Anastasia

**Anastasia** is the teacher and master to Victoria and was the one to have taught her Rune Magic.

## Appearance

Anastasia's human form was described as being incredibly, breath-takingly beautiful and seductive. As shown, Anastasia is shown to be a curvaceous woman with snow-white skin, slanted pinkish-red eyes and long white hair, with her also being shown to have a lotus tattoo in the center of her chest, between her collar bones and a larger lotus tattoo in her forehead.

## Personality

Anastasia was stated to be resemble her student, Victoria, greatly due to the fact that Victoria herself gained many of her personality traits from her. Anastasia was confident bordering on arrogant, out going and playful, with her generally having been shown to have a relaxed demeanor no matter what situation she is in. However, despite her general attitude, Anastasia was also shown to have a strong temper and has shown to become very violent, destructive and vulgar when speaking if set off. This is also seen where she is easily ticked off by Cha Yeon-woo's teasing of her.

Similar to her student, Anastasia has also shown to be highly sexually active, flirty and promiscuous, having been stated to mainly spend her time in the Pleasure District of the Obelisk's Outskirt and spend most of her time with the various male prostitutes and Brothels there.

Another more serious side to Anastasia is her fierce loyalty towards those she has come to care about. This is seen where she takes great care to protect and look after the various establishments in the Tower's outer districts and has implied to have protected many of the workers there from their difficult pasts. After Victoria had barely escaped from the Devil Army, Anastasia was shown to have taken in her student and taken care of her after the experience in the Monkey King's Palace had traumatized her. And despite Victoria's many reckless actions and disregard for her advice, Anastasia has shown to still care for her and is more than willing to do personal favors for her when she asks her for help. Anastasia herself has been stated to have the habit of adopting and caring for numerous "orphans" she finds, such as Players who failed to make it in the Tower, Mythical Beasts in the 11th Floor and numerous Fairies and Spirits.

It was stated that this caring, maternal traits was taken from Anastasia's master, Rhea, due to her personality having rubbed off on her and her being the goddess's Shadow.

Anastasia was also shown to be deeply loyal to her master,Rhea and her husband,Kronos after the two had adopted her. Anastasia herself even went as far as abandoning Olympus and wait in the Tower's outskirts in hope of their return.

## History

One of the creatures Rhea took under her care due to her nature as an earth goddess. Together with Kronos, they named her Popo.

Her friend, Freesis, was also one of the creatures Rhea took under her, named Pepe.

Together with their master, they too were confined to the tower. After the fall of Kronos and Rhea leaving the tower, she and Freesis separated and continued to wait for their return

## Abilities

Anastasia's overall power was stated to be immense, with her strength having been stated to be equivalent to a High Ranker and her power being within the same level as the Nine Kings. In fact upon catching a glimpse of her power, Yeon-woo concluded her strength was on par with the Summer Queen.

It would later be revealed that Anastasia herself, as a pet of Rhea, was once a resident of the 98th Floor and she herself is in fact that "shadow" of the Goddess. Having been created by Rhea by giving her some of her Holy Power.

### Monster Power

Due to her technically being a Gumiho instead of Human or Demi-Human Player, Anastasia instead possess access to the power called "Monster Power", which is the equivalent of Mana to Humans. Due to her immense age and experience, Anastasia was stated to have immense amounts of this energy and the overall amount of this power easily gave her power on the same level of the "Nine Kings" and her own strength while transformed into her beast form was compared to the Summer Queen's power as a Dragon.

Due to how massive the amount of Monster Power that Anastasia has accumulated in her thousands of years within the Obelisk, her overall power level has reached the point that she it has become massive enough that she could no longer contain it within a single body, with her having resorted to dividing both portions equally between her Gumiho and human bodies respectively.

Gumiho Body
### Monster Taming

As shown, Anastasia possess a large menagerie of Monsters within her property and it was analyzed by Yeon-woo that each of these monsters where individually immensely strong, each of them was a "part" of Anastasia and the beasts were her "shadows" of whom she had implanted a part of her power within them. It was stated by Yeon-woo that Anastasia could easily further boost her strength by re-absorbing the power she gave the beasts together with them.

### Familiars

Anastasia was also stated to possess numerous Familiars. As observed by Yeon-woo, the beautiful children that typically acts as her attendants and servants are in fact her familiars. it would later be revealed that her familiars were in fact Fairies and Spirits.

### Magic

Anastasia was also stated to be an immensely powerful Magic user and was stated to have mastered numerous fields of magic.

* **Rune Magic:** Anastasia in particular was noted to be highly skilled in the usage of **Rune Magic** and was shown to be powerful and skilled enough to teach others in its usage. This is seen where she managed to train and teach Victoria in the craft and she was able to become a master in its use and regarded as one of the most powerful Rune Masters within the Obelisk. However despite this, it was stated by Victoria that Anastasia still surpassed her in power, further giving depth to her strength.
* **Sealing Magic:** Anastasia was also noted to be highly skilled in sealing magic. This is seen where she was able to seal several weapons and objects used by powerful rankers in ages past that had absorbed enough power, bloodshed and energy from their previous owners and the victims whose lives were taken using them to now be able to begin developing sentience and has begun transforming into monsters. Anastasia herself was able to create a powerful spell centered around the usage of her **Adamantite Nova** as a power source to contain the visage monsters in the weapons for hundreds of years. Later after Victoria took the Adamantite Nova, Anastasia was able to set up several sealing barriers that was able to contain the visages for a considerable amount of time.

## Items

* **Adamntit Nova:** Anastasia managed to acquire a chunk of powerful Adamantite Nova, an extremely powerful divine iron that possess immense power that if forged into a weapon, can easily rival the weapons and tools of the chief Gods of every pantheon and the most powerful High Class Demons of the major demonic societies. Anastasia herself was able to use the ore as a power source to contain the powerful visages of several powerful artifacts for several centuries. She would later give this piece to Yeon-woo after Victoria stole it.
* **Visage Items:** Over the thousands of years of her life living within the Obelisk's Outer Districts, Anastasia managed to collect and horde a considerable horde of weapons and items that once belonged to Players of considerable power. Due to the power of the previous owners, the energy built up from its usages and the considerable age each items possessed, these weapons were stated to have become **Visages** of its previous owners and had begun gaining their own sense of sentience that if left alone, would allow them to evolve into full blown monsters.

## Trivia

* Due to being their pet, whenever Kronos says "Paw" and reaches out his palm, Anastasia has the unconscious habit of automatically raising her hand and putting it on his palm.