The Marren Clan | Dinrat Kingdom: (Lomarn City | The Fage Territory: Russell Village | Palgas Village)
Gods | Count Julem and Cohorts
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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!”
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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
Tropes apply to all of them
- Achilles' Heel: Since they are high-ranking spirits with immense amounts of magic and no organic bodies, their consumption of magic is inefficient, and regaining it takes a really slow time to happen. This is why they would rather deplete Kudor's magic first by manipulating the human Kingdoms to attack her first, than having to fight her at all.
- Alliterative Family: All their names begin and end with the Japanese characters ジ and ム. This also alludes to their true identity: シルフェイム (Silfheim)
- Create Your Own Hero: Thousands of years ago, they used the Moon Din's gravity to pull Moebius's soul and prevent it from going to the cycle of reincarnation after her death.. pulling a foreign soul along with it by accident to their world. Said soul didn't go through the purification process, allowing it to maintain its personality, Past-Life Memories, and gained an unnatural boost in growth allowing it to achieve what most humans can't with the same training. Said soul reincarnated into a baby, who grew up and became the Spanner in the Works to their plans, Abel Belek.Shame: “You’re not a god or a miracle, you’re just a foreign object that got mixed up in our system.”
- Fusion Dance: All of them, minus Jeem, merge together after losing against Abel again, The method however involves Julem straight up eating them, flying off to the moon, and then...
- Gone Horribly Right: They wanted a "puppet escort" to accompany Mea and protect her from harm by other high-ranking spirits, so they could kidnap her when the time is right for their Evil Scheme. Said "puppet escort" derailed their plans, allied himself with their arch nemesis, and ruins and kills almost all of them, to save Mea.
- Irony: Almost all of their plots to specifically exhaust Kudor and finish her off, including Moebius, were wasted on and foiled by Abel, their ex- Unwitting Pawn. By the time they all confront him (minus Jeem), they are the ones who are clearly exhausted and at a disadvantage, and Kudor is nowhere in sight. This forces them to perform a Fusion Dance to bring forth their true form.
- Literal Split Personality: They are split parts of the Sky God Silfheim's conscious. He did this to have them set things right for his return and face off against Kudor. They can walk around without alerting Kudor from her slumber, as their magic amount is extremely high.. but not high enough to consider them a threat.
- Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering: They devolve into this, briefly, after Abel defeated Moebius. Each one of them, except for Sim, blames someone else for their plans getting derailed: Julem blames Shame for letting Moebius fight Abel instead of just killing him herself, Shame shifting the blame on Abel and pointing that they could still retrieve Moebius and Mea, Gillemeim calls Julem off for taunting Abel and dragging him to save his sorry hide, etc.Julem: “How many times do you people have to be dragged around by one kid before you’re satisfied!”
- Our Demons Are Different: All of them are high-ranking spirits. With the exception of Sim, they all took the shapes of human beings.
- Really 700 Years Old: Despite what each of them look like, the are all over 10,000 years old.
- Simplified Spellcasting: All of them can cast spells without chanting, forcing Abel to rely on seeing their magic circles amd acting quickly, because he can't hear the spell coming.
- Twin Telepathy: Thanks to them being parts of one being's conscious, they can share informations with each others from afar, even be aware of what happens to the others, to some extent.
- Xanatos Gambit: They set up their plans against Kudor in their 10,000 year life. Layers over layers of manipulations and deceit to control the other Kingdoms to instigate a war against the Dinrat Kingdom, all to smoke Kudor out. Despite Abel clashing with and foiling their plans, their plan is still in motion, having one of them in control of the Maharaun Kingdom, with it's great military force.
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.”
- Attack Reflector: Has a vicious variant in the form of “Dragon Flow”, an impossible Maharaun Kingdom's martial-arts techinque that returns ANY impact from any direction back to the attacker, damaging them instead. He modified his spirit body to achieve said ability.
- Assassin Outclassin': Rimud, the leader of the Five Grand Masters, attempts to assasinate Jeem.. only for Jeem to soundly defeat him and put him in prison.
- Ax-Crazy: He gets way too happy about the idea of starting a bloody war between Maharaun and Dinrat Kingdoms, savoring every moment in the violence he dreams of commiting. And then there is him ordering his men to create a massacre in the Russell village, just to distract Lark's private army from stopping them from taking over Abel's magic wave tower.
- Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Refrains from Killing Altamir, so he could force her to tell him how the magic wave tower works. Still threatens her when she tries to assist Collector in fighting him.
- Combat Pragmatist: He infiltrates the Fage territoy, after learning of Abel's Secret Weapon, in the latter's abscense, hoping to use it against Kudor. When the tower sends a distress signal, he order his men to set fires and attack the villagers to distract Lark's army. And When he runs into Altamir and the Collector, he knows of their existance, and the fact that Collector lost his treasures.
- Dangerous Forbidden Technique: After getting trounced by Abel, he taps into his full magic reserve, increasing his strength and speed to astronomical levels, and uses his ultimate attack: “Mad Kaleidoscope”! The process causes Jeem's spirit body to slowly burn out and disintegrate, effectively sealing his fate, but he can't pass the chance to take Abel with him.Jeem: “It’s no use, Abel! You …… and I are done here! Let me prove it! That there is no such thing as a stronger human than us!”
- Depraved Dwarf: Jeem, according to intel from Peter, is 130 centimeters tall. And might as well be the epitome of maliciousness and vileness.Narrator: And if he hid his ugly face, he could be mistaken for a child.
- Doppelgänger Attack: Has two variants:
- “Kyouka Suigetsu”, literally means: “Mirror Flower, Water Moon”, allows him to temporarly divide his spirit body into 3 fully indiviual Jeems to attack. They can't stay away and apart from each other for too long because he'll risks his spirit body collapsing.
- “Mad Kaleidoscope”, splits Jeem into three, then nine, until it reaches 243 Jeems to charge with the stength of the original!!
- Dying Smirk: Jeem, having all of his clones blown apart in the explosion of “Abel Bomb”, has his head laughs and brags about his power before dying, seemingly content, and Disappears into Light.Jeem: “Hiho, hohohoho …… I knew it, there was no human …… who could match …… me.”
- Dystopia Justifies the Means: He gives a speech to Maharaun's King and his subjects, telling them what kind of world he and Count Julem will bring. Despite how Obviously Evil he was in the speech, the King's warrior monks agreed to it!Jeem: “I want only one thing: to destroy the evil goddess Kudor, who was artificially created by the delusion of human beings, and put an end to the abnormal age in which humans rule humans. We must return to the righteous world, where living spirits have been called gods since ancient times, and where unclean apes are used as slaves, an age considered holy in the Maharbo scriptures.”
- Evil Old Folks: His appearance is of an old man, but given that he's a Great Spirit pretending to be a human, age is nothing to him.
- Fatal Flaw: Pride. He could've saved himself once he knew he was outmatched against Abel and ran away, but noooo. Since High-Ranking Spirits deserve to rule the world, getting defeated by a human they look down upon will not cut it. It even plays a role in his defeat: by overstrengthening his spirit clones at the cost of their durability and spreading himself thin, he threw them and himself on Abel, which gets Jeem killed.. and Abel walks off unscathed.
- Giggling Villain: With an Evil Laugh that everyone he encounters has at least heard it:Jeem: “Kihihihihihi, hihohohohohohoho!”
- Growing Muscles Sequence: Thanks to his unique spirit body, whenever Jeem activates “Gouma”, he gets covered in "tightly packed muscle fibers", taking the shape of plant roots all through his body and make him look less human.
- Healing Factor: He manages to survive losing the upper-half of his head, being a great spirit, and then gets it regenerated.
- Karmic Death: He spent his time in the story lording over his King and their country, enjoying dominating those who opposed him, even making some of them disappear, and orders his men to burn Russel village and attack its citizens. In return, he gets defeated by Collector, who survived his No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, and then Abel, who CurbStomped him without getting hit, and rendered his Self-Destructive Charge into a Senseless Sacrifice.
- Kung-Fu Wizard: His battle-style is fighting using body-strengthening magic, “Gouma”, and martial arts. His strength alone could shatter rocks and walls like they're nothing, and there is also his Razor-Sharp Hand.
- Lightning Bruiser: Jeem's speed allows him to move in a way hard to keep up with human's eyes, capable of launching himself on his opponent, Wall Kick and twisting his body to evade. And he packs it with Super-Strength.
- Manipulative Bastard: Used the fact that Rimud was in contact with Peter to Blackmail the Maharaun Royal Court and the rest of the Grand Masters into making him the ruler of the Kingdom, effectivly making him the strongest man in the world!!
- Mole in Charge: He managed to take over Maharaun Kingdom by himself, turning King Magra into a Puppet King, overriding his and the remaining Grand Masters' influence, and converting their warriors into his loyal minions. It gotten so bad that the King found himself pinned down by his own warrior monks, and Jeem orders them to see that he never leaves his throne while he's away.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: He split himself with “Mad Kaleidoscope” into 243 copy of himself, keeping their stength to his level... at the cost of drastic decrease in durability. This allows Abel to defeat all of them, using the spell “Abel Bomb”, destroying them in a huge blast, and killing Jeem.
- One-Winged Angel: After Collector lopped the upper-half of his head, the plant root-like muscle fibers in his body becomes thicker and gains Extra Eyes, his skin turns into a mix of black and dark-green and becomes six-armed.
- He escalates it into having eight arms and more eyeballs in his body, when he decides on fighting Abel. Then he ups the ante by increasing it to 10 arms!!
- Super-Toughness: Thanks to Jeem's natural durability as a Great Spirit, packed with his broken ability “Dragon Flow”, Jeem is pretty much invulnerable! When Collector managed to land a punch on his cheeck, his fist violently broke from the wrist instead!
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: He rubs it in King Magra's face of how insignificant he was reduced to, after seeing his warriors turn on him and support Jeem instead:Jeem: “Hihohohoho …… Well, well, I’m glad to see that you’re aware of your stupidity, King Magra. But why don’t you think a little less of yourself than you think you do ……? The reason I kicked Rimud out of the ranks of the Five Grand Masters, and not you, is because you are so incompetent that you do not deserve to be considered an enemy at all.”
- The Right of a Superior Species: Believes in Count Julem's plans to have the world ruled by High-ranking Spirits, because he believes that they are superior to humans.
- This Cannot Be!: Twice:
- When Collector managed to injure him and bypass his “Dragon Flow” technique, mere seconds after boasting that his sword cannot defeat it.
- Happens to him yet again when he fought Abel, who rendered “Dragon Flow” obsolete using his Deployable Cover, and told him the folly of relying on that technique.. after seeing it once in action.
- Underestimating Badassery: He tries to gain a win by killing Abel, who just returned from a Wham Episode, expecting him to be weakened from fighting Count Julem. Unforunately for him, he finds himself on the wrong end of a Curb-Stomp Battle.Jeem: “Why, why did my feet just retreat ……?”
Abel: “Don’t think you can get away after coming this far!” - Villainous Breakdown: After he barely escapes Abel's Hydeem Magimetal spheres and “Abel Ball”, getting several of his arms charred and is Blown Across the Room, and is already gasping for breath. Unlike Abel, who is calm and not tired at all. This also leads him use his Deadly Upgrade:Jeem: “This is ridiculous …… I can’t see any way to win. I can’t let this happen. I am the true ruler of this world, the highest-ranking spirit that has lived since far back in time when the humans did not have a proper civilization …… We’ve just taken complete control of the human world, and we’re finally ready to counter Kudor, and yet ……!”
- We Will Meet Again: Being the Sore Loser he is, he promises Lark's army and Collector that he'll destroy the Fage territory by instigating a war using the Maharaun Kingdom, for Collector defending the territoy from him. But then he runs into Abel... denying him the chance to make true with his threat.
- Would Hit a Girl: Not only he knocks down Altamir and slams her head to the dirt, he pulls her head again and threatens her to tell him how the weapon in magic wave tower works, before his men litter the village with corpses.
Sim
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”.
- Adaptational Dye-Job: His grimoire form has a green cover in the webnovel, but in the Light Novel's colored art it's dark purple.
- Batman Gambit: He was the one responsible for Filo getting separated from the Abel search party, by attracting monsters to the caravan she was in. This makes her reach Russell village earlier than Giselle and her group, so that she would warn Abel in advance of his sister, and have him consider leaving the Fage territory.
- Dirty Coward: He spends his confrontation with Abel using Giselle as a Human Shield, knowing Abel can't attack him and risk hurting his sister. When Abel shields himself from his attacks, he threatens to shoot his stone arrows at the nearby civilians. When Abel figures a way to hit him and miss Giselle, he shrinks his mass into tentacles tangling her neck and limbs, and threatens him to tear her limb from limb unless he surrender. When Abel tries to negotiate with him, he pretends to agree and then says he lied, telling him he'll kill him anyway, kidnap Mea and keep Giselle as a stone statue with her mind intact forever, and petrifies her. which proves to be his undoing.Sim: “I’m just taking out an insurance policy. We don’t like to take chances.”
- Eye Beams: He use his countless eyes to shoot petrifiying beams.
- Fate Worse than Death: He likes to do this to those who defy him or try to fight him. Turning them to stone, and keeping their mind intact to suffer forever for his amusement.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: After he survives Abel's Banishing Ritual, he goes berserk and shoots several light beams inflicting his petrification curse on numerous areas of the city, leaving Abel, Mea and Shame unaffected. Abel then uses Mea's guard Ortem to nullify the curse and send it back to its caster, shrinking Sim and petrifying him to a small stone ball. He gets better.
- Hope Crusher: He displays this mindset after seeing Abel's expression, following the realization he's been watching him since he left the Marren village, and now seeing his sister taken a hostage.Sim: “How do you feel? How does it feel to resist, to think you have it all figured out, and to be in the top of my hand from start to finish? How pathetic, people who have been used by me always have that look on their face when they find out the truth. Yes, that’s the face they make before their final death. Fufu …… No, I guess I could turn you to stone and make you mourn forever.”
- Kick the Dog: He turns Giselle to stone while he's gloating to Abel, exposing himself for the latter to launch an attack that will only hurt Sim, and leave Giselle unharmed. Abel even wonders what made him do that so suddenly.
- Just Between You and Me: He's incredibly guilty of this. Just as he's sure he'll off his latest victim, he'll break into a monologue detailing the next step in his cohorts' plan for no reason other than that they'll die afterward. When Abel overpowered him however, his loose tongue spelled doom to said plan..
- Manipulative Bastard: Acting friendly and sympathetic to his victims, he offers his help to them, giving them advises that seemingsly help them get their wish... only to dispose of them after he has no use of them and just served their purpose. According to Nelea he destroyed many nations through possession and seduction for over 1000 years.Sim: “Well, it can’t be helped, though. To this Great Spirit who lives forever, you humans are nothing but dust that will die of old age in the blink of an eye! I played you, used you, and then killed you, that’s a fitting end for dust, isn’t it?”
- Necessary Drawback: According to Nelea, Sim can pretend to be anything to his victims to gain their trust, but he cannot use an alias. He could only use "Sim" because of some sort of sorcery, making it possible to track him through incident records.
- No Ontological Inertia: When Abel turned his petrification curse on him and defeated him, every person he just petrified in the city, Giselle included, were turned back to normal. When he was killed while a part of Silfheim, Nelea was turned back to normal.
- Oculothorax: Both his small and giant form are green spheres with eyes.
- Shapeshifter Default Form: A huge green sphere, with a black haze pattern, with many Extra Eyes all over it.
- Sinister Surveillance: Right after he introduces himself to Abel, he lists almost every major thing he did throughout his journey after he left the village.
- Spanner in the Works: The story might've ended on a different note, had Sim kept his mouth shut and didn't mention the Moon Festival Din Mei to Abel. Not only Abel takes an accurate guess of where Count Julem is holding Mea based on that clue, but also launches a Roaring Rampage of Rescue, ruining the Count and his cohorts' carefully laid plans.Abel (narrating): I can only be grateful to Sim, the Great Spirit, for being so soft-spoken.
- Toxic Friend Influence: When Giselle and the Marren teens (sans Filo) reached Palgas village looking for Abel, he convinces Giselle to forget about Filo, preying on her jealousy and awareness of the latter's feelings toward her brother.Sim (writing in the book's page): “I’m sure this Filo kid will slip through the cracks. You’d better leave her behind while you still can. I was betrayed by a girl like that when I was human. Besides, you shouldn’t be wasting your time here.”
- Unseen Pen Pal: His modus operandi. His victims would find a green grimoire with words in spirit language appearing on it pages, pretending they are a spirit of person possessing it, who can relate to their situation, and offers to help them out of pity in order to pass on.. while he steers them into fulfilling his goals.
- He appeared to Giselle as a spirit of Marren woman whose brother ran away from the village before their wedding.
- He appeared to a pregnant Nelea as a spirit of a Doom girl, killed by her family because she was born with a red stone, and told her that the baby she's carrying will share the same fate.
- Villain Has a Point: For all his lies and deceits, he was right about one thing: Mea would've been killed the minute she was born, had he not manipulated Nelea into doing his dirty work.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The fate that befall anyone he tricked once he's done with them, be it by spirit beasts or killed by him personally. Given his character, he always enjoy that part. Those who really pissed him off however...
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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.”
- Actually a Doombot: Just when Abel thought he got him and tried to interrogate him on where Mea is held, he reveals that he quickly created a spirit-clone of himself upon defeat and escaped. Then the clone kills itself, denying Abel the chance to find Mea.. temporarly.
- Aloof Ally: While a part of Count Julem's group, he seems to be the least cooperative, and less approving of their methods, favoring to let them deal with the problems their methods brings. He even berates Julem for picking a fight with Abel before actually helping him, and telling him to Get Out! because he can't fight Abel and protect him in the same time.
- Been There, Shaped History: Abel knows Gillemeim as a genius magician from 500 years ago, who wrote many theories, books and papers on magic and is the most brilliant-minded sorcerer of all time. He was also a a scholar of religion and ethnic studies, and a philosopher.
- Combination Attack: He and Julem trap Abel with a powerful water flood for the latter to defend himself with a barrier of Hydeem Magimetal, trapping himself for Jaime to attack him with his chaos element magic from above. Abel sees through it and has Quetzalcoatl move and shoot at him with his Sacred Flames. He flies to escape them, only for them to track him and blow up at him, temporarily removing him from the fight.
- Diabolical Mastermind: Shame describes him as the true ruler of the Galshard Kingdom, as head of the church behind the scenes, and using is it for as test ground for his project. He disappears from the kingdom after Silfheim's death, creating a Evil Power Vacuum within the kingdom.
- Do Not Call Me "Paul": He tells Julem not call him Gillemeim, as it became “too conspicuous” thanks to his time as a scholar from 500 years ago. Julem and his cohorts still calls him that anyway.
- Evil Genius: His repertoire as a sorcerer is quite huge, according to Abel. With feats includes pioneering the spirit language, conversing with high-ranking demons, and is behind many magical theories, even ones used by Abel, and he's part of Count Julem's group.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: During their first fight, Abel, using a ploy to trick Jaime into thinking he's switched to defense, quickly teleports his Chaos magic to the totems he caught in his hands, causing his body to be torn apart, defeating him... only to turn out it to be a ploy to escape unnoticed.
- Karma Houdini: He and Shame escape justice for their crimes, with their 10,000 year-old plan failing and three of their cohorts dead as a consequences. The fact that they'll have to work alone for their new plans and hide from Kudor, who is chasing them, isn't a deterrent for them.
- Lack of Empathy: In contrast with the affable and kind person was to Abel and Mea, Jaime is actually devoid of emotions. When he appeared to assist Julem, he didn't show a reaction to seeing Abel again, and was dismissive of him.Abel (narrating): There was no expression on his face. It seems that he does not have any special feelings towards me.
- Mad Scientist: He distanced himself from his cohorts, working on a project called: “ Reincarnation Project”, a project aimed to create sorcerers similar to Abel! Intrigued by what Abel grew into after his Reincarnation, he gathered many people who were reincarnated as children, hoping to recreate the circumstances that made Abel so strong, and train them from birth for Silfheim's evil plans. Said project ended up a failure.
- "No More Holding Back" Speech: He tells Abel this, instead of Count Julem, as he and remaining of their group are about to attack Abel together:Jaime: “It’s not like we’re relying on Moebius that much either. Please be prepared for this, Abel. You’ve been too persistent against us individually. You’re no longer a convenient puppet, and you can no longer be considered a slightly obtrusive pebble rolling in front of Kudor. I’ll do everything in my power to eliminate you. It would be unfortunate for both of us, though.”
- No One Could Survive That!: Somehow survives Silfheim getting killed by the blast from Abel Cannon, separating from him in the last minute.. but not unscathed and has lost a lot of his strength, but not worse than...
- No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: His justification for the failure of “Reincarnation Project”. He managed to gather about two hundred people who were reincarnated into the new world, in a church of the Galshard Kingdom to train them... but all of them lack the knowledge or magic power to learn magic! Instead they are afraid of it and refuse to even touch it!! He even states that the fault isn't in them, but in Abel himself, calling him a “crazy reincarnator”!Jaime: “The way I see it, that thing won’t budge even if we do it for ten thousand years!”
- Power of the Void: He wields the dangerous magic element, Chaos! He can create an Unrealistic Black Hole and launch it, disintegrating ANYTHING in its path! The fact that he easily managed to destroy both the "Abel Ball" spell and Hydeem Magimetal made Abel realizes how dangerous he really is!
- Pragmatic Villainy: He stops Shame and Abel from fighting, despite the latter being weakened from fighting Silfheim, and instead takes Shame away so they could run away before Kudor returns, preferring to preserve their magic to escape and start their plans anew... in a time where Abel won't be around to stop them.
- Shrouded in Myth: His life as Gillemeim was described as this. Not a single portrait of him survived the times, leading people to think he was an organization of multiple people.
- Smart People Wear Glasses: He reveals himself to Abel on the ship, now wearing glasses, unlike when Abel first met him.
- The Spock: He takes the pragmatic way in all of his decisions, making him standsout from the rest of Julem's group. He saves Julem from Abel, but refuses to save Jem and leaves it to be destroyed by Abel, pulls a Deliberate Injury Gambit so he could escape from him, and calls for a mutual ceasefire with Abel, after the latter killed Silfheim, leaving him and Shame as Sole Survivors.Jaime: “It’s not very realistic to protect you repeatedly while fighting. Don’t get your hopes up.”
- They Called Me Mad!: It is said that he was beaten to death, in his lifetime as Gillemeim, for proposing the idea of the afterlife, even providing a mathematical proof of it. Said proof was considered too advanced for anyone to understand, and was taken as contempt for God. That didn't kill him at all.
- Two Aliases, One Character: He was Jaime, the peddler who took Mea and Abel on his wagon and left them in Lomarn city. Abel, for a while, thought he was Count Julem after hearing Dafne's story, and concluded that he was "dancing in the palm of his hand the entire time".
- Uncertain Doom: He and Shame survive the destruction of Silfheim by the Abel Cannon but were heavily injured, and escape to hide from Kudor before she breaks free from the Prison Dimension she was trapped in. He claims that their remaining strength will be enough to evade Kudor once she chases after them.
- We Will Meet Again: Inverted. He tells Abel that he and Shame will not bother him again, and instead they'll lay low and hide from Kudor, and will start their plans anew... in one to ten thousand years! By then, Abel will not be around to stop them. Abel isn't the least bothered by that.Jaime: “The last to laugh will be us, who have lived far longer than the humans, Abel-kun. Then …… we shall never meet again”.
Abel: “…… Well, I don’t care if it’s the grandchildren’s generation or not, I don’t care if it’s 10,000 years from now, just do your best in a time I don’t know.” - Wham Line: Jeem, after defeating Rimoud, talks to a man who's been watching him and calls him by his name. His reply:Gillemeim: “Please don’t use that name. In this day and age, I’m just a humble, traveling merchant.”
- Weak, but Skilled: Compared to Julem, Jaime is lower in magic than him, but he's far better than him at using it to simply destroy his target with Chaos magic. He just can't afford to use it willy-nilly.
- Wolf in Sheep's Clothing:
- He took Mea away from the Doom village and treated her kindly, unlike her mother and the villagers. But that was just him helping Sim in his ploy.
- He had Mea meet and befriend Abel, an extraordinary Marren sorcerer, and left her with him so that he'll protect her from danger until she's ready for her role.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Julem calls him to deal with Abel, as the one "who brought him in".
Spoiler Character (Unmarked Spoilers)
Below are unmarked spoilers for Chapter 397 and beyond. Advance at your own risk!
...Shame
- Shame: “I know you don’t believe in us, but I think you can still believe in reason, can’t you?”
- Apologetic Attacker: She whispers these words to herself as she takes Mea to safety as Abel is about to fight Melzef... before she kidnaps her.Shame: “…… Sorry, Abel-chan.”
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: The kind and friendly adventurer who helped Abel and Mea throughout their journey was just a front for cruel, sadistic, great spirit with a Lack of Empathy to boot.
- Condescending Compassion: Claims that she still likes Abel and Mea, and is willing to let Abel join her and her cohorts... in exchange of Abel turning his back on Kudor of course, with Mea's soul as a hostage.Shame: “I’d like to remind you that …… I’m doing this For Your Own Good, Abel-chan. It’s really hard to persuade Julem to do this, you know. I, too, am more worried about pulling Abel-chan in and taking the risk of him doing something unnecessary.”
Abel: “Are you saying that you’re giving this last chance out of pity?”
Shame: “…… That’s right.” - Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: She generally refrains from participating in combat, speculated by Abel to be not suited for that. This changes when she ambushes a tired and weary Abel after Silfheim's defeat! She almost drowns him in the sea before he breaks free from her grasp!
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Averted. She counts on Abel's feelings for Mea to get him to accept a deal with her, join Count Julem's side and aid them in battling against Kudor. But then it's Double Subverted, as Abel isn't dumb enough to take the word of liars like her and her cohorts seriously.
- Forced Sleep: Used magic to put the entire ship crew and Mea to sleep, before kidnapping the latter and delivering her to Count Julem.
- Get It Over With: A bizzare example. She tells Count Julem this.. as the latter is about to eat her and Sim, to begin their assimilation to form Silfheim:Shame: “Bye-bye, Abel-chan. And now, Julem, please do it quickly. I’m pretty scared too.”
- Go and Sin No More: Abel tries to invoke the trope on her, asking her to leave peacefully and hide from Kudor, out of gratitude of her and Jaime being the reason he and Mea met, even admitting that was selfish of him. She refuses.
- Hannibal Lecture: Gives one to Abel, after he was Blown Across the Room and gotten hurt again from fighting Moebius, trying to discourage him into accepting her offer. He replies with a Shut Up, Hannibal!:Shame: “…… Isn’t that enough, Abel-chan? This is not like you, Abel-chan. It’s not like you to keep fighting just to be tortured when you know there’s nothing you can do about it. I’ve already explained to you that obeying me is not the same as giving up on Mea-chan, right?”
- Karma Houdini: She and Jaime escape justice for their crimes, with their 10,000 year-old plan failing and three of their cohorts dead as a consequences. The fact that they'll have to work alone for their new plans and hide from Kudor, who is chasing them, isn't a deterrent for them.
- Kick the Dog: When Moebius awakened after possessing Mea's body, Shame does one cruel prank on Abel, before telling him the truth to mess with him. It works:Shame: “Mea’s soul has already been crushed by Moebius’ large soul!”
* Abel is shocked and slowly raise his wand*
Shame: “Mea-chan’s soul isn’t completely gone. It’s just that right now it’s being squeezed by Moebius’ soul and can’t come out.” - Lazy Backup: Abel tricks her into invoking the trope during his fight with Moebius. By appearing completely outmatched, getting juggled by Moebius' attack, and breaking many of his Ortems in the fight, Shame was lulled into a false sense of security, leaving Moebius to fall into Abel's trap and is defeated, before Shame could interfere and assist her.Abel: [Narrating] The whole thing was a ploy to keep Moebius and Shame on their toes and turn the board upside down in one move. The fact that I screamed in the middle of the game was also an indication that I was getting emotional.
- Manipulative Bitch: Abel figures that she and Sim were the ones providing clues for the Abel Search Party and the Doom tribe's search party to find Abel and Mea, to control their movements, have them corner and force Abel into clashing with each one of them so that she could kidnap Mea when Abel's back was turned.Abel (narrating): ..there is one person around me who has been giving me advice on what to do everywhere I go, just like Giselle’s travel guide was Sim. And now she’s accompanying Mea.
- The Mole: She met Abel and Mea in Asshim, fed them information about their pursuers and steered them to the Fage territory, and kept checking on them after each adventure, acting friendly and concerned about their safety. Abel foolishly told her about the Anti-Kudor weapons he built in the Fage territory, and Mea's guard Ortem, leading her to wait until the guard Ortem was destroyed so she could kidnap Mea, and informed Count Julem about the weapons, making him send Jeem and his men to attack the territory and secure the weapons in Abel's absence.
- No One Could Survive That!: Somehow survives Silfheim getting killed by the blast from Abel Cannon, separating from him in the last minute.. albeit heavily injured, lost a lot of her strength and she's melting!
- Post-Climax Confrontation: Tries to kill a weakened Abel while he's resting and recovering his magic, minutes after he defeated Silfheim. Setting up for one last battle... before Jaime break it off.Shame: “Abel Belek …… no, Abel-chan, let’s settle this prolonged ending!”
- Pragmatic Villainy: She tries to reason with Abel and pull him on her side using Mea's life as a bargaining chip, to avoid a confrontation with him. Her reason is that they need to preserve their strength to fight Kudor, and all of their fights with Abel ended with them depleting their magic (Sim, Gillemeim and Julem) or death (Jeem).Shame: “It was Julem’s plan to have the four of us attack to beat Abel, but even if we won that way, we would have lost the fight as soon as we were exhausted. That’s why I suggested that we give you a chance to negotiate before that. We now have a reason to concede to Abel-chan, even if we have to take a risk. Do you understand me?”
- Sadistic Choice: She tries pulling an extremely cruel one on Abel: Become her subordinate and turns his back on Kudor and she in return will let him researches a way to pull Mea's soul from Moebius' grasp, or let them be, and Kudor might kill Mea's body while Moebius gets off scot-free. Abel chooses to Take a Third Option.
- Seeing her reply to Moebius, it was obvious to Abel that neither she nor Count Julem are willing to keep a promise:
Moebius: “Mmm…? I don’t know how to put this, but …… Shame, are you going to cut me down for this man?”
Shame: “I don’t think so. I’m just trying to give the poor kid some hope. If he gets desperate and scrambles to destroy himself, that would be a disaster. Moebius knows better than anyone that there’s nothing you can do to rip him off, don’t you?” - Shipper with an Agenda: Helping Abel and Mea fending off their pursures, constantly checking on them, scolding Abel for putting Mea in danger and helping them when they decided to elope... was all so that Abel would bond with Mea and protect her from threats, so that she could betray them and kidnap Mea for Count Julem later.
- This Cannot Be!: After Abel defeats Moebius and rescues Mea.Shame: “N-No way …… This is not possible ……”
- And Then What?: Abel calls her out with this when she tries to kill him by drowning, now that Silfheim was destroyed, and that there aren't any more reasons for them to fight. Only for her to reveal that they have a backup plan against Kudor, and she needs to kill him so he can't warn her.Abel: “Stop it …… Even I can take you with me if I use “Gouma” with the last squeeze of my magical power. Moreover …… Your purpose has already been fulfilled. Even if you do something to me now, you’re just taking it out on me.”
- Treachery Is a Special Kind of Evil: Abel doesn't mince words when he calls her out for betraying his and Mea's trust in her:Abel: “…… How dare you betray me so cruelly and then show yourself so openly? It seems that we were the only ones who thought you were our best friend. For the record, I hate you the most out of all of Julem’s crew, Shame.”
- Undressing the Unconscious: She took off Mea's clothes after kidnapping her while she was under Forced Sleep, and placed her in a red and black robe for Moebius to wear.
- Villainous Breakdown: Her bravado collapse and she falls on her melting knees in the water, after hearing from Jaime that the “Reincarnation Project” has failed.
- We Will Meet Again: Inverted, thanks to Jaime.
- Uncertain Doom: She and Jaime survive the destruction of Silfheim by the Abel Cannon but were heavily injured, and escape to hide from Kudor before she breaks free from the Prison Dimension she was trapped in. Jaime claims that their remaining strength will be enough to evade Kudor once she chases after them.
- The Unfought: Zigzagged. She's the only member of Julem's group who didn't fight Abel, alone or in their group attack. But then she fights him as Silfheim indirectly. Then she attacks him and tries to kill him via drowning after Silfheim's death and he actually fights her... but then Jaime arrives to break it off!
Count Julem Ornolea
- Julem: “I can’t tell if you’re joking or serious, that’s what scares me about you.”
- 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 Antichrist: Created by the Sky God Silfheim by smelting humans and demons together, and became the proginator of his Henchmen Race, so that she could procreate with Norcs to build her own tribe, lead them to aid her creator in Taking Over The World and defeating Kudor.
- Ax-Crazy: She gets very excited for what she'll do to the world once she descends to do her master's bidding:Moebius: “Did you really think that you could get rid of me now? I’m sorry, but I’m not going to let go until I’ve had my first taste of …… violence and greed on earth in 500 years.”
- Calling Your Attacks: She likes to announce her attacks before doing them, like “Nightmare Claw” or “Wings of Destruction”. Given that difference of strength between her and Abel, she's confident that hearing them beforehand will eventually break his spirit.
- Charm Person: Stated to have the ability to enslave and bend her whole tribe to her will. Silfheim made it so that only a red stone Doom clansman can have that ability to control them, if they get out of line, and only Moebius knows how to.
- Demonic Possession: She possesses Mea's body, gaining the hidden dormant powers that the latter couldn't use, and becomes the toughest foe Abel has to fight.
- The Dragon: She was meant to be this for Silfheim, in order to lead his Henchmen Race, the Doom tribe, to do his bidding and fight his battles for him.
- Evil Costume Switch: Now wearing a Red and Black and Evil All Over robe, that Shame put Mea on before her possession.
- Evil Matriarch: She thinks of her distant grandchildren as nothing but pawns at her disposal for the Sky God, and rubs in Abel's face how little Mea matters to her:Moebius: “Hohoh~ …… it seems that Mea is very important to you. This girl is just like a doll that was born to be my body. You can love me because I have the same face, you know?”
- Familial Body Snatcher: She could only possesses the body of a member of the Doom tribe born with a red stone in the forehead, from the tribe that she herself founded and produced their first members.
- Fighting a Shadow: Simply exorcising her from Mea's body will not work, as she'll just possesses her again! Banishing Ritual will also not work, as she's a whole spirit and can't be dispersed with regular magic means. Killing Moebius' host body will only slow her down by less than 500 years, as she'll just leave the corpse and returns to the Moon Din to sleep until a new vessal is born. she could still be sealed though.
- Fighting Your Friend: She fights Abel, while possessing Mea's body. This gives her an unfair advantage, as Abel can't afford to harm her too much, while she is capable of dishing all the harm she can on him.
- Gemstone Assault: A lot of her attacks uses magic crystals that instantly sprouts and forms from Mea's body. Like her crystal gauntlets that doubles as sharp claws and her “Wings of Destruction” attack. They come in different colors based on the attack.
- Hero Killer: Her fight with Abel pulls absolutely no punches what-so-ever to establish how dangerous she is:
- Abel's usually sturdy Ortems get smashed, crushed and destroyed with little to no effort on her. The floor gets covered with the remains of over-a-hundred ortems.
- Abel'a Hydeem Magimetal easily cracks and shatters to her hits and “Wings of Destruction”.
- She manages to block Babylon 8000's arms with her hands, rip four of them after that. Later she overpowers and rips another arm, then destroys Babylon 8000 beyond repair with a torrent of “Darkness Ball” spells!
Moebius: “I’ve had enough of this ugly form of this Ortem.”- She is, by far, the only opponent that actually got to inflict wounds to Abel!!
- History Repeats: Her attack on the Dinrat Kingdom 500 years ago, was foiled and her host got killed by a Marren sorcerer, and she escaped. She gets defeated again, by a Marren sorcerer, who instead saves her host body, and denies her escape.
- Hope Spot: Abel pulls an incredible Xanatos Gambit to immobilize her and cast his modified Banishing Ritual spell on her, getting Mea back in control. It was Moebius pretending to be Mea, to get Abel to drop his guard to attack him!
- Immortality Immorality: As if hijacking her distant grandchildren's bodies wasn't enough, she casually talks about the incident 500 years ago, note , like it was a... test drive.
- It's Personal: She makes the fight a slow but painful torture for Abel, because of the fact that her previous host body was killed in battle.. by a Marren.
- Just Toying with Them: She could've easily killed Abel in one fell swoop and be done with it, the second she considers him an actual threat. Abel lampshades it:Abel: …… I’m being completely played. If I knew that she can’t attack me as much as I think she can, she should be able to choose to attack me more forcefully.
She could have sneaked through the Ortem, destroyed the shield of Hydeem Magimetal, and planned to attack me.
The reason why she didn’t do that was because Moebius didn’t see me as a danger at all. - Licking the Blade: She does this once.. with her magic crystal gauntlets.
- Monster Progenitor: The first of the Doom tribe. She interbreeded with many Norc men, creating the Doom tribe with her children. Said children are meant to aid her creator, the Sky God, in his world conquest.
- My Defense Need Not Protect Me Forever: Abel invokes this on her. He plays up to her sadistic nature by attacking her with Ortems for her to easily break them left and right, even letting her destroy his Babylon 8000, and appears desperate and keeps fighting. Moebius ends up exhausting both her stamina and magic in the fight, causing her to eventually slip and expose herself to a strong counter attack from Abel. When she gets back up and declares that she'll stop holding back and kill him, she was too late, as Abel has already finished setting up the means to her downfall, leading to her defeat:Moebius: “Gah! U-ugh …… I never thought I’d be caught unaware in a one-on-one battle with a human …… But there won’t be a next time ……! I admit, I’ve been too careless with you, it seems. From now on, I’m going to give it my all ……”
Abel: “You’re right, there won’t be a next time. I’m going to end this now.” - Person of Mass Destruction: All of her attacks packs quite the punch, and slowly threatens to cause the temple she's fighting Abel in to collapse. Her physical attacks are enough to destroys Abel's Deployable Cover, her “Wings of Destruction” shoots crystals to with a speed enough to pierce and penetrate armor, can control TWENTY magic circle in parallel to perform “Darkness Ball” spells and that is just her holding back on Abel to prolong his suffering!!
- Pint Sized Power House: Thanks to her 10,000 years of training, she can use, on a bigger scale, the powers of the Doom tribe and their unique biology to enhance her strength, gaining both Super-Strength and Super-Toughness in the process, in Mea's body. Both of Abel's Hydeem Magimetal and Ortems get effortlessly smashed by her.
- Powers via Possession: The magically inept, helpless girl that Mea was transformed after getting possessed into a Pint-Size Powerhouse, Kung-Fu Wizard with access to the darkness elemental magic, Ax-Crazy, Person of Mass Destruction capable of fighting off a god!!
- Sadist: She revels in the pain and suffering she inflicts on Abel, both physical and emotional, as she uses Mea's body to torture him, and tries to make it as slow and painful as possible to him, just to see him cracks and gives up.Moebius: “Oops …… Was it too much to ask to talk about this? Sorry, I’m a sadist. If you look at me like that, I can’t help but want to make fun of you even more.”
Abel: “Don’t talk to me in my Mea’s body, you scumbag.”
Moebius: “For someone who looks like he’s run out of ideas, you’re pretty tough. Good …… that cockiness, I’ll take my time to play with you and remove it.” - Sealed Evil in a Can: She spent 10,000 years in the Moon Din as a soul, training herself in the moon's dense magic field all that time. She once got out and possessed a red-stoned Doom tribesman 500 years ago, and left its corpse when it was killed to return to the moon.
- Finds herself in a different kind of one, as Abel seals her soul, after defeating her and exorcising her from Mea's body, inside an Ortem. Not only she cannot escape from it, but Abel also plans on finding a way to destroy her for good.
- Spam Attack: “Wings of Destruction”. She amasses black magic crystals around her body like a cocoon, that opens in the shape of two giant black wings releasing a shockwave shaking the area, then shatters and shoots the magic crystals in all directions!. Said crystals are both dense and durable, and are shot at such a speed that let them gouge, crack and pierce through almost everything in their path. A move that provides both absolute protection and a powerful ranged attack, that Moebius ends up using a lot on Abel.
- Tail Slap: “Tail of the magic dragon”, a 3-meter-long tail made from blue magic crystals, to help Moebius defend and attack quickly to cover her blindspots.
- Tempting Fate: She gloats to Abel, after blindsiding him with her Playing Possum act, that he'll need to put “a hundred times more magic power into” his Banishing Ritual spell to work on her. Abel cannot do that, since increasing the output might kill Mea in the process. Then it is Double Subverted, as he uses this to defeat her, by having the same spell shot at her, times hundred!!
- Transformation of the Possessed: Somehow, Mea's removed red magic crystal grew back following the possession. Abel also notices that her face is so different than Mea's.
- Umbrakinesis: Her spell, “Darkness Ball”, create spheres of black light, that violently explode upon contact.Moebius: “Come on, Darkness, devour everything!”
- Ultimate Life Form: Boasts this, as she outperforms Abel in deploying magic circles to attack with her "Darkness Ball" spells, claiming to have been created to be the "the pinnacle of humanity".
- Villain Forgot to Level Grind: Defied. She states it herself:Moebius: “Don’t you see yet that it is futile to try to break through me by force! I have not just been asleep for 10,000 years. I have been training my soul in the dense magic power of the Moon Din! There is no way that you, who have lived less than 20 years, can surpass me!”
- Villains Want Mercy: Once Abel finally gains the upper hand on Moebius and is about to banish her out of Mea's body, her bravado goes away as she pathetically begs for mercy, whining that she just got back after 10,000 years on the Moon Din, and tries to offer herself and her tribe for Abel to spare her. He doesn't buy it:Moebius: “St-Stop! Lower your wand! Lower it! I, I have finally come down to earth from the Moon Din! I’ve been here for 10,000 years, just like the rest of you long-winded fools! I am, I am just starting ……! All, all right! If you stop now, I’ll follow you! If you subdue me, you’ll have enslaved the entire Doom tribe! They have their uses. What do you say? Not a bad deal for you either ……”
Abel: “I don’t give a sh*t about you, you old hag! Taking over your granddaughter’s body and getting excited! Hurry and rest in peace already!” - Villainous Crush: Double Subverted. She comments on Abel being 'quite handsome' and tells him that she likes him... but then:Moebius: “I like you, too, though my spirit might be just being pulled by the original owner of this body. Why don’t I take good care of you as my servant? Hmm?”
- Voices Are Not Mental: She talks in Mea's voice, unnerving Abel. She even doesn't use honorifics, also like Mea with Abel.
- We Will Meet Again: After she gets exorcised out of Mea's body, her spirit gloats to Abel on how she'll return to the moon and one day take over Mea's body again, even taunting him that she can still get the next Red Stone in 500 years, where Abel won't be around to stop her. It gets then subverted as Abel set up a ward to trap Moebius in advance, and then seals her inside an Ortem, denying her of an escape.Moebius: “Even if you do take some sort of action against the little girl, in another 500 years …… when the red stone is born, I will be able to take her body. Then I can use my descendants as soldiers to lead the world to ruin. By that time, you will no longer be here. I will be the one who will have the last laugh …… There will be no peace in this world with that little girl’s family ……”
Abel: “Is this really the time to be complacent and being a Sore Loser?”