Great Sage Mitsuki

## Summary

The **Great Sage**, or simply **Mitsuki**, is the most powerful Sage and the final antagonist of the *Instant Death* series. Many of the events that transpire throughout the novel are connected in one way or another to him. He is the grandfather of the Sage Van. He was originally a human who obtained omnipotent power, and is powerful enough that none of the gods could ever hope to match him.

## Appearance

Mitsuki is described as a young man possessing a peerless kind of beauty. He has yellow eyes and light gray hair.

## Personality

Personality-wise, Mitsuki is described as someone who does things purely for his own entertainment. This has reached a point where he has attained a distorted sense of reality and partially lacking common sense.

Despite being extremely powerful, he hesitates to call himself a god, feeling that such term is "arrogant" and "lacking in beauty". He loves to laze around, spending his time with women and gaze out over the world, looking for anything fun and interesting. Such tepid way of spending time is his daily life. A calm and stagnant lifestyle, which is what he strives to maintain.

Though he seems to consider himself evil, he makes no effort to conquer the world or oppress people, no matter what happens he would never leave his spot as an observer. If the world was destroyed things would get quite boring for him, leading Mitsuki to reset the world anew. But in any other case he would simply watch. He has no intention of proactively protecting or managing his world. Instead, he had set up circumstances to create interesting situations for him to observe.

As a strict observer, one might argue that he was more neutral than evil, but since he tilted things towards being more difficult for his entertainment, he feels he is closer to evil.

## Abilities

* **Omnipotence:** Mitsuki has omnipotent powers that far surpasses that of the gods. Gods are stated to be omnipotent and omniscient. In truth, they are effectively nigh-omnipotent instead, as their omnipotence only works so long they do not become self-aware of anything that might contradict such nature. As long as they turn a blind eye to the paradoxical and contradictory natures of their omnipotence, they will remain omnipotent.
* **Dream Manipulation:** Gods are capable of appearing in people's dreams and they can keep the person dreaming as long as they want to.
* **Life & Death Manipulation:** Gods have free control over life and death. They can create life spontaneously, as well as easily kill a target with a gesture or word, bypassing all of their resistances.
* **Dream Transcendence:** The entire Celestial Foundation, or the universe, is just a dream from Mitsuki's perspective, and a dream he can control at will, such as rewinding all the events that happened all the way up to Volume 11, as if they never happened. The only exceptions to this were targets that were killed by Yogiri, as not even Mitsuki's power was able to revert their deaths. Due to the entire universe being his dream, if Mitsuki is killed, the universe would be destroyed. It is later implied that Mitsuki's nature encompasses not only the Celestial Foundation that Yogiri is in, but also the multiverse. In addition, his nature as one of the "exceptions" of the Ultimate Ensemble World allows his power to work across all worlds.
* **Battlesong Abilities:** As the one who created the Battlesong System, he should have access to all of its abilities, which would include the powers of all Sages and Sage Candidates that have been displayed so far.
* **Peerless Beauty:** Mitsuki's natural power that he was born with. He has a special beauty and attractiveness that compels others to bless him and women to be enchanted by him. As a result of this ability, many transcendent beings wished to preserve his good looks and even made him immortal, leading him to gain tremendous power.
* **Telepathy:** Mitsuki is able to directly insert thoughts into people's minds, communicating with them in this fashion.
* **Creation & Erasure:** Mitsuki can freely create and erase anything he wishes.
* **Power Creation:** Mitsuki is able to freely create any power he wishes and bestow it upon any person of his choice.
* **Persuasive Speech/Aura of Compulsion:** Mitsuki can set up his words to carry an aura of compulsion that makes others wholeheartedly believe what he is saying.
* **Erasure Bolt:** A light blast that erases the target from the past, present, and future.

## References

1. ↑ Volume 7 Chapter 22
2. ↑ Volume 7 Chapter 14
3. ↑ Volume 7 Chapter 21
4. ↑ Volume 13 Chapter 4
5. ↑ Volume 14 Chapter 23
6. ↑ Volume 14 Chapter 4
7. ↑ Volume 14 Chapter 23
8. ↑ Volume 13 Chapter 4
9. ↑ Volume 13 Chapter 4
10. ↑ Volume 13 Chapter 4
11. ↑ Volume 13 Chapter 4
12. ↑ Volume 13 Chapter 5
13. ↑ Volume 13 Chapter 7
14. ↑ Volume 13 Chapter 9
15. ↑ Volume 14 Chapter 24