Merlin Lucifer (The Demon King Who Lost His Job)

Merlin serves as the main protagonist of a romantic comedy, fantasy, and adventure manhwa known as The Demon King Who Lost His Job. Merlin is apparently a demon king that loses his title aka his job as the Demon Lord of the 1st Palace upon an unstated flaw he made.
==History==
According to the first chapters of the webcomic, Merlin was once a human summoned from another world by the altar, which he is reincarnated as the son of a powerful demon lord (demon queen). Because he wields an immense amount of power, he was declared the third owner of the first palace and the ruler of pride.
But, Merlin is born with a curse that made him suffer cardiac atrophy. This condition makes his lifespans shorten. So, he must use a blade called Aethernum to extend his lifespan depending on how strong and how many targets he has slaughtered.
Unfortunately, he was fired from his job one day and now lost his title as the demon lord of the 1st palace. Because of this, he was kicked out of the castle and lost his heritage, but since he doesn't want his sister to follow him, he eventually hides the fact that he lost his "job."
Merlin takes advantage of the human invasion to escape from the island after defeating the corrupted members of the Church that worships the Goddess of Light. Merlin repays Alice by stealing her valuable armor created by the church to battle against the demon lord, which made Alice falls in great debts with the church because of how expensive the armor was. At the same time, Merlin sold the armor for money to live a wealthy life and bet on horse races until he wastes all of his fortunes and goes back to being a homeless person.
A few years later, Merlin encounter Alice again, which, this time, he's working at a bar to earn money for a living. The two decided to move to the adventurer's guild for Merlin to make more money to waste it on more horse racing bets. They end up going through thousands of shenanigans before ending up living with each other and getting misunderstood as a married couple.
==Personality==
Merlin is a arrogant, carefree, rude, obnoxious, sarcastic, and egotistical person who causes a great deal of misery to those around him, especially Alice (who always scolds him for his idiotic actions), and is extremely a pain in the ass.
As what he does ever since losing his job is nothing but screwing around by either getting wasted and spending as many amount of money on watching, and betting on horse racing.
His rude nature causes him to disregard and even sees his surrounding's scolding, bragging, complaining, and insults about him doesn't matter since he met a lot of peoples these types, and got used to their grudges that are hailed against him.
But, it is known that he does care for others, however, doesn't want to admit that he has a soft spot, he seemingly would protect the innocents away from danger even if he has nothing in return, but, he wouldn't hesitate but accept the reward, if it has something related to money or benefits his lifestyle.
==Powers and Abilities==
===Transcendent Demon Lord Physiology:===
As the strongest demon lord who rules the 1st Palace. Merlin is a demonic being of godly power. He has innumerable powers that are beyond the comprehension of that of lesser demonic beings and are able to rule over an entire pantheon as their god out of both power and fear with very few beings capable of opposing him.
===Supernatural Body===
As a powerful demon, Merlin possesses physical abilities that are glaringly, obviously and super/unnaturally physically superior over other beings in his own respective universe because his capabilities are far beyond natural levels, making him immensely stronger, faster, and more durable than regular beings (in that verse). However, it is noted that his physical capabilities extends to the level of nigh-limitless which can possibly even harm a god, as it is shown so-far, even the strongest humans that are known to have defeated Saint rank adventurers all by themselves (Which is the highest, and final rank of all adventurers), and other powerful demons in strength, speed, reflexes, and attacks have shown to deal very less damage on him, yet, some isn't even able to land a scratch on him.
===Magic===
As a powerful demon lord, Merlin can utilize the Dark Arts, dangerous system of techniques based around a darker side of magic that typically used for selfish, self-serving and/or nefarious purposes. Though it is not necessarily "evil" magic, dark arts tend to focus on destruction, harming, cursing and otherwise complicating the lives of other people while advancing the user's state.
Users often reject social convention and the status quo, which some suggest is in a search for spiritual freedom. As a part of this, they embrace magical techniques and practices that would traditionally be viewed as taboo and are generally willing to go farther than most would even consider if it serves their ends.
===Connections to the 1st Palace===
For some unknown reasons, Merlin's body is somewhat connected to the items inside of the castle, in which, whenever he's injured, an item would be break, it is demonstrated that whenever he is injured by something, his sister, would eventually notice that the item she's holding would break, hinting, that Merlin had some sort of connections with his own castle.
=== Weaknesses: ===
==== Unidentified Curse ====
Lucifer is inflicted by a curse that requires him to slay powerful foes to sustain his life force. The curse is related to his heart as he feels massive pain whenever his life force is nearing its end. When this occurs; he must slay a powerful foe to prolong his life.
==== Gambling ====
He has a gambling addiction and tends to squander away his wealth recklessly.
==== Women ====
He is a womanizer who has a weakness for older and well-endowed women.
==Appearances==
Despite being a demon, Merlin seemingly has the appearance of a handsome human male, there is absolutely nothing, not even a single, and any abnormal features that makes him look humanoid. He has blonde hair red eyes, wearing white gloves, and usually is seen carrying an arrogant, annoying, and dumb expression on his face whenever he begins to get lazy, or teases others.
==External Links==
The Demon King Who Lost His Job found on Zero Scans: The Demon King Who Lost His Job
==Trivia==
*Merlin shares multiple connections to the main protagonists of The Devil Is A Part-Timer, and Maou Gakuin. As Anos Voldigoad, Maou Sadao and Merlin are all powerful demon lords that only a few beings in their universe can be equal to their power, these three apparently step down from being demon lords and become simple-life peoples due to some unfortunate events that happens in their life recently.
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