Divinos

## General Description

Byakuya (Bee-Ock-Uya) Origami, better known as Divinos, is an SZ-Class Devil and the strongest member of Black Crown. Having been the one to resurrect Zane Jackson, the main protagonist of the series, Divinos has a major impact on the story.

## Appearance

In his normal form, Marc has messy black hair and brown eyes, and usually opts to wearing white or gray clothes. When not in public but not in gear, Marc retains the usage of his silver cape, which he rarely ever takes off unless he's taking a shower or heading off to bed.

During battle, and nearly every time he's seen, Marc is described as being "heavily-clothed". He wears black armor, which is noted by Zane as being the darkest shade black could reach; a large silver cape which curves over his shoulders and around his neck in a U shape; and a silver bandana that goes up to his eyes. Floating around his head are seven floating orbs — the Seven Sacred Staffs — which are each a different color than the rest.

When fighting using the magic from his staffs, Divinos retains his normal combat clothes, but when fighting using his Storm Dragon-Slaying Magic, he wears his helmet over his head and removes his cape; his Dragonification form gives him silver wings, blades at both sides of his forearms, and a tail — each made from condensed lightning.

## Abilities

* **Storm Dragon-Slaying Magic:** a type of magic that allows his to more effectively harm dragons, and absorb elements related to that of a storm — such as lightning, strong winds, and gray clouds.
* **Lightning Magic:** magic which allows him to shoot lightning from his body, or strike his opponents with a thunderbolt from the sky; he also makes usage of this magic by transforming into lightning itself and moving around quickly in that form.
* **Sacred Staff Magic:** magic that comes from the Seven Sacred Staffs, which he managed to collect.

1. **Death Magic:** through the usage of his first staff, the Staff of Tartarus, Divinos can cast a form of magic that kills other forms of magic, and when used enough, can kill other lifeforms, as seen when he uses it on the fallen angels that kills Zane in the first chapter
2. **Knowledge Magic:** through his second staff, the Staff of Oculus, Divinos can gain information of anything just by pointing his staff at it; this magic can also be used to display a magical screen, which acts like a TV and displays images
3. **Power Magic:** through the third staff, the Staff of Imperium, Divinos can cast a magic that easily destroys things with brute force, and can even make weak things implode
4. **Illusion Magic:** through his forth staff, the Staff of Artibus, Divinos is able to cast powerful illusions which can even harm the opponent at times
5. **Will Magic:** through his fifth staff, the Staff of Arbitrium, Divinos has access to Will Magic, which can be used to make people fall sleep, or convince them do things, acting like mind-control
6. **Weather Magic:** through the sixth staff, the Staff of Phenomenon, Divinos can manipulate the weather and cause disasters such as tsunamis, earthquakes, tornados, and thunderstorms
7. **Monster Magic:** with his seventh staff, the Staff of Chaos, Divinos can summon as much as one-hundred monsters at once, with each of them being able to be any kind of monster he's interacted with — such as dragons, goblins, and fairies.

* **Ten Commandments Magic:** allows Divinos to cast ten different spells, all with different and unique effects, but are extremely powerful when used correctly

* **Above-Heaven Transformation:** when the limiters on his staff are removed — since he's a devil, he can only use one-percent of the Seven Sacred Staffs' true power — by a high-ranking member of the Church, Divinos can enter a nearly-completely Omnipotent form that allows him to do absolutely anything from destroying universes to manipulating fate, also altering his appearance to having white armor and a galaxy-colored bandana and cape
* **Planetary Destruction:** in his base form, Divinos is powerful enough to destroy a planet, as seen in one of his battles in a different dimension when he destroys an alternate version of the Earth where mankind was wiped out

Abilities Table (Out of 10)
 Speed
 Magical Ability
 Intelligence
 Average

## Appearances

### Appears in

Highschool Project: God-SlayerHighschool Project: Dragon-King Alliance

Highschool Project: A Path to Tartarus

Highschool Project: Ironworks

Highschool Project: Necromance of Black

Black Crown & The Blade of Terror

Black Crown & The Phantom Shield

Black Crown & The Cape of Dreams

Tsundoku No Spirit: Return of Mystogan

## Background

Being the heir to the Draco Domain, Divinos was being bred to be the next rule of the largest city — except for the capitol — in the Underworld. However, after witnessing one of the Underworld's annual tournaments, Marc decided that he wanted to become a mage, much to the disapproval of his parents; using his Lightning Magic, Marc suddenly abandoned his town and fled to the other side of the Underworld through an open portal.

On the other side, Marc was brought to Inpulsa Domain, which was one of the smallest cities — and much more like a village — in the Underworld. It was there that met Catalysta, one of the Seven Dragon-Kings — beings who are fifty times that of the observable universe, but use magic to size themselves down —who took an interest in him.

For the next eight years, Marc trained under Catalysta to become the next Storm Dragon-Slayer, and was near the end of his training when a sudden raid of dragons ended in the destruction of the city, and the death of Catalysta, who was weakened from a previous injury. After blaming himself for being too weak, Marc decided that he would expend the rest of the time ridding the world of dragons, attempting to bring them to peak of extinction.

One week later, when Marc is traveling the Underworld, he returns to the Draco Domain and steal a highly-advanced piece of technology which covers him in a durable, black suit of armor. Combining that with his silver cape and bandana — which are made from Catalysta's wings — Marc reached his new, unique and heavily-clothed appearance.

After returning to the Inpulsa Domain for a quick check-up, Divinos discovers the first staff that he would add to his collection — the Staff of Tartarus. Overhearing a conversation from the clean-up crew that was sent out, Divinos learns of the Seven Sacred Staffs and uses the knowledge he gains to head to capitol of the Underworld — the Lucifer Domain — where he threatens one of the seven Devil-Kings — Gideon — into giving him a radar that would take him to each of the staffs.

Spencer McCarthy, an SZ-Class Devil capable of planetary destruction, who had been passing by, confronts Marc, and despite having the slight edge in hand-to-hand combat, is defeated. Lucifer, the King of the Underworld, who reveals himself before the nearly unconscious Gideon and Spencer, and Marc, informs them that he had seen the whole situation, but will set Marc — who he gives the name of Divinos, knowing his actual identity as the next heir to the Draco Domain —off with a warning.

In only a couple of months, Divinos collects five of the Seven Sacred Staffs, and decides on heading to the mortal world to check things out, after hearing a rumor that dragon's were appearing there. Coincidentally, after going through a portal to Earth, Divinos is taken to a park in which he meets Kristina Kaye — though he isn't wearing any of his gear at the time.

After confronting her — she had been crying late at night – he learns that she's been under constant abuse of her father, and after experiencing mixed emotions, invites her to join him on a small journey, telling her to meet him at the same park twenty-four hours later. However, when Kristina goes to meet him at the designated time, a rogue criminal passing by accidentally ends up killing her, leaving her unmoving and bleeding out in the center of the park.

When Marc arrives, this time clothed in his gear, he breaks the rules of the Underworld and reincarnates Kristina as a devil, explaining to her what had happened — though he decides on leaving out the fact that he's Marc, who had told her to meet her at the park. Confused, Kristina is placed under the care of a nearby devil, Hyberion, and Divinos goes on his way.

One month later, when Divinos is passing by the same town again, he decides to check up on Kristina, but only to find that he had placed her under an evil devil who's been subjecting her to the same abuse her father had. Realizing the situation, Divinos makes quick work of Hyberion through his Death Magic, and seeks out a powerful presence nearby — the Princess of the Underworld.

After Kristina and Divinos find Amber Lucifer, who is indeed the daughter of Lucifer, the former is left under the care of Black Crown, which is the guild of mages owned by Amber. Before leaving, however, Divinos uses the Staff of Oculus on Kristina and learns that she's become — sometime in the past few days — the new host of the lost-god, Venous — the god of poison and lightning — which grants her Lightning Magic and Poison Magic, on top of the Weapon Magic she gained from her reincarnation as a devil.

Though he leaves her afterwards, he decides on coming back as Marc a few weeks later, deciding to check out what the mortal was like. He reunites with Kristina, who apologies for not being able to show up the night they were supposed to meet, but is told that it's no big deal. Throughout the next year up until the events of the first book, the two become much closer to each other, and even being dating at some point after Marc begins to understand what love is.

February 10th, 2020, Zane Jackson is walking back from a normal day of school when he's killed a fallen angel. Marc, having been in the vicinity, gears up in his armor and confronts the fallen angel, easily killing him with his Death Magic. Using the Staff of Oculus, Marc discovers that Zane is the host of Emperor Unus, the strongest of the lost-gods, and thus, he decides to reincarnate him as a devil, as he did with Kristina.

Divinos writes a letter to Zane, which explains his current situation and tells him to seek out Amber, who will hopefully take him in as a member of Black Crown. Throughout the events of the book, Marc is seen conversing with Zane on strange topics that have to do with angels, and occasionally making an appearance as Divinos — such as when he comes to the Underworld during his training session to have a short battle with Felix.

Months later, when the Alliance attacks the Underworld, Lucifer announces that Divinos will not be participating in the war, as he's made it clear that he could care less for what could happen to it. However, after learning that Kristina is in danger, and that the Alliance has begun using dragons, Divinos enters the war in its midpoint— to the surprise of everyone who had retreated due to incoming dragons — wiping out over fifty large dragons and taking out the Alliance's Dragon-Tamer.

After Zane, with the help of Kristina and a now-deceased Melanie, falls short of being able to defeat Jay Valentine, Divinos steps in and prevents Zane and Kristina from being killed off, knocking Jay out with un-absorbable Storm Dragon-Slaying magic.

As Zane attempts to get off the ground, Divinos pins him down with his foot, with Zane in an awkward push-up position.

Telling Zane that he's lucky to still be alive, and that if it weren't for the people around him that he would already be dead, Divinos instills in the duo that there's a simple way they can put an end to the war.

## Titles

* "Divinos of the Sacred Staffs" —Afeus Clover
* "Storm Dragon-Slayer Divinos" — Spencer McCarthy
* "SZ-Class Devil Divinos" —Felix

## Personality

Until he met Kristina, Marc was a very stoic and emotionless person, traveling from place to place in search of dragons to slaughter. However, as seen through the events of the first and second book, Divinos slowly starts to become more human-like, showing more emotion and being much more a present personality, but still opting to wear his heavy gear — which represents his mysteriousness and seclusiveness — as a token of memory to Catalysta.

During Book 2, Zane allows his mind to slip, and invites Divinos to become apart of Black Crown, seeing his small, but warming, interaction with Kristina; however, he is shot down, much to no one's surprise. At the end of the Book 2, in one of the final scenes, Divinos appears before Black Crown to accept the invitation to join the guide, telling them that while he can't be around much, that he'll be there when he needs them.

## Relationships

* **Zane Jackson:** having used his Sacred Staff Magic on Zane to believe that they met in the past, Divinos disguised himself as Marc Castellan in the human world, engaging in very vague conversations that deal with the magical world. After saving Zane and preventing him from being killed once more after his fight with Jay, Divinos tells him that he's lucky to be alive, and that if it weren't for the people around him, he would have died much earlier. During the events of the second book, Zane misspeaks and invites Divinos to become apart of Black Crown, and not to his surprise, gets shut-down on the offer easily. However, off-screen, it's noted that through a side-plot involving Kristina, Divinos changes from being less self-centered and too a much more caring person, taking Zane up on his offer and becoming a member of Black Crown, much to Amber's surprise, and telling the guild that while he can't be there all of the time, that he'll be there when they need him — this is shown when he shows up next in the third book, taking out twenty-thousand of Afeus's troops that were beginning to invade the mortal world.
* **Amber Lucifer:** though Divinos eventually joins Black Crown, it's noted by Zane that whenever Divinos spoke to Amber previously, there was a clear condescendence in his voice; however, this dissapearences after he allies himself with the guild.
* **Kristina Kaye:** though their relationship is shown mostly off-screen, Marc truly loves Kristina, and the two never care for each other a lot, shown when numerous times when Divinos shows up to protect her from threats such as Ivior and the Devil-Slayers.
* **Spencer McCarthy:** as a fellow SZ-Class Devil and Dragon-Slayer, Spencer sees Divinos as a rival, as he's already been defeated by him once, and stalemated him in the Annual Mage Tournament.
* **Umbra:** though the two rarely interact, it's noted by Zane that Umbra seems almost jealous that Divinos can rival him in power, despite being a few years younger than he is
* **Vantrius Mallor (Van):** taking the sixth staff from Van, Divinos is the first person to beat him in a fight after he masters his White God-Slaying Magic, humiliating him in a short combat scene, and telling him that if he wants to go to war with the Underworld, that he'll have to be stronger.
* **Afeus Clover:** during the events of Book 3, Afeus throws Amber and Zane through a quest of mind-games, nearly throwing the ladder into a mental breakdown; however, it's Divinos who becomes the monkey wrench in Afeus's plan as he destroys a legion of dragons that Afeus was about to send out against the duo.
* **Ivior Gurren:** after the attack on Black Crown, which leaves almost all of its members beaten down, including Kristina, Divinos seeks out Ivior and beats him down in a short and easy fight, but is unable to kill him before Ivior uses his magic to flee the scene

## Quotes

* "You won't die today, Emperor Unus" *(Divinos to Zane — Book 1, Chapter 1)*
* "Though I have no interest in fighting other Dragon-Slayers, I suppose it'll be nice to get a small workout in" *(Divinos to Felix — Book 1, Chapter 14)*
* "I have no intentions of assisting the Underworld if they go to war with the Alliance, but if you intend to wage the greatest war in all of history, then go ahead, but know you aren't nearly as powerful as you hope to be" (Divinos to Van — Book 1, Chapter 31)
* "My purpose in life was to eradicate dragons, but now I realized that there's other things I have to do," *(Divinos to Zane and Kristina — Book 1, Chapter 39)*
* "Unfortunately, I won't be able to be there all of the time... but if you need me, I'll be there" *(Divinos to Black Crown — Book 2)*

## Trivia

* Divinos in inspired by Jiren from the popular series *Dragon Ball Super*, as the two both share the same ideals of disliking the idea of teamwork, and preferring to do things on their own
* Divinos's silver cape, bandana, and lightning, is inspired from Son Goku's Ultra Instinct transformation
* The Seven Sacred Staffs, which Divinos occasionally uses in combat, was chosen by the author to prove that mages who wields staffs can be powerful as well
* In book 5, he's spotted by Zane reading the latest manga chapter of *One Piece*, which indicates that he is a fan of the series
* Divinos has fought all three enemy Project God-Slayer survivors and beaten them down badly
* The only major villains to not fight Divinos are Caloris and Tenem
* After achieving the Beyond-Heaven transformation, Divinos details of an entity higher than the omnipotent God in Heaven, who serves as a mere fraction of that entities power and being
* Divinos is the only mage in the entire series who wears a cape and a bandana
* As noted by Kieron/Lagann, Divinos punches just like Saitama from the popular Japanese franchise *One Punch Man*