Agares

**Agares** is one of the Four Grand Dukes of the High Demon Society of Le'Infernal and one of its **Pillars**. Agares is infamously known as a demon of obsession and madness and has a reputation of not stopping at any means to acquire "something" once he becomes interested in it.

## Physical Appearance

Upon manifesting in the Demon Forest, Agares was stated to initially look like a handsome, well built, young man with an androgynous face. Agares was also shown to have numerous black wings and black horns on his head.

Upon being enraged and later entering combat against Hermes, Agares was shown to take on a more monstrous appearance, becoming more demonic in physical form before eventually transforming into a gigantic mass of pure darkness.

After manifesting for a second time as the envoy of Le'Infernal, Agares was shown to be able to transform into a smaller more compact form to limit the laws of casualty that would be used to maintain his form in the lower floors.

Agares was stated to now physically resemble the form of a adorable 5 year old child. Still retaining his androgynous physical features that along with his young age, made it impossible to tell if he was a boy or a girl.

Agares silhouette as one of the Transcendents interest in Yeon-woo.Full Body
## Personality

Agares had a strong obsession with Cha Jeong-woo in the past. As shown during Yeon-woo's journey through the Tower, Agares is deeply fixated in Yeon-woo and is one of his number one supporters in the Heavenly World of the 98th Floor and has shown to support his decisions and lend him aid when he goes against hostile Gods and Demons.

His abnormal possessiveness towards their souls is a recurring joke as Yeon-woo's strength further surpasses his own. It even comes to the point that he considers Fenrir as a potential rival to his attention seeking target. Many demons and gods view Agares as an obsessive or delusional fool. Interactions with Baal and the other demons was akin to older siblings dealing with a stupid brother.

However despite their initially negative and rivalry over Yeon-woo's attentions, Agares would soon develop a strong and unique friendship with Fenrir and has soon come to see him as a an equal. This is seen where the two showed surprisingly strong coordination and team work during Yeon-woo campaign to reclaim Tartarus. Later after Fenrir was absorbed and sealed away by Persephone, he put away any notion of pride or greed and requests Yeon-woo to save him, showing how much he has come to see Fenrir as his friend.

Agares shows a tsundere like loyalty to Cha Yeon-woo as the story progresses. He becomes a strong support even though Yeon-woo tends to ignore him majority of the time but nevertheless appreciates it.

## History

Agares is known to be one of the most powerful members of Le’Infernal and possessing one of the largest factions in the Demonic Society, **The East Demon Army**. Agares himself is acknolweged by the society as being its second most powerful member behind its leader, Baal and is known to be his second in Command and heir as leader should he die.

During his climb up the Tower, Cha Jeong-woo would summon Agares with the help of Viera Dune. Agares having grown interested in Jeong-woo, answered their summons despite their usage of a low ranking summon spell and immediately attempted to make Jeong-woo “his” by making all kind of different offers to boost his power by selling ownership of his soul to him and regularly contacting Jeong-woo to convince him to do so, an unprecedented case as most High Ranked Demons tended to ignore Rookie Players. However, Agares’s offers would be rejected by Jeong-woo, as he wanted to honor his agreement with the Kalatus.

Frustrated by this, Agares eventually cut off contact with Jeong-woo and began scheming other plans to capture his soul.

However upon Jeong-woo being cornerd the other Top Clans and being betrayed or abandoned by his clanmates and “friend” and being left in a half dead State, Agares would once again appear before him. Realizing how dire Jeong-woo’s situation was, Agares immediately Went to him in order to try and save him and claim his soul once again before it became lost to him forever. Agares then proceeded to make him one of the most outragous offers in the Tower’s history, offering Jeong-woo the deal of allowing him his most powerful [Power] and completely shouldering the consequences of its usage, a deal that essentially put all the danger to himself and allowed Jeong-woo free Reign to do whatever he please with it, a deal that no sane Demon would ever make as it put all the danger to themselves. However, Jeong-woo still wanting to maintain his agreement with Kalatus, once again refused. Enraging Agares and causing him to swear that no matter what, he would make him “his”.

Sometime after Jeong-woo’s death, Agares would become interested in his biological daughter, Sesha, and soon began wanting to acquire her for himself as a momento of Jeong-woo.

## Abilities

As a Higher Level Demon, Agares possess immense amounts of power that easily places him in the same league as the major Gods and Goddess of the numerous pantheon in the 98th Floor and is stated to even possess power superior to the Minor Gods as it was stated that only Gods from the same level as the 12 Olympians can actually put up a descent fight against him. As shown where he could easily defeat High Rankers such as Kindred with no visible effort.

However upon his defeat by Hermes and Cha Yeon-woo in the Demon's Forest, Agares was noted to have lost a gigantic bulk of his original power to the point that he no longer posed a genuine threat to the other Gods and Demons within the 98th Floor.

However despite becoming considerably weaker, Agares was still noted to be exceptionally powerful still. This is seen where despite his weakened status, he was still able to destroy Poseidon's manifestation through Benteke's body in the lower floors and later was able to threaten the rest of La'Infernal into helping him support Yeon-woo against Olympus after the "Great Mother" took it over.

### Demon Abilities

As a High class Demon Grand Duke, Agares has displayed several abilities and powers unique to himself and his race.

* **Darkness:** As seen during his appearance in the Demon Forest, Agares can appear and take the form of a gigantic mass of pure pitch black darkness that allows him to spread and cover the entirety of the 23rd Floor of the Tower. This form itself grants Agares several abilities power, as seen where was able to literally cover and engulf half of the 23rd Floor as his Authority and Territory when he battled against Hermes, attacked him as a literal blob of primordial darkness and shapeshift himself into several shadow like beasts to fight.
	+ **Shapeshifting:** While in his Darkness form, Agares was shown to posses the ability to freely alter his physical form and mass however he pleases, with him displaying the ability to compress himself into a humanoid form, shapeshift into a more beast like appearance when he wanted to swallow Sesha and the ability to literally spread "himself" across the demon forest by expanding his darkness.
	+ **Absorption:** While in this Form, Agares can absorb and assimilate whatever he catches inside his darkness down to their souls, as seen where he attempted to devour both Cha Yeon-woo and his Monster Familiars and Undead servants by engulfing them in his darkness.
* **Immense Strength:** As seen during his fight against Hermes, Agares was strong enough to battle against him and fight off and fend his Boa Snakes away from him.
* **Immense Endurance & Durability:** As seen during his fight against Hermes, Agares possess immense physical endurance and durability that allowed him to easily withstand numerous attacks from the God, endure the Holy Poison injected into him multiple times by Hermes's Boa Snakes, Withstand the Full Brunt of Yeon-woo's Wave of Fire empowered with Athena's Holiness and his Holy Fire and a variety of his other abilities and resist being sucked back into the 98th Floor when he was being banished back there by the Tower's system for an extended period of time despite being severely injured from his battle.

### Deals

Like all High Class Demons and Gods, Agares could also empower mortal rankers and grant them access to his unique abilities and powers and his "concept" to use for their own. Usually by bargaining, manipulating, negotiating or offering them to a Player that gains his interest.

These is seen where he attempted to give both Cha Jeong-woo and Cha Yeon-woo access to his powers in exchange for "owning" them (gaining ownership over their souls in death). Once the Player dies as a human, Agares can then claim ownership over their souls and was stated to be able to transform them into his demon servants within his household.

* **Demon Blessing:** Similar to Gods, Agares can give his blessings to a Player in order to empower and strengthen them.
* **Powers:** Like all High Class Demons, Agares can give whoever he desires a unique skill that embodies his "concept" as a demon that then grants them immense power.
	+ **Hyoongshin Acksal (*"Wicked Devil"*):** (Gifted to Cha Yeon-woo): A power that embodies Agares's "Concept" as a Demon of Madness and Lunacy, that allows its user to transform their anger into lunacy and transform that into pure raw power and the ability to attack the user's opponents rationality and convert that to additional power to further empower themselves. However this skill comes as the cost of weakening the user's own defenses and eats away at their own sanity and self control.
* **Soul Enslavement:** Agares can forcibly take control of a person's soul no matter how powerful their defenses by engulfing their bodies in his darkness and making direct contact with their souls and take control of them. Agares finds this ability barbaric and no fun and as such prefers to instead willingly tricking/manipulating someone into willingly accepting "him" and avoid using this ability as a last resort.

### Authority

Like all High Ranked Demons within the 98th Floor, Agares possess his own level of divine authority over a specific field under his "concept" as a Demon.

* **Madness & Lunacy:** As a Demon that proceeds over Madness and Lunacy, Agares possess divine control over insanity and can use his Authority to perform various feats. An example of his control over Insanity is the power he created and then gifted to Yeon-woo, "[Hyoongshin Acksal]", that allows Yeon-woo to literally convert his anger into lunacy and then to power to strengthen himself.