El'Rion

El'Rion is a prince of the Pluto Race whose efforts to repay an ancient debt to the Fawkes place him at the intersection of the Human Race's survival and the politics of the Gods. He first treats humans from the height of a race accustomed to ruling Existence, but Leonel Morales repeatedly turns their encounters into lessons about the limits of inherited superiority. Their wary contact becomes cooperation, then manipulation, and finally a direct test of which of them has the better claim to confidence.

Biography

A prince inside Earth's buried history

El'Rion first enters the story through Merlin's Prophecy, a Zone that places Leonel in his body during the ancient work surrounding Earth's pyramids. He is a Pluto prince traveling with his people's artisans aboard a vessel made from a Void Beast's corpse. The Pluto are not on Earth as conquerors: generations earlier, a Fawkes aided one of them, and El'Rion's people are honoring that debt by diverting Incomplete Worlds into the Dream Project and securing safe passage for the surviving Fawkes. Their pyramids draw on Earth's quartz and planetary energy, weakening the world as the price of that protection, with the possibility that it may later rise again. (Chapters 2204, 2217–2218)

The Zone's displacement makes El'Rion experience Leonel before he can properly judge him. Leonel, acting through El'Rion's body, nearly kills Shan'Rae, after which the real El'Rion intervenes despite having been maimed and crushed by a Void Race ancestor. He stops Leonel's near-Impetus spear thrust with one finger and disperses Shan'Rae's counterattack with a Force-formed palm. His goal is not mercy in an ordinary sense: he knows that killing even a God Race servant could condemn Leonel's entire people, and he refuses to let an emotional human create consequences he does not understand. (Chapters 2207–2211)

That intervention becomes their first battle of assumptions. El'Rion draws The Hourglass, frightening Shan'Rae into flight and freezing Leonel in time merely by willing him to be the target. Leonel escapes the lock by changing his state, injures El'Rion's wrist with a concentrated Starship beam, and briefly takes the artifact. The Hourglass refuses him: it becomes heavier than a planet and conceptually too large for his Internal Sight to contain, then returns to El'Rion after Leonel's body fails. El'Rion's wrist has already healed. Although he wins possession back, the human has outmaneuvered him and forced him to revise the effortless certainty with which he entered the encounter. (Chapters 2211, 2213–2215)

El'Rion explains that his converted age is fourteen and his cultivation “Quasi Sixth,” although in absolute terms he remains in the Fifth Dimension. He initially tries to persuade Leonel with facts and the warning that The Hourglass cannot simply restore the dead. Remembering his father's lesson that a leader must understand a human's “why,” he attempts to reason through Leonel's grief. Leonel instead exposes how little El'Rion knows about either him or his own mission, calling him a child without personal conviction. Rather than retaliating, El'Rion follows Leonel out of curiosity. Their exchange turns his mission from rote fulfillment of a family obligation into a personal attempt to understand the human before him. (Chapters 2215–2217)

Timeless events and reluctant cooperation

El'Rion later brings Leonel to a Timeless Event because he opposes the passive Pluto policy of waiting for Existence's decline. He explains the competing God factions: some preserve the balance, some advocate erasing humanity, and the Void Race destroys worlds in the hope of delaying the Northern Star's advance. Yet his own response exposes the same contradiction Leonel has already identified. El'Rion wants to mitigate the fixed slaughter of the Silver Empire's people but recoils when the event proves entangled with forces beyond his authority. When Leonel keeps asking why he came if he believes intervention futile, El'Rion finally loses his composure and throws a punch. Leonel uses his intimate memory of the Pluto body to incapacitate him without lasting injury, after which the embarrassed prince regains control and continues beside him. (Chapters 2237–2239)

Their next major meeting occurs after Aina wins the Gathering of Kingdoms and rival powers continue scheming against the Human Bubble. El'Rion appears as the enforcement arm of the Pluto-backed order, executes the Nomad Kaelan, then rewinds the immediate event before explaining why his faction can act only within narrow political limits. He warns that the Owlan Race possesses a Dharma wielder and that the Pluto cannot openly protect humanity without worsening the pressure on their declining race. Leonel answers by asking for an opportunity rather than a shield. (Chapters 2642–2644)

El'Rion chooses to spend his authority on reviving the Gathering of Minds, placing the Owlans in the host position and accepting Leonel's challenge format. The arrangement gives humanity a path to legitimacy while publicly preserving Pluto neutrality, and it shields El'Rion from the accusation that he has simply taken humanity's side. He even accepts an invitation to share a meal with Leonel, Aina Morales, and their companions. That domestic pause marks how far he has moved from seeing Leonel as an insignificant creature, even though Leonel later uses the Pluto involvement to bait larger powers into conflict. (Chapters 2645–2646)

Watching Leonel manipulate the Gathering, El'Rion recognizes both the brilliance and the personal cost of remaining near him. He understands that Leonel has used him, but also that the same scheme diverts attention from Pluto plans and benefits their position. Faced with the choice of accepting a relationship in which Leonel may maneuver him for mutual benefit or severing it, El'Rion responds only that he is a Pluto. He neither exposes Leonel's schemes nor claims to have forgiven them. When his elders later ask why he concealed Leonel's role in provoking the Void Race war, he calls it a personal debt and refuses to take revenge while their starting points remain unequal; he intends to settle it with his fists only after Leonel has had time to catch up. (Chapters 2665, 2698–2699, and 2940)

The burden of Pluto supremacy

The widening collapse of Existence gives El'Rion's race a role far larger than political dominance. Later revelations establish that the Pluto began as Demi-Gods of Death. Fawkes aid allowed their racial path to mutate into the first true inheritance of Time, creating the ancient debt that brought El'Rion to Earth. Their bodies do not decay with time, and their dead are incorporated into a racial formation that delays the Northern Star's descent and prolongs Existence. The privilege El'Rion inherited is therefore also a duty: Pluto deaths, remains, and interventions carry consequences for every race. (Chapters 3141–3143)

That burden becomes immediate when Leonel summons and retains the corpse of Jo'Anes, a Pluto whom El'Rion had warned not to challenge him. El'Rion correctly identifies the dead man before confirmation and suspects that Dream Force may have exploited Jo'Anes's inferiority, while admitting that the weakness could also have been his own. His warning had only spurred the older youth's pride. The incident inflames the Pluto as a whole and demonstrates the vulnerability hidden beneath their power: racial rules and universal expectations bind them more tightly than almost anyone else. (Chapter 3143)

El'Rion eventually meets Leonel on the Idol Battlefield after both have grown. He still believes their inherited disparity must decide the issue and accuses Leonel of the same arrogance displayed by other great powers. Leonel answers that the presumption itself is El'Rion's arrogance. In their ensuing clash, Leonel's spear forces El'Rion back and draws a torrent of the blood that his body once refused to shed even before a Void Race ancestor. El'Rion finally sees that the battlefield is already contained within Leonel's Creation World and that the human he once considered beneath him has surpassed him decisively. He concedes after one exchange and leaves alive, abandoning even the Fist monument's blessing. His final action is not reconciliation, but it is an honest acknowledgment that inherited status no longer supplies the answer. (Chapters 3235–3236)

Appearance and personality

El'Rion is introduced as an almost four-meter-tall youth with blue-grey skin and a body built on a scale that makes Leonel look small. Pluto language and physiology are correspondingly immense: their speech resembles thunder and dragons, and their movement can shake the earth. By his Idol Battlefield meeting with Leonel, he is in his twenties and has grown further, although Leonel still sees the same fourteen-year-old behind the imposing frame. (Chapters 2210, 2215–2216, 3143, and 3236)

He is restrained, literal, and habitually indifferent. Humiliation and terrible injury initially produce less visible emotion than an awkward conversation with Leonel. His directness gives him integrity—he does not pretend to convictions he lacks—but also poor charisma and an inability to read emotional motives. Leonel is uniquely able to provoke him into frowns, embarrassment, and even an impulsive punch. Curiosity, responsibility, and pride coexist in him: he will bend policy to prevent injustice, yet takes inherited Pluto superiority so much for granted that recognizing Leonel as an equal requires an actual defeat. (Chapters 2209, 2215–2217, 2237–2239, and 3236)

Abilities and cultivation

El'Rion's formal progression is deliberately sparse. At his first meeting he identifies himself, in converted human terms, as fourteen years old and at a “Quasi Sixth Dimensional” level, while Leonel notes that he is technically still in the Fifth Dimension. He remains in the Fifth Dimension at their next recorded meeting but has found substantial room to strengthen within it. Later chapters call him the foremost genius of the Pluto Race without supplying another formal level. The race's cultivation makes each step qualitatively deeper than the same dimensional label among lesser races, so his early number is not a reliable measure of his combat scale. (Chapters 2215–2216, 2642, 2931, and 3236)

Pluto body, blood, and physical force

El'Rion's primary weapon is his body. Even after a Void Race ancestor caves in his chest and tears away limbs, he remains conscious, displays almost no pain, and can intercept Leonel's spear. A concentrated beam from a Starship capable of killing most Ancestors only nearly cuts through his wrist, and the wound closes within moments. His skin reflects dispersed Spear Force; at close range he can release a projected Force palm that remains connected to his body in character and power. (Chapters 2208–2215)

Every part of a Pluto is extraordinarily dense and valuable. The single drop of blood shed while Leonel occupies El'Rion's body pierces the corpse of a Void Beast like wet paper, then returns rather than being lost. His later blood falls like meteors and excavates craters across the Idol Battlefield. This durability is not invulnerability: precisely targeted force can jar his organs, a strong enough strike can make him bleed, and Leonel ultimately overwhelms his fist with a spear. El'Rion's emotional hesitation also creates openings that a calculating opponent can exploit. (Chapters 2217, 2239, 2725, 3141, and 3236)

Time inheritance

The Pluto are the only race known to pass down a natural Time Force inheritance rather than gaining limited temporal control as an auxiliary effect of higher Force mastery. El'Rion can claw into the stream of time and rewind an immediate killing, reconstructing the scene after executing Kaelan. He can also reverse events in the Dream Plane to investigate what occurred in his absence. His affinity lets him sense temporal disturbances before ordinary warning reaches him. (Chapters 2642, 2940, and 3078)

The inheritance does not make him omniscient or free of causality. Timeless Events are fixed in their essential outcome, though surrounding details may be changed, and El'Rion cannot initially identify which aspects are variable. His own explanations show that interference can accelerate Existence's destruction, while Pluto duty and factional politics restrict where he may act. Immunity to most Dream Force likewise does not prevent subtler manipulation of Pluto choices, a weakness he himself suspects after Jo'Anes's death. (Chapters 2237–2239 and 3143)

The Hourglass

The Hourglass is a Pluto God Armament entrusted to El'Rion for the Fawkes mission, not an innate technique. It grants Time Force control at the scale of Existence: reversing one second affects every world, star, and being, regardless of distance or strength. More fundamentally, it warps reality, using temporal reversal to bypass Karma and cause-and-effect complications. El'Rion activates it through intent—thinking of Leonel and willing him frozen halts both body and thought—and he can threaten an escaped target by reversing events until that target is present again. (Chapters 2211 and 2213)

The artifact is also self-protecting and keyed to the Pluto Constellation that forged it. In an unauthorized hand it becomes progressively heavier than a planet and expands conceptually beyond the reach of Internal Sight, defeating both physical possession and spatial storage. Its targeting can nevertheless be fooled if El'Rion's mental image of the target no longer matches a rapidly altered state: Leonel separates from the World Spirit, leaves his armor, and enters the Segmented Cube to escape the lock. El'Rion has not fused the God Armament with his body, because his foundation would implode under that union; the cracked state later becomes evidence that Existence itself has been unnaturally destabilized. (Chapters 2213–2214, 2907, 2960, and 2996)

The Hourglass is not an uncomplicated resurrection device. El'Rion warns that its power is much better suited to killing than returning life, and later describes temporal changes as tending toward fixed endpoints: a person saved in one moment may simply die by another route. It also cannot overturn a Timeless Event's essential result. Its latest physical condition shown in the corpus is cracked, with no later scene confirming that El'Rion repaired, fused with, or used it during his Idol Battlefield defeat. (Chapters 2211, 2226, 2237–2238, and 2996)

Combat judgment and limits

El'Rion is a close-combat specialist with exceptional perception, reaction speed, and Force control. He redirects Leonel's spear with a fingertip, flattens terrain by colliding his projected palm with Shan'Rae's scythe, kills Kaelan with a gesture, and recognizes both the body mechanics and strategic danger of opponents quickly. His Pluto resistance makes ordinary Dream Force coercion ineffective, even in infancy. (Chapters 2210–2211, 2642, and 2646)

His clearest limitation is not raw power but perspective. Early in the story he relies on racial rules, political precedent, and the assumed gap between Gods and humans. Leonel exploits that predictability, changes state to escape The Hourglass, uses El'Rion's sense of responsibility to shape policy, and ultimately builds a world whose control the Pluto youth does not perceive until their final clash. At his latest appearance, El'Rion remains an extraordinarily powerful Pluto, but Leonel defeats him with one spear-to-fist exchange and he withdraws rather than prolonging a hopeless contest. (Chapters 2213–2217, 2643–2646, and 3235–3236)

Power progression

Relationships

• Leonel Morales: El'Rion begins by protecting a human he considers dangerously ignorant, then becomes curious after Leonel outmaneuvers him. He gives Leonel political room through the Gathering of Minds while knowing that he may be used, preserves their dispute until Leonel can catch up, and finally concedes when Leonel surpasses him. Their relationship is a mixture of wary respect, manipulation, rivalry, and an intimacy neither names as friendship. (Chapters 2210–2217, 2642–2646, 2699, 2940, and 3235–3236)
• Shan'Rae: El'Rion prevents Leonel from killing the Void princess because the retaliation would destroy far more than either combatant. He then turns his Force and The Hourglass against her until she flees, placing his judgment and larger responsibilities above their status as fellow members of God Races. (Chapters 2207–2211)
• The Fawkes family: His mission exists because the Pluto owe the Fawkes an ancient debt tied to the Pluto Race's transformation from Death to Time. El'Rion helps execute the Dream Project and later creates political space for the Human Race, but the obligation never makes him an unconditional Fawkes subordinate. (Chapters 2217–2218, 2643–2646, and 3141)
• The Pluto Race: El'Rion is both its prince and its most prominent young genius. He respects its burdens and protects its political position, yet rejects complete passivity toward Existence's decline. His independent dealings with Leonel repeatedly force him to balance personal judgment against the pressure his actions place on his family. (Chapters 2237–2238, 2643–2646, and 2940)