Bellode Iraus
Bellode Iraus is the Ehuir Empire's Kiros Knight Commander and a Gold-rank First Dungeon explorer. He organizes the Dimensional Mercenary expedition to rescue Shina Gren Ehuir, leads the surviving imperial forces through the Demon Army, and remains loyal to the royal family even after the mission exposes Shina's betrayal. (Chapters 113–122)
Biography
The Failed Rescue of Ehuir's Princess
Bellode posts a Dimensional Mercenary request promising access to the Imperial Palace's treasure vault in exchange for rescuing Shina. He briefs fourteen mercenaries, maps the shortest route to the retreating Demon Army, and leads an elite imperial force while personally guarding Palludia Gren Ehuir. The emperor identifies Bellode and Ludia as the only expedition members he trusts, a judgment vindicated when spies and traitors emerge among the other soldiers. (Chapters 113 and 115–116; Chapter 122)
After an ambush kills much of the expedition, Bellode continues the rescue rather than retreating. He joins the covert team, carries the magician tracking Shina, and helps fight through the camp with sword aura, but his loyalty makes him hesitate when Shina reveals that she serves the Demon Lord. The summoner knocks him unconscious before he can interfere with Shin's response. Bellode wakes after Shina's death, cremates her with his own flame-infused sword while openly grieving, and bows to Ludia as the surviving princess. (Chapters 117 and 120–122)
Ludia orders Bellode to abandon the doomed Luka continent and stop addressing her as royalty. He protests, then accepts her decision and withdraws into the dungeon only after bowing deeply and looking back at Shina's ashes. By following Ludia's order, he places the surviving princess's will above his desire to remain with the fallen empire. This preserves his life at the end of his last scene, but the corpus does not show where he settles, whether he continues climbing, or whether he later reunites with Ludia. (Chapter 122)
Appearance and personality
Bellode is introduced as a young knight with long black hair. Shin reads his expression as kind and stouthearted, though clouded by the pressure of rescuing Shina; after her death, his trembling eyes and tears make that burden visible. No armor color, eye color, exact age, or later change in appearance is supplied. (Chapters 115 and 122)
Courteous and reassuring with unfamiliar mercenaries, Bellode tries to hold a dangerous coalition together without concealing the mission's stakes. He can also tease Ludia gently and explain the Demon Army's cruelty with open anger. His loyalty is both his defining strength and his limitation: it earns the emperor's complete trust and keeps the expedition moving, but leaves him emotionally unable to accept Shina's betrayal until others act. (Chapters 115–116 and 120–122)
Powers and abilities
Bellode combines the system-supported strength of a Gold-rank First Dungeon explorer with knightly sword combat and military command. His abilities are useful within a coordinated expedition, but the corpus gives no named class, personal stat total, signature skill, or solo battle sufficient to define a higher combat ceiling. (Chapters 113–122)
Explorer and battlefield commander
As a Gold-rank First Dungeon explorer and commander of the Kiros Knights, Bellode can organize mixed groups of knights, magicians, and Dimensional Mercenaries. He uses maps, magical familiar scouting, route adjustments, and a three-part feint to approach the Demon Army's camp. Heavy losses, infiltrators, and the camp's barriers defeat the larger operation despite this planning, showing that his command does not provide superior intelligence against betrayal from within. (Chapters 113 and 115–120)
Sword aura and flame mana
Bellode fights with a sword and can launch aura blades at approaching demons. He can also transform his mana into flames and send them through the blade strongly enough to cremate Shina's remains. The corpus does not name a formal sword style, quantify his mana, or show him defeating a high-ranking demon alone; his demonstrated combat role remains that of a strong explorer operating within a formation. (Chapters 120 and 122)
The Demon Lord's weapon-induced status effect seals Bellode's explorer functions and suppresses his movement with the rest of the party. Even when the dungeon recognizes that Shina's allegiance has completed the request, his attachment makes him reject that conclusion and rush toward her, allowing a fellow mercenary to incapacitate him. These scenes establish meaningful magical and psychological limits despite his rank and experience. (Chapter 121)
Relationships
- Palludia Gren Ehuir: Bellode is assigned to protect Ludia during the expedition and remains formally loyal after the empire falls. He cremates her sister at her permission and obeys her final command to survive through the dungeon. (Chapters 115–116 and 122)
- Shina Gren Ehuir: Rescuing Shina motivates Bellode's request and every stage of his expedition. Her betrayal leaves him unable to act decisively against her, and he mourns her while personally sending off her remains. (Chapters 113–122)
- Kang Shin: Bellode recruits Shin as a Dimensional Mercenary, treats him respectfully, and relies on his strength during the mission. Shin's discovery of Shina's allegiance saves the survivors, but forces Bellode to confront the failure of the rescue he organized. (Chapters 113–122)
Items
Bellode uses a short baton during the expedition briefing and an unnamed sword for aura attacks and flame magic. Neither object receives a cataloged name, independent origin, or later history in the supplied corpus. The treasure-vault access promised in his request is compensation for mercenaries, not a personal item belonging to him. (Chapters 113 and 115; Chapters 120 and 122)
