Angers

Biodata

Background / History

Dragon-slaying career

Angers earned his reputation through more than a century of battles. Having killed a Dragon King, he was regarded as the world’s strongest active dragon-slaying warrior. Cassell College’s teachers and students held him in exceptional esteem, and his defeat by Cao Ya did not diminish their loyalty 42 44 46.

Before the events surrounding Cao Ya, Angers had forcibly brought Cassell College’s Japanese Branch to heel. He later recalled this precedent when accepting that a stronger opponent could impose terms on him 47.

Lu Mingfei’s recruitment and Cao Ya’s intervention

Angers personally selected Lu Mingfei as an S-rank incoming student. He considered Lu Mingfei a potential means of ending the history of dragons and was unwilling to lose control of his recruitment 41 43.

When Cao Ya challenged Cassell College’s unauthorized Three Gorges operation and revealed that Lu Mingfei was with him, Angers arranged a personal meeting. He first asked Norma to investigate Cao Ya, rejecting her initial finding that Cao Ya lacked dragon blood. Unable to identify Cao Ya’s supposed Word Spirit, he prepared to test him in combat 42 43.

At their meeting, Angers acknowledged their shared opposition to Dragon Raja but questioned Cao Ya’s proposal to capture living Dragon Kings for laboratory research. He feared that Cao Ya’s confidence would lead to a disastrous setback 44 45.

Defeat and the college merger

Angers accepted Cao Ya’s sparring challenge and activated Time Zero. Cao Ya broke its restraints through brute force, shattered Angers’s blade, and blocked every escape route with golden light. Angers conceded immediately and expressed happiness that such a powerful young fighter had joined the dragon-slaying cause 45.

Cao Ya then demanded that Cassell College become part of his planned martial arts university. Angers initially defended the college’s educational approach and cited the trustees’ authority. However, he correctly deduced that Cao Ya’s strength came from a teachable discipline rather than a Word Spirit 46.

Angers accepted the merger both to prevent a destructive confrontation and to gain access to Cao Ya’s cultivation methods. He believed that combining martial arts with his existing abilities could let him face a Dragon King head-on; the provided chapters do not show him learning those methods or advancing in power 47 48.

He suspended the Bronze City investigation, recalled the dragon-slaying team from China, and informed the Night Watcher that he would serve as Cassell College’s dean beneath Cao Ya. Despite the trustees’ opposition, the merger was finalized after Cao Ya incapacitated Frost Gattuso and renewed his ultimatum 47 48 50.

Old Tang’s identity

When Cao Ya identified Ronald Tang as Norton, the Bronze and Fire King, Angers instinctively attempted to activate Time Zero and draw his folding knife. Cao Ya physically restrained him, insisting that Norton’s consciousness should be destroyed while Old Tang’s human identity survived 50.

Angers warned that Old Tang’s consciousness was only temporary: once Norton awakened and recovered his ancient memories, the human personality would disappear 50.

Personality

Angers combines a cultivated, genial manner with an uncompromising commitment to destroying Dragon Raja. He laughs readily, banters about his students, and encourages giving young people room to express themselves. His hatred of dragons nevertheless runs deep enough that any method of increasing his dragon-slaying power strongly attracts him 43 44 45 49.

He is confident without being unable to accept defeat. After losing to Cao Ya, he neither protested nor resented the result, instead welcoming the emergence of a stronger ally. He also recognized when resistance would endanger Cassell College and accepted an unwanted merger rather than invite its destruction 45 46 47.

His treatment of Lu Mingfei reveals a more calculating side: he viewed the student as a tool for ending the dragons’ history and would permit him freedom only while keeping him within reach. By contrast, he opposed unnecessary harm during the sparring match and urgently asked Cao Ya not to kill Frost Gattuso 43 45 50.

Abilities & Skills

Word Spirit: Time Zero

Also called Word Spirit: Eternity, Time Zero increases Angers’s effective speed while slowing and restraining others within its domain 42 45.

• Extreme movement speed: Within the domain, his movement appears almost like teleportation 42.
• Area suppression: During the sparring match, spectators and passing researchers slowed down, while Cao Ya initially found moving even his fingers difficult 45.
• Activation: Angers releases the ability through a dragon-language chant 45.
• Bloodline resistance: Sufficiently high-grade dragon blood normally allows an opponent to ignore its suppression 45.
• Power-dependent limit: Its effects rely on Angers’s own strength. Cao Ya demonstrated that overwhelming physical power could break its restraints without bloodline resistance 45 46.
• Offensive limitation: Time Zero is not a destructive-class Word Spirit; Angers supplements it with weapon attacks 42 45.

Close-quarters combat

Angers combines speed, blade attacks, and extensive combat experience 44 45.

• Dodged Cao Ya’s punch even after his blade shattered, though the following golden light trapped him 45.
• Used a substitute blade and intended to avoid vital points during their sparring match 45.
• Had previously killed a Dragon King, establishing his reputation as a leading dragon slayer 42.

Investigation and leadership

Angers directs Cassell College’s recruitment and field operations, using Norma’s intelligence-gathering capabilities to investigate unusual threats 41 43 48.

• Personally selected Lu Mingfei for S-rank admission 41.
• Recognized that Cao Ya’s transferable power was not a Word Spirit 46.
• Retained exceptional influence among the faculty and students after his defeat 46.

Languages

• Speaks flawless Chinese, including idioms, with clear diction compared to that of a television presenter 43 44.
• Has a deep, cultured voice that initially suggests a European gentleman 43.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Damascus alchemical folding knife — His customary weapon; he deliberately did not use it against Cao Ya in their sparring match 45.
• Long blade — Used during the sparring match and shattered by Cao Ya’s punch 45.

Relationships

• Cao Ya — Initially a rival over Lu Mingfei and dragon-slaying policy; later his superior following Cassell College’s merger. Angers respects his strength and seeks his martial arts methods 43 45 47 48.
• Lu Mingfei — Personally selected S-rank recruit whom Angers considers crucial to ending the dragons’ history 41 43.
• Norma — Cassell College’s supercomputer, whom he tasks with investigating Cao Ya and arranging his flight 43.
• Night Watcher — Knows Angers’s strength well, initially doubts his defeat, and correctly identifies his interest in Cao Ya’s cultivation methods 48.
• Cassell College’s trustees — Share authority over the institution; some seek to restrain Angers’s influence and oppose his agreement to the merger 46 48 49.
• Old Tang / Norton — Angers attempts to kill him upon learning his Dragon King identity, rejecting the assumption that Old Tang’s human consciousness will remain intact after Norton awakens 50.

Notable Quotes

“I've lost this fight.” 45

“That power of yours isn't a word spirit, is it? It can be passed on, which is why you want to establish a university open to society.” 46