Ron

Biodata

Feature	Information
Name	Ron (罗恩)
Alias(es)	“Master” Karen (while using Thousand Faces); “Angel” (as mistaken by Kurt Mendes) 3 20
Species/Race	Human; transmigrator 1
Gender	Male
Affiliation	C-112, District D Central Patrol Bureau; Truth Society; disciple of Deng Yin 41 45
Occupation/Role	Former high-school student; Patrol Bureau agent; Death-pathway Beyonder 5 45
Status	Alive
First Appearance	Chapter 1

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Lv.0 Superpowered Person	1	Registered with only feeble Telekinesis, capable of lifting little more than a sheet of paper; had failed three ability-activation tests.
Sequence 9 — Gravekeeper / Lv.1	5	Brewed and consumed the Gravekeeper Potion, obtaining the Death-pathway profession and genuine necromantic abilities.
Sequence 8 — Undertaker	21–22	Advanced along the Death pathway, gaining greater physical strength and resistance to death-related powers; used the laboratory’s death magic to withstand Belen’s attack.
Lv.2 Superpowered	19	Personal Reality expanded to roughly a one-meter diameter, improving his control of Vector Manipulation and strengthening Fantasy Dissolution.
Lv.2 with temporary Ability Overload	31–34	Used Ability Overload in Simulated Reality to unleash Vector Manipulation beyond his computational capacity, defeating the Lv.3 Yuan Hansen before unloading the harmful settings.
Lv.3 candidate	37–48	His limiter reached 15% output; 35% is projected to let him reach Lv.3, but rising Beyonder Loss of Control remains a major obstacle. 37 48

Background / History

Ron transmigrated into Ideal City and survived as a poor student in District D, balancing intense study with part-time work and cheap nutrient paste. Initially registered as Lv.0 with ineffective Telekinesis, he faced vocational education, corporate debt, and a future as disposable labor after repeatedly failing to awaken a viable ability. 1

After discovering the Dimensional Update Manual, Ron unlocked the settings Mysticism and Potions, retroactively establishing the Potion Era. He spent months charging a transformed occult book with his weak Telekinesis until an old necromancer’s attack supplied the supernatural energy needed to activate it. Ron entered the Potion Era and awakened imprisoned in the Scorched Earth Sanctuary. 1

Within the prison, Ron acquired Magic Vision, discovered that its mundane façade concealed Corpse Shells and a living Limb Cage, and awakened Fantasy Dissolution to erase mystical phenomena. He killed a Corpse Shell, obtained a Wronged Dead’s finger bone, and learned the ingredients for the Sequence 9 Gravekeeper Potion. 2

Ron exploited Kurt Mendes’s belief that he was an Angel, securing a consecrated item and a promise to deliver Kurt’s message to Idrila, the Evening Bell Saint. He then returned to Ideal City, commandeered the old necromancer’s Corpse Shell, killed the magician, and inherited access to his signet ring, spell archive, and Necromancer School association. 3 4

After becoming a Gravekeeper, Ron’s Death-pathway power nearly drove him into loss of control. He instead applied the dangerous Beyonder Loss of Control setting to his Telekinesis, producing the unstable but vastly stronger Vector Manipulation. Deng Yin later identified him as a late-awakening “Raw Stone” and began training him to control the ability. 5 6 9 10

Ron won Ideal City’s reformed College Entrance Examination despite entering as a Lv.2 contender. He defeated Noah Pharmaceuticals’ modified assassin Beck, then overcame the Lv.3 Gravity Control user Yuan Hansen by using Ability Overload and Vector Manipulation, taking first place and securing his path to Moen University. 30 33 34

Following the examination, Ron learned that advancement beyond Lv.3 requires Sector Authority from Ideal City’s Central Intelligent Brain. Deng Yin and Irina identified him as a potential contender for the vacant Prometheus authority, provided he reaches Lv.3, creates an Ability Formula, ranks first in Moen University’s Physics Department, and survives a Knowledge-Seeking Experiment. 36 37

Ron later joined the Patrol Bureau and investigated Ark’s Ability Enhancement Plan, which offers District D residents cheap awakenings but leaves them dependent on Ability Needles and liable to mutate into Void Monsters. Witnessing this exploitation deepened his understanding of the Gravekeeper role: protecting the dead from further indignity. 45 47 48

Appearance

Ron is a young man whose ordinary student appearance causes others to underestimate him. His gentle, youthful face and poor District D clothing contrast sharply with the destructive force of Vector Manipulation. 9 35

• Usually dresses plainly and avoids expensive displays despite later corporate support. 35
• Wears a silver-white Ability Limiter or later Ability Amplifier around his neck, often hidden beneath his collar. 10 39
• Can assume the hunched, gaunt appearance of the dead necromancer “Master” Karen through Thousand Faces. 20

Personality

Ron is analytical, self-improving, and intensely pragmatic. Even while powerless, he could identify tactical openings in dangerous situations, though he initially lacked the strength to exploit them. His response was not resignation but relentless study, experimentation, and calculated risk-taking. 1 7 8

He is cautious about institutions and dislikes becoming dependent on corporations, universities, or wealthy patrons. Although he accepts resources from Deng Yin, the Patrol Bureau, and Heavenly Hearing Media, he consistently seeks independent leverage and conceals abilities that might turn him into corporate research material. 20 30 40

Ron is also an adept improviser. He lets Kurt believe he is an Angel, impersonates Master Karen to infiltrate the Magic community, and stages his own assassination to claim the bounty placed on him. 3 20 24

Despite his ruthlessness toward direct threats, Ron retains a strong moral reaction to the abuse of powerless people. Ark and Noah Pharmaceuticals’ experiments on District D residents push him from investigation toward a personal resolve to stop the project and protect the victims’ remains. 22 47 48

Abilities & Skills

Dimensional Update Manual

A reality-altering system that allows Ron to create and load settings, change professions, enter World Saves, and extract new settings from encounters or concepts. 1 2

• Created the Potion Era by unlocking the Mysticism and Potions settings. 1
• Opens gateways to World Saves; time in an unloaded World Save remains frozen until Ron returns. 3
• Generates a context-appropriate temporary identity when he enters another world. 16
• Can load and unload professions and settings to avoid contamination, restore damaged states, or change his capabilities. 6 34
• Requires Ron to manage incompatibilities between the Superpowered Era, the Potion Era, and Void-related influences. 16 36

Vector Manipulation

Ron’s late-awakening Raw Stone ability, originating from Telekinesis but possessing a far more complex Ability Model. It manipulates physical vectors within his Personal Reality. 7 9

• Alters gravity, momentum, air flow, light, and electromagnetic forces. 7 19
• Can launch touched objects with firearm-like force even under severe restriction. 10
• Reverses or cancels incoming forces, including wind, projectiles, and Gravity Control effects. 25 28 33
• Can manipulate blood flow at close range, though capable opponents can counter it. 14 33
• Uses debris, sand, Iron Sand, and environmental objects as high-speed projectiles. 28 30
• Its effective range expanded from centimeters to roughly a one-meter diameter after Ron reached Lv.2. 19
• Excessive use overloads his processing power and can cause dizziness, fever, collapse, or uncontrolled environmental destruction. 6 7 31

Ability Overload

A dangerous setting that unlocks and optimizes an ability’s full potential at the cost of computational collapse. 19 31

• Enabled Ron to produce a short-lived vector storm strong enough to overwhelm Yuan’s Lv.3 Gravity Control and Formula. 33 34
• Can be tested safely in Simulated Reality, where Ron can reset through a Resurrection Coin. 31
• Ron can unload it alongside Beyonder Loss of Control, reverting to controllable Telekinesis before the computational backlash fully incapacitates him. 34

Death Pathway

Ron is a Death-pathway Beyonder who first became a Sequence 9 Gravekeeper and later advanced to Sequence 8 Undertaker. 5 21 22

• Commands mindless Corpse Shells through Ignorant Servant. 4
• Uses Necromantic Fire, which is substantially stronger than the signet-ring imitation used by ordinary Magic users. 6
• Gains affinity with the dead, enhanced physical ability, and resistance to death-related powers. 6 22
• Can create corpse-servant mice for reconnaissance and remote distraction. 16
• Requires Potion digestion through the Acting Method; acting as a Gravekeeper and Corpse Collector reduces loss of control. 41 48
• Mixing different Potion Sequences risks madness, mutation, and catastrophic power conflict. 41

Fantasy Dissolution

An anti-mystical setting that strips supernatural phenomena of their extraordinary nature. 2

• Erased a Corpse Shell into ash and destroyed the prison’s Limb Cage. 2 3
• Neutralizes mystical contamination, illusions, gray mist, and Void-corrupted objects. 17 35 43
• Is especially effective against Mysticism Influence, making Ron unusually valuable to the Anti-Mystery Equation’s supporters. 35 36
• Suffers characteristic damage whenever it confronts strong mysticism and can become temporarily unusable. 2 3 36

Magic Vision

Granted by Ashes of the Age of Gods, Magic Vision allows Ron to perceive hidden mystical structures and magical signatures. 2

• Reveals concealed mystical entities, including Limb Cages, Corpse Shells, magical shackles, and supernatural radiance. 2
• Distinguished the old necromancer’s signet ring as technology rather than a genuine magical item. 4
• Helped Ron determine that a criminal’s green flames came from an Ability Model rather than necromancy. 46

Thousand Faces

A disguise setting used to assume another person’s appearance. 20

• Allows Ron to impersonate Master Karen and access the Necromancer School network. 20
• Helped him stage a false photograph of his own assassination for Noah Pharmaceuticals’ anonymous client. 24

Analysis, Deception, and Investigation

Ron’s unusually high computational ability and two lifetimes of experience make him a fast tactical thinker and effective manipulator. 1 43

• Reads enemy habits and identifies exploitable weaknesses, including Beck’s vulnerability to high-frequency sound. 30
• Uses deliberate performances to obtain information, including posing as an Angel and as Master Karen. 3 20
• Draws information from criminals through calculated intimidation and familiarity with District D gangs. 47
• Studies exam footage, scoring mechanics, and rivals before acting rather than relying on direct confrontation. 28 29

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Spellbook / grimoire — transformed from an occult novel by the Dimensional Update Manual; contains Potion formulas and serves as a key item for accessing the Potion Era. 1 2
• Ability Limiter — silver-white collar designed by Deng Yin to restrict Vector Manipulation to controllable output levels. 10 19
• Ability Amplifier — upgraded limiter with a supercomputer chip that temporarily expands Ron’s Personal Reality and assists his calculations. 39
• Emerald signet ring — reality amplifier inherited from the old necromancer; provides access to necromantic spell models and the Necromancer School association. 4
• Good Citizen Medal — identity-chip medal secured through Xia Zhi; grants preferential treatment and helped Ron bypass examination-entry barriers. 23 24
• Iron Sand — used as concealed armor against Yuan’s Formula and as material for sound-based and projectile attacks. 30 33
• Corpse-servant mice — camera- and speaker-equipped scouts used in the Scorched Earth Sanctuary. 16
• Patrol Bureau equipment — includes flashbang grenades and nanomedical spray obtained for future operations. 48

Relationships

• Deng Yin — mentor and fellow Telekinesis user who recognized Ron as a Raw Stone, designed his limiter training, and expects him to take first place in Moen University’s Physics Department. 9 10 36
• An Hui — gifted classmate and close friend with Magnetic Field Rotation; initially worried about Ron’s debt and powerlessness, later fought beside him during the College Entrance Examination. 1 12 27
• Kevin — Deng Yin’s student and Ron’s senior brother; introduced Ron to advanced training equipment, supports his ambitions, and repeatedly gambles on his exam performance. 8 10 28 29
• Xia Zhi — Patrol Bureau officer who first investigated Ron as a possible suspect, then became an ally who helped register his mutated ability, obtain his Good Citizen Medal, and join C-112. 14 15 45
• Idrila — Evening Bell Saint and War-pathway Beyonder; Ron rescued her from the Scorched Earth Sanctuary, while she taught him Potion digestion and the Acting Method. She believes him favored by a hidden existence. 17 40 41
• Kurt Mendes — Truth Society prisoner who mistook Ron for an Angel and entrusted him with a letter for Idrila. 3
• Jiang Cheng — Magic user spared by Ron after Belen’s defeat; became his guide and secret contact in Ideal City’s Magic community. 22
• Irina — Heavenly Hearing Media executive who approved Ron’s exclusive investment plan and views him as a potential candidate for Prometheus’s Sector Authority. 35 36 37
• Yuan Hansen — privileged Lv.3 Gravity Control user and rival for first place in Moen University’s Physics Department; Ron defeated him in the Peak Contest. 30 33 34
• Father Harvey — Lost Church priest whose apparent hostility toward Idrila makes Ron suspect him of concealing ulterior motives; Harvey’s Death Sequence 7 formula is an important target for Ron. 43 44

Story Role / Major Arcs

Awakening and the Potion Era

Ron rejects the vocational-college route, activates the Dimensional Update Manual, and enters the Potion Era in search of power. There, he gains the first tools needed to become a Death-pathway Beyonder. 1 2 5

Raw Stone Training

After the old necromancer’s death, Ron’s manipulation of dangerous settings turns Telekinesis into Vector Manipulation. Deng Yin identifies its potential and teaches Ron that limiting power—not maximizing it—is the key to surviving it. 4 6 9 10

College Entrance Examination

Ron turns the corporation-funded combat examination into an opportunity to rise from District D. He wins through preparation, exploitation of scoring systems, and decisive victories over enhanced candidates, Beck, and Yuan Hansen. 24 29 30 33 34

Prometheus and the Void

Ron learns that the Void, Historical Hollows, and the Anti-Mystery Equation shape Ideal City’s hidden history. His resistance to Mysticism Influence marks him as a potential candidate for Prometheus’s vacant Lv.5 Sector Authority. 35 36 37

Gravekeeper’s Resolve

As a Patrol Bureau agent, Ron uncovers Ark’s ability-awakening scheme and Noah Pharmaceuticals’ apparent connection to Void Monster experimentation. The deaths of exploited District D residents cause a major digestion of his Gravekeeper Potion and give him a personal reason to destroy the operation. 46 47 48

Notable Quotes

“Just an ordinary high school student passing by? Who knows?” 4

“By myself, I’ll take all of you on!” 27

“I am number one!” 23

Trivia

• Ron initially considered his Lv.2 computational ability the result of relentless effort rather than innate talent. 8
• He spent his final 10,000 Credit Points of student-loan funds on ability training before the College Entrance Examination. 7
• Ron’s first major use of the Dimensional Update Manual was enabled by letting a zombie strike the spellbook hidden in his backpack. 1
• His greatest anti-mystical advantage is so unusual that Irina identifies him as favored by the Anti-Mystery Equation. 35 36