Lianna Venice — Extra's Descent

Biography

A missing brother and Evelyn's wound

Lianna first appears through Reinhard, whom she has aided for more than a year in investigating his family's deaths. She owns much of the red-light district, funds the Imperial Army, and gives Reinhard resources without requesting visible payment, creating an image of a benefactor with no hidden motive. In return, she tells him that she is searching for a brother missing for more than a decade and later claims to have learned that he was never merely missing. Reinhard offers to connect her with someone who can help, unknowingly extending her reach into Astrea's military circle. (Chapters 299–300)

That connection brings Lianna to Evelyn. At an expensive private dinner, she presents the missing brother as “Lance,” a name Evelyn does not recognize, and cultivates enough trust to exchange contact information. The meeting's concealed purpose is not reunion but diagnosis: once Evelyn relaxes, Lianna peers into her core, notices the corrosion surrounding it, and suppresses her own mana channels so that even Evelyn reads her as merely average. Alone afterward, Lianna reveals that the name she withheld was Lancelott. The text strongly links Lance and Lancelott, but never formally explains whether Lance is simply a shortened public name. (Chapters 341–342)

Lust behind the business empire

Lianna's true role emerges inside the Dimensional Tower. She helps redirect Brandon into the real tower by manipulating Alan Ross and changing the portal coordinates after his soul is registered, while Pride distorts the tower's wavelengths and delays rescue. Appearing among pink petals, she disperses a treant's vines with a snap and discusses making Brandon her vassal. The scene identifies her as Lust, a Holy Britannian-born Archbishop who can enter the continent, and shows that her interest in Brandon has already displaced Reinhard as a candidate. Her calculations help turn the academy trial into an engineered massacre and psychological test. (Chapter 371)

Outside that hidden identity, Lianna converts social access into a rapidly expanding empire. A bar targeting wealthy men leads to a luxury lounge, fashion line, VN Entertainment, hotels, restaurants, real estate, and a casino, with ownership distributed so that only the media company publicly bears her name. Evelyn unknowingly brings her into Brandon's Christmas gathering, and Lianna later appears at the funeral, recruits Raven and Reinhard for VN Entertainment work, and draws closer to the people surrounding Brandon. In private, Orion—the Archbishop of Greed—calls her the youngest, newest, and weakest Archbishop, but her caution and calculation make direct comparison an incomplete measure of her danger. (Chapters 379–380, 403–404, 411–416)

A staged breakup and a false romance

Brandon turns Lianna's business instincts into an approach route. He steers Rachel toward Lianna's casino, where Lianna proposes an Asami Group partnership and folds another influential company into her network. Lianna, meanwhile, learns that Brandon and Amelia have separated and begins pursuing him more openly. She is fascinated because the Authority of Lust has drawn countless men toward her, yet Brandon appears indifferent to her natural charm. Mistaking his grief, resistance, and calculated attention for something genuine, she decides that he is the person she wants rather than another easily controlled admirer. (Chapters 422–424)

The romance is a construction. Brandon and Amelia have staged their breakup so he can enter Lianna's circle without alerting her, while his business expansion and public flirtation make the interest plausible. After the Elemental Amulet event, Lianna takes him to her condominium and leaves briefly to handle a manufactured problem at VN Entertainment. Brandon uses the opening to connect a flash drive to her private desktop, allowing Matthew and Nathan to unlock and copy encrypted files before she returns. Lianna remains convinced that his attraction is real, reading his restraint and carefully directed gaze as courtship rather than preparation for her exposure. (Chapters 424–426)

The Britannia Dome requiem

At the Britannia Dome, Lianna welcomes Brandon into the VN Entertainment VIP section, fixes his tie, and is visibly delighted when he unexpectedly takes the stage. His piano performance is instead a requiem and a trap. Cursed Threads already span the venue, binding the audience before he publicly names Lianna as the Archbishop of Lust. She tries repeatedly to summon enough power to burn through the restraints, but cannot break them. The woman who built her position by ensnaring others is lifted by the neck and beheaded before the executives, investors, and guests gathered on her own institutional ground. (Chapters 428–429)

The execution does not stand on Brandon's accusation alone. An autopsy finds forbidden magic in Lianna's body, while witness testimony and confidential investigations by Belle, Amelia, and Bellion confirm suspicious activity and her Archbishop identity. The aftermath identifies ministers, generals, conglomerates, and other compromised people affected by her charm, showing that her business network doubled as political infiltration. Lianna's death clears Brandon's operation but does not end the larger threat: she is treated as a gatekeeper to the Archbishops and the forces behind them rather than their final authority. (Chapter 430)

Appearance and personality

Lianna is a tall, voluptuous woman with perfectly styled platinum-blonde hair and ruby or crimson eyes. Her features are repeatedly described as ethereal, and her clothing emphasizes controlled elegance or allure, from a white slit dress at Evelyn's dinner to a fitted one-piece at the Elemental Amulet gathering. A strong, pleasant fragrance accompanies her, and even people accustomed to public beauties become distracted or flustered around her. She moves with quiet authority in restaurants, casinos, corporate venues, and private gatherings, making supernatural attraction difficult to separate from deliberate presentation. (Chapters 341, 371, 380, 403, 424–425)

Her public persona is generous, polished, flirtatious, and professionally exacting. She can identify profitable demographics, structure concealed ownership, negotiate partnerships, and make a target feel specially chosen. Privately, Lianna is calculating, possessive, and willing to kill anyone who can expose her. She enjoys mocking Pride and Orion, avoids direct fights until she believes conditions are safe, and becomes unusually easy to fluster around Brandon. Her deepest vulnerability is a desire for affection that feels freely given: because most men respond automatically to her allure, Brandon's apparent resistance becomes an obsession she mistakes for proof that his staged courtship is authentic. (Chapters 300, 341–342, 371, 396, 404, 412, 422–429)

Magic and abilities

Authority of Lust: Lianna's presence induces or magnifies desire, and the aftermath confirms that ministers, generals, business leaders, and other targets have fallen under her charm. She states that an Authority must be saved up before use, treating its power as a reserve rather than an endlessly active spell. Even without deliberately activating it, her embodiment of Lust affects people around her; fellow Archbishops should theoretically resist one another, yet Pride still reacts strongly. Brandon appears unusually indifferent, a limitation that provokes rather than discourages her. (Chapters 371, 422, 429–430)
Cherry-blossom Nature magic: Lianna demonstrably reveals herself from a swirl of pink petals and disperses a treant's attacking vine into cherry blossoms with a snap. Similar roots and petals destroy Alan Ross's core, contaminate other victims, and appear inside Evelyn, but the text does not establish that Lianna personally casts each of those effects. Her participation in the tower operation and the forbidden magic found in her body connect her to the larger cult method without proving ownership of every root-based killing. (Chapters 371, 385, 390, 396, 430)
Mana concealment and core sight: By blocking her own mana channels, Lianna suppresses her detectable signature until Evelyn evaluates her as average. When another person relaxes in front of her, Lianna can inspect that person's core without alerting them; she uses the technique to identify the corrosion around Evelyn's damaged core. The concealment supports infiltration but is not evidence of a numerical combat rank. (Chapters 341–342)
Social and political infiltration: Lianna combines charm with layered corporate ownership, philanthropy, luxury venues, entertainment contracts, and carefully chosen personal relationships. These channels give her access to politicians, military figures, conglomerates, celebrities, and Brandon's companions without requiring open combat. Her network is powerful but traceable: partnerships, witnesses, copied records, and compromised followers become evidence once Brandon turns the structure against her. (Chapters 299–300, 379–380, 411–425, 430)
Strategic manipulation: Lianna recruits Reinhard, approaches Evelyn through a false family search, works with Pride to alter tower coordinates, participates in an operation that eliminates knowledgeable witnesses, and attempts to drive Brandon toward Milis by framing him for Evelyn's death. Her plans are patient and compartmentalized, but her fixation on Brandon makes her overvalue apparent intimacy and leave him alone with her private systems. (Chapters 299–300, 341–342, 371, 396, 415, 423–426)

Relationships

Brandon Locke: Lianna first studies Brandon as a possible vassal, then becomes obsessed with possessing the one man who appears resistant to her automatic allure. Brandon exploits that desire through a staged breakup, false courtship, evidence theft, and the public execution that ends her life.
Lancelott: Lianna identifies herself internally as Lancelott's older sister but tells Evelyn she is searching for a brother named Lance. The most likely reading is that Lance is a shortened or false public form, yet the text never formalizes the equivalence, and Lancelott is already dead before her approach to Evelyn.
Evelyn Cessna: Lianna presents herself as Evelyn's new friend and uses an expensive dinner to lower her guard. She detects the corrosion in Evelyn's core, later joins her at Christmas, and incorporates Evelyn's death into a plan intended to break and displace Brandon.
Reinhard Van: Lianna assists Reinhard's investigation and accepts his loyalty while considering him as a possible vassal. Once Brandon captures her interest, she abandons that possibility but continues using Reinhard as an employee and bridge into the academy circle.
Raven Blackheart: Lianna approaches Raven after Evelyn's funeral and recruits him into VN Entertainment work. His contact with Greed and his proximity to Brandon make him useful, while the attention she exerts on him alarms people watching the widening pattern around her.
Orion and Pride: Greed and Pride are Lianna's fellow Archbishops. Pride supplies the tower manipulation needed for her trap, while Orion's direct encounter with Brandon's group gives her intelligence about their unexplained ability to cut an Authority; both relationships also show Lianna's comparatively recent place among the Archbishops.
Rachel Asami: Lianna proposes a casino partnership with Rachel and sees Asami Group as a valuable addition to her empire. Unknown to her, Brandon has deliberately sent Rachel into that orbit as a contingency for his investigation.

Items

Evidence-copy flash drive: Brandon connects an unnamed flash drive to Lianna's private desktop while she is drawn away from her condominium. Matthew and Nathan remotely unlock the system and copy fragmented, encrypted files before Brandon removes the drive and restores the scene. (Chapter 425)
Magic streaming device: A streaming device falls and shatters after Brandon leaves the tower floor; Lianna then appears amid pink petals above its fragments. The scene links the object to her concealed observation of the tower trial, but does not establish its maker or final functionality after destruction. (Chapter 371)