Anubi

Anubi, also called Anubi Inferno and the Crazed Monarch, is the dissolute ruler of the Ravagers' Iron and Blood Country. He is personally powerful but politically destructive, allowing Su Chen to enter his court under the name Lontu, manipulate him into a disastrous campaign, and steal two national treasures. His weakened rule later collapses in Danba's coup.

Biography

A ruler freed from restraint

Anubi first enters the conflict by sending an envoy to ask why Scarlet Heart has intensified the Beast Wave. The envoy's murder exposes the limits of his authority beyond the Ravager court. Soon afterward, the death of his uncle Sachar removes the elder who trained him, supported his accession, and forced him to attend to government. Anubi celebrates that freedom by murdering Alicia and the other women in his chamber, treating their deaths as an outlet for both bad news and personal exhilaration. (Chapters 685 and 690)

His reign after Sachar is defined by appetite and unpredictability. He fills the palace with women, wine, meat, and gladiatorial bloodshed while subordinates try to anticipate whims that can end in execution. Yet he is not wholly detached from politics: he understands that nobles can be corrupt, knows the difference between popularity and fear, and recognizes the practical danger posed by Scarlet Heart. His problem is not an inability to reason at all, but a refusal to accept limits whenever restraint becomes inconvenient. (Chapters 690 and 702–706)

“Lontu” at court

Su Chen approaches Anubi while disguised as a Ravager named Lontu. After explaining an unusual Origin Energy experiment, Su survives a Clairvoyant inspection and attracts the emperor's interest as a source of novel entertainment. Anubi recruits him immediately, gives him three days to provide amusement, and promises execution if he fails. Su answers with a gladiatorial “accident” that lets a modified Terror Lizard break through the arena barrier and kill nobles. (Chapters 701–705)

Anubi delights in the unplanned carnage and protects Lontu from punishment, even when Averigus condemns the deaths. Su then channels the emperor's craving for novelty into military ambition. He argues that personally defeating the exhausted Beast Wave would provide battlefield excitement, public glory, and a chance to eclipse Averigus. Anubi accepts, promotes Lontu to command thousands of soldiers, and marches with the Origin Bone Scepter and Vitality Totem despite opposition from more cautious advisers. (Chapters 705–713)

A manipulated expedition

At the front, Anubi insists on an encirclement even after experienced commanders explain that the terrain makes it dangerous. When Gucha calls the plan foolish, the emperor attacks him; after being unable to win cleanly, Anubi resumes the council bruised and resentful. Su redirects the plan by proposing Anubi's carriage and the real national treasures as bait. A substitute occupies the carriage, while Anubi watches from the rear and imagines himself a great commander even as Gucha changes or ignores his orders. (Chapters 714–715)

Su's hidden marker draws Scarlet Heart toward the real ruler. Anubi abandons his plans for glory and retreats, leaving Gucha to hold the army together. He attempts to deny possessing the stolen goods when Scarlet Heart demands them, but his lack of knowledge cannot resolve a deception designed by Su. Goncourt and the imperial defenders save him from the first direct attacks while Su uses the chaos to seize the Origin Bone Scepter and Vitality Totem, free human captives, and spread a false report that Anubi has died. (Chapters 717–723)

The Ravagers win the immediate battle at enormous cost, but Anubi returns without the two national treasures, with senior commanders dead or dying, and with his prestige devastated. Later reports describe him under attack from all sides and close to abdication. Danba ultimately launches a coup; Averigus's last-minute betrayal breaks the Inferno Tribe's position and ends Anubi's reign. The corpus does not state whether Anubi is killed, imprisoned, exiled, or survives privately after deposition. (Chapters 723, 808, and 1037)

Appearance and personality

The corpus gives no stable description of Anubi's face, height, hair, or clothing. In his first direct scene he reclines among nearly naked women on a narrow bed made from White-Headed Tiger King fur. During the campaign he presents himself through a grand imperial carriage and public display rather than a distinctive personal costume. (Chapters 690, 713, and 715)

Anubi is lustful, cruel, vain, volatile, and addicted to novelty. He kills servants to regulate his mood, turns executions into entertainment, and values unexpected bloodshed more than ordered contests. He also hates the Harpy-influenced palace because it symbolizes duties and traditions he did not choose. The title “Crazed Monarch” describes this deliberate pursuit of an unfettered life, not a complete loss of comprehension. (Chapters 690 and 702–706)

Moments of insight make his failures more culpable. He recognizes corruption among the nobility, admits that Scarlet Heart is too strong and slippery to kill casually, and understands that victory could improve his reputation. Nevertheless, flattery, jealousy, and boredom determine his decisions more reliably than national survival. His cowardice under direct threat finally exposes the gap between his cultivated image and battlefield character. (Chapters 705, 712–719)

Abilities and cultivation

Anubi is a peak-tier Totemic Warrior who has undergone six Origin Energy Temple baptisms. This gives him the physical force to survive imperial politics and makes assassination difficult, but his dissolute life and lack of serious combat experience prevent him from realizing the full value of that foundation.

Six baptisms and physical combat

Six baptisms have given Anubi a strong, durable Ravager body and immense Origin Energy. His sexual activity alone releases shockwaves powerful enough that expensive formations are needed to protect the palace. In battle with Gucha, his punches and kicks generate large energy waves, and he can force the more experienced commander to absorb blows because attacking the emperor without restraint would be treated as treason. (Chapters 690, 702, and 714)

The encounter also defines his limit. Gucha has the same number of baptisms, superior totemic attainment, and far greater battlefield experience. Although Anubi can trade attacks, he cannot dominate him on merit and is punched in the face. Scarlet Heart later assesses Anubi as a peak Totemic Warrior whose actual fighting ability may be lower than Gucha's because decades of indulgence have eroded both experience and willingness to risk his life. (Chapters 714 and 719)

Imperial authority and battlefield command

Anubi can issue Inferno imperial summons, appoint officers, mobilize roughly two hundred thousand soldiers, and command national institutions. His authority also allows him to remove the Origin Bone Scepter from the palace and pressure the Divine Shrine into releasing the Vitality Totem. These are political powers supported by the throne, not personal techniques. (Chapters 691 and 713)

His command ability is poor. He chooses plans for spectacle, rejects terrain-based advice, and treats disagreement as a personal challenge. Experienced officers consequently alter or ignore his orders. The army's collapse after Su spreads a false report of his death shows that the emperor remains a central symbol, but also that he has failed to create a resilient command structure. (Chapters 714–723)

Vitality Totem

Anubi carries and activates the Vitality Totem during the campaign. Its method power can protect lifeforms using it and strengthen Totemic Warriors with immense vitality. Later analysis confirms that it releases extraordinary power through Anubi's hands, but the artifact's deeper transformation and eventual absorption belong to Su Chen rather than to Anubi. (Chapters 713, 718–725, and 866)

The totem does not cure poor judgment or guarantee victory. Anubi loses it when Su uses a decoy, official command medallion, and battlefield chaos to gain access. The finalized inventory does not assign the Vitality Totem to Anubi because his custody is temporary and ends during the campaign. (Chapters 715–723)

Judgment and exploitable motives

Anubi can follow analysis and identify obvious dangers, but Su repeatedly frames proposals around pleasure, prestige, and rivalry so that the emperor supplies his own justification. This works because Anubi favors clever subordinates who can surprise him and because he believes his status will shield him from consequences. The manipulation is social rather than supernatural. (Chapters 702–714)

The principal counter to Anubi is therefore disciplined opposition. Sachar, Goncourt, Gucha, and Averigus each constrain him through family authority, religious legitimacy, military expertise, or public principle. Once those checks weaken or turn against him, his reign collapses despite his personal cultivation. His latest state contains no evidence of further combat growth or a regained political base. (Chapters 690, 705–714, and 1037)

Relationships

• Su Chen: Anubi knows Su only as the Ravager Lontu and raises him rapidly because of his intelligence and capacity for novelty. Su exploits that favor to gain command, free captives, provoke the expedition, and steal national treasures. The relationship is a one-sided deception that materially enables Anubi's downfall. (Chapters 701–723)
• Danba: Danba initially uses Anubi's imperial summons to consolidate Ravager tribes while privately recognizing his weakness. After the failed campaign destabilizes the throne, Danba mounts the coup that deposes him. Their relationship moves from opportunistic nominal loyalty to successful rebellion. (Chapters 691, 701, 808, and 1037)
• Scarlet Heart: Anubi sends an envoy to question Scarlet Heart and later marches to defeat it, but the Demonic Emperor sees the Ravagers as compensation for Su's theft. Su's markings turn Anubi into the apparent holder of stolen treasure, producing a confrontation the ruler neither understands nor controls. (Chapters 685, 712–723)
• Sachar: Anubi's uncle trains him, disciplines him, supports his accession, and prevents complete neglect of government. Anubi experiences those efforts as oppression and celebrates Sachar's death, demonstrating how thoroughly he resents obligation even when it preserves his reign. (Chapter 690)
• Averigus: The God of War openly condemns Anubi's use of noble deaths as entertainment and represents principled military resistance within the Inferno Tribe. Anubi's jealousy helps Su persuade him to seek battlefield glory. Averigus later supports Danba's coup, and his final betrayal breaks Anubi's regime. (Chapters 705–713 and 1037)
• Gucha and Goncourt: Gucha challenges Anubi's military incompetence, while Goncourt restrains him through the Divine Shrine's authority. Both protect him during the Scarlet Heart crisis despite their criticism, and the battle leaves Gucha dead and Goncourt mortally wounded, removing two of the regime's strongest stabilizers. (Chapters 714–723)

Items

The finalized item inventory for Anubi contains no entries. He temporarily carries the Origin Bone Scepter and Vitality Totem as Ravager national treasures, but Su Chen steals both during the failed expedition.