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* TooDumbToLive: Zhang severely overestimates his influence, and even when it's clear Siyun won't show him any mercy if he keeps talking bullshit about his girls. He keeps pushing until Siyun is about to rip his entrails out in front of his father and by this point is too late to back down.

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Zhang severely overestimates his influence, and even when it's clear Siyun won't show him any mercy if he keeps talking bullshit about his girls. He keeps pushing until Siyun is about to rip his entrails out in front of his father and by this point is too late to back down.down.
** Ditu views even their fellow humans as nothing but disposable resources, and yet multiple alien races are dumb enough to join the FantasticRacist Dragonslayer Alliance for profit. [[spoiler:As soon as the alliance's member countries outlive their usefulness, even the humans are mass enslaved, while the alien races are out right exterminated.]]
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* DeityOfHumanOrigin: SufficientlyAdvancedAliens are considered to be gods, and in theory, a human angel that has obtained sufficient EnlightenmentSuperpowers would be considered a god as well.
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* DealWithTheDevil: In order to become a DeityOfHumanOrigin, Empress Qin offered HumanSacrifice to a dead SufficientlyAdvancedAlien. She ended up failing because the dead god wanted to enact GrandTheftMe, forcing her to cancel the ritual.


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* TheDragon: The Ditu Emperor ultimately takes a Daxia traitor, Concubine Qin, as his empress and the strongest angel in the Dragonslayer Alliance.
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* BigBad: The Ditu Emperor, who has spent a long time plotting to betray everyone to become the first emperor of all humanity.

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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Ditu's Emperor leaves Pleiades Dowager Empress to die at Beiyang's hands since she clearly has no idea how to lead the Dragon Slayer Alliance, is utterly defeated and completely refuses to accept defeat.

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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness:
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Ditu's Emperor leaves Pleiades Dowager Empress to die at Beiyang's hands since she clearly has no idea how to lead the Dragon Slayer Alliance, is utterly defeated and completely refuses to accept defeat.defeat.
** When the Ditu Emperor [[spoiler:takes full control of the alliance to form TheEmpire, he massacres entire nations of former allies that he doesn't need anymore, turning their populations into fertilizer.]]
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* TheAlliance: An evil version. Several fleets, warlords and dynasties join the Dragon Slayer Alliance against Siyun. [[TheChessmaster Which is most likely what he wanted to draw them into the open]]. The forces and resources they possess indicate that they had been planning to betray Daxia for decades. Siyun antagonizing them was just an excuse to do what they had wanted to do all that time.

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* TheAlliance: An evil version. Several fleets, warlords and dynasties join the Dragon Slayer Alliance against Siyun. [[TheChessmaster Which is most likely what he wanted to draw them into the open]]. The forces and resources they possess indicate that they had been planning to betray Daxia for decades. Siyun antagonizing them was just an excuse to do what they had wanted to do all that time. [[spoiler:After most of the countries in the alliance get tired of the Ditu Emperor's leadership, they attempt to replace him, only for him to enact ThePurge and slaughter every single one of them, allowing him to reforge the alliance into TheEmpire.]]
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* SpiritCultivationGenre: The way angels work and improve themselves is loosely based on this genre, except the means lean more towards {{Magitek}} rather than pure occult.
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* LostTechnology: While human technology in general has far surpassed what it was during the god slaying era, so many weapon engineers were killed during the war that military technology had to be redeveloped pretty much from scratch, with much remaining lost.

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* LostTechnology: While human technology in general has far surpassed what it was during the god slaying era, so many weapon engineers were killed during the war that military technology had to be redeveloped pretty much from scratch, with much remaining lost. Also not helping matters is the fact that with humanity on the brink of extinction at the hands of {{Precursors}}, engineers were desperate enough to resort to the occult, whereas modern engineers focus on science that is actually understood.
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* LostTechnology: While human technology in general has far surpassed what it was during the god slaying era, so many weapon engineers were killed during the war that military technology had to be redeveloped pretty much from scratch, with much remaining lost.
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* KlingonPromotion: How the Ditu Emperor expects one of his children to succeed him. Mind you, even if that's how he wants his authority to be passed on, if the child in question fails, the entire portion of the royal family belonging to them [[RevengeByProxy will be exterminated]] for [[DoWrongRight failing]]. The Emperor has countless concubines and descendants, as well as a certain LackOfEmpathy, so massacring his own blood isn't a huge deal to him.
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: It becomes clear that most of Ditu's soldiers are traitors who defected from Daxia so they wouldn't be bound by things like law, morals or basic human decency.

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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: It becomes clear that most of Ditu's soldiers are traitors who defected from Daxia so they wouldn't be bound by things like law, morals or basic human decency. Even their civilians have a distinctive LackOfEmpathy, even for one another.
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* PragmaticVillainy: Ditu citizens are forbidden from murdering one another outside of designated areas and must pay a fine if they do so anyways. After all, while human life holds no value whatsoever, even to the average Ditu citizen, their cities still need to maintain a basic level of hygiene.
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: The emperor of Ditu pretends to be a FatBastard to make his enemies underestimate him. He believes that Siyun destroys his enemies so dramatically and allows himself to be a HeroWithBadPublicity for similar reasons.
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* SlipknotPonytail: Ding Yuan's ponytail occasionally comes undone, letting her RapunzelHair cascade down her back.

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* SlipknotPonytail: Ding Yuan's ponytail occasionally comes undone, letting her RapunzelHair hair cascade down her back.
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** After assimilating Dragon Empress's HiveMind, Siyun gains access to her collection of bodies, the majority of them being female angels from nearly extinct races. Siyun can change their shape to some degree and often makes them look like his original body, but after a difficult fight with Rain Master, one of them reverts to it's original shape.

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** After assimilating Dragon Empress's HiveMind, Siyun gains access to her collection of bodies, the majority of them being female angels from nearly extinct races. Siyun can change their shape to some degree and often makes them look like his original body, but after a difficult fight with Rain Master, one of them the body he fought him with reverts to it's her original shape.



* HiveMind: This is essentially what a Soul-Tier angel is. If an angel reaches a high enough power level, they become able to control multiple bodies. When Dragon Empress, the only living Soul-Tier, attempts to add Siyun to her collection of bodies, he manages to [[AssimilationBackfire turn it on her]], claiming her power and HiveMind for himself. He has been shown operating ''three'' bodies at once: one acts as him for public appearances, another is the "Dragon Empress" who is officially Beiyang's Soul-Tier Angel, and the third is his real body.

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* HiveMind: This is essentially what a Soul-Tier angel is. If an angel reaches a high enough power level, they become able to control multiple bodies. When Dragon Empress, the only living Soul-Tier, attempts to add Siyun to built up her collection of bodies, bodies by capturing suitable angels and destroying their original personalities, placing them under her control. When she attempts to do the same to Siyun, he manages to [[AssimilationBackfire turn it on her]], claiming her power and HiveMind for himself. He has been shown operating ''three'' bodies at once: one acts as him for public appearances, another is the "Dragon Empress" who is officially Beiyang's Soul-Tier Angel, and the third is his real body.
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* GenocideFromTheInside: One alien girl laments that she is the LastOfHerKind, her race having been annihilated by the Dragon Slayer Alliance. After she shows her true colors, she gloats that she was the one who betrayed them to the Dragon Slayer Alliance in the first place.
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* GullibleLemmings: Even the most ObviouslyEvil Dragonslayer Alliance officials that openly brag about how much they enjoy KillThePoor get a decent amount of public support from Daxia citizens.

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* GullibleLemmings: Even the most ObviouslyEvil Dragonslayer Alliance officials that openly brag about how much they enjoy like to KillThePoor get a decent amount of public support from Daxia citizens.
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** Galaxy News may be a heavily biased news source that champions the Dragon Slayer Alliance as if they weren't completely evil, but when one of their reporters hears an average citizen boast about how they don't go to war for silly things like defense, but to enjoy massacring people, he is taken aback.

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** Galaxy News may be a heavily biased news source that champions the Dragon Slayer Alliance as if they weren't completely evil, but when one of their reporters hears an average Dragon Slayer Alliance citizen boast about how they don't go to war for silly things like defense, defending the country, but to enjoy massacring people, he is taken aback.
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** Galaxy News may be a heavily biased news source that champions the Dragon Slayer Alliance as if they weren't completely evil, but when one of their reporters hears an average citizen boast about how they don't go to war for silly things like defense, but to enjoy massacring people, he is taken aback.

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* GenderBender: Xiao Pao, being a battle puppet, eventually changes from a young-looking Siyun, to a teenage girl version of Siyun.
** Siyun himself creates a female body after his fight against Rain Master.

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Xiao Pao, being a battle puppet, eventually changes from a young-looking Siyun, to a teenage girl version of Siyun.
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Siyun himself creates a in order to fit in better with the all-female fleet she has been assigned to. Course, Xiao Pao, being an android, has NoBiologicalSex to begin with, so as she sadly notes, she still cannot have children.
** After assimilating Dragon Empress's HiveMind, Siyun gains access to her collection of bodies, the majority of them being
female body angels from nearly extinct races. Siyun can change their shape to some degree and often makes them look like his original body, but after his a difficult fight against with Rain Master.Master, one of them reverts to it's original shape.
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* HiveMind: What Siyun essentially becomes after becoming a Soul-Tier Angel. He has been shown operating ''three'' bodies at once: one acts as him for public appearances, another is the "Dragon Empress" who is officially Beiyang's Soul-Tier Angel, and the third is his real body.

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* HiveMind: What Siyun This is essentially becomes after becoming what a Soul-Tier Angel.angel is. If an angel reaches a high enough power level, they become able to control multiple bodies. When Dragon Empress, the only living Soul-Tier, attempts to add Siyun to her collection of bodies, he manages to [[AssimilationBackfire turn it on her]], claiming her power and HiveMind for himself. He has been shown operating ''three'' bodies at once: one acts as him for public appearances, another is the "Dragon Empress" who is officially Beiyang's Soul-Tier Angel, and the third is his real body.
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* ImportedAlienPhlebotinum: Humanity ultimately won the war against the [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens divine races]], partially by stealing their technology and using it against them, such as the process used to create angels. It should be noted that humanity even now has yet to fully understand said technology.


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* LesCollaborateurs: During the war against the divine races, most of humanity betrayed their own species to aliens planning to drive humanity to extinction in the hopes that the divine races would kill them last.
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* GullibleLemmings: Even the most ObviouslyEvil Dragonslayer Alliance officials that openly brag about how much they enjoy KillThePoor get a decent amount of public support from Ditu citizens.

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* GullibleLemmings: Even the most ObviouslyEvil Dragonslayer Alliance officials that openly brag about how much they enjoy KillThePoor get a decent amount of public support from Ditu Daxia citizens.
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* GenderRestrictedAbility: The substance used to create angels normally destroys anything that isn't female. Male angels are technically possible, but it's extremely rare for a man to survive the process. Humans didn't even know that male angels were possible in the first place, with Siyun being the first human man to succeed during a failed attempt to kill him with it.

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* GenderRestrictedAbility: The substance used to create angels normally destroys anything that isn't female. Male angels are technically possible, but it's extremely rare for a man to survive the process.process, with the last one appearing thousands of years ago. Humans didn't even know that male angels were possible in the first place, with Siyun being the first human man to succeed during a failed attempt to kill him with it.
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* AssimilationBackfire: As the first male angel to appear in thousands of years, Siyun's existence opens up a chance for Dragon Empress to revive herself via GrandTheftMe. He turns the tables and ends up absorbing her power, her HiveMind, and by extension, her other assimilated bodies instead.
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* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Part of the backstory. The human race was almost driven to extinction by multiple races of SufficientlyAdvancedAliens. The defiant humanity was ultimately able to turn the tables and wipe them out instead.
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* GenderRestrictedAbility: The substance used to create angels normally destroys anything that isn't female. Male angels are technically possible, but it's extremely rare for a man to survive the process. Humans didn't even know that male angels were possible in the first place, with Siyun being the first human man to succeed during a failed attempt to kill him with it.


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* GullibleLemmings: Even the most ObviouslyEvil Dragonslayer Alliance officials that openly brag about how much they enjoy KillThePoor get a decent amount of public support from Ditu citizens.
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* ObligatoryWarCrimeScene: Upon learning the prince of Merak was pushing for the abolishing of slavery, Yihou planet lord orders the mass-murder of the entire slave population of Shura in the slave concentration camp, on live stream, with "Galaxy News" Specialist Bao openly cheering that they should all be burned alive, rather than granted freedom. This is after his fellow commentator openly declared that Shura are over 99% human!
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* SkunkStripe: Qian Zhen, the Thousand-White Needles, has a strand of white hair.
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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: When Ditu's prince starts attacking communication satellites, both to engage in (mis)information warfare and to boost his own ego, Siyun takes the logical step of getting replacement satellites '''armed'''. The moment Ditu's fleet is destroyed in a retaliatory strike, Ditu runs to the blatantly biased press and whines about Siyun's "war crime." The internet swallows this ridiculous narrative hook, line, and sinker and starts lambasting Daxia about his "evil ways" until Dragon Empress comments that she'd happily destroy the sattelites herself if they want, after all, those bored rich kids are spending way, way too much time on the internet and should have it shut down on them by the destruction of said satellites. At that point, the internet goes strangely silent...

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* DidNotThinkThisThrough: When Ditu's prince starts attacking communication satellites, both to engage in (mis)information warfare and to boost his own ego, Siyun takes the logical step of getting replacement satellites '''armed'''. The moment Ditu's fleet is destroyed in a retaliatory strike, Ditu runs to the blatantly biased press and whines about Siyun's "war crime." The internet swallows this ridiculous narrative hook, line, and sinker and starts lambasting Daxia about his "evil ways" until Dragon Empress comments that she'd happily destroy the sattelites satellites herself if they want, after all, those bored rich kids are spending way, way too much time on the internet and should have it shut down on them by the destruction of said satellites. At that point, the internet goes strangely silent...

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