Eldridge

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**Eldridge**, real name **Leon Philadelphia** (レオン・フィラデルフィア), is a Master currently associated with Caldina and the owner of the clan, Goblin Street which is ranked 28th in Caldina's clan rankings. He was formerly associated with the Kingdom of Altar.

## Appearance

Eldridge has bright blood red hair and dresses in a jacket with red fur lining.

## Personality

Eldridge is calm and confident, having faith in his ability to defeat opponents due to his long history as a fighter. However, he tends to underestimate his foes on occasion. After a string of successive losses against Superiors, he has become afraid of fighting against them and much more cautious than before.

## History

Leon Philadelphia was born as the son of the owner of a large bank. Since his youth, he studied relentlessly to follow in his father's footsteps. He originally began playing *Infinite Dendrogram* because the game's triple time feature interested him as a way to maximize his leisure time. He thus began playing under the name of Eldridge.

At some point after starting, Eldridge was regarded as the Kingdom of Altar's strongest PK.

However, after Sechs Wurfel became King of Crime and started raising his level, he defeated Eldridge and took that title.

After Sechs was sent to the Gaol following his battle against Shu Starling, Eldridge competed with Barbaroy Bad Burn for the title of strongest PK. He was unable to obtain any definitive victories against her due to poor compatibility and could not regain his title, leaving it open for Kashimiya to obtain when he emigrated from Tenchi and defeated both of them.

## Plot

During the start of the PK-Blockade, Eldridge's clan participated in blocking the Wez Sea Route. A few days after the clan started the blockade, they were eliminated by Lei Lei as she travelled west to acquire goods that were unable to travel to her because of the blockade. Eldridge was not present for this event, but Goblin Street lost members, in part because some members were sent to the Gaol.

Shortly after, Eldridge attempted to rob Xunyu on her escort mission to the Kingdom. He did this so he could own the mobile savepoint carriage they're riding to use it to further support the clan. Unfortunately, Xunyu quickly defeated Eldridge by stealing his heart with her Embryo's ultimate skill and proceeded to massacre the remaining clan members immediately afterwards. Further faith was lost in Eldridge by his clan members because of this incident, causing a number of the clan members to leave the clan.

After the events of Franklin's Game, Eldridge and Goblin Street were operating in Caldina just beside the border as bandits due to their recent failures in the Kingdom. At that time, Eldridge declared that they would steal from the caravans in front of them before migrating to Granvaloa to act as pirates. However, before they could even begin to rob the caravans in question, Fatoum swiftly defeated the clan by burying them along with the mountain they're standing on.

Eventually, Goblin Street did migrate and became pirates, only for Antimicrobic Soy Sauce to quickly discover them and annihilate them.

Afterwards, they went on to become pirates in the waters near Tenchi where Granvaloa had less influence, only to happen upon the travelling Saki Muryo-Taisu and be defeated yet again. From this series of defeats against Superiors, faith in Eldridge dwindled rapidly, leaving only Neeala and Fay as members after.

In order to help restore his clan and recover from poverty in *Dendro*, all three members of Goblin Street participated in the "Death Ark" incident to steal Magingears. During this incident, they teamed up with Moneygold and Hugo Lesseps against Illegal Frontier and the Orthodox Government of Dryfe, led by Curtis Erdona as Eldridge no longer has the desire to make enemies of Superiors after his successive losses against them. Eldridge fought against Emily Killingstone and due to compatibility, he managed to nearly defeat her. However, he was ultimately defeated by Rascal who noticed Emily's plight while fighting Moneygold.. He did, however, manage to force Emily to retreat afterwards at least.

Sometime after this incident, La Place Phantasma recruited Eldridge through Moneygold in order to make him the leader of the new clan organizing all of Cortana's merchant companies. He eventually agreed under the condition that the clan in question be named Goblin Street, remaining loyal to his clan and its interests. He currently leads the many merchant groups under this banner with his knowledge and experience from his real life. He remains busy but is doing very well financially now.

During the Second Knight-Machine War, Eldridge, Neeala, and Faye came to the Kingdom of Altar to assist Barbaroy Bad Burn and Tsukikage Eishiro in fighting against Splendida. Thanks to everyone's combined efforts, Splendida was defeated and Eldridge finally won against a Superior.

## Abilities

### Embryo

**Resolute Sword Crushing Bones, Skeleton** (奮骨砕刃　スケルトン): A Form VI Type Arms Embryo. It takes the form of an artificial skeleton that replaces the skeleton of Eldridge's avatar. Its hardness matches Legendary metals. It has an odd condition that its abilities can only be used when Eldridge has not equipped any items to either of his hands.

* **After One** (死後に遺るモノ): Raises the strength of the Embryo and increases Eldridge's END. This skill can only be used when Eldridge has not equipped anything in either hand. When this skill is activated, the defensive power of Eldridge's Embryo reaches that of Mythical metals.
* **Spirit Double** (死者は骸と遺志を持つ): Allows for the activation of 2 active skills at the same time. This skill can only be activated when Eldridge has not equipped anything in either hand. It also reduces the cooldown for those skills.
* **Bury Me with Nothing — Skeleton** (副葬品は要らず、ただ還るのみスケルトン): Skeleton's ultimate skill. After fighting with an opponent for 300 seconds, Eldridge can destroy one of the weapons equipped to their hands, regardless of its strength. This skill can only be used twice a day and only if Eldridge has equipped nothing in either hand. This skill is what gives Eldridge the nickname of 'Arms Killer'.

### Job

**King of Burglary** (強奪王): A Superior Job from the burglar grouping. Its status growth focuses on AGI. Unlike the King of Thieves job, there are no skills that allow for quiet theft.

* **Greater Pickpocket** (グレータービッグポケット): An active skill that allows the user to steal any transferable item within 100 metels.
* **Greater Takeover** (グレーターテイクオーバー): An active skill that allows him to remove any body part within the effective range. This is limited to whatever can fit into the user's hand.
* **Greater Alldrain** (グレーター・オールドレイン): The ultimate skill of the **King of Burglary**. An active skill that lets the user steal the target's status proportional to the amount of HP the user has damaged them by. The status stolen cannot be retrieved by healing HP during the effective time. In Emily's case, even if she were to die and revive, only her status will return to normal. This skill can only be used once a day on a single target.