Afeus Clover

Afeus's Kanji Initials

**Afeus** (Aye - Fee - Is) **Clover** is an artificial devil and the main villian of third book in Black Crown series, *The Path to Tartarus.* After surviving Project G-S, Afeus gained the ability to use Psychic God-Slaying Magic, using it to put his plan into play.

## **Appearance**

Afeus has violet-tinted black hair and dark-purple eyes, usually wearing his short-sleeved purple robe; additionally, he wears bandages that are wrapped around his arms and forearms. In Zane's dreams, he's seen carrying a skeleton scythe with him that has a pink orb imbedded into the blade.

In his Knowledge Incarnate transformation, Afeus's hair becomes a bright pink, and he has a constant aura of physic energy around him that makes it hard for people to punch through.

## **Abilities**

With his Psychic God-Slaying Magic, Afeus has numerous abilities that make him hard to face in combat.

* **Psychic Magic:** Allows Afeus to mind control beings with a much weaker will than him, and also preform acts like telekinesis
* **Psychic God-Slaying Magic:** Allows Afeus to read the movements of his opponents and slowly drain their cognitive functions through the course of a battle; additionally, Afeus can use this magic to mind control gods and take them down without lifting a finger.
* **Illusion Magic:** Allows Afeus to cast powerful illusions that can confuse his opponent
* **Reflection Magic:** Allows Afeus to put up a barrier that can reflect ranged forms of magic
* **High Intelligence:** Afeus is described by Amber as being extremely intelligent, and almost nigh-omniscient in his vast knowledge of the way the universe works. His strategic ability is unmatched by any other mage or god, and he was even able to create a perfect utopia with his political knowledge.
* **Expert Scythe-User**
* **Telekinesis**
* **Mind Reading**
* **Movement Prediction**

## **Personality**

As stated multiple times, Afeus wields terrifying and great intelligence that fuels his ideas and morals. Despite his antagonistic position, he is generally kind and wishes for the best in terms of society, wanting to create one where everyone can thrive, which was the basis for his creation of The Garden.

Just as Van was written to represent The Spirit, Afeus was written to represent The Son and be the embodiment of the Coming of Jesus. Likewise, Afeus performs acts of kindness and graces multiple people—including devils, who he wishes to override—with gifts and healing.

However, it is shown that Afeus has a darker side as well, which balances out his light side and makes him morally-grey. As he says several times, he believes that there is no good and evil, and that people are simply the way they are because they are trying to fulfill their hopes and dreams by any means necessary.

Overall, there is no telling when Afeus was going to unleash either his lighter or darker side—though as he says, he doesn't see it that way.

## **Background**

When he was just a young child, Afeus was taken into Project G-S and was tortured through several experiments, which eventually led to his pronounced dead after his crucifixion. Before he could be buried three days later, however, Afeus suddenly awoke from the dead with the Psychic God-Slayer abilities, using them escape and flee to the mortal world, where he studied society be creating several simulations.

Later on, Afeus would create the Justice Knights, using them to enforce his policies in the magical world. Afeus would also later create The Garden, which is noted as being a nearly-complete utopia.

## **Trivia**

* Despite being the main villian of Book 3, none of the main heroes besides Divinos meet Afeus after his small appearence in Book 1
* It is never stated how Afeus knew of Divinos's power and the threat he posed to his plan; however, Divinos theorizes it was likely his first encounter with Zane where defeated Vahn
* Afeus's pink-tinted hair and scythe is inspired by Goku Black's Super Saiyan Rosé transformation and his Ki Scythe
* He was able to defeat Athena, the Greek god of wisdom and intelligence, in a game of chess without any difficulty, adding onto the fact that he is indeed the most intelligent character in the series
* He was born on December 25th, meaning he was born on Christmas
* Afeus was written to symbolize the coming of Jesus; however, his theme of being perfectly-balanced between dark and light means he committed the opposite of many of Jesus's acts of kindness
* During his fight with some of the SX-Class Mages, Afeus states that for decades magic was only used as a zoner-based tool until people started incorporating it into hand-to-hand combat
* It is revealed that in Dimension-777, the alternate timeline where Afeus defeats Divinos and completes his plan, that his cause of victory was due to Divinos having shown up in his Stealth Mode, causing him to get burnt out faster than usual and leading to his death
* Afeus's base form is much weaker than Vahn's; however, it is shown that their God-Drives make them nearly identical in terms of power, further enforcing the fact that Vahn was the least patient of the two and that Afeus mastered his transformation before moving to complete his plans
* Divinos states in Book 4 that he left Afeus's decapitated body and head to rot
* Hades was later rescued by Black Crown, but let the guild keep his scythe that Afeus had stolen as a weapon that might be useful; it is destroyed by Divinos, however, who called the weapon "annoying to look at"