Character sheet for The Rise of the Unemployed Wise Man. Currently up to date with the translated manga.

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Karna

Okay, guys, lets go be "enemies of mankind!"

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The Protagonist of the story. Karna is a 13-year-old boy who receives the Wise Man title at his coming-of-age Revelation ceremony. Gifted with boundless magical power, he's first scouted by the Hero party to defeat the Demon Lords in exchange for a stable income. But he soon finds himself unemployed after the Hero's party ditches him because of his gross, yet powerful abilities. Disheartened, Karna stumbles upon the lair of the Demon Lord of Lust, Cecilia, who offers him a job with an incredible salary that he takes on the spot.

Above the Influence: Though he is a healthy, heterosexual teen, he's got so much self-control, he can hang out with the queen of the succubi without any issue, and while he greatly appreciates Cecilia's body, he's not planning on doing anything "naughty" with her until he's officially married and feels good and ready for the responsibility of raising kids of his own.
Accidental Discovery: He discovers the tomb sealing Noldens and Vorvados, which was deliberately hidden from all records by sheer accident as he's trying to make the land of his grandparents' farm arable, and he stumbles upon Demon Lord Cecilia's lair completely by chance while using his ghost minions to thoroughly explore a beginner level dungeon.
Adorably Precocious Child: Karna is sweet and caring to his friends and family and does his best to support them financially despite his young age. He's astonishingly meticulous and hardworking, and even his own grandparents are surprised by how money-minded he is. Karna is also a nigh-unstoppable magical juggernaut whose powers rival or even surpass the gods of old.
All-Encompassing Mantle: Cecilia gives Karna a billowing cloak that, together with his Cool Helmet, hide his form as part of his demonic guise as "Sabbath". Combined with his ability to fly by standing on flaming skulls under his control along with his demonic helmet, and he strikes terror into any human he runs into.
All-Loving Hero: Downplayed. Yes, he does bear grudges but rarely acts on them. He puts fulfilling his duties as Cecilia's servant first. But he possesses no particular prejudices against humans or demons and seeing demon society first hand is enough to convince him that neither race is inherently evil. To this end, fighting and robbing humans is Nothing Personal to him, as he's Only in It for the Money.
Animal Eye Spy: When he concentrates, he can see everything his "ghost" familiars see. He can even use this ability to read multiple books simultaneously.
The Archmage: Karna's Necromancy also gifted him with control of all of the Required Secondary Powers involved in the craft. This means that Karna is both a Space Master and a Time Master, can make contracts with incredibly powerful magical beings like Outer Gods and dragons, and can terraform the land with ease. This is on top of having as much magical power as a Physical God.
Back from the Dead: Karna possesses the Resurrection spell, which allows him to bring things back from the dead. The Hero also learns to cast this spell, which is why he thinks nothing of Friendly Fire when fighting Karna.
Bad Powers, Good People: He's a necromancer able to bind the spirits of the most powerful entities ever to walk the land to his will and decay anything with a wave of his hand. But he's also a sweet boy who just wants to earn a living for his family, even if it means working for a Demon Lord to get it.
Benevolent Boss: His underlings have nothing to fear from him unless they betray him first.
Beware the Nice Ones: Karna is a genuinely nice kid who just wants to let his grandparents live a life of luxury. But his plans for his dungeon are downright nasty. Between placing a super strong boss-level monster like a zombie dragon king at the entrance to his dungeon, turning a hallway into an Unnaturally Looping Location where the only escape is to possess long-forgotten dimensional transfer magic, or turning a "safe area" into a place where adventurers are charmed and stripped of their magical energy and belongings, even Cecilia's own commanders are horrified by his brutal and ingenious traps.
Blue Is Heroic: His attire is mostly blue, he has a blue Magic Staff, and he has bright Innocent Blue Eyes on top of being one of the nicest characters in the story. Even while acting as a Card-Carrying Villain, he says he comes with good will.
Born in the Wrong Century: Karna's powers would be right at home in ages past, when the heroes duked it out with the Outer Gods. In the present, he's outrageously more powerful than anyone else alive.
Card-Carrying Villain: Parodied. After becoming Cecilia's subordinate, he goes around wearing a mask and shouts "I am an enemy of humanity" as he's actively rescuing humans!
Charm Person: Karna borrowed the lewd spirits of prostitutes and dancers subservient to the Dark Mother Istasha, the progenitor of all succubi, who possess an even more powerful version of the Succubus Matriarch's Charm magic that is guaranteed to work on even the Demon Lord's top brass should they not have knowledge of it in advance.
Cheerful Child: Karna is filled with cheer and optimism owing to his youth, throwing his all into everything he does. The only time he's truly annoyed is when he realizes that he got dumped from the Hero's party for frivolous reasons, giving him a grudge against them for denying him payment for his services. However, he soon cheers himself up when he recognizes that being exiled from one's party is a common development at the start of stories that often leads to good fortune for the protagonist.
Child Mage: Karna is a small, baby-faced 13-year-old who is given the title of "Wise Man", granting him unfathomable magical power.
Comically Invincible Hero: He is incredibly overpowered, and doesn't know it, that it's hilarious when someone comes along and antagonizes him, only to be blasted into nothing and Karna going "huh? How'd that happen?"
Cool Helmet: To both compliment his immense power and hide his status as a human, Cecilia gives Karna an intricately designed and utterly badass dragon-styled helmet. It's so impressive and intimidating that, even with his short stature as a child, he's still capable of striking fear into whoever might oppose him.
Creepy Good: He's a total sweetheart, but his sense of aesthetics is bizarre, to say the least.
Does Not Know His Own Strength: Karna really doesn't know just how overpowered he is. He gauges his power level against legendary heroes of old who used to beat up on gods as a workout. He is completely unaware that both the demon and human sides have greatly atrophied since then.
Dude, Where's My Reward?: Which he even lampshades. After helping the Hero party complete several heroic feats, he asks for his share of the rewards before being kicked out. The Hero gives him a pittance, a bag with only 500 coins.
Even the Guys Want Him: Because of the effect of the lewd spirits' Charm spell, everyone except for Aisha and Cecilia is instantly given a Raging Stiffie for Karna, which Belphegor and Mammon desperately try to hide.
Everybody Has Standards: While he's loathe to judge others, people who abandon, abuse, or attack their team-mates really piss him off, and he will attack them, even if the person being abused or abandoned is someone he has a grudge against.
Famed In-Story: Due to his Necromancy skill, Karna becomes known as "Karna the Necromancer" for his abilities, though he ends up getting a bad rep after the heroes dump him before he could earn his salary from the kingdom. He later becomes known and feared as "Sabbath", Cecilia's mysterious new demon general who boasts obscene power and easily defeats the Hero's party.
Good Is Not Soft: When he's got Dargaz beaten and the Demon Lord of Greed realizes he's picked a fight with someone way stronger than a Demon Lord, and he's pissed for all the threats against Cecilia, Dargaz asks "are you going to kill me?" Karna's answer is "Yes."
Heroic Self-Deprecation: Karna's charming Farm Boy naivete means that he's constantly underestimating himself and his own feats. He considers a time reversal spell that turns rotting scraps into scrumptious food to be but a "basic" component of necromancy when Cecilia notes that mages would be lining up to beg him for his tutelage on how to use that one spell. Most of the humor in the story is built on Karna's assumption that there are bigger fish than him in the other heroes even though that's blatantly not true.
Instant Expert: Using his necromantic powers, he can peek into and copy the experiences of people he interacts with. As such, in just one sparring match with a party of friendly adventurers, he mastered sword-play despite never having held a sword before.
Interspecies Romance: His main squeeze is Cecilia, a demon lord.
In Touch with His Feminine Side: Karna is aware of the opposite sex enough to take special care to modify Cecilia's room to her tastes. He also happens to brew an excellent pot of tea, which he attributes to his grandma's love and attention.
Invincible Hero: Karna is nigh-unstoppable due to his bottomless well of magical power and his contracts with numerous Outer Gods as well as the father of all dragons. To put this in perspective, Belphegor, one of Cecilia's strongest generals, has a Power Level of about 1,000. Nodence and Vol possess are at 550 million and 500 million respectively as the ghosts of Outer Gods. The fact that they need to borrow power from Karna to use their former strength implies that Karna is even more powerful than them.
Ironic Name: A sabbath is a day of religious observance, which makes it an ironic name for Karna to take on while acting as Cecilia's mysterious demon general.
Kid Hero: Although the age of majority in the story's world is 13, Karna is clearly physically and mentally a child, showing apprehension at things like entering a relationship and not truly comprehending the extent of his own power.
Make Them Rot: Karna's "Wind of Decay" spell quickly decays anything it comes into contact with. Even enemies as powerful as a dragon king will quickly have their bodies reduced to ash in the face of this spell, though Karna laments that this makes drop items impossible to retrieve as they're decayed too. It also works on equipment, quickly destroying the Holy Knight's armor and weapon.
Magic Staff: He carries one around for both casting and whacking things, though he doesn't actually need it for the former given his power.
Meaningful Name: Karna shares his name with the character from The Mahabharata. Much like Karna the Necromancer, the Karna in the Mahabharata is an extraordinary warrior and a loyal friend to a great king. They both have all the qualities of a great hero: kindness, generosity, and incredible strength, but end up warring against the "good" side in response to slights, with the Mahabharata's Karna joining Duryodhana after the latter was slighted by the Pandavas (albeit, not before he cheated them first) and Karna the Necromancer coming under Cecilia's employ after being kicked out of the Hero's party for petty reasons.
Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Because the Hero party kicked him out for petty reasons and left him with no prospects for employment, he signed on with the Demon lord of Lust, Cecilia, who offers him an incredibly generous salary and keeps all of her promises to him.
Mundane Utility: In addition to all the combat potential, Karna frequently uses his necromantic powers in numerous non-combat ways, which go from incredibly mundane yet handy to society-changing. For the mundane, he uses his army of ghosts to read every book in a library before cleaning up and rearranging Cecilia's room in a way that best appeals to her. For the society-changing, he uses the power of atrophy in reverse to turn rotten food into a succulent and mana-rich feast, which he follows by utilizing the dragon-slaying ancient magic of Nodence and Volvados to turn a toxic swamp into lush and fertile farmland full of ripe produce
Only in It for the Money: Karna doesn't bear a particular grudge against demons or humans, only fighting because it's a source of stable income for his family. He's more than happy to fight the Demon Lords if he gets a fat salary out of it for his grandparents to live off of, but once the Hero's party dumps him and denies him that salary, he's quickly recruited by Cecilia when she offers him an enormous 2 million gold coin down payment along with a 20 million gold coin yearly salary.
Paper-Thin Disguise: Zigzagged. The only thing disguising Karna's identity as a human from the rest of Cecilia's court is a demonic helmet that covers most of his head along with an All-Encompassing Mantle to conceal his form. While this would be fairly effective normally, all demons possess a strong sense of smell and can easily detect his human scent. But the sheer audacity of a Demon Lord bringing a human into her inner circle is enough for Cecilia's generals to brush off that possibility. It works perfectly well when dealing with humans though, as the mere sight of him in action gets a female knight to flee in terror and spread word of the terrifying demon who easily killed an Ogre Lord as powerful as the Hero.
Person of Mass Destruction: Even while actively holding back to better control his abilities, Karna easily kills a powerful dragon king by rotting away the dragon's body with a single spell. Given his unfathomable magical power surpassing even the Demon Lords, Aisha speculates that he could easily demolish the entire kingdom with a Fantastic Nuke of raw magical power.
Photographic Memory: Karna is able to see anything the ghosts he's contracted to can. Nodence notes that this ability would be useless unless he can process all that information, but he's able to memorize the entire contents of six books at once with ease. As a result, he and the ghosts are able to read through Cecilia's entire library in a matter of hours.
Physical God: Karna possesses obscene magical power rivalling or even surpassing the Demon Lords. This, combined with flexible and potent necromancy skill, make him more than a match for even the heroes who are supposed to kill the Demon Lords. Then there's taking into account his contracts with the ghosts of Nodence and Volvados as well as the progenitor of all dragons, which shoot him into the stratosphere. Cecilia and Aisha say that it'd be more accurate to call him a "Demon God" rather than someone on the level of a Demon Lord.
Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Karna is a shrimpy 13-year-old who barely reaches his employer's chest. But he possesses incredible magical power and the ability to use it, making himself a physical powerhouse too, on top of having Physical Gods as pets and helpers.
Power Incontinence: He's strong and skilled but has problems with fine control. His first on-screen battle (via In Medias Res) involved taking down a dragon to collect its eyes, but botched getting the quest materials because he reduced the entire dragon to dust with a single blow, including said eyes.
Pragmatic Villainy: When Karna builds his own dungeon, he institutes a strict no-kill policy to the bewilderment of the demons. Not because of any kind of mercy or kindness, but because it's simply more profitable to capture adventurers, drain their magical energy for his own use, steal their loot and equipment, wipe their memories of the incident, and then send them back so they can invade his dungeon and fall victim to it over and over again. Also, knowing that there's a good chance of surviving the dungeon even if you're defeated means it's easier to attract first-timers.
Raised by Grandparents: His grandparents raised him after his parents' deaths, and heavy love and support is what spurred his efforts to become an adventurer in order to become rich enough to support them for their remaining lives, and is why he's willing to be the servant of a demon facing against other humans and demons.
Secret Identity: Because of the uproar that news of a human in a Demon Lord's court would cause in demon society, Cecilia gives Karna the identity of "Sabbath", a powerful demon general who answers to her and her alone. She also gives him a demonic-looking helmet and a billowing cloak to further conceal his identity, though he does nothing to conceal his voice or his scent, which gets Mammon on his trail almost immediately.
Scary Impractical Armor: As part of his official debut as "Sabbath", Cecilia outfits him in a set of bulky and frightening armor, but he complains that it's too heavy for him to move properly in. So Cecilia lets him simply don his ceremonial wear and a Badass Cape to his swearing in.
Skilled, but Naive: He's one of the strongest beings in the world, with only genuine gods having any hope of matching him in sheer power, and he's skilled enough to use all that power in ways nobody else could even dream of contemplating, with even demons getting terrified by his ideas for dungeon-structure and combat. However, despite all that, he's still only recently qualified as an adult at 13, and has lived most of his life on a farm, so despite having an impressive intellect he's quite clueless about the world at large and his general knowledge and vocabulary is heavily limited. All that combined with his Heroic Self-Deprecation and obliviousness to how overpowered he is means that he goes about thinking he's little more than a nobody who's barely of any true use to his master Cecilia, and constantly goes overboard because he genuinely doesn't know any better.
Slavery Is a Special Kind of Evil: In chapter 56, he hears how someone with the [Slave Master] mark is abusing his profession by using slaves as meat-shields to plunder the dungeon [Infinite Coffin], and brutalize Aisha's cat-demons. Karna is furious and uses his necromantic powers to craft a [Law] where the souls of the dead have the right to revenge and become invincible undead to go after the target of their grudge, sparing the innocent in their path. He then creates a dungeon safe-zone where the living refugees of this treatment can live in peace.
Super-Intelligence: His first day on the job under Cecilia, rather than start cleaning up right away, going by human standards, he goes above and beyond by perusing Cecilia's massive library, having his dozens of ghosts read every single book so he has a firm foundation of demon culture and fits her standards. Nodence points out that for a normal human, input from dozens of ghosts at once would quickly overwhelm a normal human mind. Karna not only takes it all in stride, but completely assimilates the knowledge from Cecilia's library in a measly two hours.
Terrifying Rescuer: When he rescues a female adventurer about to be Eaten Alive by ogres, he looks like this.◊ Quite understandable why she ran off screaming in terror about a "black demon".
Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: His main squeeze Cecilia is twice as tall as he is.
Villain Protagonist: As early as the second chapter, Karna is working to help the demons win the war against humanity for the sake of his employer, the Demon Lord of Lust Cecilia. It's Nothing Personal for Karna though, as Cecilia is simply the one who offered him the biggest paycheck for him to send to his grandparents. Though it's downplayed in that Humans Are Bastards and while demons are all believers in Asskicking Leads to Leadership, they ultimately just want to live as much as any other living being.
Wingding Eyes: He's initially unsure if he'll be any use to the Hero's party, but as soon as the salary is mentioned his eyes turn into gold coins and he immediately signs on.

Cecilia Israfilia

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Wise Man Necromancer Karna, how about working for me? I'll pay you well.

The Demon Lord of Lust, Cecilia approaches and recruits Karna after he found her lair. Although initially very hesitant to betray humanity, even after the crap he was put through, he turns around and signs on in a hurry when she provides a lucrative contract and actually pays him.

Benevolent Boss: Cecilia is an incredibly caring and supportive leader to her subordinates, and is quite open to accepting suggestions and complaints for how to improve upon her ruling methods. Such as gladly allowing Karna to use magic in order to revitalize toxic swamps into fertile lands that provides high-quality food, or taking Karna's method of using the lowest-ranked demon cats in traps for humans as a sign to try abolishing power-discrimination against weaker demons, even if mainly on the premise that even the weakest demons could have their uses beyond target practice and a food supply.
Berserk Button: She doesn't mind if Karna sees her naked. In fact, she's on-screen having him stand watch while she bathes in a shower and holding her towel and bath-robe, but reading her romance novels without her permission will make her angry.
Beware the Nice Ones: She's a premiere example of a Noble Demon and Benevolent Boss, doing everything she can to provide for the livelihood and happiness of her subordinates, and readily accepting Karna into her service despite him being a human. This kind and caring personality does nothing to lessen the fact she is an incredibly powerful demon lord who is fully willing to utterly crush her enemies, especially when they do anything that genuinely angers her.
Blessed with Suck: As the oldest living fragment of Bastet, one who has yet to reincarnate, she's got phenomenal power, able to completely overwhelm all the other demon lords, even Dargaz, but she can't use it. Her body can't handle the strain of her attack magic and the tiniest miscalculation will cause her to harm her allies via collateral damage, which her [Karma] specifically forbids her from doing, even by accident.
Cat Girl: She has cat ears on her head and a cat-tail on her back.
Clingy Jealous Girl: Downplayed. She gets pouty when she sees Karna react to another woman being sexually suggestive.
Creepy Good: She's a benevolent lord, and her sense of aesthetics is as bizarre as Karna's.
Enlightened Self-Interest: Which she lampshades. She's good to her subordinates, especially the impoverished orcs, because it's in her short and long term best interests.
Everybody Has Standards: She may be desperate for followers, but even she, a demon lord, was utterly sickened by the Hero being willing to abandon and cut through his team-mates and literally stomped on him like a bug, glaring at him with disgust and contempt.
Foreign Queasine: She can cook both human and demon foods, and while the demon meals look like something out of stereotypical Lethal Chef scenes, Karna actually tried some and found it delicious.
I Control My Minions Through...: Power, Love, and Material Benefits. As a Demon Lord, Cecilia possesses magical power rivaling an Outer God like Nodence, which puts her at the top of a society where Asskicking Leads to Leadership. But she's also a Benevolent Boss beloved by her subordinates, resulting in their complete fealty to her with the exception of Mammon, who defects to the side of the Demon Lord of Greed after learning that "Sabbath" is in fact Karna the Necromancer. Cecilia also manages to bring Karna over to her side with the generous salary he'd been looking for and keeps all of her promises to him, including doubling or tripling his salary, to further earn his loyalty.
Interspecies Romance: She's a demon lord and is smitten with Karna, a human.
Intrigued by Humanity: She finds humans fascinating, has a large collection of human written romance novels, and is deeply smitten with Karna whom she finds as cute as a button.
Made of Good: Her [Karma] is the embodiment of Bastet's love, so she can't help but come to the aid of her subordinates, loyal or otherwise, even if she knows it's abjectly suicidal, or worse, can't risk harming them with collateral damage even if they're rotten, traitorous bastards beyond redemption.
Mate or Die: Her days are numbered and she knows it. Her only hope of continued existence is to reincarnate in her own child, and she wants Karna to be her baby daddy.
Noble Demon: She may be a demon lord, but even by human standards, she's very morally upright.
Non-Indicative Name: Although Cecilia is the Demon Lord of Lust, she's never actually had sex with anyone, as the concept of romantic love is alien to a transcendent being like a Demon Lord. However, she possesses a deep interest in learning about human concepts like romance and marriage, having her minions smuggle romance novels out of the human world for her personal reading.
Paper-Thin Disguise: After absorbing the purified Mark of Greed, she uses it to forge a fake blessing mark to work with Karna as an adventurer with the only change to her appearance being disguising her cat ears as similarly shaped tufts of hair. The only reason this works is because no human knows what she looks like.
Pieces of God: Chapter 33 reveals she's one of seven fragments of the outer god Bastet, who split herself into seven pieces to escape and later retaliate against the human uprising. These seven "children" have been trying to consume each other and reintegrate back into her ever since.
Shameless Fanservice Girl: She knows how Karna admires her body and has no problem giving him an eyeful.
Shower Scene: One of her first on-screen fanservice moments is having Karna watch her shower. Being a gentleman, Karna turns around blushing...
Sickening Sweethearts: Every time she flirts with Karna is unbelievably adorable, with other characters even getting uncomfortable and telling them to Get a Room!
Subordinate Excuse: Inverted. She uses the fact that Karna is her subordinate as an excuse to show up and snuggle up to him every chance she gets.
Superpower Meltdown: Cecilia reveals to Karna that a Demon Lord's power is constantly growing over time, and eventually it will be too much for their current vessel to take. Because of this, Cecilia hopes to create a Superior Successor through natural conception to stabilize her powers and pass them on to the next Demon Lord, asking Karna to help her do it.
Take Over the World: "Don't wanna."
Trash of the Titans: When Karna first arrives in her mansion, her living space was an unmitigated disaster, and it isn't a lack of trying that's responsible. Cecilia did try to clean up after herself, but all her efforts only served to make it worse. She's ecstatic when Karna spends the entire afternoon cleaning and made the area spotless without complaint.
What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: According to her, demons have no concept of "love" or "marriage" so one of the reasons she recruits Karna is so he can teach her. The results are truly heartwarming.

Aisha Alistar

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That stupid HERO! If the country hadn't already executed him, I'd kill him myself!

An adventurer with the [Assassin] Power Tattoo. She's the one responsible for Karna being scouted by the Hero party in the first place. She is not pleased when she hears said Hero threw him out before she had a chance to examine him, and is pissed off beyond measure when she realizes the Hero's foolish actions are responsible for turning Karna towards the side of the demons.

Byronic Hero: She's moody and borderline misanthropic, but she does have a good and noble core to her character, wishing to protect the poor, downtrodden, and innocent.
Came Back Strong: When Karna makes a [contract] with her disembodied soul, she manifests as a powerful banshee!
Cool Big Sis: Basically how the relationship between her and Karna pans out. He looks up to her as the older sister he always wanted, but never had. In return, she's the only one who dares to yell at him despite knowing what an absolute powerhouse he is. He even asks her for advice whenever Cecila wants to go out on a date!
Cool Mask: Similarly to Karna, in order to hide her human identity among other demons she wears an intricately designed mask, one which gives her a fiercely demonic-looking face and a single offset horn.
Crazy-Prepared: Due to how her [Assassin] mark is primarily about giving her stealth-related skills with very limited direct combat capability, and she's otherwise a regular human, she constantly carries around a variety of tools and one-use weapons to be prepared for the possibility of her getting into a direct fight, especially one she has no hope of winning. One such example is a "ghost ring" that allows her to become a ghost when she's on the brink of death so that she can seek out somebody to both stop her killer and properly revive her.
Cuteness Proximity: Her Fatal Flaw. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't resist cats that do their damnedest to be cute around her. Karna exploits this to get information and servitude out of her far, far more effectively than any kind of rational appeal or torture.
Dress Hits Floor: As Karna is about to face of with Darghaz, she prepares to temporarily possess him so he gains the powers of her [assassin] class. In the process her banshee outfit falls right off and her spirit becomes Karna's Ninja-themed armor.
Enlightened Self-Interest: She helps Karna faithfully so he doesn't realize just how overpowered he is, and to keep the damage to the human side to a minimum.
Everybody Has Standards: Though she doesn't care about the well-being of the royalty, the wealthy, and the aristocrats, as she's seen how selfish and two-faced they are, she cares deeply about the fate of the poor and the oppressed and doesn't want a rampaging Karna or his demon lord boss to harm them.
Famed In-Story: Thanks to her role in the war with [Greed] and her existing role as Karna's advisor, everyone now considers her to be on par with the Old Gods that follow Karna around. She's very embarrassed by this but doesn't bother to correct it
Hazy-Feel Turn: Since neither the humans nor the demons are the epitome of righteousness, the fact that she signed on under Karna on behalf of the demons isn't really a moral issue.
Hitman with a Heart: She's an assassin by trade, but she's a good, kind woman when she's not on the job.
Ignored Expert: Aside from recruiting Karna, all her suggestions to the Hero party are summarily ignored, leading to their ultimate end.
Imagine Spot: She is shown on screen imagining the idea of Karna and Cecilia realizing how weak humans are, pictured as Karna happily nuking them to kingdom come on his lady's orders.
Irony: Which gets a lampshade from Cecilia. The jaded and money-driven human is loyal beyond death while Cecilia's demon subordinate, which should have loyalty carved into his very being betrays her.
Kind Hearted Cat Lover: Exploited. Karna scans her soul while she's unconscious so fills her cell with cat-demons to convince her to divulge information, and puts forward the plight of said cats as an excuse to win her over as an advisor.
Left for Dead: Justified. Since she was last seen in a dungeon so overwhelming, the Hero known as "humanity's trump card" was one-sidedly repulsed, the adventurer's guild writes her off as dead and gone, unable to be rescued.
Make Me Wanna Shout: In chapter 37, she shouts a challenge at Mammon and Dargaz to find herself accidentally activating her new [Banshee Wail] ability, temporarily nailing the Demon Lord of Greed to the ground.
Morality Chain: Amazingly enough, she has managed to keep Karna on the 'straight and narrow'. During an adventurer quest dealing with the remnants of the army belonging to the Demon King of Greed, Karna and Nodence see orcs and goblins stripping women down to rape and then eat them. Nodence tells Karna to kill everyone there and then use Resurrection to bring the victims back. Karna was about to do it until Aisha tells him he'd become the next Norris with that mindset. Karna relents and learns that there are better ways to solve problems than simply brute-forcing everything.
Ninja: Her stealthy abilities, throwing knives as a weapon, and general possession of the (Assassin) Power Tattoo makes her one in almost every way but name.
The Not-Love Interest: She's second only to Cecilia in terms of how close she is to Karna, even if mainly to prevent him from realizing his destructive potential. She does her best to keep her interactions with the boy as professional as possible since she considers him to be still 'just a kid', but due to her own lack of a love life, and Karna's considerable but innocent affection for her, she does get flustered from time to time.
Not So Above It All: When she's briefing Cecilia and Karna about the now lawless territory of the deceased Demon Lord of greed, her eyes also shine with gold-coins in them as she relishes the prospect of getting at a large mountain of gold the demon lord left behind.
Oh, Crap!:
- This is Aisha's reaction when Karna gives her a tour of his dungeon, as every single room is an incredibly lethal death trap that no adventurer today would be able to defeat. Karna takes this reaction and misinterprets how she considers the difficulty level "half-baked" and resolves to make it even more threatening.
- She has it again when she realizes that after convincing to help Karna make his dungeon less lethal, she inadvertently helped the demons improve their society when Cecilia promises to help end discrimination against lower-ranked demons in her domain due to the role demonic cats play in them.
Only in It for the Money: Aisha's distrust of both humans and demons means that the only relationship she puts any real value into is money. So long as she's paid well, she'll fulfill her job to the end. Karna brings her over to his side as an advisor by offering double what the kingdom is paying her as well as giving her all the demon cats she wants to cuddle with.
Only Sane Man: She's just about the only notable character in the story with a fully functioning brain inside her skull, properly thinking all of her actions through and capable of comprehending the reality of whatever situation she gets into. The former hero party were total self-aggrandizing morons, most of the demons are either power-obsessed or blindly loyal to their masters, and Karna is so simple-minded and full of Heroic Self-Deprecation that he has no idea what to do with himself. The only other character who comes close in terms of being sane is Cecilia, and even then her difficulty understanding humans and desperate desire for love prevents her from properly acting on said sanity.
Pragmatic Hero: She is loyal to Cecilia, even after her death, because the demon lord is benevolent and peace might, just might, be possible. If the demon lord of greed wins, human casualties will be immense.
Too Many Belts: She doesn't just wear a belt on her waist, she uses one as a make-shift bra.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Aisha is the one who recommended that the heroes recruit Karna as the fourth party member due to his power and potential. She had no idea how immature and foolhardy they were or that they'd dump Karna, which puts him on the path toward becoming Cecilia's subordinate.

Karna's Ghosts

Common to All

The ghosts that Karna forged contracts with during his travels with the Hero's party. While diminutive in size, they actually possess incredible power when restored to physical form by Karna's magic.

Friendly Ghost: For the most part, they're happy to just have something to do after thousands of years of being bound to the earth, helping Karna in his endeavors with cheer.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Nodence and Volvados arrived in the world and rescued humanity from being snacks and slaves to dragons, only to have humans turn on and seal them away; however, in the process of raising the army they needed to deal with the dragons, they created demons and several "monster" species that started treating humans as slaves (and sometimes food) themselves...
My Master, Right or Wrong: Karna's word is law, but he never actually orders them to do things, he either asks nicely, or backs them up when they volunteer. Although Nodence and Volvados descended to the land to slay the dragons oppressing humanity, they have no problems turning against humanity when Karna does.
Older Is Better: They're all creatures from the ancient past with power dwarfing anything in the modern day. Ur bending space and time to his will is considered a "trifling" thing to him, even as Cecilia's court gapes in awe and horror at the apparent ease with which Ur did it.
Physical God:
- Nodence and Volvados are both Outer Gods worshiped by the demons for giving them their marks. Their power far outstrips anything in the modern day, boasting Power Levels of more than 500,000,000 compared to Belphegor's 1,000.
- Ur is the progenitor of all dragons who once unleashed them across the world to subjugate humanity. He's also a Reality Warper who has no problems rearranging entire parts of a dungeon or even isolating an area from the entirety of space and time.
Sealed Good in a Can: Despite their mistakes, magical alignment checks reveal them as "good," and they spent thousands of years sealed away, with the location of their tomb erased from all records so no one would seek them out. Karna wound up stumbling on said tomb completely by accident while working on his grandparents' cursed fields.
Sleep-Mode Size: When they're not in active combat, they float around Karna as Will-o'-the-Wisp-like ghosts in a similar way to Hitodama Lights.
Strength Equals Worthiness: When Karna stumbles upon them, they think he's there to "tame" them, so they blast him with their strongest attacks, and happily join him when he proves strong enough to tank said attacks and remain standing.
Symbiotic Possession: They hover around Karna, occasionally suck up his mana, but are happy to serve and protect him.
You Never Asked: Karna rarely asks them about their true identities or powers. The ghosts themselves only reveal their true forms when they want to fight, and Aisha is shocked that he never realized that he had two Outer Gods and the progenitor of all dragons as his personal minions.

Nodence

You would dare hurt my master?! Let me show you the true way to use the "Lightning of Despair!"

The first of the "outer gods" introduced and the one most often shown serving Karna.

Affectionate Nickname: Karna calls him "gramps" for his aged appearance and beard, and Nodence is perfectly fine with this.
Beat Them at Their Own Game: He is revealed as a god when Belphegor attacks Karna with the spell "Lightning of Despair." Turns out Nodence is the god who created and controls the spell, and hurled a bigger version back at the demon general.
Cool Old Guy: He has the appearance of a kindly (if incredibly buff) grandpa and is a stalwart ally and advisor to Karna.
Composite Character: While his primary inspiration is the Cthulhian Cool Old Guy Nodens, he also takes cues from two other bearded deities, getting his Shock and Awe powers from Zeus and the Prongs of Poseidon shape of his lightning-formed weapon from, well, Poseidon.
Did Not Think This Through: He created the orcs, but made them a One-Gender Race, unable to reproduce except by mating with human women. Fortunately, in the present time, there are enough half-orc women and willing human women available that the orcs don't need to go raiding human settlements, and haven't done so for at least 100 years.
Dirty Old Man: Despite being an eons-old god and rarely interacting with ladies enough for it to matter, he's actually somewhat pervy, fittingly enough for a god partly styled after Zeus, with him happily ogling Cecilia when she and Karna shower together.
Entertainingly Wrong: His only frame of reference for heroes are the ones who beat and killed him thousands of years ago. He has no idea that both humanity and demons have atrophied in power over the years, and gives Karna advice based on information thousands of years out of date, resulting in Karna's dungeon being obnoxiously deadly.
Friendly Address Privileges: He allows Karna to call him "old man" or "gramps".
Heroic Build: In his true humanoid form, he's got bulging biceps, toned six-pack abs, the works, and is a benevolent god who happily assists Karna with whatever he asks.
Shock and Awe: His personal magic involves manipulating lightning, with his "Lightning of Despair" attack smiting a large area with enough power to obliterate a small platoon while barely trying.
So Proud of You: He was originally rather disappointed and ashamed at the sight of Belphegor, the bearer of his mark, as not only was he so weak (comparatively to Karna), he tried picking a fight with a boy he originally thought was a weakling. However, his opinion of the demon massively improved after witnessing him risk his life holding off Dargaz' army despite said weakness in order to keep his lady and companions safe, with Nodence praising his valor before giving him an approving thumbs up.

Volvados

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Alright! Time to torch this enemy!

The Outer God of Flame who provided humanity with the ability to produce fire. When not in active combat, she tends to laze around in a lantern Karna carries.

Affectionate Nickname: Karna calls her "Vol" for short.
Equippable Ally: She's able to envelop Karna to surround him as Flame Armor, greatly improving Karna's physical abilities and letting him shoot fire simply by punching something.
Good Is Not Nice: Karna is the only person she treats with respect and she's also quite cheeky, but she officially scans as "good" under magical alignment analysis and goes into battle for the right reasons, to protect friends, family, and the innocent.
Lady Looks Like a Dude: While facing off against the Demon King of Pride, He short-handedly calls Volvados a little boy. Volvados then clarifies that she is a girl, and then goes on to prove it by activating her Super Mode which has her age up into an adult form and sport attire that leaves precious little to the imagination.
Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Even in her humanoid form she's shorter than Karna, who is a pint-sized 13-year-old shorter than almost everyone else in the story, but has still been shown to deliver tremendous literal firepower.
Playing with Fire: She specializes in the use of fire, allowing Karna to send enormous waves of flame powerful enough to vaporize someone as strong as the Hero with a single punch. She's also able to fuse with Karna to act as armor and enhance his physical abilities to the point that he knocks out the Battle Master in one hit while holding back.
Spell My Name With An S: Translations can't seem to decide on how to spell her name. While it's obvious that she's named after the Cthulhian Playing with Fire deity Vorvadoss, some turn it into Volvados while others keep it the same as her namesake.

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I'll be happy to hear your suggestions in building the dungeon, Aisha-san.

A dragon "ghost" that is in Karna's service. He helps design, remodel, and maintain Karna's dungeon. In reality, he's the progenitor of the dragon race.

Barrier Warrior: In chapter 27, he creates a powerful magical space-time barrier to protect Cecilia's castle when an army of ogres attacks.
Monster Progenitor: He's the one who created the first dragons in the world.
Our Dragons Are Different: He's a dragon-ghost who once spawned the entire race of dragons when he was alive. In addition to the typical draconic traits of breathing fire, being enormous and having wings and claws, he is also a master of space and time that only the Outer Gods could defeat.
Reality Warper: His powers involve the manipulation of time and space. While he normally applies this to shaping the design of Karna's dungeon and maintaining it, another application is isolating an entire location away from reality in order to both protect it from reinforcements and prevent enemies from retreating, with him also stopping the flow of time outside the barrier for as long as it's active.
Red Baron: "Dragon of Creation".
Retired Monster: As the progenitor of dragons, he's responsible for all the chaos, destruction and death that resulted from their existence. However, while he doesn't actually have any regrets for his actions, he's quite happy and content as a spirit that can't directly affect the world without Karna's help, viewing Nodence and Volvados as close friends despite being killed by them in life and fully supporting Karna in all his endeavors relating to construction and defense.

Demons

Belphegor

Face my "Lightning of Despair!"

The demon general guarding Cecilia's lair. He attacks Karna the moment the teen finds the place and is rebuffed by Nodence as a result.

A Father to His Men: Contrasting some other demons, Belphegor is immensely loyal to his underlings. Upon hearing that two of his subordinates who knew Karna's secret leaked it (after being tortured), his first response is to take full responsibility for it himself.
Determinator: Despite being a Miles Gloriosus in terms of actual power, there's no doubt towards the sheer strength of his will when it comes to serving Cecilia, as he will push himself far past his limit if it means keeping her safe, even risking his life to do so. Said will is what makes Nodence recognize him as worthy of bearing his mark.
Face Plant: Does this in shock when walking in on Cecilia trying to be Sickeningly Sweethearts with a reluctant Karna.
Horned Humanoid: He has horns on his head.
Hunk: He has a rather well-built body and a decently handsome face.
Ironic Name: He's named after the patron demon of Sloth, but if anything he embodies the opposite virtue of Diligence, refusing to give up until he's either won or been beaten so badly he can't fight anymore.
Miles Gloriosus: He loves to brag and boast about how mighty a demon he is. While his "Lightning of Despair" spell is a powerful attack, he is just a one-trick pony and is quickly overwhelmed the moment anyone gets past the initial lightning strike.
Noble Demon: He may not be as mighty a warrior as he boasts, but he is brave, honest, kind, and loyal. He's far more heroic than the human's so-called hero.
Secret-Keeper: He and his men were originally the only demons that knew of Cecilia's decision to take in the human Karna and have him serve under her as the demon Sabbath. Unfortunately, due to some intel leak, Mammon tortured Belphegor's men into revealing this fact, which caused Mammon to decide to revolt against Cecilia.
Shock and Awe: As the inheritor of Nodence's mark, he has the ability to invoke Lightning of Despair to smite his enemies. However, while still strong, the power having weakened over the eons means he can only use it to fry a few enemies at once, with consecutive uses heavily draining his mana, unlike Nodence himself who can fry entire armies without breaking a sweat.
Stupid Sexy Flanders: Invoked and played for laughs. When Karna demonstrates his Lewd ghosts to explain why his dungeon's demon cats were so effective at trapping adventurers, he puts his hands over his crotch, crosses his legs and starts shouting "settle down! He's a dude! A DUDE!"
Winged Humanoid: He has wings on his back.

Beoruz

Humans are only good as our food!

An ogre dungeon boss that Karna is sent to kill. As a reward for doing so, Cecilia gives Karna control of the dungeon to do with as he sees fit.

Card-Carrying Villain: Parodied. He spent so much time and effort bragging about how evil he is and how he was going to enjoy committing atrocity that Karna had plenty of time to just walk up to him and blast him to kingdom come, rescuing the poor female adventurer this ogre planned to eat alive.
Carry a Big Stick: Wields a giant club to smash people with.
Evil Is Bigger: As an ogre, he towers over everybody except the ogre demon lord of Greed.
I Am a Humanitarian: He eats human adventurers that he catches in his dungeon, and if adventurers don't come to him often enough, he and his subordinate ogres leave the dungeon to attack the nearest human village(s).
Mugging the Monster: He attacks Karna, thinking he's dealing with a weakling because Karna's a kid. Karna effortlessly blocks the oncoming blow from the club one handed.
No Body Left Behind: Karna blasts him with magic and completely destroys his body, but since Karna doesn't really know how strong he is, he just presumes this ogre somehow managed to escape.
The Worf Effect: He's hyped up as a being as powerful as the Hero, but he goes down like a chump to Karna to demonstrate the latter's insane power.

Dargaz Zalaga

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I'll eat that Cecilia bitch and her lackey Sabbath!

The Demon lord of Greed. He has a grudge against Cecilia for going after Beoruz's dungeon and giving said dungeon to Karna, even though Beoruz was causing problems in her territory and attacking human villages. He also loathes her for the fact that the Hero faced his defeat at her hands rather than his own.

Drunk On Power: Chapter 37 reveals that he is completely consumed by his [Karma] and abilities, losing himself to the euphoric side-effects of plundering every divine seal he can get his hands on.
Entertainingly Wrong: He thinks that since "Sabbath" and Cecilia defeated the Hero, they killed him too. In reality, they thought death was too good for the fop and literally threw him out of the dungeon. The Hero wound up getting executed in secret by his home country.
Evil Feels Good: He constantly boasts about how much he enjoys being a greedy, despicable sot who only sees his minions as consumables and condemns Cecilia for actually caring for her underlings.
Evil Is Bigger: Comparing images of him and Beoruz side by side, he's considerably larger and at least as evil.
Hero Killer: He yanks off Aisha's mark, killing her in the process. It's only because she was Crazy-Prepared with Karna's "ghost ring" that she was able to head to Cecilia and give fair warning.
I Control My Minions Through...: Fear and their own base desires. His underlings know he can and will abandon them in an instant the moment they fail to carry out their orders, for any reason, and will happily eat them if they're not ogres and he sees them as weak failures. They also serve him because when they do succeed at their tasks, he rewards them by letting them engage in whatever atrocity they most desire: rape, cannibalism, torture, plunder, whatever. In fact, he's on-screen telling Mammon that as a reward for betraying Cecilia and leading him to her, once he's yanked out and consumed her soul, Mammon can do whatever he wants with her body, rape her, boil her, eat her, whatever, which Mammon happily looks forward to doing.
Invisibility: He's capable of turning completely invisible in order to sneak up on his enemies, something Aisha learns the hard way.
Karmic Death: Karna rips out his mark, making him lose the ability to control all the others he plundered, and thus all the now enraged and mindless souls he was tormenting got their vengeance, turning him into a husk before Karna could purify them and send them on their way to the afterlife. As an added kick in the gut, Karna then goes on to purify his mark too and feed it to Cecilia, which makes her stronger and better able to control her power.
Logical Weakness: When your power relies on subjugating the souls of others, it's probably not a great idea to piss off a necromancer.
Made of Evil: He can't help being the despicable sot he is as his [Karma] is the embodiment of Bastet's greed, forcing him to treat his subordinates as consumables, and wanting more and more of well, everything he's aware of.
Pieces of God: Like Cecilia, he is one of the seven fragments of Bastet.
Power Parasite: As befits the Demon Lord of Greed, he can forcefully seize the Marks of others. Even grabbing Aisha's mark before killing her.
Revenge Myopia: He wants revenge on Cecilia for having Karna destroy and claim Beoruz's dungeon and taking The Hero's head, but the former happened because the ogre dungeon boss was causing trouble in Cecilia's territory and the latter is a direct result of The Hero's own idiocy.
Spikes of Villainy: He's got spikes on his shoulders and head-band.
Virtue Is Weakness: He calls Cecilia an idiot for coming to fight on behalf of her subordinates, specifically the very, very loyal Aisha.
Your Soul Is Mine!: Chapter 37 reveals the true nature of his [Greed] nature. He doesn't just rip people's marks, he rips out and dominates their souls, torturing and tormenting them!

Mammon

There's no need to respect a superior who tries to suck up by lying! Let's go schedule a meeting with Dargaz!

Cecilia's accountant. He takes an immediate dislike to "Sabbath" and openly tries to sabotage him every chance he gets.

Cold-Blooded Torture: He is on-screen torturing a couple of Belphegor's subordinates into telling him that "Sabbath" is actually a human.
Didn't Think This Through: As lampshaded by Aisha, his plan to get Dargaz into the castle to assassinate Cecilia was poorly thought out. Not only did he heavily underestimate Karna just because he's human, the fact Mammon's in charge of the barrier and was nowhere to be seen during the event means it was quite obvious that he was the cause behind the invasion by the Court of Greed.
Driven by Envy: His current villainy is spurred by envy towards "Sabbath's" talent and the affection the latter gets from Cecilia.
Fangs Are Evil: He has pronounced fangs and is a self-serving antagonist looking to screw over his boss Cecilia.
Fantastic Racism: In chapter 33, Cecilia confronts him and points out that some humans can be useful to the demon agenda. He does not care. When Cecilia asks him point blank what humans have done to him and his to make him hate them, he responds "nothing." He just hates humans because it's fashionable to hate them. He actually has no grudge, whatsoever.
Four Eyes, Zero Soul: He wears glasses and is an arrogant asshat who is actively looking to betray Cecilia at the first opportunity.
Greed: Fitting for somebody bearing the name of the patron demon for the sin, he is an incredibly greedy individual. In addition to his love of money and other precious items, he is heavily greedy for power, coveting the chance to have a higher position than everybody, especially Cecilia. Quite appropriate that it turns out he's in cahoots with the actual Demon Lord of Greed, Dargaz.
Hair-Trigger Temper: He loses his shit and throws temper tantrums with disturbing ease.
Horned Humanoid: He has small horns on his head.
Hypocrite: Which Aisha calls him out on. He calls Aisha a coward for using her Assassin mark to catch him by surprise and bring a knife to his throat as she's detaining him. She retorts that he's being cowardly by shaking hands with Dargaz to literally backstab Cecilia rather than confront her face to face.
The Mole: While it was already incredibly obvious that he was a case of The Starscream, learning of Karna being human pushes him into revealing that he's outright working for another Demon Lord to take down Cecilia, in this case the Lord of Greed Dargaz.
Percussive Therapy: He loves to go around beating up on inanimate objects.
Pointed Ears: His ears are pointy.
Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: When Dargaz realizes he can't overwhelm Cecilia in a straight up fight, he happily uses this traitor as a living shield, and then promises to reward him if he survives.
The Starscream: He makes little to no effort to hide the fact that he's clearly not happy with Cecilia's reign and is looking to overthrow her.
Winged Humanoid: He has wings on his back.

Orc Chieftain

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Demon Lord Cecilia, what brings you to such a slum?

The representative chosen to speak on behalf of Cecilia's orc servants.

Happily Married: He may be scared of his wife, but the two of them are in love and happy with several children.
Henpecked Husband: He's deathly afraid of his half-orc wife.
No Name Given: His name is never mentioned, if he has one.
Perpetual Poverty: While he wears a fancy suit at the official meeting, purely for the dignity of his position, at home, he and his family are dressed in rags and live in a swamp, with a house too small and no reliable way to get enough food on a consistent basis.
Undying Loyalty: He and his tribe are fiercely loyal to Cecilia for giving them a place to live and keeping them safe after the ogres drove them from their ancestral lands. This loyalty doubles when Cecilia and Karna visit his home while on a date, and Karna's pet gods clean up the swamp, converting the area into arable farmland, so now the whole tribe will have a reliable source of fresh food.

Succubus Matriarch

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(Points at Aisha) Why isn't she affected?!

One of Cecilia's top commanders.

Charm Person: As the current matriarch of the succubi, it's to be expected that she has the power to magically charm men to do her bidding, though like other modern demons it's rather weak and limited compared to her progenitor Istasha, who could charm even women and the gods.
Girlish Pigtails: Though she wears her hair like this, she lacks the innocence of the trope.
I Have Boobs, You Must Obey!: Discussed. As a succubus, seducing the opposite sex is the first thing that comes to mind when discussing the charm spell, and she fondles her breasts at Karna, making him blush and Cecilia pouty.
No Name Given: Her name is never mentioned.
Pointed Ears: Her ears are pointy.
Stripperific: Comes with being a succubus.
Succubi and Incubi: Normally, she's quite professional about being a succubus, but when Karna brought out the Lewd ghosts, she collapses to the ground in pure sexual arousal.
Succubus Owns A Gentleman's Club: Turns out that her high class club earns most of the money that Cecilia uses to pay her underlings.
Winged Humanoid: She has wings on her back.

Istasha

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So you need some of my Lewd ghosts, Karna?

The queen and progenitor of the succubus race.

The Alcoholic: She loves wine and booze of all stripes. In fact, her pact with Karna necessitates that he prepare an offering of alcohol if he wants to summon her.
Charm Person: As the Outer God from which the succubi are descended, she quite obviously has magical charming powers. However, unlike them, hers are so strong even beings on the level of gods can be affected, and gender is irrelevant to who she can charm.
Did Not See That Coming: She conspired with Nodence in regards to the orcs. She would create Succubi for the orcs to mate with. Neither orcs nor succubi were meant to mate with humans. When the outer gods were beaten, orcs and succubi lost the ability to mate with each other, so turned to humans to fill in the gaps. This resulted in the eventual weakening of all three races.
Elegant Gothic Lolita: Her attire is a simple yet opulent little black dress with plenty of frills and a small black cap. It accentuates how, as the oldest and strongest succubus in the world, she doesn't need to look or dress in a way that would tempt others, as her beauty and powers were more than enough.
Innocently Insensitive: As revealed in chapter 107, she's not above making mistakes. She gifted the human Spica with a [Talent] named [Sensitive Nipples] as a kind of Spider-Sense, but nipples need breasts to go with them to be most effective, right? This oversight caused the poor guy a lot of grief and wound up getting him lost and hopeless in the slums. When she learns of his distress, she sends Alistair's party to recruit him, has him brought before her in the sauna dungeon for an audience and offers to fix the mess she made. After Spica has accepted her apology and declared that being provided with a party of adventurers willing to accept him "as is" is more than enough of restitution, she goes and changes both the name and nature of the [Talent] from [Sensitive Nipples] to [Twin Guiding Stars] so this kind of disaster doesn't happen again.
I Want Grandkids: Downplayed. She's ecstatic when Cecilia asks her for the power to make a child with Karna via G-Rated Sex, but qualifies that it's still too early for them before unsummoning herself.
Living Aphrodisiac: The (Charm) magic of both her and her Lewd Ghosts works like this. So long as it's active, it will make everybody in line-of-sight, gender be damned, enter a state of intense sexual arousal and attraction towards the user. The only way to avoid being forced into a debilitating state of arousal is either to not be where the user can see them, or use special equipment to nullify the effects, as shown by Aisha during Karna's demonstration of the magic.
Meaningful Name: Unlike the other Outer Gods like Nodence and Volvados, she has very little about her that directly references her namesake Cthulhian deity. However, said namesake is a cat deity, and fittingly enough her powers that she bestowed upon Karna were used to empower various cats with (Charm) magic.
Monster Progenitor: She is first and most powerful of the succubi in the world.
Playing with Fire: Thinking she can only charm and seduce people is a grave miscalculation. She can also use fire attacks that rival the power of a Volvados in her Super Mode.
Serious Business: If you're going to ask a favor of her, call her "Momma" or she'll get angry.
Succubi and Incubi: As a succubus queen, it's a bit of a given that she's an alluring and charming woman, quite literally at that.
Taken for Granite: Among her list of impressive abilities is a Breath Weapon that allows her to turn her enemies to stone.

Bel Yarnak

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I love the smell of flesh burned by the mark of Volvados! It smells like VICTORY!

The demon king of Pride.

Assumed Win: Being the demon of pride, he always believes he's won the fight before it even starts.
Break the Haughty: Keeps getting smacked down by Volvados.
Cassandra Truth: He utterly refuses to believe Volvados is the female figure he's fighting. Despite getting constantly smacked down by the latter.
Even Evil Has Standards: Before launching the attack on Comoliom's capital city, Pride destroys the invading human army, the same army that spurned and humiliated Zeta for daring to ask for help, as said army wasn't there to offer aid, but was in the process of trying to Rape, Pillage, and Burn once they managed to break through the city's outer walls. Breeching the outer walls with the attack was a welcome bonus.
Gender Bender: As Bastet's pride is represented by her pride in power, the [Pride] mark sealed away Yarnak's original femininity and turned her into a male demon. Volvados purifies the mark, turning her back.
Playing with Fire: For having the mark of Volvados, Pride hurls powerful fire magic attacks.
Straw Misogynist: He can't believe Volvados is a woman believes women are "defective" creatures, since demons like himself don't need to reproduce sexually or gestate in a womb.

Bya Khee and Bjar Ki (Byar-kee)

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I'm so envious! I'll eat you, I'll eat you! I'LL SWALLOW YOU WHOLE!!!

The Demon Lords of Envy and Gluttony, respectively.

Big Little Brother: Bya Khee, the taller of the duo, is the younger sister of Bjar Ki.
Cute Is Evil: From a distance, Gluttony looks like a cute little girl, but she is utterly ravenous and will either eat you alive herself, or send a swarm of locusts and rats to pick your bones clean, and then she'll eat the bones.
The Dividual: They travel together as a matched set.
Horror Hunger: The lord of gluttony is always starving and will pick up discarded bones to munch on.
Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: When Pride loses the fight and goes into self-imposed reclusion, Envy and Gluttony go after her at the very first opportunity, since their alliance was only being maintained by Pride's martial might.
Vanity Is Feminine: The lord of envy is female and very vain.
Villainous Valor: When facing off against Nodence, Envy rescues Gluttony from certain death by using her own body as a shield. Nodence is duly impressed.
Walking Wasteland: Gluttony always has swarms of ravenous insects and vermin scour the place clean.

Humans

Karna's grandparents

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Karna's such a sweet and honest boy!

The kindly farmers who took Karna in when his parents died.

Good Parents: They raised Karna with love and tenderness.
Locked Out of the Loop: It's quite obvious that they have no idea their grandson is working as the servant of a demon lord, and due to living on a farm in the middle of nowhere very likely don't even know he was kicked out of the hero party, so they're just happily tending their farm while waiting for their grandson to return with his hard-earned money as a hero.
Older Than They Look: They are old enough to be the grandparents of a 13-year-old child, but they look like they're in their late 20's, maybe early 30's. It becomes justified when it's revealed that they routinely eat cockatrice eggs that are known for their magical rejeuvenation properties. Said cockatrice being a monster Karna collected from the Demon Lord of Greed's army remnants, thanks to Istasha.
Pals with Jesus: After Karna found the tomb of the gods, these two found themselves as next-door neighbors to the gods, especially the god of the earth, and they get along swimmingly. In fact, they routinely offer the earth goddess some home-cooked meals, which she likes, and she returns the favor with some rather nifty artifacts, and when a dragon from across the mountains pays a less-than-friendly vistit, the goddess grabs it with her giant arm from beneath the ground and yeets it back over the horizon.
Parental Substitute: They raised Karna in lieu of his dead parents.
Small Role, Big Impact: They appear only at the start of the story and even then their role is small, but they are the primary motivation for Karna's desire to become wealthy.
So Proud of You: They beamed with pride at the fact the hero party scouted Karna.

Zeta Abigail Purin

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Karna! If it's you, we have hope to defeat the demons threatening the kingdom, especially the enemy of humanity, Sabbath.

The (former) knight Sabbath rescues from Beoruz. She returns to the story asking Karna to help rescue Thelma Comoliom from Dargaz's army remnants. She then becomes the queen's right hand when they face off against the combined armies of the Demon Kings of Pride, Envy, and Gluttony in the hot-springs dungeon.

The Bus Came Back: She's briefly introduced rescued from Beoruz, running to the adventurer's guild to testify about the "black demon" and then is not seen again until she's looking for help to rescue then princess Thelma Comoliom.
Dramatic Irony: She runs up to Karna and asks him to help hunt down Sabbath, not realizing they're one and the same until Karna himself reveals it during peace negotiations with Heracles.
Freak Out: When she learned that Karna is the very same Sabbath that she was asking him to fight, she's unable to keep her composure and panics. Fortunately, Thelma was there at the time and could calm her down.
Karmic Jackpot: People who treat her well tend to have nice things happen to them. Those who treat her poorly face their comeuppance sooner or later. Then princess Comoliom winds up being rescued by Karna and co. because this knight was treated with respect by her, chosen as her handmaiden, and the fat noble who stripped her of her ranks, titles, and banished her, even going so far as to pour a goblet of wine on her head to further insult her because his greed had him try and loot a human city in the chaos wound up getting roasted alive by the Demon King of Pride.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: She reports the activity of the Dargaz army remnants to her noble superiors and asks for troops to protect the townspeople, including the princess. The nobles, thinking only of fattening their wallets elsewhere, strip her ranks and titles for the affront and banish her.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Justified. When she's rescued by Sabbath near the start of the story, she flees the area, not wanting to be caught in the fight between two demons much, much stronger than herself, especially when one of them called himself "the enemy of humanity."
Speak Truth To Power: Attempted but averted. As can be seen in the page image, she tries to warn her superiors that Heracles is desperately needed back home to deal with Dargaz army remnants and then with the Demon Kings of Pride, Envy, and Sloth. She is ignored, stripped of her ranks and titles, and banished.

Heracles Armitage

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So even my best knights have been corrupted by the church of extinctionism!

The top knight in the human kingdom. Originally a retired hero, he returned to duty following Norris' demise.

Good Is Not Dumb: He is both a skilled warrior and clever tactician. He can also see through the petty schemes of the corrupt nobles in his kingdom. He is also well versed that there's some evil force at work in the Church of Extionism that the upper echelons of his kingdom worship.
Graceful Loser: When he loses the duel with "Sabbath" in chapter 79, he admits his defeat with class and happily signs the surrender treaty that leaves Cecilia clearly in the dominant position.
Honor Before Reason: Even though he is a good and kind man, he is still a knight bound by the code of chivalry and the laws of the kingdom.
My Greatest Failure: He's the one who trained Norris to be a "Hero" and laments that he really botched the job, considering how Norris ultimately turned out.
Why Are You Not My (Grand)Son?: He laments this about Karna more than once. Two of his former comrades from his hero days all but instantly jump to the conclusion that Karna is his grandson, and he barely even tries to correct the misconception.

Queen Thelma Comoliom

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Demon or human, you saved my life, Karna and Ceclia!

Rescued by Karna from the remnants of Greed's army, she sets up a "hot springs" dungeon at his behest. Karna eventually reveals to her that he is Sabbath, and she signs a very mutually favorable treaty with Cecilia.

Bathing Beauty: Invoked. In order to run her dungeon, she has to be bathing in a hot-spring.
A Friend in Need: She happily signs a treaty with Cecilia because Karna rescued her at her darkest hour and shared the left-over treasures, specifically the money, that Dargaz's troops left behind as loot when her kingdom was full of refugees in dire straits.
I Owe You My Life: If it had not been for Cecilia and Karna, she would have been eaten.
Like Brother and Sister: Aisha implies this about her and Karna. She seemed quite amenable to the idea.
Mundane Made Awesome: She and her people repel an invading demon army by hiding behind a sauna that summons water elementals and has saunas, all composed of nearly pure holy-water.
Too Desperate to Be Picky: When facing the combined armies of the Demon Kings of Pride, Envy, and Gluttony, she has no choice but to become a dungeon boss to save her people from being torched and Devoured by the Horde.

Hero Party

Norris Paladius

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Karna, it's just not working out. Would you mind just leaving the party already?

The titular hero. He recruits Karna, exploits him, and then dumps him shortly before the month-long "trial period" ends, so he doesn't owe Karna any share of the rewards, but considers it "generous" to pay him a paltry 500 coins and spread rumors that Karna is the one who quit, leaving him with no prospects.

"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Aisha calls him and the rest of the party out for blindly charging through Karna's completely unmapped dungeon that didn't fit all the earlier intel they had, until they were locked in battle with the boss and being soundly defeated, one after another.
Dirty Coward: The moment he's overwhelmed, he tries to abandon or cut through allies to ensure his own escape. Even Cecilia has problems with that.
Fallen Hero: Because of the way he abandoned Karna and the fact that he deliberately tried to cut through his female team-mates in battle when he was fighting in Karna's dungeon, he lost his "Hero" Mark, all his blessings, and even his equipment turns on him.
Glory Hound: All he cares about is being admired by the public at large and having attractive women swoon for him.
Good Powers, Terrible People: He derives all of his incredible powers, up to being able to wield his mighty sword and wear his impressive armor, thanks to possessing the "Hero" Mark, which along with allowing the ownership of holy items also amplifies his powers to great heights in the name of "justice". That said, while he could use his holy powers despite being a self-interested skirt-chasing asshole, the moment he goes from being an asshole to acting like a borderline sociopath is when the world realizes it chose the wrong guy as the "Hero", which it corrects by completely stripping him of his powers and causing his sword and armor to break, before labeling him a "covenant seal breaker".
Harem Seeker: Which is glaringly obvious, even to Karna. He shrugs off any notion of righteousness to keep his two female party-members happy, dumping Karna the moment it's convenient as a result.
Idiot Hero: Exaggerated. He doesn't think with his brain, but rather with his muscles and gonads, and made one stupid decision after another.
Killed Offscreen: He's executed in secret by his home country.
Malicious Slander: As is revealed in later chapters, shortly after dumping Karna from the party, he told everyone who would listen that Karna had lost his mark, and that's why he was dumped from the party. Other adventurers who meet Karna and are decent people with good reputations report to the guild that this is a bold-faced lie, troubling the guild greatly.
Miles Gloriosus: He loves to pump himself up and boast of his "heroics," but the only reason he has any accomplishments is the fact that he used Karna as a stepping stone.
Obliviously Evil: Via sheer stupidity. He has to be told that it's an inherently evil act to abandon allies and to fire attacks through his team-mates.
Shoot the Hostage: When Battle Master is at Karna's feet, unconscious, he comes to the conclusion that Karna's taken her hostage. To escape and claim the glory for "taking down the dungeon boss," he attacks through her, or tries, proclaiming that as long as he's able to use resurrection magic, this is okay. Reality doesn't agree, and he ultimately pays the price.
Too Dumb to Live: Being trapped in battle with Karna could have been easily avoided, but because he ignored Aisha's advice, blindly charging towards the end of Karna's dungeon without paying any attention to his surroundings, he and his party were soundly beaten and Aisha was taken captive, later pronounced officially dead.
Wants a Prize for Basic Decency: He thinks it's a praiseworthy "virtue" that he gave Karna a pittance when he exploited and abandoned the guy.

The Battle Master

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Expect me to punch the slime you use with my bare hands? EWW!!

An arrogant Bare-Fisted Monk, she feels overshadowed by Karna's abilities and is disgusted by them, resulting in her convincing the Hero kick him out of their party.

Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Very arrogant. She thinks that as long as she can get into melee range, she's invincible, so long as her opponent has a physical form. Karna, a necromancer, counters her every single blow in Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs.
Barefisted Monk: Her Battle-master class allows her to master hand to hand combat without weapons.
Driven to Madness: Based on how when she's last seen during the explanation by the guild master's adjutant, she was Laughing Mad while displaying a Thousand-Yard Stare, her final encounter with Karna resulted in her completely losing her mind, no longer in any condition to continue adventuring.
Everyone Calls Her "Barkeep": Her name is never mentioned. She's just called "Battle Master."
Jerkass Has a Point: Her assertion that Karna is not a good fit for the party actually had merit. She's a Bare-Fisted Monk, and expecting her to punch enemies bare-handed after Karna's doused them with unknown fluids is a fundamentally bad idea, and the fact that Karna was quick to head into melee while leaving her at the rear lines left her unable to contribute.
The Load: Her fighting class is so impractical that she's the one least suited for the party, not Karna, but since she's a hot chick that Norris wanted to bang, he threw Karna out instead of her.
Suicidal Overconfidence: In Karna's dungeon, she rushed ahead of the party to attack a disguised Karna head on, with no plan, preparation, or backup, expecting herself to be the clear winner, despite knowing nothing about her opponent. When Karna countered her at Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs, she was rendered helpless and unconscious in record time.

The Holy Knight

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Undead? Ewww!!

One of the two ladies in the hero party. While she had no problem with Karna signing on, despite knowing he's a necromancer, she happily decried the fact that he uses undead to fight and convinces the Hero to kick him out of the party.

Angst Coma: Her last appearance in the story, during the explanation by the guild master's adjutant of her group's disbandment, shows that the trauma of being stripped, humiliated, and terrified by Karna has left her a barely responsive wreck with no hopes of recovery.
Bring My Brown Pants: Just before fainting following the loss of her armor, she leaks out a small puddle of urine due to intense fear.
Defeat by Modesty: She faints and is completely out of the fight due to sheer terror following Karna's corrosive curse destroying her shield and armor, leaving her buck naked. She might have lost her life if she wasn't rescued by Aisha.
Everyone Calls Her "Barkeep": Her name is never mentioned. She just goes by "holy knight."
Friendly Target: Tries to blast Karna with magic in his dungeon despite the unconscious Battle Master being directly between them, reasoning that she could just revive her companion.
Insane Troll Logic: Which even the monumentally idiotic "hero" calls her out on. She's repulsed by Karna's use of undead to fight, even though she happily let him sign on despite knowing his gods-given necromancer class.
Jousting Lance: Though she doesn't use a mount, she fights with a lance and wields holy magic.
Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: She fights with a large kite shield in one hand, a lance in the other.
Magic Knight: Her Holy Knight class allows her to fight as a knight and wield holy magic, including "Turn Undead."
Scissors Cuts Rock: On the wrong end. Although her holy magic should give her an edge against Karna's undead, he's so much more powerful as a necromancer that her strongest attacks don't do squat.

Adventurers:

Altair's party

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No way! That wasn't us. It was Karna and Cecilia who took down the Giant and freed the captives. We just dealt with some small fries!

First shown when Cecilia is signing up for the adventurer's guild. They surprisingly subvert the whole "how dare an upstart newbie have a hot girlfriend" cliche and actually help Karna and Cecilia fit in.

Cruel to Be Kind: When they saw Karna and Cecilia sign up, with Karna proclaiming that he "sealed" his mark and wanted to be registered as a warrior, they pulled him into a spar to demonstrate that it's a dangerous way to do things. Karna goes on to demonstrate he knows what he's doing by copying their skills and thanking them.
Dramatic Irony: On their most recent appearances, they're storming dungeons to try and gain enough badges to rescue Cecilia and Karna from Sabbath and the Demon Lord of Lust, not knowing that they're one and the same, and even though Karna is well aware of it, he's not in a position where he can just tell them....
Driven by Envy: Subverted. They first come across as the cliche envious adventurers who mess with the main character for being an upstart, but they're actually looking out for him in their own weird way.
Face of a Thug: Both the male party members look like menacing gangsters, but they're actually very decent and kind.
Good All Along: They first look like thuggish rabble one expects from stories featuring adventurers, but they're actually morally upright and noble people who care more about their fellow man than any possible rewards.
Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: While they do happily accept the celebratory feast after their joint quest with Cecilia and Karna that rescued a bunch of people from the remnants of Dagraz's army, rationalizing that it will just spoil if they don't, they pointedly refuse to take the credit for Karna and Cecilia's accomplishments and the bonus rewards, which the guild is trying to shove on them, satisfied to just take their agreed to contractual share.

Altair

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If he's spoken for, then he's off limits. I'd rather be friends. Okay, Cecilia?

The lone female of a trio of adventurers who warm up to Karna when Cecilia signs up at the adventurer's guild.

Charm Person: Bordering on the inherent abilities available to succubi, her [Queen's Allure] skill allows her to sexually entice and then command enemies to do her bidding.
Gyaru Girl: Invoked. She emulates the "gyaru" culture she once heard of which means bleaching her hair and artificially tanning herself.
In-Universe Nickname: She prefers to go by "Gyaru" though she doesn't fully comprehend the meaning or source of the style.
Only Sane Man: It's her unfortunate task to rein in her two muscle-headed and hot-blooded male teammates.
Weapon Specialization: She fights with a whip.

Spica

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Ever since you gave me this "blessing", my breasts hurt!

Introduced in chapter 107 and added to the party at the request of Istasha, rescuing him from the slums.

Because You Were Nice to Me: He bonds with Altair's party and ultimately decides to keep his breasts when Istasha offers to take them back because Altair and crew accept him as he is without prejudice or complaint, treating him with respect.
Blessed with Suck: Istasha meant well, but because of the very, very different norms and culture between succubi and humans, when she blessed him with the [Sensitive Nipples] blessing and gave him breasts to go with the nipples, he's faced nothing but ridicule and scorn from his family and the adventurer's guild. Altair's party is the lone exception.
D-Cup Distress: Being male, he wouldn't normally have breasts, but thanks to Istasha's blessing, he can't use armor, gets derision from other guys and finding a bra that fits and doesn't hurt has been very difficult.
Dude Looks Like a Lady: Thanks to Istasha's blessing giving him breasts people frequently get his gender confused.
Spider-Sense: The intended merit of Istasha's blessing is to warn him of danger, whether it be trap, monster, or spell.

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