Arios Orlando

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**Arios Orlando** formerly known as the **Hero,** is one of the two main antagonists of the series along with the current reigning Demon Lord. He is the former hero who kicked out his future arch nemesis, Rein Shroud of the Hero's Party due to his hatred towards him. After his first defeat by Rein in their duel, Arios betrays his ancestor's legacy and violated his status as a Hero for his vengeance upon Rein only to be easily defeated by Rein again

Due to his treachery after his second defeat by Rein, he was arrested and stripped from his title as a hero by King Argus and Princess Sarya for violations such as allowing the murder upon an innocent man of the Adventurer's Guild in his failed attempted to frame Rein for the crimes, as well gotten completely written off as a traitor as well he was imprisoned by humanity for his actions, causing the disbandment of the Hero's Party due to his delusions and betrayal in his weak failed attempt to kill Rein.

He later escaped out of prison with help from Monica, a subordinate of the current reigning Demon Lord, where he join the Demon Lord's army for his vengeance upon Rein, his companions, and humanity. Despite his escape, Arios has already been branded as a traitor and a most wanted criminal by both King Argus and Princess Sarya. He was replaced by Chiffon Nox as his successor due to his betrayal.

He later transformed into a Demon and would go on in killing the rest of his former-teammates for betraying him. He allowed Monica to dispose of Leanne, left Aggath to be killed by a group of demons for "betraying" him and lastly for Mina to die along with the holy church's archbishop by a group of demons for betraying him and siding with Rein of her new mission is to kill Arios. However, Orlando soon meet his demise when Rein killed him.

He is the archnemesis of Rein Shroud and the sworn enemy of The Shrouds.

## Personality

### Pre-Downfall

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Before the start of the series, Arios was a kind person who would help anyone in need. After being granted the "Hero" title, he was a heroic individual. At that time, Arios acted solo but at some point, he went distorted. The other way around, the old Arios had the personality to be called a hero. In his younger days he used to be a meek child but as soon as he gets the title, people around him start worshiping him and he later turns into a selfish, spoiled brat. Since because of people's ignorance toward his mischiefs just because he was the "hero", Arios became arrogant and caught high self-esteem refusing to bow to anyone. He thinks himself of a special kind thus he never considers someone his equal. In the hero party, Arios seeks out the superiority of the party members but they were gotten on his nerves. So, he decides to take Rein Shroud for his stress ball. But Rein not getting broken by his and the party's abuses make Arios fed up and ultimately kicks him out.
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### Post-Downfall

Arios is an ignorant and delusional man who refused to learn from his mistakes. He is selfish and has never shown any concerns for Lin, Mina and Aggath because he only viewed them as disposable pawns and never considered them his friends to begin with. He is also incompetent when he and his soon-to-be former fellow heroes were in a complete disadvantage against the Demon Lord's army because Rein was a pillar to the Hero Party while Arios is a liability. After his defeat by Rein and his party, Arios was driven in obsession with rage and desired to get revenge on Rein by killing him for Rein not only humiliating him and his party but for successfully completing the Lost Forest where Arios and his party couldn't, even going as far as to not only betray the Hero's Party but also his ancestor the First Hero's legacy to defeat the Demon Lord just for his ridiculous accord but only to be defeated by Rein.

He is xenophobic towards demi-humans even from the Strongest Tribes where he sees them to be Rein's "pets" and believing they are no match for him, not realizing the true strength of said demi-humans due being way over his had to thanks to his delusions.

Arios is also a coward when he begged Rein to not hurt him after he lost against Shroud. One of the citizens of Horizon also acknowledged his cowardice when he refused to fight the tyrannical Edgar Fromware, who transformed into a demon.

He is cunning and manipulative when he manipulated said Edgar to join him due to them having a common enemy who they despised, but saw him as a pawn at his disposal due to never caring for anyone other than himself. But he was also shown to be a bad liar as he tried pinning the blame on Rein as the “culprit” to save his skin, allowing King Argus to see right through them with the help of Princess Sarya.

While in prison, Arios was driven into even more hypocrisy and insanity, where he became a completely unrepentant villain for his actions and refusing to accept nor grasp the reality of the situation. He still believed he was a hero and kept blaming Rein.

After he escaped from prison, Arios became a complete, delusional psychopath who was driven into even more hypocrisy than he was before due to his own blind hatred of Rein for getting the better of him. As far as he is concerned, Rein has ruined his reputation as a "Hero" and humiliated him along with being completely written off by everyone as a self-deluded traitor to humanity. Arios now desire's to kill not only Rein and his companions, but also humanity itself by working for the Demon Lord, a villain he was supposed to defeat, showing that Arios had given up his humanity now embracing his newfound misanthropy.

Blinded by his delusions of grandeur, Arios became a pure evil lunatic when he has completely abandoned any traces of remorse or sheds of humanity he once had. He holds a complete grudge against King Argus and his daughter, Princess Sarya and wanted to get revenge on them for not only revoking his status as a Hero and declaring him as a traitor, but also deeming him as threat and the most wanted criminal when they put a price on Arios' head, dead or alive.

Since then, he had become more treacherous as ever while his selfishness worsened as he betrayed and sacrificed Leanne when he ordered Monica to blame Leanne's death on Rein without a second thought, believing it was necessary just so he would get his revenge on Rein. He had shown no care to bonds and will not hesitate to swindling his former allies as evident when his Leanne and Aggath also deeply impacted to Mina, causing her to betray Arios and wanted her so-called "friend" to die after seeing he became a completely insane. Arios had become more of a coward than he was before as he is not going to fight his enemies personally but using the demons to fight his battles for him.

He has no tolerance for betrayals or weaknesses. He left Aggath to be killed for "betraying" him, when he betrayed him and the others when he took things too far. He allowed Monica to dispose of Leanne when he had no more use for her after she was demonized by Monica and killed by Rein and his companions. He intended to kill Mina for betraying him and siding with Rein which led to Mina dying along with the holy church's archbishop at the hands of a group of demons.

Arios proposed a deal with Rein after he gained the power of demon. However, he failed to defeat Rein and was eventually killed by him.

## Relationship

### Allies

#### Monica Eclair (formerly)

Monica is the one who completely corrupted Arios to joining the Demon Lord's army for his vengeance on Rein. He allowing Monica of disposing Leanne when he has no more use of her and the others. After his death against Rein, Monica revealed she doesn't truly care about Arios as she viewed him to be a mere pawn in her disposal due to Arios being weak.

#### Demon Lord

Originally his enemy, but now his ally. Arios only joined the Demon Lord for his vengeance on Rein and humanity.

#### Edgar Fromware (formerly)

Arios formed an alliance with the tyrannical mayor, Edgar due to them sharing a common enemy (Rein). Arios offered the cursed ring to Edgar which he accepted if that what it meant for him to steal both Sora and Luna from Rein. However, Edgar has failed Arios and presumably dead when he was beaten into a bloody pulp by Edgar's former slaves (who were freed by Rein). Arios only viewed Edgar as a mere pawn and completely fine as he didn't care about Edgar at all.

### Enemies

#### Rein Shroud

The former Hero Arios is Rein's former teammate and now his archenemy. Arios banished Rein from the Hero's Party believing he was useless to him. When he and his party are unable to proceed into the Lost Forest without Rein, Arios and his party decide to ask Rein to lend a hand, believing that Rein would never refuse their request. Arrogantly, Arios asked him to accept the job as if he were favoring them. Arios notices that Rein is with the strongest species which surprised him. Tania asks Arios and his party to apologize to Rein and Arios did but took it for granted which made Tania say that they should prostrate themselves and sincerely apologize to Rein. This made the hero party very angry, making him describe his companions just his “pets and playthings” infuriating Rein and hastily beat Arios on the face. At this refute, Arios challenged Rein into a duel. Rein easily defeated Arios due to his newfound powers. Rein felt surprised to feel refreshed after beating them. Though he apologizes as Tania said, for being humiliated by Rein, Arios was driven into insanity when he wants to kill Rein using any means. When he started looking for a recruit as a beast tamer, he came to know that Rein is an unusual tamer which filled him with deep hatred; primarily because Arios made himself look like a fool. He manipulated Edgar Fromware as a pawn for killing Rein by giving him a ring to summon Death Scythe but in the end, it failed and Edgar was easily defeated. Since then, he single-mindedly makes attempts to kill him, but only to be defeated by Rein again. After breaking out of prison followed with his second defeat where he lost his status as a Hero and is always remembered as a traitor, the completely deranged Arios wants to kill Rein, his friends and humanity itself as Arios joined the Demon Lord just for his vengeance on Rein. Rein has no choice but to kill Arios for not only escaped from prison but also caused the deaths of Aggath, Leanne, Mina and innocent lives as soon Rein realized that Arios is purely evil and beyond any hopes for redemption. During their final fight, Rein killed Arios and avenge Aggath, Leanne and Mina as well innocent lives he took.

#### Aggath, Leanne and Mina

Aggath, Leanne and Mina were Arios' teammates and indirect killed victims. Arios cares nothing about them as they were just pawns to him and Arios never sees them as his friends. Even after joining the demons where he lost his title as a hero, he still hold no concerns for them. He let his teammates to their deaths when he is done using them, believing their sacrifices would allow him to exact revenge on Rein.

Aggath, Leanne and Mina were loyal towards Arios. This was until he betrayed them and caused their deaths. Leanne was disposed by Monica under Arios' orders where she was killed by Rein, Aggath was left to be killed by the demons under Arios' commands for "betraying" him and lastly Mina died along with the Holy Church's archbishop by the demons where she betrayed Arios and formed an alliance with Rein of her goal to kill Arios which is a success even at the cost of her own life.

#### The Shrouds

Because of his xenophobic viewpoint towards demi-humans, Arios saw Rein's companions as nothing more than "pets". He thinks he is stronger than them only to shown in reality, Arios is weaker than Rein's companions as he and his teammates were easily defeated by them in their duel. After he escaped from prison, Arios wants desired vengeance against them too.

Likewise, Rein's companions hates Arios and look down on him after learning how he banished Rein. They've treated and saw Arios very poorly due to his incompetence, with Kanase and Tania especially. They also viewed Arios to be an incompetent weakling who stood no chance against them as they easily defeated him and his teammates in their duel. After Arios was arrested and stripped from his title as Hero, Rein's companions expressed no sympathies for a man. After learning Arios had escaped from prison, Rein's companions want nothing more but to kill the former hero once and for all to bring an end to his insanity.

#### Argus Van Rollreeze

Arios is the former hero that Argus chosen but very carelessly due to Arios' twisted personality. Following his betrayal after Rein defeated Arios again, King Argus shown enraged of Arios' delusions of grandeur and violation to his title as a Hero where the King hereby revoked Arios from his status as a Hero and placing this deluded idiot under arrest, for his betrayal towards him and the murder of a member of the Adventurer's Guild as well completely written Arios Orlando as the self-deluded traitor. When the King went to Arios' cellblock, Argus is still annoyed by Arios' delusions of grandeur and announced to him that he will be executed within two days. When Arios escaped from prison due to Monica Eclair, King Argus has no choice but to place a bounty on Arios' head where he is humanity's most wanted criminal, dead or alive, just so no villages nor its inhabitants will ever listen to Arios' lies and deception. The only reaction that Argus shown for Arios was nothing more than an extremely disgust due to Arios' delusions of grandeur and violation of his status as a Hero.

Arios now holds a complete hatred towards the King and cursed Argus for stripping him of his title as a hero and completely written him of as both a delusional traitor and humanity's worst criminal.

#### Princess Sarya

Like her father, Sarya completely hates Arios for his delusions of grandeur. When realizing that Arios is the culprit for the murder of a member of the Adventurer's Guild, Princess Sarya ordered her knights to place Arios under arrest when she called him as a traitor instead of a hero. For violating his status, Sarya used a magical tool to revealed Arios was a liar and the real culprit to her father which caused King Argus to announced of revoking Arios of his status as a hero and thrown him to the cellblock. Much like her father, Sarya also considered Arios to be nothing more than a delusional moron. After hearing Arios has escaped due to Monica Eclair, Sarya (as well as her father, King Argus) has no qualms of placing a price on Arios and completely labelled Arios as humanity's worst criminal.

Arios now completely hates Sarya and cursed the princess for revealing his true identity as a traitor who allowed the murder of a group of members of the adventurer's guild and in his failed attempted to frame Rein for it, completely writing him off not only as a traitor, but also as a most wanted criminal, dead or alive.

### Humanity

Arios was once humanity's chosen hero but now he is the most hated enemy and greatest threat to humanity.

The people used to idolized him. This was until after the people (that Arios was supposed to protect), began to completely lose their respects/faiths for him and for Arios to be banished from Horizon for refusing to fight against the demonic Edgar as well the citizens of Horizon insulting Arios of calling him a coward to think he will defeat the Demon Lord when he couldn't defeat the demonic Edgar. One of the citizens mocked Arios when telling Rein is much more of a hero than him causing Arios to be pissed off. Arios allowed the murder upon members of the Adventurer's Guild in attempt to frame Rein for crime. However, the attempt to frame Rein has failed because Princess Sarya revealed that he was the real culprit where Arios was under arrested and Rein's name has been officially cleared from this falsely accused murder. During Arios' trial, all of the angry jury has voted Arios guilty where their king, Argus Van Rollreeze announced that Arios is hereby stripped from his status as "hero" and imprisoned by humanity.

After escaping with the help of Monica and joining the Demon Lord, Arios now held a complete hatred towards humanity because of his betrayal towards them and the people are now completely loyal to Rein as their hero as well the humanity has also chosen and idolized the new hero, Chiffon Nox. His newfound misanthropy continually increased for the worse because Arios has been completely written off as the most wanted criminal to humanity by King Argus and Princess Sarya, putting a price on his head, dead of alive where Arios will never set foot on any continents as people will never fall for his lies and deceptions.

The humans also completely hate Arios and considered him to be an imposter who portrayed as a hero, due to his delusions, selfishness, ignorance and cowardice. All humans wants the former fake Hero, Arios dead for the crimes he committed.

## Abilities

Even though his personality is too wicked, he still have some abilities of being a former hero. However, his abilities are too weak against Rein.

* **Expert Swordsman**: Since he is the ex-hero, he knows how to swing the sword properly. According to Rein, he is a master of sword. However after he lost his holy sword along with his other equipment (when he was stripped as a hero), he lacked other proficiencies such as hand-to-hand combat leaving him relentlessly useless and defenseless due to him being weak.

### Magic

* **Gigabolt**: A lightning strike magic.
* **Lunatic Bolt**

### Weaknesses

Though as a former hero, Arios has a lot of weaknesses. His one of them is his arrogance as while he believed himself to be almighty only revealed to be a powerless when he was easily defeated by Rein twice.

Another would be his extremely low intelligence and ignorance when he attacks without any thinking and even having such a poor navigation when unable to find the Shield of Truths in months. His ignorance was also shown to be delusional as he still saw himself as a hero and lived in complete denial of why people saw him as a “lowlife scoundrel”. Such ignorance made him underestimate his enemies, which allowed him to be defeated by Rein, twice.

His greatest weakness is his cowardice when shown he is a coward who doesn't fight his own battles used those to fight his battles for him but only making him as the easiest target to be effortlessly defeated by stronger opponents.

## Trivia

* Arios can be described as the foil of Rein:
	+ Whereas Rein was kind-hearted and shows respect towards his friends, Arios was more arrogant ever since giving a title of a “Hero” and had all the power went to his head to the point of becoming selfish and delusive, even to the point of caring only himself and saw others as pawns and stepping stones and would dispose of them without any remorse or pity.
	+ Rein treats his beastmen allies as genuine friends while Arios for unknown reasons has xenophobia and shown to be afraid of beastmen and shown to be racist as he sees them as nothing but mere animals and pets.
	+ While Rein has shown to be knowledgeable and studies to understand his new powers with every contract he makes with new allies, Arios believing that he is an invincible hero, did not have enough time to study or learn other things in life and thus became ignorant.
	+ Rein is not afraid of trying new things in life, while Arios from all his time being given the “Hero” title, had no chances of facing challenges and became cowardly.
	+ Ironically, they share the Hero's bloodline, which Arios took gloating of it with ignorance, while Rein doesn't care of lineage, as he chose he own path while doing good.

1. ↑ Web Novel Chapter 136
2. ↑ Web Novel Chapter 28