.
  • Cool Sword: Her sword is a family heirloom capable of easily cutting through the toughest of armor. Though it has a pretty ominous name: "Hero Killer". It was made by the demons and even a small wound is incredibly painful to an awakened being.
  • Death of Personality: Mikaros broke her mind ahead of time just to mess with Helck and to avoid risking her regaining her senses the way Edil did. Fortunately, Azudora is able to reverse this to bring her old self back.
  • Died in Your Arms Tonight: Transforms into an awakened human in Helck's arms.
  • Don't Look At Me: After being hit by the "snow" she can feel her face and body being forcibly mutated and pleads for Helck to leave her because she doesn't want him seeing her that way.
  • Eye Scream: Her awakening turned her right eye into a gaping hole.
  • Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: A blond haired sweetie who rivals Helck in kindness.
  • Heroic Lineage: She is supposedly the latest in a very, very long line of warriors. As it turns out, she was actually descended from Uria, the same human hero who befriended Azudora.
  • The Leader: She leads a group of mercenaries.
  • Locked into Strangeness: Her formerly blonde hair is turned white as a result of her awakening, and it remains that way after Azudora is able to restore her.
  • Mercy Kill: As Alicia is being forcibly transformed, she pleads for Helck to kill her as she can feel her mind slipping away. He can't bring himself to do it.
  • Nice Girl: One of the more upstanding humans.
  • Shout-Out: Shares her name and much of her surrounding plot with Princess Alicia*, only with as big a sympathetic take as the demons.
  • Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She has a pretty big crush on Helck.
  • Snow Means Death: While she isn't exactly dead, her transformation into a mindless awakened human happens a result of the snow falling in the human kingdom.

    Zellzion 

Voiced by: Shuta Morishima

A companion of Cless who aided him in defeating the Demon King.

  • Ax-Crazy: Easily the most eager to destroy the demons.
  • Defector from Decadence: Zell might be a noble and hate demons, but even he calls bullshit on using Cless and turning people into awakened beings. The other Nobles state it's In the Blood and his father also had a streak like this.
  • Drunk with Power: Post-awakening, he finds the power so enthralling he's delighted to have been changed.
  • No Indoor Voice: To the point of jeopardizing a stealth mission, but won't hesitate to tell others to stay quiet.

    Haraolle 

Voiced by: Satoshi Niwa

A Human magic-user who was under Zell's command before being awakened.

  • Ax-Crazy: Like Zell, he shows a delight in using his awakened powers.
  • Bound and Gagged: He gets captured and gagged by demons after he tried attacking their castle.
  • Broken Tears: In chapter 74.1, while talking to Helck and stating even though he wants to die he can't.
  • The Cameo: He appears twice in Helck's backstory but only as a quick shot, one of which names him.
  • Drunk with Power: Post-awakening. The moment he's put in a special restraint he breaks down.
  • Not Himself: His personality in the present contrasts his personality in the past greatly due to the King's Will.
  • Playing with Fire: Using big over the top fire spells seem to be his favorite way of dealing with enemies.
  • We Used to Be Friends: He was friends with Cless.

    Sharuami 

Voiced by: Yumiri Hanamori

Daughter of Rafaed and friend of Helck and Cless, one of the few people to remain unawakened.

  • Brutal Honesty: She usually just says what's on her mind, with little thought to how it sounds.
  • Childhood Friend Romance: She falls in love with Cless as the two grow up together, and he returns her feelings.
  • Happily Adopted: Rafaed adopted her after her village was destroyed by demons because her name was the same as the daughter he lost centuries ago.
  • Locked Out of the Loop: She only thinks everyone else has gone away, not that they've been turned into immortal monsters.
  • Lonely Rich Kid: After everyone else awakened, she has no one to talk to but her father. She practically welcomes Asuta's company. Even after she learns she's a demon.
  • MacGuffin Super-Person: She's the one with the power to create the snow that turned humans into Awakened Beings. She herself has no idea how it was used, she just thinks it's a strange ability she has.
  • No Social Skills: Sleeping in public while drooling or talking with her mouth full, her actions have few filters.
  • Shout-Out: The name is Sharline's original in Evergrace... and seemingly nobody else.

    Rafaed 

Voiced by: Atsushi Miyauchi

The Noble who saved Helck's brother and remained close to them as they grew up, eventually turning out to be an antagonist.

  • Affably Evil: Rafaed remains calm, collected, and polite to Helck regardless of the fact that they are enemies. In fact, he tells him to go live his life in peace rather than return.
  • Baddie Flattery: He frequently complements Helck, including the fact that he opposed them so well alone.
  • Big Bad Friend: Despite his betrayal, he does seem to care about Helck, trying to get him to leave and live out his life in peace.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He does seem to legitimately love his daughter. When the King uses Sharuami to attack Asuta he is pissed.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: When Mikaros tells him of his plans to use Alicia to turn Helck into a mindless monster, Rafaed hides his face while giving a Mikaros a cold, "I see."
  • Flash Step: Moves fast enough to block an attack to the King when he was at the entrance seconds before.
  • Graceful Loser: When all their plans come undone, he acknowledges Helck succeeded in his goal, warns him that the path he walks on is even more dangerous because other forces will be after him, and wishes him luck in his future.
  • Outliving One's Offspring: His original daughter died centuries ago.
  • Pet the Dog: A few times.
    • He seems to genuinely care about his ward, Helck, giving him an honest offer to leave the battlefield as a mercy to his old pupil.
    • He really does love Sharuami and dotes on her. Seeing her manipulated by the King is one of the few things that makes him mad.
    • He ends up saving Asuta from the Berserk Winged Heroes just because her death would make his daughter sad.
  • Reincarnation: At some point in the past thousands of years ago, he awakened and was Contracted like Helck and gained the power to reincarnate over and over with his memories intact. Because of this, he constantly realized that despite his best efforts humanity would ruin themselves and lost his faith in them.
  • Restored My Faith in Humanity: In the end, Helck managed to do so.
  • Theme Naming: Arch Angel Raphael.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: He believes that changing humans into winged soldiers was a necessity for an upcoming trial against the New World.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: Calls out Helck for not honoring Alicia's request for a Mercy Kill.
  • You Fool!: He says to Helck for rejecting his offer to leave the battlefield in Chapter 67.

    Archmage Mikaros 

Voiced by: Daisuke Hirakawa

The one who seems to be spearheading the awakening. He was once an ordinary foot-soldier who faked his death to avoid being killed by young Azudora and then became empowered by the New World poison, giving him his initial abilities.

  • The Archmage: The strongest mage on the enemy side.
  • Bad Samaritan: He save a young Cless from the brink of death because he sensed a power within him that would allow him to awaken humanity.
  • Cast From Hitpoints: And just like her, the healing relies on his body's energy. Only he has far more to spare. It's not enough to save him in the end from the Human King's betrayal.
  • Damage-Sponge Boss: With an explanation of how scrawny characters can have so much HP.
  • The Dragon: Serves as this to the Human King.
  • Evil Chancellor: His role, though the king is just as bad. In truth, he created the Human King.
  • Faking the Dead:
    • Faked his death 1500 years ago to escape being killed by Azudora.
    • Faked being killed by the Human King in order to get off the ultimate destructive magic.
  • From Nobody to Nightmare: He was a random soldier who was part of an army that was utterly crushed in a Curb-Stomp Battle against Azudora. Then he awakened, became immortal, spent 1500 years practicing magic, and became one of the most dangerous people in the world.
  • Healing Factor: Just like Hyura, he has a really strong one of these.
  • Killed Off for Real: When the Human King betrays him and has the Winged Soldiers attack him.
  • Lovecraftian Superpower: Gains this when he absorbed several awakened beings.
  • Not Afraid of You Anymore: He used to be terrified of Azudora, but now he's confident that he can take him. He is, however, admittedly afraid of Helck... but he's got a plan for him too, but that plan fails in the end thanks to Anne. Time will tell if Mikaros has another way of removing Helck from the equation. It's later hinted he might not have been completely over his fear of Azudora as he thought, as he gets visibly shaken to see him both alive and wielding the Hero Killer again.
  • Not Afraid to Die: He no longer cares whether he lives or dies as he knows others have been Contracted and will carry out his will to see a new world, even if he won't be around to see it.
  • Not Quite Dead: Survives long enough to cast a final spell that could threaten the world. After that, Azudora wrecks him so hard that his body is simply incapable of being reborn.
  • Perpetual Smiler: Very little can shake that smile off his face.
  • Properly Paranoid: He believed that Helck would be a fearsome opponent ahead of time and showed himself at the castle in order to get blood to track him down later.
  • Really 700 Years Old: He's been alive long enough to know Azudora when he was a child over 1500 years ago and travel the world.
  • Shock and Awe: He uses this type of magic for attacking.
  • Smug Snake: How you know he's an asshole from the get go.
  • Superpower Lottery: He was originally awakened by the New World poison that creates monsters. It's not only given him the ability to teleport, but also the ability to regenerate, use magic, and more.
  • Theme Naming: Arch Angel Michael.
  • Villainous Breakdown: When all his plans come undone in Chapter 102 and he has no way of winning.
  • Villain Teleportation: He can teleport by himself, which he uses to avoid getting hit.
  • Visionary Villain: He sees himself as this, claiming that changing the world is the right thing to do. Because he came into contact with the Will of the World and it told him to do so.
  • Worth It: In 64.2, he notes that despite taking serious injuries, being unable to accomplish his original objective, and losing a soldier that really can't be easily replaced by wiping his mind (Edil), killing Azudora was worth it. Too bad for him it didn't stick.

    Human King 
King of the humans, Big Bad of the series.
  • All-Encompassing Mantle: Wears one in his virtual form when he shows his face.
  • An Offer You Can't Refuse: He offers Helck to release everyone from both his Power of Rule and the New World transformation in exchange for his body. Helck doesn't go with it, so he tries to take over his body instead. Which ends up corrupting him.
  • Beehive Barrier: The anti-magic barrier, being a product of technology.
  • Big Bad: He appears to be the one behind all of the problems in the series. Though it was more of the Will of the World, but once he ends up being influenced by it he truly becomes this.
  • Brain Uploading: He was capable to do this in the previous world, turning into an AI that later possesed the Control King.
  • Compelling Voice: If he gives an order, humans have to obey it. Only Helck is completely immune.
  • Demonic Possession: He is an AI possesing an horrifying creature formed with the bodies of four previous kings.
  • Dissonant Serenity: Utterly expressionless. Only Helck rejecting his offer makes him look slightly pissed off. Also played straight while he is wearing his mask, in times where both Raphaed and Mikaros look surprised or perplexed he is just kinda... off.
  • Drunk on the Dark Side: The moment he comes into contact with the Will of the World through Helck, he goes on about how great it is despite spending ages trying to defeat it.
  • Expy: He looks like King Baldwin IV as depicted in Kingdom of Heaven. And in a possible nod to the title, rules over a country full of angels.
  • Humanoid Abomination: It is a creature born from Mikaros saving four human kings that were betrayed and on the verge of death, combined with a fifth that intervened to betray Mikaros. It becomes more monstrous when it comes into contact with the Will of the World.
  • Kid with the Leash: Helck states that if he dies, all the awakened beings will go out of control because it's his [Power of Rule] that is enabling them to retain their minds.
  • Lean and Mean: The King of Control was rather this.
  • Malevolent Masked Man: What he appears to be. However his degree of malevolence is questionable.
  • Many Spirits Inside of One: What he is. He is an AI created by the spirits of several people from the old world, possessing the fused kings.
  • Monster Lord: Of mankind.
  • Mind Hive: A lot of coordinated minds possesing one body.
  • No Brows: His main face lack eyebrows, and so does his virtual form.
  • One-Winged Angel: Following Eastern RPG last boss tropes, he reveals his true form which further powers up from the Will of the World. Made of the fused kings, it even first appears each head has a specific task and the one that heals must be defeated first.
  • People Puppets: Can do this to others.
  • Royal "We": Speaks like this once revealed. However it is more likely not a result of trying to show off his royalty but that the AI who is in control of his body is formed with the consciousness of several people from the old world.
  • Villainous Cheekbones: Although his level of villainy can be up to debate, but he is definitively an enemy to face either by fighting or by a battle of wills.
  • Virtual Ghost: Can take on a human appearance resembling what the King of Control used to look like before being merged with the other three.
  • Wave-Motion Gun: Can consecutively use the Wave Cannon, much like a certain other last boss, the original Cloud of Darkness in Final Fantasy III.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: Most likely. He is fighting against the Will Of The World, however his means are definitively not kind ones.

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