Engen/Powers/Abilities

## Abilities

### Overall Abilities

Engen is one of the most powerful villains from the era of Nera and gift users in the series. While not on the level of the Elders, his overall powers and experiences far suppress any of the current era's villains. He defeated and killed Heavy Smoker, a retired hero and veteran who fought in the War of the Reeds with ease and easily kept the likes of Jintae Yang at bay to allow Ihwa time to escape during the Hero Trials. He also seems to not be afraid of fighting the Prosecutor, the Special Forces of Cloud Garden. Before his breakthrough, Engen was comfortably sitting above the power of a district special force and below the Elders. After the breakthrough, Engen's abilities are roughly comparable to that of an Elder, as Raxfer Sinclair imagines Engen being in the range of defeating his father, Reagen Sinclair

## Gift

**Hell:** Engen can create and control darkness. This isn't actual darkness, however, being solid and capable of inflicting physical damage. This has been shown to be strong enough to knock out or kill people with a few strikes. His gift appears to take the color schemes of black and gray shades along with highlights of night blue and cosmic-like star patterns on his manifestations. After climbing the Tower of Milen Kula, his gift now has converted the color to a more purple appearance and seems to indicate his gift has grown much stronger and is comparable to the power of the Elders.

* **Umbrakinetic Constructs:** Engen can create numerous forms of constructs out of his darkness. He can also make constructs as complex as giant humanoid creatures, armies of undead-like creatures, and appendages like arms that act according to his will. He has been shown to summon even a large version of an eerie humanoid female-like creature and create his Hell with a flat tip that is made from darkness.

* **Teleportation**: Engen obtained the ability to teleport after his breakthrough from climbing the Tower of Milen Kula. The range of his ability is currently unknown.

* **Umbrakinetic Flight**/**Levitation**: Engen can create tangible darkness that allows him to levitate and help him fly through the air.

* **Night Empowerment**: According to Engen, his gift and abilities are greatly enhanced during the night or in darken spaces. This was first shown when Hero Killer used his gift to escape Victoria by wrapping the Elder in a torrent of darkness during their encounter at night.

### Physical Prowess

**Master Combatant:** Engen is a masterful warrior with two centuries of fighting experiences honed from thousands of battles since his youth. During his fight with Chaos he was able to figure out the exact nature of the ace hero's gift and switched his combat approach in an instant by overwhelming the special forces hero despite Chaos' Retrocognition past memory of his attack habits and patterns from the Great War.

**Swordsmanship:** Engen has shown impressive proficiency in swordsmanship. While the full extent of his abilities hasn't fully been shown, he challenged Ijincheon with swords during their encounter and fight in spite of the latter's prowess as a member of the Four Swordsmen. He mostly likely developed and honed his skills during the War of Inheritance as he used to wield Chain in his sword form.

**Superhuman Strength:** Engen possess an immense form of physical strength and power despite his slander frame.

**Superhuman Durability:** Engen is capable of tanking large amounts of damage with his slim appearance betraying his incredible toughness. he was able to shrug off getting blasted by Chaos' EST powered Dual Pistols in the face.

**High Pain Tolerance:** Engen can tolerate a great amount of pain having remained calm after getting his shoulder split open and later getting stabbed in his stomach.

**Indomitable Will:**

**Leadership:** Engen is a great and sharp minded leader, being one of the best amongst the Villains.

**Bilingual**: Engen showed that he is highly fluent in the tongue of the Unknown Language as he spoke and understood his former friend Abyss Dancer.

### **Techniques**

* **Hell**: Engen can create a large executioner broadsword that he can wield or manipulate telekinetically and can also use it to redirect and control his umbral manifestations.
* **Hell - Sañjīva**: Engen creates a giant harvestmen-like creature with a tiny exoskeleton body and 12 giant legs with blades at the end of each one. The creature appears to be able to fuse with their target and immobilize them.
* **Hell - Kālasūtra**: Engen summons umbral spikes from the ground to impale the target all over the body.
* **Hell - Saṃghāta**: Engen summons a series of halves of giant stones larger than each other from each other that will collide at a chosen point in a sequential motion to pulverize the target.
* **Hell - Raurava**: Engen can manifest a portal that exposes a giant grotesque mouth of a monster that can either eat everything in its path or shriek at a very loud, high frequency by enveloping his left eye with his gift. The manifestation of the portal is dependent on where Engen's left eye looks at. This technique was obtained after his breakthrough from climbing the Tower of Milen Kula.

* **Sañjīva Convergence:** Due to how both Engen and Abyss Dancer are able to use Sanjiva-based gifts, they can merge to become one. Engen is able to utilize Abyss's gift and body as an extension of Hell and can also merge their techniques to perform destructive attacks against their opponents.

#### Unnamed Techniques

* **Eclipse Veil**: Engen can use his darkness to block out the sun, therefore giving his other abilities a power boost but at the cost of presumably increasing his EST requirements and a massive cost of his EST reserves overall.
* **Army of Shadow Souls**: Engen releases a wave of umbral-based humanoid creatures that can overwhelm all enemies in its path. It can also be used to restrain his targets with the hands provided by the humanoid shadows.
* **Hands of Hell:** By using his gift, Engen can manifest 2 giant humanoid hands that can block the techniques of even that of an Elder such as Bishop. It is presumed these hands can also be used to restrain or assault his targets.

## Weaknesses

**The Sun and Daylight:** Engen's abilities are significantly reduced upon being exposed to sunlight and lack of darkness. Due to his gift being naturally stronger at night, it would make sense that the presence of natural light reduces the gift's capabilities but with his experience in using his gift he isn't hindered in the slightest way.

Engen's combat capabilities are only surpassed by those of the Elders. In Episode 109, Engen himself stated that even if he were to fight with all of his effort, he still wouldn't be able to beat Bishop in a one-on-one duel.