Eros

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Transmigration and Noble Upbringing

Eros is born into his new life with his previous-life memories intact. Raised as the son of Duke Renka and Estelle, he enjoys a privileged upbringing in the ducal estate. Wendy is two years older than him, despite his persistent habit of treating her as a younger sister. His father also has children with other women 2 6 24.

His discovery that elves once inhabited the Croatia Continent prompts him to investigate the supernatural. His father reveals that their ancestors intermarried with elves, making the family itself the strongest lead in his search. Concerned that occult curiosity will attract corruption, Estelle conceals his relevant memories until he reaches adulthood 2 3 5 6.

The day after his eighteenth birthday, those memories return. Duke Renka takes him into the Shadow Realm and explains the family’s true heritage: they descend from the Goddess of the Night, whose former companions betrayed her. Their public devotion to the God of Death and Reincarnation conceals their allegiance and ancestry 6 7.

Bloodline Baptism and the Alicia Mystery

During his baptism, Eros enters a gray, mist-filled space rather than finding the expected ancestral path. Touching a pale green orb brings him before Cecilia, an elven deity confronting a grotesque tentacled entity. Cecilia takes him away, calls him “Alicia,” and personally awakens his elven bloodline through a touch that crosses time and space 8 9 10.

Afterward, Eros records his true name in the Book of the Night to conceal his fate. The book also attempts to engrave compulsory loyalty into his soul. A black light from the ancestor’s statue interrupts the process, and he collapses; Barbara later identifies herself as the one who intervened against the soul curse mark 11 12 14.

Barbara recognizes the Goddess of the Night’s presence within him. When Eros mentions “Alicia,” she confirms that it is her master’s concealed name. Eros rejects the idea that he could be the goddess, citing his remembered previous life and male identity. Barbara initially shares his disbelief, but his resistance to divine corruption and ability to host the Deep Sea entity’s avatar lead her to accept him as her returned master 15 18.

Contract and Preparation to Leave Home

Barbara contracts with Eros to observe him and investigate her master’s presence. Her body becomes his eye, briefly turning his left iris completely black. Her recovery consumes most of the Spirit he gathers, delaying his cultivation. Rather than divert the family’s depleted spirit marrow reserves, Eros supplies her himself until she can remain awake for extended periods 15 16 21.

Barbara subsequently urges him to experience the outside world. The elders initially oppose the risk, but her belief that he could become a Saint changes their position. They arrange his enrollment at the Imperial Capital First Holy Academy, hoping his elven bloodline and concealment protections will prevent the churches from discovering his Night Clan identity 22 23.

The family places its hopes for survival and resurgence in him. When he departs with Estelle and Wendy, the Book of the Night and Moon of Eternal Sleep enter his body and establish connections with him 26 27.

Imperial Capital and Estelle’s Injury

After reaching the capital, Eros sees a red-haired woman kill a man in an alley. Her gaze attempts to invade his mind, but his defenses repel it 30.

At his maternal grandparents’ home, he learns that his aunt Elusa is missing in a Sin Domain. Estelle searches for her and returns with one-fifth of her soul forcibly erased. Following Barbara’s advice, Eros casts Hymn of Life to repair the damage despite knowing the backlash will be severe 31 32 33.

He remains unconscious for a month and misses the academy’s enrollment period. Estelle keeps him alive with alchemical treatment. Even after waking, he struggles to walk; complete recovery takes three months 33 46.

Academy Enrollment

Still weakened, Eros hires Bru and three fellow students to carry him up the academy’s mountain staircase. Wendy defends him when nobles mock his condition, and he pays the helpers their agreed two hundred gold pounds 35 36 37.

An academy sacred artifact confirms his elven bloodline but cannot penetrate its source. On Barbara’s instructions, Eros attributes it to a Nameless Divine. Dean Como advises him to keep his Holy Son status secret, while alchemy instructors’ offers to purchase his blood expose the danger attached to his heritage 39 40.

Eros answers exactly eighty percent of his placement examination correctly and enters the fifth year. He stays at Wendy’s villa and befriends “Thomas,” a red-haired girl disguised as a boy. He sees through her disguise immediately but continues teasing her under the pretense of treating her as his new younger brother 41 42 43.

Prince Saliba attempts to obtain Wendy by offering help with Eros’s ducal inheritance, then escalating to offers involving his own sister and mother. Eros refuses. In a later confrontation over Wendy’s Spirit-Favored Body, Eros tells Saliba that he sacrificed Wendy and wished her back to life, knowing the resurrected Wendy was not the original. Saliba’s accusation of evil-god worship is dismissed by the deans because of Eros’s elven bloodline and its divine source 43 45.

Night Remnant Activity and Irina’s Rescue

After recovering, Eros ventures outside the academy at night, activating both his nighttime and wilderness buffs. Natalia’s four-person group attacks him, but he defeats and binds them. Acting openly as a Night Remnant while concealing his public identity, he offers to join their planned Sealed Artifact theft and gives Natalia a leaf for contacting him 46 47.

Learning that the Church is pursuing another Night Remnant, Eros uses the Book of the Night to locate clan members. He finds Irina sacrificing herself to shadow. Confronted with her condition and the Church’s persecution of his family, he kills for the first time, annihilating a search squad with the Moon of Eternal Sleep 48 49.

Eros cannot safely heal Irina with a divine art: its backlash would leave him unconscious during the pursuit. Barbara instead redirects Irina’s sacrifice toward him and merges her into his shadow with her consent. Barbara falls asleep from exhaustion, while Eros fights through further search squads and returns to the academy at dawn 50.

Appearance

• Handsome features: Eros considers himself handsome, though Cecilia’s use of a woman’s name leaves him wondering whether she has mistaken his gender 9.
• Sapphire-blue eyes: His left iris becomes fathomless black when Barbara’s power manifests, then can return to its normal color 16 46.
• Tall adult stature: By the time he prepares to leave home, he has grown much taller than Estelle 22.

Personality

Eros is curious, irreverent, and fond of teasing. He approaches supernatural discoveries through comparisons with novels, games, and technology from his previous life. His confidence often appears as deliberate provocation, particularly when he manipulates Wendy into calling him “big brother” 5 11 25 31.

He openly admires beautiful women and frequently oversteps physical boundaries. His advances toward Barbara culminate in an unwanted kiss, after which she withdraws from him for weeks. He recognizes that he pushed too far, though his attraction to her remains unchanged 14 17 28 29 32.

Despite enjoying noble privileges, he can be considerate and approachable. He refuses resources that would disrupt the family’s operations, treats Bru’s group without aristocratic airs, and risks his life to heal Estelle. Initially averse to killing because of his previous life and affectionate upbringing, he becomes willing to use lethal force when his family’s survival is threatened 21 33 35 49.

Abilities & Skills

Elven Life Arts

His awakened elven bloodline grants extensive healing, support, and offensive spell knowledge 10 11.

• Divine Art: Chapter of Life — supplies dozens of healing and buff abilities 11.
• Divine Art: Life Judgment — supplies dozens of offensive abilities, answering his desire to deal damage rather than serve solely as a healer 11.
• Divine Art: Nature’s Protection — a passive associated with the wilderness. Its effect strengthens as he travels away from the academy 11 46.
• Divine Art: Hymn of Life — repairs soul damage. Even less than one hundred-thousandth of its power is enough to restore Estelle’s Sequence 6 soul 33.
• Limits: Possessing divine-art knowledge does not mean he can cast it safely. Hymn of Life causes a month-long coma and leaves him unable to use Spirit during his prolonged recovery 33 46.

Night Bloodline and Shadow Magic

His Night bloodline provides concealment, nighttime enhancement, and shadow-based combat techniques 11 23 47.

• Servant of Secrets — contributes to concealing his Night Clan identity, alongside his elven bloodline and the Book of the Night 23.
• Divine Art: Lord of Secrets — Barbara states that even a deity cannot perceive his true nature without his permission. The supplied passages do not explain its relationship to the earlier-named Servant of Secrets 39.
• Divine Art: Night’s Protection — boosts all his attributes at night; it can operate alongside Nature’s Protection 11 46.
• Shadow Exile — makes four incoming spells vanish 47.
• Night Binding — produces dozens of black shadow tentacles to restrain opponents 47.
• Shadow travel — he steps into shadows when leaving the academy at night, with his left eye turned black 46.

Divine Perception and Corruption Resistance

Eros survives contact with beings that would normally corrupt or destroy a mortal 18 39.

• Looks directly at Cecilia without suffering divine corruption 18.
• Can host the Deep Sea entity’s avatar, something Barbara says ordinarily requires a deity 18.
• Sees through the academy deans’ visual obstruction and recognizes Thomas’s disguised appearance 39 41.
• Nearby people are spared eldritch corruption because lesser horrors fear the Deep Sea entity rooted within him 19.
• Limit: These feats do not settle his identity for him; he continues to regard himself as a transmigrated man rather than knowingly identifying as Alicia 15 18.

Deep Sea Divine Arts

Two unexplained skills are forcibly inserted into his mind at the end of his baptism 11.

• Divine Art: Deep Sea’s Blessing
• Divine Art: Deep Sea’s Breath
• Their descriptions and specific effects are not supplied. Eros associates them with the enormous eyeball creature, and later regards the tentacle as having given him the two skills 11 18.

Soul World Control and Training

The Gray Mist Space is Eros’s own soul world, not merely a recurring dream 14 17.

• Studies and spars with Barbara there; the training can leave him exhausted on waking 20 25 32.
• Immobilizes the projections of the Book of the Night and Moon of Eternal Sleep 28.
• Senses the tentacle’s emotions, including confusion and curiosity 12.
• Possesses stored knowledge ranging from first- through sixth-level spells to forbidden spells and divine arts, although casting above his level remains dangerous 33 42.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Eye of Eternal Night / Barbara — contracted divine artifact that serves as his eye and guides his training. Her recovery initially consumes most of his gathered Spirit; redirecting Irina’s sacrifice later exhausts her again 16 21 50.
• Book of the Night — conceals the fate of those who record their true names in it, preventing even great beings from locating them through spells. Its soul imprints also allow Eros to locate registered clan members 11 12 48.
• Moon of Eternal Sleep — divine weapon that accompanies him after his departure. Through Moon of Judgment, it manifests a huge Silver-White Moon Wheel that crushes a Church squad while leaving Irina’s position untouched 27 49.
• Irina’s necklace — entrusted to him while she is dying; she states that she has found a fragment of the Ancestral Divine Kingdom 49 50.
• Contact leaf — given to Natalia so she can reach him about her team’s proposed Sealed Artifact theft 47.

Relationships

• Estelle Eureka North — Mother. Protects him by concealing his occult memories; he later restores her damaged soul at considerable risk to himself 2 6 33.
• Duke Renka Orich North — Father. Introduces him to the family’s supernatural heritage and sees him as its greatest hope for survival 4 6 27.
• Wendy Renka North — Full sister, two years older. Their constant teasing coexists with mutual protection; she supports him during his weakened academy arrival 2 20 36 37.
• Barbara — Contracted artifact spirit, teacher, protector, and object of his romantic advances. Her suspicion that he is Alicia returned motivates her close observation of him 15 18 29.
• Cecilia — Elven deity who personally performs his baptism and addresses him as Alicia 9 10.
• Alicia, Goddess of the Night — Divine ancestor whose presence Barbara senses within him. Eros disputes the apparent identification, while Barbara eventually accepts it 7 15 18.
• Deep Sea entity — Ancient eldritch being whose tentacle repeatedly appears in his soul world. Its curiosity frightens him initially, but it does not attack him 12 17 18.
• Mishuel and Sivier Renka North — Paternal half-siblings who receive the family in the Imperial Capital 30.
• Elusa — Maternal aunt. Her disappearance leads Estelle into the Sin Domain where she suffers soul damage 31 32.
• Joanie Claude Horn / Joni — Wendy’s friend and Eros’s academy acquaintance. Her growing interest in his past makes Wendy suspicious 37 41.
• Thomas — A red-haired girl posing as a male student. Eros exposes her disguise to himself but not to her, then insists on treating her as his younger brother 41 42 43.
• Prince Saliba — Antagonistic suitor of Wendy. Eros rejects his bargaining attempts; Saliba subsequently reports him to the academy deans 37 43 45.
• Dean Como — Helps manage Eros’s bloodline revelation and advises him to conceal his Holy Son identity 40 41.
• Bru, Newt, Seth, and Mojie — Students who carry him up the academy mountain while he is recovering from divine-art backlash 35 36.
• Natalia — Member of a group he defeats before proposing cooperation in a Sealed Artifact theft 47.
• Irina — Fellow Night Clan member rescued from Church pursuit. With Barbara’s intervention and Irina’s consent, she becomes part of his shadow 49 50.

Notable Quotes

“A healer who didn't want to be a damage dealer wasn't a good healer.” 11

“So this world really won't show you mercy just because you're kind.” 49

Trivia

• His question about whether Thomas owns a “little tank engine” references Thomas the Tank Engine, which he watched in his previous life. Thomas does not understand the reference 41.