Shangri-La

> *“The gods of old ruled a once powerful empire, peaceful and just, until they were attacked by Shangri-La, leader of the Zeniths. All who defied it were destroyed. Their war finally consumed the universe, and the gods of old were lost to the stars.”*
> —Shuramaru, explaining about Shangri-La
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**Shangri-La** (シャングリラ, *Shangurira*?) was the true antagonist of *Gamera vs. The Great General of Darkness*. It was one of the oldests Brain Flayers in existence, as well as the first Zenith, having created many others, who would go on to spread their kind on their own. It was the mastermind behind the events of several series, from *The Victorious Babel II* to *Justice Alliance of Japan Victory Soul* and the primary instigator of the Zenith War and the Mycenaean War, by sending the Zeniths to Earth and awakening the enemy empire, and the fall of the second incarnation of the Justice Alliance.

## Appearance

Shangri-La was a massively colossal being whose appearance alone could inflict terror to all those who gaze at it. It has a humanoid upper torso clad entirely in black armor, with glowing blue eyes, a blue horn on the forehead, long gray hair, two-blue-eyed monster-head-shaped shoulder platers and six large crystal spikes from its back. The torso was attached to a huge monstrous reptile-like head with four brimming red eyes, long curved horns, a glowing shiny red pane on its forehead and a gigantic open maw. Shangri-La also had massive black irregular-shaped linear "wings", with neon-light lines over it arranged like a circuit board, glowing with many colors.

## Personality

As a Zenith born from the contradicting ideologies of the universe-protecting Ancient Gods, it expressed no emotion, and no other desire, other than to turn everything into nothing and destroy all that oppose its single desire. It also showed total authority over all other Zeniths and no compassion or tolerance to anything, even failure or disloyalty from even fellow Zeniths and Unknowns, such as when it killed its own second-in-command Utopia Ever for failing to take over the Earth.

## Background

### The Zenith of All Existence

The merging of several previous universes during the war between Ancient Gods and Final Gods resulted in the creation of the universe in an isolate pocket dimension, secure from the chaos of the Final Gods. However, because it was formed from the combination of many incompatible dimensions, this new universe was already a bit unstable from its first eons of existence. Because of this, the energies of the Final Gods were able to seep into reality, and even the Forbidden Gods were able to enter into the universe through these instabilities. The Final Gods' void energies and chaos eventually created what would be known as Brain Flayers, beings of forbidden existences that can transcend through time and space, one of which was an entity that would become Shangri-La. However, the origin of Shangri-La wasn't just that.

Billions of years ago, the Ancient Gods of the Attiqa Mauthbalaha were contradicting themselves with the thoughts of "defending all life in the universe, one after another" and "defeating the Final Gods, consequences be damned", not helped that one of the Supreme Gods of the Mauthbalaha, Saga spiraled into insanity and succumbed to evil and darkness upon knowing the existence of the Forbidden and Final Gods. These contradictory thoughts of the Ancient Gods transcended into the void of space and merging with the essence of the Final Gods, created an existential paradox as an "entity" of "nothing", a Zenith, the first of its kind in the universe.

Shortly after the war between the Ancient Gods and the Forbidden Gods, Shangri-La and three other Zeniths that came after it, Iggy Specials, Egoist and Dark Matter, formed what would be the Four High Zeniths and led an army of Unknowns and Brain Flayers to wage war against the Ancient Gods, that were already devastated despite being victorious from the last conflict. This led to more Ancient Gods being wiped out but once again, they barely came out victorious and the Four High Zeniths were banished into the void, vowing to one day come back and end everything once and for all.

### War Against the Unknowns and Zeniths

Shangri-La would be out of the picture for billions of years until the 21st century A.D., when one of the Unknowns Shangri-La created eons in the past, Codename Sorge, was sent to the Pandora Space to kidnap Prin, the daughter of the alien royal family and blackmail them into attacking Earth, by sending their agent Yomi to the planet and coming into the conflict with Koichi Yamano, Gaial Kaiser and Ryusei.

The Zeniths came back to being, when they first appeared on Earth and came into conflict with the Justice Alliance in 2027.

### Fall of the Alliance

After Iggy Specials was destroyed and Utopia Ever retreated, injured back to its master, Shangri-La was dissatisfied at Utopia Ever's failure to wipe out their enemy planet and destroyed it, deciding to deal with the Alliance itself and head to Earth to finish it all itself.

Shangri-La led an attack on the Justice Alliance Satellite, commanding an army of Unknowns and a few more Zeniths. The tide of battle seemed to turn when twin brothers Onimaru and Shuramaru decided to fuse with each other and form into the ultimate Zenith and the embodiment of miracles, Kiramaru.

### Temporal Chaos

During the war against the Space-Time God Chronos, Shangri-La was discovered by the Parallel Isotope of the Evil Eye Emperor Romanov I and forced to fuse with him to become the strongest Connected Dispector, the Zero Prison Connected Emperor Romanogri-La the 0th. After Romanogri-La the 0th was defeated, the Queen of the Brain Flayers Marjaana forced Shangri-La out of its fusion with Romanov and purified it to become the Climax of "Ideals", Shangri-La Eden.

## Abilities

Outside of the Forbidden and Final Gods, as the very first and ruler of the Zeniths and one of the oldest and strongest Brain Flayers in existence, Shangri-La proved to be one of the most dangerous and horrific enemies in the *Mahou Kaiju Series* universe, responsible for the chain of events that would lead in to what would eventually known as the *Kaiju World War Saga*.

* **Extreme God-like Strength** –
	+ **Nebula-Level Destruction** – It was dangerous enough to have the power to destroy the Earth alone but it had the capacity to destroy entire nebulas and a whole part of a galaxy when it would become powerful enough.
* **God-like Invulnerability** –
	+ **Immense God-like Durability** –
	+ **Near-Impenetrable Barrier** –
* **Singular Reality Existence** –
* **Extremely Colossal Size** –
* **Zenith Creation** – As the first and most powerful Zenith, it could create others of its kind in the same manner that it was, by manifesting contradicting thoughts and creating paradoxical transcendental beings.
* **Unknown Creation** – As a Brain Flayer, it could also create Unknowns, powerful beings with emotion.
* **Flight** –
* **Fear Manipulation** –
	+ **Paralysis** –
	+ **Power Nullification** –
* **Death Energy** –
* **Darkness Energy** –
* **Teleportation** –
* **Telepathy** –

### Attacks

* **Immortal Deifestation: Deu-Death** (無死神導デウデス, *Mushi Shindō Deudesu*?) –
* **Immorality Destruction Wave: All-Death-All** (無情破動・オールデスオール, *Mujō Hadō: Ōrudesuōru*?) –
* **Cruelty Secret Technique: LOVE×HATE** (無情秘伝・ＬＯＶＥ×ＨＡＴＥラブアンドヘイト, *Mujō Hiden: Rabu Ando Heito*?) – Shangri-La's signature and most powerful ability.

## Trivia

* Shangri-La was one of the two Zeniths that didn't speak, along with VAN Beethoven, since it was revealed that the latter was merely a powerful shell that kept Shuramaru as a core and a prisoner.
* It is named after the fictional place of the same name described in the 1933 novel *Lost Horizon*.