Void of the Black Sky, Monochrome

The **Void of the Black Sky, Monochrome** was an Ancient Legendary UBM.

## Appearance

Monochrome appeared as a cracked, three metel diameter, non-reflective crystal ball of rock, which turned jet-black whenever it absorbed light. It had black wings of an undefined shape and a set of four permeable tentacles with crystalline protrusions at the end.

## Personality

Originally, Monochrome's mind was just like a plant, displaying no sign of consciousness. After being exposed to despair, it imitated a twisted personality that enjoyed watching people burn, writhing in despair, and dying.

## History

About 2,000 years ago, when the Extra-Continental Vessel arrived, two types of rocks was dragged by their appearance in the world. One transparent rock that would later become Fusan Shen and Monochrome himself which is just a bigger black rock at the moment and would later evolve into an elemental after continuously absorbing light energy.

Centuries ago, Monochrome floated in the border between outer space and the planet. It bathed in light during the day, and shone as a star during the night, paying no heed to anything around it and displaying no signs of consciousness. Because it didn’t seem to belong to any constellation, the astronomers of that era often called it a "vagrant star".

Some time 300 years ago, it gained an ego after seeing a strong light from the planet below. By witnessing a human conflict, it had learned of despair that made its core stir, deemed it to be joy, and decided to mass-produce despair to please itself. It then started attacking Torne Village, burning the people and the ground beneath. This terror lasted until it was hit by a meteor, fell down and was buried beneath the mountains. Without any light, it lost its power, and became unable to escape from underground. It barely stayed alive by absorbing the miniscule amount of light passing down the bedrock.

## Abilities

Monochrome was an Ancient Legendary UBM whose abilities were specialized in absorbing light, extreme ascending speed and attacking one-sidedly from high up in the sky, as such its other stats were lower than ordinary UBMs. Ray speculated that especially its HP, END stats and regenerative ability were extremely low. Its abilities are noted to be at the peak of Ancient Legendary and possess a chance at evolving into a Mythical UBM later on.

### Skills

**Light Absorption**: A passive skill that absorbs and stores 100% of any light energy. Monochrome can also convert the light it gathered into MP.

**Unnamed Skill**: A skill that lets Monochrome ascend at supersonic speed, with the maximum record reaching several times the speed of sound when it was running away from Nemesis's shooting wheel, which chased it at the velocity of 65,000 AGI at the time. Monochrome itself can reach an altitude of over 50,000 metel at the time. However, this skill doesn't let it descend at the same speed.

**Unnamed Skill**: A skill that lets Monochrome to transmit its voice to the ground, ignoring the 10,000 metel distance and differences in speed. This skill was mostly used to laugh and ridicule the people who tried to attack him, and to induce terror and despair. This skill can also be used to trick people to come out from their hiding spot.

**Unnamed Skill**: A skill that lets Monochrome fire a heat ray reaching thousands of degrees in temperature from the crystalline protrusion at the end of its tentacle. The heat ray can reach 10,000 metel distance at maximum, before losing all their power and dispersing.

**SHINING DESPAIR** (SHINING・DESPAIRシャイニング・ディサピアー, *pronunciation: Shining Disappear*): A skill that lets Monochrome fire a powerful huge beam of light directly from its crystalline body. It requires Monochrome to charge the maximum amount of energy it can sustain, and condense it all in its crystalline body, rather than the tips of its tentacles, which causes its body to shine brightly. This skill was so powerful, that even with the loss of power due to 10,000 metel distance, it can still destroy and scorch an immense part of the ground below. Notably, this skill can deal over 600,000 points of damage, since it had successfully destroyed 2 of Nemesis's Counter Absorption, before it lost most of its power and only scorched Ray and a small part of the surrounding lands.