Lusien

Biodata

Appearance

• Build: Lean and muscular, with the serious, upright bearing that Ciprins associates with knights 115.
• Hair: Glossy and meticulously tied, without a strand out of place 115.
• Combat dress: Wears standard knight’s attire and carries a longsword and small round shield during the parliament attack 47.
• Posture: Maintains a perfectly straight back even while sleeping seated aboard an airship 69.
• Undercover clothing: Changes into casual clothes and sunglasses for the apprentices’ rescue mission, attempting to look like an ordinary traveler 67.

Personality

Lusien is calm, courteous, and unusually committed to chivalry. When the five-star official threatens to complain to the marshal, he simply invites him to do so. He continues bowing and saluting his companions formally even after they have fought through dangerous battles together 25 104.

Protecting others takes precedence over his own safety. On discovering a bomb inside Mel’s tower, he immediately picks it up to carry it outside rather than fleeing. He also refuses to move behind the spellcasters in the mine or accept evacuation while his teammates remain in danger 66 75 81.

His formality contrasts with his easy embarrassment. Luolan’s jokes, physical closeness, and mockery of his old-fashioned ideals repeatedly leave him blushing or at a loss for words. Nevertheless, Lusien remains considerate toward the priest, carrying him while he sleeps and continuing to protect him after learning that he has been deceived 68 70 71 75 90.

He treats Black Magic and necromancy according to their practical use rather than rejecting them outright. He thanks Xipei for destroying a bomb with Hellfire, offers to obtain donated bodies for her work, and has volunteered his own remains for combat service after death 66 90.

Abilities & Skills

Swordsmanship and Dou Qi

Lusien is recognized as a powerful knight whose Dou Qi is both strong and distinctive 44 65.

• Releases a large sword-driven blast of Dou Qi that strikes the ground and throws fleeing cyborgs off balance 47.
• Moves precisely through Xipei’s fire magic while severing cyborgs’ limbs for capture 47.
• Confronts the mage tower’s active defenses long enough for its occupants to recognize and admit him 65.
• Uses a Dou Qi blast to interrupt a giant enemy’s attack on Angela’s vital points 79.

Magitech Weapons

Lusien combines traditional knightly combat with modern firearms.

• Readies a magitech sidearm alongside his longsword when a large enemy approaches in the mine 79.
• Uses the Shield of the New Star’s magitech hand cannon to defeat cyborgs attempting to escape through a teleporter 90.

Command and Investigation

As captain, Lusien directs capital security operations and coordinates with other Federation forces.

• Leads preparations for the parliament building’s defenses during the International Magic Summit 38.
• Recognizes that a cyborg’s apparent detection ability may come from facial electronics or mechanical eyes rather than an assassin class 38.
• Identifies a suspected detonator and proposes dispatching the Magitech Corps 44.
• Recognizes a parcel bomb before fully opening its packaging 66.
• Directs troops searching an enemy base, where detection equipment identifies nearly fifty possible kidnapping victims 103.
• Explains that attacks on dwarven magic-crystal mines threaten the energy supply for the Federation’s principal magitech weapons 86.

Limitations

• Mental power: Xipei’s attempt at archmage-level mental contact overwhelms him. Luolan claims that Lusien collapses dramatically, but Lusien later insists he was only dizzy for a few seconds 44 47.
• Specialist magical knowledge: He knows Angela is a druid but initially mistakes “Destroyer” for a description of her strict prison management rather than a druid classification 76 77.
• Protective rigidity: His insistence on standing before spellcasters persists even when Luolan’s darkvision would make the priest a better guide through the unlit mine 75.

Equipment

• Longsword — Used for close combat, dismembering cyborgs, and projecting Dou Qi 47.
• Small round shield — Worn on his left arm during the parliament battle 47.
• Magitech sidearm / hand cannon — Supplements his sword against powerful enemies and fleeing cyborgs 79 90.
• Wrist communicator — Receives Angela’s instructions to rendezvous at Mining Platform No. 8 70.
• Compressed biscuits and nutrient solution — Shares these supplies when the party discovers that Angela has gone three days without a proper meal 78.

Relationships

• Luolan Heiye — Priest, teammate, and frequent tormentor. Luolan sleeps on Lusien, clings to him during travel, and deliberately conceals his dark elf identity to enjoy the knight’s eventual reaction. Their physical closeness continues in later appearances, but no explicit relationship label is given 69 70 75 171.
• Xipei / Ciprins / Mage Field — Fellow combatant and Shield of the New Star mage. Lusien helps her leave prison, cooperates with her against the cyborgs, and later explains her public reputation as the “Flame of Fury.” He offers official support for her necromancy, including access to donated remains 30 47 62 83 90.
• Mel / Mephistopheles / Lord Madsen — Respected archmage and designer of the Shield’s equipment. Lusien assists him during the apprentices’ kidnapping and urges him to rest after the prolonged rescue operation 67 104.
• Angela Rhodes / Lady Crow — Federation colleague and fellow rescue-team member. Lusien recognizes fragments of her mecha, worries about her injuries, and intervenes when Mel and Xipei attack her in the mine 75 76 78.
• Reynold — Senior Federation official whom Lusien accompanies during the investigation. After Reynold is kidnapped, Lusien asks Mel and Xipei to assist with his rescue and helps coordinate the official response 68 104 112.
• Moli and Anna — The kidnapped apprentices whose rescue he helps organize. Moli addresses him affectionately as “big brother Lusien,” which he accepts without objection 30 67.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Prison Detention and Release

• Defends the detention of Mel and the narrator despite pressure from the five-star official. When Reynold proposes releasing the two mages, Lusien is one of four people who object 25.
• Later removes the narrator’s anti-magic manacles and offers transportation home; Moli declines because she has brought her own car 30.

International Magic Summit Attacks

• Responds to Mage Field’s report of suspicious cyborgs near the summit venue. The Shield locates the targets after her paper familiar bursts into conspicuous red smoke 38 39.
• Is publicly identified as investigating the attack on Holy Light City’s federal prison. News coverage attributes prisoners’ frostbite to his new weapon 39.
• Joins Xipei against the cyborgs fleeing the parliament building, specifically requesting that some be taken alive, then directs his subordinates to arrest the survivors 47.

Apprentices’ Kidnapping and Mine Expedition

• Visits Mel’s tower with Druid Southern Sect enhancement potions for research and reassures the narrator that her nominal Shield position does not require routine patrols 62.
• Brings news of Anna and Moli’s kidnapping and discovers a bomb delivered to the tower. The kidnappers demand the Shield’s equipment data and design drafts, linking the threat to both Mel and capital security 65 66 67.
• Helps the archmages register email accounts, then organizes a discreet journey by public airship rather than a conspicuous dedicated aircraft 67.
• Leads from the front in the dwarven mine and refuses Mel’s attempt to evacuate him during the battle against the Electronic Demons 75 81.
• Helps explain Xipei’s connection to the “Flame of Fury” legend and the destruction of the Annihilation Cult’s leadership 83 84.
• Attacks cyborgs at their escape teleporter. When the device subsequently fails, he is separated from Mel, Xipei, and Reynold 90.

Rescue Operations and Later Crises

• Directs the search for captives at the enemy base. After the operation passes to the Magitech Corps, he recruits Mel and Xipei for Reynold’s rescue, supplies special phones, and arranges for them to rest 103 104.
• Helps arrange diplomatic care for Ruiduo and introduces acting Magic Council chair Madam Christine during discussions of Reynold’s kidnapping 112.
• Arrives at the tower with Luolan to request help for the comatose Reynold and five-star official. Damala, unfamiliar with them, brings them before Xipei and asks whether they should be executed 166 167.
• Seeks expert assistance after Mel and Xipei identify the supposed “Superpowers” associated with the Machine Zealots as sorcery 167.
• Reacts so strongly to the discovery of an enemy mothership hidden near the capital that Mel, Xipei, and Luolan simultaneously cast calming spells on him, overdoing the effect 175.
• Joins the friends gathered at the hospital for the birth of Reynold and Lady Crow’s daughter 206.

Notable Quotes

“Of course. Feel free to complain about me to the marshal.” 25

“As a knight, I ought to stand in front of the spellcasters. Asking me to go to the back of the group is an insult to my chivalry!” 75

“I signed a form volunteering to donate my remains for combat use, for example. If I die in battle, you can use my corpse on the spot!” 90

Trivia

• According to Moli, Lusien won the previous year’s online poll for “the most reliable husband in your heart,” placing above the Holy Lord of the Temple of Light 67.
• The narrator jokingly calls him Lusien “Tree” Xiujia while Luolan sleeps clinging to his chest 70.
• Carries Angela, Mel, Xipei, and Luolan on his shoulders after they take crow form during the mine expedition 78.
• Luolan compares him to an ancient royal knight because of his desire to defend the country even after death. The comparison is teasing, not confirmation that Lusien is a transmigrator 90.