Renee

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Renee Guewen (蕾妮) 193
Alias(es)	Princess Renee; “the butcher of Dunwodlin” 193 259
Species/Race	Dragon; Renee initially suspected she was a half-dragon, and King Guewen later told her she had hatched from an egg 237 285 420
Gender	Female 193
Age	Twenty-one 278
Affiliation	The kingdom; the Lightbearers 193 292 349
Occupation/Role	Princess, Pilgrim, later addressed as queen and a Player 193 292 297
Status	Alive; rebuilding the kingdom after the defeat of King Guewen 292

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Watchtower Pilgrimage completed	197	Rekindled Dusk Snow Prison’s beacon, destroyed nearby spirits and strengthened her healing light. The act cost her normal speech 197 199.
Longeryasi Pilgrimage completed	242	Holy light cleared the city’s supernatural threats and drove back the darkness. The ritual took her sight and lower legs; her mother’s Echo subsequently restored her right eye and legs 242 243.
Final Pilgrimage completed	289	Sent a call for hope through the Holy Flame Battle Standards. The faith of people across the world deflected the planet-threatening Beam 289.
Power relinquished to become a Player	297	Gave up her authority over Collective Unity and much of her Pilgrimage power to reduce her Replacement Mass. She described the power left to her as that of an ordinary Fourfold Pilgrim 297.

Background and History

Renee is the daughter of King Guewen and First Bloom of the Craftsman. A memory of her childhood shows her confined in a tower library, longing to see the outside world 279 285. During the Dark Doomsday, she entered Dusk Snow Prison to reach its watchtower and complete a Pilgrimage. She enlisted Xia Lun to open the Pressure Sluice, promising him directions to Dunwodlin Tower in return 190 193.

After escaping the prison, Renee traveled with Xia Lun through refugee camps and ruined cities. She healed the sick, improved the refugees’ food cultivation, and helped rally them against the Ghost Holy Crusaders 214 216 225. Her later Pilgrimages restored light to Longeryasi and brought her to Dunwodlin Tower, where she fought through transformed Cultists while protecting an unconscious Xia Lun 242 259.

Renee eventually discovered that her father was the Forgotten Saint behind the Dark Doomsday. She opposed him despite learning that her mission and sacrifices may have been manipulated 283 285. Her final Pilgrimage helped save the planet; after Guewen’s defeat, she took responsibility for the kingdom’s recovery and sought a way to reunite with Xia Lun across worlds 289 292. With the Record Keeper’s help, she became a Player and began completing Scenarios toward that reunion 297 349 352.

Appearance

Renee is slight, with pale skin, gray-blue hair and bright blue eyes. She initially wears a charcoal-gray cloak; after the Longeryasi Pilgrimage and her mother’s intervention, she is described with one restored eye 193 229 242 243.

• Travel disguise — A black hood and red mask leave only her blue eyes visible 210.
• Visible toll of the Pilgrimage — Her appearance becomes pale and exhausted during the journey; the Longeryasi ritual temporarily takes both eyes and her lower legs 229 242 243.

Personality

Renee is curious, well read and usually talkative. She initially expects her royal identity to impress Xia Lun, but their travels make her less concerned with status and more willing to learn his practical approach to danger 193 231 251. Her compassion is direct: she rushes to heal a dying refugee child and repeatedly tends the injured 213 214 216.

Her cheerful manner conceals grief and a fear of abandonment. She mourns Guiweite privately, later doubts her worth when she believes she is no longer useful, and eventually admits that she fears Xia Lun will leave her 203 274 418. Experience also makes her more calculating: she tests Abby with the Royal Crest and uses Xia Lun’s lesson about the revolver’s balance to win a deadly wager for the Panacea 237 251 265.

Abilities & Skills

Holy Light and Healing

• Her light burns Evil Spirits and drives back darkness, but sustained use can exhaust her 193 194.
• Her healing restores severe injuries; her touch also raises the vitality of Xia Lun’s horse, Delis 213 214 237.
• Holy Healing cannot revive someone who has already died 242.

Consecration

• Renee’s blessing grants Xia Lun resistance to radiant, physical, mental and curse effects, while empowering his weapons with Radiant Damage 234 242.
• After her Longeryasi Pilgrimage, the stronger blessing continuously restores his Life Force and Mental Health and can keep him from dying immediately even if his body is destroyed 242.

Higher Wisdom and Learning

• Renee improves refugee methods for growing moss and mushrooms, increasing yields and shortening growing cycles 216.
• After observing Jiavette, she quickly reproduces his presence-dimming Meditation technique; she cannot reproduce his burst of Blind Light 249.

Holy Weapons and Combat

• She forms weapons from light and later fights with a Holy Flame Longsword and spear 249 258 259 266.
• Under pressure at Dunwodlin Tower, she internalizes weapon techniques taught by Guiweite and defeats the Sage-turned-Evil Spirits there 259.

Collective Unity

• Renee inherits authority over Collective Unity from Guewen and uses it to bless fighters resisting his Light Puppets 288.
• She relinquishes that authority, distributing it among the Flame Banners so she can become a Player 297.

Equipment and Items

• Holy Flame Battle Standard — A radiant banner associated with the Lightbearers; Renee leaves one with villagers after the darkness is defeated 275 288.
• Blood Vial — Holds Xia Lun’s blood. Renee smashes it to alert him when she discovers her father’s identity 283 284.
• Xia Lun’s Single-Action Revolver — Borrowed for her wager with Feilier; its balance reveals the live round’s position 251 262 265.
• Interworld Notebook — Lets Renee and Xia Lun exchange written messages across worlds, subject to a weekly limit 297 349.

Relationships

• Xia Lun — Her traveling companion and protector, later her beloved. She cares for him through months of unconsciousness, and both seek a way to meet again after their separation 262 266 292 418.
• King Guewen — Her father and the Forgotten Saint. Renee turns against him after uncovering his role in the apocalypse and his plan to use her as a sacrifice 283 285 288.
• First Bloom of the Craftsman — Her mother. First Bloom’s Echo restores Renee’s right eye and legs rather than taking over her body 243 285.
• Guiweite — Her protector and swordsmanship teacher. Renee values their bond, but is hurt to realize Guiweite has remained wary of her 195 259 275.
• Feilier — An Annihilation Cult leader from whom Renee wins the Panacea to save Xia Lun 263 265.
• Record Keeper — Removes Renee’s Soul Curse and helps her become a Player 292 297.

Notable Quotes

“I won't leave you! Never! I ran away once already. I won't run this time!” 258

“The world favors me!” 265

“Xia Lun, you must come back alive.” 289