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    Med 
Med: “It’s too late to cry and apologize! You’ve ruined my life, Abel. You’ve ruined everything! You will rot in the presence of the most powerful violence in the world! In the end, my name will be etched deep, deep into the myths! With an everlasting horror!”
Revealed as the true identity of the current god Levi, and the one manipulating the Riveras Kingdom and Church. A great spirit that served the Sky God and is in league with Count Julem.
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  • Dead Guy on Display: Abel, desperately trying to revive him to get answers, managed to restore his mangled fogg corpse through alchemy, but gave up on resuscitating him. Now, he's pinned, preserved through magic and hung on the wall of Abel's office in Russel village for analysis.
  • Dead Person Impersonation: He's been pretending to be the god Levi, since his "resurrection". Unfortunately for him, he can't actually copy Levi's powers over water, nor can control Riveras Kingdom's Dragon Vein, requiring him to use Sateria.
  • Demiurge Archetype: He's known as “The False God Med”, who was impersonating the god Levi, and is responsible for his church's corruption, and claims to have destroyed many countries and religions for 10,000 years through this method.
  • Extra Eyes: He has four eyes.
  • Evil Knockoff: After revealing his true form, he quickly weaves a cocoon on himself and the remains of fake Levi, then reshape it into a demented form of Kudor, with the human-half having four eyes and a nose rearranged in a haphazard fashion.
  • Last of His Kind: Claims to be the last of the four great angels, and the last of the eighty-eight angels who serve the sky god.
  • Marionette Master: Levi's ability to control Sateria's body to use her control over the Dragon Vein was his ability. He also uses it to move fake Levi's large body.
  • Mirror Match: Abel answers his taking Kudor's form and making a mockery of it... by summoning the real Kudor to deal with him. She easily kills him.
  • No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: He finds himself in the wrong end of one, courtesy of Kudor, while he was disguised in her image. She tears him in half, beats him to a bulb with her tentacles until he shrinks to his true form, forces him turn himself into a fogg, then finishes him once and for all with one last tentacle slap.
  • No Mouth: When he shed his Levi's disguise, his fourth eye comes out from Levi's mouth. His mouth is never mentioned in his appearance, yet he can talk, gloat, brag... and screams.
  • Oh, Crap!: He realizes how screwed he is when he sees the Goddess Kudor in front of him. Also gets mixed with This Cannot Be!.
  • Pride Before a Fall: As Abel began chanting for summoning magic:
    Med: “Summoning magic, nonsense! That’s beyond stupid! What kind of demon would you use against me, who can control Levi’s dragon veins and even Kudor’s form? Useless struggle, how laughable, Abe- ……
  • Projectile Webbing: Once he transforms into Kudor, he spread shiny spiderweb-things around him, to trap those who gets close to him. Kudor gets tangeled in several of them, but she easily breaks them off.
  • Pupating Peril: His Shapeshifter ability triggers by covering himself with his threads, then transform using them.
  • Razor Floss: He set a trap for Abel using these, during their fight as Levi. He managed to evade it as it sprung.
  • "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Lays a big one on all of Levi's followers after revealing himself. They all went into a big shock.
    Med: “Haaah, this woman (Sateria) and you people of the country are fools! Not only did you surrender the holy land to me, but you even sacrificed the magic power of the dragon vein to give it to me!?But then again, you’re only the weakest of the four great creator gods! I can’t believe you can’t even neutralize this kid’s magic! It’s hard to move, Abel, but I’ll show you what true despair is!”
  • Shapeshifter Default Form: A sun-like figure, that Abel compares to an abstract painting, with eight arms sprouting from the face.
  • The Starscream: The reason why he, as Levi, wanted to kidnap Mea was to hold her as a bargaining chip against Count Julem, since she's the Sky God Legacy that's essential to his plans. He grew arrogant after playing God for so long and wanted to crown himself as a god after dealing with Kudor and Count Julem.
  • Uriah Gambit: Implied to be a victim of this. He was left unaware of Kudor's awakening, through Count Julem withholding the information from him, so that he could dispose of him by letting Kudor do away with him, because Med was becoming The Starscream.
    Med: “I-, Impossible, Kudor is already awake!? T-There’s no way …… Julem didn’t tell me that either. ……!
  • We Hardly Knew Ye: He's finally revealed as as the one behind Levi and Levi Church, only for Abel to summon Kudor, who easily kills him in the same chapter.
  • Wire Fu: While pretending to be Levi, he uses his threads to lift his body above the ground, as he floods the holy city, Rivualin, with water.

The Main Five High-Ranking Spirits

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     Jeem 
Jeem: “I’m going all out, Abel Belek. The day of the Moon Festival Dinmei is almost upon us. You, I’ll make sure to beat you here.”
One of Maharaun Kingdom's current Five Grand Masters.. and actually a Great spirit planted by Count Julem to control the Fire Country.

    Sim 
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That book wasn't there a minute ago....
A Great Spirit Demon, known for its ability to manipulate troubled people into fulfilling their wishes.. only to destroy them after they obtain what they wanted. Known as “The One that Slaughters history”.

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Gillemeim

Gillemeim: “It seems you were a little too dangerous to be treated as a pawn. But this is the end. You will not be needed in our scenario from here on out.”
A famous sorcerer genius who lived and died 500 years or so. Revealed to have been a High-ranking Spirit similar to Count Julem and works along with him in their evil plan. He was also the kind peddler who helped Abel escape his village, Jaime.

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Shame

Shame: “I know you don’t believe in us, but I think you can still believe in reason, can’t you?”
Once was the kind and friendly adventurer that helped Abel and Mea in their journey, now revealed herself as a Great Spirit working along with Count Julem. Despite her betrayal, she thinks she can persuade Abel into joining her cause, whether he would like it or not.

    Count Julem Ornolea 
Julem: “I can’t tell if you’re joking or serious, that’s what scares me about you.”
A man who is thought to be a fairy tale. Little is known about who he is or where he came from. Several sightings of him were seen in various parts of the world, present in major events shaking the world, of his own doing.
  • The Ageless: Count Julem was known as an Earl from the Dinrat Kingdom, 600 years before the story's present day. He disappeared one day and reappeared 100 years later. Then began appearing in several faraway places, and some people began claiming to be him.
  • Asteroids Monster: He pulls off his left arm (it regrows shortly after), creating "Jem", a floating spirit clone monster smiliar to Sim, to aid him, when the fight dragged more than it should. Abel notes that said process should run the risk of Julem losing his identity as a demon, but instead it siphoned some of his magic as a result.
    Julem: “Jem, you know your role!”
  • Awesome, but Impractical: His spells are of the large-scale varitey, with the cunning and ruthlessness to use them against his opponents. But even with his large magic capacity, speculated by Abel to be even larger than his, he's prone to run himself ragged.
  • Bait the Dog: He tries to break the ice between him and the already-hostile Abel, after the latter realized Mea have been kidnapped, trying to make Abel believes they're not enemies and listing the accomplishments he made in his journey, including protecting Mea all that time, and telling him that Mea will be returned to him safely after being done with his plans, and telling some information as a form of trust-building, passing himself as a comrade who would let them be after everything said and done. Abel calls him off and his story filled with a bunch of lies, but that didn't matter to him, as he was just Holding the Floor, and he successed.
    Abel: “You never intended to convince me in the first place! You’re just buying time!”
    Julem: “You realized too late, crazy sorcerer.”
  • Big Bad: The main villain. Several mentions of him are scattered throughout the story, until he appears in the flesh... after Kudor's awakening.
  • Blow You Away: He utilizes wind magic to create a shield, creates a large tornado, and tries to snuff "Abel Ball" spell by containing it in wind pressure.
  • Breaking Speech: Gives one to Peter, after explaining to him what his awakening of Kudor has benefited him, while his face is very close to Peter's nose:
    Julem: “Thank you, Lord Peltaire, thank you …… It is because you gave up your identity, bent your beliefs, distorted your way of life, and even stopped being a human being to seek out Kudor, that we have one more stone to kill Kudor. I am very grateful to you from the bottom of my heart.”
  • Combat Pragmatist: Julem utilizes several tricks when he fights Abel on the ship. Camouflaging his magic circles for long-distance Villain Teleportation, casting magic spells utilizing his ability to cast without chanting trying to distract Abel from interfering with his escape, trying to sink the ship with a tornado, creating a minion and feigns trying to escape, leading Abel to attack him while the minion casts Teleportation ... to bring someone else to fight Abel with them.... Gillemeim!!
  • The Dreaded: Not many in the novel mention Count Julem. Those who do however, are people who heard of him, were warned of him, personally met him.. and lived to tell it because he let them live to do that, and both knows better than to underestimate his capacity for cruelity. Peter's behavior changes whenever he talks of him, and the Doom tribe made sure to mention him in their records.
    Peter: “I’ve already seen him…… So if you see him, I’ll just tell you to stay away for three cities. It’s because of that meeting that I decided to resurrect Kudor.”
    There is just no sign of joking in Peter’s tone.
    His face paled, his breath was ragged, and there was a hint of fear in his eyes. His lips had turned an earthy color.
  • Dying as Yourself: A villainous example. After Silfheim's death, his remains fell into the sea, but one melting clump took a dying Julem's shape, talked to Abel and tried to lunge at him in anger, until it dissolved in the water.
    Julem: “I had “Red Dream” that gave me the power of the gods and it took me 10,000 years to fight Kudor, but this is not how it’s supposed to be ……”
  • Establishing Character Moment: The chapter he appears in front of Peter and Myunhi. Sitting in Peter's own chair, surrounded by the corpses of many of Peter's highly trained sorcerers and fighters, he tells Peter that everything he did to unseal Kudor was all part of his plan to Peter's horror, and scares Myunhi by threatening to turn her into a frog, then tells her that he was just kidding and laughs as she faints from the shock alone.
  • Evil Is Petty: It is implied that he murdered an artist for... drawing a painting that has him in it, and made it look like a terrorist act of a religious group.
  • Evil Old Folks: When Abel saw him in the flesh, he looked like he was in his forties or fifties.
  • False Prophet: Abel speculates that the "oracle from the Sky God" is Julem's way of controlling the high elves of Alfheim, after hearing his "very specific prophecy" from Olviga. It is later subverted, since Count Julem IS actually part of the Sky God!.
  • Fat Bastard: Abel notes that he's slightly overweight, adding to his well-built frame.
  • Flight: Despite his large frame, he spends the majority of his fight with Abel flying and attacking.
  • For the Evulz: He really enjoys driving his victims into a corner, be it by murdering their men like what he did to Peter, or lying to Abel. It does establish him as a threat that can do as he please, but Gillemeim calls him out on it.
  • Game Face: His face sometimes morphs into a monstrous version of itself, with the edges of his mouth splitting wide open and eyes becoming unfocused. A small hint about his true nature.
  • Half the Man He Used to Be: Abel manages, to his own surprise, to cut him vertically in half with a very fast Wind Blade spell, causing said halfs to fall in the water. However, said halfs become spirit wolfs that attack Abel, reattaching themselves and turn to himself again after Abel rebels them.
  • The Heavy: All of Peter's talks about him hints to him being the main threat and the mastermind behind the Ancient Conspiracy against the Dinrat Kingdom. He never know of Julem's partners in the conspiracy.
  • History Repeats: Invoked by him. Many years ago, he met Peter, A.K.A King Peltaire, in Dinrat's Grand Palace after slaughtering the guards and sitting on his throne. When Peter and Myunhi head to one of their secret headquarters after Kudor's awakening, they find a dozen of their men and servants killed, with Count Julem sitting on his chair.
    Julem: “It’s been a long time, Lord Peltaire. What do you think, it’s just like the old days, isn’t it? I’m embarrassed to admit it, but I’m a bit more sophisticated than I’d like to admit.”
  • Knight of Cerebus: Almost all the humor and lightheartedness of the novel leave when he finally makes his entrance.
  • Large and in Charge: If Sim was excluded, he would be the biggest among his cohorts, and he is their acting leader.
  • Making a Splash: In his second fight, Julem uses a spell that creates several columns of high pressure water, strong to dig through stone floor. He claims that with this spell, he sunk a city to the bottom of the ocean a thousand-year ago.
  • Monster Mouth: Suddenly sports a vertical mouth that splits his own face in half, with the inside filled with fangs, when he's about to eats both Shame and Sim together! After he's done, both segments of his body were misaligned after closing.
  • No-Nonsense Nemesis: Unlike any of the foes Abel fought, Count Julem made sure to know Abel front and back before he confronted him. He made sure to use any information delivered by Shame to use against Abel, only chose to engage him in battle after Mea was secured and taken away to prevent him from pulling a rescue instead, attacked with strong and large-scale spells while trying to distract Abel as the latter kept blocking his escape routes. When he learned from Shame about the Anti-Kudor weapons Abel built in the Fage territory, he sent Jeem and his men to attack the territory and secure the weapons in Abel's absence, fearing that they may get used against him.
  • Person of Mass Destruction: Abel realizes to his horror of what a big opponent Julem is throughout their battle, capable of casting magic of bigger magnitude than him and having no restraints, thanks to his nature as a Great Spirit:
    Abel (narrating): I thought he was only a hair on Sim’s head, but he has a high life force that makes him seem immortal, a chantless defense and attack, and high-powered magic that can recreate a catastrophe.
    He got the power to say he’s going to subjugate Kudor.
  • Shame If Something Happened: After cowing Peter and Myunhi to his presence, he threatens Peter with using his influence to have the four other countries destroy the Dinrat Kingdom, should he try to warn Kudor against him.
  • Super-Toughness: He took the explosion of an "Abel Ball" spell directly but suffered no damage from it. But then it's subverted, as he was using his life force to instantly heal his injuries to look like it never affected him.
  • Tactical Withdrawal: His fight with Abel was both a cover to have Shame teleports away with Mea unnoticed, and to himself, as he spends several instants of their battle trying to create a diversion to escape through his own Villain Teleportation, then pretends trying to escape, while his newly created minion brings someone to aid him.
  • Tea Is Classy: He takes sips of his teacup and enjoys the aroma... after killing a dozen of men and as he talks to their leader and bodyguard.
  • While Rome Burns: His first appearance in the webnovel. In a painting depicting a city ingulfed in flames with its people, while he's standing on the top of a tall building, watching and... smiling.
  • Technician Versus Performer: He's the performer to Abel's technician during their fight. Julem casts large-scale magic that could destroy the ship they're in, but ends up foiled by Abel's careful tactics and quick but easy counters, along with Ortems hitting Julem in every opening.
    Julem: “You freak. I’ve always thought you had too much magic power for your vessel, but it’s not your amount of magic power that’s troublesome, it’s your morbid ability to control it.”
  • This Cannot Be!: Even though he started having the upper hand in their first fight, the fight drags on and finds himself running short on breath against Abel, forcing him to pull a gambit to call for help.
    Julem: “This can’t be …… I, who have lived since the earliest days of mythology …… who is also the ruler of the world, would end here because I treated one kid wrong ……?”
  • You Can't Thwart Stage One: Cementing himself as the Manipulative Bastard he is, he set for Mea to be kidnapped a day before The Moon Festival Dinmei by her and Abel's friend Shame, tried killing Abel when he outlived his usefulness by himself while Shame was taking Mea away, and sicced Gillemeim on Abel while he escapes, with the former managing to evade Abel and making sure the latter is left with no clues to their whereabouts, almost securing his triumph! Fortunately, he didn't take into account Sim's arrogance and Abel's ingenuity.

The Ancient Destroyer

    Moebius 
Moebius: “Great, it’s a good body, and it feels right. It is indeed a different scale of testing than the previous ones …… So, Shame, who is that Marren guy over there?”
The spirit of the progenitor of the Doom tribe. Designated as Count Julem's trump card in his fight against Kudor, she has to possess a vessal compatible with her unique soul... a Doom tribe girl born with a red stone on her forehead.

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