Balzac Ludbeth

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## Balzac Ludbeth

* Manwha
* Novel

### Aliases

* Black Tower's Master
* Legendary Balzac(by Sienna)

### Status

 **Deceased**
Soul Destroyed by the Demon King of Incarceration

## Professional Information

### Affiliations

* Aroth
* Helmuth
* Black Magic Tower

### Occupations

* Canditate of the position Blue Tower Head Wizard (former)
* Black Magic Tower Head Wizard
* Babel's Gatekeeper

## Appearance

**Balzac Ludbeth** is the Tower Master of the Black Magic Tower. He is also one of the 3 Mages of Incarceration alongside Amelia Merwin and Edmond Codreth who are contracted to the Demon King of Incarceration.

## Appearance

He has short dark grey hair and red eyes. He possesses a relatively fit body, which is unusual for a magician. Although he left his youth behind him long ago, he still appears youthful physically due to the use of magic.

## Personality

Balzac is considered a sly and mysterious person. Nobody really understands what he's thinking at any point. This may be in part due to him usually wandering around with a smile on his face and his expression remaining unchanged even if others insult him and dark magic. However, when it comes to his contractor, the Demon King of Incarceration, he is very protective and doesn't let insults go unpunished.

Despite his generally levelheaded and calm disposition, even at the most difficult and stressful of situations, there are times when Balzac can be flustered and shocked. As shown where Eugene asked him if he was gay and asked him if his attempts to build a good relationship with him was actually his attempts to hit on him and start a sexual relationship with him, Balzac was notably shocked by this accusation and completely broke his level headed disposition as he denied it.

## History

Prior to becoming the Black Tower Master, Balzac was a member of the Blue Magic Tower and was part of the trainee batch of the current Blue Tower Master, Hiridus Euzeland. As noted and admitted by Hiridus, Balzac was the most powerful and gifted trainee in their batch and surpassed him in strength and innate talent.

During his time in the Blue Tower of Magic, Balzac became one of the most prominent Blue Tower Mages and was slated to become the next Blue Tower Master. However, one day years ago, he decided to travel to Helmuth with the reason of broadening his magical knowledge. When he returned, he left the Blue Tower and transferred to the Black Magic Tower and immediately became its Tower Master with the overwhelming support of the Black Tower Mages.

## Power and Abilities

Even before becoming a Black Wizard, he was already considered a genius when it came to magic. In fact, he was once one of the candidates to become the Head Wizard of the Blue Magic Tower. Hiridus Euzeland, the current Head Wizard even claimed that Balzac was more powerful than him and more talented in their younger days together at the tower.

After becoming a black wizard as well as one of the few people to sign a contract with the Demon King of Incarceration, Balzac's abilities seemed to have increased even further. By the time Eugene arrived in Aroth, he was already so strong that Carmen, one of the strongest members of the Lionheart family as well as one of the most powerful people on the continent, doubted, that she would win in a battle against him.

* **Contract with the Demon King of Incarceration:** As one of the three contracted mages of the Demon King of Incarceration, Balzac possess a direct connection to the Demon king and is allowed to use some of the latter’s Demonic Power/Dark Power to fuel his spells and magic.

### Signature

**Blind** - Is Balzac’s Signature Spell as a Black Wizard.  As revealed during the war in the Samar Rainforest, Balzac’s Signature possess a few weaknesses that can be exploited by his opponents. One of this weaknesses is that it took a long time to prepare, and the activation was slow, which puts him in a severe disadvantage in war zones as it leaves him vulnerable unless he had someone else to protect him while he activates the spell.  However once activated, Blind possess devastating effects, especially against a large number of enemies such as armies. Once activated, a curtain of darkness immediately descends from the sky, enveloping Balzac’s targets in darkness, covering them in a all-encompassing curtain that seemed to stretch endlessly in every direction, blotting out the sky and plunging the land into a bleak and desolate state devoid of any illumination. Blind was a spell that worked in stages, with whoever caught within the curtain of darkness initially losing their sight as the name suggests. But as one stays within the range of the spell within the darkness, the spell would gradually begin stripping them of their other senses, hearing came after sight, the targets would become deaf. Next was the sense of smell and then touch. Even if one were to cut themselves with a knife, they would fail to feel the pain. But it didn’t end there. After losing one’s sight, hearing, smell, and touch, the targets of the spell would also lose their sense of spirit, which could be called the sixth sense. Regardless of whether they were wizards, knights, or warriors, they would no longer be able to sense mana. In fact, only the sense of taste would remain with the victims as they lose access to nearly all of their other senses. It was purposely set up in this way as a gradual extortion of senses because it was impossible to rob someone of all their senses all at once, even if Blind was a Signature of an Archwizard. The veil of darkness was a darkness created by Balzac’s magic, and it was similar to a type of poison. Simply being inside the curtain would intoxicate someone, and the effects of the poison would only get stronger over time. Another shortcoming to this Signature is that Balzac himself is not all that sure when the full effects of his spell would affect his victims and make them lose their senses, as the overall resistance to this spell is dependent on the willpower and resistance of each individual target, which varies from individual to individual,

**Unknown Signature** - Prior to becoming a Black Wizard and gaining his contract with theDemon King of Incarceration, Balzac had begun researching and working on creating his own unique signature as a Blue Tower Mage when he was initially selected to become the Blue Tower Master. Upon becoming a Black Wizard, Balzac abandoned his work on this signature and never completed it.

## References

1. ↑  Chapter 219: A Signature (3)
2. ↑  Chapter 287: The Footprint of the God of the Land (1)
3. ↑  Chapter 288: The Footprint of the God of the Land (2)
4. ↑  Chapter 219: A Signature (3)