Allen Rodol

**Allen Rodol** is the main protagonist of the series. He was who is constantly denied by teachers and other students. One day, Allen decides to challenge Dodriel Barton to a duel, where whoever wins will listen to the other's wishes. So Allen goes into a battle against time, where the same needs become the strongest before this duel.

In the midst of lamentations and things like that, he knows a certain Spirit, entitled the Hermit of Time, who listens to his story, ' *and Hermit of Time* after hearing it, decides to tell his story, and grants him a certain mysterious button.

Allen presses, becoming the strongest, however greed was not little, he continued squeezing, and squeezing until he was cursed in a seemingly infinite loop, where in more than Billions of years he managed to develop a technique capable of cutting through space, fleeing from there, and now entering a new journey.

He soon became a member of the student council from the invitation of the president, Sie Arcstria.

## Appearance

Allen is a fifteen-year-old young man, inheriting his pitch black hair from his father and sharp brown eyes from his mother. He is often noted by multiple women as having either a cute or handsome face, most being those who've developed feelings or interest in him.

After Zeon started taking control over him, his hair turns white and grows longer, reaching his back, his eyes turn red, and gains a black pattern underneath the button of his left eye. Overall, his appearance is described is said to be more brutal, bearing no resemblance to his usual self.

After the events of Volume 4, where Zeon possessed him, his body started changing to match his, causing his hair to gain a mixture of white too.

## Personality

Allen is a hardworking and determined individual, aspiring to become a swordsman to provide his struggling mother with a comfortable life. His strong-willed and noble character is evident as he remains indifferent to others' opinions or gossip about him, showcasing dedication and patience in mastering the sword. This commitment is highlighted by his decision to press the 100 million years button, a choice he made repeatedly, spamming it a total of ten times.

Despite his generally calm and composed demeanor, Allen exhibits a fierce temper when someone disparages his parents, as seen when Dodriel insulted his mother. This protective instinct extends to his friends and comrades, triggering his anger when they are mistreated.

In social situations, especially with women, Allen can be somewhat clumsy due to his lack of experience beyond his respect for his mother. He often stumbles over his words or becomes flustered, particularly evident in his interactions with Ria, for whom he has developed romantic feelings.

Growing up with a constant belief that he lacked talent with a sword, Allen developed a low opinion of himself and his skills. Despite training extensively in the Prison of Time for over a billion years, he occasionally doubts his abilities and feels unworthy of Ria, believing he must prove himself before confessing his feelings to her.

Under the influence of Zeon, Allen undergoes a drastic transformation, becoming ruthless and merciless, displaying a lack of remorse for killing opponents, as witnessed in his actions towards Sid and Ria. However, Allen's innate strong will and desire to protect enable him to break free from the control of his Spirit Core.

## Background

Allen is a member of the mysterious Rodol House, being the son of an unnamed father and Dahlia Rodol, losing his father when he was an infant during an epidemic. Raised in Goza village, he aspired to be a swordsman, with his mother raising enough tuition for him to enroll in Grand Swordsmanship Academy.

## Powers & Abilities

### Overview

Allen was regarded as a talentless swordsman, with no aptitude for swordsmanship, and no teacher from his previous school teaching him about improving. However, after encountering the Hermit of Time, he pressed the 100 million years button, allowing him to train his swordsmanship, he felt "reborn" as his skills seemed too different from his previous "talentless" self. Not satisfied with the results, Allen pressed the button ten times, letting him train for a total of 1 billion years there, turning into a transcendent, surpassing that of swordsmen considered geniuses in a league of their own.

However, beause of Allen losing his memories of his experiences there and being incapable of accessing the fullest potential of what he gained there, he found himself struggling against "true geniuses" such as Sid Euclius and more experienced foes.

**Immeasurable Spiritual Power:** Although he forgot about his experience in the Prison of Time, Allen developed indomitable mental fortitude due to spending over a billion years there. As such, it has endowed his spirit power, in essense his mental energy, which couldn't be measured using the magic circle within the spiritual power room, and broke it soon after being measured.

**Darkness Manipulation:** As a descendant of the mysterious Rodol House, Allen has the innate power to create and control a holy darkness.

**Special Muscular Constitution:** He has a special bodily structure, his muscle fibers are more than one hundred times denser than a normal person, granting him physical strength that is almost immeasurable.

**Special Cells:** Allen has special cells that are resistant to curses, something considered groundbreaking for Anti-Curse Research, and numerous medical fields. Aside from curses, his cells are adaptive with the unique trait of "acquisition of resistance", meaning that his cells become more resistant through continuous exposure to things ranging from poisons, heat, and various attacks.

**Gaming Skills:** Allen learned about various games, normal and betting-related games, being almost unbeatable when it comes to card games.

### Spirit Dress

Similar to Ria, Allen has a special and mysterious spirit core with a strong ego, named Zeon, classified as being as strong or stronger than an Awakened Fafnir. On multiple occasions, he tried to, or possessed Allen, causing a drastic change in him, showcasing immense power able to overcome the strongest opponents that his host has struggled against, strengthening, or bringing out more of Allen's powers afterward.

During his battle against Ria, in a desperate attempt to rescue her from his technique, he managed to release darkness that negated it. Later on, from training, he learned to manifest a black sword made from darkness, and was able to control the darkness in a more controlled manner. After the second incident, Allen started gaining a lot of permanent features resembling Zeon.

Although he struggled to manifest his Soul Dress, he had managed to manifest a pure black blade described as a supreme sword, which has darkness-based powers. However, unlike the darkness of the Rodol House, which is described as being more holy in nature, Zeon's darkness is described as being evil in nature.

#### Techniques

* **Healing:** Allen's darkness is capable of healing wounds to the point not even scars remain afterward and can heal someone on the brink of death. It is described as being amazing and almost cheat-like healing. Although, it was incapable of healing poisons such as those from Deal.
* **Dark Robe:** A defensive technique, where Allen wears a robe made of darkness, which can be used on others aside from himself.

### Swordsmanship

Allen is a talentless, but determined swordsman, his skills were lacking compared to his classmates like Dodrill. But, using the Hermit of Time's button, he trained for 100 million years, making him feel as if he'd been reborn, his slashes surpassing the speed of sound. Amid spamming it 10 times, he developed his own self-taught form, earning skills that eclipse his classmates, but still unable to defeat those rare talented foes like Sid, who almost killed him.

* **Ten Forms:** Allen devised ten different sword techniques as a part of his Self-Taught Swordsmanship, all of which have proven to be rather powerful and effective techniques, having been honed for over a total of a billion years.
	+ **First Sword – Flying Shadow:** A flying slash attack, which is powerful enough to send people like Dodriel, and Bubble backward, and cutting through even rocks.
	+ **Second Sword – Hazy Moon:** A pre-installed slash left inside the space, where he predicts the path his opponents will pass through, and bursts open as soon as they come on contact with it, making it a good, but difficult counter to use.
	+ **Fourth Sword – Black Spear:** Instead of a slash attack, like **Dark Roar**, this is a powerful thrust concentrated at a single point.
	+ **Fifth Sword – World Judgment:** A slash, which allows him to "cut" anything in the world even space, a technique that allowed him to break free from the Prison of Time, and thus can break free from any space that has him trapped.
	+ **Sixth Sword – Dark Roar:** A more powerful version of **Flying Shadow**, where he pours more power into the slash, which was powerful enough to extinguish Ria's **Dragon Breath**.
	+ **Seventh Sword – Instant Flash:** A god-speed Iai slash, which surpasses the speed of sound.
	+ **Eight Sword – Yatagarasu:** A technique, where he releases eight slashes with a single one, striking his opponents at eight different spots at the same time.
	+ **Tenth Sword – Dark Heaven Slash:** A technique, where he releases a giant slash at his opponent, infused with infinite darkness, it was capable of distorting space from the sheer destructive power.
* **Sakura Blossom One-Sword Style** (桜華一刀流(おうか いっとう りゅう), *Oka Ittō-ryū*): He learned this secret sword style through observing Rose Valencia, then he recreated its techniques by using Cain's Hell Hundred, which trapped him inside of a space similar to the Prison of Time for 100 years. In training with Bacchus, he learned its true basis, revolving around using optimal body movement and power transmission, which has allowed him to improve his own swordsmanship.
* **Iron Cutting Style** (斬鉄流(ざんてつ りゅう), *Zantetsu-ryū*): He learned this sword style from Tessa Burmond, with the principal of If mind and body can become iron, then iron can also become soft.
* **Cloud Style** (雲影流(うんえい りゅう), *Un'ei-ryū*):
	+ **Cirrocumulus** (うろこ雲(くも), *Uroko kumo*): A four-strike consecutive attack, which has lesser slashes compared to Yatagarasu, but its speed is a cut above the rest.

### Equipment

**Unnamed Sword:** During his time at Gran Swordsmanship Academy, Allen received the same kind of sword that all the other students receive, which has a common design compared to others. After enrolling in the Thousand Blade Academy, he received another sword that has a more ornate design.

## Trivia

* Enduring the 100 million years of loop over 10 ten times, he had gained extremely high **mental strength**.
* Allen's spirit core is a very special and rare one which have its own ego.
* In the climax of Volume 5, Allen manages to manifest soul dress from Zeon, his spirit core.
* It is found out that Allen's body has special type of cells, called as Allen cell, which is immune to any disease and curse.
* Allen Rodol seems based on Ikki Kurogane from Rakudai Kishi no Eiyuutan, because of the various similaties between them:
	+ Allen and Ikki are considered failures, but still pursues their goals no matter what anyone else believes.
	+ Allen and Ikki are known as Failed Swordsmen.
	+ Allen and Ikki has been bullied by one person more talented than most, in particular, who both have defeated in front of others.
	+ Allen and Ikki are swordsmen able to replicate other styles through sheer observation.
	+ Allen and Ikki walked in on their love interest changing, both incidents was due to their respective chairwomen's actions.
	+ Allen and Ikki have made bet with their respective love interests, where the loser becomes the winner's slave.
	+ Allen and Ikki have performed superhuman feats of swordsmanship, which is consdered normal to them, but abnormal to others.
	+ Allen and Ikki are in love with women who wields Dragon-based powers and are Princesses from another country.
	+ Allen and Ikki wields black blades.
	+ Allen and Ikki has stepped into a realm outside normal people; the former is known as a Transcendent, and the latter is known as a Desperado.

## References

1. ↑ Light Novel Volume 1, Chapter 3.2 - Dropout Swordsman and Swordsmanship Academy [1] – part 2
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Light Novel Volume 1, Chapter 4.1 - Dropout Swordsman and Swordsmanship Academy [2] – part 1
3. ↑ Light Novel Volume 2, Chapter 39 - Vesteria Kingdom and Elite Guard [2]
4. ↑ Light Novel Volume 3, Chapter 51 - New semester and First-Year War [3]
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Light Novel Volume 3, Chapter 52 - New semester and First-Year War [4]
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Light Novel Volume 4, Chapter 83 - Darkness and Sword King Festival [14]
7. ↑ Light Novel Volume 4, Chapter 99 - Five Kingdoms and Thirteen Knights of the Oracle [6]
8. ↑ Light Novel Volume 5, Chapter 102 - Abnormality and White Lily Academy [3]
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Light Novel Volume 6, Chapter 139 - Invitation and Demonkind [3]
10. ↑ 100 Million Years Button and Prison of Time 2, Part 1
11. ↑ Dropout Swordsman and Swordsmanship Academy 2, Part 2
12. ↑ Black-and-White Princess and Soul Dress 2, Part 2
13. ↑ Country of Sakura, Cherin and the Seven Holy Swords [159]
14. ↑ Magic Swordsman and Black Organization 6, part 2
15. ↑ New Semester and First-Year War 8
16. ↑ Dropout Swordsman and Swordsmanship Academy 3, Part 2
17. ↑ Country of Sakura, Cherin, and the Seven Holy Swords [164]
18. ↑ Country of Sakura, Cherin, and the Seven Holy Swords [165]