Raul Lukman

## Abilities

### Sorcery

**Absolute Hand** (虚空把持(アブソルート・ハンド), *Kokū Haji (Abusorūto Hando)*, lit. "Grasping the Void"?)

### Oracle

**Ultimate Observer** (裁判官現実(アルティマト・ オブザーバー), *Saibankan Genjitsu (Arutimato Obuzābā)*, lit. "Reality Judgement"?)

## Professional Status

### Affiliation

Astrum Legion
 Class-13

### Partner(s)

Astrum Rehetra
A.I.C.A
Nagi Aylestone (Partner)

### Clasification

**Oracle**

> My authority is absolute. What I will is set in stone, no matter what. That's how the world works. No one, and I mean no one, will escape the box.
>
> Raul Lukman declaring himself as God of the New World.

**Raul "Shaun" Lukman** (ラウル・ラックマン, *Rauru Rakkuman*?) is the holder of "Ultimate Observer," and is the 13th in the universe to have acquired an Oracle. After just 2 months of gaining his ability, Raul had made great changes to the world he is in, changing his reality from a purely material world, to a half-spiritual one. He was responsible for the emergence of the Arts and the entire planet of Alrum. Having claimed the solar system as his territory, Raul appointed himself as the **God of the New World** (新世界の神, *Shinsekai No Kami*?).

In the Heavenly Star Palace, he is referred to as **Great Sage** (大賢者, *Dai Kenja*?), acting as a sort of priest who is wise beyond his years and well-respected by all of the islands inhabitants.

## Appearance

He has a typical appearance of a male 17 year old. He has short black hair and possesses a vertical scar in the middle of his forehead. Raul used to be quite skinny, but using his ability he created a new body whose face looked identical, but had a more toned physique.

After he had gotten drunk on power.
## Personality

Raul possesses a distinct attitude that often leads him to perceive himself as superior to others, even though he does not consciously intend it. This perspective is not rooted in condescension but rather emerges from a deep sense of pity towards those around him, unintentionally conveying the impression that they are beneath him. This tendency becomes particularly evident in his interactions with certain individuals, such as fast food employees, as he harbors a biased opinion towards them and sympathizes with what he perceives as their challenging circumstances, even when they may be content and thriving in their roles.

Interestingly, Raul's maturity surpasses that of his older sister, despite her two-year seniority. Unlike his sister, he demonstrates a willingness to accept criticism and engage in collaborative efforts with others on an equal footing. Instead of allowing his emotions to erupt when faced with adversity, Raul maintains a remarkable emotional stability and approaches challenges with a logical mindset. This emotional resilience allowed him to swiftly grasp the nature of his own abilities after encountering just one setback, indicating his capacity to learn and adapt rapidly.

## Background

After enduring 30 days of discomfort with red marks and swelling spread throughout his body, which was initially suspected to be arthritis, Raul's condition led to his admission to the hospital. During his time there, Raul longed for nothing more than liberation from the grasp of his illness. It was within the confines of the hospital walls that Raul experienced a transformative event—an activation of his Oracle. The Oracle suddenly awakened with tremendous force. In that profound moment, it manifested its power by vehemently denying the existence of Raul's disease and restoring him to a state of perfect health.

As the Oracle's energy coursed through Raul's body, the red marks faded, and the swelling gradually subsided. The once-debilitating symptoms vanished as if they had never existed, leaving Raul in a state of awe and disbelief. The overwhelming sense of relief and liberation he felt washed over him, replacing the anguish and frustration that had plagued him for the past month.

## Abilities

   **Unparalleled Strength**: Through his new body, Raul possesses seemingly limitless physical strength and is capable of effortlessly defeating powerful phantasmals and sorcerers with a single, casual punch. His strikes are so powerful that many phantasmals simply explode when struck. An example of this casual yet overwhelming offensive power occurs when Raul launches himself from the top of a building, blasts right through a giant meteor with a punch, lands safely, and calmly decides to go home. Another instance is when Hermes tries to attack Raul with a sword; he stops the sword by catching it with his teeth, effortlessly shattering the blade with the power of his jaw. When launched from Earth to the moon, he used a single, ungodly leap to return to Earth in 19 seconds, causing a huge shockwave and leaving a massive crater on the surface of the moon upon departure. A "normal" punch from him was shown to be highly destructive, even to someone as durable as diamond. A single "serious" punch from him was able to counter an attack implied to be strong enough to destroy the entire planet, or at the very least, its surface. Not only did Raul completely negate that final attack, but the shockwave from his punch was also powerful enough to part clouds on a global scale. Additionally, he is capable of generating intense shockwaves potent enough to pass through Earth's core and raise up a large landmass all the way on the other side of the planet, while distorting the magnetic and gravitational fields, due to this, Rehetra believes he is capable of destroying the Earth if he wanted to, and has threatened to do so when irritated. His strength has been stated by numerous characters to defy reason. In his fight against Titanium Lariat, a collision of punch's resulted in an immensely powerful shockwave of energy that would destroy the Earth.

    **Unparalleled Speed and Reflexes**: Raul is capable of moving any of his limbs at extremely fast speeds without flinching, not stopping until his target is completely obliterated, such as when he flawlessly whacks all moles on a Whack-A-Mole machine. He has been shown to be perfect at dodging and performing highly acrobatic maneuvers. His reflexes render him flexible enough to move through the narrowest creeks and dodge attacks at the closest proximity. When bombarded by multiple giant bullets from Degras's ship, despite being in mid-air, Raul could evade all the projectiles before kicking one of them back to the ship itself. As well as being capable of running across ocean high-speed without going into the surface of water.

So far, no other character has been shown to be faster than him. He was able to complete a 1500-meter dash in an instant when he was testing his new body. He has proven able to effortlessly outpace a sorcerer whose specialty is his superspeed. Even AICA's computerized targeting systems have difficulty tracking him. Raul has also shown the ability to run down a building to save a piece of salmon he was having for lunch, and leap back up said building without bystanders noticing he had even done so. His speed is so impressive that he can even outpace Lariat, a Grade-2 phantasmal well-known for its extraordinary speed, easily dodging it's claw swings, and severing attacks.

During the final stages of the Culling Game, he was capable of keeping up with a sorcerer who could use **Spiritual Body Manifestation** and Titanium Lariat in combat, and all three of them were so fast that a geometric structure of light was created from the speed of their fight. After the sorcerer's defeat, Raul engaged in a one-on-one battle with Titanium Lariat and increased his speed even further. He was soon able to react in fractions of a millisecond, exchanging hundreds, if not thousands of blows while creating another geometric structure of light that was much denser than the one before, all done in only 1.3 milliseconds (0.0013 seconds).

**Supernatural Senses**: Raul's senses are far beyond the anything natural. He possesses impressively sharp hearing, being able to pick up on various chatter from bystanders a good distance away even while fighting monsters and the like. He can even hear phone transmissions with well enough accuracy to gauge conversation and the contents of its dialogue. Furthermore, Raul's eyesight is superhuman without even animus reinforcement. After being kicked to the Moon by Degras, he could pinpoint the location of the giant spaceship and land back on it from a distance a little more than one light-second. His tracking capability is also astonishing, as he can concentrate on a fast-moving object for a long time and still not lose sight of it, as seen when he was the only person to see where Lariat escaped to. He is also able to see in the dark, as he was able to spot a kid a great distance away during the night.

**Unparalleled Durability/Invulnerability**: Raul's new body possesses unparalleled toughness and durability. He can withstand blows from extremely powerful beings such as Blackluster and Degras without suffering any injury or feeling any pain. In fact, no character has actually been able to damage, or even physically harm him in any way. When Hermes created a huge, spherical blast of flame to kill the swarm of dragonflies, Raul remained standing right next to him completely unharmed (though his clothes were burnt). He even survived the harsh conditions of outer space unscathed during his brief time on the moon, and his fight on Titan. It has been shown that, despite the dangers of holding one's breath in space, Raul can do so with no negative effects on his body. Another testament to his astonishing durability is that Lariat, who, despite having gained enormous strength from Awakening, still could not inflict even the slightest damage on Raul during their fight. Notably, he was capable of withstanding Lariat's **Mega-Massive Fa Jin**, an attack powerful enough to raise up a large landmass all the way on the other side of the planet, without any damage taken at all. Against Titanium Lariat, who had accessed to Alayashiki, the collective mass, energy and information of all 8 billion human souls, Raul could withstand nuclear explosions generated by Lariat's **Nuclear Fission** at point-blank. Even after taking Lariat's **Supernova** head-on, he emerged unscathed from the energy blast that was narratively described to be the same phenomenon as a supernova, the most powerful type of explosion known in the universe.

Even in outer space, he manages to hold his breath effortlessly, and he even made a jump back to the Earth from the Moon in seconds with no signs of suffocation. His body has been shown to even adapt to and survive in the vacuum of space unscathed. Several factors, like a lack of atmosphere and increased radiation exposure, are at play here, although Raul was not affected by any of them. This was prominently shown in his fight against Lariat on Titan, one of Jupiter's moons, where he was unaffected by the thin and unbreathable atmosphere there.

Raul is also extremely resistant to all types of temperature-based attacks. When Hermes created a huge, spherical blast of flame to incinerate the swarm of dragonflies, Raul remained standing next to the man unperturbed and completely unharmed (although his clothes were burnt to a crisp). Despite being completely frozen by Withered Sprout, he was able to instantly shatter the ice and free himself, completely unfazed by the phantasmal's cryokinesis. He has shown capable of tolerating Titan's surface temperature that averages about minus 130 degrees Celsius, for at least some time and while naked. Additionally, Raul is capable of submerging himself in lava with no trouble, making it look like a nice hot tub.

### Oracle

* *Main Article: Ultimate Observer*

    Raul's ability is **Ultimate Observer** (裁判官現実(アルティマトオブザーバー), *Saibankan Genjitsu*, lit. "Reality Judgement"?), an Oracle that he's had since birth, but has only activated recently as a result of his desperately wanting to get rid of his illness. It is able to remove or add anything in existence through either acceptance or denial of the relative target, as well as assigning existence to said target. It is also speculated by Rehetra that it rejects the divine protection of God and his blessing, as well as the red string of fate. Raul is the current holder of the Ultimate Observer, and the power itself has a preference to Raul being its bearer, as there is meaning in when it first activated. According to Hermes, Raul's "curse of inverted reality", or in other words, how almost every time he is absolutely confident in something, the exact opposite of it happens as a form of fortune as well, and he refers to it as the "worst of all fortunes".

### Stigma

When he transported his entre classroom to the world of Alrum, he, like the rest of his classmates, obtained a Stigma. As AICA was the one responsible for the design and distribution of the stigmas, Raul told it to give him a weak one, to which AICA responded with giving him **Aggressor** (鬼胎者, *Shitai-sha*?) a Stigma that would search the target's greatest fears, and amplify them to unimaginable degrees. So much so that it could cause the target’s perception to be altered, causing them to see their environment as ominous and Raul as dark and foreboding, or even as a monster.

### Sorcery

**Boundless Magical Energy**: As the progenitor of spirituality, and the one who turned the world into a Chaos World, Raul's reserves are limitless. The source of Raul's unparalleled power lies in his role as the creator of the systems that govern the Arts, the magical framework of Earth and Alrum. Through his unique connection to the Oracle, Raul possesses the ability to replenish any expended Animus by utilizing his divine authority to bring forth fresh reserves into existence. This ensures that he never experiences depletion and can tap into his boundless animus reserves whenever needed.

Despite his unmatched animus reserves, Raul's control over his immense power is somewhat lacking. While he can easily unleash immense destructive capacities through simple reinforcement techniques, his precision in performing more delicate and nuanced movements, such as Nature Transformation or Apotropaic Magecraft, is limited. To compensate for this, Raul relies on AICA, an AI entity he created, to assist in controlling and manipulating the shape and nature of his Animus. AICA serves as a valuable tool, allowing him to channel his vast power with greater finesse and achieve desired outcomes with more precision.

#### Innate Technique

**Absolute Hand** (虚空把持(アブソルート・ハンド), *Kokū Haji (Abusorūto Hando)*, lit. "Grasping the Void"?) grants him the power to interact with intangible objects and entities that would typically be impervious to physical forces. This extraordinary capability allows him to bridge the gap between the physical and spiritual realms, enabling him to manipulate and affect phenomena that exist beyond the confines of the material world. Furthermore, Absolute Hand provides Raul with access to realms and dimensions that would typically be inaccessible through physical means. By tapping into this ability, he can breach the barriers of physical limitations and gain entry into otherwise impassable planes of existence. This is exemplified in his utilization of Absolute Hand to enter the Phoenix Space, a spiritual realm residing within Phoenix Man's suit. By "knocking on" the boundaries of this realm, Raul is able to create an opening, defying conventional understanding and traversing into a realm that should be confined to the confines of spiritual existence.

The manifestation of Absolute Hand and its exceptional properties can be attributed to Raul's unparalleled strength, which consistently defies the boundaries of logic and common sense. His immense power and abilities transcend the ordinary, enabling him to engage with non-physical objects and phenomena effortlessly. An example of this is his encounter with Titanium Lariat, where Raul casually kicks away the hyperspace portals created by Lariat, even managing to grab and redirect them. This exceptional feat astonishes Lariat, highlighting the extent of Raul's power and his ability to manipulate and interact with concepts and realities that should be beyond the scope of physical interaction.