Raphael

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Raphael Collins; original name: 拉斐尔 53
Alias(es)	Godfather; Mr. A; the Devil; Lord of Evil Desires 4 165 168 382
Species/Race	Human-origin Beyonder and Common Era transmigrator; later an Angel with a black Buddha mythical creature form 365 436 437
Gender	Male 53
Affiliation	Mafia; Mechanic Company/Assassin Company; Aurora Order; Rose Redemption; Tarot Club; Dark Hut and the followers of the Lord of Evil Desires 125 165 297 382 431
Occupation/Role	Mafia organizer, founder of an assassination business, Aurora Order President, and patron of New Sorn City 269 297 407 431
Beyonder Pathways	Prisoner/Chained and Criminal/Abyss 32 411
Highest Documented Sequences	Sequence 2 Ancient Bane on the Prisoner pathway; Sequence 3 Blatherer on the Criminal pathway 436 437 438
Status	Alive; preparing for Sequence 1 advancement and accompanying Pain to Adam and the True Creator 446 448

Power Progression

“By” indicates that a stage is confirmed in the cited chapter, rather than that its advancement scene is provided.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Criminal and Lunatic	6	Already possesses both potions. A carefully planned kidnapping operation substantially advances their digestion.
Sequence 7 — Werewolf, Prisoner pathway	19	Studies newly acquired claws, speed, regeneration, transformations, and wolf-related black magic. Full-moon transformation threatens his sanity.
Unwinged Angel / Coldblooded, Criminal pathway	32	Drinks the Unwinged Angel potion. Its emotional detachment counterbalances Werewolf frenzy, with the White Jade Bead making dual-pathway compatibility possible.
Sequence 6 — Zombie, Prisoner pathway	89 99 102	Chapter 89 shows him immediately after advancement; later combat confirms his Zombie body, frost attacks, and exceptional resistance to lethal injury.
Sequence 5 — Wraith, Prisoner pathway	235	Pays Emlyn £3,000 toward obtaining the characteristic. Wagner repeatedly inflicts fatal wounds for the ritual, which Raphael survives through injury transfer. He resists being drawn through the Netherworld’s bronze gate.
Sequence 6 — Devil, Criminal pathway	244 333	Confirmed by Chapter 244. Combining Devil and Wraith forms unlocks Damage Reflection and Venomous Flame Scorch.
Sequence 5 — Desire Apostle, Criminal pathway	325 332 333	Prepares through ritual murders, then uses the Desire Apostle characteristic extracted from a soul in Creeping Hunger. Gains stronger desire attacks, Mental Impact, and Desire Incarnation.
Sequence 4 — Marionette, Prisoner pathway	364	Amon’s response to his performance completes Wraith digestion. Raphael advances using a divinity-bearing mummy and survives its curses and the Source of Curses’ influence. His mental condition improves as the potions reach a new equilibrium.
Sequence 3 — Silent Disciple, Prisoner pathway	407 408	Arranges prayers from his followers to supply anchors. Advancement succeeds, but the gap between his pathways causes hallucinations and bodily dissolution.
Sequence 4 — Demon, Criminal pathway	410	Drinks Audrey’s prepared potion and survives a vision of humanity’s evil thoughts. Confirms both advancements have succeeded and regains control of his spirituality.
Union with the Dao	411 420	Becomes the Underworld Daoist’s disciple to seek an alternative to dependence on the Oldest One. Successful union is confirmed by Chapter 420 and strengthens his deception enough to fool a Sequence 1.
Sequence 2 — Ancient Bane, Prisoner pathway	436 437	Reaches Angel level. The Black Buddha supplied by the Underworld Daoist becomes part of his mythical creature form. He temporarily suppresses the renewed imbalance between pathways.
Sequence 3 — Blatherer, Criminal pathway	437 438	Advances on a deserted Fog Sea island, sharing some ritual suffering with Desmond through a Life-and-Death Pact. Gains powerful speech-based attacks and the composite ability Clone.

Background / History

Raphael originates from the Common Era. His memories of the Lord of the Mysteries world are initially incomplete, with knowledge concerning Klein, Adam, and the True Creator obscured beneath gray fog. He later learns that his transmigration resulted from changes produced by technology and mysticism, rather than the gift the Oldest One had claimed it was 83 356.

His connection to the Western Continent begins when Chen Qingzhi’s Blood Sect summons his spirit into a sacrificed man’s body. Recognizing a form of Chinese, Raphael initially wonders whether he has reached another world or returned to his home country. He adopts the persona of a powerful “Demon Lord” while questioning the priests 6.

The White Jade Bead subsequently admits that it helped arrange the summons. It splits Raphael’s spirit body so that he can act in the ordinary world and the Dark Hut simultaneously, with synchronized consciousness 19.

After becoming a Marionette, entering the Dark Hut restores all his lost memories. He recalls the Tarot Club and concludes that Klein is his cousin, Zhou Mingrui. Those memories also allow him to reassess the ancient beings influencing his consciousness 365.

Appearance

• Human form: Xio recognizes his eyes, brows, and slightly sinister smile even when his lower face is covered 48.
• Devil form: Can become a bat-winged Devil more than three meters tall 322.
• Wraith and desire forms: Uses shadow-like Wraith Form and an illusory, viscous body formed from emotions and desires 236 333.
• Demon form: Filthy Phantom allows him to become black liquid and create deceptive black phantoms 410.
• Mythical creature form: A substance-less black Buddha whose patterns and ornaments manifest curses. Its central “abode” remains a vulnerability 437.

Personality

Raphael combines theatrical behavior with careful calculation. He feigns retreat, conceals knowledge of dangerous beings, and makes his apparent strength part of his tactics. His performance as the Lord of Evil Desires turns an intimidating image into practical leverage against opponents far above his ordinary rank 47 93 168 301.

His cooperation is usually transactional rather than devotional. He accepts the Fool’s protection without genuine faith, performs piety before the Aurora Order, and privately values rewards over religious approval. He can present himself as a dependable friend while feeling little gratitude, including toward Fors after she fairly divides valuable spoils 137 164 288.

Raphael is also a ruthless murderer. He treats official Beyonders’ deaths as unremarkable, conducts ritual killings for advancement, and kills witnesses to conceal his operations. Audrey’s willingness to work with him rests on acknowledging both his crimes and the lives and dignity he has preserved—not on denying his violence 87 325 435.

His attachment to others is selective but consequential. He abandons the option of escaping alone when Xio faces death beside him, negotiates Sophia’s independence from the Demoness Sect, and limits the suffering transferred to Desmond during advancement 307 349 437.

Mental stability changes with his potion balance. Desire Apostle preparations produce sleeplessness, agitation, and increasingly erratic conduct; painting temporarily calms him. Marionette advancement improves his condition, but later mismatched sequences cause physical collapse as well as hallucinations 325 330 364 408.

Abilities & Skills

Dual-Pathway Compatibility

• The White Jade Bead enables Raphael to bear characteristics from two adjacent pathways, something most minds cannot safely sustain 32.
• Werewolf frenzy and Coldblooded detachment initially restrain one another 32.
• His spirituality reserves combine those of both sequences. At the Wraith–Devil stage, this allows roughly an hour of transformed combat rather than an ordinary Devil’s fifteen minutes 244.
• Compatibility is not permanent safety: a Sequence 3 Prisoner pathway paired with a Sequence 5 Criminal pathway causes severe instability. Raphael subsequently resolves to prepare both pathways’ potions before advancing again 408 410.

Composite Abilities

Ability	Applications and Limits
Damage Reflection	Reflects an attacking ability twice per day at first, increasing to three uses after both potions are fully digested 244.
Venomous Flame Scorch	Inflicts extreme pain and briefly incapacitates a target. Raphael finds no equivalent in the Western Continent’s recorded techniques 244 252.
Spirit-Damaging Illusions	His Desire Apostle-era combination creates illusions capable of inflicting real injury on a target’s spirit body 333.
Marionette conversion	Secretly converts targets below Sequence 3 into permanent controlled agents. They appear normal until he activates control; Sequence 4 conversion is difficult, and failure alerts the target 411.
Clone	Creates three bodies with independent consciousness, each containing part of his mind or spirit body. He can transfer his main consciousness into a clone, providing escape contingencies even across great distances 438 446.

Dark Hut and Lord of Evil Desires

• Maintains synchronized selves across the ordinary world and Dark Hut, allowing simultaneous cultivation and accelerated mastery of techniques 19 92.
• Establishes a working honorific name for sacrifice, bestowal, and contact across continents 168.
• Projects an apparently high-level divine image that even angels cannot see through 168.
• Uses prayers as coordinates for descent and conceals traces of his abilities through the Hut’s aura 296 322.
• Can bring his entire self into the Hut from Wraith Form. At that stage, restraint can prevent entry 236.
• After Marionette advancement, can summon two Sequence 3 phantoms and use Angel-level curses and desire manipulation within the Hut 365.
• After becoming a Silent Disciple and Demon, his power inside the Hut is roughly Angel-level. Seals on the Supernova Dominator consume part of its strength 411.
• Its enhancement raises his Blatherer abilities to Angel level, but does not correspondingly enhance his authorities 438.

Wraith Movement and Undead Resilience

• Werewolf abilities include claws, regeneration, speed, temporary wolf-venom subordinates, anti-divination magic, and poison that destroys reason 19.
• Zombie physiology allows him to survive damage that would kill a living opponent and fight with frost, corpse poison, and steel-like nails 99.
• Wraith Form permits Spirit World traversal and discreet observation. Sequence 5 or lower targets generally cannot detect his surveillance until he is about to attack 236.
• Ordinary physical damage no longer threatens his life as a Wraith, although supernatural attacks can still injure him 236 301.
• Uses Wraith Shriek, Wraith Entanglement, Ice Crystal Arrow, and Mirror Jump for offense, restraint, and movement 236.
• Silent Disciple possession reaches targets up to ten kilometers away and extends to objects. Mirror World travel becomes a rapid escape route, though prolonged stays remain dangerous 410.
• Ancient Bane strengthens his shriek and possession against Angels and permits intercontinental Mirror Jumps when he knows the route 437.

Curses and Object Control

• Delivers curses through puppets, paper figures, personal belongings, and established connections 364 437.
• Dark Hut enhancement lets him harm himself as a curse medium while transferring the injury entirely to a connected target 364 371.
• Silent Disciple damage transfer also covers effects such as sleep and banishment. Its capacity is greatly enhanced but remains finite 410.
• Transformation Curse temporarily changes a target and suppresses most Beyonder abilities, but requires lengthy preparation through silence 410.
• Can produce grotesque growths that attack a victim’s mind and spirit while consuming spirituality 410.
• Controls nearby inanimate objects and can transform himself into an object; transforming another person requires consent and contact 364.
• Ancient Bane grants stronger remote curses and nearly permanent transformation curses. His black Buddha form curses those who see it and contaminates its surroundings 437.

Desire, Corruption, and Speech

• Desire Control: Covertly overwhelms or injures targets by exploiting their emotions and desires 333.
• Mental Impact: Can force emotional states for later detonation. Its direct mind-collapse attack requires Devil transformation and burns his Demon Horn, which must recover afterward 333.
• Desire Incarnation: Grants physical immunity, conceals movement, and envelops targets before detonating their desires. Merely seeing it affects ordinary people and low-sequence Beyonders 333.
• Impart Desire: Gives targets desires and emotions that he can later detonate with desire manipulation 365.
• Demon intelligence effects: Improves his own intelligence while subtly making nearby people more careless and easier to deceive 410.
• Demon combat powers: Includes Hellfire, poisonous smoke, Acid Swamp, adjustable Corrosive Ghost Mist, and Filthy Phantom 410.
• Projection: Supplies power remotely when Devils perform appropriate rituals directed at him 410.
• Blatherer speech: Manipulates fear, desire, confusion, and other emotions while spreading mental and bodily pollution 437 438.

Cultivation and Combat Arts

• Demon Source Scripture: Provides cultivation techniques and supports his recovery from mental attacks. Its sixth level teaches harmonizing with nature and drawing on environmental power 32 367.
• Wolf Fang Art / Nine Wolf Shadow Steps: Precise attacks and elusive footwork reduce his disadvantage against higher-sequence opponents 47 53.
• Three Corpse Refining Arts: Adapts spear techniques to his arms and staff techniques to his legs; also supports the creation of Copper and Iron Corpses 99 125.
• Phantom Divine Art: Improves swift, accurate attacks while moving and supplies guidance for possession 252.
• Demon Lord Dharma Body Art: Teaches low-ranking Demon Lord transformations, varied forms, and weapon use 252.
• Union with the Dao: Pursued as a means of reconciling pathways and reducing dependence on the Oldest One. Its benefits include stronger deception and rapid control of released spirituality 411 420 437.

Resistance and Concealment

• At Marionette level, is immune to curses at Sequence 4 or below; stronger curses are weakened, including Angel-level curses by more than half 365.
• Filthy Phantom provides near-immunity to same-level corruption attacks 410.
• Ancient Bane anti-divination prevents even an Attendant of Mysteries from divining him through connected objects 437.
• Blatherer greatly strengthens his mind, making him almost immune to most Saint-level mental attacks 438.

Planning, Performance, and Organization

• Uses spirit channeling, surveillance, target marking, disguises, hypnosis, and staged evidence in investigations and assassinations 102 325 394 435.
• Develops an intelligence network that collects information before individual commissions require it, reducing conspicuous last-minute investigations 138.
• Builds an assassination business around accident-like killings, profit-sharing, disposable front companies, and paid protection 297.
• Engineers Saint-level religious conversions through fabricated testimony, controlled subordinates, intercepted messages, and implanted memories 419.
• Performs puppet shows as both entertainment and covert communication, including his recruitment of Klein in Utopia 420.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• White Jade Bead / Orb — Provides pathway formulas, enables spirit-body splitting, and supports dual-pathway compatibility. It withholds dangerous knowledge and reveals involvement in schemes against God Almighty and the Celestial Worthy 19 32 142.
• Creeping Hunger — Supplies abilities including Harvest and a limited form of Danger Prediction. Raphael later extracts its Desire Apostle soul to obtain his advancement characteristic 195 236 332.
• Adam’s Gift — Cross pendant used for Hypnosis and Mind Deprivation. Its persistent drawback draws Raphael into other people’s stories; he also uses it to prevent an enemy from thinking to summon help 192 259 301 395.
• Rose Handkerchief — Grade 2 Sealed Artifact with Flesh Magic and shadow concealment. Produces high-level ravings; Raphael plans to have its drawback sealed 165.
• Jade waist-token artifact — Formed when a Blood Sect disciple’s characteristic fuses with a token. Grants appearance alteration and Damage Transfer 150.
• Eye of Illusions — Grade 1 Sealed Artifact whose phantom assists in restraint, curses, distraction, and blocking escape routes 301 342 357 404.
• Curse Crystal — Carries a curse later infused with the Mother Tree of Desire’s curse; used to break God Almighty’s cross inside the Dark Hut 366.
• Curse-enhancing shortsword — Engraved with sinister symbols and used to stab himself as a medium for remote injury transfer 371.
• Composite power crystal — Stores extracted Chaos Sea and Supernova Dominator power. Grants limited uses of Saint-level abilities, including Gravity Meteor, Gravity Wave, Density Mutation, and Cosmic Rays; dangerous to other users because of corruption 377.
• Black Buddha — Supplied by the Underworld Daoist for Angel advancement; becomes illusory and integrated into Raphael’s mythical creature form 437.
• Lamp from Solomon’s capital — Creates the black curtain through which Raphael and Pain enter the Forsaken Land of the Gods 448.
• The Fool’s gold coin — Improves divination; given by Klein before Raphael accompanies Pain to the True Creator 448.
• Brook and Nami — Puppets used as companions and controlled intermediaries. Both are destroyed during his escape from God Almighty’s statue 365 366.

Relationships

• Klein Moretti / Zhou Mingrui — Investigative client, powerful ally, and the cousin Raphael identifies after recovering his memories. Their relationship develops from cautious bargaining into an alliance against resurrection and possession threats 83 122 137 365 435.
• Audrey Hall — Voluntary partner rather than subordinate. She acknowledges his crimes while supporting his beneficial actions, prepares his Demon potion, and keeps the advancement secret 53 325 410.
• Xio Derecha — Informant handler and frequent combat partner. Raphael refuses to abandon her when she faces death because she joined his danger voluntarily 99 102 301 307.
• Fors Wall — Collaborator in the operation against Botis and Kisma. She gives Raphael his rightful share of the spoils; he promises to hold the Secrets Sorcerer characteristic for her while privately treating the exchange as a performance 275 288.
• Sharron — Trusted trading partner, source of pathway guidance, and coalition ally. Their exchanges involve the Eye of Illusions, Beyonder characteristics, the Demon Source Scripture, and a Marionette ritual 273 342 420.
• Sophia — Lover, friend, and business partner. Raphael appoints her general manager of the Mechanic Company, supports her advancement, and negotiates freedom from her Demoness Sect duties 297 348 349.
• Carter — Trusted Mafia boss. Raphael supplies advancement resources and tasks him with developing a dependable group of Mafia Beyonders 269.
• Vesta Wagner — Trusted subordinate, negotiator, and organizer. Assists with Raphael’s Wraith ritual and receives characteristics, responsibilities, and promised artifacts as rewards 235 269 333 350.
• Emlyn White — Battle partner and Sanguine contact. Helps obtain the Wraith characteristic and brings Sanguine representatives into Raphael’s coalition 79 235 420.
• Leonard Mitchell — Initially favors controlling or killing Raphael, but later cooperates and signals mutual discretion about their secrets 108 125.
• Pain — Powerful messenger and trusted partner whose origins connect him to the Ancient Sun God’s personality arrangements. Raphael supports his journey toward Adam and the True Creator 273 430 448.
• Underworld Daoist — Raphael’s cultivation master. Teaches Union with the Dao and provides the Black Buddha used in Angel advancement 411 437.
• Demon Personality — Internal counterpart that handles much of Raphael’s speech and action during cultivation. Escapes apparent erasure into a clone and helps launch the counterattack against the Oldest One 411 438.
• The Oldest One — Powerful guide and increasingly explicit threat. Claims to support Raphael’s advancement, but ultimately seeks to assimilate him and regain Pillar-level standing 365 438 441.
• Botis — Supportive Aurora Order superior whom Raphael nevertheless helps target for assassination. Botis’s death opens the way for Raphael’s regional authority 269 275 288.
• Freddy — Aurora Order Vice President who arranges Raphael’s Oracle appointment and entrusts him with regional leadership, while testing his credibility 165 288 289.
• Desmond — An Unshadowed from New Sorn City bound to Raphael through a Life-and-Death Pact. Accepts part of his advancement suffering out of gratitude; Raphael limits the burden to protect him 437.
• Lejia — Rose School Saint converted through fabricated memories and staged divine intervention; later serves as an inside agent in Raphael’s coalition 419 420.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Backlund Criminal and Tarot Club Contact

• The names “Mafia” and “Godfather” alert Klein to Raphael’s transmigrator background 4.
• Raphael’s battle with Petrov demonstrates techniques beyond ordinary Werewolf abilities. Petrov’s death prompts Audrey and Xio to coordinate their contact with him 47 53.
• His partnership with Xio exposes espionage at Kent Machinery Factory and brings him into combat with a Sequence 5 Disciplinary Paladin 99 102.
• Concerned Tarot Club members consider restricting his access to Sequence 5 characteristics rather than attacking an ally who has honored their agreements 102.
• Cooperation with Dwayne Dantès expands into dangerous missions, culminating in Klein granting emergency access to the Fool 122 129 137.

Aurora Order Leadership

Position / Responsibility	Chapter	Circumstances
Aurora Order member	72 106	Carries out missions under Mr. C and establishes contacts within the Order.
Rose Redemption member and Oracle Mr. A	164 165	Receives recognition after the ruins expedition, chooses the vacant code name A, and takes charge of the damaged Backlund branch.
Regional leader	288 289	After Botis and Kisma die, receives authority over ten Oracles and the Order’s affairs from Loen to the Berserk Sea.
Saint-level senior member	367	Marionette advancement formalizes his standing above the Oracles and gives access to the Beyonder storeroom.
Aurora Order President	431	The entire Order officially becomes his organization; Hawthorne reports on the Intis and Fog Sea region.

Lord of Evil Desires and Sorn City

• Raphael develops a working divine persona through the Dark Hut, then uses it to communicate with and support Sorn City 168 244.
• Sends Western Continent disciples to reinforce Sorn City and later prepares its war against Bidisis City-State 244 367.
• Acquires Gass Island through an exchange involving his “Warrior Bible,” declining broader political rule because he wants a place to settle 366.
• Cooperates with Klein and the City of Silver expedition at the Giant King’s Court 377.
• Leads Sorn City’s pilgrims into the outside world and finances their new settlement with more than £100,000 404 407.
• Their prayers become anchors for his Silent Disciple advancement 407 408.

Rose School Campaign

• Tracks Rose School Saints on the Southern Continent, avoids an Angel-backed trap, and steals advancement ingredients before committing to a hunt 394.
• Kills a Marionette while testing his own strength, crediting the Dark Hut’s enhancement as essential 395.
• Converts three Saints without alerting the Rose School’s Angels, then assembles New Sorn City, Western Continent disciples, the Temperance Faction, Sanguine, Evernight representatives, and Klein 419 420.
• Presents the operation as an external assault while secretly intending to provoke civil war within the school 420.

Angel Advancement and the Oldest One

• Prepares Ancient Bane advancement by seeking an ancient, sinister object capable of bearing Angel-level power 427 431.
• Obtains an Archduke of Blood characteristic and six Saint-level characteristics after an Angel-level battle, but delays further advancement until the timing is suitable 435.
• Advances to Ancient Bane and immediately follows with Blatherer to address the new pathway imbalance 436 437.
• Confronts the Oldest One inside the Dark Hut. Clone contingencies, the Demon Personality, the Supernova Dominator, and God Almighty’s remnant form the basis of his counterplan 438.
• Prepares a Sequence 1 ritual using a power crystal and a clone escape contingency for travel into the cosmos 446.
• Receives Klein’s divination aid and blessing before taking Pain to the True Creator’s colossal cross 448.

Notable Quotes

“Father of Devils, Lord of Misfits, Source of Curses.
The embodiment of all desires.
The symbol of all evil thoughts and spirits.”
— Raphael’s self-designed honorific name 168

“From now on, I'm the damn Lord of Evil Desires!”
— Raphael after successfully testing his divine persona 168

Trivia

• Raphael’s improvised use of women’s underwear as a face covering embarrasses him enough that he later carries a proper piece of cloth 48.
• His Killer Personality initially accounts for only 20% of his mental strength and spirit body, leaving it unable to control his body when the main personality falls into an illusion 196.
• His puppet performance in Utopia earns approximately one pound in tips while serving as a covert approach to Klein 420.