As we''ve come to the end of Volume 2, I want to thank all those who have followed and read my book. I wouldn''t have gotten this far without your support, so I appreciate it as always.
As we move to volume 3, I want to do a run-down of all the vol.2 characters and the newly shown ''enlightenment.'' Feel free to skip if you so desire. Volume 3 will likely begin September 27th!
Enlightenment - A state attained when an individual sheds themselves of all mentalities useless to them - ridding themselves of everything and prioritizing grasping the essence of one''s blessing growth. When one achieves enlightenment, it can never be lost.
Enlightenment Program''s Soldiers:
Ariel Raven
Birth Date: January 15, 2001
Height: 174 cm
Blessing(s)
Taming: Allows her to ''domesticate'' any animal, but the difficulty varies with the animal''s strength and instincts. These animals receive powerful abilities akin to the blessing of a human and become more powerful than their species. Ariel has been shown to have tamed a dog and hawk but has tamed other animals.
Ariel has received the ability of her deceased pet, Shadow, through a portion of its fur. She gained access to the ability when she crafted the fur into a katana, imbuing it with Shadow''s essence. Ariel unlocked a deeper level of her blessing with that. What could this mean in the long run, though?
Personality: A friendly and caring individual, especially to Amber as she related to Amber the first time Ariel met her. Ariel holds her pets very highly and is distraught upon Shadow''s death.
Likes: Her pets and friends. She likes going on walks with her pets.
Dislikes: Jack, unknown areas
Sariel Dell
Birth Date: December 10, 2000
Height: 177 cm
Blessing(s)
Technological Manipulation: The base of this blessing allows her to control machines and the energy produced. With her special eye, Sariel can craft special ''Rubik''s cubes,'' which morph into any weapon or machine she desires. These creations are far stronger and tougher than normal. The complexity of the desired creation depends on her knowledge and use of several cubes.
The list of things Sariel has created thus far:
Handguns - Fire energy bullets
Swords - Radiates electricity around the blade, which stuns enemies
Drones - Allows Sariel to connect her vision to these drones, giving her nigh-omniscience in the drones'' area.
Turrets - Machinegun or Missile turrets
Chains - Used to restrain opponents
Personality: A bit more reserved and rational compared to her friends, but can be emotional when pushed enough
Likes: Machines, reading, mathematics, technology and her friends
Dislikes: Jack, not being productive
Aiden Stark
Birth Date: October 28, 2000
Death Date: July 12, 2024
Height: 181 cm
Blessing(s)
Friction Control: Allows Aiden to apply and reduce the forces of friction and air resistance on himself and other people. He can perform actions such as slowing projectiles to a halt by applying air resistance, increasing his movement speed and flexibility after reducing his friction, and making opponents slip and fall by removing the traction between their feet and the ground.
His ultimate technique allows him to store friction from repeated movements and then use the build-up in his blows. That action causes the air to combust, increasing his striking strength.
Personality: Aiden was confident in his prowess and blessing due to training for a long time. A man who accepted the error of his ways as shown by his realization of Amber''s strength. He''d risk his life for his friends (especially Amber).
Likes: Amber, his blessing, ice-skating
Dislikes: Kreuger, Jack
Baran Willard
Birth Date: March 14, 2001
Height: 179 cm
Blessing(s)
Air manipulation: This allows him to mix air into his combat style. Baran can compress air into balls and fire it off in wind gusts. Admittedly, Baran does not have much skill with his blessing.
Personality: A rude and disrespectful individual. He belittles those he thinks are less than him and refuses to accept them becoming strong. Baran is exceptionally lazy, as he doesn''t train nearly as much as his peers.
Likes: Relaxing
Dislikes: Amber
Ivory Krystal
Birth Date: April 15, 2000
Height: 170 cm
Blessing(s)
Gem manipulation: Allows her to conjure and control gems such as ruby, Saffire, amythest, etc. She can use them as projectiles and make gem shields.
Personality: A normal individual, compared to everyone else...
Likes: Comedy shows, gems
Dislikes: Jack
Enlightenment Program''s Officers/Instructors:
Altius Hunter
Birth Date: May 13, 1991
Death Date: July 12, 2024
Height: 183 cm
Blessing(s)
Anger: Altius''s blessing grants him increased physical prowess depending on his ire. Altius''s blessing was naturally strong due to the multi-decade-long rage burdening him.
Altius acquires a form known as the ''Berserker State'' when his anger reaches its limits. This form greatly enhances his strength and speed and lets him ignore pain.
Personality: A constantly angry and antisocial individual. Has a disrespectful attitude and manner towards most. Altius is surprisingly empathetic and caring, especially to the younger generation.
Likes: Peace, The younger generation prospering
Dislikes: Most things, hedonistic criminals
Trixie Leah
Birth Date: April 1, 1996
Height: 173 cm
Blessing(s)
Tricks: The base of this blessing grants Trixie magical energy generation. Trixie uses the magic to reinforce her body''s durability and enhance her physical prowess. That is not the main aspect, however. After imbuing a pack of playing cards over time, it had become tied to her blessing. These magic cards give Trixie the ability to cast tricks. What trick she receives is based on a chance card she receives at the start of a battle.
Certain card combinations can upgrade and apply bonuses to these tricks and lower shuffling time. The most powerful aspect of Trixie''s blessing is jackpot acquisition. She gains larger quantities of magic energy, the ability to regenerate non-vital wounds, and more techniques.
Her blessing is largely based on luck, but Trixie is a lucky woman.
Personality: An extremely creative and expressive individual. Trixie finds infinite ways of annoying or impressing others with pranks and tricks, a testament to her playful personality. Trixie is an extroverted but somewhat immature woman, as she has no problem socializing with others and playing annoying pranks.
Likes: Pranks, magic tricks, board games, card games - A pro in these categories.
Dislikes: Anything boring
Ryzen Cain
Birth Date: Unknown
Height: 182 cm
Blessing(s)
Spatial Manipulation: Not much is known about this ability, but Ryzen was shown to manipulate distance, trajectory, and damage shifting.
Personality: Not much is known about this mysterious individual other than his desire to see Amber achieve enlightenment and Nathan''s growth
The narrative has been taken without permission. Report any sightings.Likes: Humans with potential, the developer
Dislikes: Prideful Individuals
Special Weapon(s) - Sturdy Knife: Allows Ryzen to instantly shift any force that touches his knife onto his desired target.
English Military:
Barry Alexander
Birth Date: August 5, 1983
Height: 177 cm
Blessing(s): N/A
Personality: An individual who puts the good of his country first. An empathetic man, especially to Amber.
Likes: His country, his soldiers, golfing
Dislikes: The mafia, the ''game'' characters, rampant criminals
London Mafia:
Harvey Dexter
Birth Date: March 3, 1990
Height: 184 cm
Blessing(s)
Weather Manipulation: Allows Harvey to manipulate the weather. Harvey''s most used aspect is the ability to control the wind, which he uses to disrupt and attack his enemies while boosting his prowess. He can also increase and decrease the atmospheric temperature to his liking. Harvey''s deadliest technique, though, is the ability to summon actual lightning, although it takes a toll on his energy and stamina.
Personality: A rational and calculating man, at least until his family gets harmed. Does everything with an ulterior motive.
Likes: Spending time with his family, successful plans
Dislikes: Amber, Kreuger, the military
Theodore Dexter
Birth Date: Nov 3, 1992
Death Date: June 23, 2024
Height: 195 cm
Blessing(s)
Morale: Allows him to boost his physical prowess to well above superhuman levels, depending on his confidence. Morale is a simple but effective blessing for someone like Theodore.
Personality: A cold, sociopathic individual who takes advantage of less fortunate individuals.
Likes: His property, his family
Dislikes: People messing up his property, Amber
Amelia Dexter
Birth Date: August 5, 1991
Height: 180 cm
Blessing(s)
Culinary: She wields a culinary blessing that gives her the ability to perform aspects of cooking into deadly attacks and techniques. She can send slashing attacks at targets like a chef cutting ingredients, incinerate targets with flames (cooking), and combine attacks and techniques like a chef throwing different ingredients together.
Personality: A gourmet who finds pleasure in eating and drinking, especially from expensive restaurants.
Likes: Cooking, eating, her family
Dislikes: Isabella, the English military, Amber, Kreuger
Luna Dexter
Birth Date: November 7, 1991
Height: 174 cm
Blessing(s)
Exhaustion: Luna can greatly hinder opponents by inducing fatigue and stress. She can even decrease the fatigue levels of her allies, giving them slight boosts to their prowess.
Personality: A very rational woman, even more than Harvey. She puts her family above all else, however.
Likes: Her family,
Dislikes: The military, Amber
Harold Lucas
Birth Date: January 15, 1992
Height: 181 cm
Blessing(s)
Surprise Attack: If Harold manages to land a sneak attack or catch his opponents off guard with attacks, he increases his striking strength by ten times. The acquisition of this multiplier is indicated when orange sparks around his arm/leg upon striking his enemy.
Personality: A sadistic individual who loves rendering strong and confident opponents weak and on their knees. Despite his sadism, he''s loyal to his bosses as he performs any task and risks danger to aid them.
Likes: His blessing, his bosses, torturing opponents
Dislikes: The military, fair fights
Miscellaneous:
Leo Kreuger
Birth Date: September 9, 1998
Height: 197 cm
Blessing(s)
Idaten: This allows Leo to enhance his movement and attack speed. He becomes a whole different person in speed when using this blessing. He has several techniques that further enhance his kit:
Sleight of Hand - This triples his maximum hand dexterity.
Flash Step - Triples his maximum movement speed.
Flash Cut - Allows Kreuger to send projectile air slashes with his blades.
Burst - Quintuples his maximum movement speed. This skill takes a toll on Kreuger''s stamina as he has yet to master it.
Blood Manipulation: This allows Kreuger to manipulate the blood within his body. Just like his Idaten blessing, he has quite a lot of techniques due to gaining a lot of experience with it:
Blood Clotting - This allows Kreuger to immediately clot any injuries he sustains, minimizing the potential blood loss.
Crimson Haematic Scales - By increasing the blood flow within his body, Kreuger can drastically harden his body with this technique. The use is evident by a reddish hue on his skin.
Blood Wires - This allows Kreuger to project blood from the pores of his body in the form of wires to restrain opponents or attach knives.
Crimson Buckshot - This skill allows Kreuger to compress blood around his knives (or metal in general), crushing the material into a ball of blood and exploding it onto his opponents. The crushed metal coated in the hardened blood acts as shrapnel as it flies in all directions.
Special Weapon(s) - Bloodbath Blades: After imbuing a pair of daggers over time, they have acquired an attribute of Kreuger''s blessing. Upon slicing an opponent and inflicting a wound with these daggers, the blood of the bloodbaths seeps into the cut. This creates a negative reaction between Kreuger''s and the opponent''s blood, causing the area to swell, inflammate and explode.
Leo''s natural movement speed (pre-enlightenment) - Mach 20
Idaten Blessing Speed Multiplier - x75
Flash Step Mulitplier x3
Burst Multiplier - x5
Leo''s maximum speed (without burst) - Mach 4500
Leo''s maximum speed (with burst) - Mach 7500
Personality: An individual so hell-bent on revenge that he could be seen as unfriendly to most. He gets along with those he relates to (mainly Amber).
Likes: Training, Amber
Dislikes: Jack, Ryzen''s annoying behavior
Meu Sharma
Birth Date: Unknown
Height: Unknown
Blessing(s)
Chi: Not much is known about her blessing, only that she can draw out the ''life force'' of others and make them stronger in the process
Personality: A kind individual, especially to her students
Likes: Her students, plants, artifacts
Dislikes: Ryzen calling her by her last name
Isabella Scarlet Anastasia Alice
Birth Date: Unknown
Height: Unknown
Blessing(s): Unknown
Personality: Not much is known about her personality as of yet
Likes: Unknown
Dislikes: Unknown
Confirmed Enlightened:
Amber Hoss
Birth Date: June 20, 2000
Height: 173 cm
Blessing(s)
Justice: Allows Amber to reinforce herself or imbue weapons with ''positive energy.'' This energy also grants Amber pseudo-reactive evolution, as she was shown to grow and adapt in battle. Amber had unlocked another aspect of her blessing upon awakening - when coating her body in positive energy, the effectiveness of Amber''s attacks increases depending on her opponent''s immorality. The blessings of her opponents are also reduced with every attack she lands.
Amber had created several techniques with her blessing:
Radiant Wires - Allows Amber to manifest her positive energy into wires to restrain opponents.
Radiant Barrier - Projects Amber''s positive energy into a hardened spherical barrier around her which protects her from attacks.
Hallowed Crushing Strike - Amber charges positive energy around her fist/leg and strikes her opponent. The charged strike is far more powerful than Amber''s regular hits.
Enlightenment:
After attaining enlightenment, Amber''s blessing had gone to much higher levels. The quantity of her positive energy is vastly increased, along with the potency of Amber''s attacks. She had gained numerous additions to her blessing which include:
Divine Energy - Not much is known about this, but its utilization is granted when one reaches enlightenment.
Pure Light - Amber''s presence radiates immense light, which burns enemies and reduces the opponent''s blessing performance.
Purification - Amber''s main aspect of enlightenment. Her positive energy burns and damages all aspects of an individual, including their soul. If an opponent cannot repair their soul they will be permanently damaged by Amber.
Hallowed Barrier - An upgraded version of Amber''s radiant barrier, but it''s always present and invisible until defending against attacks.
Flight - The angelic wings Amber receives allows her to fly freely.
Weapon creation - Amber can wield positive energy in weapons like spears, swords, etc.
Personality: An exceptionally selfless, empathetic, and caring individual. She fights for others and never for herself. A bit of a religious woman due to how Amber was raised.
Likes: People, Themis, amusement parks, sunny days
Dislikes: Jack, people taking advantage of others
Jack Knight (Refer to Vol. 1 for Info)
Date of Death: July 12, 2024
Enlightenment (Unregistered):
After attaining enlightenment, Jack''s murder blessing drastically upgraded. He had gained a dramatic increase in his physical prowess. The techniques Jack had showcased were:
Divine Energy - Not much is known about this, but its utilization is granted when one reaches enlightenment.
Life Bane - An upgraded version of ''Life Feeder.'' Jack heals at a much faster rate and receives the skill to heal his soul. Only in special circumstances can you inflict lethal damage on Jack.
Miasma - Jack gains the ability to emit miasma, which rapidly decays and murders any living creature without fail. He covered cities with his miasma in his fight against Amber.
Special Weapon(s) - Durability Negator Blades: A reward from the developer. These blades instantly adjust to the durability of whatever Jack wants to cut, allowing him to slice through anything in the world.
Jack''s natural movement speed (pre-enlightenment) - Mach 55
Idaten Blessing Speed Multiplier - x50
Flash Step Multiplier - x3
Jack''s maximum speed - Mach 8250