Rigel Algebar

**Rigel Algebar**「リゲル・アルゲバル, *Rigeru Arugebaru*?」is a member of The Black Serpents. He is Arc's mentor and an extremely dangerous magician, rivaling the likes of Claude.

## Appearance

Rigel is a man with an average build and slightly taller height than Claude. His hair reaches just below his neck and is usually tied in a low and messy ponytail. He also wears a pair of round, slightly tinted glasses. His eyes are narrow and become even more exaggerated in his crazy state.

His attire is very formal and gentlemanly. He wears a long coat that reaches all the way down. Underneath it, he is dressed in a simple vest, white shirt, and necktie.

Rigel always wears a hat with a noticable mouth full of sharp teeth. In reality, this hat is Rigel's pet shadow serpent called Apophis.

His Black Serpents symbol is located on the back of his right hand. Rigel's wand is decorated with a black snake coiled around it.

## Personality

At first sight, Rigel may appear like a well-mannered gentleman. He dresses nicely, articulates himself well and is considered to be a capable magic teacher by the Black Serpents' leader. Arc describes him as a strict and loud mentor though, as seen by Rigel's constant lecturing and faulting of Arc at every available opportunity.

In reality though, he is a deranged and murderous lunatic, obsessed with the concepts of love and bonds between other people. Seeing affection of any kind, like Claude standing up for his students, flips a switch in Rigel and causes him to become crazy and obsessive. He begins drooling and monologuing about the beauty of true love, and then wants to put these bonds to the test by going on the offensive and attacking without constraints. He even went as far as murdering his own family when he was 16.

Even in his non-crazy state, he isn't afraid to commit murder and doesn't think twice before beheading a group of civilians.

## Abilities

#### **Ophiuchus Magic**

(蛇遣い座魔法オヒューカス・マジック *Ohyūkasu Majikku*)

Like all members of The Black Serpents, Rigel uses Ophiuchus Magic, a forbidden form of magic centered around life stealing abilities. It often manifests in the shape of snakes, but can take on other forms too, like shadows or flames.

Rigel uses this magic on an incredibly high level, even rivaling other well-known great magicians like Claude.

* **Apophis** (アポピス *Apopisu*): Rigel's hat is actually a living snake-like being that can extend and grow from the bottom of his hat in a shadowy spiral-like pattern. It can then attack with fast and devestating bites, strong enough to chomp off the heads of random civilians in an instant. It is also able to consume the magic of others.
* **Summoning Snakes:** Rigel can summon black, worm-like snakes with a round hole surrounded by teeth for a mouth. These snakes are capable to drill through solid steel.
* **Absorbing Life Force:** People eaten by any of Rigel's snakes will have their life force and magic power slowly drained by being digested. Rigel can then absorb their power and use it to enhance his own magic.
* **Shadow Snake** (影蛇 *Kagehebi*): Rigel can fuse with his own shadow and disappear in it. He can then open rifts in other shadows and emerge from them. The rifts have teeth on both sides and an eye in the middle from which Rigel then emerges. This spell essentially allows him to teleport and escape from danger. Rigel can only teleport to shadows he can see though, so this spell is useless in a confined space.
* **Beelzebub Serpent** (暴食の蛇王ベルゼブブ・サーペント *Beruzebubu Sāpento*): An Ophiuchus Grand Magic. Rigel summons a gigantic black serpent capable of leveling an entire forest. The serpent has a big central mouth with tons of sharp fangs. All over its body are also multiple smaller mouths and eyes in the shape of Rigel's shadow rifts. Rigel attaches himself to a shdow rift on the snake's head. Claude was only able to defeat this snake by exhausting all of his power and using a Grand Magic of his own.
* **Magna Beelzebub Serpent** (暴食の蛇王・極マグナ・ベルゼブブ・サーペント *Maguna Beruzebubu Sāpento*): Due to the enhancing effect the night has on Ophiuchus Magic, Rigel is able to summon two "Beelzebub Serpents" at once.

## Trivia

* Rigel is named after the star of the same name, a blue supergiant in the Orion constellation. Algebar is an alternative name for the same star.
* Apophis is named after both a near-earth asteroid, as well as Apep, the egyptian deity of darkness. Apep is often depicted as a snake and also called Apophis in Ancient Greek.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 18
2. ↑ Chapter 28
3. ↑ Chapter 30
4. ↑ Chapter 27