Balot (Johanverse)

**Balot** (バロット *Baroto*), also known as "**Fragment of Great Being**", are thirteen mysterious balls with engraving in them that are said to be wielding the power of the thirteen barons.

It's an item created by Von Neuman.

## History

It's created by Von Neuman in the 15 century, the main motivation behind its creation was to give the next generation further advantage against the incoming battle with the Honkai by enhancing their strength with the power of the 13 Barons, but due to the insufficient strength, the next generation can only use fragments of the power that the 13 Barons have placed inside the Balot.

## Function

There is 3 known function for the Balot, as told and shown in the story.

The first function is this, the Balot is able to be used as an energy battery, as shown in chapter 45, where the Eternal Tower of Babel was able to stay afloat for all eternity using nothing but a single Balot as its energy source.

The other function of the Balot is to give a human the power of the 13 Barons, but due to the limit of the human body, those who chose to gain the power of the 13 Barons can only receive fragments, they can also choose to forsake the power that the 13 Barons can pass down to them, and chose a new power entirely, but if they chose to do so, the power that they gain would be random, but it's still would be something that benefits them.

The last function of the Balot is as a 'vote', using this, the owner of the Balot has the right only lower than the original Barons themself, as said by the holder of the 7th Balot, 'those who wield the Balot have the same amount of authority as the 13 Barons themselves!' (While this is not quite true, since the original 13 Barons has higher authority than the Balot holder, but due to the absence of the Baron, it's technically true since only a Baron can bypass the authority of a Balot Holder).

Using this vote, the Balot Holder can choose what direction should the whole Tower of Babel move to, if the voter wants the tower to focus on improving its defense, all members and functioning affiliates with the tower would use all of their 100% focus to improve the defense capabilities of the Tower, if a Balot Holder voted for the death of an individual, every member, and every affiliated people of the Tower would drop anything that they are doing and focus on eliminating them.

## Known Balot

There is only 13 Balot in all of existence, corresponding with the number of existing Barons of Evil, with each one of them special on its own, as they are specifically made to be able to pass the power of a specific Baron to its Holder.

1. Original Balot: Balot made with the original Barons, Johannes Kaslana-Apocalypse in mind, There is no special ability that can be given to the Holder of this Balot, as the only special thing that this balot can do is to act as a perpetual motion machine and spew out all kind of energy, in short, those who Hold this balot can have an endless amount of energy, but due to the lack of available combat use of this balot, it's used to power the entirety of Tower of Babel.
2. Insight Balot: The Balot that's made with the Insight Baron, Von-Neuman, as the basis of its power, one of the three Balot that has no Holder before the arrival of Adam, with the reason behind this Balot's lack of holder is due to Neuman's high standard for the Holder, it's later shown that Adam was able to successfully pass Von-Neuman trial, successfully obtaining the right to be the very first and possibly last Insight Balot Holder.
3. Paradox Balot: The Balot that was made with the Paradox Baron, Ragna Crimson, as its foundation, it's one of the easiest Balot to obtain, due to Ragna's lack of concern for his successor, don't be misled by the word easiest, because at the end of the day, Ragna is still a baron, what he counts as easy is different from other, as shown by the fact that there is only 2 existing holder for the Paradox Balot.