Rook Holmes

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**Rook Holmes**, real name **Lucius Holmes** (ルシウス・ホームズ), is a Master of the Kingdom of Altar and the sub-owner of the clan Death Period.

## Appearance

Rook is noted to have an extremely handsome appearance, with feminine-looking features and striking silver hair. The only detail that Rook changed during the creation of his avatar was the colour of his hair.

## History

The child of a detective and a thief, Lucius was trained by both his parents in their disciplines from a young age and displayed exceptional talent in both.

Unfortunately, soon after his 15th birthday, Lucius's parents were killed in a plane crash after they risked their lives getting children to safety.

After inheriting their estate, Lucius realized that he had no idea what path to take in his life. While going through his father's belongings, he found the headset for *Infinite Dendrogram* and correspondence indicating his father had been asked to investigate the game. Lucius decided to start playing himself to find out what to do in his life.

## Abilities

As the sub owner of the Death Period, his influence in the clan is second only to the owner.

### Jobs

**Lord Luxuria** (色欲魔王ロード・ルクセリア): A Superior Job of no grouping from the Demon Lord series that specializes in evolving the talents of individual monsters by transforming them into a Kin. A Kin is a humanoid creature with greatly enhanced status and skills from various compatible jobs, possibly including occupied superior jobs. The status growth of this job focuses on MP, SP, and minion capacity.

* **Progress** (存在昇華プログレス): An active skill that can transform a creature in the user's minion capacity into a Kin, a unique lifeform with the ability of both a human and a monster. However, the possibility of success is 1% and the target will die if it fails. The skill's success rate is not described in the Job Skill's description so even skills like Logan Goddhart's Rumpelstiltskin cannot increase the chance of success.
* **Neoteny** (制限昇華ネオテニー): An active skill that transforms the target into a Kin temporarily. Unless the target is completely untalented, the skill will not fail, however, it costs 10 job levels per minute.
* **The End of Lust** (色欲の終焉ジ・エンド・オブ・ラスト): The "Final Blow" of the Lord Luxuria. It can transform the target into a Kin permanently with a 100% chance of success. The degree of enhancement is far stronger than **Progress** and **Neoteny**, however, the user and all creatures other than the target that are or have ever been in their minion capacity (including other Kin of the previous job holder) will die.

**Lost Heart** (亡八ロストハート): The high-rank job from the Pimp grouping. It had three conditions to achieve this job: having reached level 50 as a Pimp, the sum total stats of all underlings being above a certain point, and at least 1,000,000 lir earned through Pimp work.

**Pimp** (女衒ピンプ): A low-rank job from the Merchant and Tamer grouping. The status growth of this job focuses on MP, SP, and minion capacity.

* **Male Temptation** (雄性の誘惑メール・テンプテーション): An active skill that applies the Charm debuff to female humans and monsters. The lower the target's mental resistance (determined by the total sum of the target's MP, SP, and Mental Resistance skill), the greater the chance of success. It also has a chance to tame monsters. During the time of the Rookie Hunt, Rook had this skill at level 3.
* **Female Monster Strengthening** (女魔物強化): A skill that increases the ability of female monster subordinates. During the time of the Rookie Hunt, Rook had this skill at level 3.
* **Female Slave Strengthening** (女奴隷強化): A skill that increases the ability of female slave subordinates. During the time of the Rookie Hunt, Rook had this skill at level 1.
* **Influence:【Pimp】**(斡旋：【女衒】): A skill that increases the rewards from the work of female subordinates. During the time of the Rookie Hunt, Rook had this skill at level 1.
* **Identification** (鑑定眼): An active general skill that allows the user to see an item's name and stats. At level 1, it can see the status information of any item other than rare ones and above. However, it can't be used to see the status information on Embryos. Rook obtained this skill by working a part-time job at a shop during the Rookie Hunt.

**High Tamer** (高位従魔師ハイ・テイマー): A high-rank job from the Tamer grouping.

**Tamer** (従魔師テイマー): A low-rank job focused on taming monsters. It has high minion capacity growth.

* **Monster Strengthening** (女魔物強化): A skill that increases the ability of monster subordinates.

**Harlot** (娼妓ハーロット): A low rank job. It has a passive skill that increased the success rate of Charm.

**Enchanter** (付与術師エンチャンター): A low-rank caster job focusing on casting buffs. Since Rook's job is not a caster type, normally he cannot use the spells from this job. However, when using **Union Jack**, he can use spells to buff himself.

### Other

**Genius**: Rook is a genius trained from childhood by his parents to inherit both of their skills. As such, he is a skilled detective, capable of analysing people's thoughts and actions to an uncanny degree and a skilled thief, to the point where he can instruct Elizabeth S. Altar to evade her guards. He is also capable of extremely fast thinking.

**Beast Judgement**: Rook possesses a natural Beast Judgment skill, which lets him intuit which monster would work best with him.

**Tamer**: Rook owns four tamed monsters, Marilyn, Audrey, Liz and Tallulah.

## Trivia

* Rook chose his name because there was a rook piece on a chessboard nearby when he was creating his avatar.
* Rook's great-great-grandfather, who was also a detective, changed his name to match that of a certain famous fictional detective.
* Due to a traumatic event in his childhood, Rook gained a phobia of mice.
* Rook named all his tamed monsters after famous actresses.