Nico Spruce

### Relationships

Sam Vivid (close friend), Miles Kyber (best friend), Jaime Payne (best friend), Spencer Payne (friend), Rylan Payne (president, friend), Lucan (friend), Danny Herrera (sworn enemy), Achillean Kyber (enemy)

## Other Information

### Appearances

Lost Girl, The Runner, The Skyliner, Meet the Paynes, The Kyber Realm

### Debut

Lost Girl

Nico Spruce is a fictional character in Alejandro Pineda's Realm Chronicles. He was a supporting character in Lost Girl, The Skyliner, and The Kyber Realm.

## Appearance

Nico is a young man of tall stature possessing a somewhat muscular and athletic physique. He has long brown hair, tanned skin, and piercing amber eyes. He wears a faded green jacket over an orange and white shirt, and plain black pants with shoes. He also wears a notable red and white headband, which he would later replace with the Crystalland flag design. He is usually seen wearing diamond armor and carries explosives. Nico is described as looking something between a ninja and an art teacher.

## Personality

Nico has a very loud, outgoing, and fun-loving personality. He enjoys talking to friends and boasting his skills, showing incredible amounts of confidence. He is also very protective, shielding the ones he loves from harm by taking on the burden himself. Nico is also incredibly smart, and when if comes to battle, he is quick-witted, calculative, and proficient. This is shown countless times when he faces off against very skilled opponents he does not consider himself to be equal to. He also has something of an inferiority complex to others, quickly losing his confidence whenever he is compared to some of the more skilled warriors of the world. Despite his carefree nature, he is very caring and thoughtful, believing in putting his friends before anything else, including himself. Nico was a supporting character in Lost Girl, The Skyliner, and The Kyber Realm.

## Abilities

**Overall Skill Level**: As the first and only Bursting Sentry and by proxy one of the greatest warirors in the Kyber Realm, Nico is an incredibly competent fighter. He became the first and only person with previous training as an assassin to achieve the position of Sentry, granting him a variety of skillsets in battle that not even the strongest of his peers possess.

Nico’s strength was first showcased in the when he was confirmed to have successfully taken out an entire pillager raid by himself, including two ravagers. He effortlessly overpowered and beat down Spencer in a brawl and even overwhelmed Jaime at the beginning of their training through sheer physical might alone. Even after Jaime went all out against him, Nico was able to halt their fight and casually lecture him on the flaws in his fighting style. Nico also proved to be a formidable match for David Freeland alongside Jaime because of his highly disorienting Combat Art, even intimidating the member of the Three with his immense confidence despite the former possessing far higher Combat Energy.

**Assassin’s Expertise**: Nico underwent a large amount of muscle and endurance training from his father that included resistance to extreme conditions, body manipulation, and poison tolerance. This allowed him the ability to survive far longer than the average person under such circumstances and even fight at his fullest in them.

* **Poison Resistance**: Nico displayed an incredible resistance to deadly potions such as harming, poison, and even slowness due to extensive training and conditioning against them throughout his time in combat preparation. This was also revealed to be from when he was attacked by a witch as a child and developed an immunity to it.

* **Weapon Versatility**: Nico has a fair amount of experience in using explosives like TNT, End crystals, beds in other realms, and Respawn anchors. This contributes to his constant use of them in battle, which almost always gives him an advantage.
* **Muscle Control**: Nico is able to flex certain muscles in his body at will in order to slow his heart rate and therefore stopping his blood flow. This essentially protects him from lethal toxins or substances in his system such as poison or strong harmful potions. This was shown during his fight with Danny Herrera, where he continued to fight and stopped himself from bleeding out after being littered with potions and slashes from his own knives as well as injuries from his opponent.

**Immense Strength**: To complement his physique, Nico is immensely strong, being able to rely on physical might alone to overpower most opponents. He was ranked second when arm wrestling against the Sentries, only being outmatched by Silverlight. Even against Jaime Payne, a fighter with impressive physical prowess, Nico broke the former’s defense and sent him flying through several trees, all with a single Combat Energy-reinforced punch. Moreover, he is capable of fighting at blistering speeds with two large diamond swords and on top of this, simultaneously release countless explosives in the process. He was even able to knock down Lila Frost in a single punch and carried both her and Katie Adams to safety while injured and trapped in shallow water, carrying them across the lake in a split second.

**Immense Speed and Reflexes**: Due to his fighting prowess being honed to its fullest, Nico is incredibly fast, moving at incredible speeds that would normally be too fast to comprehend. He is able to comfortably use both of his swords with a spinning motion while moving at high velocity, as well as being able to do so while making virtually no sound. His explosive power and mobility far exceeded Spencer’s, making Nico able to overpower him with ease. He later outmaneuvered David Freeland on several occasions to the point where Freeland was forced to use his Personal Realm to try and stop him.

**Immense Stamina and Endurance**: Nico is able to fight, move, and run for long periods of time without tiring out or feeling fatigue. He was capable of fighting in the Skylands constantly without rest for days on end before he showed any signs of tiring, and would later fight even more to protect the Breach. He also fought Danny Herrera for an extended period of time despite sustaining normally fatal injuries from poison, arrows, knives, and slashes. He is also very durable, and can even stop his body from losing blood if wounded by muscle memory.

**Tactical Intellect**: Nico is incredibly proficient in battle planning and strategy, being able to utilize his advanced arsenal of weaponry to his advantage. He developed several new styles of fighting that combine his own skill with the potency of his resources and weapons, as well as figuring out numerous redstone contraptions for Crystalland. On top of his tactical mind, Nico is incredibly proficient in potion brewing, being able to whip up combat potions in very short time. This is also due to his constant need for them, and while he only knows the few recipes that he requires, he is familiar with plenty of potion making ingredients, which also make him a fairly good mixer.

## Fighting Style

**Master Swordsman**: Among all others, Nico is an incredibly skilled fighter, and is said to be one of the best in his world. He is incredibly proficient in dual wielding and using explosives, as well as trident, bow, and axe combat, making him experienced in plenty of different forms. He is usually very experimental when he fights, enabling him to fight even warriors like Danny Herrera on equal ground for a short time. He is also incredibly strong, being able to best almost anyone in an arm wrestle and is outmatched only by Silverlight in brute force. Nico utilizes his very own style of combat that requires a great deal of experience with a ranged variety of weaponry. This includes swords, axes, tridents, War Style fighting, crossbows, explosives, and potions, all of which he has used. His most common tactic is to move both his blades in a spinning motion with his hands, creating an easy way of defending himself from incoming attacks and projectiles. This is also combined with simple explosives and potions, which he sets off with the friction from his swords, to amplify the effect of his strikes and disorient the opponent with the colorful sight. He also uses potions to temporarily amplify his own abilities or negate those of his enemies.

**Techniques:**

* **First Technique: Battlecry**: the user throws several sticks of dynamite in front of them and slashes them all at once, creating a series of large explosions to fend off opponents This can also be used to destroy surrounding objects and terrain.
* **Fourth Technique: Rebounding Circular Sweeps**: the user swings both their blades in a spinning motion while releasing a series of bombs and potions around them, creating a storm of explosions and colorful splashes. This technique can also be altered to douse the user in useful potions if necessary.
* **Fifth Technique: Whirling Rush**: the user spins both of their swords by the string that connects them while releasing bombs and potions, creating a series of colorful eruptions to disorient the opponent.

## Game Exclusive

* **Spear Kick**: Nico performs a powerful rising side kick
* **Fifth Technique: Whirling Rush, Bloom**: Nico attacks the opponent with a flurry of spinning slashes similar to **Whirling Rush**, then throws his dual cleavers like a boomerang, setting off a series of bombs around them in a firework-like sequence.

## Equipment

**Cleavers**: Nico possesses a pair of large, modified diamond swords, named *Cleavers,* both of which are enchanted with Knockback II, Unbreaking III, and Sharpness IV. They both possess a relatively large blade, a rectangular guard and an amber pommel with a circular notch in the middle. He is able to wield them both simultaneously, and tends to utilize a spinning motion when doing so to effectively fend off from oncoming attacks. He also combines these with explosives and potions that he carries to increase his attack potency with each strike.

**Iron Knives**: Nico usually carries multiple unenchanted iron knives on his person, which he often combines with potions to easily deliver them to opponents.

**Potions**: As well as weaponry, Nico carries over a dozen potions whenever he engages in combat to use with his Cleavers. These include Harming, Slowness, and Weakness for enemies, and Healing, Fire Resistance, and Resistance for himself and/or allies in case of an emergency.

**Explosives**: Nico fashioned himself a good amount of explosives to use in battle, and keeps almost 30 sticks of dynamite in his inventory. He often combines these with his potions for combat efficiency.

**Spitfire Crossbow**: Nico owns a crossbow enchanted with Multishot for both hunting and combat, which he usually loads with both tinted and spectral arrows for efficiency. He gave it to Katie Adams during their battle with Danny Herrera in Greyville after rigging it with several dispensers to fire his knives, and she kept it on her person following the incident.

**Bow**: Nico briefly used a bow during several battles in Crystalland, but presumably lost it at some point.

**Diamond Chestplate**: Enchanted with Protection III. It was badly damaged during the Greyville Standoff.

**Diamond Leggings**: Enchanted with Protection III. They were badly damaged during the Greyville Standoff.

**Diamond Boots**: Enchanted with Protection III. They were badly damaged during the Greyville Standoff.

## Trivia

* Nico ranked second in arm wrestling among the Sentries and first in a footrace
* The name Spruce comes from the Taiga biome in which he grew up, much like many others from his world
* He was hinted to be from a fairly wealthy family of assassins that lived in the forest, which allowed him the liberty of training with so many different weapons.
* He befriended Miles after he became a Sentry, seeing as he was inexperienced as a fighter and rather physically disadvantaged.
* He was described to act like a teenage boy by both Lucan and Ferren Monroe.