Gideon

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Gideon (吉迪恩)
Species/Race	Earth Violent Bear; magical beast 12
Gender	Male 29
Affiliation	Ice Prison Royal City; Ice Blade Squad 123, led by Fukaloss 12 15
Occupation/Role	Frontline fighter, resource-point defender, and transport escort 19 23 30
Highest Realm	Earth-element Lowgod 26 29
Status	Deceased; killed by Blackwood’s hidden darkness-element clone 38
First Named Appearance	Identified as Gideon when Fukaloss introduces her first recruit 12

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Peak Sanctuary; approaching godhood	11 19	Described as the region’s strongest Sanctuary being. His Earth Pulse comprehension approached the god-level threshold, while his physical body and soul reached the Sanctuary limit.
Earth-element Lowgod	26	Breaks through while defending the orchard. His Pulse Guard stops a Dimension Blade, and he chooses external godhood, splitting his soul to create a human-shaped Earth divine clone.
Stabilized Lowgod	29	After ten years of cultivation, fully stabilizes his realm. Two Soul Gold Beads strengthen his soul, while improved Earth Pulse control and new sword techniques bring his combat power into the range of veteran Lowgods.

Background / History

Enemy Turned Squadmate

Before joining Fukaloss, Gideon fought Barn and wounded him so severely that he remained unconscious for a month. This near-fatal encounter became the catalyst for the protagonist’s soul transmigration. Gideon later remained a powerful territorial presence in Gobada, capable of sustaining intense combat for an entire day and night 11 39 43.

Fukaloss recruited Gideon as the first member of her proposed Ice Blade Squad. His lowered head and helpless reaction suggested that his recruitment had been forced. Barn and Declan nevertheless joined the same group, turning former enemies into comrades. With Julia and Blair’s arrival, the team was officially registered as Ice Blade Squad 123 12 15.

Soul-Hunting Squad Missions

During the squad’s first mission, Gideon and Barn entered an underground trap to draw out an Undead Holy Magus and the god-level expert behind her. Gideon provided frontal pressure while Barn deliberately appeared less threatening. A Dimension Blade targeted Gideon, severing a hind leg and part of his flank; Barn’s attack on the caster’s contracted beast diverted the spell enough to save his life. Fukaloss’s Water clone subsequently restored his body 16 17 18.

Fukaloss awarded him a defensive Divine Artifact, which reinforced his role as the squad’s frontline fighter. In a later ambush, he tore apart a Sanctuary Black Knight and badly wounded another, but a Wither Ray struck his soul and temporarily incapacitated him. Despite opportunities to obtain an earth-element godhead, he refused to refine one because he wanted to preserve his future cultivation prospects 18 19 21.

Orchard Defense and Godhood

The squad undertook a hundred-year garrison assignment at an orchard resource point, initially assigning Gideon to underground defense alongside Declan, Blair, and Fukaloss’s Death clone. When hostile Sanctuary experts attacked, Gideon held the front line while Barn intercepted enemies attempting to bypass him 23 25.

During the attackers’ spell bombardment, Gideon achieved an Earth Pulse breakthrough and blocked a Dimension Blade with Pulse Guard. Barn and Julia protected him as he formed an external Earth divine clone. His ascension and the annihilation of more than thirty hostile Sanctuary experts changed the battle, prompting Jasper and the attacking gods to retreat 26 27.

As the first recruit in the squad to ascend, Gideon received Fukaloss’s promised Blood Sword. He credited Barn and Julia for protecting him during the transformation. After the garrison mission, he spent ten years strengthening his soul and developing Earth Pulse-based sword techniques 27 28 29.

Transport Missions and Final Battle

Gideon helped relocate Iron Cypress trees during the shifting of Gobada’s spatial weak points. His bear form could safely carry one tree, and his earth abilities allowed the team to use an underground route. During the ensuing encounter with Dylin’s group, the Grand Wizard’s soul attacks overwhelmed him. Barn intervened, allowing Gideon to recover with a Soul Gold Bead and engage Beaumont instead 30 32.

On a subsequent mission to relocate Ghost-faced Spiders with Ice Blade Squad 99, Gideon fought Blackwood, a newly ascended Midgod. When Blackwood’s strange fire caught his divine clone’s left leg, he severed it immediately, withdrew the damaged clone, and continued fighting in his bear form 34 36.

Gideon later struck Blackwood from behind to protect Fukaloss, cutting him apart at the waist. After fire contaminated his restored divine clone, he again sacrificed the burning portion. Exhausted and exposed, he was killed by Blackwood’s previously concealed darkness-element Lowgod clone 38.

His death devastated Fukaloss, who refused to leave his body when Oliver arrived to escort her back to the Royal City. Barn also mourned him, stroking the head of the bear who had once nearly killed him 39.

Appearance

• Original body: A massive Earth Violent Bear with heavy paws, large claws, and bell-sized eyes. His voice is muffled and rumbling 14 15 17.
• Earth divine clone: A sturdy human figure wearing heavy earth-yellow metal armor, with a resolute face and sharp eyes. His expression retains some of his bear form’s simple honesty 26.
• Later human appearance: Appears as a middle-aged man with an honest face 29.
• Combat manifestation: Earth Pulse surrounds his body as heavy yellow-brown armor 19 25.

Personality

Gideon combines practical survival instincts with long-term ambition. As a Sanctuary beast, he openly flatters Fukaloss, but also worries that continually supplying the squad with divine power might burden her. He longs for the Royal City and twice rejects the shortcut of refining a godhead rather than jeopardize his cultivation future 14 15 17 21.

Once accepted into the squad, he becomes an honest, dependable comrade. He is bashful about praise, acknowledges Barn and Julia’s help during his ascension, and initially hesitates to accept Blair’s offered weapon. After stabilizing his realm, he eagerly seeks a mission on which to test his new sword techniques 27 29 38.

His loyalty persists under severe pressure. He severs injured parts of his divine clone without hesitation to continue fighting and intervenes directly when Blackwood threatens Fukaloss 36 38.

Abilities & Skills

Earth Pulse Profound Mystery

Gideon’s principal cultivation specialty supports both physical defense and soul-directed offense 19 29 32.

• Pulse Armor: Envelops his body in earth-colored protection, allowing him to withstand attacks while advancing head-on 19 25.
• Pulse Guard: Creates a compact defensive field approximately ten meters across. At his breakthrough, it blocks a Dimension Blade that the other Sanctuary defenders cannot stop 26.
• Ranged soul attacks: After stabilizing his Lowgod realm, he can turn Earth Pulse into invisible shocks that bombard an enemy’s soul from a distance 29.
• Sword integration: Combines Earth Pulse with his Blood Sword to develop forceful sword techniques; their sword wind can tear Gobada’s space 29.

Physical Strength and Close Combat

Gideon is an exceptionally strong Sanctuary beast whose claws and paws make him a natural frontline combatant 17 19.

• Tears apart Sanctuary undead, including a Bone Dragon and Black Knights 17 19.
• Possesses physical strength only slightly below that of a Sanctuary Dragonblood Warrior 19.
• Incapacitates a leading orchard attacker with a single paw strike 25.
• Uses physical defense and soul attacks effectively against Beaumont’s physically focused combat style 32.

External Godhood and Divine Clone

Gideon chooses to become a god outside his original body, retaining his bear body while creating a separate Earth divine clone 26.

• Splits his soul between his original body and the newly formed godhead 26.
• Stores his original bear body within his soul space and alternates between it and his human-shaped divine clone 26 36.
• Uses divine power to restore damage to his clone, including the leg sacrificed during the Blackwood battle 36 38.
• His god-level domain immobilizes attacking Sanctuary experts immediately after his ascension 26.

Earth Manipulation and Transport

• Can dig tunnels, enabling an underground escort route 30.
• Uses earth divine power to lift an Iron Cypress with its roots and surrounding soil intact 30.
• His true form can safely carry one Iron Cypress; carrying two risks damaging the trees 30.

Limits and Vulnerabilities

• Soul defense: Although his soul reaches the Sanctuary limit, soul attacks remain dangerous. Wither Ray temporarily disables him, and the Grand Wizard’s Death Law attacks overwhelm him after godhood 19 32.
• Bloodline ceiling: Ascending does not strengthen his original beast body beyond its racial physical limit 32.
• Divine-power exhaustion: Repeated injuries and depleted reserves leave him unable to defend against Blackwood’s hidden clone 38.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Defensive Divine Artifact — Awarded by Fukaloss after the first mission; strengthens his frontline defense. It is destroyed during the final battle with Blackwood 18 19 41.
• Blood Sword / Blood-colored Greatsword — Fukaloss’s reward for the first squad recruit to ascend. Initially blood-red and close to Divine Artifact quality, it becomes brownish-tan after years of Earth divine-power nourishment. At his death, it still lacks a weapon spirit and has not fully become a Divine Artifact 27 29 41.
• Earth-element Lowgod battle axe — Offered by Blair after Gideon’s ascension because it does not suit Blair well 27.
• Soul Gold Beads — Consumes two to strengthen his soul during post-mission cultivation and another to recover from the Grand Wizard’s soul attack 29 32.
• Earth-element Lowgod godhead — Formed during his independent ascension; recovered among his belongings by Barn after his death 26 41.

Relationships

• Barn — Former enemy turned comrade and sparring partner. Barn saves him from the Dimension Blade, protects his ascension, and intervenes against the Grand Wizard. Barn mourns him after his death 17 26 32 39.
• Fukaloss — Recruiter and squad leader. Supplies him with sustenance, healing, and equipment; Gideon dies after intervening to protect her. She regards him as an honest, reliable companion and refuses to abandon his body 12 14 18 27 38 39.
• Declan — Former enemy and later squadmate. Shares scouting, defensive, and transport duties with Gideon 6 15 23 30.
• Julia — Friend and squadmate. Guards his godhood transformation and invokes her family’s influence to secure the other defenders’ cooperation 26 27.
• Blair — Squadmate who initially doubts his abilities, then offers him an earth-element battle axe after his ascension 16 27.
• Blackwood — Final opponent. Gideon severely wounds him, but Blackwood’s concealed darkness-element clone kills Gideon 38.

Notable Quotes

“I am only one step away from the Deity level; I don’t want to ruin my future path.” 17

“It’s all thanks to you all protecting me while I was breaking through, especially Julia and Barn.” 27

“Stay away from the lady!” 38