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    Kelaud and the Sky Tower MANY SPOILERS 
At an early sunset, Kelaud is being escorted to the beach with his village's women and children as it is under Chimera attack. Tired of waiting, Kelaud leaves to become a stronger swordsman, grouping with his childhood girl friend Saylia and his older brother Ferenan. Going to the Mountain Road, they are attacked by two members of the Night Caste, but joined by a whimsical fairy, Zylvala. With her help, the heroes manage to fend off the attack. After making their way through the Mountain Road, the party enters the first dungeon in the game, the Sinister Castle, the Night Caste's head quarters. Before making their way through it, they are joined by Luik and Geauset, who need their help in the Village's Camp to fend off an attack from a horde of monsters. Coming back to the Sinister Castle, the party storms it in hopes of stopping the endless night, but eventually are forced to make their way back to the Camp when they get nearly caught by a vampire. Sure of their newfound strength, they undo the Chimera traps and make a breakthrough to their village, only to find it in ruins, all warriors killed, and the altar desecrated. They are attacked there by an ogre, but they manage to vanquish it. After this depressing sight, it's more motivated than ever that they run again to the Sinister Castle, defeating all enemies until reaching the vampire to fight him in the throne room. They defeat him, but discover that he was but a distraction, and the Night Caste has made their way through the Desert Road to reach the Sky Tower. Tailing them, the party reaches the Sky Tower too late. A Boss Bonanza ensues until the party reaches the top of the Tower, with an altar similar to the one in the Village Ruins. There they stop the Night Caste's ritual, and face the Night Caste's own heroes, defeating them to finally restore the world to the state it was.

Tropes associated with Kelaud and the Sky Tower:

  • Adam Smith Hates Your Guts: Averted. Marak, Luik and Geauset are the only merchants, and they sell stuff at a fixed price. High-level equipment is always found rather than bought.
  • Arbitrary Headcount Limit: Averted. You can only ever have four characters in this game.
  • Ascended Extra: Revin. Originally, the test-run-only vendor and referred to as Emoboy, now a Walking Spoiler.
  • Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Zylvala.
  • Beef Gate: The Chimera trap at the beginning. When you disable it, you're faced with a Chimera. Even if you manage to defeat it, if it's too early, you're sent in an endless loop of battling Chimeras until Ferenan learns Water.
  • Big Bad: The Night Caste are the only actual villains, being responsible for all monster attacks against the Mountain Village, the desert expansion, and trying to Take Over the World via their ritual in the Sky Tower.
  • Convenient Questing: Averted. The world is small, but you do have to go back and forth through the Mountain Road time and time again. It gets easier after the first one, mercifully.
  • Critical Hit: Kelaud and Saylia can get critical hits passively. Items can also give more crits, like Kelaud's Golden Sword weapon line, Kelaud and Saylia's accessory Resolute Soul.
  • Crutch Character / Magikarp Power Zylvala manages to be both. When you get her, she's over-leveled and comes in with Saint, the most powerful spell available at that point. After gaining a few levels, her inability to use weapons or shields set her behind, until later when her stat growth becomes noticeably higher than the other party members and she doesn't need the equipment.
  • Easing into the Adventure: You can't just go to the Mountain Road. First you have to reach level 10 via farming hornets and bats.
  • Elemental Crafting: Brass is magical in this game, and makes equipment among the best. Kelaud's Brass Sword is only beaten by its direct upgrade Excalibur, or other legendary-level equipment (Muramasa and Tyrfingnote  and the above-mentioned Excalibur for Kelaud, Trishula, Gungnir and Parashu for Saylia, and Dainsleif, the Azert and the Zephyrus Clawnote  for Ferenan).
  • Experience Booster: One of the True Mirror's effects. Also, the Brass Powder.
  • Heroes Prefer Swords: Kelaud is The Hero and can only equip swords as weapons. His most particular weapon line is the katanas.
  • Jack of All Stats: Every character's stats are the same, not factoring weapons or armor, except Zylvala, whose stats are still all equal. Apart from skills, any character can take any role in the team with more or less efficiency.
  • Joke Character: The game's early concept was essentially Joke Characters: The Game: Kelaud's first fight against a pair of slimes (the weakest enemies) could easily become unwinnable without help from the omnipresent hax. Even after Saylia and Ferenan joined it wasn't much better. Since the hax was so dissatisfying, now the game is more along the lines of Weak, but Skilled: The Game.
  • Karl Marx Hates Your Guts: You can't sell anything ever in this game.
  • Nominal Importance: Averted. All enemies are referred to by their title in the Night Caste or their species, while even your town merchant has a name (Geauset).
  • One Size Fits All: Any pair of characters can share equipment. Then again, all characters are teenagers nearly the same size.
  • Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: The party is this. Kelaud, Saylia and Ferenan know each other, but to everyone else they're still a poser, a wannabe and a wimp.
  • Useless Useful Spell: Saylia learns Darkness spells. It would be useful were you not fighting the Night Caste, meaning half of the time, it gets resisted, absorbed, or reflected.

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Two academies training fighters clash with each other at the long-awaited summer tournament, where the older Toukidou Academy looking to dethrone the Obelisk Academy of superhumans after their 5 years of existence, and complete dominance.
  • Artificial Human: The superhumans are all genetically engineered.
  • Hero Antagonist: The antagonist Obelisk students are mostly on the nicer, more heroic side, especially when you compare them to Kurama. That doesn't make any of Toukidou Villain Protagonists, though.
  • Not Just a Tournament: Averted. No matter the amount of politicking behind the scenes, both from Toukidou and Obelisk, the tournament remains just a tournament.
    Toukidou Academy — Contestants 

Shiraishi Akiteru

  • After Action Patch Up: A prerequisite for him, consequence of his lack of mana control.
  • Almighty Janitor: Discussed. While Akiteru is easy to underestimate at first sight, it's fairly well-known that he is very powerful, and the top physical threat of the academy, and possibly the entire tournament.
  • Charles Atlas Superpower: Downplayed. Akiteru's Training from Hell has done wonders, but it's his magic power that pushes him to superhuman level.
  • Crippling Overspecialization: Discussed. While Akiteru is at a disadvantage against higher-range fighters by default, his physical prowess allows him to exploit their often weaker defenses just as often as his limitations have made fighting them problematic.
  • Florence Nightingale Effect: It was averted one year ago when Seika turned him down.
  • Genius Bruiser: Each word is a separate part of his fighting style. Compared to Itsuu, he's more of a bruiser.
  • Heroic RRoD: His sole magic trick is burning so much energy that he reaches superhuman physical performance. Sadly, most of the energy he uses is a waste due to his lack of control over his magic power, and he often ends up hurting himself in the process, and that's without counting he pushes the limits of Uninhibited Muscle Power.
  • High Hopes, Zero Talent: While he does have large magic power to tap into, Akiteru is hopeless at controlling his magic.
  • It Only Works Once: Akiteru's quick to pick on enemy techniques, enforcing the trope when it comes to attacking him.
  • Magic Enhancement: His only use of magic.
  • Master Swordsman: Discussed. It's noted that while he doesn't have any fancy moves and even his "secrets" are surprisingly basic, he has mastered basic swordplay to such an extent that it is enough when used with all the power he can put behind it.
  • Power Incontinence: His mana control is so poor that he can hurt himself by simply being tense.
  • Speed Blitz: His main way of winning is by hitting so hard and fast that no opponent can take it.
  • Uninhibited Muscle Power: The second part of his power is to ignore his own body's survival instincts, skyrocketing his athleticism even further.

Anais Deldorado

  • Accent Slip-Up: Anais will occasionally speak Spanish when upset.
  • Action Girlfriend
  • Amazonian Beauty: Despite being noticeably muscular, the compliments to her beauty are usually completely unrelated. If anything, she actually wonders if her muscles don't detract from her beauty.
  • BFS: Her sword is three times as large and longer than pretty much everyone else's.
  • Big Sister Worship: She loves her older sister Diana.
  • Convection, Schmonvection: Averted. The air around her flames is really hot. Her Super Mode turns the air around her hot too, and it tires her out after a while, especially if she stops moving.
  • The Dreaded: To a number of teams who can't withstand her offensive game.
  • Dumb Is Good: She insists on knowing as little as possible about her opponents. In general, theory never sticks on her.
  • Family Theme Naming: Anais means "blessed". She's got an older sister named Diana (meaning "divine").
  • Fiery Redhead: Her reddish gold hair matches her fire magic and passionate personality.
  • Glacier Waif: Despite her average frame, she is one of the hardest hitters in the tournament.
  • Glass Cannon: She's very strong both physically and magically, using an efficient combination of high firepower and strong sword attacks to terrorize the competition. However, her huge sword and techniques leave her with lackluster defenses.
  • Graceful Loser: She readily admits that Itsuu got her beat and usually refers to him as a better fighter than her, despite actually having won that fight.
  • Master of All: Her intense style, and proficiency with both her tower sword and fire magic make her look like this.
  • Ms. Fanservice
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The feisty, hot-tempered red to Itsuu's collected, analytical blue.
  • Scarlet Steel: The imagery behind her giant sword.
  • Stuff Blowing Up: Most of her magic arts.
  • Unskilled, but Strong: Downplayed. There isn't much in the way of skill you can get with a sword as big as hers. She's also not as skilled as many of her opponents with her magic, but her power largely makes up for it.
  • Warrior Princess: Second princess of the western kingdom of Terredor, also a top-ranking fighter.

Matou Kansei

  • Brilliant, but Lazy: His invisibility power is extremely powerful, but Kansei neglects physical exercise, because he feels it's not worth the time he'd need to pour into it to improve noticeably.
  • Crippling Overspecialization: Subverted. When his invisibility doesn't cut it, he still has plenty of tricks up his sleeve that allow him to fight without it.
  • Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Inverted. Kise slashes, he shoots.
  • Rain of Arrows
  • The Rival: To Itsuu. He shares his backstory of being The Un-Favourite within his family because of his magic power (though it didn't hit him as bad as he was looked down upon for his lackluster power compared to Itsuu being disregarded for his lack of magic power).
  • Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: Averted. Kansei is really a background character. He only becomes important when he acts as a heroic surrogate in his last match, where he needs to win so Itsuu and Anais have a chance to qualify.
  • Superpower Lottery: Invisibility is quite a strong power to have. So strong in fact, that Kansei used to entirely rely on it.
  • Weak, but Skilled: His ultimate position. He hasn't got the strongest magical offense, merely an extremely useful power and the wits to pull off wins against opponents that would surely overwhelm him in a straight fight.
  • You Can't Fight Fate: He used to be firmly on this side, though after his defeat to Itsuu he has gotten willing to give a try at uphill battles.

Tsujikura Kurama

Tamiya Seika

  • The Ace: As the Student Council President and the #4 ranked fighter.
    • Broken Ace: She laments being ultimately unable to do both at top level, and she has accumulated a lot of ring rust. Her lack of focus and general rust costs her team the first two fights.
  • Awesomeness by Analysis: She outpaces her opponents' actions by detecting their brain signals, telling her when they are about to make a move.
  • Flash Step: Her manipulation of electromagnetic fields makes her able to essentially Ride the Lightning.
  • Magnetism Manipulation: Seika has refined her lightning powers, extending them to using magnetic fields to make herself (or her sword) faster.
  • Master Swordswoman: Subverted. Despite having trained extensively in two swordfighting styles, she is never referred to as a master, since her top asset remains her lightning magic.
  • One-Hit Kill: Despite mostly being a mage, she still has a lightning-speed quickdraw.
  • Shock and Awe: She's a lightning mage.
    Toukidou Academy — Side Characters 

Anzenji Shigure

Toukidou Academy's director. She introduced the fight-based ranking there.
  • Badass in a Nice Suit: As the school director, she is always wearing a suit. It conveys her no-nonsense professional attitude.
  • Benevolent Boss: Itsuu and Akiteru never would've been able to make names for themselves and enter the tournament without her help.
  • Catchphrase: "This is why you're not married." Usually directed at Naisu's childishness or Aconite's awkwardness.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: It is largely remarked that she made Toukidou Academy a lot better. After taking the helm at Toukidou, her first change was to implement the ranking system via fighting, compared to ranking via test, because it was clearly more pratical when the goal is to win tournaments.
  • Smoking Is Glamorous: She's always smoking.

Takeda Yuuto

Seika's boyfriend and the Student Council's Vice-President. Since he's small and his power is healing, he's ill-suited for combat, instead he serves as the competitors' support and informant.

Aconite

The top student to ever attend Toukidou Academy, she is now fighting in the adult league.
  • "Instant Death" Radius: Her Seihenken technique grants her absolute mastery over her surroundings, making her almost impossible to approach, even in the adult leagues.
  • Master of Your Domain: She has achieved absolute control of her body through her magic. Contrary to Naisu, she only maintains her youth rather than actually turning her body back to that of a 12-year-old.
  • Master Swordswoman: Her only sword training comes from her time in Toukidou Academy, but she has gotten so good that it is notable whenever her opponents manages to break her Seihenken.
  • Mundane Utility: She has achieved near-absolute body control, and uses that talent to eat sweets and never get fat.
  • Stealth Mentor: When she learned that Itsuu used a sword style similar to hers, she attacked him in order to help him refine his techniques. She taught him a couple more times before the tournament.
  • Sweet Tooth: She is never seen without at least one lollipop in her hand or mouth.
  • World's Strongest Woman: She is widely considered the best fighter to ever graduate from Toukidou Academy, and by that logic one of the best fighters in the world.

Shiraishi Yukio

Akiteru's father, who lost all faith in him after trying to train him.

Imanol Deldorado

Anais's father, and the King of Terredor.
  • Call-Back: Itsuu's duel against him is very reminiscent of the duel he had with Anais.
  • Like Parent, Like Child: Anais clearly took her appearance, personality and fighting style from him.
  • Tell Me How You Fight: In his case, "show me how you fight". He usually gets to know people via challenging them to sword duels.

Tsujikura Hosoka

Kurama's younger sister. They had a bloody rivalry due to Kurama's rebellious attitude contrasting with the rest of the family. Under his constant abuse, she turned to Itsuu for help in training her, but Itsuu ended up having to beat Kurama himself.

Matou Seira

Kansei's gifted younger sister. Since he hasn't been a good older brother, she ended up being very introverted, especially when she developed her mind-reading powers, and had trouble controlling them.
    Obelisk Academy — Contestants 

Alodia Vien

  • Bad Powers, Good People: Alodia can drain people's blood by biting them, but remains possibly the nicest girl in the show.
  • Big Sister Worship: She really admires her sister Emelia's fighting prowess, despite disliking her tendency to pick fights.
  • Born Winner: Her regeneration powers have made her into the best middle-school fighter without her even trying or wanting it, and so as soon as Fan got overranked. A year later, she gets overranked herself, and reaches rank 18 despite still being mostly a non-fighter. She's also one of the few superhumans with uncorrupted mana, meaning her magic attacks never disappear on their own, an advantage that even most top fighters in her academy don't have access to (only Alix and Alodia herself have it).
  • Death of a Thousand Cuts: Her offense is fairly lackluster. She is never seen fighting on her own, and her sister Emelia is the heavy-hitter of the team.
  • Don't Split Us Up: Alodia is very attached to Emelia. Mostly as a result of Emelia's own protectiveness of her in the past.
  • Energy Donation: When times are hard for Emelia, Alodia charges her blood with her mana before getting drained. She can barely defend them since she can't use her mana shields nearly as well, but it grants Emelia a ton of power, along with some of Alodia's uncorrupted mana and regenerative abilities.
  • Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Despite being younger, Alodia's the responsible one.
  • Impossibly-Low Neckline: So her sister can bite her shoulder more easily whenever they fight.
  • Kicked Upstairs: In her middle school class, she dominated fighting as soon as Fan was sent to fight with the high-schoolers because her regeneration meant fighting her was a waste of time. When she started retaliating, she was immediately sent out like Fan due to her uncorrupted mana making her even more unfair for her class's level.
  • Kid with the Leash: Sort of, concerning Emelia's troublemaking tendencies.
  • Little Miss Badass: To be able to compete with her sister, the student council asked her to get overranked and reach the top 20 in a couple weeks. Not only did she do it, but she actually went a bit further, to rank 18.
  • Promotion to Parent: In a way. Alodia is the one who watches over Emelia at home.
  • Reluctant Warrior: She does not enjoy fighting at all, and mostly does it because Emelia and Herbert dragged her into it and she happens to be good at it.
  • Sibling Team: With Emelia, obviously.
  • Stone Wall: Her regeneration and great defensive prowess make her very hard to take down.
  • Superpower Lottery: With her passive regeneration and her uncorrupted mana, she won it even amongst superhumans.
  • Vampiric Draining: Often the recipient from Emelia's. She is actually able to do it as well.

Pavel MacArihearn

  • Always Second Best: Discussed in regard to him and Alix. Despite his best attempts, he never manages to beat her in a duel, but this has more to do with their contrasting fighting styles giving her the advantage.
  • Brave Scot: His father Dorick, and himself in kind.
  • Dumb Muscle: Smart enough to know his role. That's it.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: He flares up with minimal poking, and will get angry at a lack of response, especially from Alix.
  • Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Fan, his 5'3" teammate, is also his girlfriend. Pavel himself is 7 foot tall.
  • No Indoor Voice: Pavel does not speak often. When he does, you can't hear anything else but him.
  • Unknown Rival: Downplayed. Alix is well aware he wants to be The Rival to her, but she doesn't want any part of it.

Tanja Sokolova

Alix DeSeine

  • Authority Equals Asskicking: Crown princess to the Kingdom of Seine.
  • Born Winner: One of the few Obelisk students with uncorrupted mana. Her pride in those abilities drove her to hone them to an unmatched extent from an early age.
  • Bureaucratically Arranged Marriage: She was to be married to Pavel. She expressed her disinterest by going to study at Obelisk.
  • Flower Motifs: All over the place.
  • Overly Long Name: Her full name is Alix Linnea Avril Rhoda DeSeine.
  • Split Personality: She was not quite there in the head as a kid.
  • The Strategist: Her trap mastery and tendency to think everything in advance sets her as this.
  • Underestimating Badassery: Her condescending attitude can lead her to this. Also, Toukidou's officials fall prey to this regarding the fact that in regards to her uncorrupted mana.
  • Uptown Girl: To Sel, being a crown princess to his abandoned human weapon.

Gall Gebell

    Obelisk Academy — Side Characters 

Liam Allen

The host of Obelisk Academy's broadcasts, he is the Obelisk students' informant.
  • Fragile Speedster: He is clearly very fast, in fact faster than the majority of the fighters, but he notes that he isn't strong or durable enough to make it past group stage in the tournament, and his Crippling Overspecialization in speed means his style is unviable at this level.
  • Knowledge Broker: He knows quite a lot more than he lets on.
  • Obfuscating Stupidity: He makes himself look like an everyday idiot, despite working as a spy for the Obelisk Student Council.
  • School Newspaper News Hound: With his power as the head of the Broadcasting Club, he has a lot of influence in Obelisk.

Caleb Gebell

Gall's "father", he used to be a pioneer in superhuman research. After his relationship with his own created daughter Lynn caused a huge scandal, he retreated with her to a simple life, and dedicated himself to his enthusiasm with martial arts.
  • Mad Scientist: He used to be this in the Superhuman Rush.
  • May–December Romance: The first controversy about his relationship with Lynn.
  • Old Master: Averted. While he did teach Gall about martial arts, he is merely an enthusiast, and Gall soon surpassed him.
  • Parental Incest / Wife Husbandry: The second controversial part of his relationship with Lynn.
  • Un-person: The entire field of medicine and superhuman research disavowed him when he went so far as to modify himself, make a superhuman with the genes of another superhuman, and engaging in a relationship with a superhuman he made himself.

Lynn Gebell

Gall's biological mother and elder sister. She used to be an example for superhumans, but her name is now taboo.
  • Braids of Action: She wears her hair in a long, thick braid that runs down to her knees.
  • Master Swordswoman: She taught Gall everything he knows in swordfighting.
  • Un-person: Despite having won the tournament three times in her three student years, Lynn's existence is now not to be discussed in Obelisk Academy, on account of her relationship with her "father" Caleb. Her history makes it difficult to actually deny it.
  • World's Best Warrior: Toukidou Academy students remember her as the most formidable student that ever attended Obelisk, since she won the tournament in her three student years.

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