Gariel Cosmo

Gariel Cosmo is a man in his mid-to-late 30s with ivory-colored messy hair and somewhat scraggly clothes. If he had taken good care of himself, he would have been quite handsome, but his gambling behavior is taking everything away from him.  He is a childhood friend of Reneis mother as well as Reneis master/grandfather.

He gets irritated when Ludger calls him **Faust**.

## Skills and Abilities

### [Time Magic]

Gabriel is able to use time magic, specifically time stop. The moment he uses magic, everything in the world stops, both living and non-living things. Even the atmosphere stops in frozen time.

In fact, considering the deceptive nature of time magic, it is safe to call it a miracle. But there are three penalties to his magic.

1. **Living things cannot be touched directly.** The moment a stationary creature and a moving Gariel come into contact, the laws that deceive the world are broken and the collapse of time occurs. For this reason, Gariel can only touch living things indirectly. In the case of inanimate objects, he can touch them as much as he likes, so you could use them as before by placing an object on a person's head, canceling the suspension, and attacking. However, because the atmosphere stops and breathing becomes unstable, just carrying and moving something like a chair consumes a lot of physical strength.
2. **No magic can be used while time is stopped.** All Gariel could do in the frozen time was to move on his own body.
3. **It is impossible to reverse time or make it flow faster.** Although it is time magic, it can only stop, which was the limitation and disadvantage of the magic he used. And in stopped time, the time of the user's body continues to flow. If he lives with time stopped for a few years, others will not age, but only he will grow old. Therefore, even when Gariel Cosmo used time magic, she preferred to end it very briefly.

In order to learn this magic, he had to abandon everything about other attribute magic. Gariel, who was originally able to rise to at least the 5th level in various fields, was only able to use all magic at the 1st level due to learning magic at this time. His teacher was also a user of time magic.

## Background

Gariel is an old childhood friend of Reneis mother and spending a lot of time with her, when she returned with Renei. Unknown to him, Reneis mother was suffering from an uncurable disease. When Renei was around 7, Grander (along with Ludger ) met with Reneis mother, which led to Garies first encounter with Ludger . From the first moment, he thought Ludger was an arrogant brat. They spent some time together (to the point Renei called Ludger her older brother), before Ludger saved Proiden Wolfburg from kidnappers, causing for Proiden to stay at their place.

When Reneis mother was close to death, Gariel finally found out about her uncurable disease. He looked for a way to save her, but had about a week left before Reneis mother's death. So he went to his master (Maurice) to ask about [time magic]. Once he returned, he realized he was too late. In horror (while time was frozen) he first noticed Renei and Proiden starring into the same direction, before noticing that Ludger was stabbing a dagger into Reneis mother's heart.

1. ↑ Chapter 575
2. ↑ Chapter 577
3. ↑  Chapter 599