Roger

Biodata

Power Progression

Roger cultivates through his original body and separate divine clones. His Death Edict cultivation leads his advancement; wind supplies speed and physical offense, while water supplies physical defense 5 33.

Background / History

Roger transmigrates into the body of his counterpart in the Netherworld. His new body’s two Lowgod parents had died during a hostile tribal invasion several years earlier. He awakens after spending two and a half days unconscious from approaching deities who were sparring 1.

Before transmigration, Roger knew Coiling Dragon and discussed its setting with other fans. He retains that knowledge but initially cannot identify his place in the timeline. The prevalence of Midgod tribal chiefs leads him to suspect that he has arrived near the dawn of creation 1 2.

His ambitions extend beyond surviving the Netherworld. He chooses External Godhood with eventual transcendence in mind and recognizes earth, fire, water, and wind clones as prerequisites rather than a complete solution. He also seeks Sovereign Sparks, regarding even ordinary god-level strength as inadequate protection from the setting’s greatest powers 5 14 16.

Personality

Roger is patient with long cultivation periods but dissatisfied with progress that leaves him vulnerable. When repeated failures prevent him from producing a complete Soul Gold Bead, he reviews his understanding, regains his composure, and turns to developing combat techniques rather than forcing the same breakthrough indefinitely 13.

He is cautious about uncertain opponents. As a Midgod, he lets Bell leave rather than gamble on defeating a soul mutant; as a Paragon, he still decides that attempting to enslave Lilith is too risky 25 50.

His survival-first outlook is ruthless. He accepts the deaths of Sanctuary beings as the price of strengthening himself and acknowledges that prolonged soul refining has made him colder. He considers soul slavery more dependable than ordinary allegiance 10 11 23.

Roger nevertheless repays personal loyalty. He remembers Allen’s protection, supplies him with cultivation resources, and strengthens his authority within the tribe. As chief, he insists on unity, loyalty, and explicit rewards and punishments rather than remaining a figurehead 4 12 22 29.

Abilities & Skills

Divine Clones and Elemental Laws

• Death clone: His principal cultivation and soul-combat body. It can meditate inside his original body while the original handles outside affairs 5.
• Wind clone: Compensates for the Death Edict’s weakness in speed and supplies physical attacks. After mastering speed-related mysteries, it moves more than ten times faster than his death clone 23 29 33.
• Water clone: Specializes in physical defense through Roundness and its fusion with water essence. Its early fused defense withstands attacks based on Dimension, but not attacks incorporating fused Fast and Slow 31.
• Earth and fire clones: Developed after the Jade Disc awakens the corresponding aptitudes; both eventually reach Asura level 41 46.
• Parallel cultivation: His bodies divide cultivation, divine-power accumulation, soul refining, and nourishment of the Jade Disc 8 14 33.

Soul Refining

Roger removes impurities from captured souls to produce absorbable soul essence, later condensing it into Soul Gold Beads 9 14.

• With the Jade Disc restoring his vigor, he refines an entire large batch in seven days while losing only three souls 9.
• Soul essence strengthens his soul and accelerates his thinking and cultivation 9.
• Each cultivation stage has a saturation limit. Advancing to a new stage allows further strengthening 13 14 47.
• He distributes Soul Gold Beads as payment, cultivation support, and rewards for service 17 22 33.

Soul Annihilation Blade

His signature attack condenses soul power into a translucent gray javelin with a rotating blade at its tip. Roger develops it from the principles behind Charles’s Spear of Destruction, adapting them to his own soul strength and comprehension 15.

• The rotating tip cuts through soul defenses and targets the soul core 15.
• Kills Black Bat and another Midgod during the tribal war 20.
• Becomes more than a hundred times stronger than its Midgod version through later Death Edict fusion 33.
• Pierces Highgod soul mutant Bell’s defenses before Roger enslaves him 44.
• Its original potential to kill an ordinary Highgod is Roger’s assessment, not a tested result at the time of creation 15.

Soul Control

Roger creates Soul Seeds to enslave targets through their soul cores, later replacing them with more effective Soul Leeches 17 41.

• Soul Seeds: Initially require a defenseless target with a weaker soul. Each costs approximately one-sixtieth of his soul power, prompting him to keep only two spare seeds 17.
• First successful enslavement: Uses Mind Gray Mist to subdue Mia and plants a seed in her soul core 27.
• Soul Leeches: Establish control faster, strengthen the master–servant connection, and extend communication distance 41.
• Upgrades: Replaces Mia’s and Shelly’s seeds with Soul Leeches and later enslaves Bell with one 41 44.

Soul Space, Mind Gray Mist, and Soul Poison

Soul Space provides an internal storage space for prepared soul techniques 30 31.

• Stores preformed Soul Annihilation Blades for simultaneous release, improving group attacks and combat endurance 31.
• Compresses Mind Gray Mist into soul defenses or incorporates it into physical attacks to add soul-attack properties 31.
• Creates soul poison after gaining initial Soul Space comprehension; demonstrates it by killing three black dragons with a single sword thrust 31.

Soul Search and Divine Beast Research

Roger combines Mind Gray Mist with Soul Control to read memories directly 36.

• Early searches are destructive and restricted to substantially weaker souls; a Lowgod dies from having his soul torn apart during a search 38 41.
• Reaching Asura level enables memory reading without harming the subject 41.
• Studies the law insights visible within the souls of Sanctuary-level Special Life and investigates extracting insight-bearing soul fragments 36.
• Researches divine beast essence blood and replication of innate abilities. His transplantation attempts fail because ordinary Netherworld humans—and his own body—have mixed bloodlines 46.
• Extracts 180 drops of essence blood from a Bashé for continued study 46.

Willpower and Tracking Marks

Becoming a Death Paragon grants Roger Willpower, greatly enhancing both physical and soul capabilities 47.

• Shatters Netherworld space by gripping empty air and resists the suction of spatial turbulence 47.
• Extends perception to 1,000 li after strengthening his transformed soul 47.
• Creates Tracking Marks that let him see through marked individuals’ eyes beyond ordinary soul-communication range 47.
• Marks can support remote communication and release part of his soul power to form Soul Leeches, allowing remote soul-control attempts 48.
• Secretly marks Mia, Shelly, Bell, patrol members, two unusual divine beasts, Lilith, and Inawei 47 48 50.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Fortune Jade Disc Fragment: An object Roger owned before transmigration, subsequently found in his consciousness. Initially only one-tenth remains. It absorbs Fire Cloud Tree heart essence, divine power, and soul power; its evolutions transform his soul, improve comprehension, and awaken new elemental aptitudes 1 2 3 7 14 41.
• Charles’s cultivation notes: Detailed Death Edict material from a Highgod, providing guidance for soul refining and the principles used to create Roger’s signature attack 7 8 15.
• Divine artifact longsword and armor: Lowgod Artifacts gifted by Hagson upon his ascension. Roger equips them during the Black Bat Tribe attack 6 18.
• Midgod equipment: Obtains armor and a battle blade through the war’s spoils, and claims Black Bat’s armor 21.
• Soul Crystal Balls: Containers for captured souls and refined soul essence 8 9.
• Interspatial Ring: Used to store corpses, equipment, and Soul Gold Beads 20 21 47.

Relationships

• Allen / Lei Allen — Closest friend, whom Roger treats as a brother. Guards his early cultivation; Roger later supports his godhood and authority as chief steward and deputy city lord 1 4 12 29 34.
• Hagson — Former chief, patron, and later subordinate. Supplies souls and resources, promotes Roger into tribal leadership, and urges him to become chief 5 8 11 22.
• Beverly and Croya — Allied Midgods and later deputy chiefs. Fight alongside him against the Black Bat Tribe and accept his leadership 20 22 32.
• Mia — First divine beast soul slave, a Nether Fox. Becomes his intimate partner and traveling companion; Roger supplies her with Soul Gold Beads and armor 27 28 29 36.
• Shelly — Blood Serpent Highgod and soul slave associated with Bloodstone Castle. Travels with Roger and Mia and becomes his intimate partner 37 38 40 41.
• Bell — Light–earth soul mutant initially avoided as a dangerous opponent. Roger later defeats and enslaves him after Bell reaches Highgod 25 44.
• Shaluba — Abusive former superior who had clashed with Roger’s parents. Roger deliberately leaves him to die during the tribal battle, having previously intended to kill him himself 2 5 19.
• Black Bat — Enemy chief responsible for the conflict that killed Roger’s and Allen’s parents. Roger kills him and claims his corpse and possessions 20 21.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Tribal War and Leadership

• Ascension changes his position: Becoming a Lowgod frees Roger from Shaluba’s authority. Hagson assigns him 400 Sanctuary experts, 1,000 Fire Rhinos, a vote in major decisions, and a share of horn-sale proceeds 5.
• Black Bat Tribe attack: Roger kills fifteen enemy Lowgods in less than a minute, then kills Black Bat and another Midgod, deciding the battle 20.
• New chief: Accepts leadership after Hagson and the other deities nominate him. Renames the tribe the Nether Luo Tribe and permits departure only after an Overgod Oath protecting tribal secrets 22.
• Regional expansion: Merges the Fire Rhino, Black Wolf, and Night Wind tribes. Raises the Lowgod ranks to nearly fifty and organizes squads to capture Sanctuary beings for soul refining 23.

Netherlo City

• Orders the construction of a city after reaching Highgod, seeking an organization capable of gathering intelligence across the Netherworld 32.
• Inspects the completed inner city after more than two centuries and allocates 100 Soul Gold Beads to reward contributions 33.
• Receives Starr, representing fourteen tribes seeking to join his command 33.
• Leaves Allen managing the city and his Water Highgod clone guarding it while he travels 35.

Travels and Investigation of the Era

• Reaches the Undead Sacred Mountain with Mia, finding Bloodstone Castle but no teleportation array 36.
• Searches more than a hundred Lowgods in the Undead Realm. Their memories indicate few divine beasts in contemporary material planes and no teleportation arrays there 38.
• Learns on Canglan Island that Lilith, whom he suspects is the future Sovereign of Death, recently visited with two followers 40.
• Returns to Bloodstone Castle for extended cultivation, eventually attaining Death Paragon roughly 100,000 years after arriving in the Netherworld 41 47.

Nether Mountain and the Four Divine Beasts

• Travels to Nether Mountain disguised as an ordinary Midgod and tests its protective barrier, discovering that he must wait for the full moon to enter safely 48.
• Finds Lilith and Inawei fishing nearby and marks both, but declines to attempt Lilith’s enslavement 50.
• Confirms that the Four Divine Beasts are still Midgods and plans to take a teleportation array from the Undead Sacred Mountain to the Infernal Realm 50.
• Enters Nether Mountain’s White Mist Zone, where his divine sense is severely suppressed. Suspects the Heart of the Netherworld is responsible, but finds nothing after three days 50.
• Enslaving the Four Divine Beasts remains a plan, not an accomplished feat, in the provided chapters 17 50.

Notable Quotes

“From today on, no one will dare bully us brothers again!” 5

“A hundred thousand years after arriving in the Netherworld, I finally qualify to compete with those super divine beasts for Sovereign Sparks.” 47