Demon King

skill

The **Demon King** is the highest demon rank and the strongest demon in Lucid Adventure.

## Overview

The Demon King is the pinnacle of all demons and is the strongest individual of their kind. This title is mostly passed down through the Royal Family for centuries but according to Le. Rajie, a demon can still aim for this spot if they're powerful enough to take it.

Demon Kings have a storied history with Heroes that started when The Hero defeated the first Demon King. Demon King and Hero. Light and darkness. Two beings that are inseparable, but are bound by a relationship of fate to destroy each other.

## Known Demon kings

* Hoi (First Demon King)
* Sik (16th Demon King)
* Ge Des
* Hardcore Leveling Warrior (holds the Soul of the Demon King)

## Demon King Skills

### Active Skills

* **Sphere of Sealing**: The Demon King creates a spherical barrier that is capable of trapping multiple powerful targets within it's core. The barrier lasts according to the Demon King's wishes.
* **Demon King's Sword Strike**: The Demon King delivers a powerful sword slash that sends a sword wave at this targets.
* **Sword of Darkness**: Drawing on the energy of the Demon World, The Demon King performs a powerful slash attack with his sword that unleashes a large black wave with a red outline in the shape of a crescent moon at the target.
* **The Hand of the Demon King**: The Demon King extends his hand and emits a wave that blows away the target.
* **Tyrannical Eyes**: A Demon King Exclusive Skill acquired by the Hardcore Leveling Warrior. Skills below the master level will be reflected only by the Demon King's gaze.
* **Enchant - Demonic Sword**: The Demon King corrupts their sword and gives it the power of a demonic sword.
* **Demon King Strike**: The Demon King Chimera Hardcore Leveling Warrior performs a slash attack that sends a powerful wave at the target. The skill's destructive power can be amplified with the Flame of Doom.
* **Flame of Doom**: Hardcore Leveling Warrior gathers a purple colored orb of flame in his palm which he can use to empower his Demon King Strike.

### Passive Skills

* **Demon King Passive**: A passive skill of the Demon King Attribute. It upgrades the user's skills to Demon King Exclusive Skills.
* **Demon King's Presence**: The passive skill of the Demon King. Those whose combat power is less than that of the Demon King have all stats reduced by 50% , all beneficial effects are removed and fear effect is applied. The fear effect makes the target freeze in fear.

### Item Skills

* **Rest**: A skill that can be used when the user equips the Demon King's Hellfire Armor. Effect unknown.
* **Deformer - Sik**: A skill that can be used when the user equips the Demonic Sword - Demon King Sik. When successfully activated, the user is infused with Demon King Sik's mana.

## Demon King Items

* **Demonic Sword - Demon King Sik**: A Demon King exclusive item. Attack power +6666, curse +666, Deform - Sik can be used.
* **Demon King's Hellfire Boots**: A Demon King exclusive item. All attribute resistance +50%, movement speed +150%, ignores movement impairment skills, curse +100.
* **Demon King's Hellfire Gloves**: A Demon King exclusive item. Intelligence +200, strength +200, casting Speed +150% and curse +100.

## Translation Notes

### WEBTOON Translation

*Main Article: LINE Webtoon Translation changes*
**마왕** is interchangeably translated as **Master Devil** and **Demon King** by LINE Webtoon. Master Devil is incorrect and it is incorrect why LINE never corrects it.

마왕 is the Korean from of the hanja, 魔王, which literally means "the devil, devil king; evil person"; demon king.

魔 literally means "devil; demon; evil spirit" . 王 literally means "king; monarch".

The word in the context of Hardcore Leveling Warrior can be translated as **Devil King**, **Demon King**, **Devil Monarch** or **Demon Monarch**.

Demon King will be used for the wiki so as to keep in Line with the other Demon Ranks and to use the correct translatiin that the author intended. In fact, further proof that the correct tranlsation is Demon King is the fact that the Demon Kings in the series follow the popular 'Demon King vs Hero' trope seen in manyJapanese fantasy works. **마왕** is universally translated as Demon King. Unfortunately, it appears that the LINE Webtoon translators are not Korean and do not know how to translate things properly.

There is also confusion as to what Octonash was calling Ligos in Episode 38 and Episode 39. LINE Webtoon mistranslated it simply **Master Demon**. Octonash called Ligos "**마왕님**" which would translate to "**Demon King-nim**". 님 (nim) is a common formal Korean honorific that is used as a sign of respect. It is usually attached after a name, an occupation or title. LINE Webtoon does not include the -nim suffix in it's translations so a lot of formality and respect given to some characters is not shown in the English translations.

## Notes & Trivia

* Octonash called Ligos Demon King-nim as a sign of respect. Ligos was revealed to be a Great Demon by Rajie and not a Demon King.
* Demon Kings were first mentioned by Hardcore Leveling Warrior in Episode 8. Hoi was played as a character by Han Gun-Jae in the Story Dungeon in Episode 76. Hoi and Sik were shown in Episode 151.
* Although Hardcore Leveling Warrior is technically a Demon King, he is not a demon.
* The Crow claimed that the Demon King is the strongest monster of all.
* The Demon King follows the Demon King/Demon Lord trope popularised in Japanese fantasy settings, where they are usually referred to as the "*Maou*" (魔王 — literally "Demonic/Sorcerous King" in Japanese) or "*Daimaou*" (大魔王 — "Great Maou", often translated as "Demon Emperor"). The Demon King rules over the "mazoku" (demons/devils, 魔族 - "zoku" meaning people or tribes) and/or "majuu" (demonic/evil beasts, 魔獣 — "juu" meaning beast), and potentially various other supernatural creatures such as The Undead, Vampires, Werewolves and Youkai. Often a Demon King's mere existence spreads some kind of negative influence or miasma which makes wild monsters more powerful and aggressive, or causes them to appear in greater numbers (e.g. by corrupting normal animals into *majuu*); this conveniently means that killing the Demon King causes most of the threats to the world to collapse. Unfortunately, this tends to be extremely difficult without a dedicated Villain-Beating Artifact. A Demon King is at least nominally in direct opposition to The Hero, who is usually a Chosen One *literally* referred to as "the Hero" / "*Yuusha*" (勇者 — literally "Brave Person" in Japanese), and these stories will generally end with the two fighting to the death in the throne room of Demon King Castle. This opposition may not even have an explanation other than "it's the Hero's job to fight the Demon King," though to be fair most people realistically wouldn't *need* an excuse to oppose the sort of person we've been describing thus far.

## References

1. ↑  Episode 156
2. ↑ Episode 121
3. ↑ Season 2 Episode 77
4. ↑ Season 2 Episode 110
5. ↑  Season 2 Episode 78
6. ↑ tvtropes.org: Maou The Demon King