Echjar

Echjar, the Dragon of Despair, is a seventh-class dragon and the Destruction Demon Army’s 13th Battalion Commander. He enters Dareu as an enemy Yu IlHan cannot defeat through ordinary league, but a forced descent strips away his higher-existence qualification. His body later becomes Orochi’s transitional vessel, while Echjar’s separate thought-soul survives under IlHan’s Rule inside a crafted draconic artifact.

Biography

The Dragon of Despair

Echjar descends upon Dareu to avenge the dragons and Destruction Demon Army members killed there. Calling himself King of Dragons, he kills angels through overwhelming mana and blocks Spiera’s Great Cosmos-Severing Spear despite her status as an exceptional sixth class. He also recognizes that her visible power cannot explain the battlefield’s earlier losses and searches for the concealed attacker helping Heaven. (Chapters 243–244)

IlHan cannot overpower him directly. Instead, he uses Warp to pull Echjar into a lower world and forces a rules conflict: the dragon attacks lower existences where faction restrictions apply, causing his higher-existence qualification to collapse. Falling is gradual enough that Echjar retains seventh-class power for a dangerous interval, so the maneuver creates a route to victory rather than instant safety. (Chapters 244–245)

Echjar binds his blood and spirit to IlHan through a curse that feeds on despair and fear. It boils blood and burns flesh even through mastered curse resistance, and destroying the physical blood does not remove the spiritual connection. IlHan survives by combining Falling Down’s recovery, Transcendent Regeneration, Dragonic Blood, his bond with Yumir, and the Cradle of Miracles. The Cradle cleanses and absorbs the draconic blood until Echjar dies first. (Chapters 245–247)

The victory yields a seventh-class record, a vast body, and a captured thought-soul. These parts remain distinct. IlHan can dismantle the corpse and use its materials without claiming that Echjar’s personality controls every later artifact made from them. (Chapters 247, 249–250)

A defeated dragon’s second service

IlHan dismantles the remains and preserves blood, hide, bone, muscle, eyes, scales, and dragon heart for later creation. The quantity and league make Echjar’s corpse a material foundation for army equipment, Breath, the Cradle, and draconic vessels. Material use is a consequence of defeat, not willing service from the living commander. (Chapters 249–250, 278)

IlHan eventually reconstructs enough structure to call Echjar’s thought-soul into a controlled contest. Submission is not immediate. IlHan fights him for more than a year inside accelerated time before the proud dragon accepts Rule rather than lose the remaining self capable of thought and speech. The duration establishes that Creation and Rule cannot simply overwrite a seventh-class identity on contact. (Chapters 279–281)

IlHan places Echjar’s soul into the crafted Body of the Human Dragon associated with the Infernal Dragon Body, while Orochi receives the reconstructed humanoid body made from the corpse. Echjar can speak from the artifact and angrily criticize Orochi’s imperfect control. Their simultaneous existence confirms that body, soul, and inherited physical potential are separate records. (Chapters 281–282)

Appearance and personality

Echjar’s original form is an enormous dragon whose corpse yields a vast quantity of blood, hide, bone, muscle, scale, and a dragon heart. His scale eclipses the ordinary dragons gathered at Dareu, and his mana can materialize into weapons across the battlefield. (Chapters 244–250)

He is proud, aggressive, perceptive, and theatrical about his titles. He correctly suspects an unseen enemy and adapts quickly when Spiera attacks, but confidence in his league leaves him vulnerable to IlHan’s dimensional trap. Submission takes prolonged defeat, and even afterward he remains loud and combative rather than becoming an agreeable extension of Orochi or IlHan. (Chapters 243–247, 279–282)

Abilities and classes

Seventh-class dragon body and mana

Echjar possesses seventh-class strength, durability, flight, speed, and an enormous mana reserve. He materializes mana into many sharp weapons, interferes with enemy movement, and alternates fire and ice over broad areas. A casual shield blocks repeated sixth-class spatial strikes, showing that league and prepared mana defense can overcome a technique that killed Teraka instantly. (Chapters 244–245)

That power is not invulnerability. Higher-existence rules still govern its use in lower worlds, and IlHan exploits those restrictions rather than contesting the reserve head-on. Once Echjar’s qualification begins collapsing, the same body and mana deteriorate even though they remain lethal for a time. (Chapters 244–247)

Blood curse of despair

Echjar can bind blood and spirit to a target with a curse that persists until one participant dies. It feeds on the victim’s despair and fear, strengthening as hope collapses. The curse enters IlHan’s body, boils blood, burns flesh, and remains attached even when ordinary flame vaporizes the physical blood. (Chapter 245)

Mastered curse resistance alone cannot stop a seventh-class curse. IlHan survives only by layering domain recovery, regeneration, Dragonic Blood, dragon resonance, and the Cradle’s cleansing. The demonstrated curse is therefore exceptionally strong but not unconditional: denying despair, outlasting the falling caster, and purifying its draconic record can break the intended result. (Chapters 245–247)

Perception and battlefield judgment

Echjar reads the Dareu battlefield well enough to know Spiera did not cause all the deaths and searches for concealed support. He controls area magic to prevent angelic retreat and identifies dangerous targets instead of attacking blindly. His judgment is a learned command competency, not a supernatural ability to see through every concealment. IlHan still approaches and traps him. (Chapters 243–245)

Thought-soul, Rule, and material legacy

Echjar’s captured thought-soul retains speech, pride, memory, and the capacity to submit after a prolonged contest. Rule lets IlHan contain it in an artifact, but more than a year of fighting is required before acceptance. The source does not demonstrate Echjar independently possessing unrelated bodies or escaping IlHan’s soul system. (Chapters 279–282)

His reconstructed body retains enormous physical potential when Orochi controls it; even drawing out a fraction makes a fifth-class attacker difficult to injure. That is the corpse’s bodily ability, not proof that Echjar’s soul is fighting through Orochi. By the latest evidence, Echjar remains a subordinated thought-soul distinct from the body and from Orochi’s later dragon rebirth. (Chapters 281–285)

Relationships

• Yu IlHan: His killer, dismantler, craftsman, and eventual master. IlHan defeats him through dimensional rules, then spends more than a year securing the surviving soul’s submission.
• Orochi: Another thought-soul who receives the reconstructed body made from Echjar’s remains. Echjar remains a separate speaker and resents Orochi’s initial difficulty controlling it.
• Spiera: The sixth-class opponent whose spatial spear he blocks, prompting IlHan to seek a rules-based solution rather than direct combat.

Items

• Infernal Dragon Body: Its reconstruction provides the armor-like Body of the Human Dragon in which Echjar’s subordinated thought-soul is placed. (Chapters 280–282)
• Cradle of Miracles: Cleanses and absorbs his cursed blood, contributing both to his defeat and IlHan’s later dragon-creation systems. (Chapters 245–250)