Scarlett

* Scarlet red fur with shades of white, black, blue, yellow, and red*(Scorpicore Form)*
* Ashen gold with red shades*(Human Form)*

## Magic

### Elemental Affinities

* Light
* Darkness
* Water
* Fire
* Air

## Relationships

### Relatives

* Sedra*(Godson)*
* Iata

### Friends

* Leegaain
* Kalla
* Linjos
* Faluel
* Feela
* Mirim Distar

### Enemies

* Ilyum Balkor
* Xedros

### Apprentices

* Protector
* M'Rook
* Sentar
* Termyn

## Appearance

### Chapter

67

**Scarlett** is the Guardian of Children, the First Sekhmet, the First Scorpicore, and former White Griffon Academy Forest Lord. She is the first of few people that know about Solus, as she detects Solus' core among Lith's during the mock exam. She is also the newest Guardian and the youngest to ever achieve Guardianhood.

## Appearance

### Human Form

Scarlett looks like an adventurer in her thirties about 1.67 meters (5'7") tall, her shoulder-length ashen gold hair has shades of red and she wears a gold rimmed prince-nez on her nose. She chooses an appearance that is pretty but not gorgeous as she prefers being unnoticed.

### Scorpicore Form

The Scorpicore has the body and head of a lion, bat-like membranous wings coming out from her back and a scorpion's stinger instead of a tail. Her shoulder height reaches almost 3 meters (9'10"), she has a scarlet red mane and fur, with shades of white, black, blue, red and yellow.

### Proto-Guardian Form

Scarlett's bestial body doubles its size. Her fur morphs into red scales as thick as a shield and a new set of feathered wings appears on the Scorpicore's back right beside her membranous ones. Her muzzle turns into a mask of fire, only her eyes remain visible. Her red mane erupts into a raging purple flame, hot enough to blacken the ground below her.

### Sekhmet Form

Though her body is still that of a feline whose height at the wither reaches over 30 meters (100 feet), her prized red fur turned into scales as thick as a shield. The Sekhmet has two sets of wings, one membranous and the other feathered. Her muzzle is a fiery slate that hides her mouth and leaves only her two sets of eyes visible. The once soft mane is now a ring of white flames, scorching the ground below her whenever Scarlett loses control of her emotions. Her scorpion tail that comes out of her back remains the same, though now the size of a train.

## Personality

Scarlett hates the world's will for its inaction and indifference when bad things happen, as well as the indifference of the Awakened to the rest of the world, thus is one of her main motivations for becoming a Guardian. Having lost many of her offspring before turning into a Scorpicore, Scarlett has a soft spot for children.

## Abilities

Scarlett's **Aura** technique has all of Invigoration's properties, but is also able to get a glimpse of the subject's true nature. Under the effects of Aura, no deception is possible as both the body and mind cannot lie. Its effects are also long lasting.

As the Lord of the Forest, Scarlett was empowered by the forest, similar to a Headmaster and his academy. It is similar to being a Guardian, but instead of being recognized by Mogar's will, the Lord has a very limited area of influence and much lesser powers.

Scarlett is a Light Master, able to conjure hard-light constructs, like blades, for combat. She has the ability to turn darkness into light and vice versa at will. Constructs can turn into spheres of destruction and then into healing spells. It isn't a matter of just changing the element, but even the nature of the spell. The Scopricore can turn hard-light constructs into all kinds of darkness and light spells without the need to spend more mana.

Her Scorpicore tail could inject acid.

Prior to Guardianhood, Scarlett had a bright violet core, a perfectly refined body, and over three hundred years of battle experience.

After evolving to Sekhmet, Scarlett's cantrips now have the power of Tier 4 spells and her Spirit Spells reach new heights.

## Equipment

Scarlett had a prince-nez artifact known as Menadion's Eyes that granted her an ability similar to Solus' mana sense, as well as zoomed in like a telescope and could recognize an individual's life force from a distance. She relinquishes ownership to Lith after becoming a Guardian.

## Background

Scarlett began as a common house cat, and is not ashamed to admit it.

### Lord of the Forest

As the Lord of the Forest, Scarlett had struck a deal with Headmaster Linjos, the "Lord of the Mountain" as beasts dubbed him - he would provide the beasts with meat, and the beasts would "play along," letting the 4th and 5th year students train against beasts in practical mock exams. Additionally, Scarlett provided the academy with protection.

Scarlett had known Marchioness Mirim Distar since her first year at the White Griffon. Since Mirim was the future Lord of the Distar region and the person responsible for the White Griffon academy, Mirim's mother sent her to Scarlett. They got along quite well and became good friends, with Scarlett helping Mirim study as a student, as a mage, and even training her once she joined the Queen's Corpse.

After the Clackers attack Lith's group during their mock exam, Scarlett kills the Clacker Brood Mother for attempting to overpopulate over the forest. Scarlett takes notice of Lith possessing 2 mana cores, one of which is Solus. She realizes he is an Awakened after Lith manages to extract the Clacker venom from his body and weaponize it against the beasts, a feat that supposedly only true magic can do. She suspects Solus is a cursed object that is corrupting Lith and wants to destroy her if she is corrupting Lith. Lith discovers that Solus has a yellow mana core after Scarlett points it out. Lith and Solus' cores begin to resonate in unison as they believe they believe they are in a life-death situation, but Scarlett yields and leaves, amazed by their existence that defies all logic.

When the mercenary organization Talons send a squad to explore the academy forest to find a way to approach Lith, Scarlett wipes them out with Light Mastery, leaving one survivor. She rips his arms off and Warps him back to the Talons' allegedly "secret" base warning them to stay away from her turf.

Every year, Scarlett makes her rounds around the Distar Marquisate looking for old and wise magical beasts to Awaken in order to keep humans' greed and numbers in check. Scarlett calls a meeting with the Awakened Council accompanied by Tarbas, the Lord of the Lightning Griffon Forest, pleading them to help her hunt down the Master but they refuse, stating that people like him will come and go.

During Balkor's attack, Scarlett fights and kills 2 Valors. M'Rook dies in battle, while Kalla and Protector nearly die (the latter whom is saved by Lith at the cost of cracking his life force). Scarlett witnesses Lith's world tribulation and afterwards stabilizes both Lith and Protector's conditions. After witnessing the death of many of her underlings and the near deaths of her friends, Scarlett regrets neglecting her subjects and their happiness.

Scarlett tracks down Balkor's whereabouts to the Blood Desert where she encounters Salaark, who defends and claims Balkor as one of her own. Scarlett fights Salaark, triggering a world tribulation, where her body doubles in size, her fur turns into red scales thick as shields, a pair of feathered wings grows on her back, her muzzle becomes a fiery slate leaving only her eyes visible, her mane turns into a raging purple flame. She is defeated and sent back to the White Griffon Academy forest, where she resolves to pursue Guardianhood and seek justice herself.

### Path to Guardianhood

After Linjos' death, Scarlett Awakens her lieutenants before appointing Sentar as the new Lord and leaving the forest. She seeks Leegaain for help in the Gorgon Empire after she reaches a bottleneck, but Leegaain declines to give her specific instructions as it could alter the way she perceives herself and the world, thus hindering her path to Guardianhood. He tells her to be true to herself and open herself to the world before encouraging her.

Scarlett remains in the Gorgon Empire, the first time she had left the Griffon Kingdom in hundreds of years, back when she was still a young Emperor Beast. She travels, learning about different magical philosophies and Abominations, and trying to understand what Mogar wants from her. While investigating rumors of a new Eldritch Abomination in the City of Tyrenar, she learns that Myshar the Unicorn, the Lord of Gheluan Forest, has been killed and contacts Leegaain. The Dragon dismisses her concerns, preoccupied with a Lich that Milea is fighting.

She encounters the survivors of Gheluan forest - a mixed convoy of Dryads, Thorns, magical beasts, and humans. They explain how one day the natural order was overturned, with plants eating deer, deer hunting wolves, a wolf attacking its own pack. They are attacked suddenly by an Abomination that mimics their loved ones. Scarlett Warps herself and the Abomination away, who turns out to be Xacha, the Mother of all Nues.

The former gentle soul had used Forbidden Magic to turn herself into a Beast-Undead-Abomination hybrid, enabling her to triple cast and use Chaos Magic. Scarlett attempts to reason with her to no avail and is forced to fight a losing battle. To make matters worse, she undergoes a world tribulation as the hybrid becomes an Eldritch Abomination. Scarlett finally manages to turn one of Xacha's spells against her, killing her and barely surviving. Using Menadion's Eyes, she tracks down Xacha's life force through hybrid tentacles back to a cave where she finds the remains of her two Nue children. She deduces that the children were infected by an Abomination, forcing Xacha to turn to Forbidden Magic to prolong their lives. Scarlet gives them a painless death, ending the tribulation before undergoing the core refinement process to deep purple.

During a vacation with Feela and Faluel at a bathhouse in the Empire, Nalrond contacts Faluel and the beasts realize their lairs have been sealed off as a result of Night's attack on Lutia. This prompts Feela and Faluel to rush home while calling in reinforcements. Following the beasts going to war with the undead, Scarlett visits Xedros the Wyvern in his lair as he ignored the Council summons, meeting her godson Sedra who Xedros had taken in as an apprentice. Scarlett scolds Sedra for falling for Xedros' ruse and risking his Hydra bloodline secrets.

Scarlett finally returns to her lair for the first time in 5 years after her brief battle with Salaark. She had traveled throughout the Garlen and Verendi continent, quickly bringing her core to bright violet, but hadn't triggered a tribulation since the one against Xacha. She meets a grown up Nok and Nyka in various states of neglect after Kalla had secluded herself for her experiments, and storms Kalla's lab. Seeing common signs of Lichhood in Kalla's behavior, Scarlett has Kalla return ownership of her lair and forces her to clean the home.

Kalla, her children, and Scarlett visit Faluel's lair when Lith resumes his apprenticeship. With great reluctance at having her research disrupted and coerced only by Scarlett threatening to burn her papers, Kalla gives a lecture on the nature of undead and the difference between Baba Yaga's children and Liches. Scarlett is accompanying Faluel and Kalla's family to Lutia's Blackest Day evening fair with Nok as her food porter, when the news of Count Lark's death reaches them, cancelling the festivities.

#### Ascension

Scar accompanies Kalla's family to discuss Parmegianno Haug's proposal to Lith for a mission to the Eclipsed Lands to investigate missing undead children. Kalla suggests Scarlett accompany her, Nyka, and Lith there as she is the best tracker and possesses the Eyes of Menadion, and Scarlett begrudgingly accepts after pleading from Nyka. They travel to the Gorgon Empire where they meet Haug and Vladion Dragonborn, the Firstborn Vampire and Lord of Lightkeep. Though initially reluctant, Vladion is convinced by Nyka to allow Scarlett and Lith entry to his city in order to find the missing children.

Upon entering Vladion Dragonborn's city of Lightkeep, Vladion discusses rewards for finding the undead children's kidnapper, promising Scarlett high-end equipment to upgrade all of her labs after five years of absence. Suddenly, the city's arrays are sabotaged and the Second Life Academy attacked. Vladion and the others rush to intercept the kidnappers before they can escape, encountering a Roc, Harpy, Sphinx, and Hydra who are capable of using their greater cousins' bloodline abilities such as Origin Flames and Life Maelstrom. Scarlett subdues and captures Pretion the Sphinx and the Hydra, from whom Vladion learns that they were test subjects.

Scarlett volunteers to use her prince-nez to examine the prisoners when Baba Yaga recognizes it as the Eyes of Menadion, though she reassures the Scorpicore she has no interest in the artifact. Scarlett detects a mysterious liquid in the blood samples which is later revealed to be Thrud Griffon's experimental Ambrosia. Baba Yaga disables the Eyes' tutorial mode and teaches Scarlett how to use it. Scarlett mourns after hearing of Mirim's death, explaining to Lith their history together. She advises Lith to balance his life forces and wield them against his enemies when the times comes instead of letting himself be ruled by his impulses. When Lith suggests she share the secret of the violet core with him she declines on the premise that self-enlightenment is what will make him unique, and demonstrates her abilities in manipulating light and darkness magic.

Upon pursuing the Ambrosia's energy signature, the trio encounter more altered Emperor Beasts whom they easily kill. They enter the center of the Eclipsed Lands where they are confronted by Thrud Griffon, Jormun Nidho, and Xedros. The latter had evolved into a Golden Dragon thanks to Arthan's Madness fueled by the residual essence of Leegaain extracted from different species of lesser Dragons, among which Sedra is included, as well as the essence of newborn undead. An enraged Scarlett battles Xedros, hearing the agony of Sedra and the lesser Dragons, and the pleas of the undead children, and triggering her final world tribulation.

Xedros, despite having an unrefined new body, possesses superior mass and battle experience, manages to put her on the back foot. After seeing Sedra and the other lesser Dragons resurrected as Lith's Demons of the Fallen, Scarlett embraces Mogar's will and accepts Guardianhood, the golden pillar becoming a white one as she evolves once more into Sekhmet, the Guardian of Children. Mogar grants her everything she needs, from the flesh and blood to the mana necessary to sustain her new majestic body, which she uses to swiftly disintegrate Xedros.

Becoming a Guardian creates a bond between the Sekhmet and Mogar, leading to countless information that leaves her mind in pain from the overload. Leegaain invites her to his biome whose dimensional space is isolated from Mogar in order to get used to her new form. Scarlett removes her imprint from the Eyes, gives it to Lith to give to Kalla, and asks him to look after Kalla's family before leaving.

### Guardian of Children

Scarlett begins training with the original 6 Guardians to grow accustomed to her new form and abilities. She spends several months in Leegaain's biomes where the Lord of Wisdom helps cut Scarlett off from the voices and Mogar, explains to her everything about her condition, and teaches her how to control her powers. During this time he shares with her boring anecdotes or drags her into his lab, forcing the Sekhmet to work as his assistant with the excuse of teaching her Guardian tier magic. She tries asking Leegaain the secret of the white core, but he refuses to share it with her until she gets accustomed to her new condition.

She eventually leaves to study under Zagran in the Jiera continent whose open, largely uninhabited land makes training easier. Zagran focuses on teaching self-control and discipline to control the side effects of Guardianhood. The First Garuda barges into her room at any time and decks her whenever they have an argument and has Scarlett fight for everything, from the right to eat to have the privilege to sleep five more minutes. The First Garuda focuses on teaching the Sekhmet self-control and discipline to control the side effects of Guardianhood. Zagran explains to her the roles of Guardians and how they differ from others, as well as the characteristics of white cores.

## Relationships

* Sedra: Scarlett's godson. She sees him the small hatchling who played with her fur, the kid that she had helped learning how to read, write, and cast first magic.

## Quotes

* *"Finally some fun! Alert all the dens, I hereby declare the game season open!"* (Chapter 67)
* *"And if you keep doubting my word, I'll rat you out to one of my dragon friends that was once a lizard. I'm sure he'll be happy to have you all for dinner, with some good red wine."* (Chapter 68)
* *"Oh! I won. Big surprise! Long live to me."* (Scarlett after killing the Clacker Brood Mother, Chapter 73)
* *"Everything I ever learned was a lie!"* (Scarlett to Lith after questioning him and Solus, Chapter 79)
* *"Who needs gods that sit on their hands doing nothing? I don't need a bunch of indifferent gods, I need allies. Luckily, I know where to look for them."* (Scarlett to Tarbas, Chapter 202)
* *"I've been so obsessed with the Abomination threat, by pursuing my 'master plan' and always thinking big picture that I've disregarded the details. Those small, precious details that make my life worth living. I've neglected both the lives of my subjects and their happiness. Maybe I have become too old to be a Lord of the forest. Maybe Leegaain is right, I should leave my turf to someone better than me and strive to become a Guardian."* (Chapter 217)
* *"The Council is useless, the Guardians untrustworthy. If I want justice, I'll need the power to take it with my own hands!"* (Chapter 235)
* *"You're lucky I'm a carnivore, otherwise I would be glad to make a salad out of you as a token of my appreciation."* (Scarlett to a Treantling, Chapter 614)
* *"What a moron. Darkness and light are two faces of the same coin. Converting one in the other is a child's play if you know what you're doing."* (Chapter 615)
* *"I could tell you that pain is a constant of life and that the immortality you envy so much has a heavy price, but I'm tired of listening to your nonsense. Have at you!"* (Scarlett to Xacha, Chapter 616)
* *"I'm never coming back to the Gorgon Empire. This place is bad luck!"* (Chapter 618)
* *"That's why I don't take apprentices nor do I want cubs for a while. Too much hassle. I prefer keeping things simple. Either I trust someone, or I eat them."* (Scarlett to Faluel, Chapter 1099)
* *"Why do you think your mother never taught you anything? Because secrets can be stolen and entire legacies can be squandered by a single idiot who flaunts their techniques just to look good."* (Scarlett to Sedra, Chapter 1128)
* "*Fuck the Council and fuck Salaark. I'm home now and that's all that matters*." (Chapter 1282)
* *"Order and Chaos, are you telling me [Nyka] has reached puberty?...That's puberty, you moron. Growth is just a side effect of pups turning from adorable furballs into conceited assholes."* (Scarlett to Nok, Chapter 1282)
* *"Now come with me, I'm going to give your mother a piece of my mind. And when I say mind, I mean spells. And when I say piece, I mean the beating of a lifetime."* (Scarlett to Nyka and Nok, Chapter 1283)
* *"Succeed where everyone else failed is my legal middle name, pal."* (Scarlett to Vladion, Chapter 1374)
* *"Running is for morons."* (Chapter 1376)
* *"Thanks for nothing and fuck you, you useless thing. Of all the information you've given me over the years, how could you forget to mention your own name?...I wish you were at least semi-sentient instead of a complete tool."* (Scarlett to the Eyes of Menadion, Chapter 1382)
* *"Don't let your enemy turn you into a mindless beast but never discard your feelings either. I strongly believe that evolution doesn't make our races more different so much as it brings us closer. Evolution gives intelligence to beasts, conscience to plants, and, if I'm right, it tries to force humans to look beyond their own nose. To remind them that they're not the only sentient species on this planet. The key to our strength is balance, the same that keeps your life forces together. The hunger of an Abomination, the fury of a beast, and the cruelty of a man make you who you are. Be their rider, not their steed. Don't let them rule you but don't discard any of them either. Just keep them in check, make them work for you, and unleash them against whoever killed Mirim."* (Scarlett to Lith, Chapter 1403)
* *"Being taught is akin to using a Gate. Sure, you reach your destination in a single step, but you miss the whole journey. You don't fight, don't experience different foods and cultures, you never have the opportunities to question yourself or your motivations. Getting there by yourself until the last step means discovering what only you are capable of. What makes you unique."* (Scarlett to Lith, Chapter 1404)
* *"I'm glad you achieved your dream, Xedros. Your triumph will make your death even more pathetic, you fucking lizzie!"* (Scarlett to Xedros as her final world tribulation begins, Chapter 1412)
* *"I've failed all of you. You were just lost children no one cared about. Innocents who accepted help from the wrong people out of despair. Your pleas for help always fell on deaf ears because people like me were always too busy to listen. Please, forgive me, lesser Dragons. I can't bring you back, but at least I can make sure that what happened to you will never happen to someone else."* (Chapter 1415)
* *"You are one of the most pathetic beings I have ever met, but this doesn't mean that I will give you a merciful death. My first act as a Guardian will be to make an example out of you...Nothing will remain of you, not even the memory. I'll make sure of it!"* (Scarlett to Xedros, Chapters 1415-1416)

## Trivia

* Scarlett is Scarlett's cameo.
* Scarlett has slain princesses and rescued kidnapped monsters more than once.

## References

1. ↑ Legion on Discord
2. ↑ Chapter 416: Agenda (Part 2)
3. ↑ Chapter 613: Travels (Part 1)
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chapter 73: Day Two
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Chapter 617: Hybrid (Part 3)
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Chapter 1594: Training Time (Part 2)
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Chapter 216: Grieving (2)
8. ↑ Chapter 206: Dead on Time
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Chapter 78: Interludium (2)
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Chapter 157:
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Chapter 1404: Shared Misery (Part 2)
12. ↑ Chapter 1380: Ancestral Powers (Part 4)
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Chapter 1416: The Final Step (Part 2)
14. ↑ Chapter 1127: New Horizons (Part 2)
15. ↑ Chapter 69: Mock Exam (3)
16. ↑ Chapter 1403: Shared Misery (Part 1)
17. ↑ Chapter 202: Gods and Men
18. ↑ Chapter 235: Insights
19. ↑ Chapter 326: Test Subject (Part 2)
20. ↑ Chapter 417: Present (Part 1)
21. ↑ Chapter 614: Travels (Part 2)
22. ↑ Chapter 615: Hybrid (Part 1)
23. ↑ Chapter 618: Hybrid (Part 4)
24. ↑ Chapter 1099: Mourning the Dead (Part 1)
25. ↑ Chapter 1128: Plots and Schemes (Part 2)
26. ↑ Chapter 1284: The Mark of the Lich (Part 2)
27. ↑ Chapter 1325: Royal Summon (Part 1)
28. ↑ Chapter 1346: Into Blackest Night (Part 2)
29. ↑ Chapter 1374: Lightkeep (Part 2)
30. ↑ 30.0 30.1 Chapter 1381: Eyes of Menadion (Part 1)
31. ↑ 31.0 31.1 Chapter 1412: Golden Dragon (Part 2)
32. ↑ Chapter 1415: The Final Step (Part 1)
33. ↑ Chapter 1595: Waves and Ripples (Part 1)
34. ↑ Chapter 1596: Waves and Ripples (Part 2)
35. ↑ Discord
36. ↑ Chapter 1324: The Secrets of Undeath (Part 2)