Highl

Shadow in the 21st Floor

**Highl** Is the current 1st Bishop of the Devil Army and acknowledged member of the Obelisk's "Nine Kings".

## Physical Appearance

The Head Bishop was described as a weakened, sickly old man due to the curse of the Heavenly Demon. After undoing some of the effects of the curse, he was described as a aging older man instead, having been stated to become physically stronger and healthier looking.

## Personality

Highl himself is shown to be a highly calm, intelligent and level head as the leader of the Devil Army. This is seen where he primarily handled all of the confrontations against his enemies with a cool head and a friendly façade as he calmly analyzed his enemies. Highl himself has displayed to have the same friendly and playful disposition that Kindred has and generally portrays himself as being laid back.

Like all members of the Devil Army, Highl is also highly fanatical in his belief in the Heavenly Demon as the supreme god of the cosmos and believes that everything that happens is because of his will and has shown to have the tendency to preach about his greatness whenever he gets the chance. However, due to his devotion to the Heavenly Demon, Highl himself is shown to be highly reliant on him and was flabbergasted and confused as to why the Heavenly Demon rejected him and the Devil Army despite their faith in him.

Highl is shown to care greatly for his clan members and has shown to go through great lengths to protect them. With him having started a rebellion against the Devil Army's previous Head Bishop and his followers when they began abusing the Heavenly Demon's power and teachings for their own gain to monopolize power and abuse their clan's members. Highl himself has shown to prioritize the lives of his subordinates over his own and one of his motivations for attempting to become another one of the Heavenly Demon's "faces" was to better protect his clansmen.

## Abilities

As stated by the other members of the Nine Kings such as the Ice King and Cha Jeong-woo, Highl is regarded as one of the most absolutely monstrous members of the Nine and was gigantically powerful. In terms of sheer raw power, it was concluded that Highl was the fourth most powerful member of Nine Kings and was the closest in rivaling the strength of the Summer Queen and the Martial King and had strength surpassing the other six members.

Highl was also noted to be the only member of the nine to still be growing in strength, meaning that in stark contrast to the other eight, Highl has still yet to reach his full potential of his power and can still develop and improve his abilities even further.

### Apostle

Highl was stated to have a direct channel to the "Heavenly Demon" and was stated to be his Apostle. However Highl in truth, was rejected from becoming the official Apostle of the Heavenly Demon and was instead heavily cursed by his God instead. And although it allowed him to access some of the Heavenly Demon's power through his corrupted channel, Highl's body was stated to be severely cursed, resulting in his body aging rapidly and causing him to become near comatose and immobile despite his immense power.

However, Highl managed to find a loophole to his situation. Highl has managed to successfully mitigate the curse inflicted on him by the Heavenly Demon by receiving the blessings of his 7 sworn brothers as the "Monkey King", successfully empowering himself and undoing the damage the curse of the Heavenly Demon inflicted on him along with gaining additional powers and abilities from the 7 Demon Kings.

### Skill

* **Possession:** Highl was shown to possess the ability to project his consciousness out of his true body and possess someone else's and use it like his own. However due to his immense power, if his vessel was not sufficiently strong enough or possessed some unique trait that allows them to handle the strain of his power, Highl's spirit would only end up destroying it over time. Highl himself has stated that he could permanently take over the body of another person if he desired.

### Demonic Power

Like all members of the Devil Army, Highly makes use of demonic energy as a power source for his skills and magic and was shown to have highly potent demon energy.

### Arts

* **72 Bian:** Like many members of the Devil Army, Highly has access and seemingly mastered many techniques of the 72 Bian Arts of the Heavenly Demon.

### Items

* **Ryu Bang Fragment:** Highl was also shown to possess a fragment of Ryu Bang, having successfully shaped it into hand bell.