Characters / Saikyou Juzoku Tensei

The character page for Saikyou Juzoku Tensei.

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Saikyou Juzoku Tensei Character Index
The Marren Clan | Dinrat Kingdom: (Lomarn City | The Fage Territory: Russel Village | Palgas Village)
Gods | Count Julem and Cohorts

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The Main Characters

Abel Belek

The Abomination from Another World

The main protagonist. A Japanese high school student who was obsessed with researching magic, died saving his female underclassman from being hit by a truck, now reborn as a boy in the Marren Tribe.

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• Awesome, yet Impractical: Levi's Spear: Can damage deities with one throw, rewrite reality so it will be Always Accurate Attack and can return to its owner hand but it's way too huge for Abel to wield or summon in a closed area. He solved the problem by creating a giant hand with Haydeem Magi-Metal.
• Banishing Ritual: 'Demon, be at peace!' scatters the spirits from the demon and restores them to their original form, effectively destroying the demon. The Marren clan are experts in dealing with spirits.
• Big Brother Instinct:
  • Defends his sister from unwanted attention, like Noswell's. But ends up scaring potential suitors for her without knowing why.
  • His friendship with Mea starts like this. He quickly realized how naive and vulnerable she is in a big city, and decided to stick around by her for a while. Before he knew it, they became inseparable.
• Child Prodigy: Trained himself since childhood on magic by carving Ortems till his room and house were filled with them. And when he became 7 years old, he learned magic under the Chieftain's care, and Surpassed the Teacher at the age of 8. But that wasn't even enough for him, so he continued on and on.
• Chuunibyou: Was called this in his previous life, because of his overzealous search and interest in magic... in a world without magic.
• Compressed Vice: Abel decides to utterly humiliate the high elf Devin in Altamir's tower, for mocking his ancestors, badmouthing them and looking down on him and his Ortems, by condemning him to lick the bottom of Abel's shoe if he lost a contest with Abel's and Mea's lives at stake, and tells him that he'll look for a monster's poo to step on it when Devin was about to lose. Subverted, as he only said that to put the elf in his place, and didn't make him go through with it.
  Abel: I’m going to look for Dragonhead’s poo. I want to see what it feels like when I step on it.
• Cruel to Be Kind: Abel justifies his escape from the village and his marriage as this. If he was to disappear from the village, his parents would give up on the marriage, Giselle would be forced to interact with people, make friends and find her own marriage partner. It backfires, spectacularly.
• Debt Detester: Resolves to pay Mea the 2,050,000 Gold she lent him for the World Tree's Branch and Unicorn Blood paint, despite her not minding it.
• Dishing Out Dirt: Earth magic is a part of his arsenal. Started with big hands made from soil, to multiple earth dragons. And then there is his “Earth, turn to swamp!” spell.
• Do Wrong, Right: When he observes Nalgarn's magic circle regenerating its heads, he calls it an "Embarrassing Achievement" with its shoddy quality, inefficient consumption of Nalgarns' mana, duplication of biometric information, reduction of quality of the regrown head, etc.
  Abel: If I ever come to see your creator, I’ll have to give him a good lecture.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: All what Abel wanted was a slow life with no worries and practicing the magic he sought in his previous life. No one told him that he'll have to face threats of disaster-level monsters, Religion of Evil, conspiracies, ancient demons, his sister, and ending up fighting an Eldritch Abomination after another to save his Side Kick-then Love Interest... and the world as well! Have we mentioned that he was sixteen at the time??
  • Taken even further in the ending, where he and Mea are immediately ostracized by the Marren tribe because of his disregard of their traditions and his escape in the beginning, and has to earn back their respect with support of the Chieftain and Filo, and opening a business in dealing with magic tools and incense leaves.
• Expose the Villain, Get His Job: How Abel got to become Commander of the Fage territory's alchemy division.
• The Fool: During "The Demon of Palgas Village" arc. Abel spends the arc being played for a fool by Nelgliffe's machinations and cleverly made ruse, spun around into doing his work for him and gets walked into setups to have him killed. He survives them, none the wiser. And once he wises up to the villain's tricks in the climax, he retaliates, and boy does he retaliates.
• Happily Married: In the epilogue, he and Mea gotten married and are expecting twins.
• I Thought Everyone Could Do That: After being done with the smoke-leaves business in his village, he hands the Chieftain the documents and research paper so he and the villagers could grow it themselves. Problem is, the instructions were written with him in mind, and not even the Chief could fulfill the requirments for the method, making it impossible for them to do it. This causes a shortage in Abel's smoke-leaves, followed by riots of the villagers wanting to smoke it again after he left.
• Jerkass Realization:
  • While in a library, Mea asks Abel, who's engrossed in reading books and deciphering them, of what he's looking for. Abel proceeds with a "I am concentrating now, so later..." before stopping himself, and remembering that he drove away his female underclassman in his previous life in the same manner. Wanting to never repeat that mistake, he explains to Mea what he's researching.
  • Happens again when he mistook Altamir's ploy to raise money for building the Magic Wave Tower for an Evil Scheme to take control of the Alchemy Division behind his back and accused her of that. He sees the members unable to process what the hell he was talking about, trying to have one of them tells him what's wrong with him, until one says that he's acting just like the previous commander Icarus! This causes Abel to actually realize how unlikable he was to them, runs away and hides in a warehouse to cry. Altamir had to find, comfort and confesses to him that she wasn't trying to take over or anything.
• Laser-Guided Karma: After overworking the alchemy division with his unreasonable quotas and lack of rest hours, almost pushing Altamir to near death by rushing building a secret weapon, Abel is forced to continue building the magic wave tower.. alone! Having to use his Ortems for consecutive hours, drinking Abel Potions, supervised and bossed by Altamir, he realizes what the Alchemy division felt about him.
• Made of Iron: Seeing Abel getting struck or injured in battle is non-existent in the earlier arcs of the story, as he usually overpowers his opponents before they try to attack, or hides behind a cover of Hydeem Magimetal. The later arcs however, he ends ups taking some really nasty hits for someone with his physical capabilities to signify how serious the stakes have became, yet said hits never keep him down:
  • During his fight with Kudor, Abel kicks off from the tail-end of Levi's Spear (long story) and jumps to grab onto Kudor's human-half's shoulder with his left hand. Said action causes him to painfully slam one of his legs onto Kudor's back, and feels that he broke his knee and it might be bleeding. He gets better after the fight.
  • It gets even worse in his fight with Moebius. Getting distracted by her Playing Possum, he gets a piece of one of his broken Ortems kicked at him, hitting him on his side and flinging him away with the impact and ripping his clothes. He comments on how extremly painful it was. He get flung away again shielding himself from her Darkness Ball with his Deployable Cover, and his back collides with a wall, with him reacting in deep pain! He gets back up, wins, and carries Mea's unconscious body with him until she wakes up and put her down!!:
    Abel: All right, my body still works …… I still have some Ortems, I can fight ……
• Mad Scientist: If an idea interests him, he'll do it, regardless of how insane or impractical it looks to everyone else. He still adhere to the restrictions, but will weasel his way to get the permits needed.
• Magi Babble: Abel is prone to spouting many complex words relating to magic whenever he's narrating the story, discussing theories relating to magic, and once stumped an old sage in a library with a question filled with a jumbled mess of words.
  Abel: Here……..see, in this sentence, you’re using it to calculate the amount of magic power per unit of time consumed by the magic circle, right? So I thought it was some proprietary coefficient that Altamir had come up with, but it’s on this page…… and also on this page. It’s a completely different usage. I thought there might be a fundamental misunderstanding, but this one and this one use different terminology, so it’s probably correct. But look, the magic circle in this one is used to increase the efficiency of magic……
  Roudio: Oh? Oh? Ohhh……, oh, ohhh……
• Magic Potion: To stay awake during studying or working on magic, Abel drink his own-made energy drink: Abel's Potion. Still comes with backlashes to his body once it wears off. He even drank a modified version (labeled with a skull mark) to make his sickness subsides before a Wizard Duel, but with ambiguous side-effects, and told Mea to throw the bottle away where no one would find it.
• Mean Boss: Overworks members of the Alchemy Division with his strict methods of teaching. One example was the crop development case, where he had them work for a nearly a day without sleep, and then thinks that they were drugged when they started dropping on the floor.
• Mix-and-Match Critter: Bio-Magic fascinated him since childhood. He created a mouse with multiple heads, saved his father's life by transplanting a piece of bear meat into the wound, modified a female Balm bird to attract male birds to be hunted with its mating call, to name a few.
• Mr. Exposition: More than often, Abel will tell the reader through narration of information on things about magic, special material or abilities that pops up through out the story. He'll often quotes books he read in his village, and later from whatever library he visited in his spare time.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits: He sees neither Noswell nor Shibi worthy of his sister.
• Mystical White Hair: Like all the Marren tribe.
• New Life in Another World Bonus: Revealed at almost the end of the story. Turns out to be the reason why Abel grew having extraordinary amount of magic power from childhood. Being a otherworldly soul reincarnated with his Past-Life Memories intact, somehow factored into his growth as he studied magic with the enthusiasm from his past life.
  Abel (Narrating): As part of my magical research, I have asked myself what the hell I am. I had done as much research as I could on my own, but I hadn’t come to any credible conclusions. Now I know the reason. The soul of an otherworldly person, that was the foundation of my strength.
• Nice Guy: While he's no stranger for manipulating people like Shibi or Gaston to achieve what he wants, Abel never seek to hurt or wrong someone, unless said someone wronged him first. It even never crossed his mind to abandon Mea after she paid a hefty sum of money to buy him everything else they paid for during their stay in Lomarn City. Heck, he made it a priority to pay her back despite her not rushing it!
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
  • Engrossed in his passion for studying magic, Abel forgot to learn about his village's customs. Namely, the marriage customs.
  • Fighting Kudor to protect Mea. He cost the divine protector of the Dinrat Kingdom 30% of her power, benefiting the Greater-Scope Villain Silfheim, All According to Plan!
• Of Course I Smoke: No he can't, but he held it quite well for his Coming-of-Age Ceremony.
• Oblivious to Love: Subverted: He did know that Filo was interested in him, and felt her distress when his marriage to his sister was announced, but he wasn't interested because he was planning his escape. When they met again, they sat down and talked, only for Abel to realize that he could only think of... Mea.
• Pathetically Weak: Abel spent his new childhood training his magic, and became stronger than most of his peers and foes, in magic. His physical strength is... acceptable for walking or mundane things, but walking for long miles on hot climate, running or lifting things are a no-no for him. When he used his 'Display Status' magic on himself, his sister and Filo, his reaction was:
  Abel: I.. I'm definitely going to lose if I end up having a fist fight with any of the girls...
• Powerful and Helpless: Happens to him on several occasions, be it facing a Kangaroo Court set by a Corrupt Church, having a knife pointed at his throat, taking Mea hostage and threatening him not use his magic. Often something happens and turn the situation to his favor, but only when there is nothing else he could do.
• Razor Wind: Can slice through magic beasts with wind magic. Later he upgrades it to "Abel's Saw".
• Readings Are Off the Scale: He developed his own 'Display Status' magic as a kid and used it to see his village's people's status screens, and saw some in 20s or 30s magic power. When he used it on himself, his magic was 865, while he's 13 years old. When he checked it later, his magic status became immeasurable, and he thinks something is wrong with the spell.
• Reincarnate in Another World: The high schooler was born again as Abel Belek, after being hit by truck, when he pushed his female underclassman off the way.
• The Runaway: Ran away from his village to escape his impending marriage to his sister.
• Save the Jerk: Gets really worried about Gaston when he's scouted by Princess Charlotte. Then his worries increases once he learns that Gaston will fight in an arena, exposing his lies about his 'heroics', forcing Abel to go there and make sure he lives. This is justified, because Gaston could blow the whistle on him.
• Save the Villain: Makes sure that the Arc Villain is alive for them to be captured and handed to the authorities, even if they fell from a large height, tried committing suicide, or was beaten to within an inch of their life. There was also Peter, who Abel saved ... just because he TOLD him that he'll spare Mea's life.
• The Shut-In: In his days in the village, Abel spent most of his time in his room studying and experimenting with magic. Often asking his sister to cover for him whenever his dad was looking for him. This however, gave him a case of "crowd-sickness", and made him feel nauseous and about to hurl in the presence of lots of people.
• Skewed Priorities: Instead of fearing for his life or having an Oh, Crap! from seeing Nalgarn regenerate it's missing head... he wonders if he could collect all the severed heads he wants.
• The Sleepless: More than often, he mentions staying awake is of no problem to him. When he was in his village, he once did a research for magic and stayed awake for five days straight. And worked for a whole day for developing a crop for the Fage territory. Of course, this one bit him in the ass, as he caught a cold after that.
• Spontaneous Weapon Creation: He can use Hydeem Magi-Metal to create "Abel Whip", a strong elastic whip, to strike swift and powerful hits on his foes.
• Squishy Wizard: He has a huge capacity for magic, and the brain and creativity to use it, but he tires easily because he spent his childhood learning, carving Ortems and practicing magic. This lead to the Running Gag of him feeling close to death after walking through a forest, or running for 5 minutes!
• Symbolically Broken Object: Abel had to let go of two belongings of his to ride Jaime's carriage. One was his Ortem masterpiece and the other was the first Ortem Giselle carved for him. But then he destroyed said Ortems with a fire spell. He justifies that so that Giselle won't find it and assume that he hates her.
• Talking in Your Sleep: In the Light Novel and Manga. He chanted a Multi-layered magic circle while having a nightmare about his Yandere sister. Said magic circle became his signature spell Abel's Ball.
• Training the Gift of Magic: Instead of doing their work for them, Abel decides to teach Rinoa and her faction his village's Ortem magic so they would do the job and take credit for it. They got enthusitic for learning, until they discovered that Abel is a such a Stern Teacher with his methods of teaching.
• Transmutation: His spell, "Refine", can create metal from combining magic power, spirits and other components in the air. Beside "Haydeem Magi Metal", which is used in attack and defense and dissipate after 10 minutes, Abel once created carts to carry hunted birds with another metal that stays longer.
• Yearning for a Nemesis: Abel comes to realize this when he faces the mastermind behind the troubles in the Fage territory:
  Abel: [to himself] When I left the Marren tribe’s village, I believed that there must be an enemy stronger than Greater Bear out there. Up until now I had a series of consecutive victories, and I wondered if there was no opponent who could compete with me, and I felt a sense of loneliness and selfishness, but I never thought that the time would come when I would be declared a superior opponent. Perhaps the reason I had gotten so involved in such a dangerous case was my pride that I could handle it, that I wouldn’t get killed.
• Your Tradition Is Not Mine: The reason for Abel going against his tribe's tradition and running away from his wedding to his sister. Since he got reincarnated with his beliefs from his previous life intact, he cannot accept nor entertain the thought of marrying his sister, as well as the complications that might come with it.
• Zerg Rush: Can employ this with his carved Ortems. He just carve Ortems every day.

Mea

The Stoneless Girl

A horned girl who meets Abel after his Ortem Cart broke down and lets him ride with her on a wagon headed to his destination. She ran away from home after years of mistreatment from her parents, peers and adults, with the help of the peddler Jaime. After Jaime kindly leaves her in Lomarn City, she stick with Abel throughout his journey, seeking to help in any way she can.

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• Abled in the Adaptation: Played with. The Novel had Abel states that Mea has no magic in her and is incapable of using it. Chapter 22 in the manga however, some magic wave thing gets emitted from her forehead in her sleep, that heals a sleeping Abel from a cold he was suffering from.
• All of the Other Reindeer: Because she lost the magic crystal on her forehead after her birth, Mea was treated like an outcast in her tribe and often teased for being "stoneless". Her mother even considered killing her as a newborn, and her father wasn't around much for her let alone show emotions or smile at her. Her older brother Darrel and her father's subordinate, Dafne treated her kindly though.
• Damsel in Distress: When Abel proves too much of a threat for the villains to subdue.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Hoo boy.. where do we start:
  • Born on the day her village was attacked by a stampede of spirit beasts. Her parents' house was invaded and her about-to-give-birth mother was lightly injured in the attack. However, her fall caused the baby's magic crystal to peel off.
  • After giving birth to her healthy baby, her mother devolved into a Hysterical Woman who refuses to hold her baby, threw a figurine at her (she missed), and denying that she's her baby, and casually suggests killing her while snickering to her husband.
  • Mea got to live her infancy.. in her relatives' house. Her mother never wanted to see her, and her father was always busy. Low on magic because of her losing her stone, she was teased a lot, and grew up shunned by kids and adults. She at least had Dafne, and later her older brother, but only when their mother wasn't looking.
  • She got to stay in her parents' house until she reached fourteen from time to time, but rumors circulated that she was the Red Stone and her parents were hiding her by removing her crystal, leading to her mother wishing she never gave birth to her. That was the last straw for Mea, and she never wanted to come to her parents house anymore. Leading to her meeting the peddler Jaime, and running away from the village.
• Demonic Possession: Gets possessed by the spirit of the progenitor of the Doom Clan, Moebius, in the story climax, necessitating Abel to fight her to save Mea.
• Freak Out: Once she heard news that her tribe sent people to look for her, she started calling it a lie, blabbered on how there is no way she's worth searching for and that they'll kill her. Then she vomitted and then fainted.
• Happily Married: In the epilogue, she and Abel gotten married and are expecting twins.
• Hates Being Alone: One of the reasons why she accompanies Abel to wherever he goes, regardless of how dangerous the situations they get themselves into. She had enough loneliness throughout her childhood.
  Mea: If I house-sit for once, next time, it looks like Mea will be left behind forever…… Mea wants to assist Abel even a little.
• Human Pack Mule: In the manga, she's shown carrying the luggage when she and Abel are traveling on foot. She doesn't mind it because: Abel is too weak to carry his luggage and they travel light. And later, traveling a long distance is usually done through Elia's carriage.
• I Call It "Vera": She calls the beginners' bow and arrows that Abel bought her, "Shooting Wyvern".
  Abel: [Narrating] All the wyverns in the world are going to be pissed.
• I Just Want to Be Special: She strives to be as useful as she can to Abel, so she doesn't drag him down or be left behind. When she heard Abel excitedly talk about Rinoa, and how good she and her race are in magic ore processing, she pouted and went silent. Later when Abel went to check on Rinoa, Mea asked her to teach her some blacksmithing skills, only to be kindly rejected. Taken even further as it becomes a familiar scene to Abel, Mea picking something she's not good at to study, or something she's interested in, leading her to become unfocused as she tries to do whatever she could.
• Jack of All Trades: Lampshaded by Abel. Knows how to skin monsters' hide with a knife, learned archery from Abel, briefly tried taking sword lessons from Euris, and taking cooking lessons from Milsy. While she at least improved her archery and could hunt regular monsters, she still Can't Catch Up to Abel's level.
• Lap Pillow: Gave Abel one after he tuckers out from the heat. In the middle of a monster-subjugation mission with the Fage territory's private army.
• Living MacGuffin: The Sky God's Legacy, aka the Red Stone. A vessel born in the Doom Clan every 500 years for Moeibus to possess.
• Massage of Love: Often gives them to Abel's legs whenever he tires out or his legs throbs from running.
• Muggle Born of Mages: Can't use magic thanks to losing her magic crystal. Considering she came from a tribe of strong warriors with Muscle-Enchancing magic.
• Naive New Comer: A defenseless girl who ran away from home with a bag full of jewelry and trinkets might've had a rotten luck in the city. Luckily the first person she sticks close to happens to be Abel Belek.
• Nice Girl: Sticks with Abel through thick and thin, and generally a nice person to those around her. Members of the Alchemy division breaths sighs of relief whenever she takes Abel away.
• Please, Don't Leave Me: Really afraid of Abel possibly deeming her useless and abandoning her, making her believe he's planning to after he's done paying her back the money she lent him. After all, she's just a girl who ran away from home.
• The Pollyanna: See Dark and Troubled Past. The fact that she hasn't snapped or vowed revenge on her tribe yet is astonishing. She still fear them though.
• The Reliable One: She takes care of Abel and helps him with tasks that he can't accomplish by himself. She even saves him should something almost get the drop on him.
• The Runaway: Ran away from her tribe and her family due to mistreatment.
• Security Cling: Will ALWAYS grab onto Abel's sleeves whenever there is a threat or danger, and hide behind him. Specially if said danger is eyeing her.
• Sell What You Love: Once she and Abel started worrying about money, she offered to sell her horns to the Chimera's Tail magic shop, but Abel forbade her.
• Spanner in the Works: During the Devil's Trial. Abel is about to be publicly executed due to a Frame-Up, when Mea busts in and brings a proof of his innocence that Abel misplaced before his arrest. Her attempt was foiled and she was restrained by Levi's followers, but caused a big commotion that forced the mastermind Nelgliffe to reveal himself.
• Supernaturally Delicious and Nutritious: Kudor tells Abel that due to Mea being the Red Stone, demons and magical monsters should be drawn to her Sky God's powers, like what happened when they were attacked by Garms, early in the story. Since Abel is known for Horrifying the Horror, that makes it more of Informed Attribute.
• Targeted Human Sacrifice: Count Julem specifically needs her body to be possessed by Moebius, to have her fights and exhausts Goddess Kudor to destroy her, and lead the rest of the Doom Tribe to aid him in taking over the world.
• Third-Person Person: Mea always speaks in third-person.
• Trauma Button: The word Useless once sent her into a short Heroic BSoD. It wasn't even directed at her.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend:
  • Almost shot Euris with arrows, when she tried taking a sick Abel with a cold to a Wizard Duel. And then shot a spirit beast sent to kill Abel, when it tried to sneak through the window.
  • She tries to bludgeon Peter to death with Zolomonia's Staff (despite its established weight), after he suffered a Laser-Guided Karma, for holding her hostage and wanting to kill Abel. Abel had to stop her from doing so.
• Written Sound Effect: Whenever Abel lets Mea write a quest report for the Adventurer Support Guild, she write it to so that Abel will look cool, filling it with words like "Baaam", "Bang", "Wham", "Swoosh", etc.
  Abel: [Narrating] …… As expected, the report was full of onomatopoeic words, but well, it will make sense.
  Abel: It, It’s great that it has an impact.
  Mea: Of course! I’m sure the staff will be shaking with emotion and will turn the report into a book about Abel’s adventures!
  Abel: [Narrating] That’s what you’re going for?
• Woman Scorned: Played for Laughs, When Abel started to pay more attention to Penrath than her, and Penrath himself began getting between her and Abel to the point where he called her unworthy of Abel's companionship. She retaliated... by infroming Peter about him, leading to his arrest.

The Marren Tribe

• Members of the Marren Tribe

Dinrat Kingdom

Jaime

"What are you doing all the way out here?"

A peddler driving a horse-driven carriage that Mea was riding. Runs into Abel and lets him ride with them to Lomarn City, and he rescues them from a pack of Garms in return.However, he leaves Abel and Mea in the city, despite Mea begging him not to.

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• But Now I Must Go: Leaves Mea in Lomarn City after taking her away from her tribe, but stuck enough to see her latches onto Abel.
• Hidden Depths: When he, Mea and Abel set camp for the night, the latter carved faces on tree branches to create makeshift Ortems to shelter them from cold and insects. Jaime commented on the 'nice flow of magic'. When Abel was surprised by that, Jaime added he also knows swordsmanship and sorcery to be able to defend himself.
• Intrepid Merchant: How he met Mea and then Abel. Or so his cover story says..

Lomarn City

• Characters introduced in Lomarn City

Characters introduced in Elkuxia

Prince Alphonse Dinrat

“It’s only a small fight in the big picture but…… damn! I would have thought that if that foolish sister was the one I was dealing with”

The eldest Prince of Dinart Kingdom. He's known to be gentle, kind and popular around his subjects. But that's only a facade, according to his sister Charlotte. His Elite Guard Captain, Brian, faces Gaston in the preliminary fight event in the Arena.

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• Beauty Is Bad: He is mentioned to be quite handsome, but what is inside is a different story.
• Crack Defeat: His champion, Brian, dealt an embarrassing defeat to Charlotte's champion, Gaston, in the preliminary fight. But Brian, unsatisfied with the battle with the so-called 'Legendary hero', figured out who was behind him, and went to fight Abel for his own ends. One Curb-Stomp Battle later, Brian never returned to his Prince, and Alphonse was made to look like he couldn't hold on to a good knight like him, greatly reducing his popularity.
  Shame: If you can’t keep a good knight on your side, it shows how little popularity you have.
• The Evil Prince: According to Charlotte, he's good at playing The Wise Prince image to their father, but to cover his true nature. He's also the one behind the Assassination Attempt on his sister and her new Captain.
  Charlotte: He’s just too good at playing the cat in front of Papa, but he’s a really bad guy. If you make him the king, this country will end.
• Too Clever by Half: Once he heard about the 'Zolomonia's Staff' incident and how Gaston solved it, he called for his intelligence unit to learn more about him, then dispatched an Elite Officer to scout him as quick as possible, only for his sister, who happened to be nearby Lomarn City, to beat him to it. He then almost went nuts thinking about how to defeat a 'Superhuman monster who can rip a demon apart with his bare hands', when he had Brian. And unbeknownst to him, Gaston's records of heroic feats were written quest reports by a Ms. Imagination, and were actually for an overpowered teen sorcerer.

Brian Bond

Brian: You’re a Marren! Fight me! Fight me for national pride, not just for your country! This Brian Bond! As the last of the Daldwarves, I challenge you to a duel!

Prince Alphonse's Elite Guard Captain and champion to pit against Gaston in the preliminary fight. A huge and terrifying warrior with a lust for battling strong opponents.

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• Acrofatic: Abel thought he could slow down the mountain of muscles Brian is by making his horse tumble with wind magic. Instead he started running on foot, carrying his great axe, now faster than he was on his horse.
• Badass Boast: He froze Gaston in his place with one sentence:
  Brian: You think you can handle me?
• Blood Knight: He admits to Prince Alphonse, that facing a strong warrior is his only joy in life, and for only that he serves him. He's so overwhelmed with excitement and anticipation to fight Gaston. Of course, once he saw Gaston for who he truly is, he was enraged beyond belief. However, he then sensed a really strong mage within the crowd, and chased after him for a real fight.
• Buried Alive: Abel decides to end their chase by turning the ground between him and Brian to a giant earth dragon, that proceeds to block his path, then press on him until the ground swallow him. He survives.
• Children Forced to Kill: Had to defend himself from the bandits who killed his mentor. They were laughing at him until he destroyed them all single-handedly, at the age of nine.
• Hellish Horse: He chases Elia's carriage on a big black horse. Mea confused them for 'a monster carrying a monster on its back' and Abel describes it as a 'a mass of wild muscles'.
• Killing Intent: When Prince Alphonse refused letting him fight Gaston, he let out a killing intent so immense all the elite guards prepared to unsheathe their swords, and the room they're in felt cold.
• Last of His Kind: A descendant of a warrior race called Daldwarf, feared as "Bloody Giant". A race of bloodthirsty giants who likes war, and were a good choice for mercenaries in the times of warfare. Now rarely seen.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: "The Mad Warrior".
• Retired Monster: He survives being Buried Alive by Abel, but he completely lost his pride and confidence as a warrior. He went back to the countryside to help in the fields.
• Screaming Warrior: He let out a Mighty Roar after cleaving a large fissure between him and Gaston and giving him a scathing Trash Talk. It was so loud it reverberated throughout the auditorium, and so frightening that some people left their seats and crumpled to the ground. It also made Gaston faint and crap his pants.
• Sensing You Are Outmatched: Inverted. When he saw Gaston entering the arena, he noted his face twisted in grief, and when he charged at him with his sword, he was enraged because he thought Gaston was holding back and mocking him. Cue Intimidation Demonstration.
• The Unfettered: He slips away after his match with Gaston, out from his royal knight armor, and chases Elia's carriage, with Abel and Mea inside, on a big black horse, demanding a duel with Abel. When Abel points out that a knight can't attack a civilian, he responds that he doesn't care about his Prince. All he wants is a fight to the death.
• World's Best Warrior: He's an A-rank adventurer, with the blood of the Daldwarf and their thirst for battle.

Character in introduced in Asshim

Shame

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“It’s okay. I love this kind of thing, after all”.

An F-Ranked adventurer who befriends Abel and Mea in Asshim City (was instead introduced to them by Maizen in the Manga). Provided Abel with information from the royal capital after Gaston's fight. When he and Mea were in danger of being found by their pursuers, she suggests them to travel to the Fage territory. Pops up on Abel and Mea to check on them from time to time.

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• Anger Born of Worry: Scolds Abel harshly whenever she learn that Mea was put in danger on their latest adventure.
  Shame: You know, Abel-chan. Abel-chan may be a magical creature who miraculously retains human form, but Mea is a normal girl, and you should take better care of her, okay? Don’t take her to die, okay? Really, I know it’s a little late to say this, but…
• Bearer of Bad News: By accident. After hearing of Abel and Mea's plan to return to Lomarn City, she mentions hearing about a group of people with similar features to Abel was spotted in Lomarn City, and another group as well, but they have horns on the head and a jewel on the forehead. Both Abel and Mea were shocked to hear this, but Mea took it the worse.
• Cool Big Sister: Both Abel and Mea are enamored by her friendly and reliable personality.
• He Went That Way: Promises Abel and Mea to misdirect anyone who asks for their whereabouts.
• I Was Just Passing Through: She always says that she happened to have a adventurer job that led her to where Abel and Mea are, after she suddenly pops on them.
• The Informant: She's friendly, helpful if older than Abel and Mea, and provides them with insights of what words around the streets are whenever she appears to them.
• Throat-Slitting Gesture: Does one in front of Abel in the webnovel, to tell him of what became of Gaston after the preliminary fight. She stops short on the skin though, indicating that he's alive but in a very precarious situation.
  Abel: …… In other words, he’s just one skin away from being disconnected.
• Tomboyish Ponytail: Sports a long green ponytail that reaches to her waist.

The Fage Territory

• Characters introduced in Russell Village
• Characters introduced in Palgas Village

Introduced in The Witch's Tower and the Collector

Peter

Peter: Don’t be so nervous now. I simply came to congratulate you, as a member of the Church’s upper echelon, on your capture of the infidels.

Little is known about Peter. Some call him "The Fixer", others refer to him as a high-ranking Bishop for the Kudor religion. He is close to the royalty of the Dinrat Kingdom, and is rumored to be the one running the kingdom from the shadows. He asks Palgas village's Chief Heil for a meeting with Abel, after he dealt with Levi church's plot.

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• Artificial Human: His current body was created through a forbidden branch of alchemy, granting him tremendous amount of magic, longevity and above-human physical durabilty.
• Batman Gambit: As the leader of Amor, he allowed Margus to steal an artifact known as "Kudor's Tentacle", so he would break the seal over Zolomonia's Staff and steal it from the monastery holding it, then get arrested, allowing Peter to obtain the staff without alerting men of Kudor's faith to him.
• Black Cloak: Like his men, he wears a black cloak, embroidered with tentacles drawings, the symbol of the Goddess Kudor.
• Camp Gay: He saw Abel as 'a beautiful young man with a rather neutral face'. Take of it what you will.
• Cool Mask: He wears a mask covering the upper half of his face.
• Cool Old Guy: When his underlings attacked Abel, after the latter harmed him by accident on their first meeting, he tells them to calm down and let Abel go in peace, and actually apologize for their rash behaviour.
  Peter: My men have caused you trouble by being impulsive. Well then, I think it’s time for me to get out of here.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He may be an ambigiously old man with a questionable fashion sense, but don't you underestimate him and the lengths he'll go to get what he wants. Abel sure learned that after he saw his true nature, both evil and good.
• Deal with the Devil: He made one with Zolomonia, to obtain the information he needs, to find where the Goddess Kudor sleeps and the means to awaken her.
• Deconstruction:
  • Of the Knight Templar. After 40 years of using underhanded methods to obtain the means of unsealing Kudor to protect the world, Peter ended up believing that everything he does in his quest is justifiable and refuses to accept the idea that his plan might have a hole in it. He almost kill two teenagers who just saved his life, Zolomonia exploits him in her Suicide by Cop gambit and he almost gets killed by Kudor, and later learns that he was an Unwitting Pawn playing in the Big Bad's hands all along.
  • Of the Good Is Not Soft in the last story arc. Thanks to what he and Myunhi subjected Abel and Mea to before his Heel–Face Turn, Abel still feel wary of him and believes that he might take Kudor's side, and have Mea locked up or assassinated, once the truth about her is revealed. It never get confirmed of what Peter would've actually done if he knew, but this results in Abel escaping with Mea from the Fage territory.
• The Dreaded: Nelgliffe mentioned that he thought that he could only fear the "Man in the Mask" for his plans, until Abel entered the picture.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: He has long and smooth hair, too smooth for a man to have, painted lips, a thin physique and there is something about the way he dresses. There are many times when Abel referred to him as "Gay" or "Queer" guy.
• Easily Forgiven: He tricked Abel and Mea into helping him reach and unseal Kudor, threatened and took them captives and fully intended on silencing them, without a shred of mercy. And then Abel saves him from Kudor's wrath, partially because he TOLD Abel that he'll spare Mea after he kills him and controls Kudor, and because he figured he was an old acquaintance of Altamir. Both Mea and Kudor call Abel out for this.
  • It get downplayed immediately, as Abel reminds himself many times of what Peter and Myunhi almost did, and ends up withholding sensitive information from them. Abel even begins acting on it, by denying Peter of getting a wish granted by Kudor.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: Inverted. The God Binding Techinque fails to control Kudor, and pisses her off enough to have him brutalized by the Din Eater monsters. He survives thanks to Abel.
• Enlightened Self-Interest: Following his Heel–Face Turn, he gives Abel his support, moral, manpower and financial. Justified as Abel has proved himself as a valuable asset to the kingdom, and has Kudor's favor over him, almost making himself Abel's handler.
• Faking the Dead: He left his old "Lord Peltaire" body behind so his death would be confirmed and to inhabit his new body, and be born again as Peter.
• Forced Sleep: He once inflicted this on Mea. Justified because Abel told him to take her away as he was going to fight Kudor, and she refused to leave his side, even resisted.
• Guy Liner: His lips are painted bright crimson, confusing those who see him for the first time.
• Handshake of Doom: He decides to challenge Abel by letting him 'examine' his body by letting his magic flow inside his body to figure its nature. His body's organs were designed to equalize the flow of magic inside him and lets it be dispersed through his earrings' vibration. Abel increases the flow after realizing what happened because he didn't want to lose.. until both earrings exploded, injuring Peter by accident, causing him to bleed from both ears, and severely damaging his body from the inside.
• Have You Seen My God?: Played with. He is looking for the God of his own faith, seeking to awaken it from its slumber, but his endgoal is...
• Hijacking Cthulhu: He attempts to control Kudor, using the “God Binding Technique” spell created by Priest Yohanan, obtained through help from Zolomonia. It fails.
• Hypocrite: When they meet again after many years, Altamir calls him out for resorting to forbidden magic and alchemy to prolong his own life, recalling that he was the one calling her out for dabbling into this branch of magic to prolong her own life.
• Informed Kindness: Abel recalls stories and records that mentioned that Peter, in his old persona, was a benevolent, if a bit uptight, man. This may have played a part in his friendship with Abel following his Heel–Face Turn.
• I Warned You: He refuses Abel's warnings as he proceeds with unsealing and binding Kudor with the “God Binding Technique” spell, to the point where he threatens Abel with killing Mea unless he stop trying to trick him. He shortly realizes who is being tricked when it's too late:
  Abel: “That’s why! That’s why I told you, didn’t I! That It will definitely fail!”
• King Incognito: He was actually the King of the Dinrat Kingdom, forty years ago, as well as the Pope of the Kudor church. After he faked his own death, he became Peter to protect the kingdom for the shadows
• Living on Borrowed Time: According to him, he prolonged his life 40 more years using forbidden magic, by creating a body that lasts longer.. all to set his plans in motion and see the Goddess Kudor unsealed to help him foil Count Julem's nefarious plot against the Dinrat Kingdom.
• Maniac Tongue: He has the habit of extending his tongue and licking his lips, whenever he shows interest in something.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Through deceit and acting helpless, he tricks Abel into escorting him and Myunhi into Kudor's Cathedral, dealing with the trials and the Balancers on the way, so they could take him and Mea captives and awaken Kudor.
• Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions: After he deciphered the Great Goddess Treasure Book many years ago, learning some of the history of the world and old beliefs from the mythical age, he came to see the Kudor Church's religion and Kudor herself as tools to his end goal. After Kudor's awakening, he returned to believe in the Great Goddess again.
• Recruiting the Criminal: He frees Margus from prison, offering him to work for him in exchange. Margus realizes that this is An Offer You Can't Refuse, and accepts, since Peter revealed a lot to him about his machinations .
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: He has connections with large organizations in all fields, the king, the church, and the criminal organizations of the Dinrat Kingdom. There were also rumors about him pushing for Prince Alphonse's candidacy to the Dinrat Kingdom throne, and may have been involved with Brian Bond's reaching his position.
• Skin-Tone Disguise: The first abnormal thing Abel notices about him (beside his appearance). His skin was replaced with a substitute made with alchemy that ages slower than normal skin.
• Survival Mantra: Right after his artifical organs are damaged from Abel letting magic flow through them, he begins feeling close to death from the shock and start thinking:
  Peter: (I’ll be killed …… I’ll be killed ……! In this kind of place…… this …… I got careless …… this kid, he’s …… not human! I, I, can’t die yet. ……! Finally, we got Zolomonia’s staff, and we even know where the god Kudor sleeps, and now we have this ……!)
• Two Aliases, One Character: Margus was surprised when he learned that the leader of "Amor", is non-other than Peter himself. His reply:
  Peter: Please don’t say it too loudly, it’s one of my faces.
• Unwitting Pawn: His long-term plan to live long enough, gather resources and find the means to unseal Kudor was all a part of Count Julem's master plan to let Kudor awakens.. in a time where he knows about her awakening and is ready enough for her. When he learned about this from Count Julem, he was devestated.
• Villain Takes an Interest: Inverted. Peter is actually a Well-Intentioned Extremist who becomes interested in Abel after seeing his powers. But instead of taking him under his wing, he is wary of him and prefers not to antagonize him until he knows how to control him or dispose of him. Then it is subverted as he becomes his friend.. sorta.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: He wants for the world to become an eternal utopia, free from demon-worshipping, as well as to counter Count Julem's plans against the Dinrat Kingdom. To do this however, he wants to force the five Kingdoms under the Kudorisim religion by controlling the Goddess Kudor, even fancying himself as a god, and is willing to eliminate anyone who might become a threat to him, like Abel and Mea. [[spoiler: He realizes the error of his ways later.
  Peter: “…… There are too many selfish fools in this world. If everyone were to do the right thing, everyone would be able to live happily ever after ……”
• What's Up, King Dude?: One castle guard, in Peter's first appearance, mentions a rumor he heard that Peter once called the King by his nickname, and the King let him get away with it.
• Would Hurt a Child: He considered killing Abel after figuring out that he knows about the incident with Zolomonia's Staff, if he failed to recruit him on the spot. And later in Kudor's Cathedral, he and Myunhi take Abel and Mea captives, intending to kill them because They Know Too Much and Abel might ruin his plans.
• Wrong Assumption: After suffering the effects of his and Abel Handshake of Doom, his perception becomes warped, and begins believing that Abel is actually a demon pretending to be a Marren, equating him to 'at least a legendary-class danger level great demon'. This motivates him to play on Abel's good side, while thinking that Abel struck him with the malice of a monster who doesn't care if he lived or died.

Myunhi

Myunhi: Gentlemen, thank you for this noble day. It is a great honor to have an audience with Peter-sama…… but please refrain from being rude. For then I will have to obliterate you both.

Peter's personal assistant, caretaker and bodyguard.

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• Black Cloak: Like Peter, she wears a black cloak, embroidered with symbols of tentacles.
• Break the Badass: After her attack on Count Julem failed, he points at her forehead with a finger with a glowing tip, and tells her to become a frog. Suddenly she panics, screams and falls on the ground, checking her hands. After Count Julem tells her he was just kidding, she faints from the fear and stress.
  Myunhi: I-I don’t want to, no! I don’t want that! At least, at least, I want to die as a human being!
• Cane Fu: She is armed with a stone staff, with a blade hidden inside the tip.
• Mage Killer: Implied. Abel mentioned hearing rumors about a group created by the Kudor church for people specializing in hunting rogue sorcerers, and Myunhi fits the pill with her skills, strength and dexterity.
• Overzealous Underling: While Peter's men are quick to act defensively toward their leader, Myunhi is the most aggressive, quick in acting and prone to using violence. An early example is when she restrains Abel with her large stone staff and threatens him for... approaching Peter and asking how old he is.
  Myunhi: I said so much that you refrain from saying disrespectful things to Peter-sama……!
• Statuesque Stunner: Subverted. Abel describes her as noticeably tall, making him confuse her for a man when they first met, because of her headgear. When her headgear broke and her face was revealed.. Abel described her face as a plain beauty.
• Would Hurt a Child: Suggests killing Abel and Mea quickly after taking them captives to Peter, once the Kudor's Cathedral's trials were over, to not take chances. She and Peter almost get killed by Kudor's Din Eaters, and had to be saved by the kid they wanted to murder.

The Collector

Collector Kid, I’m not interested in you, but …… I’m curious about the magic tools you’re carrying. You may offer me the Wand of Destruction of the Kudor Church. I am in a good mood right now. I might even let you off the hook if you offer it to me, you know? It depends on my whims and your attitude, though! Fuhahahahaha!

A man who is considered to be the most powerful adventurer in the world, even believed to be a myth. Like his moniker implies, he collects all kinds of treasures from all over the world, mostly weapons, artifacts or trophies from his conquests. He enters the Tower of Altamir some time after Abel did, seeking the witch herself.

Tropes applied on The Collector

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• The Ageless: The rumors and stories about him date to 300 years ago, and neither does show signs of aging at all.
• Assassin Outclassin': He mentions that he was frequently targeted by assassins from the Galshard Kingdom, for stealing the Great Goddess' Treasure Book from them. None seems to have been a bother for him.
• Badass Boast:
  Collector: There’s no way that I would lose! I am the only absolute in this uncertain world! This world is but my garden! There is no way that anyone can fight me on equal terms!
• Badass Cape: He wears a blue long cloak, embroidered with gold and with a magical circle in the center.
• Badass Bookworm: Thanks to his over 300 years of adventures, he has extensive knowledge about lots of subjects. He even tried deciphering the Great Goddess' Treasure Book, drawing both Altamir and Abel to a discussion.
• Bandaged Face: His face is covered with bandages. When the bandages fell off, they revealed gray, faded, scarred skin.
• Battle Trophy: Not all of his trophies were rightfully obtained or given willingly. Once he saw the Collateral Damage Abel left in Altamir's tower, he began imagining how he'll kill whoever did this to obtain whatever magical weapon they used to cause such damage.
• Berserk Button:
  • Don't offend his collection, or interrupt him in his bragging and storytelling about his weapons. Prince Alphonse's elite guards found that out.. the hard way.
    Collector: Do you think that an ignorant and idiot of worldly things can interrupt my words and disgraces my sword? That’s worthy of death!”
  • Breaking his weapons and trophies, even in self-defense, is an easy way to earn his wrath:
    Abel: For you to take out something that easily breaks, and even if you scold me ……
    Collector: Easily breaks ……? You look at me like I’m a fool …… You’re the first person to ever look at me like that. You should be flattered! You, you! You’ve really pissed me off!”
• Blood Knight: He expresses extreme disappointment when the soldiers who attacked him didn't stand a chance and easily died.
  Collector: Boring! It’s boring! I can’t even try out my armor, which I’ve collected, if it’s all these small fry! Show me more resistance, you mundanes!
• Body Horror: In order to not consume all the three cups he stole from Alfhiem, he drank it in moderation, combined with other magic and magical tools. This had the consequences of his body becoming so ugly he had to cover it with his cloak.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Believe it or not, he does have rules, except they're are rules justifying his Might Makes Right philosphy: If someone has an item he's interested in, it's a powerful item worth his time and its owner better know how to use it to defend himself from or be stronger than him. With his reputation as World's Best Warrior, fighting him is a folly by itself.
  Collector: Well, hmm, you’re right that it’s absurd. I will not allow my pride and self-respect to get in the way of that …… I have my own rules that I have imposed on myself. If I, as a transcendent, were to repeat the tyranny of my emotions, it was obvious that there would be nothing left of this world.
• Calling Your Attacks: He often shouts the name of the item he's going to summon from his Bag of Holding.
• Charles Atlas Superpower:
  • According to him, there might not be anyone strong enough who can use his “Great Bow of the War King Bagdum”, a bow with a wire made from Mithril, but himself.
  • His chain dagger, that he also use as Grappling-Hook Pistol both in exploration and combat. Abel mentions that this weapon would've ripped his arm off if he used it himself.
• Collector of the Strange: It is in his nickname. He spent hundreds of years hoarding many magical artifacts, some date to the mythical times from all around the world. He stole many of them (even killed their owners) and isn't afraid to admit it, but also proud of it.
• Combat Compliment: Right after Abel forces him to use his Elixir of Life:
  Collector: But don’t be disparaging. You’re the first human to let me use Amrita.
• Deconstruction: Of the Blade Enthusiast and Collector of the Strange tropes:
  • He treats his weapons both as weapons and trophies, and would fly into a fit of rage if they get damaged or broken and swears revenge. Abel calls him on that but Collector refuses to listens.
    Abel (narrating): If you just want to brag about it, you should have just displayed it at home, but if you take it all the way to the battlefield and then make a fuss about it being broken, all I can say is that it’s your fault.
  • His Determinator attitude toward obtaining rare and pricless items can drag him into fighting an opponent who can fight back (Abel), lose himself in the excitement and end up '''wasting''' the collection he spent his long life gathering... just for a few but powerful items that were crafted by said opponent.
  Abel: [narrating] If I push the collector any further, he will waste more and more of his treasure. I heard that the collector is collecting expensive treasure’s all over the world. Now, he’s repeatedly throwing the magic tools he have collected in one place into the ditch. To put it mildly, a global loss is in the making.
• The Dragonslayer: He claims to once have slain three giant dragons.. together at the same time. And there was his trophy, the head of “The Imperial Dragon Grimrome”.
• Entitled to Have You: He fixates on Abel's World Tree Ortem, and insists on trading one or many of his treasures for it, mistaking it for an artifact or a treasure (Abel carved it!). When Abel refused, he challenged Abel in combat for it, with the Great Goddess' Treasure Book as his Ante. When Abel won against him and took his prize, he changes his mind.. and now he wants both the Ortem AND Lapides Sword. And it goes downhill from here.
• Establishing Character Moment: He gets surrounded by five of Prince Alphonse's Elite Guards, who intends on recruiting him to become the Prince's Elite Guard Captain and Champion, and try to appease him with a magical golden sword. Collector, in order to test it, summons a sword larger than him, and clashed both swords together, breaking the gift sword! Collector then began mocking the Prince in front of his men and laughing at them, causing them to draw their own swords at him, while he's bragging about his sword. One soldier angerly interrupts Collector's story about his sword, and offends him into attacking them. The result was not pretty.. for the soldiers.
• Exact Words: He told Abel, before offering him treasures to exchange for the World Tree Ortem, that he can refuse his offer... but he didn't tell him that he'll try to take the Ortem by force, in case he refuses. But then he subverts the trope, by backpedaling on his threat, and asks for a duel.
  Abel: Y-You said it was okay to refuse! You’re a legendary adventurer, and you’re going to bend your words!
  Collector: I said you could refuse, but I didn’t say what I would do afterwards?
• Friendly Enemy: After cornering both Altamir and Abel, pointing his weapon at the latter and having plan for the former, he let them sit down and watch him showing off his collection and discuss with them the contents of a treasure book he have.
• Graceful Loser: After his first fight against Abel ends with his “Earth-Shattering Sword” breaking, he stops fighting, as he did promise to only use that sword. He also restrained himself from punishing Abel, when the latter asked to have his Bag of Holding, and reluctantly handed him the “Great Goddess Treasure Book” when he asked for it. Not that it stops him from asking for an actual duel right after that.
• Greed: The Collector breathes and lives by this trope. When he saw Abel's World Tree Ortem, he quickly becomes enamoured with it and believes it to be a Marren tribe's relic, and offers several of his treasures to Abel in exchange for it, believing that Abel could be swayed into parting ways with it. However, Abel notices something about said treasures he offered: One, all these treasures are inferior to the treasures he showed him initially. Two, the treasures aren't of practical use to Abel compared to the Ortem, like a bow with a string made of Mithril or the "Vase of 100 Karma", and are things that the Collector could live without them. This makes Abel, who was dead set on refusing the deal from the beginning, outright rejects the deal, angering the Collector.
• Hyperspace Arsenal: Thanks to his incredibly rare item, Ravenous Dragon’s Tool Bag, he could hold his entire arsenal of weapons and treasure hoard and carry it with him, without worrying about weight. The bag itself was made from the stomache of a legendary dragon, Phifneeg, that was capable of devouring an entire country.
• List of Transgressions: Just what Alphonse's soldiers got on him:
  Lontio: The Collector, you are facing a variety of charges. Stealing from ruins, grave robbing of mausoleums, even robbing the royal courts of other countries, supporting civil wars, assassinations ……. Alphonse-sama is worried that it might be difficult for you to move around.
• Living Legend: Many of the Collecter's exploits are classified as legends due to how absurd his feats are. Slaying a giant dragon single handedly, helping a revolution in a small country so he could help himself to the royal treasury. He's described as a man whose every move is praised as legendary.
• Made of Iron: Got pierced in the abdomen with Lapides sword, crushed by his own Deployable Cover, twice even, struck by "Abel whip" several times...only to be alive enough to take a sip of his Amrita to make a comeback.
• Maniac Tongue: For some reason, he has a blue-purple tongue.
• Master Swordsman: While he has a large pool of weapons, he likes to stick with great swords, as they are easier to kill his opponents with. He's capable of creating Shockwave Stomp, Cross Attack shockwaves, Sword Beam with his magic flowing and he's strong enough to handle their weight like a normal sword.
• Mood-Swinger: Sometimes he's affable and friendly, but still threatening, like with Altamir and Abel while showing off his collection, but he's quick to fly off into rage if someone bothers him, like when he shouted at Mea in a angry tone, because she wanted in on their conversation when she felt left behind, then act jolly and affable when Abel refuses his trade offer and offers several treasures at once, yet gets angry but subdues himself when Abel still refuses.
  Collector: [after doing an Intimidation Demonstration] Let’s hear what you’re thinking about, Abel. Depending on your answer, you may be in for a rough ride.
• Mook Horror Show: He subjects Prince Alphonse elite guards to this, for insulting his collection and interrupting his sword's story. Using his "Viper’s Torquepiton", he inflicts poisonous wounds on the soldiers, melting their swords and causing them to vomit their internal organs and die slowly. Then, he summons a bow and makes it shoots dozens of light arrows on the corpses, piercing them from head to foot.
• The Most Wanted: He's wanted for the crimes he committed in his hunt for treasures for his collection by many countries, including the Sky Country Alfhiem.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: If he wants something, he'll obtain it no matter what! Be it by killing the owner of the the treasure, or fighting them for it. Abel sees this mindset in action after rejecting his offer:
  Collector: …… I was planning to get it by force but I’m not going to. I’ve been made such a fool of. I’m going to take this wooden puppet as well as the wand of destruction. If you just give it up quietly, I can still let you go with your life, Abel. I’m still thinking that it’s regrettable to kill you.
• Schmuck Bait: How he tempts Abel into fighting him "As an equal". He asks Abel to join him in "an experiment" on his Bag of Holding, but he has to go through one final test: fight him with everything he has, no handicaps, no holding back. Abel takes it, despite Mea and Altamir telling him it's a trap, and him losing would cost him the Great Goddess' Book, his Ortem, and Lapides Sword.
• Sherlock Scan: Having lived for a long time and came to contact with big names in adventuring with experince, the Collector can gauge people based on their behaviour, words and actions, and uses them to find a pattern to their character, calling it an "aura". This backfires on him, as Abel's behaviour throws off the accuracy of his measure, causing him to underestimate him.
• Strong and Skilled: He's stronger by huge margin from an average human, and had all these years to train, gain knowledge and sharpen his skills with his many weapons.
• Underestimating Badassery: He feels really offended when Abel accepts his offer to fight him to keep his Ortem and one of the Collector's treasures:
  Collector: I had no idea that I was so disregarded! You think you can deal with Me If I have just one sword? I’m convinced you’ve been acting like an asshole! You are a fool of the Marren tribe, so full of knowledge that you can’t see anything! This collector …… will prove his transcendence right here and now!
• Walking Armory: Thanks to his “Ravenous Dragon’s Tool Bag”, he can call any weapon he wants, even when he can't move his hands or arms. How does that count as him walking with all his weapons? Simple. He assimilated it to his chest.
• Wild Card: He's difficult to figure out. He's rumored to be brutal, arrogant, greedy, temperamental, and cruel on top of that. He'll also involve himself in wars.. just to test out the power of his treasures.
• Wrong Assumption: Seeing the devastation that Abel left behind in Altamir's tower, he asks Abel repeatedly to hand over the "Wand of Destruction". Abel heard about it, but he never came to possess such a thing.

Tropes for The Collector in his Prime

Collector: There’s no choice …… I had no intention of using it in this way, but my life-prolonging, almost-dead body was no match for yours. It’s hard to imagine, and at the same time it’s hard to admit, but …… it seems to be true.

After Abel overwhelms the Collector and destroys several of his prized treasures in their fight, he consumes a full cup of the Amrita elixir, causing his already injured body to revert to its state in his prime, regaing 300 years of life, in order to continue fighting Abel. He stays in this state for the reminder of the novel.

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• Awesomeness by Analysis: Manages to overwhelm Abel's Lapids Sword after a long struggle, by memorizing all of its moves. He is still a Master Swordsman after all.
• Bishōnen Line: Regaining 300 years of his life, he becomes stronger, agile, more preciptive, full rejuvenated in body, but still the crazy Collector he's. His hair also grew long and shiny, half purple-blue and half grey, long enough to almost touch the floor.
  Abel (narrating): I wondered if he had been replaced by a completely different person, but that didn’t seem to be the case.
• Contemplate Our Navels: Shortly after completing his rejuvenation, he gives a really long speech about how he came to be the Collector, and how all he felt emptiness instead of accomplishment the more he collects, and wondering for what purpose he gained his immortality and his pile of treasures.
  Collector: I pretended to be oblivious to this, and just kept collecting things, desperately trying to fill up the never-ending “Ravenous Dragon’s Tool Bag”! Eventually, the mundane word “collector” became the only name for me!
• Deadly Upgrade: For his last move in his fight with Abel, he uses both a full Cup of Amrita and “Self-Admonition Sword, Cudlarg” simultaneously. With the Amrita's Healing Factor canceling Cudlarg's side effects on his body, he becomes fully rejuvenated, closer to a god in power, gains red Instant Runes all over his body, infinite mana, covered in black light in the shape of a dragon, gains wings and a Instant Armor made of Black Magic. He gets better after he's finally defeated.
  Collector: I feel it …… I feel infinite mana! God’s power! Now, let’s start the overtime! Which is better, the power of the Great Goddess in my body or your magic?
• Despair Event Horizon: He goes through one when he sees his entire collection falling away into the Chaos vortex, disintegrating as it swallows them. He was deep in shock he actually tried to follow his collection and die with it! Abel however catches him with a rope made of Haydeem Magimetal and pulls him from reaching his treasures.
  Collector: Don’t stop me! You, what are the likes of you know! That thing, that thing is all I have, all I am! Don’t stop me!
  Abel: You’ll only die if you jump!
  Collector: Then kill me! It took me 300 years to collect it! And on top of that! If you look around the world, how many treasures are there that are worth more than the one that just fell …… Aaaaaaaah! I’m not going to be able to make up for what I’ve just lost with a hundred years of life, now that Amrita is gone! Kill me!
• Dual Wielding: Now in his prime, the Collector can now wield “Chomieshkeid Ray” in one hand (he was wielding it with both hands before he rejuvenated), and the sword's twin, “Matarglardar Ray”, in the other with ease and without loss of speed.
• Empowered Badass Normal: He manages, wielding the sword Cudlarg, to block Levi's Spear, hurled at him in a big speed. Let's reiterate that: The Collector forced Abel to use a God-Made Weapon to defeat him, and still needed more to break the tie between them!!
• Final Boss, New Dimension: He has Altamir invokes this, so he and Abel could go all out without hinderance. She transports them to an arena made of crystal, surrounded by Chaos anomalies, inside a Pocket Dimension hidden in a mirror. It also prevents teleporting things to inside the area.
• Glory Seeker: After such a lengthy fight with Abel, with the latter still having the upper hand, he starts treating him as a Worthy Opponent, and becomes more determined to defeat him, recognizing him as a World's Strongest Man:
  Collector: Let’s go, Abel! I, with this blow, will carve my name into the end of the myth!
• Gut Feeling: After surrounding Abel with an army of Dream Soldiers and putting his “Golden Mirror” to intercept Abel's "Abel Ball" spell, he suddenly feels a shiver and backs away, then summons his “Demon’s Face Stone” to protect himself behind it. He would've died if he didn't set that!
• Noone Could Survive That: After getting blasted by an "Abel Ball" spell, that destroyed both of his mirrors, Dream Soldiers, his Deployable Cover and his swords, he's left a charred, smoking, legless, one armed body. Nope, he's still alive, and still has one cup of Amrita to heal with it.
• Oh, Crap!: He finally gives up after Abel defeats him, and tries to use his Chain Blade to return to the arena... only to realize that his Bag of Holding has been torn off his body, raptured, and is dumping all his treasures into the fast space, into the Chaos anomalies, causing them to disintegrate!! This causes him to go into a Despair Event Horizon.
  Collector: Aaaaaaaaaaaah!?
  The collector’s movements completely froze as he let out a scream that was a mixture of sorrow and surprise.
  The breakdown was so brilliant that I thought he had forgotten how to even breathe.
• Reduced to Dust: After getting sandwiched between two "Abel Ball" spells, and getting Impaled with Extreme Prejudice with Levi's Spear, Collector's body gives up and hardens like a sculpture, and turns into powder drifting in the Pocket Dimension space. Then the Amrita's Healing Factor kicks in and he fully reassembles alive, but weakened and finally defeated!
• Sword Beam: He's capable of pouring magic into his swords, to launch a devestating techinque called “Roar of the Dragon King, Bahamut”. It gets upgraded to “Five Consecutive Bahamut Roar!” and “True Bahamut Roar!” when he undergoes his Deadly Upgrade.
• Thousand-Yard Stare: The state he was in, while riding Elia's carriage to the Fage territory, after losing his entire collection.
• Worth It: Becomes less restrained in using his precious collection, believing that getting to fight someone like Abel was the reason for all the years he spent gathering said collection. But it is then subverted, as he loses the fight '''AND''' his collection as a result, leaving him a broken man.

Tropes for some of the Collector's Weapons:

• Attack Reflector: “Golden Mirror of the Alchemist King”. Can take any magic attack and direct it back to its sender. Except the "Abel Ball" spell.
• BFS: He has many large swords like “Right King of Shattering, Chromieshkeid Ray” and “Left King of Rending, Matarglardar Ray”.
• Blade on a Rope: He has a dagger that can launch its blade, connected with a chain to the hilt, to hook into walls and climb heights by tugging the hilt, pulling him toward the blade.
• Chain Pain: Viper’s Torquepiton, a demon-possessed weapon that could corrode even Mithril, inflict poisonous wounds causing his enemies' bodies to Rot away or vomit their internal organs and die.
• Deployable Cover: His “Gujarna Demon’s Face Stone”, a giant stone disc with the carving of a demon's face on it. Used to block attacks and is shown to be quite sturdy.
• Fountain of Youth: His "Cups of Amrita", an elixir made in Alfhiem from the tree sap of the Magical Tree Alverut, that he stole two hundred years ago. One cup not only let him regain his youth, heals his wounds but also gives him a temporary yet potent Healing Factor.
• Flying Face: “The Imperial Dragon Grimrome”'s head. A head of a huge dragon slain by the Collector, that can shoot a Breath Weapon on his command, despite it being dead.
• Legendary Weapon: Many of his weapons share this trope: like “Great Bow of the War King Bagdum”, a magical bow that an arrow from it could shoot a King in his castle, far away even in the midst of a storm, or “Right King of Shattering, Chromieshkeid Ray” Sword, said to have crushed a whole battalion with one swing.
• Mook Maker: “Angell’s Magic Mirror”. Can creates an infinite number of “Dream Soldiers”, with their strength proportional to the owner’s magic power.
• Power at a Price: “Self-Admonition Sword, Cudlarg”. Gives the wielder a "glimpse" of the power of the Great Goddess Kudor, but destroys the body of the wielder in return.
• Scary Impractical Armor: “Giant King Hylas’ Magic Battle Armor”. A 20 meter large armor, that belonged to a Giant, made of pure spirit. Collector just hides behind it.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: The Vase of 100 Karma, an item created by the god Maharbo to fight Kudor. Collector claims that one demon inside it could destroy a great nation.
• Treants: “Universal Hardwood Behemoth”, a huge tree monster growing in the shape of a crouched beast of prey, With sturdy metal-like black leaves as its fur. Can function as an instant fortress for Collector to hide inside.
• Vibro Weapon: “Earth-Shattering Sword” can increase the impact and control its direction. One stab into a stone floor can gouge through it in a zigzagging pattren.
• Wrecked Weapon: All of his collection, including his Bagof Holding, were destroyed when the bag got torn in the end of his fight with Abel, dumping all what it contained into a chaos anomaly.

Tropes for The Collector in the Fage territory:

Collector: Until recently, I had more than enough money to buy everything in this country, not just alcohol! Until recently!

After the incident in Altamir's Tower, the Collector stays in Russell village. With his collection now lost, his glory days are behind him.

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• Big Damn Hero: He shows up to save Altamir, who was being held by Jeem after he beaten her, setting to fight the monsterous dwarf himself.
  Collector: You witch, losing to mere scouts of the Maharaun Kingdom.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Despite sitting around drinking and doing nothing with himself, he makes an impressive comeback when the village needed a savior. However, he does comments on him getting rusty after killing the attackers.
• Character Development: Staying in the Fage territory and meeting people willing to tolerate his behavior and drinking, made him grow attached to the town and proceeds to protect it when it was attacked by Jeem and his men.
  • After damaging Iris's gift sword until it became useless, he almost throws it, but then holds on to it, respecting her trust in him.
• He's Back!: After seeing two highly trained soldiers from Maharaun Kingdom setting fires in the Fage territory and attacking the citizens, he decides he sat long enough in the tavern, cutting both evildoers one after another with Iris's gift sword, then moving to find their ringleader, Jeem.
  Collector: Hmph, you third-rate bastard, trying to be cool. I can run away if I want, but …… I’ve been here a little too long.
• Drowning My Sorrows: He spends most of his days in a tavern, the “Dwarf’s Hideaway”, drinking without paying and mourning his collection, to the ire of the waitress Ela. Iris does pay for him.
• Give Me a Sword: The sword Iris gifted him gets destroyed after using it for launching a “Dragon King’s Roar” on Jeem. After getting trounced by the latter, Altamir returns and throws him the Orichalcos Sword, a sword made from a collaboration between her and Abel, intended for the Collector to use.
• Hazy-Feel Turn: He still holds a grudge against Abel for costing him his collection, but will not act on it.
• Heroic Second Wind: After Jeem injures him until he's an unmoving, bloodied unrecognizable body, his body slowly heals by itself!! Turns out he gained near-immortality from consuming three cups of Amrita, healing him enough to survive his battle with Jeem.
• How Much More Can He Take?: He takes this trope to beyond ridiculous levels in his fight with Jeem. He gets his one of his hands shattered, fingers snapped, a shoulder gouged, abdomen and several places slashed, suffering wounds that should be fatal, got his torso carved with a barrage of hand-to-hand thrusts, losing a LOT of flesh and blood, got several bones crushed, etc. But still lasts long enough to fight and forces Jeem to reveal his trump card, and even live through it!!.
  Jeem: You …… are you not a human? Why are you still alive? No, you shouldn’t be able to move unhindered in the first place.
  Collector: Then let me tell you. Because your thrusts are weak, you worthless spirit!
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: The famed "Legendary Adventurer" is now a shadow of his former self. Drinking, talking and grieving about his lost collection, and unmotivated to start anew and take a job. He doesn't even resort to violence when people make fun of him. Abel feels really sorry for him:
  Abel: [narrating] You …… did you drank three Amrita’s for that kind of thing?
• I Choose to Stay: He wanted to leave the village after dealing with Jeem, but then he heard the latter threatening to comeback with an army for revenge, and decided to protect the territroy instead.
• Invulnerable Knuckles: Horrifically averted during his fight with Jeem, when he punched the latter in the cheek and got his fist shattered to the wrist, thanks to Jeem's “Dragon Flow” technique.
• Love Cannot Overcome: Iris leaves him and return to Asshim to resume her merchant work, even refusing his request to follow her, leaving him heartbroken... and without her money to pay his bills.
• Official Couple: He and Ela got engaged in the epilogue, and helps her by working in her father's tavern.
• Post-Victory Collapse: After Jeem leaves defeated, he falls on his knees, but Ela holds him to support his exhausted body.
• Spanner in the Works: Thanks to him and Altamir protecting the Magic Wave Tower from Jeem, Abel manages to use the Magic Cannon installed in it to save the world.
• Terrifying Rescuer: After butchering the evildoers setting fires in Russel village during Jeem's attack, Ela sees him. He tries to approach her but she's scared of him, making him back down, a bit sad. He doesn't hold it against her.
• Victory by Endurance: Despite Jeem still having the upper hand, Collector defeats him with one last “Bahamut’s Roar”.. that Jeem still survives, albit wounded. But he succeeded in Holding the Floor for Lark's private army, the alchemist divison and Peter to arrive, forcing Jeem to retreat.

Devin Deodornode

Devin: Hmm? Norcs has a strange cry, doesn’t it? It looks like I’ve been called “you”. How dare a mere norcs call me something like that, fufufu. You’re funny.

A High Elven priest who runs into Abel and Mea inside the Tower of Altamir. His arrogant nature and insults aimed at Abel's people drives Abel to pick a fight with him, intending to put him in his place.

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• Absurdly High-Stakes Game: He puts Abel and Mea through one after he announces that he'll have to kill them. He'll have his Stone Servant compete with Abel's World Tree Ortem on hunting the most of Dragonhead monsters infesting the tower floor they're in. If he wins, he'll let them choose which way they want to die. If Abel wins, he'll let them go. Abel, wanting to really humiliate this arrogant elf, decides that if Devin were to lose, he'll have to lick the bottom of Abel's shoe.
  Devin: …… really, you really seem to have a lot of courage.
• Belief Makes You Stupid: Abel exploits this against him before their duel. He tells Devin to give up his Vestment of the Sky God as a wager if Abel wins. When Devin gets angry from the suggestion, Abel tells him: since the vestment is a proof that he was chosen by the Sky God and he can't lose to a Norc, the Sky God has guaranteed that he'll win against his opponent, and therefore he can wager it because he'll win, or back down because he can't trust his God's judgement. He agrees to the wager and soon regrets it.
  Abel: If you don’t believe in the oracle of the sky god and you’re unsure of your own abilities, put down your staff. Why should I bother to take a duel with a guy who blushes and yells at me to make the wound of defeat less severe?
• Break the Haughty: He starts off his game with his Stone Servant taking the lead, and he mocks Abel calling him all talk. As soon as Abel commands his World Tree Ortem to hunt the Dragonheads, Devin's smile fades and starts biting his lips when he sees the 'Mere Wooden-doll' outracing and out-hunting his Stone Servant by huge margin. For extra points of humility, Abel watches him, laying under a tree and resting, with Mea massaging his tired feet from going through the stairs.
  Mea: A, Abel …… I’m starting to feel a little sorry for him.
• The Chosen One: He was picked by the Sky God himself, he claims, who gave him permission to borrow his vestment, and carved Thanatos's summoning crest into one of his eyes in a dream.
• Cultural Posturing: Despite Abel and Mea being a Marren and a Doom, Devin refers to them as Norcs. Since to high elves, all human species are Norcs, and are very close to animals from his perspective.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: He begins his fight with Abel by summoning seven Stone Servants and prepares a huge magic circle. Abel uses a Wind spell at him and bypasses his vestment's protection, but he bends down to not get swept away by the wind. But then, his Stone Servants are blown away by the wind and hit him in the face and abdomen, throwing him off to the mercy of the wind and get slammed to the wall, losing some teeth in the process. He tries to get up, but Abel lifts him up with wind magic, spins him around then slams him shoulder first into the ground, then uses wind again to strip him of his vestment. As he cries foul and demands for Abel to not touch the vestment, Abel drop all his Stone Servants on his head, emitting a Sickening "Crunch!", knocking him out cold.
• Fatal Flaw: His Pride. After he survived his fall from the giant beanstalk, but with a broken body, bones and almost depleted magic, he refuses to retreat back to Alfheim and get himself healed because, again, he can't stand the fact that Abel defeated him. However, he finds the Collector behind him!! Remembering that the Collector desecrated his country and stole their "Cups of Amrita", he decides to fight the Collector in his still injured and broken body! He easily gets killed by the Collector.
• Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: He really hates the Marren tribe because of how they defeated his people with their "wooden toys and cheap tricks" in a war hundreds of years ago, and how they are referred to as the "High Elves of Earth". He even tells Abel how he'll personally kill the Marren tribe before his people will invade the Dinrat Kingdom.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Subverted. This guy has zero redeeming qualities to relate to his golden hair.
• Hoist by His Own Petard:
  • Just when things looked grim for Abel and Mea, suddenly Thanatos stops, looks up in the sky of the seventh floor of Altamir's tower, and then turns to Devin's direction. Devin thinks his summon is attacking him and pushes Mea off the giant beanstalk's branch they were on for her to fall.. only for Thanatos to bend his sharp arms and safely catch her and put her in a far away branch... then knocks Devin off to fall off the beanstalk. He didn't even know what or why this even happened.
  • A while after that, with his body broken and barely standing, he attempts to kill the Collector, who ran into him, and just stands there wide open to let him get a shot. His instincts tells him this is a trap, but he ignores them and shoots at him with "Fairy King’s arrow", with all his remaining magic power put into it. The arrow hits... the Collector's Demonic Mirror, sending the attack right back at him, killing him.
    Collector: Ha! What an idiot!
• It's All About Me: Abel defeats him in his game on the promise of letting him and Mea go, he refuses to accept defeat and stalks him looking for a duel, intent on humiliating him then killing him because he can't live with the fact that a Norc defeated him. Abel utterly humiliates him in their actual duel and takes his prize, he complains and cries foul before he's beaned on the head with his Golems. Seeing that he can't win in a fair fight, he takes Mea hostage, and order Abel to "start over" their duel, except Abel is not allowed to do anything but let himself be killed, or he'll snap Mea's neck. So much for his Elven pride.
  Abel: I thought High Elves were a proud lot, but I guess not! They’re just a bunch of mean, evil people! Taking a hostage, what duel is this!
  Devin: Shut up! Choose your words! You’re the one who forced me to do this! How dare you mock me when you’re of a lower race! How much more do you want to humiliate me!
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: The vestment he wears, a national treasure from Alfhiem, can block external shocks by tapping into the wearer's own magical power. Subverted, as the World Tree Ortem breaks through the vestment's magic circle and tackles him in the abdomen.
• Moving the Goalposts: After Abel defeats him in his own game, made by his rules, and defeats him physically when he tried destroying the World Tree Ortem after his loss, he welshes on his deal of letting Abel and Mea go, and instead stalks them as they continue their ascent of Altamir's tower and insists on battling Abel to death. Justified, since he can't accept the fact that a Norc, or Marren no less could beat him, and can't face his people or his God with that in mind. Abel just writes him off as nuisance and moves on.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: After he snaps, he takes Mea hostage and threatens Abel with snapping Mea's neck if he tries summoning his Ortems, casting a magic spell, or anything, and he means it. He rejects Abel's apologies and decides that death is not enough to atone for his 'sins', and then summons Thanatos on him, while he's unable to do anything because of him threatening Mea. He also tells him how all his friends will die when the Sky Country invades the Dinrat Kingdom, and how he'll kill all the Marren tribe personally.
  Devin: So, after I kill you, all your friends will also die, so don’t worry, suffer and die! Especially Marren, all of you will be destroyed by me personally in no time!
• Older Than He Looks: He looks like he's 25 years or more. But being a high elf, his age can't be determined from his looks alone.
• Our Elves Are Different: Unlike Ebelheid, he's from the Sky Country Alfhiem. He looks more younger and stronger in magic abilities thanks to a life of receiving the magical light of the Moon Din.
• Save the Villain: Subverted. Abel sees him falling off the beanstalk, trying to cast a wind spell to soften the impact. Abel redraws his magical circle so it will push him even more to the ground, and he smashes head first into the giant beanstalk's branches and trunks, scraping down himself and screaming as he falls splat to the ground, bloodied and had several bones broken, but still alive. Abel then spits on him.
• Sore Loser: After he lost the game he played with Abel, where they used their Stone Servant/Ortem to hunt the most Dragonhead monsters, he tries to destroy Abel's World Tree Ortem with a "Fairy King’s arrow" spell. The Ortem dodges it and goes for retaliation.
  Devin: I- I will not admit it! I won’t accept this game! Behold! What is the meaning of such a toy in battle, which would be sunk by the blow of my magic arrow ……
• Stress Vomit: When his Stone Servant is burned and trashed by Dragonheads, he pauses for a moment to realize what happened, and Abel goes to check on him. He then puked, turning Abel off him.
  Devin: A magi-, magic beast…… magic beast, a mere magic beast…… To, to do such a cowardly…… Uh, Uoop, oveeh!
• Those Were Only Their Scouts: The reason he came to Earth was to prepare for the Sky Country Alfhiem's attack on the Dinrat Kingdom, on orders from an oracle of the Sky God, and for the grudge he holds towards that kingdom. He's also there to invite the witch Altamir to his country, to deny the Dinrat Kingdom her powers and wisdom.
  Devin: I’m not interested in the impure land, and I don’t like the idea of bringing Norcs in, but it’s the oracle of the sky god. The presence of a single alchemist is sometimes more useful than ten thousand soldiers.
• Trash Talk: He quickly tries to pick a fight with Abel, after he's told by Mea that he is a Marren, commenting how they fought the high elves with "uncool" methods using their carved Ortems, calling them "wooden dolls", and takes it as the Marren tribe's admission of how they can't win through magical power alone. Abel, despite being offended by his insult, turns it back at him, and talks about how hung up he must be about his people's defeat at the Marrens' hands, and how embarrassing their defeat was, running away from their wooden toys. It works.
  Devin: It would be easy for me to burn you to death right here and now, dismember you, or freeze you to death. The only hassle is that there are so many ways to do it that it’s hard to choose which one to use.

Altamir

Altamir: It seems that you are indeed surprised! But if it’s just a magic bullet, it’s meaningless to me now that I don’t need magic circles anymore! That’s the biggest benefit of becoming this spirit body. The magic that humans can’t control, but now I can control it!

A witch and an Alchemist who supposedly perished eighty years ago.

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• The Ageless: After she turned herself into a spirit body, she never aged past her twenties in eighty years, which Abel speculates her age when she performed the process.
• Alchemy Is Magic: She managed to recreate the phantom copper, Orichalcos, a legendary magic metal, said to be impossible to recreate with current magic technology, with no known method for making it, and used it to create soldiers and her colossuses.
• Brainy Brunette: She's described as having orange and curly hair, and she rivals Abel in intelligence.
• Collapsing Lair: The tower, unable to withstand more of Abel's reckless use of magic inside it, and forcing Levi's Spear into Altamir's mirror's Pocket Dimension during his fight with the Collector, collapsed shortly after the battle was finished. This forces Altamir to move to the Fage territory on Elia's carrige, crying:
  Altamir: Uwaaaaaaaaaaaah! What did you do!? You, what did you really do!? Uwaaaaaaaaaaah
• Combat Compliment: After her Colossuses are destroyed, She commends Abel's power and knowledge, and addresses how it dwarves even her own because of a difference in the times.. before she prepares to fight him with her own magic attacks.
  Altamir: I’m sure you have more magical power than I do, and it’s only natural that the royal family would send you out as an assassin. It seems that I am inferior to you in terms of knowledge due to the difference in time.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: At first she brings her life's work: two Orichalcos Colossuses, to attack Abel, but he defeats them with a double Abel Ball spell. She recognizes his prowess in magic, and decides to fight him Wizard Duel style to death. She boasts about the benefits she gained from becoming a spirit body and shoots at Abel with a barrage of elemental magic bullets, moving in weird, erratic and hard to follow trajectories as she brags about how it doesn't take much to defeat a human sorcerer. Abel manages to shoot his own barrage of elemental bullets, utilize their Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors to destroy Altamir's bullets, then hit Altamir with all the bullets, defeating her.
  Altamir: Mo-, monster …… [faints]
• Defeat Equals Friendship: She gradually becomes friendly with Abel and Mea after everything is cleared up, and tries to have them leave to safety when the Collector reaches the tower's top floor. When the Collector tried picking up a fight with Abel, she tries to dissuade them both from doing so, and agrees to carry Mea away from danger when the fight broke out anyway.
• Dope Slap:
  • She punches Abel in the cheek after he finally defeats the Collector, because their fighting ended up destroying her tower. For extra points, he turned off both his Ortem and Lapides Sword after the fight ended, leaving him unprotected.
  • She even slapped him in frustration, when he explained to her, rather repeatedly, how his "Abel Ball" spell works. Thing is, he kept explaining it to her, magic forumla after another, for a whole week.
• Elemental Powers: She quickly and easily creates twelve clumps of magic bullets around her to shoot at Abel simultainously. Three bullets for each element: Fire, Water, Earth and Wind. A feat easy to her, thanks to her being a spirit body.
• Energy Being: She became a "Spirit Body", capable of becoming corporeal, gained the ability to perform chantless magic, reconstruct her spirit body from damage as well as gaining Immortality and over-above human durability. However, she could still be hurt or killed with really strong physical and magical attacks, but keeping her down is the problem.
• Evil Sorceress: She was wanted by the Dinrat Kingdom for researching forbidden forms of magic and apparently built an army of Golems and sent it to fight the court magicians sent to arrest her. She got sealed in the tower after her defeat. The Truth about her is far from what the populace were told, and the current Dinrat Kingdom royalty.
• The Exile: Abel read in books that she caused a crazy incident, forcing the Dinrat Kingdom's King, at that time, to send 50 sorcerers against her and seal her in the tower. Turns out said exile was a Self-Imposed Exile, and she actually stayed in the tower to continue her research and guard the actual Sealed Evil in a Can inside.
• Fluffy Tamer: The magic beasts that were infesting the tower, were like animals she keeps for research. Even Jormungand and Apocalypse.
• Get Out!: After Abel asks if he could help in fixing the tower, she answers with this. She also say it at Abel and Mea when the Collector barges in, so they don't tangle with him.
• Hot Witch: Purple pointy hat and cloak? Check. Short in stature, carrying a huge staff? Check. Power Floats in the air? Check. Over a decade old, but looks in her twenties? Check.
• 90% of Your Brain: She mentions that in one her published papers, she said that the human body can handle eight magical circles in parallel, if it wasn't in a real fight. When she was a human, she could handle seven in parallel in a magic fight, and now that she's a spirit body, she can handle twelve!!. However...
• Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: She attacks Abel and Mea, thinking they were assassins sent by the Dinrat Kingdom to kill her. Plus, Abel caused a lot of Collateral Damage in her tower and easily killed Apocalyspe, the tower's Sealed Evil in a Can.
• Nothing Personal: Before engaging Abel in battle, she expresses how delighted she is to see a human after almost a decade, before she tells him and Mea to not hold a grudge against her after they die, but on whoever sent them to kill her.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Abel tells that about Altamir, after Mea reminds him of how Altamir's forbidden research made her a target of the government, along with her habit of building and housing dangerous magic stuff. He was quite right.
  Abel: …… I think we’d get along well.
  Mea: Mea thought so too for a moment……
• The Reveal: It turns out, after Altamir became a spirit body she didn't want to be discovered, so she hid in the mountains with her disciples to conduct their researches away from the Kingdom's eyes. When the legendary beast Apocalypse threatened the Dinrat Kingdom, she was asked by an acquaintance of her, the Pope of Kudor Church Lord Peltaire, to build a tower to seal Apocalypse inside. However, the tower ended up attracting the royal family's attention. It was found that Altamir's researches were about forbidden magic, reanimating the dead, her design of the Colossus despite it being forbidden, and trying to tame Apocalypse. All that led to discover that she used money from the goverment to tamper with the tower's wards, making her situation quite precarious, as her actions could trigger a war. Luckily, Lord Peltair mediated the situation, and made up a cover story that the Kingdom's court magicians sealed both Altamir and Apocalypse in the tower.
• Robot Master: Commands two Colossuses to attack Abel and Mea in her tower, and she does it quite easily despite their size. They didn't fare well against Abel.
• Space Master: Has mastery over spatial magic, using it to create her tower's spacious floors, each floor houses a environment suitable for variety of magical beasts and life forms, among other things.
• Spell My Name With An S: Her name (アルタミア) could also be read as: Artamir, Altamia or Altamira.
• Teen Genius: A briliant sorceress and an accomplished alchemist, who written so many books on magic theories, and perhaps had the intellect and knowledge to turn herself into a spirit body, before the age of 20!!
• Tsundere: After Abel apologizes for the mess, he asks Altamir if he could come visit after she fixed the tower. She blushes and looks sideways:
  Altamir: …… W-Well, it’s been a long time since I’ve talked to anyone, and if it’s after the tower is fixed, I can help you out for a bit.
• Underestimating Badassery: Averted. Seeing as Apocalypse was easily destroyed by Abel, she brings out her best creations, two Orichalcos Colosusses, each armed with a huge sword. Abel easily defeats them, forcing her to engage him in battle with magic bullets, and tries to overwhelms him with her magic bullets. He still defeats her.
• What the Hell, Hero?: After her defeat, waking up and learning that Abel and Mea weren't assassins sent to kill her:
  Altamir: Eh…… The-, then what did you come here for? Why did you destroy the tower? Harassment?
  Abel: N, no, I got carried away…… Somehow, I’m sorry.

Tropes for her after joining the Fage territory:

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• Big Sister Instinct: Towards Mea:
  • Protects Mea from Rathboutt, when the latter sneaked into the Fage territory to kidnap the former by orders from the god Levi. She almost bites it doing so.
    Alta: What are you talking about? It’s no use for you to stay here! I’ll do it! Abel will kill me if he finds out that I abandoned you and ran away!
  • Berates Abel, when he became too busy talking magic to Penrath and was neglecting Mea.. only to become engrossed and joins them in their conversation:
    Alta: What are you guys doing …… Abel, you’re making Mea cry again …… As the green girl said before, she’s going to get sick of you soon.
• Celibate Eccentric Genius: When Penrath suggests her as the "perfect companion" for Abel, she denies being interested in "such frivolous things", asserts that she's unable to do such things, among other things.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Suffers this, several times, against Rathboutt and his water blades. She was temporarily left with holes in her spirit body, but manages to stay alive.
• Magic Misfire: During her fight with Rathboutt. Seeing that she's facing The Juggernaut, she resorts to using Abel's "Abel Ball" hoping to destroy Rathboutt. Unfortunately, she lacked the practice and the full grasp of the theory behind the spell, leading her to lose control of it, and ends up blowing up the north side of Baron's Lark Mansion with Rathboutt, only to be revealed he was Not Quite Dead, and really pissed.
• Master of the Levitating Blades: Creates and controls swords made from Hydeem Magimetal, during her fight with Rathboutt.
• Sue Donym: She joins the Fage territory's alchemy division under the name "Alta", to hide her true identity.
• The Worf Effect:
  • She valiantly fought against Rathboutt, utilizing her arsenal of spells to protect Mea from him. Unfortunately, she was severely outmatched against Rathboutt, and came very close to death from her wounds. But she managed to exhaust his Nigh-Invulnerability, leaving him exposed to a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown from Abel's Ortem Defense System.
  • She didn't fare well when facing Jeem, thanks to him being a Lightning Bruiser. None of her magic bullets can hit him, rendering her a liability when Collector stepped in, and had to retreat... to assist him later.
• What the Hell, Hero?: She scolds Abel, when she caught him sneaking into Quetzalcoatl, after he ran away from the territory and leaving all the projects and responsibilities behind... until she notices that Mea is not with him.
  Altamir: What do you mean!? In the first place, what do you planning to do! There was a lot of work left to do, such as developing the magic cell phone Magiphone, celebrating the Moon Festival Dinmei...

Introduced in Resurrection of God Kudor

Cynthia

Cynthia: “You devil! You are bound by your own delusions and want to use the power of the God of Law! Change your mind quickly, and throw yourself into the sea with your men, as the least you can do to atone to the God of Law!”

A female priestess, in charge of an abandoned church on the easternmost coast of the Dinrat Kingdom. She was captured by Peter in his quest to find the Great Temple of Kudor.

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• Ancient Order of Protectors: She is descendant of a family that had been watching over the seal of the goddess Kudor.
• Bound and Gagged: She sits bound with ropes and guarded by two of Peter's men, while Peter and the rest are performing ritual to reveal the Great Temple.
• Cassandra Truth: Just as Abel was about to go into Kudor's Great Temple with Peter, she suddenly appears free of her captivity, shouting at Abel not to trust Peter... before one of the latter's men grabs her into a sleeper hold, knocking her out. Abel forgets what she was trying to say.
  Cynthia: “How dare you let something like that come out of your mouth! Travelers, please don’t be fooled! This demon is trying to take advantage of the power of the God of Law…”
  Peter's man: “Please don’t mind it. She’s not out of shock yet, and she’s in a state of delirium.”
  Abel:[Narrating] H-However, she was clearly trying to tell me something just now ……
• Defiant Captive: Being at Peter's mercy doesn't stop her from cursing at and threatening him, not that Peter cares. She even tries to attack him while she's tied up, but Peter's men held her down.
  Cynthia: “You treacherous bastard! You devil! Curse you! Curse your soul for eternity!”
• What Happened to the Mouse?: After she's rendered unconscious while trying to warn Abel of Peter, she's never heard of again in the novel.

Balancers of the Scale of Time

Tropes apply to them

A mysterious magic cult operating from the shadows, claiming to act as mediators of activities. Three of their members were sent on a mission seeking Kudor's Cathedral, clashing with Peter (and then Abel) on their path.

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• Hijacking Cthulhu: What their operatives were sent to do in Kudor's Cathedral.
• Nebulous Evil Organisation: Despite calling themselves a cult, they operate as an organization that houses some of the world's best magicians. It is said that various unnatural events in history were caused by their influence over the world for a long time.
• No One Sees the Boss: Their boss is a powerful demon named Dioms, but in reality he's just a contract demon for their real boss. Though said boss is a human, they're really good at hiding their identity, even from Kudor. But the latter believes them to be a coward, not a cautious.
• Order Is Not Good: They claim to be mediators of the balance of powers in the world, but are also willing to resort to violence, assassinations, manipulations and dealing with the forbidden, if they felt something was toppling their idea of balance.
• The Unfought: Aside of four operatives, the organization and their leader are still at large by the novel's end, with their failed attack on the Marren village being their only attack on Abel, so far.
• Utopia Justifies the Means: In the epilogue, Kudor mentions that they want to bring everlasting peace to the world, by them becoming a major deterrent. However, she scoffs at their idea, calling it a fantasy, and that their hubris will be enough to spark conflicts if the world were to ever follow them.
• The Villain Knows Where You Live: In the post-finale chapters, Abel recalls the time where an Evil Sorcerer affiliated with the Balancers attacked the Marren village and wanted to assassinate him. Given that Abel is alive and well in the story, it's safe to assume that said sorcerer was defeated.
• We Are Everywhere: In the post-finale chapters, Abel mentions that their members are scattered all over the world. But he claims that finding them and crushing them all will be easy to him if they ever tried to hurt his tribe and family.
• White and Red and Eerie All Over: Their standard uniform is a white robe with red trimmings and patterns, with a picture of a scale in the back.

Ruin

Ruin: “…… Rupel told me to kill any outsiders that came my way.”

A Noir sorceress affiliated with the Balancers.

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• Afraid of Their Own Strength: Thanks to having huge amount of magic, she has wear accessories made from Arogua stone transmuted into metal to limit her use of magic, and grows distressed when she removes them during her fight with Abel. But then its subverted when she goes all out.
• Berserk Button: Her issues with her lack of magic control. Abel accidentally press it too many times as he out-performs her and talks about the theory behind it.. in front of her.
• Break the Haughty: After Abel shows her small glimpse of what he can do (20 meter-diameter fire ball against her 8 meter-diameter one, anyone?) with little effort, she's quickly reduced to Quaking with Fear and unable to comprehend what's happening:
  Ruin: “It’s not supposed to be this way… no, Marren is supposed to be a technique expert… Ru-, Rupel told me not to let anyone near…… Rupel……”
• Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: She has dark circles under her eyes, stated to be from lack of sleep.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the tragic Unstable Powered Woman character in novels. She grew too afraid to practice using her magic and learn how to control it better, and instead she wears devices to suppress it only to remove when necessary, thinking she might destroy everything once she lose control. Her fight with Abel showed how out of depth she's with her magic.
• Meaningful Rename: Claims to have cast off her original name, in favor of Ruin, for destroying her hometown.
• My Name Is Inigo Montoya: Combined with Large Ham, as Ruin is charging up a massive fireball:
  Ruin: “I will burn you to the bone! My name is Ruin! I’ve given up my birth name long ago! Everyone fears me as ruin itself, and that has become my name! I admit it. I was born with no control over the details of magic. You, Marren, may excel in your little skills, but …… my magic will crush them all! If you can drown it out, show it to me ……”
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: She unleashes her full power after removing all her power limiters and tries casting a spell that would've caused a massive earthquake. Sadly for her, Abel saw the magic circle coming and countered it with his own spell, transforming the earth around them to cancel her attack.
• Person of Mass Destruction: She's capable of causing widespread damage with her magic, and is considered to be a Godzilla Threshold should she go all out by Rupel. Too bad she picks a fight with Abel.
• Power Incontinence: After she taps into her full magic power, the blood vessels in her eyes spreads out, and her robe's behind is scorched by her magic going haywire. Abel shakes his head and notes that this is a sign that she severely lacks basic training, and her body couldn't catch up to her magic.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Ruin is a capable sorceress, but is noted to use a lot of her magic to perform what a skilled sorcerer could with less magic, and still be a credible threat. Her fight with Abel reveals this as a major flaw.
• Unstable Powered Woman: She has an absurd amount of magic, but has little control over it and is advised by Rupel against going past a limit in using it.
• Villainous Breakdown: After her last attempt of an attack was EASILY thwarted by Abel, she loses the will to fight and falls unconscious to the ground for Abel to restrain her. Then she's noted to have became docile and had a "soulless expression on her face".
• What Happened to the Mouse?: She's left outside Kudor's temple after her defeat, along with Peter's men. She's never mentioned again after that.
• Where I Was Born and Razed: She proclaims, right after breaking the magic reducing crystal, that she blew up her hometown 8 years ago. However, she also adds that she never felt the thrill of using her full magic after that, indicating that she enjoyed doing that.

Introduced in Levi, the Great Water God

The Levi Church

Tropes apply to the Riveras Kingdom and Levi Church

• A House Divided: The Kingdom was weakened with instabilities due to struggles and infighting between factions of Levi's followers, over conflicts on the interpretation of Levi's words and scriptures. After a hundreds of years of wars, all conflicts were quelled after the factions were united under the four Great Priests and Levi.
  • It's later revealed that factions' union and bringing peace are just big fat lies that Levi's missionaries feed their new recruits. The ruling faction under Levi, the New Levi Faction, denied the other sects, exterminated them and forced them together without agreements or treaties, increasing the violence and destabilizing the country.
• The Chosen Many: The four Great Priests of Levi. Each one heard Levi's prophecy in a dream, receiving a crest resembling his symbol in their bodies.
• Corrupt Church: The Levi Church, under its Jerkass God's guidance, will resort to every dirty, sneaky, and vile trick in the book to achieve their goals. Their teachings seems to only have their god's best interest in mind, while anyone in their way is either a misguided, a heretic and is better off dead for their cause.
• Egopolis: If the alternative pronunciation was applied, the kingdom's name would be "Levila/Levira".
• The Fundamentalist: As far as anyone is concerned, Levi's words are law and his teachings are absolute, even if they'll end up tearing their country apart with infightings. Once Levi was defeated, they denounce him as a demon pretending to be him and keep on believing that their beloved Levi still lives.
• Holier Than Thou: The new Levi faction has no qualms about forcing others into their doctrine, enacting purges (even on different factions worshiping Levi) and invading other countries, even terrorism, in the name of their god against the infidels. Considering who they directly take orders from, that's to be expected.

Sateria (Unmarked Spoilers)

Sateria: “I’ve heard about you from Levi for a long time. I had hoped that you would eventually come to the Holy City.”

One of Levi's Four Great Priests and the Pope of the Levi Church. Levi keeps her by his side in the Grand Palace in the capital city of Rivualin, due to her rare gift in controling Levi's own Dragon Vein.

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• Barrier Warrior: Controls the Dragon Vein, the mystical water substance, to create barriers strong enough to stop.. even the Abel Ball spell! She support Levi's second battle against Abel by creating a water shield for him.
• Befriending the Enemy: Tries to do this on Abel, using the distress of her people and position and access to Riveras magic libraries to tempt him. It almost works on Abel who, while disliking Levi, doesn't want to destroy people's lives in the process. Peter however, stops her misguided and doomed plan with a Breaking Speech.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Played With. She really wants to save of the Riveras Kingdom from it religious infighting, and tries to gain Abel's favor by appealing to his virtues. But once Peter slaps her with the harsh reality of her situation, she stops being affable and instead sides with Levi, despite the abuse he subjects her to.
• Broken Bird: The friendly face and calm demeanor are just to hide that she's distraught over the state her kingdom is at and Levi's complete disregard for their lives. The fact that she helped put the revived Levi in charge constantly hurts her.
• Broken Pedestal: Only after the truth about Levi is revealed and his subsequent defeat Sateria cries in regret of how foolish she has been.
• Comedic Shotacon: Implied to have fallen for Abel, after the Levi's incident is resolved, despite the implication she's older than him. Also doubles as Women Prefer Strong Men.
• Cute and Psycho: She's beautiful, friendly, and willing to compromise and prostrates herself to seek a ceasefire and an agreement with the Dinrat Kingdom. But after Peter points out the flaws in her idealized plan, she throws her pacifism away and aids Levi in his fight against Abel.
• Entitled to Have You: She's obsessed with Abel, seeing him as the only way to fix the situation of the Riveras Kingdom by making him the Pope. Once it became clear that he'll not accept that, she quickly devolves into a Yandere who threatens Abel with imprisonment, mutilation and torture, til he agrees.
• Everyone Has Standards: She balks at the notion of Levi ordering her to bring Penrath to attack the Fage territory. For her, someone like Nelgliffe is easier to approach than Penrath.
• Heel Realization: After surviving her ordeal with Med and falling into a water canal, she wishes that she died instead of getting involved with Levi. The rest of Levi church talks her into forgiving herself, and Peter lets her live with what's left of Levi's church and kingdom.
• Hero-Worshipper: She learned about Abel's amazing exploits in the Fage territory through her private spies. Interestingly, she's also amazed that he's responsible for incarcerating the rest of Levi's Great Priests.
• High Priestess: The Pope of the Levi Church, placing her above the rest of Levi's four great high priests. But in reality she's just a figurehead.
• Hyper-Competent Sidekick: During her and Levi's fight with Abel, she assists Levi by controlling the Dragon Vein to create a shield and a replica of Levi's Spear for him and attacking with barrages of heavy downpours. However, it brings up the question to why the God of Water needs a human to channel his powers, which is a hint on Levi's true nature.
• Insane Troll Logic: So Sateria brings Abel to Levi to force the latter into accepting negotiations, tries to have Abel take her position as the pope, while Levi is helpless. But then Peter wisely convinces Abel not to accept, and Sateria's reaction is to completely lose it, tries to kill Peter, threaten Abel with torture, and side with her abusive asshole of a god. Geez, talk about being a fickle mistress.
• A Lesson Learned Too Well: Double as Character Development for her, for all it is worth, by creating a deity related to Levi to unite all the factions:
  Peter: “I guess she learned from the false god riot that if you worship a real person, you will suffer from the discrepancy between ideal and reality. She’s gotten a lot tougher, hasn’t she?”
• Power Incontinence: After Levi uses her Dragon Vein-created shield and spear to snuff out Abel's attacks, she begins coughing blood and suffering backlashes to her body. Unfortunately for her, Levi doesn't care about her well-being the slightest.
• Psychopathic Womanchild: She tries to pass herself as a mature thinker and seeker of peace. But after Peter points out the scam she's trying to pull, she flips out, tries to kill Peter, and threatens Abel with torture and dismemberment, throwing away almost every pleasant thing about her.
• Puppet Queen: What Levi turned her into, using himself as the only thing keeping her kingdom together. The trope take a literal turn when Levi turns her a People Puppets, to use her control over the Dragon's vein without her consent.
• Royalty Super Power: She was saved by Levi from a civil-war for her inherited ability to control Levi's own “Dragon Vein”, with no-one else known to have that ability.
• Silk Hiding Steel: How does she react to a group of people that came straight to her place to kidnap her? By inviting them to Levi's throne room for a talk!! Justified however, as she's protected from all harm by the Dragon Vein.
• The Puppet Cuts His Strings: Attempts this by trying to sway Abel to her side, in order to weaken Levi's influence. She fails thanks to Peter, and quickly turns back to Levi's side.
• Token Good Teammate: She's outright distraught over the consequences and losses Levi's constant schemes against the Dinrat Kingdom have costed their Kingdom, and begs Levi to stop his animosity and to instead focus on bringing the other warring Levi sects together. Levi refuses to listen.
• Undying Loyalty: Despite the abuse heaped on her by Levi, she takes his side against Abel, shields him using her powers and even offers to be sacrificed to the Dinrat Kingdom in exchange for letting Levi live, even getting on her knees and begging.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Described as 'tries to find the beauty in everyone' and 'never speaks ill of others'. But then it is subverted, revealing her as a Broken Bird who wants to keep her kingdom and Levi at the same hand.

Penrath

One of the Four Great High Priests of Levi. The creator of many magical beast weapons for Riveras Kingdom for warfare. The one who created Nalgarn.

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• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Highly devoted to the Levi religion, and many of his creations are used by the Riveras Kingdom. However, he's also a Cloudcuckoolander who's obsession with monsters creation is only second to Abel's obsession with magic, and is kept in jail because of his dabbling in Bio-Magic.
• Maker of Monsters: The one who created the Dragon Nalgarn and sicced it into the Fage territory. And he got more where that came from.

Rathboutt

Rathboutt: “…… Well, what I’m after is within my sight, so…… This Rathboutt will take you on seriously.”

A monk from Levi church, who gets deployed by Levi to infiltrate the Fage territory, while Abel is busy fighting Penrath, to retrieve something..

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• Acrofatic: Despite his physique, he is quick on his feet and capable of pulling a Flash Step in combat.
• Beard of Evil: Has a brown, scraggly beard covering his chin, and is Levi's nastiest enforcer.
• The Big Guy: His introductionary chapter describes him as a giant of a man.
• Body Horror: He survives Altamir's “Petite Abel ball” misfiring, but not unscathed. He got half-burnt, one of his eyes was burned out and the remaining one's eyelid was also burned, and one of his hands was burned and snapped.
• Combat Pragmatist: Will feign a retreat to launch a surprise attack with water needles magic and rushes to take a hostage during a fight, being the Dirty Coward he is.
• Empowered Badass Normal: As if his physical capabilities weren't enough, he was given Levi's crest, allowing to cast magic beyond human capabilities.
• Extreme Mêlée Revenge: After surviving the explosion of Altamir's “Petite Abel ball”, he gets really angry and subjects a weakened Altamir to a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, coming close to killing her but stops because he still has to capture Mea for Levi.
  Rathboutt: “Damn, how sturdy is this half-spirit ……! If it were human, twenty of them would be dead!”
• Fat Bastard: He's described as having a bloated and fat belly.
• Hate Sink: Rathboutt might as well be the webnovel's only character known to engage in Cold-Blooded Torture and rape. He's part of a religious organization that was shown so far as a Corrupt Church, has no qualms about brutalizing women, came close to killing Altamir and kidnap or even worse, have his way with Mea before he was stopped. Abel was so enraged he abandoned his stance against the Riveras Kingdom, accepted the offer to kill Levi, and condemned Rathboutt to be brutally beaten non-stop by his Ortem Defense System for maybe a whole day. He's never heard of ever again after that, not that anyone would miss him.
• Human Sacrifice: According to Peter, Rathboutt was infamous for sacrificing enemy prisoners, and sometimes even his own allies, as tributes to Levi. He humiliates them, strip them of their dignity and tortures them to death for up to 400 days.
• Hypocrite: He's part of a church ruling a Kingdom that invades and forces its religion on others, yet he's fine with committing crimes and foul deeds, be it against other religions or his own people.
  • He calls Altamir out for cheating death and accuses her of Heresy, yet he's fine with creating a Soul Jar that makes him unkillable. Altamir calls him out for it.
• Immortality Hurts: Proves to be Rathboutt's downfall. Just when he cornered Mea in a room, Abel's Ortem Defense System triggers and begins summoning Ortems to gang up on Rathboutt, overwhelming him, pinning him down and attacking him relentlessly without stopping. Thanks to his Soul Jar, Rathboutt will never stop regenerating his already damaged body nor lose consciousness, trapping him in a endless round of pain and hurt, defeating him.
• Implacable Man: He can take flame magic bullets, getting stabbed with multiple swords, crushed and gouged by a floating pyramid and a cube made from Orichalcos and gets ground against them, getting stabbed in the heart, caught in an explosion of Altamir's “Petite Abel ball” and still returns. Only after the latter, he stops messing around and takes Altamir down and starts chasing Mea.
  Altamir: “No …… he’ll be back soon anyway. That man is almost undead.”
• Invisibility: Infiltrates Russell village and Lark's mansion under a cloaking spell. He stops to Neck Lift a guard to interrogate him. However, Altamir catches him in the mansion and he drops his spell.
• The Juggernaut: Once he uses the “Cursed Body” technique, a body enhancement magic, Rathboutt's physical strength increases and his body becomes strong 'like metal infused with magic', rendering him an unstoppable force!
• Magic Staff: He has an ugly staff, with a baby monkey skull at the tip, and the handle is covered with human hair. It doubles as a magic staff to cast his spells, a staff to brutally smack people with it (as Altamir could attest to), and his own Soul Jar!!
• The Man They Couldn't Hang: He's mentioned to have survived seven executions at the hands of a rival Levi sect. A frightening testament to his durability and a reason why Levi recruited him.
• More Despicable Minion: Levi refrained from contacting Rathboutt, because doing so might upsets Levi Church's Pope's, Sateria, faith in him. But it's then subverted, as Levi actually approves of his depravity.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast: "Priest of Slaughter" and "The Killing Priest", the names of Levi Church's nastiest enforcer.
• Not Quite Dead: He stops after getting stabbed in the heart by Altamir's Orichalcos cube, seemingly dead and Altamir noticing his life force and magic draining.... only for him to suddenly revive and his Healing Factor kicks in, making Altamir go Oh, Crap!!
  Rathboutt: “I’m sorry, but I was pretending to be dead!”
• One Extra Member: He's revealed to be a secret 'fifth' member of Levi's Four Grand Priests, carrying as well Levi's crest, and is Riveras Kingdom's Secret Weapon.
• Professional Killer: Rathboutt specializes in fast assassination, using his superhuman strength gained from dark rituals, and small-scale but deadly magic. He's believed that he could finish Abel off before the latter could start chanting spells.
• Psycho for Hire: Rathboutt is hidden by Levi from his church members, due to his history with an evil sect, and only uses him to carry out his vile deeds unknown from the Riveras Kingdom.
• Rage Breaking Point: Until Altamir blasted him with her out-of-control “Petite Abel ball”, He was a smug, cruel, sociopath who's confident that nothing will work against his empowered body. After that, he becomes really enraged that someone finally pushed him to near-death. Cue Extreme Mêlée Revenge.
  Rathboutt: “How dare you do this to me, you’re just a ghost with a broken spirit!”
• Religious Bruiser: Subverted. He follows an Evil God's orders, who lets him have free reign to do as he pleases, even promising him to appoint him as pope if he succeed in his mission.
• Serial Rapist: He admits to Levi, that he's good at kidnapping Women and girls, and would like to have "some fun" with the Sky God Legacy, knowing that it's a girl, licking all around his mouth. Levi approves, as long as she's brought alive.
• Sinister Minister: He makes the rest of Levi's worshipers look nice by comparison!! A believer of the most heretical teachings of Levi church, inspired by the devil and distorted by human greed, and operates under it to commit all the atrocities he could.
• Slasher Smile: Described as always having a creepy smile on his face.
• The Sociopath: Revels in the atrocities he commits in the name of his god and religion, knowing his approval of his actions. He even stops to try and kill a weakened Altamir, even when Mea offered herself to be kidnapped, for this reason:
  Rathboutt: “We can’t afford to have them create something that will be detrimental to the Riveras Kingdom. Rather, we don’t like the fact that this territory along the border is gaining strength. After we take care of this guy, it’s up to us to slowly fulfill our objective!”
• Soul Jar: A part of Rathboutt's soul is housed inside his Magic Staff. As long as the staff is in his proximity, Rathboutt will not die nor lose consciousness, and he could regenerate his body. The only way to truly kill Rathboutt is destroy the staff first, but it's quite sturdy.
• Stout Strength: A very tall man, with a fat belly and big arms, and is the worst opponent a mage could face in battle.
• Uncertain Doom: Rathboutt's last scene in the webnovel is him codemned by Abel to stay where he is, getting beaten left and right by Abel's Ortems nonstop,for targeting Mea. A victim of his beating, Altamir, has his Soul Jar in her hands, and Peter knows how dangerous he really is, and could arrange to have him disappear if he wanted.
• Villainous RRoD: The downside of his “Cursed Body” technique, is that this power destroys the body as it can't handle it... not that it is a problem to Rathboutt, who gained vast amount of life force through pagan rituals.
• Villains Want Mercy: After getting defeated by a non-ending assault of Ortems, he begs Altamir to shut the Ortems down. She suggests that maybe they'll stop if he lost consciousness, but Rathboutt cannot because of his Immortality. He begs Altamir to destroy his Soul Jar to cancel his immortality, but Altamir had no obligation to release Rathboutt.
  • Abel almost releases Rathboutt after seeing him humbled and defeated, but Peter tells him of the horrific deeds Rathboutt committed, and the fact that he was targeting Mea! Abel instead leaves him to be beaten -nonstop- by the Ortems for a whole day!!
• Would Hit a Girl: Had Altamir been a human, she would've indeed died... and yet she came very close to death, from Rathboutt dealing a brutal beating to her.
  Rathboutt: “I’ll definitely kill you next time. Don’t expect an easy death. There are countless paganism and rituals that lie dormant in Riveras. I’m going to make you taste all of that pain ……!”
• Would Hurt a Child: He wished to have "some fun" with Mea once he kidnaps her before delivering her to Levi. He doesn't come close enough to touch her before he's finally foiled.

Spoiler Character (Unmarked Spoilers)

"Avel, the Apostle of the Water God Levi"

The apostle of the Riveras Kingdom's "new" religion, following the God Levi's ^note actually Med death and destruction of his faith.

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• Very Loosely Based on a True Story: In-Universe. The story of Abel's fighting and defeating the fake Levi (Med) were taken and twisted, into a story of the late real Levi sending a man from the world of Gods to defeat the demon controlling his country and pretending to be him, by Sateria. Abel handling Levi's spear in front of the fake was seen by the masses helped. Summoning Kudor however, was an added bonus.
  Peter: [to Abel]“I’ve heard that you can use Kudor with your chin. Maybe this is where the Kudor-hating Levi followers got the idea.”
• Historical Beauty Upgrade: Avel is portrayed, in the statues and drawings of him, as more muscular than Abel.
  Abel: It’s just that its physique and face are so far removed from mine that I wouldn’t even notice it if you told me. It’s like I’m a statue of physical beauty.
• Invented Individual: He doesn't actually exists. He was made up by Sateria to unite the Kingdom under a new faith, that still relates to Levi. The person he's based on however..
• Redeeming Replacement: He becomes the new deity worshiped by the Riveras Kingdom, following the defeat of the fake Levi. Peter takes this a sign that the Riveras Kingdom will never try to attack the Dinrat Kingdom ever again.
• Unwanted False Faith: Abel gets really unnerved by the revelation of Avel. They made him look like he has control over Kudor and a prophet of Levi, and Sateria now wishes to invite him to join the Riveras Kingdom, and perhaps for also other things.
• Written by the Winners: A rather screwy example. He's just a made-up character, completely fabricated by Sateria and based on Abel's image, but is sold as Levi's apostle and messenger. This way the Riveras Kingdom can unite their feuding religious factions by selling the story of Abel defeating Med as a Divine Intervention from the "real Levi".

Notable Demons and Monsters

Gryphon

"Damn annoying elves..."

A magical beast sealed inside a statue of a Gryphon in Zeshum Ruins. The last guardian of the ruins before the inner chamber.

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• Anti-Climax: Abel slashes off one of it's wings with a wind blade, it falls to the ground for the soldiers to make mincemeat of it. The End.
  Abel: He was a lot less imposing than I thought.
• Boisterous Weakling: It goes claiming that it's a king and everyone will be sacrifices for it, refuse to dodge a Razor Wind coming at it calling it's caster foolish. It gets it killed.
• Clip Its Wings: How Abel defeats it. Using a wind based magic.
• Death of a Thousand Cuts: The soldiers gave it payback for the few minutes of power it had while it flails helplessly.
• The Force Is Strong with This One: It suddenly calls Abel a fool in spirit language, for using wind magic against it, making the latter deduces that the spirits' influence on it must be very high, making its resistance to wind magic strong enough to No-Sell his wind blade... only to get one of its wings clipped off by said wind blade.

Evil Bound

^{"Worship me as the God... OR DIE!" Click to see it later}

A Demon possessing a large tree. Appeared in the forest near Lomarn City, causing strange phenomenons and disturbance threatening the magic field protecting the city. It also attacked a group tasked with investigating said phenomenons.

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• A God Am I: It likes to call itself that, and demands its would-be-victims to call it as such.
• Blow You Away:
  • Knocks away Abel's World Tree Ortem with a strong gust of wind from its magical roots. But it wasn't enough to keep it down.
  • Abel returns that to it and defeats it with wind magic, tearing its branches and roots.
• Demonic Possession: A Demon infesting a large tree to become its new body.
• Just Toying with Them: Left the survey team that it attacked injured and unable to move, but still alive. Their captain believes it to benefit from keeping them, or it is just like it is playing with a bug.
• Killed Off for Real: After Abel finishes it off with a Banishing Ritual. Still, Ashura 5000 still has its Telepathy and some of properties, so who would know?.
• Reforged into a Minion: Abel takes its trunk and remains after defeating it, and carve from them his new Battle Ortem, Ashura 5000.
• Telepathy: Can transmit its own voice to the mind of any living being. However, it only speaks spirit language, which most people don't understand.
• The Trees Have Faces: Has a rather expressive face that moves according to it's mood. It started with a creepy smile, and when it was defeated, it was replaced with a sad screaming face.
• When Trees Attack: Mainly use its roots as Vine Tentacles to strike, stab, and injure its victims.

Zolomonia

“Well then, young sorcerer Abel of Marren, how is it? Wouldn’t you use this mistress?”

A Great Demon sealed inside a staff known as "Zolomonia's Staff". She was freed by Margus in exchange for power. Known as "The Demon of Knowledge and Destruction".

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• Adaptational Curves: Compare her look in the Light Novel: [1] & [2] with the picture on the right.
• Adaptational Villainy: In the webnovel, she becomes really friendly with Abel after he touches the staff. In the manga, she was actually freed from the staff, and becomes a Wake-Up Call Boss to Abel. Attacking with chantless magic from above, and flying fast in the sky, while Abel is surrounded by petrified people and can't use his strong magic nearby, making defeating and sealing her a challenge.
• The Bus Came Back: Abel and Mea sees her again, now in Peter's possession on their first meeting with him.
• Dragon with an Agenda: Agrees to help Margus and gives him power, so he could move her around as she's still bound to the staff, despite her release.
• Exact Words: She pulls this on Margus in the webnovel. She gave him power in exchange for him to help her move. Now that she wants Abel to have the staff, Margus's work is done and so are his new powers.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Appears to have an old friendship with Evil Bound.
• Hologram: In the webnovel, she uses her staff to project her image to those who wielded it. Not in the manga, as she been freed by Margus.
• The Final Temptation: In the webnovel, she offers her power and knowledge to Abel, saying how good she'll be to the people she chooses herself, and all her past crimes were a result of unworthy people motivated by Greed misusing her. Abel actually caves in and accept her... only to find the staff is too heavy for him, Mea and both to carry around. So instead they throw it for Gaston to catch.
• Foreshadowing: Her face expression 'became cloudy' when she eyed Mea's forehead:
  Zolomonia: Mm, you…… well, that’s good for now.
• Invisible to Normals: She is only visible to those who touched her staff.
• Last of Her Kind: Mentioned as a survivor from an age where ancient demons ruled over people.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: Not mentioned why, but with what she's capable of, it's safer that way.
• This Cannot Be!: In the manga, when Abel not only sealed her again in the staff, but also defeated Evil Bound and turned it into a Ortem that defeated her.
• Wild Card:
  • Sometimes she drives peaceful nations to war, teaches the poor how to create drugs, prolongs wars by decades through providing weapons beyond the civilization to small nations on the verge of surrender. And that what she was doing in the past.
  • Peter comments that she's 'difficult to handle' and won't help with something she doesn't feel like doing, refuses to answer because it would be too boring to simply tell the answer, or answers in an old dead language he understood 10% of it.
• Winged Humanoid: And a really swift one too.
• Woman Scorned: When Peter asked her about Abel after their meeting, she puffed her cheeks and denied him being her 'business', and then begrudgingly whispered:
  Zolomonia: That man had led this mistress to expect too much, toying with me and then discarded me.
• Women Prefer Strong Men: In the webnovel, she leaves Margus once Abel confronts him.
  Zolomonia: You’re so persistent, Margus. It’s not like you don’t know that you and this man (Abel) are not on the same league as a sorcerer.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Once Margus face off against Abel in the webnovel, the staff's power suddenly fail, and when Abel touches it, Zolomonia leaves Margus, and acts more familiar and flirty with Abel, angering Margus who was Taken for Granite and cannot move.

Dragon Nalgarn

That thing didn't know who it was messing with...

” ” “Gishaaaaaa!” ” “

A gigantic three-headed dragon who set its hunting ground in the Fage territory, preventing anyone from leaving the area. Each head (Blue, Red and Yellow) has a function of its own. It's classified as a A-class threat level monster.

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• Adaptation Species Change: The novel describes Nalgarn as having the build of a huge bipedal dragon, while his counterpart in the manga is close to the mythical hydra.
• Autocannibalism: After Euris and her comrades kill off the blue head and leave it dangling lifelessly, the red head bite it off from the neck, triggering its Healing Factor, and the blue head is regrown anew.
• Adapted Out: Played with. The novel gave Nalgarn a chapter to show how formidable of a monster it truly is, and more coverage in its fight with Abel for 2 chapters. In the manga however, Abel dealt with it in a flashback, in the span of 2 pages.
• Beef Gate: Its emergance from the swamp it was sealed in locked the Fage territory's enterance for years, preventing men from hunting for food or monsters for the support center. As well as trapping several adventurers who were in the territory, or were sent to actually deal with the dragon itself. Many were killed by the dragon for opposing it, until Abel had to go there.
• Bioweapon Beast: Revealed to have been created by the Levi church, to isolate the territory for an invasion.
• Breath Weapon: The yellow head can breath a wide-range fire, incinerating several soldiers.
• Clone Degeneration: The magic circle that regrows its heads is, according to Abel, shoddily made and consume a lot of magic from the body. The more heads it regenerates, the less power and abilities they have over their predecessors, and have less quality as material.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Abel prevents its escape by turning the ground underneath it to a swamp, making it sink to the necks' level, as it roars becomes pitiful screams of defeat, reminding Abel of a pig in a slaughterhouse. Within an hour, Abel decapitated Nalgarn with Wind blade magic Twenty-Five Times!, lined up the heads in a neatly manner, and left the corpse in the swamp.
  Elia: Bru-, brutal……
• Gemini Destruction Law: The only way to kill it, is for all three heads to be cut off at the same time. Or else, the blue head will heal its wounds and the magic circle embedded in it will regrow the missing heads instantly.
• The Hunter Becomes the Hunted: Went after the carriage approaching the Fage territory to either feast on or trap its inhabitants in the area. Then Abel came out and began cutting its heads and wanting more, scaring it enough to turn tail and run away, only for Abel to trap it by turning the ground underneath it to swamp.
• "Instant Death" Radius: The red head compensates for having no ability by being the fastest, most ferocious and battle-oriented of the heads. The red head snatched one unfortunate cavalryman's horse, swallowed it whole, then spat the horse's head.
• It Can Think: The blue head retreats to Heal Thy Self, the yellow head can pretend to wind up for a Breath Weapon to intimidate attackers and the red head focuses on those who attack head-on. And then it has an Oh, Crap! against Abel.
• The Medic: The blue head can heal the whole body from injuries. Which make defeating such a creature a problem.
• Monster Threat Expiration: Nalgarn suffers this hard once it is used again in "Attack of Penrath". The Riveras Kingdom sends TWO Nalgarns to attack the Fage territory, and Euris brings Abel with her on horseback to intercept it. He kills one with three Wind Blade spells, cutting the heads before its magic circle activates. The other one decides to run away after seeing what happened, only for Abel to exploit a flaw in the whole Hydra Problem logic, and instead blows up the body with an Abel Ball spell.
  Euris: You’re relentless ……
  Abel: I’m not really interested in it anymore, and bringing it back will only lower the value of the Nalgarn I have. It’s probably unnecessary.
• Neck Snap: The blue head dies this way in the subjugation force's attack. Weakened enough from all slashes from Razor Wind magic, a Flaming Sword and regular swords, it couldn't take an accidental hit from the red head, trying to throw the soldiers off it, snapping its neck. The red head simply bite it off, for it to grow again.
• Oh, Crap!: After Abel easily lopped two of its heads just after regenerating one head, it realize it bit more than it could chew, and turned tail and tried running away from him.
• Our Hydras Are Different: A three-headed dragon that each head possess a different method for attack, can heal and regrow its heads whenever they're severed.
• Shoot the Medic First: Subverted. Taking out the blue head will still activate the magic circle embedded in it and regrow the missing heads immediately.

Hamelin

“-Kyahahahahahahaha” ^note  That's what it looks like from behind, after Abel domesticated it.

A rare demon known for it dreadful ability to manipulate and command magic beasts to attack adventurers, while it hides in its dense fog. It traps Lark's private army into an ambush of numerous magic beasts during the magic beast thinning mission.

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• All Animals Are Domesticated: Having been defeated by Abel and weakened into a harmless blob of smoke, it becomes docile, meek and actually adorable, accepting tickling from both Abel and Mea. Then it retreat into the World Tree Ortem like a hamster.
• Annoying Arrows: Not only it lets the arrows hit it, it'll also stick its big tongue, move to another side and spits out the arrows' remains.
• Creepy High-Pitched Voice: Abel commented that its voice is high-pitched, ear-piercing and sounds like scratching on magic ore.
• The Dreaded: The minute when Euris uttered its name after Abel did, several soldiers screamed and their bodies shook up. They all heard of its frieghtening capabilities. Using magic beasts in wars became prohibited because of what a single Hamelin is capable of.
• Extra Eyes: Can pop many eyes from its body, moving them to where it wants.
• Flunky Boss: Can call many of the magic beasts within a large area to sick them on its foes. And they just keep coming and coming. Once it is defeated by Abel, all monsters scattered and ran away.
• Giggling Villain: Has a child-like laugh to creep out its victims.
• It Can Think: Subverted. Abel deduces that neither Hamelin, nor the magic beasts it called, could have planned such an calculated ambush on Lark's army with such a large number of beasts, let alone on the rendezvous point, as they lack the intelligence for it. Someone else, a spirit user is behind them.
• Logical Weakness: Wind magic, because of its smoke-like body. Also Weapons That Suck, which can contain him.
• Ominous Fog: Corners its victims with a special fog that acts as a medium to create a "cognitive disorientation barrier".
• Paper People: Abel notes that it looked like a sphere, but then revealed to be a flat circle.
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: Becomes this after Abel captures it, befriends it and its' summon contract is severed by its owner.
• Shapeshifting: Briefly appears as a shadow of a child wearing a pointy hat, descending from the sky before engaging the soldiers.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: After beating it up with Fire Balls, Abel uses the World Tree Ortem to suck up Hamelin's battered body inside, because of its rarity.
• Super Smoke: Its body is a foggy black circle, can render itself intangible and can merge with the fog it creates to move from one place to another.
• Too Many Mouths: Similar to its Extra Eyes, it can reveal many mouths in its body.

Dantalion

“？？？？？？” STR (muscle power): ??? MAG(Magic):464
Dantalion: Oops…… do you understand this? I am Dantalion. One of the great spirits who served the ancient and destroyed earth god Garuja

A powerful ancient Demon of the mythological era. It ambushes Abel, Mea and Levi followers on their journey to hunt Live Fogg.

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• All-Encompassing Mantle: Appears as a body wearing one. Combined with a Regal Ruff. Abel thought it looked like a clown suit.
• Beast with a Human Face: Has four heads with female faces, growing out from the neck.
• Cast from Hit Points: It can sacrifice one of its four heads to cancel out an attack, physical impact or energy body, should it deem it too dangerous to take on or escape from. It can regenerate a dead head per day.
• The Easy Way or the Hard Way: It offers to spare Abel and the group, in exchange for something it wants: "The Sky God's Legacy". It sensed its magic power with them. They don't know what it is, forcing Dantalion to take the hard way on them.
• Eat the Bomb: To deal with the powerful "Abel Ball" spell, Dantalion has one of its heads swells up and eat the ball of light. The head shrivles and dies as a result of sacrificing it to disperse the magic attack, and is left dangling.
• Evil Laugh: Four time the heads, four times the laugh. And they're loud too.
• Floating Limbs: Its arms floats a little away from the cloak.
• Foreshadowing:
  • The first to mentions the "Sky God's Legacy" in the novel. When it points out where it is, Mea was in the direction, carrying Abel's luggage and saying that it's probably looking for Lapides Sword. It was pointing at her.
  • It calls out 'these servants of God' for getting arrogant for playing with an imitation. After 164 chapters later...
• Humans Are the Real Monsters: Its last words, uttered to Abel.
  Dantalion: Azui…… Human is scary ……
• Last of Its Kind: Abel mentions that all the demons from the mythological era should've been killed by the Goddess Kudor.
• Mind over Matter: Pulls Augen, who is in mid-air, by his hammer to plummet to the ground without touching him.
• "No More Holding Back" Speech: It praises Abel for coming close to hurt it after swallowing the "Abel Ball" spell, acknowleging him as a Worthy Opponent, before swearing to not hold back anymore. It doesn't live long to hold on that promise.
  Dantalion: …… For a little one, that was close. You can send me honest praise. I will acknowledge that you are worthy of being my equal in a fight. As expected of being a worthy successor to the sky god’s legacy…… Is what I’d like to say. I won’t let my guard down anymore…… and I won’t hold back anymore……
• Prepare to Die: Gives one to Abel and the group when they fail to produce what he wants:
  Dantalion: If you are too stupid to see the difference in power between you and me,…… you will be rewarded with death for your sins. Don’t think that you can die easily. Repent forever in the underworld.
• Revenge by Proxy: What it wants is something called The Sky God's Legacy, for a grudge it holds against him. And it says it'll not rest until it crushes the rest of it.
• Space Master: When it set its field to trap Abel, Mea and the Levi followers, they felt the path like it folded on them and the map didn't make sense from the surroundings. Weaponized further, when Sophia began feeling two powers closing in on them in a pincer attack, while Abel noticed that as one of the powers closes in, the other retreats.
• Underestimating Badassery: Abel decides to do away with Dantalion by shooting his "Abel Ball" spell, that he was charging during the confrontation with the demon and adjusted it to track its movement, at it in the shape of a ball of light. Dantalion moves around and the ball moves accordingly, then it sigh in bordom and mocks Abel's attempt in attacking and reach for the ball with it floating arm. Suddenly, cracks form in the distorted space with a sound of glass breaking, freaking Dantalion out and forcing it to take Abel's power seriously.
• You Are Already Dead: How it dies. The dead head that swallowed "Abel Ball" spell suddenly raises up, confusing the other heads. Then, it bursts into flames, spewing it from the eyes and mouth to the other heads, as they scream in extreme pain. The arms, cloak, and Dantalion are in engulfed in a giant fireball and is instantly burned to ashes.
  Dantalion: Azui, Azuiiiiiiii! (Hot, Hoooooooot!)

Cyclopes

B-class level monsters encountered in Altamir's tower's fifth floor.

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• Classical Cyclops: Three-meter tall, single horn on the head, wielding a mace made of cut crystal? Even better.
• Creepy Souvenir: Abel considered taking a horn from one of the Cyclopes as a trophy, but he couldn't go through with it because they aren't attacking him while he's riding one and he didn't want to look like a thief. Before ascending to the sixth floor, Abel tries to tell the cyclops he was riding that he wants the tip of his horn. The cyclops broke it whole without hesitation and handed it to him, and Abel healed his bloodied stub in return. Mea on the other hand was creeped out, and feels her horns after seeing this.
• Fantastic Mount: Abel uses one of them as a ride to the end of the floor after restraining it with Dirt Dragons. It was a good sport, Abel thinks.
• Horrifying the Horror: A possible explanation to why one let Abel and Mea ride it after Abel intimidated it, and handed him his whole horn. Abel thinks they're now friends as that monster leaves.
• It Can Think: Abel notes that Cyclopes are very intelligent, despite their blood-thirsty nature.

Orichalcos Knights

Six large suits of armors encountered in Altamir's tower's sixth floor, armed with swords made from the same metal, created by Altamir herself.

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• Animated Armor: They move on their own, attacking those who reach the floor with their Orichalcos swords.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: They almost get a slash on Abel, but he had Lapides sword do the work on them.
• I'm Melting!: Seeing as Lapides sword is making short work of them, Abel uses his Fire Ball spell to melt the remains of the Orichalcos armors, intending on preserving it for his own use.. despite the fact the Orichalcos is stated to be resistant to magic and heat.
• Item-Drop Mechanic: Invoked by Abel. Using his Fire Ball spell to melt the armor, then encasing it with dirt through Earth magic and cooling it off with Wind magic, Abel obtains cubes of Orichalcos.. that he ends up leaving to get them on his way back.
  Mea: …… Instead of calling it hunting, it's just plain mining, jeez.
  Abel: Hmm? I've been planning on it all along.
• Orichalcum: Abel calls it the Phantom Copper Orichalcos, a legendary magical metal mentioned in ancient documents, said to be impossible to recreate with the current magical technology. Capable of absorbing magic and reduce it to nothing. However, it wasn't made with someone like Abel in mind.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After seeing Abel turn one of them into an Orichalcos cube, they stop attacking and run away. They didn't get far enough to escape Lapides sword.
• Troubled Fetal Position: The Collector runs into one of them as he ascends the tower. It was sitting on the side of the passageway with its head in its hands, after what Abel did to its companions.

Jormungand

An A-class, huge snake monster encountered in the sixth floor of Altamir's tower.

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• Anti-Climax: Abel spends a considerable amount time deciding how to attack it as it sleeps, remembering an enemy behaving like that in a video game from his past life. He decides to first attack it with Lapides sword after filling it with more than usual magic power and commanding it to attack to wake it up. The snake wakes up, before the sword reaches it and springs to attack Abel at incredible speed with its poisonous fangs... only for the sword to impale it in the head, knocking it into the stone stairs and demolishing it, and it dies buried under the rubble.
  Mea: …… Didn’t Abel say that you should first lightly hit him with a blow to wake him up?
  Abel: …… Looks like I didn’t need to.
• Evil Takes a Nap: Abel and Mea encounter it, sleeping and blocking the stairs leading to the seventh floor.
• The Great Serpent: Known as the King of Snakes. It isn't extremely long, but compensates with its huge size.
• Non-Indicative Name: Named after the Great Serpent in Norse mythology, yet it's only large in size, but stubby in length, not following the trait its inspiration is famous for.
• Poisonous Person: It breaths out vaporized venom from its mouth and body surface. Both its liquid and vapor poisons are purple-colored, and known to be able to turn an entire forest into a weedless, unclean place through contact.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: His eyes turn red when it wakes up, ready to attack.
• Sleeps with Both Eyes Open: Being a snake, it has no eyelids.

Thanatos

Devin: Thanatos! To make sure that his soul will never be at peace again, slash him from the tips of his fingers to his heart, and give him eternal suffering with a curse word! Let him wander forever in the netherworld!

A Great Spirit summoned by the High Elven priest Devin, in Altamir's tower seventh floor, in order to kill Abel and torture his soul.

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• Black Cloak: He appears as a figure clad in a black cloak, hiding what is inside.
• The Blank: His face, peeking out from the cloak, is just a translucent sphere floating in the air.
• Curse: He stabs Apocalypse with his sharp tentacles, causing a number of large wounds to appear on its huge body surface, pieces of its stone body fell done and the wounds began glowing with purple lights. Abel speculates it's some kind of curse, but Apocalypse was too big for such an attack and shrugged it off.
• God of the Dead: Known as the Spirit of Death and named after the Greek personification of death.
• Combat Tentacles: Has several thin long tentacles extending from underneath the cloak, but they're actually metallic and sharp.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Gets destroyed by Apocalypse, when he was Squashed Flat by its Gravity-based attack, while defending Mea from it.
• Implacable Man: According to Devin, Thanatos will come back no matter how close to death he becomes. It didn't stop his death though.
• The Quiet One: Death can be quite silent.
• This Was His True Form: After he flattened by Apocalypse's power, lumps of metal fell off the cloak.
• Villainous Rescue: He turns on his master Devin, catches Mea safely with his bent sharp bladed tentacle arms when Devin threw her off, and then he knocked him off his footing to fall from the giant beanstalk. Turns out he saw Apocalypse, sensed that Mea's magic is similar to the Sky God's magic, and sought to protect her from Apocalypse.
• Your Soul Is Mine!: Given what Devin ordered him to, he was about to steal Abel's soul, but then he stopped for a reason.

Apocalypse

A legendary beast that is said to have once almost destroyed the world. Suddenly appeared in Altamir's tower's seventh floor.

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• Always a Bigger Fish: Literally. It easily destroys Thanatos, who was protecting Mea from it.
• The Dreaded: Often used as a symbol of fear and disaster in the Dinrat Kingdom, and it earned its reputation and its terrifying name. Its danger level cannot be measured with letters. Countries with conflicts with each others would join forces to subjugate it, but all of their attempts ended in failure.
• Eyeless Face: It has no eyes. However, some magical cirlces carved into its body are shaped like eyes.
• Fiendish Fish: A giant fish made of stone.
• Giant Flyer: Descend from the sky of the seventh floor of Altamir's tower, and moves in air like it was water.
• Gravity Master: Crushed Thanatos into a cloth with scrap metal using Gravity magic.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Abel throws Levi's Spear at it, using a large arm he created from the giant beanstalk and poured a lot of magic into it. The spear pierces it in the abdomen like a bundle of light.
• The Juggernaut: Said to appear once every ten years, wanders off, wreaks havoc, and then simply vanishes. Even if 10,000 sorcerers continued to shoot magic at it for three days and three nights, it did not fall.
• Kaiju: Abel notes that when he looked up after he felt a spike in magic power, its size was so humongous it temporary plotted his vision. Its length must be several hundreds of meters.
• Runic Magic: Its entire body is covered in magic circles and formulas that glows when it casts its spells.
• Spike Shooter: Can shoot really large stone spikes for its body. They are also engraved with magic formulas.
• Technicolor Death: After it gets impaled by Levi's Spear, the magic energy it was charging overflowed and destroyed its body from the inside. Several bundles of light shot from its body and engulfed the whole area into complete white. After the light dimmed down, Apocalypse was no more than falling pieces of stone remains.

Orichalcos Colosuss

A huge Golem, built from Orichalcos alloys by Altamir. Altamir summons two of them to fight Abel and Mea in her tower's eighth floor.

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• Awesome, but Impractical: Huge, durable and strong.. but takes too long to make, and even more time and magic power to move. And then there is the resources to even build the thing. One Kingdom in the past made a 100-meter long colossus for warfare, and it needed a hundred sorcerers a week to give magic power for it to move. Altamir can easily move her Colossuses, thanks to her incredible capacity for magic.
• BFS: It holds a huge, rugged sword of Orichalcos.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Just as the two Colossuses began to move, Abel calls his World Tree Ortem and chants his Abel Ball spell, and has his Ortem mimics him to construct its own Abel Ball and then launched both balls simultaneously. Both Colossuses tried to defend against both Fire Balls, but they both failed and everything above their torso was obliterated and they fell down for good.
  Abel: …… What, they were just huge, after all. If you’ve got time to build two of these labor-intensive things, you might as well put a little more effort into each one.
• Off With The Head: One Colosuss' head part falls in front of Abel after it was destroyed.
• Orichalcum: Completely made from alloys of Orichalcos metal, including the sword.
• Our Giants Are Bigger: Abel notes that it must be over hundreds of meters long, commenting on the outrageous amount of Orichalcos used to make it, as well as the amount of magic used to move it.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: Aside from the huge mask and a metal cloth wrapped around its waist, it was made in the likeness of a naked man.

The Doom Clan

Tropes applies to the Clan

A hidden tribe of horned human people that is isolated from the world. Their settlement is hidden somewhere in the Dinrat Kingdom. They are known for their immense strength, better senses and high amounts of magic. The tribe that Mea was born into.

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• Bizarre Human Biology: The more they train, the more magic they consume in their bodies to produce a unique metal, that replaces their muscles with a strong, rigid and elastic material. Their organs, nails, skin, horn and hair have high magic conductivity, allowing them to create weapons with magic crystals on their bodies: like claw gauntlets. They're also born with more magic than humans, that they release the excess from their bodies as blue crystals on the forehead.
• Body to Jewel: The excess magic power they accumulate, through intense training of the body or not, is exuded from the body into a blue crystal on the forehead. Said process also prevents their babies from running out of control inside their mothers' wombs.
• Demonization: Abel remembered reading books about them at the Chieftain's library. They were described as "belligerent and cruel, and do not know how to hold back". Said depiction was due to their attempted takeover of the Dinrat Kingdom 500 years ago.
• Foil: For the Marren Clan:
  • Both are tribes that existed since more than 500 years, one made of humans, the other made of Human-Demon Hybrid.
  • The Marren tribe were in services of the Dinrat Kingdom. The Doom tribe attacked the Dinrat Kingdom 500 years ago before they were defeated, by a Marren, and made a Heel–Face Turn.
  • The Marren clan became complacent after a hundred year of peace and their power decayed. The Doom clan trained all their life for the day when the red-stoned sinner returns.
  • Both tribes sent a search party for an escaped member. The Marren tribe wants to retrieve Abel, for his Arranged Marriage and his incense-smoke leaves cultivation method. The Doom tribe wants to capture Mea, to kill her.
• Henchmen Race: Their proginator, Moebius, was created by the Sky God Silfheim in the end of the mythical era. She sired many children from the Norcs, creating the Doom tribe. Moebius in whoever red stone Doom clansmen's body she'd possess, can control and influence all the whole clan into obeying her.
• Hereditary Curse: Every 500 years, a member of the tribe is born with a red magic crystal instead of blue. And on the day of the Moon Festival Dinmei, said tribe member becomes a monster. The first part is true, the second part is actually perpetrated.
• Human Subspecies: A species of Half-Human Hybrids, who are classified as humans.
• Irony: 500 years ago, The Dinrat Kingdom granted them amnesty after their failed coup d’etat and imprisoned some of them, but were ordered to live in their settlement, under the watchful eye of the Marren tribe, and to make sure nothing like the "Red Stone" incident ever happen again. The Marren's watch duty stopped after thirty years, after they forgotten about it. Now, the Doom tribe are chasing after the new Red Stone, who is now a traveling companion to ...a Marren.
• Scars Are Forever: Losing the magic crystal on the forehead is permanent, which might doom the person who had this happen to them to be unable to manifest their powers, magic and be treated as a pariah in the tribe. Just ask Mea.

Melzef

Melzef: The Red Stone, I will certainly bury it …… The Moon Festival Din Mei is near, time is running out.

The Chieftain of Doom Tribe, and Mea's father. Leading a group of his tribesmen, he's on a quest of great importance to his tribe and ancestors. Said quest has him cross paths with Abel and Mea, bringing troubles of different magnitude threatening the life they both aspire to have.

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• Abusive Parent: Averted. He did not approve of his wife's hysteria and reaction to their newborn daughter, but it is implied that he chose to try to be in the middle, letting his wife have her way and kick Mea out of the house, and trying to be with Mea whenever he could, even when he failed to connect with her.
• Authority Equals Asskicking: Chief of the Doom tribe, considered to be its strongest warrior and one of the few opponents that actually pushes Abel back in their fight.
• Large and in Charge: He is tall by the Doom tribe's standards, huge from Abel's perspective and is the tribe leader.
• Badass Bookworm: He was quite young when he became Chief, but also quite intelligent compared to his predecessors. He gained the position from deciphering his tribe's ancient texts to solve their problems.
• Beneath the Mask: Underneath his stoic demeanor and extremism hides a Knight in Sour Armor who loves his daughter despite her being "stoneless" or the "Red Stone", but must comply and kill her, before she falls in the Count's hands:
  Melzef: You think Dafne and the others are good guys? I know they are! I wanted to tell them to stop, too! Isn’t that obvious! Mea, Mea is my daughter, you know! She’s a memento that my beloved wife risked her life to save! You’re only a dozen years old, what do you know about what I feel!
• Berserk Button: Don't refer to the Red Stone as "his daughter" in front of him, EVER. Dafne sure found out about it.
  Melzef: I will gouge out both your eyes the next time you make some nonsense about that Red Stone being my daughter.
• Emotion Suppression: The reason why he is The Stoic all the time. Because he was born and grow stronger than his Doom tribesmen, he would not be able to control what he could do if he let his emotions get the better of him.
  Dafne: Melzef-sama is a man beyond humanity …… I do not know what would happen if he were to come into conflict with you (Abel). And if Melzef-sama were to get serious, he could wipe out an entire village ……
• Irony: One of the rules he publicly stated when he became Chief of the tribe is that he'll dispose of the Red Stone, even if it was his own child. Fate had a sick sense of humor...
• Lured into a Trap: How Abel defeats him. He creates "Abel Castle" a platform of Hydeem Magimetal with a radius of about a kilometer and stands in the center. Once Melzef stepped into the platform, he was attacked with a barrage of countless tentacles made from the same metal, grabbing him from all directions, whipping him and hitting him with strong blows, as he still advances toward Abel as he close the distance despite the wounds accumulated and blood splatter!! However, he's pummeled by the tentacles and three Ortems, finally defeating him.. yet he continues to struggle.
  Melzef: You! You never intended to be the rearguard in the first place!
  Abel: Of course not! I just said I’d be with you, and just pitied you! You bastard father, you can go drop dead here!
• Manly Tears: Right after Abel tears his convictions apart, he actually sheds tears in his stone-like expression.
  There were large tears flowing from his expressionless eyes like a Noh mask.
• Must Make Amends:
  • In the epilogue, he secretly attends Abel and Mea's wedding in the Marren village, but leaves after Abel spots him, ashamed of what he almost did, and asks him to take care of Mea.
  • Later, he and his men visit the Marren village when Mea was about to give birth, apologizes for trying to kill her, and asks her to at least forgive her mother Nelea for what she did to her. She tells him that she already forgave them both. He also brought a wooden stroller filled with children's clothes.
• Muscles Are Meaningful: He has thick and ripped muscles in both his arms and body. That's nothing to him when he Turns Red.
• Noble Demon: After his first attempt on Mea's life fails and falls into the water, he jumps again and demands that Abel fights him one-on-one away from the ship, to not involve innocent people. Abel accepts.
• "No More Holding Back" Speech: Before Breaking the Bonds of Hydeem Magimetal Abel shackled him with:
  Melzef: I was born with a lot of strength. I didn’t know why, but by the time I had …… deciphered the ancient texts for myself, I realized that it was due to incomplete ancestry, and that I didn’t have the ability to fully control it. Hence, I have never given it my all. Thank goodness we’re in the ocean, the damage will be minimal.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Dafne warned Abel to avoid running into Melzef, as a fight with him will most likely destroys an entire village if he goes all out. He has no such restraints when he fights Abel on a ship in the ocean.
• The Stoic: He's described as lacking in emotions and facial expressions. He kept himself calm during a monster attack on the tribe's village.. not even showing worry about his son and his pregnant wife.
  Melzef: I can’t afford to be distracted by such things in this critical time.
• Shoot the Dog: What he and his tribe set on doing to Mea when he figured out she was the Red Stone. It turns out even he himself is against it, but letting her live will doom them AND the world.
  Melzef: Nonsense, you can’t be serious! Otherwise, why would you be defending the red stone?
  Abel: Because Mea is my companion, my lover! What more reason do you need!
  Melzef: So you’re nothing but a fool! You don’t seem to know that the red stone is the tool of the most terrible man in the world! As long as that is in your possession, you will never find rest, no matter where you run to!
• Strong Flesh, Weak Steel: A literal case where he struck a thick shield of Hydeem Magimetal created by Abel with his spear, causing the spear's tip and handle to shatter. He then struck the shield with his bare hands, causing a shockwave that shook the ship and knocked Abel off his feet, shattering the shield and continuing further.
  Abel (narrating): Are you saying that your bare knuckles are much harder than that spear?
• Talking the Monster to Death: Abel forces him to confess his actual feelings toward him wanting to kill Mea. It works, after suffering a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown of course.
• Turns Red: His body literally turns red as he unleashes his power, causing his body's muscles to grow and expands, greatly increasing his strength, Breaking the Bonds of Hydeem Magimetal pillars that Abel shackled him with.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: His attack on Mea was deflected by her guard Ortem, but it was destroyed despite its magical Nigh-Invulnerability, leaving Mea vulnerable to be kidnapped by Shame.
• Walk on Water: He manages to ambush Abel and Mea while they are on a ship in the ocean, by running in an incredible speed! Not only that, he also managed to kick the surface of the water and jump, landing in the middle of the ship, breaking the floor and safely land in the interior!!
  • That's nothing! When he decides to fight Abel outside the ship, he walks further to the horizon, and is standing still while Abel builds a platform with Hydeem Magimetal to climb on to reach him. Probably the work of magic!
• Weapon Twirling: He's so skilled with his spear, he can throw it to become a Deadly Disc, clad in black flame, to cut beasts with ease. It also comes back to him, and he catches it with his bare hand.
• When You Coming Home, Dad?: While she was living with her relatives, Mea always looked forward to her father's visits, but he could only see her once in a week, if at all, because he was busy. And when he did, he didn't spend too much time with her, nor did he have fun things to say or do, but she loved him anyway.
• Would Hurt a Child: He's willing to kill his daughter and the teenager who is protecting her, to save his tribe and the world from the evil his ancestors warned about 500 years ago.

Tropes exclusive to Melzef in the manga:

"Mea... I will bring you back!"

• Adaptation Personality Change: Thanks to Adaptation Deviation , Melzef's role in the story was changed from his counterpart from the novel.
  • Adaptational Badass: Thanks to appearing really early than he should've in the manga, his fight against Abel catches the latter off guard, as he no sells Abel's strong magic attacks without even getting a scratch, and destroys Asura 5000 with a fist infused with magic.
  • Adaptational Heroism: His reason for chasing after Mea is instead to protect her from The Prophecy. He also claims responsibility for hiding Mea's true nature and protecting her from the tribe, even at the cost of turning her into a pariah since birth, instead of his wife doing it in the novel.
• Papa Wolf: He disobeyed the rules of his tribe, potentially set The Prophecy in motion, all to protect his daughter. Abel manages to exploit this against him.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Melzef's face in the manga looks.. like a manned-up, rugged version of Mea's face, with a magic crystal added. He even has Mea's Idiot Hair, her bob-cut (with a tail at the end), and long sideburns adorned with two small ribbons tied around them. this is handwaved, as pictures of doom tribe in the manga shows these are common trends to them.

Dafne

Dafne: Marren tribe, huh. You may be different in form, but you will always stand before us, don’t you? It feels like fate. In the history of the world, we have been defeated by the Marrens three times …… However, you should not underestimate us.

A warrior from the Doom tribe. He's Melzef's subordinate and friend. He accompanies Melzef in the search group for the Red Stone.

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• Anti-Climax: He takes a very hostile approach when he faces Abel, telling him that even if he lost against the latter in combat, his men will attack the village to take Mea by force, even warning him that he doesn't intend on losing, and there will be no shame in losing against him. Abel ends up taking him seriously and blows him off his feet with a regular flame ball spell, slamming him against a far away wall and disarming him. Dafne, overtaken by terror from seeing Abel's magic, calls his men to retreat, leaving him to be arrested.
  Dafne: Sca-, scatter! This guy is a pawn of Julem!
• Being Good Sucks: What he and the Doom tribe are doing is them doing the right thing. Killing that one individual person who might get kidnapped and used for the Count's nefarious plans.. except said individual is the Chieftain's daughter, that he himself doted over since she was a child.
• Knight Templar: Subverted. He opposed Melzef's decision on killing Mea, but only accepted it because he knew no other way to protect her from Count Julem. Once he saw Abel's determination and prowess, he begs him to take Mea away and run, to shake off Count Julem and Melzef.
• Lying to Protect Your Feelings: Seeing Mea saddened by him calling for her execution and asking if her father had any saying about the decision, he spins a lie that her father actually opposed killing her, and that he and the search group have decided to kill her themselves For the Greater Good, calling off her father as a Hypocrite, and acts like a Jerkass.
• Mercy Kill: His other goal from his gambit, was to kill Mea before Melzef does, to spare her the heartbreak from getting killed by the father she admired as a child, even though if the heartbreak would instead be because of him. And to deny Count Julem from using her in his plans.
• Odd Friendship: Dafne is affable, easy-going, shows concern for his chieftain's family and dotes over Mea, in contrast to Melzef, who is The Stoic, pragmatic, stern, tries to care for Mea but is unable to find the right way to display it, and is Dafne's boss.
• Parental Substitute: Because of his caring personality and sense of responsibility, he took the time to visit Mea in her relatives' house, more than Melzef ever could, and tried to cheer the lonely girl up, taking her out for walks and telling her stories about her dad. She often called him "Uncle Dafne". Even after she reached 15, he still helps her. making his Silent Scapegoat gambit all the heart-wrenching it gets.
  Mea: Uncle Dafne may not be as good as Father, but you’re amazing!
• Punished for Sympathy: Because he referred to the Red Stone by her name, Mea, and tried to dissuade Melzef from killing her, Melzef nicked one of his ears with his spear in an instant, causing it to bleed.
• So Proud of You: After hearing Abel's Declaration of Protection, he takes a moment to mutter this to himself:
  Dafne: You have found a good friend, Mea. That is the only thing that can save you.
• Sparing Them the Dirty Work: What he intended to do by deciding to kill Mea himself, to spare Melzef the agony of having to kill his offspring.
  Dafne: But I thought that Melzef-sama should never kill Mea, so without him, I thought of killing Mea-sama.
• The Reveal: When Abel went to interrogate him in prison, he begs Abel to take Mea and run away, entrusting him to protect her from Melzef and Count Julem. But when Abel asked him of how he learned of Count Julem, the answer was something that shook him to the core.
  Dafne: We were too foolish to welcome him with open arms when he arrived, and allowed him to kidnap Mea-sama and kill her mother, Nelea-sama! We realized it after everything was over. We realized that the green-haired man who called himself Jaime, the traveling peddler who happened to visit the Doom tribe at a suspicious time, must be Count Julem!
• Tears of Joy: He sheds tears after hearing Abel agreeing to run away with Mea from the Fage territory, per his suggestion.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: He was last mentioned imprisoned in one of Lark's storehouses after his arrest, with Peter planning to interrogate him about the Red Stone. Given that Abel told Dafne to confess everything to Peter, he might have got released off-screen.
• Zero-Approval Gambit: Once he and the Doom tribe search party find Mea in Russell village, he presents himself in a belligerent manner, threatening to destroy the village if Mea wasn't handed over to him, calling her an abomination, and telling Abel what they will do to her and her corpse, and denies Melzef's involvement when Mea tearfully asks him, etc. All of that is him hoping to trade Mea's resenting her father in death with resenting him instead.

Nelea (Unmarked Spoilers)

Nelea: I don’t want you to stay in this village any longer...

Wife of Melzef and Mea's mother. She treated her daughter terribly from the day she gave birth to her, refusing to acknowledge her or be with her in same room, causing Mea to grow to resent her for what she did.

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• Badass Bookworm: She realizes that everything to her deal with Sim to save Mea was too perfect, and researches records, behind his back, of incidents involving his name, finding out his true nature. When Sim calls her one month after Mea's departure to dispose of her, she came alone... and fully prepared for his attack.
• Cassandra Gambit: When Melzef rebuked her for talking about killing Mea, she told him that letting her live will make people assume her stone was removed because she was born with a red stone, making Melzef not suspect her ploy.
• Cruel to Be Kind: All her acts of negligence, abuse and disregard of her daughter was to make sure no one would suspect her of deliberately removing Mea's red stone to hide her true nature and prevent her husband from killing their daughter, even if it meant subjecting her to a life of mistreatment and bullying, until she could leave the settlement.
• Desecrating the Dead: She dug in the tribe's graveyard, to find a blue crystal to put shards and powder of it on Mea's forehead after removing her red crystal.
• Hysterical Woman: She threw a loud, massive, raging fit shortly after Mea's birth, after surviving an injury by a spirit beast. Shouting and screaming at everyone who were trying to counsel her, talking to her husband that they should kill the baby, and cries over the shame a stoneless child would bring them. It was all an act though.
  Nelea: My God, it’s really awful! Why didn’t you come sooner! How could you not have known about my condition! He hasn’t come at all! what’s happening!
• I Have No Daughter!: She refused to even hold her baby or be told that it looked like her, and refused to even have her live with her, leaving Mea to be raised in her relatives' house.
  Nelea: That stoneless is not my baby! And don’t tell me that I look like her!
• I Wished You Were Dead: Once she heard rumors circulating in the settlement that Mea might be the Red Stone, and her parents removed her stone to cover for her, she screamed at Mea with these words, and Mea never asked to visit her parents' house after that:
  Nelea: I wish I didn’t have such a child!
• Jerkass to One: She dotes over her oldest son Darrel. Her stoneless daughter however, not so much.
• The Lost Lenore: To her husband Melzef, after she got turned to stone by Sim. Finding her like this made Melzef realizes that his "stoneless" daughter was indeed the "Red Stone". Subverted as she's freed from her petrification after Sim dies.
• Mama Bear: She lured Sim and his horde of spirit beasts into meeting her, knowing they came to dispose of her, close to a huge 2000 years-old divine tree and deployed a powerful anti-spirit ward using its power, destroying them. Using the divine tree was considered a taboo in her tribe, and would've got her executed for it, but she didn't care. Sadly, it wasn't enough to kill Sim.
  Nelea: The girl had already left the village. I won’t let Mea die at the expense of the Doom tribe …… Great Spirit Sim! I won’t let her be your toy!
• My God, What Have I Done?: She feared that she won't have the time nor the discretion to remove Mea's stone after giving birth. Sim solves the problem by... attracting a large number of spirit beasts to attack the Doom tribe's village AND the Chieftain mansion as she's giving birth, to provide a distraction and an excuse. Had it been a normal village, all the inhabitants would have been killed.
  Nelea: I never thought he would go this far ……
• The Runaway: She asked Sim if she could accompany Mea when she's old enough to leave the village, but Sim told her that her disappearance would arouse suspicion.
• "Shaggy Dog" Story: To save Mea from getting killed, she removed her magic crystal as a newborn, neglected and alienated her from her family and tribe for sixteen years, and tried to Out Gambit Sim after Mea left the village... only to fail and is Taken for Granite instead.
• Spanner in the Works: Her gambit against Sim, while it failed to kill him, it made him waste his precious magic reserves. According to him, because of her the risk of Mea attracting the attention of other high-ranking spirits have now increased, putting a dent on his cohorts' Evil Scheme.
• Taken for Granite: Sim inflicts this on her, out of spite after she valiantly defied him, turning her and the area around her, trees, grass and soil to stone. He also made sure to keep her mind intact so she would suffer endlessly. She's turned back to normal after Sim's death.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: According to Dafne, she always been a gentle and quiet person, a direct contrast to what she became after giving birth to Mea.
• Unexpected Kindness: She arranges for Mea to meet with the peddler Jaime for a few days, then appears to Mea and Jaime in one night, telling her in angry tone, that her presence will most likely divide the village due to rumors about her missing stone. She entrusts Jaime with taking Mea away from the village, advices her to be wary of strangers, and gives her a bag full of jewellery (that Mea would claim to have stolen it behind her mother's back) for money. Mea noticed that her mother's eyes were wet with tears.
  Nelea: …… I’m sorry, this is all I can do. If it hadn’t been for my child, I wouldn’t have had to put you through this.

The Sky Country Alfhiem

A country located on a Floating Continent. Home of the High-Elves, who worship the Sky God Silfheim.

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Tropes applying on High-Elves in General

A species with high magical power and extremely long lifespan. They were created by the Sky God Silfheim.

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• Cultural Posturing: All high elves see themselves to be above every race, and always feel the need to remind said races about their superiority, even when they're proven wrong.
• Decapitated Army: A non-lethal example. Once the elves see the meteor summoned by their Too Dumb to Live King oblitrated by Abel's Quetzalcoatl's sacred fire, all of them lose the will to fight and just sit there, covering their faces in disgrace, and some are even crying.
• Fantastic Cavalry: When Abel invades Alfhiem with his wooden Quetzalcoatl, at least a hundred high elves flew up to him on their mounts of Pegasi spirit beasts, intending to intercepting him. He counters them with by transmuting a sticky watery substance and having it rain on them, causing them to plummet to the ground with their mounts.
  Elf Soldier: You! Why do you want to humiliate my people so senselessly! Let your head be exposed on this holy groun- Uwaaahhhhhhhhhhh!
• Fantastic Racism: Thanks to their perceived superiority, they consider all the races lower than them. With people like Devin and Olviga as prime examples. This also led them to kick Moebius off from Alfhiem after Silfheim's "death", because she wasn't an elf and had none of their weaknesses.
  • During the days when the Sky God ruled and the Moon Din was closer to Earth, it was common for high elves to hunt Norcs and tame them. They were, indeed, like beasts or insects to the elves.
• Gone Horribly Wrong: According to Kudor, Silfheim made them to stand above the human race when he succeed in Taking Over The World, and gave them both power and longtivity. Because of this, they became too conceited and began favoring the older high elves, becoming extremely authoritarian and conservative, too prideful and stubborn, leading to reducing their numbers. This led Silfheim to create the Doom species as a replacement, making sure not to repeat that mistake.
• Long-Lived: Their lifespan in their best condition could reach up to thousand years.
• Lunarians: In order for the high elves to keep their powers and longitvity, they have to live under the magical light of the Moon Din, another of Siflhiem's creations. That's why they never leave their country, or their powers will be reduced.
• Our Elves Are Different: Elves that were created by the Sky God, with magic power and longtivity way above the human race, that could thrive under the Magical Moon Din, with immeaserable beauty.. and the Pride and feeling of superiority packed with all of these features.
• World Tree: The Sky Country has the huge ancient magical tree Alverut. With extraordinary height, huge rainbow-colored leaves, and its magical drops that is used to create Amrita. Abel sees it as he closes on Alfhiem aboard the wooden dragon Quetzalcoatl.

Olviga

Olviga: How unpleasant…… that a filthy Marren stands in the sky above me.

The King of the High Elves, and the most long-lived one. Having received an oracle from the Sky God Siflhiem, he and Alfhiem's high elves intercept Abel's invasion on Alfhiem to rescue Mea, thinking he's just a mere Norc. Following their failure to stop him, Abel takes him prisoner for the reminder of his stay in Alfhiem.

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• The Caligula: He's unreasonable, immature, arrogant and likes to boast his superiority, and his people sees him as god and obey every whim of his. He even makes weird orders, like asking the crowd hearing his speech to lower their heads and listen to him.. because he wants to see nothing but beautiful women.
  Olviga: Forgive me …… I’ve spent most of my 10,000 years sitting on a throne, frolicking with beautiful women …… Think about it, Marren, what do you expect from me?
• The Chew Toy: He gets on Abel's nerves during his time as prisoner, and never stops flaunting his status as King of the High Elves despite how Abel humbled him in front of them, and ends up getting hit by Abel's Ortems, a lot, for that. And he has to watch Abel breaking branches of the Magical Tree Alverut, and the collapse of his people's old temple.
• Distressed Dude: Abel takes him prisoner inside Quetzalcoatl to interrogate him, after realizing that he might know where Mea and Count Julem are.
• God-Emperor: He is an equivalent to a god to the high elves, and proclaims himself to be one. When he descends to confront Abel as the latter infiltrates Alfhiem, all the high elves in the sky suddenly dropped altitude and bowed down, asking him for forgivenss for failing at stopping Abel.
• Handsome Lech: After he sees Mea, shortly after Abel rescued her from Moebius and Shame, he comments that her body isn't to his liking but the face is good, and that he'll have to compromise and allow her to sleep with him. Abel has one Ortem tackle him for that, making him refrain from following with his offer:
  Olviga: …… F-Forgive me, it’s just that my personality and my love for women are like my sickness. If you think about it, don’t you start to feel sorry for me?
• Implausible Hair Color: He has long pale blue hair.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Soon after Abel return him to Alfheim after defeating Silfheim, they are surrounded by really angry high elves out for Olviga's blood. Once he demands an explanation for their behaviour, he finds that Goguru decided to dethrone him, for failing to defeat Abel and almost destroying their Country with a meteor. Goguru even blames him for Silfheim's destruction of the moon Din Mei and dooming the high elves in the process. He escapes with Abel and Mea from Alfheim under heavy fire from the high elves, and ends up living on earth with the Norcs he always looked down upon.
• Madness Mantra: As Abel is going to capture him, he was busy hitting a wall with his head and repeating these words:
  Olviga: Funny, I can’t wake up from this nightmare, I can’t wake up from this nightmare…… I can’t wake up from this nightmare!
• Magic Staff: He has a staff called: "Sky God’s Imperial Wrath, Silfheim Staff". It provides him with the magic power to perform his large scale spells. It crumbles to dust after he use it to summon a meteor to attack Abel.
• Moral Pragmatist: In the epilogue, he becomes concerned about the future of the High Elves, studies the Moon Din diligently and begs Abel to help him in fixing it after it was destroyed... so he could appear like a hero in front of the High Elves and dethrone their new King, Goguru.
• New Era Speech: He gives one from his castle to all the high elves, speaking of the long awaited Never-Ending Moon Festival Dinmei, and the Blood Feast, where their God, Siflhiem will finally return and Take Over the World, all from the oracle he saw from Siflhiem himself. And then he speaks of thinning half the pigs of Earth, asking the elves to never show mercy.
• No Kill Like Over Kill: After his attacks on Abel and his wooden dragon fails, he loses his composure, becomes enraged over his humiliation in front of his people and decides to summon a meteor on Abel... that will also destroys Alfhiem as well!!
  Goguru: You can’t …… if you use that magic here, many will die! You’re the one who changed the shape of the earth 5,000 years ago, so you must know more about the horrors of this magic than I do!
  Olviga: No. They doubted my power, even though I was a High Elf. They need to know by a great death that it was a mistake. It’s also to make sure that no one ever doubts me again. It is also the duty of the King of the High Elves.
  Abel: You foolish king! It seems you’ve lived too long and your brain has rotted!
• Older Than He Looks: He's actually the longest living being of all the human-like species in the world. Having lived for more than 10,000 years, thanks to drinking Amrita. With that, he saw the end of the Mythic age and the Sky God Siflhiem in person.
• Royal Harem: Both sides of his throne are surrounded with beautiful high elf women.
• The Worf Barrage: He shoots at Abel and his wooden dragon barrages after barrages of his "Arrow of the Fairy King", deploying five huge magic circles, impressing his people.. until they notice and Abel too... that such an attack isn't doing much to the wooden dragon's ward. The elves even wonder if their king is as strong is he made them think he is.
• Too Dumb to Live: Apparently, the only way to erase the humiliation of failing to defeat Abel is to chuck a huge meteor on his Floating Continent country, with his people and himself on it, just to get rid of a Child Mage on his Cool Ship, who could just leave the continent on his plane. He was lucky Abel had a reason to save him and his country, but his people are definitly not going to be happy about this.
• Underestimating Badassery: Despites the oracle his god gave him and warning him about Abel, he just let his army try to halt Abel's invasion, and shoots at him with his "Arrow of the Fairy King" when they failed to do anything to him. After Abel saves Alfheim FROM him, he descents close to Olviga, and the latter thinks he can take him on a one-on-one duel... and Abel quickly subdues him.
  Olviga: “I wondered what kind of person he was, since the Lord Silfheim had taken the trouble to warn us of him, but …… he’s just a little boy on a strange ship. That’s enough. Let it sink.”

Goguru

Goguru: Yes, what should we do about the Marren, whom Lord Silfheim urged us to be wary of?

An wise old high elf, often trying to advise Olviga.. to no avail.

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• Elderly Immortal: In contrast to Olviga, he's 1100 years old, threatengly close to the end of an elf's lifespan, and his face is filled with wrinkles.
• Ignored Expert: He tries to be The Good Chancellor (from a high elf standard) to Olviga, and advise him to take their Lord's warning about Abel seriously. He's instead abused by his King and his words are unheeded.
  Olviga: You are persistent, Goguru. It seems that you’ve become quite a big deal. You’re giving me advice now.
  Goguru: I-I have no such intention!
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: After getting abused by Olviga too many times, disgracing the entire population of Alfheim by failing to defeat Abel, coming close to destroy their country with his Meteor-Summoning Attack in a fit of rage, and seeing the god Silfheim's destroying the moon Din Mei. He dethrones Olviga and has the angry high elves chases him with intention of killing him.
  Olviga: “A Coup D'état! It is foolish of you to rebel against me, a man who is as good as a god! Have you lost your mind, Goguru!”
  Goguru: “You’re right about everything.”

Gods (Massive Spoilers)

Gods

Count Julem and Cohorts (Massive Spoilers)

Count Julem and Cohorts