Fallen One

Biodata

Meaning and Classification

• Not a single individual: Numerous beings use the designation, including soldiers, hunters, elderly practitioners, and high-ranking fiends 38 41 43 50 61.
• Title and occupation: Yi Chen explicitly calls “Fallen One” a title, while Glens Cartak gives it as his occupation during interrogation 40 50.
• Racial identification: A powerful Fallen One declares himself a member of the Fallen Race. A later group belongs to the Demon Dragon Race; the passages do not establish that every Fallen One shares one race 43 91.
• Unequal strength: The designation covers fighters Yi Chen readily defeats as well as pursuers whose speed and collective strength force him to flee 39 59.
• Yi Chen’s distinction: Although he absorbs their power and uses related techniques, Yi Chen denies being a Fallen One when an inn waiter mistakes him for one 54 60.

Organization and Objectives

Expansion into the Human World

Glens Cartak states that the Fallen Ones send a group into the world once every ten thousand years. Their plan is to establish followers, occupy the world, absorb those followers’ soul flames, increase their strength, and ultimately rule the planet 50.

• Glens specializes in hunting magical beasts and occasionally capturing humans 50.
• A high-ranking Fallen One openly threatens to seize humanity’s world and enslave its inhabitants 58.
• Darkness God Temple operatives keep humans as livestock and use them for sacrifices, according to Yi Chen’s condemnation of their activities 57.
• Three Fallen Ones extract a woman’s blood, organs, and a supposedly sacred substance believed to grant extraordinary strength. A substance bestowed by their god consumes her life and soul 56.

Known Bearers

Appearance

• Humanoid forms: Members appear as black-robed men, elderly figures, armored warriors, and a white-clad leader 38 41 53 58.
• Pallor and dark eyes: One leader has grayish-white skin, pitch-black eyes, and a devil tattoo on his forehead. Ritual participants develop snow-white skin, black pupils, and black lips 58 61.
• Monstrous forms: One high-level member stands over twenty meters tall, with six wings, claws, armor, scales, two hearts, and a large neck scar 43.
• Battle transformations: Seven temple-affiliated members enlarge into heavily armored men roughly two meters tall 57.
• Mist forms: Some become insubstantial or dissolve into black mist rather than retaining a solid body 38 61.

Abilities & Skills

Soul Survival and Possession

Certain Fallen Ones can remain active after their physical bodies are destroyed 39 50 62.

• A black-robed attacker’s soul escapes after Yi Chen explodes his head 39.
• Glens Cartak is shocked that Yi Chen can capture his soul even after it escapes 50.
• One Fallen One takes control of another man’s flesh; its escaping soul later wraps around Yi Chen’s arm as gray smoke 62.
• An elderly member projects his soul as an attacking phantom 54.

Black Mist and Concealment

Black mist serves as a means of concealment and transformation for multiple members 38 39 61.

• A forest attacker becomes increasingly insubstantial while his aura strengthens 38.
• Another erases traces of himself within black mist, although Yi Chen still locates him 39.
• Castle ritual participants dissolve into fine wisps that spread throughout the chamber 61.

High-Level Combat Techniques

The six-winged Fallen One demonstrates a varied arsenal, but these abilities are not established as universal 43.

• Condenses a bronze spear approximately one hundred feet long 43.
• Splits into fifteen black-flame-covered copies 43.
• Uses spatial distortion to disappear and attack from another position; Yi Chen questions whether this is a conventional Soul Skill or a dark art 43 44.
• Enlarges his body and summons pitch-black armor through runes 43.
• Claims his power was bestowed by a deity, yet Yi Chen seals it until he can release only one ten-thousandth of its strength 44.

Specialized Powers

• Plant growth: A high-ranking member releases dark-green liquid that produces dozens of towering trees within moments 58.
• High-speed pursuit: A pursuing force moves with eerie green flames beneath its feet and nearly matches Yi Chen’s maximum speed. Yi Chen specifically observes that these pursuers know no spells 59.
• Protected memories: An elderly member’s soul contains a pale-green vortex and tiny characters that reveal a secret method guarding his memories 54.
• Soul-affecting residue: A Fallen One’s gray smoke and black vapor burn Yi Chen’s arm and condense into a rune before he disperses them 62 63.

Corpse Demon Creation

The Fallen Ones cultivate Corpse Demons as weapons of war 61.

• These creations possess forbidden spells and strength beyond ordinary people 61.
• They have lost self-awareness and slaughter through instinct 61.
• Their death aura causes surrounding vegetation to wither 61.
• Yi Chen discovers 760 chained black coffins in the castle chamber associated with these creatures 60 61.

Equipment and Harvested Materials

• Weapons and armor: Documented equipment includes spears, swords, hammers, halberds, axes, curved sabers, daggers, scimitars, and close-fitting armor 39 43 44 59 60 62.
• Soul Crystal: Yi Chen extracts a fist-sized dark-gold bead from a powerful Fallen One’s shattered skull and identifies it as an ordinary Soul Crystal 44.
• Rune-covered black bead: A burly member’s helmet contains an egg-sized bead whose sinister aura carries a trace of law power 45.
• Spirit pearl: A thumb-sized pearl remains after Yi Chen destroys a city defender with lightning 41.
• Blood and soul energy: An inn waiter says Fallen One blood can increase strength. Yi Chen repeatedly absorbs their souls and residual dark power to strengthen himself 39 40 60.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Demon Dragon Fortress

Yi Chen first encounters a self-proclaimed Fallen One during a forest ambush. After learning that the attackers intend to destroy his homeland, he defeats them and follows the escaping black aura to the Demon Dragon Fortress. There, he clashes with city defenders and absorbs Fallen One souls and accumulated dead souls 38 39 40 41.

A confrontation with powerful mist-dwelling beings follows. Yi Chen defeats a high-level Fallen One, seals its Soul Power, and harvests its Soul Crystal; a subsequent encounter exposes a black bead containing law power 42 43 44 45.

Interrogations and the Darkness God Temple

Glens Cartak’s interrogation reveals the long-term conquest plan. Yi Chen later questions an elderly Fallen One whose memories are protected and whose actions are driven by Family interests 50 53 54 55.

The torture of a nameless woman brings Yi Chen into direct conflict with Darkness God Temple operatives. After learning why they capture humans, he kills the group and declares war on the temple’s invasion 56 57.

Headquarters and the Castle Ritual

After defeating a high-ranking ambusher, Yi Chen concludes that his enemies wanted to send him to their headquarters and chooses to go himself. Further Fallen Ones pursue him before he infiltrates a guarded castle complex 58 59 60.

Inside, he discovers Corpse Demons and preparations to gather believers for an awakening master. The confrontation includes bodily possession and an escaping soul attack; afterward, the Black Warriors’ allegiance to Artemis reveals a Fallen One’s connection to the Dark Council 61 62 63.

Later Confrontations

Demon Dragon Race Fallen Ones surround Yi Chen and demand his Soul Ring 91. In a later encounter, Yi Chen warns a mysterious seal-holder that releasing a Fallen One would bring disaster upon the Douluo Continent 93.

Notable Quotes

“Heh heh, I'm a Fallen One... an existence beyond the understanding of mortals like you.”
— Black-clad forest attacker 38

“We Fallen Ones send a group into this world only once every ten thousand years.”
— Glens Cartak 50

“Our great master is about to awaken... he will soon descend. We must capture enough believers to make offerings to our great master.”
— Castle ritual elder 61