Ballian

## Overview

Balien is one of the Demon Army's 12 Pillars, known as the Diamond Pillar. He is ranked 3rd among the 12 Pillars with the ability to increase his power with his anger. He is a minor antagonist of the Dwarf Kingdom Arc. He is tasked by Lillian with invading and conquering the Dwarf Tribe to secure sacrifices for the God Tribe. He first appears during the Demon Tribe's War against the Dwarf Tribe in which he battles against Xiang Ye and his former Queen Isabella Osa.

## Personality

While he is shown to have an immense amount of physical power, Balien is the least intelligent of the 12 Pillars as he is very clueless and careless with what he destroys in his path, as well as gullible enough to fall for any traps. During battle, he prefers to overwhelm his opponents with his physical prowess. However, he is not as heartless as the other generals and has been shown to care for his men, though he quickly forgets about them and remembers that they can be replaced.

## Appearance

Balien is a big, muscular demon with dark blue skin, has gray hair that goes down to his shoulders, dark eyes with red irises, and sharp teeth.  His body is covered with a diamond shell that cover his back, head, arms and knees, with which he can change the size and shape of the diamond plates the more he increases his power. At his full power, his shell sprouts sharp horns

## Story

### **Dwarf Kingdom Arc**

The 12 Pillars, including Balien, were tasked by their Queen Lilian to invade and subdue the Dwarf Kingdom to secure sacrifices for the God Tribe. Balien was fighting on the front lines against the Dwarf Tribe. When he sensed there were people in the dessert, he arrived from underground, causing a massive earthquake, indirectly killing his subordinates. After emerging from the ground, Balien completely forgets what he is doing there in the first place until he notices the remains of his subordinates. Unaware that he was responsible for their demise, he notices the people he detected, Xiang Ye and his former Queen Isabella Osa, though he does not recognize her. He accuses them of killing his men before Xiang Ye corrects Balien and reminds him that it Ballian's own fault that they were dead. Balien however, refuses to take responsibility and blames the two of them for being in the dessert in the first place.

Balien charges straight at them, but Isabella manages to block his attack with her sword. despite being injured from Balien‘s earthquake. Balien proclaims how nothing can stop him and launches Isabella into the air. Xiang Ye, with his forging pen, manages to cushion her fall with sand. Xiang Ye tries to gain Balien's attention but he ignores him and continues his assault on Isabella. As he charges directly at Isabella, Xiang Ye creates a ramp from the sand, launching Balien into the air, though this does little to stop him as he quickly returned to the surface. When Balien goes to punch them, Isabella quickly slashes at Balien's fist, cutting his fingers. Balien, realizing the sword is capable of injuring him, retracts his fist but the intense shock from the punch launches Xiang Ye and Isabella far back, though Xiang Ye manages to cushion their fall.

As Balien charges at them, Xiang Ye creates a line of stone gates to defend themselves. As Balien bulldozes through the walls of stone he attacks what he believes is Xiang Ye and Isabella but is caught off guard when he sees they are stone. While he is distracted by the decoy's, Xiang Ye and Isabella escape by riding a stone plate on the sand which Xiang Ye controls by reforging the sand. Once Balien notices them he quickly charges at them, though Xiang Ye dodges his attacks by exploiting Balien's inability to change his direction when he is in momentum, though Isabella reminds Xiang Ye that Balien's power and speed increases the angrier he gets. Xiang Ye however planned for this in advance and created more stone gates as they were dodging Balien's attack to distract him.

After destroying all the stone gates, Balien notices that Xiang Ye and Isabella are no where in site and demands they show themselves. Xiang Ye appears and entices Balien to attack him by pointing out how incompetent he is. Provoked by Xiang Ye, Balien channels 70% of his power and charges straight at Xiang Ye. Xiang Ye, anticipating this, creates a stone spike to pierce Balien, though this fails as his body is practically impenetrable. As Balien attacks Xiang Ye again, Xiang Ye dodges and forges the sand around them into quicksand. With his body now indisposed, Xiang Ye attempts to escape on his stone plate from the area and leave Balien to sink. As Balien continues to sink, he increases his power and speed to counter the quicksand by spinning with his technique Diamond Pillar Grinder, forcing Xiang Ye's plate to slide back. Unable to forge fast enough to escape the whirpool of sand, Xiang Ye forges a giant hand to push him out of the whirlpool. As he falls back down, Xiang Ye forges the entire whirlpool into stone, escaping the whirlpool, but depleting most of the forging ability of his pen.

With barely any power left, Xiang Ye quickly forges one more stone gate with tempered glass as Balien charges straight at Xiang Ye again, believing the gate has a giant hole in it. Balien however, crashes into the gate and is unable to penetrate the tempered glass. Angered that someone without Boundary Force was able to stop him, Balien channels 80% of his power to destory the glass shield, only to discover that Xiang Ye had created a row of tempered glass walls. Playing on Balien's pride and gullibility, Xiang Ye challenges Balien to destroy all the tempered glass walls or admit defeat. Balien powers up to 100% of his power and destroys one of the tempered glass shields in one hit. Wanting to end their fight once and for all, Ballian jumps back to gain distance and momentum as he launches himself at Xiang Ye with his most powerful attack: Thunderbolt's Fang; destroying the entire row of tempered glass walls. Now face to face with Xiang Ye, Balien leaps into the air and plummets towards Xiang Ye. Xiang Ye, at the last second, manages to create a forge strong enough to block Balien: Prince Rupert's drop. With his body blocked and nearly shattered, Isabella emerges from her hiding spot and decapitates Balien. In his last moments, Balien thinks back to the last time anyone was able to defeat him, which was his former Queen Isabella, whom he finally recognized was his opponent.

## Powers and Abilities

As one of the 12 Pillars of the Demon Tribe, Ballian has command over the entire demon army. Ballian is considered the third strongest of the Demon Pillars, being strong enough to destroy material such as stone, and tempered glass. His body however is not fully impenetrable as he is unable to destroy material such as Useless Lumber and a Prince Rupert's Drop.

**Boundary Force:** As a member of the 12 Demon Pillars, Ballian has a powerful boundary force and is the third strongest in the hierarchy of generals who has power greater than Rennes. Through his boundary force, he can improve his strength and speed to deliver powerful attacks, destroying everything in front of him. The more anger he feels the stronger and more powerful he becomes. Ballian's fighting style is very one note. By channeling his Boundary Force, Ballian charges at his opponents with full force, similar to a bulldozer. He increases his speed for more powerful rush attacks. His main weakness to this is that he is unable to change his direction once he builds momentum.

**Wrath Value:** Ballian's magic ability which allows him to increase his power based on his level of anger. As his anger increases his diamond plated shell with glow red and cover more of his body, increasing his offensive and defensive power. At 100% of his power, Ballian's diamond shell grows horns.

* **Diamond Pillar Grinder:** At 70% of his power, Ballian spins at incredible velocity and grinds anything he touches with his diamond shell. Ballian is first seen using this technique to escape Xiang Ye's quicksand trap. The sheer force of this attack was powerful enough to draw Ballian's surroundings closer to himself.
* **Thunderbolt:** At 100% of his power, Ballian charges at his opponents with incredible speed, and attacks with his diamond horn. This attack was first seen used to destroy one of Xiang Ye's tempered glass shields.
* **Thunder Strike:** At 100% of his power, Ballian leaps into the air and launches himself head first into his opponent with his diamond horn. This was first seen used in his attempt to defeat Xiang Ye but was thwarted by Xiang Ye's forging of Prince Rupert's Drop.
* **Thunderbolt's Fang:** A stronger version of Ballian's Thunderbolt attack as well as Ballian's most powerful attack. Ballian first pushes himself back to gain distance and momentum, after charging his body straight at his opponent head first, Ballian spins his body to increase his attack force and pierce them. This was first seen used to destroy Xiang Ye's row of tempered glass gates.