Kindred

**Kindred** is the current 2nd Bishop of the Devil Army and a former member of the Sadhu that resided in the five mountains of Penance within the 20th Floor of the Tower.

## Physical Appearance

Kindred was stated to be chronologically old, but was stated to still possess the appearance of a teenager or even a child.

Kindred's saved Shadow in the 21st Floor of the Tower
## Personality

As seen during his first appearance as a Sadhu, Kindred portrayed himself to be initially to be a whimsical, goofy, mischievous but harmless member of the group and was noted to hide his immense power expertly and would greatly enjoy meddling, teasing and annoying his fellow sadhu while in the mountain.

Despite his fearsome reputation, Kindred was shown to have perfectly hid his more malignant personality traits during his time training in the 20th Floor, Kindred managed to completely fool all the members of the Sadhu that he meant them no harm and befriended them. Leading to those like Victoria, who he had tricked and earned the trust of, to come to genuinely come to care for him and trust him enough to do him "favors". As seen where she accepted his request for her to get his body if he died in the Monkey King's Palace.

This however completely hides Kindred's true vicious, blood thirst, cold and detached personality and was shown to have no problem using, abandoning and essentially condemning his "friends" to die as guinea pigs for the dungeon.

Another part of Kindred's personality is his apparent zealous faith and worship of the Heavenly Demon and his other “faces”, such as The Monkey King, and has shown to repeatedly glorify, worship and flaunt his immense faith and belief in his lord both in his private and public thoughts. Kindred's faith in him/them is so great and zealous that he truly believes that everything is the work of the Monkey King and feels no need to question his orders or his actions due to believing that the Heavenly Demon is behind all of it and no one has the right to go against his orders.

## Abilities & Skills

Due to being ranked as the 2nd Bishop of the Devil Army, Kindred was shown to have monstrous amounts of power that allows him to easily overpower and kill Lower ranked Rankers and fight against powerful high Rankers with no apparent efforts. His monstrous power and immense skill was fully seen during his battle against "Cain" during the final stages of Walpurgisnacht's downfall, where he was able to survive being crushed by Yeon-woo’s [Meteor Strike], despite being injured and weakened by the first meteor, managed to fend off and destroy the multiple, smaller Meteor's Yeon-woo hurled as him and still survive.

Kindred was noted by Yeon-woo to possess immense, almost cockroach like, durability, endurance and recovery rate. As seen where he survived being striked down by a large meteor and destroyed and fended off several smaller ones without dying. Albeit he was shown to be severely injured afterwards, it was immediately noted by Yeon-woo that Kindred also possessed a immense recovery rate and given enough time he could easily recover from his injures and be back at attacking him.

As a member of the Devil Army, Kindred is shown to primarily employ Demonic Energy as his main power source for his techniques. With his overall demonic energy being emitted from his body being described as massive by Cha Yeon-woo when first meeting him.

### Arts

* **72 Bian:** Its been confirmed that the true patron and founder of the Devil Army, the "Heavenly Devil" was in fact the Monkey King. And thus as one of his Bishops, Kindred primarily relies on his 72 Bian Arts as his main weapon for combat and unlike Yeon, Kindred possessed immense mastery over at least 50 of its techniques.
	+ **Shadow Clones:** As seen during his fake body left in the Monkey King's Palace, his battle against Agares in the Demon Forest and finally his battle against Cha Yeon-woo in the Brocken Castle, Kindred possess a skill that seemingly allows him to create additional bodies for him to send his mind to inhabit in similar to the mechanics of Viera Dune's [Body Transfer]. This allows him to easily go into dangerous situations and fight powerful foes without threat to his life because his mind simply returns to his true body if the shadows are destroyed. As seen where his shadow body simply disappeared after being destroyed by Agares and Yeon. However like [Body Transfer] its been stated that despite not putting his life in danger, if Kindred suffers painful and severe enough psychological damage from his "deaths" he may not be able to recover for a while. Its been hypothesized that this techniques is one of the 72 Bian by Yeon. While in these bodies, Kindred was shown to still have full access to all his powers and his superhuman physical attributes.
	+ **Demon Soul:** By using the 3 pieces of Ryu Bang, Kindred can drastically boost his power and allow him to temporarily boost his combat potential and power to put up a half way descent fight against a High Level Demon by mimicking the "Heavenly Devil". As seen where he temporarily managed to fight it out against Agares before the demon began getting serious.
	+ **Possession - Monkey King:** Kindred is able to temporarily gain the same powers and abilities of the "Monkey King" using this Bian Art. This is seen where by combining this art with three pieces of Ryu Bang, Kindred was able to come close to replicating the actual Monkey King's techniques and was strong enough to fight Agares temporarily while the demon was fighting half seriously.
		- **Pure Fire:** By accessing one of the many incarnations of the Heavenly Demon, Kindred was able to access the powers of the Heavenly Demons incarnation as the "Dawn Demon", who was stated to have created Fire. Giving Kindred access to the incredibly powerful "Pure Fire" flames for combat.

### Skills

* **Open Speaking:** Kindred was shown to also have acquired this skill in the 5 Mountains of Penance that allows him to directly send his thoughts directly to someone's mind and directly communicate with them without verbally talking.

### Items

* **Fragments of Ryou-Bang (3x):** As a Inheritor to the Monkey King's Inheritance and 71 Bian Technique, Kindred has been given three fragments of Roy-Bang, the Divine Weapon of the Monkey King that was made using Divine Metal. Kindred has so far shown the ability to use these fragments to augment his power during battle and was able to temporarily boost his power to put up a half-way decent fight against Agares.

## Trivia

1. ↑ Killed by Highl during his fight with Cha Yeon-woo after attempting to capture Edora. Novel 412