Asiris

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**Asiris** is a fallen priest and one of Gaton's Thirteen. All thirteen of Gaton’s knights were known for being extraordinary at their level, and the Dark Priest Asiris was especially famous for his combat ability and magic.

The Dark Priest had been stationed at the Goldflow Valley, one of Gaton's private planes, before the others entered Rosie Plane. After they were trapped in the plane, Asiris decided to follow the young Richard out of his own accord.

## Appearance

In terms of etiquette, he was the best of the thirteen and never disappointed.

## Plot

Asiris is a member of Gaton's Thirteen; a core follower that comprised the Archeron's greatest force. He had followed Gaton towards Faust on the Day of Destiny.

Asiris was about as old as Gaton, and while Richard was somewhat special to him he didn’t care about Faelor itself. He was someone with an objective view of the situation, a state most of Richard’s other followers couldn’t claim to share.

### **Devastating Loss**

Gaton decided to infiltrate a private plane of the Mensas, the Rosie Plane, in order to cripple their finances. This was in retaliation on the plan to kill Richard by the Schumpeter, Josephs, & Mensa Alliance.

Lina, Senma, Asiris, Cyrden, and Ward were only one's left behind to defend the three private planes.

Among the five remaining Thirteen, Asiris and Lina were the first to serve Richard.

In charge of Goldflow Valley and Boulder Highlands after Richard killed Ward who would not yield to him. This, however, was a result of a plan against Richard and Ward was not to blame. As a result, Asiris had left the Sacred Alliance, heading to Ward’s hometown to offer condolences and investigate the situation.

### **Legendary Richard**

Asiris became a core member of Richard's battle force. He was responsible for the tasks that Nyra used to do, those in the domain of the soul. However, never did he realize the terrifying potential of Richard and the power of the Star of Destruction. As a soul hunter, Richard could strike fear into most soul users hearts.

The Dark Priest thought he had already forgotten what that was. Even death, the eternal slumber, didn’t inspire even the slightest bit of fear in him. Even facing monsters like Gaton and Mordred, he had the courage to battle to the death. However, now he was feeling terrified, like he would never be able to bring himself to actually fight Richard even if his life depended on it!

Those dazzling blue sparks had managed to confine and then crystallise a soul, something that was supposed to be the exclusive domain of the gods. Asiris suddenly felt like he no longer knew Richard; was this the same young man he’d met all those years ago, eyes full of stubbornness yet too shy to even speak? Only those like him who had experience with the realm of the soul would know how terrifying this was. Even the flames from the star of destruction could only destroy souls, not capture them like Richard had. There was only one possibility behind such an ability, an ancient taboo the very thought of which caused him to shudder in fear.

## Abilities

Even though he wasn’t the strongest of Richard’s subordinates, the Dark Priest was the most experienced in planar war and more erudite than any of Richard’s followers.

He is capable of using divine magic to cause his opponents control of laws become unstable, causing their speed, control, reaction times, and defence to decrease.

He uses a sacred book called the Book of Darkness.

He flipped through his large tome as he spoke, chanting a few cryptic words. A black gas similar in colour to the cover of the book suddenly surrounded the grand mage and saint, robbing them of their ability to float. They could only flail their limbs in futility as they dropped straight down, the dull thuds that sounded all the way over making it apparent that the fall had been hard.

Can look into souls for information. -"Asiris needed to piece together memories from dozens to get a complete picture. Each one of those was left a mangled mess, an empty shell of a soul with no depth to it."

### **Trapping Spells**

All this while, Asiris had been posing as a shadowspear knight to keep the enemy off-guard. Richard had considered that Solam would try to attack him directly, and the Dark Priest was the best at stopping an opponent from fleeing. After all his time spent working on new spells, he could now stop even some ordinary legends from escaping a battle.

An earth-shattering battle took place in the mountains that night. Duke Solam managed to escape the trap, but he sustained grievous injuries that left him on the brink of death. The Sacred Tree Empire’s hopes of trapping Richard were thus completely destroyed.

### **Soul Extraction**

While many of Richard's followers were stronger than Asiris at this point, few could bring themselves to be crueller. Even worse, Nyra’s practiced ease at these things had conditioned them to a method that wasn’t nearly as painful as a brute-force extraction of memories. She could get everything she wanted out of one individual, but Asiris needed to piece together memories from dozens to get a complete picture. Each one of those was left a mangled mess, an empty shell of a soul with no depth to it.

### **Hammer of Judgement**

The symbol of a fist appeared above Kellac’s head and sent a golden beam towards one of the spirits, while Asiris threw out a black warhammer formed from divinity. These were Smite and Hammer of Judgement, two divine spells that were especially powerful against spirits. Grade 9

## References

1. ↑ Book 9, Chapter 22
2. ↑ Book 7, Chapter 1
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Book 8 Chapter 48
4. ↑ Book 7 Chapter 95
5. ↑ Book 8 Chapter 45
6. ↑ Book 8, Chapter 45
7. ↑ Book 8, Chapter 52