The Marren Clan | Dinrat Kingdom: (Lomarn City | The Fage Territory: Russel Village | Palgas Village)
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Euris
- Euris: “…… I’m sorry for what I did just now. My name is Euris and that woman is Maya. Both of us serve the lord and maintain the security of the territory”
- All for Nothing: The attack on Nalgarn resulted in killing of the blue head, at the cost of casualties in the squads and breaking her bones... Wait, did it just regrow the blue head they just killed??Euris: “Fo-, for what…… have I……” faints.
- Boyish Short Hair: Mentioned to have short black hair.
- Face Death with Dignity: When she's unable to stand, with Nalgarn's blue head closing on her. Subverted since she gets saved:Euris: “…… so this is it.”
- Frontline General: She leads the close-quarter squad on the attack on Nalgarn, and the one who goes for attacking its blue head.
- Heroic Second Wind: Despite getting tackled by Nalgarn's blue head, getting bone fractures to her legs and feet, she still offers herself to be teleported with magic to finish off the blue head, and succeeds! Temporarily..
- I Can Still Fight!: Even after some time from getting bone fractures to both her legs and feet, she still perform her guard duties when she's clearly limping. And then there is the time she kicked Lark's office door open... and didn't show pain. And after that, goes to lead a group from the private army on a monster-thinning mission, on foot!
- Ignored Enamored Underling: She has feelings for Lark, and does everything to help him maintain his land in its difficult times. While Lark is enamored with Marias, she isn't swayed and continue to serve him as always.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: When Marias got kidnapped, she begs Abel to save her and praises her as the one supporting Baron Lark the most in his hardest times, as she sees Lark sick with worry over her.
- Lady and Knight: Gender-Inverted, with Lark as her lady.
- Magic Knight: Thanks to her past as an adventurer, she knows her way with magic, and wields a Flaming Sword.
- Magnetic Hero: Well-respected by her men in the private army and members of the good-side of the Alchemy Division. Icarus and his men however, are a different story.
- Rousing Speech: Gives one to a force of 100 soldiers prior to their attack on Nalgarn, telling them to never hold back and do their best unless they want to stay forever trapped in the territory.
- Subordinate Excuse: With Lark, her boss, after the "Reformation of Fage Territory" arc.
- Undying Loyalty: To Lark. No matter how much his people openly state and celebrate their hate for him, she won't give in to their taunts nor abandon him, and instead grimaces at how ignorant they are. Proven even further when several members of the private army voiced their intent of leaving the territory, she told him that she'll stay with him no matter what.
Baron Lark Fage
“Hoh, Hoh! If you’re willing to stay in this kind of territory, you can stay forever. But right now, there are so many problems……”
The current ruler of the Fage territory. His popularity plummeted thanks to a mysterious series of terrible events in the territory, combined with the decisions he made to counter them. He accepts Abel's help in saving the territory from whoever is threatening it, in exchange of letting him and Mea live there.- Bait-and-Switch Character Intro: Before meeting him, all what Abel heard about Lark was that he's a useless baron compared to his father, who taxes his already poor people and lavish himself with the tax money, and is hated by most of the citizens of the territory, among other things. When he actually meet him, he is a fairly competent ruler despite the difficulties and nasty general opinion of him.
- Big Fancy House: The Fage family mansion. Which double as a base of operation and holds his office.
- Cosmic Plaything: After his introduction and discuessions with Abel, the latter notes that the problems in the territory just come like breathing air, and lampshade it. Averted, since all the problems were the result of a conspiracy against the territory.Abel (Narrating): It’s amazing, every problem comes up like a breath of air. How much does God hate this lord?
- Crush Blush: When Abel asks Lark about Marias, he blushes, smiles and stutters as he explains that she left for a while. Abel does note that Euris just left his office and he didn't react to her the least.
- Despair Speech: Pretty much sums up his situation after Marias stops him from killing himself:Lark: “With everything! You put the blame on me! After all, the drought, bad harvest and Nalgarn were all my fault? Am I a god or something? If I had such power, I would curse and kill all the guys who threw eggs at the window. Stop making fun of me!”.
- Driven to Suicide: Tried hanging himself in his office, because of his citizens' disdain and hatred of him, and the frustration with all the troubles facing the territory piling up. Subverted since Marias talks him out of it.
- Heroic BSoD: He fainted after learning of Marias' true nature and what became of her. He gets better, thanks to Euris.
- Love Makes You Dumb: Several times sensitive information comes out from his office, like Abel's petition paper to use Bio-magic, or the private army's rendezvous point for the thinning mission, etc. and not once does he suspect that someone like his beloved maid could be The Mole.
- Love Revelation Epiphany: He begins developing feelings for Euris after her promise to stay by his side in the Fage territory while other soldiers decided leave to their homes. He brushes it off as being grateful, because of his feelings for Marias.
- Obstructive Bureaucrat: He makes sure to read each petition for permits on magic clearly, which is an obstacle for Abel, as he is wise to his attempts to have Lark approve of use of Bio-Magic, which could get them in trouble with the Kingdom, if something goes wrong.
- Puppet King: Downplayed. Thanks to the public's opinion of him, Icarus can do whatever he wants with or without Lark's approval. As far as the public is concerned, Icarus and his side of the Alchemy division are the heroes working to solve the food crisis, while Lark surrounds himself with his private army, who answer only to him.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Understanding, wise and willing to listen to consultation even from a 16 years old kid, who killed a three-headed dragon of course. He helps Abel in restoring the territory within his reach, but will stop the young mage should his suggestions veer into unreasonable demands.. like getting a permission for use of Bio-Magic. But will cave-in if someone promised him that for a favor.
- The reason why he closed the Adventurer Support Center of the territory, was because of Nalgarn. It became impossible to hunt, subjugate magical monsters for the center for money rewards because of its threat, and many adventurers were killed by it. He did his work, and deduced that the money for maintaining the center could go to people who aren't doing their job, over the people who do. So he decided to employ the adventurers in a private army and alchemy division, with a salary and merits, but had to rise the taxes to maintain and feed them, souring the citizens' opinion of him.
- Subordinate Excuse: With Euris, commander of his private army, after the "Reformation of Fage Territory" arc.
- Suicide as Comedy: Baron Lark is introduced... trying to hang himself from the pressure of all the troubles in the territory that everyone is blaming him for [1]
. - 0% Approval Rating: The citizens HATE Lark, because of the poor condition the territory has fallen into. Angry mob raids to his mansion became an occasional thing, along with drawing graffiti and splattering fertilized eggs on the walls and garbage thrown in the gardens. All this change after all the territory's problems are solved, to the better.
Marias
“There, there, It’s alright. Marias knows that Lark-sama is doing his best, I know it all, so please calm down.”
Baron Lark's personal maid and the closest person to him.- Battles Of Wits: She summons her beasts and demons and lines them like the world-equivalent game of chess, Lyrus Board, to fight Abel. Abel responds by summoning his own army of Ortems and lines them in the same way. He only got to use one particular battle Ortem to win.
- The Beastmaster: She tames and control spirits beasts and demons, obtaining their summon crests and using them to attack and carry out her neferious schemes.
- Better to Die than Be Killed: While Abel is analyzing the Levi's crest in her hand as she sits in shock, she suddenly pulls a short sword and stabs her hand, erasing the seal. She tries to stab Abel but Ashura 5000 blocks her path. She then shouts “…… Le-, Levi-sama, long live!” and stab herself in the abdomen, and a gray poisonous liquid comes out from the wound. Subverted as Abel saves her.
- The Butler Did It: The one behind all the troubles in the territory, but operating through her minion, Ringus, and her spirit beasts.
- The Chessmaster:
- Abel deduced that whoever is behind the crisis of the Fage territory is cunning and clever, making sure to cut communication from the outside world, making the problems look natural than man-made, and could've crushed the territory anytime they wanted, but instead preferred to wait until the all citizens convert their faith to Levi from the pressure, to not alert the Kingdom with a big incident.
- She employes this in her fight with Abel, summoning 20 monsters of spirit beasts and demons, lining them up in two rows like her Lyrus Board game, placing her strongest demon, Lapidestatoa, to her leftside to tank physical attacks, and a demon with a large mirror to to prevent magic attacks to her rightside, while she rides a red large bull-like demon with snakes for a head, with herself as the king piece.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: She starts off imposing and confident of her superiority in strategy, and gloats about how her kingodm is far stronger thanks to its history with internal wars, than the peaceful Dinart Kingom. But then Abel crushes her monsters using Ashura 5000, after it broke free from the threads binding it, single-handedly, smashing the mirror-carrying demon, then engaging Lapidestatoa in a Brawler Lock to destroy it with it four free arms. Seeing this, all her remaining demons, and her red bull mount, bails on her, leaving her defenseless. Abel planned on using it as a scout at first.
- Cute Maid: She fit the role with her job and her dress in the illustrations. Sadly, her beauty is only skin-deep.
- Damsel in Distress: She gets kidnapped from Lark's mansion, along with many people from the Fage territory by spirit beasts. But then she attacks Abel together with Ringus, revealing her true colors.
- Disappeared Dad: Her father was killed by Nalgarn, and Lark lets her take her time to visit his grave whenever she's out on an errand. It is a cover story for her to plan her attacks on the territory.
- Fatal Flaw: Her overreliance on strategy. Sure, organizing attacks, setting up traps and countermeasures and combining it with Defensive Feint Trap is effective for taking down opposition... as long as they play and move like chess pieces. Her fight with Abel was doomed the minute Abel placed a Tank like Ashura 5000, and stopped playing it like a chess game.Marias: “How could such a…… mistake in my tactics…… with all those precautions, with the next best thing, the most reliable way……Be-, because I’ve never been defeated by anyone on the Lyrus board……” Marias repeated in a whisper, mumbling.
Abel: “Well, unlike chess, the pieces we use and stuff like that are different.” - Go Mad from the Revelation: She wakes up from her "death" after 5 minutes, thinking it was a nightmare, to see Abel just finished converting her Lapidestatoa demon and Cow Snake to become his summon crests, and saying Good Morning! The shock of all that happened was too much for her, she fell to the ground and started spewing bubbles from her mouth, and was later found to have regressed into the mental state of a child.
- Humiliation Conga: After Ashura 5000 destroys her two biggest demons along with her spirit beasts. She orders her mount, a big red bull demon with countless snakes coming from the neck, to run away with her, only for the bull demon to lower its posture and throw her off its back and sit still Quaking with Fear. The rest of her demons ran away to parts unknown, erasing their summon crests away from her body..
- I Have Your Wife: She has her spirit beasts kidnap many people from the Fage territory, including herself to draw Abel in. She wanted to have Mea kidnapped too, but Abel wised up after the Assassination Attempt on him, and set up an Ortem Defense System to protect himself and Mea.
- The Mole: Not only she was the one leaking information from Lark, she's the leader of the conspiracy against the territory, and behind every bad thing happening to it.
- Living Emotional Crutch: To Lark, keeping him from collapsing under the weight of his territory's troubles. But she's keeping him alive to manipulate him some more, as said troubles are perpetrated by her minion, Ringus.
- Power Tattoo: She has many summon crests that glows when she summons her spirit beasts and demons. When Abel counted them, there were over twenty crests covering her body.
- Sickbed Slaying: She's the one who sent a spirit beast to kill Abel when he was sick with a cold, but Mea dealt with it.
- Smart People Play Chess: Her father brought a game similar to chess called "Lyrus Board" when they arrived at the territory. She often plays with Lark at their free time, with Lark always winning the games. She was letting Lark win to make him feel good and open to her manipulations. She's actually really skilled and never lost a game of Lyrus Board.
- Talking Down the Suicidal: Talks down Lark from hanging himself by telling him that she'll always be by his side.
- Trap Master: After Abel had Ashura 5000 trashes her front raw of spirit beasts, it suddenly stops moving, due to it getting tangled with Razor Floss attached to the spirit beasts, created by her Gunifilascas, spider-like demons.
- Walking Spoiler: She's revealed as a High Priestess of Levi in the climax of the "Reformation of Fage Territory" arc and serves as its Final Boss.
- We Can Rule Together: Subverted. She tells Abel that, had he been a less powerful magician, she would've asked him to become a follower of Levi, but he's too dangerous to carry around, and compares him to a magic bomb.
- The Woman Behind the Man: She is one of the Four Great Priests of Levi's church, Ringus' boss and in charge of the operation of invasion of the Fage territory.
Rinoa Liberto
“…… Can this really bring the clouds together?”
The deputy-head of the Fage territory's Alchemy Division. She leads the good faction of the division that opposes Icarus and his faction, making her and her faction a target for their harassment.- The Blacksmith: After learning of the Noir race's skills with magic ore processing, Abel refers to Rinoa to research and process a magic ore he got from Zeshum Ruins, to construct a weapon for himself, Lapides sword.
- Combination Attack: Uses Teleportation magic to send Euris and 3 soldiers to finish off the Nalgarn's weakened blue head.
- Everyone Has Standards: She helps Abel get three of his 5 "pending" petitions approved by Baron Lark to use magic in helping the territory, after seeing his what he's capable of and to help him defeat Icarus after challenging him. Abel asks her for opinion on his 2 remaining petitions, hoping for another approval from Lark. Her reaction:Rinoa: “If you make a mistake, the Royal Knights will come to burn the entire territory down for violating the commandments.”
- Honest Advisor: She leads the 'good' faction of the alchemy division, that opposes Icarus' abuse of power and actually tries to contribute to save the territory, only for Icarus to try and drive them out.
- It's Not You, It's My Enemies: Non-Romantic example. She initially refused Abel's help with the rainmaking, because that'll make him a target for Icarus' faction's bullying too.
- Older Than She Looks: She looks two-heads shorter than Abel in the cover for LN Volume 4 , but that's by the virtue of being a member of the Noir species.
- Overworked Sleep: She, along with the rest of her alchemy faction who didn't get bitten by plants, became this after working nonstop for nearly a day on the developing of a crop for the territory.
- Pointy Ears: Has two long ears similar to elves.
- Rules Lawyer: When Abel offers to use his village's method to gather clouds using wooden Ortems, she accepts and give him full authority over the faction, since Abel doesn't have a permit to use Weather Manipulation magic in the Fage territory. However, he then has a different idea.
- The Scapegoat: She and her faction were handed the mission to make rain fall on the territory by Icarus. It's an Impossible Task, and they will be blamed for failure by the territory citizens with words from Icarus, and they'll have to leave now that Nalgarn is dead, removing the only people capable of replacing Icarus from the territory.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Despite Icarus' objections, she, along with 3 mages from the sorcery squad, ran off to aid Euris, when she was about to be killed by Nalgarn's blue head.
- Talented, but Trained: As a Noir, she's gifted and has mastery over magic, and is the deputy of the alchemy division, even if she falls short to Abel's level of magic power. She managed to make an Ortem on Abel's instructions on the first try, while her men were struggling in frustration.
Icarus Izaida
- Icarus: “I hear you have great magic skills for someone so young. I heard that you defeated Nalgarn and contributed to the operation to thin the magic beasts the other day. Really good, good.”
- The Alleged Expert: When Abel looked at a copy of Icarus' research papers on crop development, he was dismayed. To put it simply from his perspective: the report was full of disjointed ends, paragraphs hastily inserted to sidetrack from the goal of the research, omissions, no clarity on a method used, and that it grows faster and larger seems to have been added just to appease the dissatisfied locals, who are frustrated that the development is taking too long. And the magic circles pictured in the reports are "a messed up mess": a bunch of alchemy-related magic circles that are connected halfway in parts. As Lark puts it, he is suitable for battles rather than research.Abel: It’s obvious that if we bothered to create, plant, and grow this kind of thing and waited for the results, we wouldn’t be able to develop a decent crop even if it took 10,000 years.
- Arc Villain: Of the "Reformation of Fage Territory" arc. Most of Abel's work is concentrated on taking him down, before going to deal with Ringus.
- Backstab Backfire: When he created a venomous snake from dirt to attack Abel, catching the latter off-guard. Abel couldn't think of a retaliation because the duel rules were still stuck in his head, and opted for the first response to come, a Wind Blade spell. It decapitated the dirt snake, and struck Icarus in the belly, defeating him. Abel heals him with Bio-magic, but since Abel was still sick, he focused on keeping him alive.
- Beard of Evil: Is mentioned to have a detailed black moustache and a beard, and quite devious to boot.
- Boomerang Bigot: Calls the adventurers in the private army 'a bunch of cowards who are supposed to be used up', despite him being one himself in the past.
- Break Them by Talking: His favorite trick:
- Will pick on every little word anyone say to him to make it look like a personal attack on him, and retaliates by deriding the speaker and mocking him. Be it questioning his plan or politely pointing a flaw in his work:
Euris: “Plea-, please calm down. I need you to listen to me! I……”
Icarus: “I’ll make the plan, you’ll lead it. That’s what my lord told you! Why can’t the commander of the entire squad, Lady Euris, understand something so easy that doing something like doubting the operation will affect the morale of the entire operation!”- When Lark brings up his squad's behavior in the attack on Nalgarn, he deflects it back at him with the excuse that the private army failed to get Nalgarn's attention, so his squad couldn't attack, least they also become casualties as well. Lark didn't have answer for that.
- When he demanded from Lark to have all Nalgarn's severed heads be given to the alchemy divison, instead of using their scales to make armor for the army, Abel tells him that he could reconsider giving them off since he's the one who gave them to Lark. Icarus countered by telling Abel that a rumor spreading throughout the territory, that Abel gave Nalgarn's heads to Lark without compensation, and that rescinding his donation would make him look really bad as the hero of the territory. All what Abel could've thought of was:
Abel (to himself): More than anything else, the thought of it going into this guy’s hands makes me angry. - Card Board Prison: He gets imprisoned in an unused warehouse as he awaits The Exile for his crimes, but gets freed by Ringus, who presented the guard with a message from Baron Lark.
- Commander Contrarian: Went and changed a plan he agreed upon in the last minute and behind Euris' back so she can't criticize it. Instead of bringing more mages (which are more useful for taking down the dragon) he only brought 20 mages for his sorcery squad. Then, he had them sit safely behind the lines and do nothing while waiting for both the close-quarter combat squad and the archery squad to lure Nalgarn to their range. They failed and both squads suffered heavy casualties while his squad remained untouched. Euris would've died if it weren't for Rinoa and 3 mages to break off from the squad to save her.Icarus: “Do you think I! Rearranged the plan! To protect myself!? Is that what you’re thinking! Looks like I’ve been made fun of!”
- Con Man: He spent years researching the development of a crop that easily grow on the local climate and bear nutritious fruit to solve the food shortage, siphoning more of the tax money for the project, but lost hope on creating such convenient crops. So he and his faction pretended the project was still going to fill their pockets with the project money. But then Abel happened..
- Crazy-Prepared: When Abel finds holes in his Frame-Up story, it looks like Abel won.. but Icarus then pulls one of Abel "pending" petitions to use Bio-magic obtained from Lark's office, and leaks the story of how the Ortem Gourd plants attacked Rinoa's alchemy faction during the development, all to smear Abel's image to the territory.
- Evil Old Folks: He's in his forties, and a nasty aged piece of work he is.
- Frame-Up: His plan with Ringus against Abel, using an injured villager to pretend that a Ortem Gourd plant bitten and injured him to discredit Abel. All to goad Abel into accepting a Wizard Duel against Icarus to prove he's indeed proficient in magic, when in reality it is a trap meant to kill Abel.
- Freudian Excuse: When he was young, he was a famous top-notch adventurer respected by those around him, and he liked to show off, and hoped to serve nobility. However, he was overconfident of himself, wasn't the strongest magician among jobs candidates, and was completely ignorant of how to treat nobility, which made him be looked down upon. He was told to seek employment to lower positions, but he refused because of his pride. So when he found employment in the Fage territory, a rural area in the far borders, he decided to be the one who look down on those beneath him, and live like a king.
- Graceful Loser: Surprisingly, after his defeat at Abel's hands, he completely gives up, lets himself be interrogated to clear Abel's name from his slandering, and is exiled out of the territory for good, along with two members of his faction who requested to accompany him. The fact that Abel saved him from dying might have something to do with it.
- Humiliation Conga: Abel subjects him to a massive, well-calculated downfall, as not only he reveals him for what he truely is, destroys the image the citizens had of him for 10 years, Lark condemns him to The Exile from the territory for his crimes and he gets put in prison. Too bad he never takes the hint...
- Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance: When Abel call him out on using his crop development research as an excuse for pushing his work on others, while not producing anything for years, he launches into a long tirade about how hard crop development using magic really is, taking factors like how long it takes to grow, climate change, trial and error, hypotheses, and meddling into god's domain, and mocking Abel and calling his knowledge shallow while wheezing and panting, and leave while exchanging remarks with his men. What he doesn't know is that he just helped Abel set the stage for his downfall, who proceed to create his own crop with help of Rinoa's faction... within a day!.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: He wasn't the best of magicians he thought he was when he applied for employment for nobility, so he enjoyed the position he got when he was employed in the Fage territory, admired and respected by the people over Lark for years, growing arrogant as a result. But when Abel came to the territory and bested him by creating a Multipurpose Monocultured Crop to solve the food shortage, a dream that he gave up on after years of researching, and exposed his lies about his own faked research in front of the citizens who loved and believed in him, he snapped and struck a deal with Ringus to destroy Abel.
- Let's Fight Like Gentlemen: Invoked. He knows that fighting Abel is suicide, so he goads him into accepting a Vernasse-style magic duel, that Abel knows nothing about in contrast with Icarus, who's known as "Icarus the Serial Bullet" in these duels, to restrain his powers.
- Manipulative Bastard: He and his faction harass Rinoa and her faction into taking on jobs meant for Icarus' faction, but the jobs usually are Impossible Task like Cloud-gathering spell. If they fail, the citizens' anger and frustration will be directed at them, instead of him, and drive them to leave the territory. If they succeed, he undervalues their work, claims that the clouds were actually going to gather without their hardwork. And the citizens believe him.Abel: It seems that Icarus is intent on reducing the Vice Commander’s group’s voice and the trust of those around them by throwing the difficult task of gathering rain clouds to them.
By creating other spearheads, he suppresses the loss of his own credibility while also undermining the credibility of his opponents who are in his way by making them unable to move.
As expected of a man who controls his domain from behind the scenes. - Never My Fault: He blames Lark's private army for the failure of the attack on Nalgarn, because they couldn't lure Nalgarn to the range of their magic, deliberately leaving out the fact that he's the one who had his mage squad stay away and do nothing while their comrades are getting slaughtered.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Derided, mocked and ridiculed Euris when she tried to sincerely ask or discuss the changes in the plan to attack Nalgarn, and shouted and ranted at her for no reason other than cutting her off. Then left saying how he was against having a woman leads the operation.
- Treacherous Advisor: He was highly respected by the previous lord and still has the townsfolk's admiration, but he's making things worse for the territory, knowing well that Lark will be blamed for it, while he's living a lazy life from the money on a research he'll never complete.
- Villainous Breakdown: After Abel, still fighting the cold, bests him in the Vernasse-style magic duel, and his faction are demanding him to stop least he get himself seriously injured, he starts cackling madly, launch into a Motive Rant explaining why he can't quit when he close to become king, throws a tantrum on the ground and scream and cry... then picks his staff and turns the ground into venomous snake to attack Abel, intending to kill him. See Back Stab Backfire.Icarus: “I’ve been in this shitty land from twenty to forty…… forever! And now I finally get the chance to be king of the land in name only, and then someone like you comes along! I chose this goddamn frontier to avoid the likes of you! What am I supposed to do now that I’ve been banished? What are you doing with my life! You know how much I’ve contributed to this place so far! Who do you think I am! I am Icarus the serial bullets, you know! Normally, I’m not the kind of magician who smokes on the ground like this! Without me, this territory …… would have been even worse……! Give it back…… I’m the king! I was the king……”
Ringus
“How in the world did you manage to defeat Nalgarn! I’d love to hear that story……!”
A missionary who hails from the Riveras Kingdom, left his home for training and stumbled across the Fage territory despite its rugged borders. He preaches to the citizens the teachings of the Levi Church, drawing them in with hope and promises of salvation.- Anger Montage: He goes through an internal one in Chapter 165, after his Villain Team-Up with Icarus failed and Abel became a celebrity.
- Despair Event Horizon: After Abel resolve each problem created by Ringus in the territory, Lark wising up to his tricks, Icarus' defeat and banishment, the building of his church stopped because of a sudden increase in work for the citizens, Abel spreading a card game among the locals to relieve their stress. All this makes him resolves to kill Abel no matter what, and asks the "High Pristess" to aid his final attack.
- Enemy Mine: He breaks out Icarus from his prison to join forces in a scheme to drive Abel out of the territory, or kill him. Icarus knows that Ringus is planning something for the territory, but he was Too Desperate to Be Picky.
- Eyes Always Shut: From his illustration in the light novel, completing his Good Shepherd image. He does open them, whenever he reacts to unexpected things or extreme emotions, like when he heard how Nalgarn was killed. Later, they are open, as he show is extreme hostility before attacking Abel.
- Gone Mad from the Revelation: After Abel apprehended him, he didn't respond to interrogations from Lark's soldiers for his crimes. It appears that seeing his religion's esteemed High Priestess, Marias, utterly defeated sent him into a state of apathy and won't take anything seriously. The cause was ruled to be extreme stress... or a Crisis of Faith?
- Holding the Floor: After Abel reaches where the kidnapped Fage territory citizens are held, he tries to sneak on Abel from behind, but Abel sees through it. He talks to Abel and congratulate him on making it this far and prepares two magical circle to attack with water spears. Abel rewrites the magic circles' tragectory, and advises him against shooting that. As Ringus chants and shoots, Abel hears a second voice chanting the same spell as Ringus and looks behind him.. to find Marias casting the spell to hit him In the Back! Subverted because Abel saw her betrayal coming and had Ringus' water spears hit her's.
- Implied Death Threat: After telling him that he knows that Abel'll join the army in the magic beasts thinning quest, he gives Abel and a thinly-veiled one:Ringus: “Please be careful not to lose your life over something trivial. You are the hero and hope of this territory, after all.”
- Insidious Rumor Mill: One of the territory citizens lets it slip that Ringus tells them that reports of Abel's achievements are a hoax made by Lark to quell their anger, with Ringus besides him! That earned Ringus one Death Glare from Lark, as this proves that he was the one spreading slander about him.
- It's Personal: After hearing Abel badmouth Nalgarn's design and magic circle, which was made by Penrath, and was the one who killed it, he swore to kill Abel for such insult.
- Laser-Guided Karma: He comes out from his hiding place, thinking that Marias defeated Abel, only to find Abel victorious and Marias defeated and spewing bubbles. He tries to escape, only for Abel to order Marias' demon, Cow Snake, to catch him with its multiple snakes' necks. Ringus' desperate screams echoed through the forest.
- Make It Look Like an Accident: The ambush by Hamelin and the monsters was orchestrated by him, to dispose of both Lark's private army and Abel, who killed Nalgarn.
- Making a Splash: He tries to ambush Abel with lances made of water.
- Fingore: He bites his index finger to suppress his anger after seeing rain falling in the territory.
- Frame-Up: His plan with Icarus involves Murk, a follower of Ringus, to pretend he was bitten and injured by a Ortem Gourd plant, to discredit Abel in the eyes of the territory. This was a bait, as the actual plan involves getting Abel to agree on a Wizard Duel against Icarus, to defeat or kill him in the duel.
- Preacher Man: Began spreading the words of Levi after settling for a while in the Fage territory.
- Rage Breaking Point: He crosses it when he sees rain falling onto the territory, despite his ward. He almost strangled a follower in a fit of rage!
- Saying Too Much: He comes to Abel along with a group of followers from the territory, and asks him how he defeated Nalgarn. When Abel tells him the cover story he gave Euris and Lark followed by a thinly-veiled critique of its design, Ringus begins saying more things about Nalgarn to disprove the story: such as his embedded magic circle and unheard of magic additions included in the dragon. And he feels overly defensive of such a beast that threatened the territory being attacked like that. And then he let this slip, in front of Abel and the group of followers! Somehow, no one suspected a thing:Ringus: “Oh…… Yes, that’s definitely true. Nalgarn has a high magical power…… and is the right choice for building a magic circle of regeneration. I’m sure that’s it, it can’t be wrong. They are also very mobile, and if you let them take the initiative, they will be able to move to their advantage. It was my own fault.”
- Sinister Minister: Preaches to the Fage territory citizens to attain salvation and hope from Levi's religion, while he and his church are responsible for the troubles in the territory, plotting to invade them for a Pretext for War against the Dinrat Kingdom.
- The Social Expert: He manages to get a crowd of listeners to one of his speeches to care and be invested in the Riveras Kingdom's history and religion wars, despite them being residents of the Fage territory. Just by using small negative words and big positive words and saying 'peace' a lot and loudly.
- Suppressed Rage: His voice becomes raspy, his face reddens, followed by twitchy hands after his debate with Abel on Nalgarn as a beast. He calms himself down, until Mea mentions Abel's criticism on the shoddy quality and inefficiency of Nalgarn's magic circle, and that whoever made it has no understanding of magic, giving him a short Villainous BSoD before excusing himself to rest.
- Talks Like a Simile: Many of his sermons, speeches and words of Levi has a metaphor included. All of his metaphors are water-themed.Ringus: “All things circulate. Water and action are the same again.”
- Weather Manipulation: He is the one behind the drought on the Fage territory. Using "Cloud Avoidance" spell to prevent clouds from going into the area, so that his built church could draw in new members by giving their own water for free.
- Why Won't You Die?: He tells one of the men building a Levi church in the Fage territory that there been some concerns that just got taken care of. Once he sees Abel coming from the monsters thinning mission, he kneel over like he saw a ghost.Ringus: “W-why…what is, what is going on? You were supposed to take part on that……”
- Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: He's the Good Shepherd of Levi in front of the troubled territory's citizens, while several of the Fage territory problems are actually made by him. Weather Manipulation, crop diseases created by a demon, Hamelin. All part of a large plan to convert the territory from the inside, and use it as a foothold for an invasion on the Dinrat Kindgom.
Clark
- Clark: “Hmph, it looks like we, the private army is being looked down for going out with kids.”
- Arbitrary Skepticism: Refuses to believe that Abel slayed Nalgarn, and believes that he must've found it dead and carried the heads to the territory. Euris tells him to remember the way the Nalgarn's heads were cut, and she could testify that the dragon's necks aren't easy to cut with a sword.
- Backhanded Apology: Gives Abel one with a smile after telling him not to get ahead of himself because Lark favors him and Euris scolded him for it:Clark: “I’m sorry for my words, my apologies. I declare that you have defeated Nalgarn by yourself, Hero-sama of the Fage Territory.”
- Jerkass Has a Point: After Abel and Mea were almost hurt by a goblin leader and getting saved by Clark, he berates them for not pulling their weight and putting themselves in danger. Abel wanted to be angry at him, but he agrees that he was right, so he brings Ashura 5000 to help in the army in the mission.
- Jerkass Realization: He spells it out for Abel when the latter offers to heal and clean him after the monsters ambush, after seeing what Abel is capable of.Clark: “…… I’m wrong. I couldn’t help but believe it when I saw you on the move. No, maybe I didn’t want to believe it. I can’t believe there was a human who could easily defeat a magic beast that we couldn’t even handle.”
- Jerk Justifications: He resents Abel for 'supposedly' landing the killing blow on Nalgarn, after the army 'allegedly' weakened it, and robbing them of the achievement. Not knowing that Abel lied about how he killed it to make the army look better.
- The Resenter: He really has it in for Abel throughout the magic beasts thinning. Picking on how easily he tires out from walking, dragging them behind, him and Mea needing protection and doubting how Abel could've defeated Nalgarn, and calling it a fluke. He DOES however mellows out of it when Abel saves him from getting Swallowed Whole by a Great King Vogue.
- Unwanted Assistance: He refuses Abel's offer to clean him with magic and remove the smell, mud and mucus from getting caught by the Great King Vogue's tongue. Justified because of his Pride making him feel embarrased of his treatment of Abel in the mission, and wanting to reflect on it.
Jaguar Zircos
- Jaguar (about Icarus): “Abel-dono, I can understand you’re upset of him, but there’s no way in hell you can win against him. If you argue with him, this is what will happen.”
- Despair Speech: He breaks down when it looked like the cloud-gathering spell he and the rest of the faction worked hard to make failed, then he talks about how Icarus made everyone think he's crazy and yet he still tried. And tops it off with:Jaguar: “…… It was in vain, all of it. After all that effort and desperation, I feel stupid. The only thing you can do now is to leave without saying a word, because Nalgarn isn’t here. You can’t do anything even if I’m here or the Assistant Commander is here. I’m sure that this place will be destroyed no matter how hard you try.”
- Inept Mage: Originally hired to be in the private army, but was sent to increase the number of members in Rinoa's faction.
- Undying Loyalty: An adventuring drifter like Euris, he was picked up by Lark when the Fage territory was isolated due to Nalgarn, and was given a job, a roof and a salary in the private army. He wanted to repay Lark through his work and servitude. Abel realized that when his Despair Speech mentioned Lark.
Ela
- Ela: “Sir …… every day, you’re here from noon to late at night, please give me a break. You don’t even have any money, do you?”
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Berates Coll.. er Shu-san when he considered selling the 5 million Gold sword he got from Iris, to pay his tavern's bill. Calling him out for trying to escape adventuring work.
- Deadpan Snarker: During one of Collector's rants:Ela: “Look! Don’t you have the sword that Iris bought you! You used to say about it all the time that “I’m a legendary adventurer”, so why don’t you show her something like that once in a while?”
Collector: “No! Didn’t she say so proudly: You are in a recharging period, and this is the time you need to rest in order to work one day, is what she said! So if I work now, it’s as if I’m doing exactly what she told me to do!”
Ela: “I think part of it is because she gave up on you and left you behind.”
Collector: “Listen? My refusal to move is also my revenge on her for betraying me!”
Ela: “…… It just looks like big self-deprecation, you know?” - Fear Is the Appropriate Response: Seeing Collector, after he butchered two Elite Mook of Jeem single-handedly, she backs away from him in fear. He doesn't blame her though.
- Like an Old Married Couple: Often scolds a drunk Collector, a previously World's Best Warrior, for staying all the time in her tavern, and isn't intimidated by his rants.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Feeling sympathey for Collector, she paid for his meal in the tavern for three days, and he ended up staying there waiting for someone to pay for his meals.
- Official Couple: In the epilogue, she and Collector got engaged.
- Parting-Words Regret: She tries to find Collector, after she got scared of him when she saw him killing Jeem's men, hoping to apologize to him. Averted as Collector survives his encounter with Jeem.
- Second Love: For Collector, after Iris leaves him and return to Asshim.
Iris
- Iris: “It’s okay, Ela-chan. I’ll pay for Shu-san’s part.”
- Affectionate Nickname: She calls the Collector "Shu-san", in a nod to his title in Japanese: Shushu-ka. Later, Ela picks that from her.
- False Soulmate: She does her best to get Collector out of his funk, even gifting him a sword that cost 5 Million Gold to make, to return to adventuring. But then she leaves the Fage territory after a while. When Collector wanted to follow her, she told him -in a roundabout way- that she doesn't want him in her way.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's blonde, well-meaning and tries to encourage the down-in-the-dumps Collector.
- Put on a Bus: She leaves the Fage territory and return to the city, to resume her merchant career, leaving the Collector sadder than he was, and his bill kept increasing.
