Eight Great Apostles

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The **Eight Great Apostles** refers to eight supreme leaders who command the Imperial Senate, effectively serving as the Empire's legislative body. In Volume 11, they revealed to be the mastermind responsible for this 100 years war.

Due to their actions, they were considered one of the series' main antagonists. While Luclezeus was killed by Unit 907, the remaining seven were killed by Subject E.

## Personality

The eight apostles have shown the radical Imperialist ideology that all witches should be exterminated from the planet.

The apostles are very corrupted, treacherous, self-serving, cunning, deceitful, selfish, and manipulative, having no loyalties to anyone but themselves. They don't care about the Imperial soldiers (including the Saint Disciples) as they viewed them as pawns into doing their dirty works and they are more than willing to sacrifice one of the Imperial soldiers without a second thought. They are intolerants when they don't take failures very kindly. They have also shown to be power-hungry, as they usurped control of the Empire and tried to monopolize Astral Energy for themselves. They attempted to kill the previous Emperor and even orchestrated the persecution of astral mages a hundred years ago by framing them with lies and falsehoods as well covering up their crimes.

They are also paranoia and cowardice when they feared anyone is closer of finding the truth behind this 100 years war. They attempted to kill those who uncovered the truth that they'd hid as shown that one of them, Luclezeus was attempting to kill both the Unit 907 and the Nebulis Sovereignty's third princess, Sisbell Lou Nebulis IX.

## History

They were once known as the **Eight Elders**, the advisors to the then emperor — Emperor Hakenweltz. Each of them excelled at their respective field, like biology or engineering. While looking for an alternative source of energy, they found something called Astral Energy through historical records. Since the energy was located deep within the planet, they convinced the Emperor to dig for it because it would greatly advance the Empire.

However, they secretly calculated that unearthing the energy would cause an enormous explosion that would kill everyone at the mine and in the surrounding area, including the emperor and the prince so that they could rule the Empire. But when the energy was discovered, an explosion of light occurred instead, knocking everyone out, but not killing them. The Elders soon discovered that the energy could possess people and give them supernatural abilities.

Because the explosion left the Emperor unable to rule, the eight took advantage of this and began running the government. They wanted to eliminate anybody possessed by astral energy, but still desired the energy for themselves. They came up with the derogatory terms *witch* and *sorcerer*, and started sending out false reports about the crimes committed by these *witches* and *sorcerers*. As a result, the police became extremely vigilant of them, and they became outcasts. Soon, these so-called *witches* and *sorcerers* were arrested, often for false reasons, and thus the persecution began.

## Synopsis

### Volume 1

Even though Iska received a life sentence for treason, the eight apostles were able to release him in a year under the condition he stops the Ice Calamity Witch, who broke through the front lines and was approaching the Empire.

A few days later, they praised Iska for his outstanding job in stopping the Ice Calamity Witch, and offered him the chance to being reinstated as one of the Saint Disciples if he captured her next time, something he might want to consider if he wants an audience with the emperor.

After Iska defeats the witch founder Nebulis, the apostles were commenting amongst themselves that this is exactly what they hoped for.

### Volume 2

When another Vortex appeared, the Apostles summoned Risya to the assembly hall and ordered her to get Iska to join the mission for the vortex.

### Volume 3

After Iska was kidnapped by the Ice Calamity Witch, the Apostles told Risya to just focus on their secret op instead. But Risya manages to convince them by revealing her plans to free Salinger, who was also where Iska was taken to, and could become an asset if on their side.

### Volume 4

Their benefactor gives them information about a vulnerable purebred heading towards the independent nation of Alsamira, so they sent the Witch Hunter Object after her. However, they didn't expect Iska to foil their plans. Despite this setback, they just took note to be wary of him and proceeded to the next stage of their plan.

### Volume 10

As Sisbell approached the capital, the truth the Apostles hid was closer to being exposed, so Luclezeus set out to kill her and her escorts. However, he was killed by Unit 907 during the battle, as they freed the Astral Spirit that powered his cybernetic body. Before disappearing, he warns them that without the Apostles, there will be no one to stop the world's last witch.

### Volume 12

During the invasion of the Empire, the remaining Great Apostles were killed by Subject E as revenge for ordering her execution.

## Members

* Apostle 1: Vittgenshla
* Apostle 2: Etienne
* Apostle 3: Luclezeus
* Apostle 4: Alleten
* Apostle 5: Promestius
* Apostle 6: Novalashlan
* Apostle 7: Ovan
* Apostle 8: Wizeman

## Relationships

* **Elletear Lou Nebulis IX/Subject E**

Elletear was the Eight Great Apostles' former ally and their killer. Even though the Apostles wished for the extermination of all astral mages, they didn't mind working with one if their goals aligned. The two parties seemed to enjoy a mutually beneficial relationship, as Elletear leaked valuable information to them, while they aided her in her revenge against the royal family. That was until they tried to dispose of her, as she retained her ego after being fused with the Great Planetary Calamity, but she survives and kills the seven remaining Apostles as revenge.

* **Kelvina Sofita Elmos**

The Apostles were interested in Kelvina's research, and they secretly released her from prison to continue her experiments.

* **Iska**

The Eight Great Apostles pardoned Iska in exchange for capturing the Ice Calamity Witch, as they were sure of his skills. However, he soon proved to be a liability as he was slowly uncovering their plot and foiling them, earning the boy and his team targets on their backs. One of them, Luclezeus was sent to kill Iska, Sisbell and their allies in attempt to preventing them from revealing the truth but only for the Apostle to be killed by the 907th Unit.

* **Sisbell Lou Nebulis IX**

While the third princess was in Alsamira, the Apostles sent the Witch Hunter Object to capture her, as they wanted a purebred test subject for Kelvina. However, the mech was destroyed by Iska and Alice.

Due to her powers of revealing truths, she later became a huge liability when she entered the Imperial capital, as she could use her astral powers to uncover the truth of the Eight Great Apostles' role in the war a century ago. Luclezeus went out to eliminate the "witnesses", but he was killed by them. As a result, Sisbell was able to discover what truly happened back then and show it to important figures.

## References

1. ↑ *Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World* Manga: Chapter 13