Aristotle

**Aristotle** (アリストテレス *Arisutoteresu*, "King of Nature") is Crux's Ultimate Skill, created from the combination of his two Unique Skills, Zoologist and Nature Lover, along with skills like Demon Lord's Haki and Sage, among others, during his Harvest Festival.

## Sub-Skills

* Natural Phenomena Manipulation: Grants control over anything that counts as a naturally occurring life and phenomenon, including the very laws and concepts attached to them.
* Caretaker's Haki: Gives a comforting air to the user, easily lulling anything with a weak will into a state of submission, in which they will not attack the user under any circumstance. In some cases, the recipient of the aura's effects will even defend the user.
* Demon Lord's Haki: Allows the user's aura to exert a powerful spiritual pressure over their targets and inflict them with potentially lethal magical effects. It is possible for one to immediately perish if they are too weak, or cause one to lose their sanity.
* Plant Whisper: Allows the user to be aware of anything that happens in an extremely large area by taking in information from connected plants. It also allows them to freely move to anywhere in their domain in an instant.
* Life Force Domination: Absolute control over the flow of natural energy in a specified target(s).
* Subordinate Soul: Allows the user to utilize characteristics of living creatures that have recognized them as their master.
* Enrichment: Allows the user to raise the value of natural life and phenomena, increasing its potency and effectiveness. This effect allows the user to enhance potions to higher levels.
* Philosophy: Gives an extreme boost to the user's computational, philosophical and general thinking abilities.
* Multi-Dimensional Barrier: Absolute defense is achieved through the separation of spatial dimensions and several powerful barriers. Able to block anything the user can comprehend.

## Related Arts

* **Ultimate Impact**: By using Enrichment and Natural Effects Manipulation to enhance the kinetic energy and general force behind an attack, the user drastically boosts the power of their attacks, turning a regular punch into one that can cause earthquakes that span for miles.
* **Scorching Storm** : Crux uses Natural Effects Manipulation to manipulate air currents to create a raging tornado that sucks everything in a wide radius into itself, before promptly setting the tornado ablaze with intense flames, burning anything caught in the tornado to a crisp.
* **Jellyfish Sprite**: Crux uses Natural Effects Manipulation to create storm clouds over a wide radius. Using these storm clouds, Crux focuses large amounts of powerful positive lightning into said storm clouds in order to create a "creature" similar in appearance to a Jellyfish Sprite, which can either rain down over a wade radius or wrap its "tendrils" around a target(s) to assault their entire body with hundreds of thousands of volts of electricity.
	+ **Death Sprite**: An art Crux is only able to utilize and coordinate through the enhanced computational abilities granted by Philosophy, as well as assistance from Anastasius. Similar to Megiddo, in that it uses Elemental Spirits to generate the attack in a completely physical, non-magical form, invalidating barriers meant to defend against magic attacks.
* **Mental Overdrive**: Using both Enrichment and Thought Acceleration, Crux amplifies a target's thought process by thousands of times, forcing them into an outer body experience in which their mind operates faster than their body can react. Crux can turn this effect on himself to bolster his mental capacities to a greater extent than Thought Acceleration can do on its own, though not to the same extent that he uses on his opponents.
* **Earth's Heavenly Cradle**: A powerful defensive ability that combines Enrichment and Multi-Dimensional Barrier, in which Crux amplifies the strength of the spatial distortions between each layer of barriers. In its activation, the barriers appear physical and visible in the form of hundreds of thousands of twisting vines and flowering plant life. It is highly energy inefficient when used by Crux.

## Trivia

* Natural Phenomenon Manipulation has no effect on Otherworlders (whether reincarnated or summoned) or Foreigners like Daemons and Insects/Insectars, as they are not native to the world, and are thus not considered to be natural existences.
* Aristotle is considered by Radriel to be one of the strongest skills within the Central Series, second only to the likes of Magnum Innominandum, Idealist and Laverna, mainly due to Crux's creativity and the skill's versatility with Natural Phenomenon Manipulation.