Black King

### Age

Unknown (Has lived since before the beginning of the Universe and he is older than the Heavenly Demon)

### Status

Unknown (Dreaming)
Assimilated

## Relationships

### Enemies

Heavenly Demon
Bivasbat
Gods
 Demons
PoseidonCha Yeon-woo

### Allies

Kronos (First Apostle)
Harmonia (Second Apostle)
Cha Yeon-woo (Third Apostle/Alter Ego) (Ego)
Gods & Demons of Death
 Outer Gods

The **Black King** is the mysterious divine being that has strong ties to the various Gods and Demons of the 98th Floor of the Obelisk and is said to possess immense power and control over "Death" and was stated to embody the entire conceptional existence of "Death", Chaos, Darkness, Dreams and the Abyss.

## History

The exact details are unknown, but it is known that he once shared a close relationship with the Gods within the 98th Floor of the Obelisk, with him once having a close relationship with the Olympian Gods and was stated to be the master to Azrael of Malak and had some sort of relationship with the Gods and Demons of Death.

However for some reason, he was condemned by the other Gods and Demons of the 98tth Floor and was sealed away by them. His name and very existence was then turned into a forbidden subject and all mention of him was forbidden by an oath to the River Styx.

He descends upon the tower along with the Heavenly Demon and releasing the quest to kill Bivasbat to his two apostles.Harmonia strongly competes to become the one true apostle with Yeon-woo who passively does things.

Impressed with Cha Yeon-woo ability at harming Bivasbat, he had designated him as his Alter Ego. As well as severing his finger and ring as a gift.

Currently, he is in possession of Cha Jeong-woo's soul. He claims it as a precious gem that he is unwilling to hand over. As so, Cha Yeon-woo declares him to be an enemy that he is willing to kill to get his brother's soul back. The Black King revokes his blessings from Yeon-woo.

The Black King was revealed to be the single most powerful being in creation. As it was stated that despite being defeated by the Day (Eros) and the Heavenly Demon and sealed by them, the Black King himself easily recuperates his strength and power by returning to "Sleep" allowing him to regain his strength and while his enemies only continued to lose more of their power putting him back to "Sleep" and delaying his awakening. Showing that while his enemies continued to lose power defeating him, he only continued to grow in strength.

## Abilities

The Black King was a being that possessed absolutely gigantic amounts of power superior to the Gods and Demons of the 98th Floor of the Obelisk. His strength was so gigantic that the even the Elder Gods and first generation Olympians of the Olympian Pantheon, such as Poseidon, felt immense fear of him.

Later it would be revealed that the Black King is the conceptual God embodying Death, Void and Nothingness before creation, as such, his power was stated to easily surpass all of the Gods, Demons, Dragons, Giants and even the Outer Gods. As stated by Yeon-woo after he begun merging with and assimilating the Black King, the Black King himself is so immensely powerful that he himself could barely retain his conscious mind and immediately becomes tired and sleepy after only being "awake" for a short time due to him being so massive and powerful to the point that simply being awake burns a considerably large portion of his power.

### Conceptual God

As a God embodying the "void" before all creation and the Chaos that predates and inevitably creates creation and destroys it in the end, The Black King has been stated to be neigh immortal and indestructible. With it being stated that alongside the Heavenly Demon, the Black King has literally destroyed, created and recreated the cosmos over and over an innumerable number of times in a never ending cycle of creation and destruction.

### Death

It was later revealed that the Black King was a conceptual being that embodied the concept of "Death", granting him the power to bypass the immortality possessed by Gods and Demons and permanently kill them.

Due to being the original Being that symbolized and embodied the concept of Death, the Black King has Supreme control over the phenomenon known as "death" and can exert control over it whoever he choses. This is seen where he could "inflict" any form of death to any target he desires and has free control over "how" someone can die.

Its been stated that all of the Gods and Demons of Death and the Beyond received or obtained their Divine Authorities from him and their Skills and Powers are nothing more than sub skills and fragments to the power possessed by him.

### Abyss

As the God that embodies the concept of the primordial Abyss before creation and the beginning of creation itself, the Black King also possess control over the Abyss of where souls come from and return to after death. When a being dies, their souls instinctively return to the origin of their souls, The "Darkness" where the Black King resides. And due to having supreme control over this place, The Black King can manipulate their souls however he desires.

This is seen where he was able to collect the soul of Cha Jeong-woo after he was killed.

### Dreaming

The Black King is always in a dormant state during the main events of the story. As long as he sleeps, all the worlds/dimensions/universes can continue to exist peacefully. Awaking him would mean the end of one world, and putting him to sleep would be creating another. For each time he sleeps, his consciousness (Ego) searches for an apostle that would eventually awake him.

Due to the universe having been born from his "Dream" and reality, the various dimensions and worlds of the cosmos themselves being stated to be nothing more than his "Dreams". The Black King has shown that he possess the ability to fundamentally manipulate and alter the laws of reality at will.

### Demonism/Ego’s

Like the Great Mother, the Black King possess no true, singular consciousness. Instead his mind and consciousness itself is split up and divided into hundreds, perhaps even thousands of consciousnesses known as "Demonisms". Each of these individual consciousness's were stated to be completely independent from each other in their thoughts and feelings, with all of them being stated to be distinct enough to be able to tell the difference between them. However, all of them were stated to share the same predatory-greedy personality of the Black King and were all shown to be arrogant.

All of the Demonisms were stated to be immensely powerful, with them having been observed by Cha Yeon-woo to have strength easily rivaling or surpassing the Gods and Demons within the 98th Floor of the Obelisk. As shown, depending on how much “Darkness” each of the Demonism’s possess, they can exert a level and portion of the Black King’s power.

Whenever the Black King finds a suitable host/successor/Apostle, it was stated that one of his demonism consciousness's would merge together with that candidate. These Demonisms would then attempt to devour the successor and take their strength for themselves due to their innately greedy personality.

* **Cha Yeon-woo's Demonism:** the Demonism consciousness that was attached to Yeon-woo after he became a worthy candidate to be the Black King's successor. This Demonism was shown to have formed after Yeon-woo completed his Philosopher's Stone and absorbed Agares' Demonic Power, where it had begun to develop its first sense of sentience after absorbing the grudges and resentments of the souls used to create the stone and later assimilating traces Agares's crazed personality still present his factors. Upon becoming sentient, this Demonism chose to go dormant within Yeon-woo's Philosophers Stone and wait until Yeon-woo became powerful enough to satisfy it and then try to devour him then. As time went on, this Demonism continued to become more intelligent as Yeon-woo became more powerful and eventually even began willingly giving Yeon-woo assistance and borrowing his power in order to survive against powerful opponents by fusing with him. This Demonism would only continue to grow stronger by absorbing the ego of powerful beings, such as the Outer God, Crawling Chaos and stealing power from Erzsebet Bathory. Eventually upon becoming strong enough, the Demonism would try to take over and devour Yeon-woo. However, it would only be destroyed by the combined efforts of Yeon-woo and Kronos.
* **Kronos's Demonism:** After being chosen to be his Apostle, Kronos would also be given his own Demonism after escaping the Swamp of Darkness. After returning to Olympus, the Demonism immediately began to try and devour Kronos's mind and take over him. Sensing this, Ouranos gave Kronos his remaining Holy Power in order to suppress the Demonism. However, due to the curse inflicted by Gaia, the Demonism was released and from there began to slowly exert control of Kronos as it gradually began to eat away at his consciousness, gradually warping his personality and turning him into a brutal tyrant. Later after his "Death", this Demonism was stated to have remained in his corpse and awaited for his return after a small part of Kronos's soul escaped to Earth. Eventually when Kronos did return with his son, Yeon-woo, this Demonism merged with Yeon-woo's own as it attempted to devour them both. Both were eventually destroyed.
* **Sage Demonism:** The Demonism that reigns as the Black King's "main" ego and the leader of the other Demonisms. Due to him being the most powerful of the Black King, the Sage possess the most of the Black King's "darkness" and has the most access to the Black King's powers and abilities.

Yeon-woo’s Demonism