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Purchinov's Village
Alexander Purchinov
The President of Pursia, Alexander Purchinov enjoys nothing more than riding wild animals. He joins Saki's adventuring party after getting transported to the new world.
- Action Politician: Despite being the leader of two countries, Purchinov tends to resolve everything by himself, be it negotiations or combat.
- Bare-Fisted Monk: The only weapon Purchinov needs is his fist trained in martial arts.
- Calling Your Attacks: Many Purchinov's wrestling moves are accompanies with "Presidential Style", along other more general abilities.
- Character Catchphrase: Purchinov says "Ride-On" whenever he gets to mount something, which is often.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Purchinov has a weird obsession with riding animals. In Pursia he used a tiger as a personal car. Whenever he sees a new monster the main thing on his mind is how to climb it and not the dangers he's in.
- Comically Invincible Hero: Purchinov manages to quickly overcome bigger and bigger monsters with just his martial arts to the point where Saki and Bell stop being impressed.
- Everyone Has Standards: Though he'd like to mount beasts more than anything else, if the beast is sentient and has pride, Purchinov would decide to not do anything to them.
- Giant Hands of Doom: He learns how to turn Fighting Spirit into giant floating fists and coat them with magma.
- The Good King: As a nation's leader, Purchinov prioritizes healthcare and happiness of children above all else, and isn't afraid to tell that to other leaders. Whenever anyone asks to serve under him, he keep telling that he has no right to impose his will on others and everyone should govern themselves.
- Face of a Thug: Saki and many others remark that Purchinov is "evil-looking" and initially treat him as a slave trader or dark cultist despite his attitude being nothing of the sort.
- Kamehame Hadoken: Purchinov learns to concentrate mana in the palms and release it as fireballs of light.
- The Lost Lenore: Purchinov occasionally brings up his dead wife as an example of how foolish decisions can make you lose everything you care about.
- Manchild: Purchinov has been progressively less mature the more beasts he manages to be on top of and often completely disregards the situation he's in.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Alexander Purchinov is a muscular blond president of a Slavic country with short hair, black belt, and is a Walking Shirtless Scene, who is introduced in a pose resembling Vladimir Putin's famous photo of riding a bear. However due to
recent events, Purchinov had to undergo several design changes. Its non-Japanese audience also see some parallels with Dzhohar Dudaev. - Red Baron: Purchinov earns the title "Shining Wizard" after he overloads a magic-powered lamp and is mainly known by that name, though he gets many others. This is also a Shout-Out to the wrestling move.
- Reluctant Ruler: Despite pretty much singlehandedly uniting the Northern continent, Purchinov rejects positions of authority reasoning that it will lead to tyranny and wanting to continue adventuring. Everyone else addresses him as their master regardless.
- Skewed Priorities: While he does help whenever he can, every time there's a new problem he first thinks about all the exotic creatures he can ride once he solves it.
- Super-Strength: Even in the human world, Purchinov was strong enough to judo throw a terrorist truck, and shortly after arriving to the new world he throws a dragon. He can even turn snow into ice projectiles by squeezing it.
- Super-Toughness: His muscles are thick enough to withstand a bite from a giant wolf.
- The Social Expert: As a president, Purchinov has expertise in modern world diplomacy and uses it to convince fantasy world's residents to ally with him or at least give him information he needs.
- Technical Pacifist: Purchinov had enough of bloodshed in his world and decides to solve all of his problems from now on non-lethally, though he's not above turning monsters and enemies into paste if there's no better option. He'll also not interfere if anyone else in his party feels differently.
- Try to Fit That on a Business Card: Purchinov has received various titles, such as The Old Man, Shining Wizard, Beast King, Village Chief, Disciple of Mauna, Sea King, The Ogre Emperor, Pops, Sky King, King of the North.
- Supernatural Martial Arts: He eventually incorporates light and lightning magic to his martial arts.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: Shortly after he arrives in the new world, Purchinov has never been seen with a shirt on except when doing business.
- Wrestler of Beasts: Purchinov fights a lot of magical animals barehanded.
- "X" Marks the Hero: After being wounded by the royal corrupted flesh, he gains a permanent X scar on his face.
Saki Squider
Saki is a swordmaster adventurer who is looking for ways to get cash.
- Heroic Bastard: An illegitimate child of a noble family, and is definitely well-intentioned.
- I Just Want to Be Badass: Saki is shown to have a complex of lacking physical strength and relying too much on enchanted equipment.
- Magic Knight: Though primarily a swordswoman, she uses magic, particularly lightning spells.
- Noble Fugitive: Saki is an illegitimate daughter of the Squider family of nobles. Forced into a marriage with a "scumbug", she ran away from her family with Bell to become an adventurer.
- Shock and Awe: Saki's favored combat spell is a bolt of lightning to her enemies.
- Super-Speed: Later she learns to use her electric affinity as Battle Aura and move at lightning speed.
Belvedere "Bell" Delucia
Bell is the mage of Saki's adventuring party. Her family were advisors to Saki's family for generations.
- The Archmage: For a teen, her talent of developing new magic has got attention of The Tower, an already powerful organization of magicians, who want her skills for themselves.
- Cute Witch: Bell is an airheaded witch.
- Genius Ditz: Knows a lot of magic, but Saki has to help her with just about anything else.
- Must Have Caffeine: Is addicted to healing potions.
- Sizeshifter: Bell can change object's size and uses her hat as a Bag of Holding, turning it into an armory room where one could store a lot of siege weapons. The magic to cast it is sought after by numerous groups like the Tower, given how valuable it would be during warfare.
Kanya "Kanna" Canarien
A former sacrifice by an elvish village to the orcs, she follows Purchinov after he rescues her.
- Covert Pervert: Kanya ponders if centaurs collect milk from their females without thinking it came from the farm sheep.
- Deliberately Cute Child: When Purchinov saves her and mistakes her for a child, she acts silly and vulnerable so he'd escort her.
- The Power of Creation: Kanya can control moisture in the wood to turn it into a nicely decorated tableware and primitive weapons. By channeling Purchinov's memories she manages to make crossbows.
- Really Royalty Reveal: To her own surprise, she turns out to be the daughter of the queen of Holy Kingdom and also a High Elf, a pureblood descendant of the ones who've served the Ancients.
- Survivor Guilt: She has lived long enough to see several villages she's lived in destroyed, to the point of thinking she may be cursed.
- Vague Age: Kanya is given away as a Virgin Sacrifice child for orc's meal, but orcs can smell that she's effectively an old hag. Her official profile also leaves "???" as her age. She's at least younger than 500 according to her brother.
- Verbal Tic: Many of Kanya's sentences end with "-nyan". Bell notices she's only doing that out of habit when being dishonest.
Kingdom of Drought
Jilalie Gorde
The leader of Gorde's knights and also the daughter of the land's viscount, with ambitions to claim the Northern lands as her own.
- 24-Hour Armor: She's rumored to sleep in the magic-enchanted armor even if it reduces its quality over time. This is a hint that she's not exactly a human.
- Blood Knight: Despite being a noble, she has a face-wide smile when she gets to fight someone in person.
- Boomerang Bigot: Behind the heavy armor she turns out to be a satyr (a surgically-operated centaur) in disguise, ironically as she treats centaurs as natural slaves out of spite.
- The Chains of Commanding: Despite her many atrocities, she's still protective of Gorde's residents, and argues she wouldn't search for slaves if the capital hadn't requested them.
- Child by Rape: Viscount Gil Galad of Gorde had a habit of keeping non-humans as sex slaves, and Jilalie is the result of impregnating a centaur.
- Playing with Fire: Her signature weapon is a sword that creates flames in its direction. She gets known as the Evil Flame in the Holy Kingdom.
- Starter Villain: Shortly after arriving to the new world, Purchinov decides to perform Slave Liberation and gaining the wrath of the city's knights.
- Villainous Princess: She's a local princess who oversees the slavery of the centaurs and garms, and isn't above using own soldiers or captured children as bait.
The Tower
A guild of independent sorcerers who hold authority over magical institutions across the world. Aside from providing teachers to rich families, they also research and sell magical weapons. In general
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: They aren't above making their clients fight each other, as long as they profit from the situation. Then they get rid of whoever remains.
- Greater-Scope Villain:
- Seeking a more powerful power source, they are responsible for creating The Corruption, along with the rest of Purchinov's problems, and actively make the situation worse by trying to gather it.
- Their ultimate plan is to conquer the Dragon Vein and use the Ley Line to travel to other worlds, heavily implying Purchinov getting Trapped in Another World was their doing and they need his skills for this. Nell was originally from Earth and others are implied to be as well, but how they got here is unknown.
- Fantastic Caste System: Those who aren't born with sufficient magical aptitude aren't even considered human. Hans Lenting, who has researched the corrupted flesh for them, was "promoted" into first-class mage by having his relatives and himself become Human Sacrifice.
- For Science!: Since all of them are sociopaths, they don't understand normal human emotions, but they do understand The Power of Hate, so they've committed countless atrocities just to figure out what makes someone more hateful. Everyone on the entire continent will die due to an unforeseen side-effect? Just let it happen and document the results.
- Human Resources: They don't see a problem sacrificing hundreds of people to produce powerful artifacts.
- Nebulous Evil Organisation: The Tower, or the Black Tower specifically, has a controlling influence in many world's nations and is seeking for more.
- Powered by a Forsaken Child: They've figured they can harvest larger mana crystals if they force an evolution, and have conducted proper studies that humans killed with a grudge are the best base.
- Powers as Programs: Sorcerers can apparently "download" spells by mentally connecting the The Tower's Mana Road resource, if they're not afraid of the higher-ups becoming aware of their exact location.
- Private Military Contractors: They're not a part of any nation and provide weaponry to anyone who asks, and Purchinov compares them to international PMC units.
- The Starscream: The Tower was composed of thousands different factions, including White and at once point Purple Towers were dedicated to helping people, while the Black Tower was researching The Dark Arts. As White didn't feel like interfering, the Black Tower effectively took over the rest.
- Wizarding School: Many inspiring magicians study at the Tower various subjects only to drop out at some point due to high difficulty.
Bega
- Big Bad: As the master of the Black Tower, she's partially responsible for the current Crapsack World, and starts going after Purchinov specifically once he gets on her radar. She also casually mentions that she commited genocide against high elves.
- Black Eyes of Evil: Compared to other characters, she has distinct black pupilless eyes, implies to be due to use of Black Magic. A flashback shows it hasn't always been this way.
- Evil Matriarch: The Tower mages address her as their mother, though they are only alive to carry on her will. She also treats Bell like a daughter despite being a clone.
- Evil Twin: Bell is the rebellious clone of hers.
- Faux Affably Evil: She apologizes for wiping out memories of Nell's assistant for noticing a real smartphone in her possession, despite clearly being unapologetic. She also doesn't take the heroes seriously as at her level they are just curious kids.
- Grand Theft Me: Once she secures a connection, she can take over Bell's body any time she's weakened.
- Hammerspace: She has an entire pocket treasury worth of magic stones, the room size of which puts Bell's Fairy Bag to shame.
- He Who Fights Monsters: A memory shows that she and her classmate where ordinary Japanese schoolgirls Trapped in Another World after being summoned by High Elves, who've intended to use them as a mana supply, but soon after realizing her magic has a fighting chance, she got the idea of taking over this system herself.
- Infinite Supplies: Once she gets involved, she provides her subordinates a nearly endless supply of mana crystals, something Carvin nearly destroyed a continent for just to get some.
Carvin
The second seat of the Black Tower.
- Actually a Doombot: Carvin survives having a hole in his head by sending a homunculus copy of himself instead, which he has many. The real Carvin looks much older.
- Eviler than Thou: Rina, who disposed of Jilalie with ease and is considered overpowered even by the demonic standards, falls helpless against Carvin's flute.
- Expendable Clone: He operates by using his homunculus as proxies, but without giving them his power or intelligence so they wouldn't rebel.
- For Science!: He picks up Dia's experiment on a dragonified griffon and infuses it with corrupt flesh, expecting the entire Northern lands to become uninhabitable from The Plague. Just to see how it works.
- Karmic Death: By reversing the Dragon Vein flow, Purchinov redirects the souls inside the corrupted flesh back to it source, damning Carvin's spirit for eternity and blowing up his research facility along with him.
- Mysterious Backer: Carvin has sponsored both Gorde's slavery of the centaurs and Holy Kingdoms invasion of Gorde at the same time for reasons kept unknown for a long while.
The Holy Kingdom
"Silver Flash Blizzard" Rina
- Big Sister Instinct: The moment she hears Joshua didn't make to his destination, she cancels the entire invasion and goes searching for his whereabouts, regretting letting him a moment of glory.
- Book Dumb: Despite being one of the top people in her nation, her poor upbrining means she doesn't know much else than "protect Josh" and "beat up enemies", and Dia has to interpret what a "peace treaty" is for her.
- Child Prodigy: When she was young, a drunk customer decided to regularly pick swordfights with her. She quickly understood that he's going easy on her to humiliate her later and secretly developed sword and wind mastery on her own.
- Modest Royalty: As a former prostitute, she made the brothel she used to live in as her permanent residence despite being the lord, and other than the armor wears a simple shirt.
- Noble Demon: While Rina shows no remorse to the enemies, she asks to not use necromancy on Jilalie, as it would dishonor the duel.
- Unusual Ears: She has four fur ears.
Edu "of the Death Valley"
- Action Girl: She's a massive muscular ogre in a bikini and fights on the frontlines.
- Blood Knight: The main language Edu understands is a good fight. Despite coming to rescue Joshua, she threatens to kill him if he interrupts her fights.
- A Father to His Men: Despite their generally low intellect and tendency to hurt each other during training, Edu cares about other King Ogres a lot and absorbs the corruption when it starts spreading near them.
- Stay in the Kitchen: When she was younger, other ogres have dismissed her on every step just because she's a girl and should be cleaning and cooking. Eventually she got to be one of the world's strongest queens.
Mina "the Witch of Purgatory"
- Necromancer: Her ability turns victims into zombies, with intelligence depending on the quality of their soul.
- Magitek: The crystal she uses to talk to her sisters is interestingly called a smartphone.
- Mind Hive: Mina has been absorbing her relatives to be strong enough against The Corruption. There are 5 siblings inside of her who have joined willingly and Kanya is the first one to resist.
"Headhunter" Joshua
- Bad Liar: Whenever asked something, he first feels the need to correct the information before realizing he's talking to an enemy.
- Big Sister Worship: He's weak and cowardly for a demon, but tries to be as intimidating as his sister.
- Blow You Away: He specializes in wind magic, something he's proud about despite not being very powerful for combat.
- Makeup Is Evil: While intimidating initially, he stops being treated as a threat after his Facial Markings wear off, and he soon sides with Purchinov.
- Mind over Matter: Joshua uses telekinesis to steal Purchinov's dagger. Who doesn't care as he wanted to give it to him for self-defence anyway.
- Minion with an F in Evil: Joshua gets defeated by Purchinov without him even trying, reveals that he uses a lot of make-up to hide him looking like a racoon, forced by the heroes to be their sidekick and is mocked by everyone.
