Splendida

**Splendida**, real name **Silvestro** (シルヴェストロ), is a Master from the Dryfe Imperium.

## Appearance

Due to the effect of his Embryo, Splendida usually wears sets of very cheap clothing.

## Personality

Splendida is very carefree, attempting major crimes like assassinating the Imperator of the Dryfe Imperium just because he thought it was amusing.

He views  *Infinite Dendrogram*  as a way to enjoy events he would not normally participate in, due to the risk of his death.

## History

Silvestro was an Italian E-sports player that specialized in RTS and digital card game competitions. He was quite proficient in both genres and won the national tournament several times.

During the E-sports world championship that housed multiple game tournaments at the same time, Silvestro participated in and won the RTS Fairy War tournament. He was a player who was really good at discovering unknown annoying combos that would normally be banned in a tournament. The "Unlimited Proliferation Acceleration" he used in the final of this tournament was also a bug that would normally crash the game. Partly due to that, half of the voices directed at him on the podium were boos.

At the time, Silvestro saw the world champion of other genres and was interested in the winner of the digital card game Verseair, Hoshizora Koyomi. Previously, he had wondered whether to participate in the RTS or digital card game tournament this time, and chose RTS because it doesn't involve luck. Due to his regrets he challenged her in Verseair at the afterparty. An exhibition match was then held while all of the participants were still at the venue.

The result was a devastating, one-sided match and complete defeat for Silvestro. The entire audience was left speechless, with the exception of the winner of the FPS game War Ground solo category who was giving a round of applause. Although the match ended like that, both players agreed that Silvestro will definitely win in an RTS game. However, Silvstro somewhat regretted how they must handicapped themselves to play in other genres. He wished there would be a dream game where all different kind of talents, study and abilities including luck could compete on the same stage.

In the following year, the game *Infinite Dendrogram* was released. During his free time due to the ban he received playing in the game tournament, Silvestro began playing because it's a popular game. At first, he was disappointed at the game that's very close to reality where you have to move your body and coupled with a feeling of fatigue. He almost left the game but was convinced to keep playing after his Embryo hatched.

During the civil war in the Dryfe Imperium, Splendida was hired by the anti-imperator faction and fought with Behemoth to stall her while they attempted to kill the Imperator, which caused him to be placed on the Imperium's wanted list.

## Abilities

### Embryo

**Playfake Paradise, Tir Na Nog** (楽園遊偽 ティル・ナ・ノーグ): A Form VII Legion Castle Embryo that takes the form of a tree with a chair that can fit one person inside. The Embryo's abilities are focused on making the environment of *Infinite Dendrogram* more game-like for Splendida.

* **Seat at the Bottom of the Sea** (水底の座): An active skill that allows the tree, along with Splendida inside it to sink inside its shadow. While inside the shadow, the tree and Splendida moves along with Splendida's copy outside. The space within the shadow is an area that cannot be interfered with from the outside, even with skills that can interfere with shadows. In order to activate the skill, **Shining Life** must already be active, though it does not matter if the golem is alive or dead. If more than 1 minute elapses without **Shining Life** being active, the space within the shadows will collapse, killing Splendida. It is also possible to invade the space within the shadows by using the remains of the golem after it has been killed.
* **Shining Life** (輝ける命): An active skill that allows Splendida to create plant-type golems using the fruits in Tir Na Nog's branches, with his senses being linked with said plant-type golems. As Tir Na Nog evolved, the golem started to have the same appearance as Splendida's avatar, and even his abilities including his status and job skills became the same for the golem. By the time Tir Na Nog evolved into a high rank Embryo, it acquired the ability to regenerate with light. These copies can recover their HP at a rate of 1000 HP per second as well as recover from debuffs over time. The rate of recovery is proportional to the amount of light in the area. Splendida can only use one golem at a time and Tir Na Nog can create one golem per day and can stock them if they are unused. When it dies, the golem turns into a dead fruits that can be used to enter the shadow of **Seat at the Bottom of the Sea**.
* **Life Overflows in the Land of Everlasting Youth, and the Victors Look to the Other Side - Tir na Nog** (常若の国に命は溢れ、勝利者達は彼岸を臨むティル・ナ・ノーグ): Tir Na Nog's ultimate skill. An active skill that cancels the golem created by **Shining Life** transformation into Splendida and returns it to its original form with bark covering its face and twisted tree trunks for limbs, expanding and growing wing-like branches and leaves that eventually bears fruits that falls to the ground to create a total of 100 golems. Each golems possess status befitting of a Guardian Embryo, the ability to regenerate with light, and Spendida's job skills. Unlike the action RPG-like VR control and viewpoint of **Shining Life**, Splendida must control the golems operations himself and the surrounding information is displayed in a bird's-eye view map by linking and integrating the optical information acquired by 100 Tir na Nog, projected on the retina through the branch that turned into a VR headset like a play screen of RTS game. Splendida can only choose one golem as the main golem at a time to enable the use of his job skill and equipment. However, this restriction is overcome by switching the main golem quickly and fluidly with both hands. Only the main golem turns into dead fruit when it dies, but if all 100 are dead concurrently, then they will turns into dead fruits. This skill can only be activated during the day.

### Job

**King of Venom** (猛毒王キング・オブ・ヴェノム): A Superior job from the Poisonmancer sub-grouping of the Alchemist grouping. It specializes in using poisons. As a production job, the stat growth focuses on MP and DEX and other stats barely rise.

* **Envenomate Level EX** (猛毒化 レベルEX): A passive skill that increases the effect of any poison status effect their opponent has by 100%
* **Poison Resistance Level EX** (病毒耐性 レベルEX): A passive skill that completely negates any poison status effect.
* **Fatal Mist** (フェイタル・ミスト): The ultimate skill of the King of Venom. An active skill that mixes together 10 different kinds of poison the user possesses together without any kind of chemical repulsion and sprays it out as a poison mist.
* **Destiny** (運命デスティニー): The final blow of the King of Venom. A great forbidden curse that mixes the users' vitality and magical power in order to permanently give the *Extreme Poison* debuff to both the target and the user. *Extreme Poison* cannot be resisted by any type of resistance or skill and cannot be cured by any type of magic or skill as well. Though, while the skill cannot be resisted, its effect can be greatly slowed down if the target has a powerful enough resistance. Most of the King of Venoms avoided using this skill due to fearing for their lives. The debuff can also spread from the target's and the user's corpse into the surrounding people. However, as the corpses of Masters and Monsters disappear after death, the debuff won't spread when used against either of the two. The curse can be launched with a single finger and has a cooldown of 12 hours.

**Venomancer** (猛毒術師): A high rank job from the Poisonmancer sub-grouping of the Alchemist grouping.

**Poisonmancer** (毒術師ポイズン・マンサー): A low rank job from the Alchemist grouping focused on creating and using poisons.

* **Poison Mist** (ポイズン・ミスト): An active skill that selects from any poisons the user possess and sprays them out as a mist.
* **Poison Bullet** (ポイズン・バレット): An active magic skill that allows the user to shoot out poison from a distance.

**Death Soldier** (死兵デス・ソルジャー): A low rank job with little stat growth and no job conditions.

* **Last Command** (ラスト・コマンド): The only skill of the Death Soldier, it allows the user to continue moving even after their HP reaches 0 for a time based on the skill level. At Level 5, the user can continue moving for less than a minute. In Splendida's case, by combining this skill with his golem's ability to regenerate based on light, it is functionally immortal.

## Trivia

* Although he is hated by his opponents and sponsors due to his frequent use of glitches, he is also described as "wonderfully beautiful - Splendida" due to his overwhelming hand technique.