Shen Solomon Grewlwind

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## Physical Information

**Shen Solomon Grewlwind** is one of the many fighters to participate in the Ministry Succession Tournament. He is the representative of Tefra, land of the Volcano. A warrior hungry for strong adversaries and memorable battles, as well as the strongest warrior inside the Ministry. He sees the tournament at his best chance to experience the best battles of his life. Due to being the strongest being inside the Cube, he's the favorite of many to win.

## Appearance

Shen is a huge (taller than any human known to history), bulky, muscular man with spiky hair and a prominent, also spiky beard. His eyes display a black scleras and are completely white, not having pupils.

His attire consists in a purple skirt with white pants and black fighting boots. He doesn't wears any shirts and his wrists present two bracelets.

## Personality

A battle hungry warrior who seeks the best opponents the world can give him. Despite this he doesn’t prey on the weak and only kills weaklings if they do truly wish to die. The embodiment of a person who's dedicated themselves to one, specific thing. Usually coming off as aloof or uninterested in most other aspects of life, as even when he's smiling or laughing there's almost an impression of a slumbering being. Truly stirring awake only in battle. In battle, although excited to directly pit his strength against that of his opponent, he can come across as childish. Showing a slight, eye rolling disdain for those whose skill set involve convoluted plans or particularly tricky abilities. Other than a groan and a general lack of enjoyment for that aspect specifically though, he's still more than happy to dice through whatever is put in his way as long as they suppose a challenge.

## History

In ancient history there once lived a human subspecies called "Core People''. The reason they were called that is because of their tragic story of not being able to escape the core of earth. No one knows their exact origins, or how they reached that inhabitable environment. Among them, one child stood tall and trained day and night, while the Core People died little by little, he mastered the halberd to such extent that at the age of 34 he made a hole on the core of earth with one swing, people thought that the hole was man made from Sakhalin (Russia), others speculated it was the entrance to hell, but the truth is that this man was strong enough to climb out, people at that moment called him the "Devil" for escaping the center of earth.

A lesser known fact about the Core People was that their entire existence was dedicated to escaping the hell they had found themselves in. Generation after generation of warriors, forming into teams as they desperately tried to blast through the core, as well as layers upon layers of the crust and shell that kept the very planet together. Shen too was once part of a team like this. Although the focus on the team, the unit, instead of the individual did not sit right with Shen. As he didn't thirst for freedom, he hungered for strength. Shen also knew that no matter what the surface held, the soft, frail, dwellers of the above realm would be no match for a Core Man war machine intent to take whatever they wanted. So in a simple act of rebellion, it was Shen who fought his entire people and killed them. With the strength from such an overwhelming struggle and his continued training was what bore forth the Hell Drill and granted the sole Core Man, a lone soul, freedom.

Shen crawled out and began to look for potential challengers, but they all were weaklings in front of him. While he was an unchained beast he didn't attack those weaker than him unless they had death wish themselves. Soon he was hailed as the strongest warlord in the present era looking for stronger opponents to the extent that he became bored due to lack of challenge. That was, until he found the Ministry, where his leader, Graff, offered him a  challenge. He’ll fight one of the Ministry's bravest warriors; Kenji Adamen. If Kenji would manage to be a challenge for him, Shen would join the Ministry. Surprisingly that guy didn't die, in fact, he was surpassing him until he decided to unleash his strongest move, one that he used to drill through the core. They both unleashed their strongest attacks and took it head on after that they collapsed. Impressed, Shen decided to join the Ministry, becoming it’s strongest warrior from that point onwards.

## Abilities

**Unmatched Strength**: Thanks to his Core Man physique and size, Shen displays a huge strength able to break mountains at their most extreme in base form. In his Surtr form his strength increases so much he can destroy planets(do we keep that part since it's from MvT? Or is it hyperbole?) at his strongest. This makes him the strongest Ministry member in what refers to physical strength.

**High Speed:** Despite his huge size, Shen is surprisingly mobile, being able to out-speed most fighters. Along with his great speed, Shen is also incredibly agile for his size, being able to dodge most attacks directed point-blank at him.

**Tremendous Durability**: Helped by his Core Man body, Shen is more durable than the rest of mortals. He can withstand one or two blows that could have been grievous for most people and endure amount of pain that could kill seasoned warriors while it not being even a itch for a Shen.

**High Stamina**: As a result of being raised in the very core of Earth, Shen’s stamina is way greater than that of a common human. He can spend 6 days fighting without resting at his best.

**Fire and Heat Immunity:** Thanks to his Core Man physiology, Shen can withstand any kind of heat, fire and environments with poisonous gasses such as carbon monoxide. Being the apex of his race, he can practically survive in every hot environment on the planet.

**Polearm Mastery**: Shen carries with him a trusty halberd made from volcanic rocks. He’s very proficient with it and while he didn’t learn any polearm-based martial art, his battle instincts allow him to use the weapon without problems.

**Battle Instinct**: Due to achieving many victories, Shen developed an instinct that can only be used in battle. He’s able to sense the danger of the battlefield and the enemies moves to the extent that he can analyze the enemy well.

## Equipment

**Earth Shaker**: Shen’s signature weapon, a huge, black colored halberd created by his own hands back when he was in the Earth’s core. Made of special volcanic rocks from the core, this halberd is the toughest thing on the planet, and the only weapon Shen can carry that doesn’t break with his titanic strength. Having carried it since his youth, Shen considers it its one true companion.

## Techniques

**Hell Drill:** By thrusting his polearm in the ground with so much strength, Shen can pierce through the Earth’s core. This causes a huge flow of magma to come to the surface, creating a lot of destruction. As Shen is immune to heat damage, he remains unharmed.

**Ultimate Compression Form, Surtr:** Flexing and moving each individual muscle, Solomon is able to push his very cells tighter together shortening his massive frame into something more at home on a pro basketball player. Although still fairly bulky, the amount of raw force Shen can exude in this form blows his base form out of the water. Due to the violent nature of this transformation a sort of freak mutation is caused. Tough bone spikes appear protruding out of Shen’s elbow joints and the upper part of his spine, as well as a toothy maw spreading itself over his chest and stomach. A starving beast that devoured even itself in pursuit of greater strength.

**The Art of Violence**: A custom “martial art” slowly but surely developed by Shen himself, through no teacher, code, or training regiment other than his own life experience. Endless hours of fighting and training forging one concrete image in his mind, the image of strength. Because of its bizarre nature the “art” has no techniques but two principles. The path of the Ego (the higher self) and the Path of the Instinct (the lower self). Instinct alone can’t fight for you, although instinctual moves are fluid, quick, but entirely reactive. Ego alone cannot fight, for the power source of personality and malice is ill used on an unfitting offensive option. So Shen uses his ego, his higher self, to fill his body with the intent of what he's trying to do, and his instinct moves his body before his brain can even think, using the most optimal move it knows to accomplish said goal.

**Apex of the World’s Core**: To live in the world’s core the Core People wouldn’t only have to survive immense heat, but bear the weight of the center of the Earth’s gravitational pull. Not only making their bodies beyond simply durable, but letting them combat both heat and gravity at the source. Despite their cramped surroundings Core People always strove to be as big as possible, as they pushed with their whole gravitational pull against that of the earth as to not simply be pulled in and crushed.:

This virtual increase of one’s own density allows the Core People to do some basic gravitational manipulation by simply condensing his own field in an attempt to pull and maybe even shred his target. This type of attack CAN have a massive AoE effect but it may also be entirely self contained, isolating the target in a bubble of the Core Man’ own gravity as it is pulled from the earth and towards them. A “tunnel” of sorts that's constantly pushing the Earth’s gravity out of the way so as to not affect the rest of it. To his people this was the art called “Vortex” a subart of the more general “Cocoon” which the Core People used to fight back against the core’s gravity.

The second technique is the source of the Core People resistance to heat. Through specific mental and physical training Core People can micromanage the conducting of energy and more specifically “heat” through his body. Making their bodies capable of withstanding virtually infinite heat, (up to the Core Man own potency). This technique is called “Shell '' an offensive subsect of it, the principle the Core People used to do their best to dig out the core however, was called “Compact”. Using the very parts the Core People guided and isolated heat with, they pull and “compress” to what seems like an endlessly escalating amount (up to the Core Man’ own proficiency), making their already massive frames look small to the amount of force they can exude.

## Trivia

* Originally, it was planned Shen to fuse with Slend in his flashback during the end of his fight with Kenji, but this was discarded by the author.