Damian

Damian is a Japanese player, a leading paladin, and the pope who first reforms the Rebecca Church and later heads the Grid Church. His defining choice is to value people above institutions: he rejects a long-awaited class reward rather than kill Rin, risks the papacy to save Isabel, and ultimately abandons Rebecca after Heaven's agents betray humanity. Although his reverence for Grid is often comedic, it is matched by sustained administrative work, battlefield courage, and an ability to rebuild his strength after losing nearly every privilege attached to his former faith. (Chapters 122, 368, 1355–1356, 1361, 1363, 1369, and 1734)

Biography

Pagma's Legacy and Winston

Damian reaches second place among Rebecca paladins despite choosing a class widely regarded as weak. He spends roughly a year believing that the Rebecca's Daughters and their candidate system conceal a route to greater power, and Pope Drevigo finally appears to confirm that faith by offering an SS-rated quest to kill Rin. The reward would awaken Damian's suppressed power, but he refuses once he recognizes Rin as a person rather than an expendable church asset. Branded a traitor and surrounded by senior clergy, he accepts the opposite quest—punishing Drevigo and protecting Rin—even though he expects to die attempting it. (Chapter 122)

That refusal awakens Damian without requiring Rin's death: every statistic rises, and Light's Blessing lets him reinforce himself and his party while he holds off Drevigo's paladins. Grid arrives, defeats the corrupt pope, and enables Damian to complete the hidden-class quest for Goddess's Agent. Damian receives extraordinary healing, defense, divine growth, and eligibility for the papacy, yet does not resent Grid for taking the battle's experience and spoils. He judges his own contribution honestly and treats the rescue as a lifelong debt, establishing a loyalty based on gratitude and shared protection of the Daughters rather than simple admiration for a famous player. (Chapters 124–125 and 127)

Reidan and the Overgeared Alliance

When Pascal treats the dying Isabel as a tool and orders her to keep using the unsealed Lifael's Spear, Damian accepts a second SS-rated path: become pope, abolish the candidate system, and protect the Daughters through institutional authority. He travels to Reidan seeking Grid's help, but encounters Piaro and Kraugel before reaching him. Defeat by a supposed farmer punctures Damian's belief that his hidden class makes him a natural protagonist. Rather than retreat into wounded pride, he completes Piaro's fieldwork and sparring training, improves his control, and then offers all his wealth if Grid will reseal Isabel's weapon. (Chapters 226, 247, 250, 256, 259, and 261)

Lauel recognizes that a friendly pope would protect the Overgeared guild and supplies political assistance, while Huroi helps Damian shape a campaign around charity and the church's neglected doctrine. Damian still prioritizes Isabel over the election when Pascal schedules a mission meant to remove him from the Vatican; Grid's arrival lets him do both. After Isabel is saved, Damian wins the election and becomes the first player pope, builds a temple in Reidan, shields Grid from the corrupt elders' investigation, and abolishes the Rebecca's Daughter candidate system despite the political risk. His national-team appearances likewise distinguish personal patriotism from the church's required neutrality, showing that gratitude to Grid has become a coherent governing principle rather than a private obsession. (Chapters 265–267, 271, 273, 279, 282, 355, 368, and 400)

Kingdom Building and the Great Demons

The Belial campaign tests the cost of Damian's reforms. He wants to keep Isabel away from the great demon because White Transformation could again consume her life, but she insists that protecting people is both her duty and a way to repay those who saved her. Damian remains in the raid, supports Piaro's party, and refuses escape even after discovering the limits of his own specialization: his strongest buffs expire quickly, and he cannot simply replace an ordinary priest's sustained healing. Piaro's assurance that the party could not fight without him helps Damian understand support as a decisive contribution rather than proof that he is weaker than the damage dealers around him. (Chapters 569, 571, and 573)

The victory deepens both Damian's personal and political ties to the Overgeared Kingdom. Isabel, now freed from the lethal burden of White Transformation, accepts his affection after recognizing the weight and constancy of his care. Damian expands the church's presence in Reinhardt, stations priests and paladins through temples and player quests, participates in the kingdom's founding, and continues teaching divine power to Lord. His later performance as the “Zombie Demon King” demonstrates that the same support build can become formidable in direct competition: layered buffs, healing, and defense let him survive for hours, while his swordsmanship supplies enough offense to defeat other celebrated fighters. (Chapters 582–584, 589, 596, 671, 733, and 761)

East Continent and Imperial Reckoning

During the Yatan Church's assault on the Vatican, Damian is sealed away while Irene, Lord, and the Rebecca's Daughters face danger outside. He escapes through an unorthodox player solution—dying so that he can resurrect at the Vatican's designated point—then returns to a battlefield where his presence and Light Rain reverse black magic's momentum. He refuses to exchange living hostages for the First Holy Sword, uses the enemy's assumptions about his reverence for relics against them, and adapts his defense after recalling Grid's multi-hit attacks. He also notices that Agnus and Mumud protected Irene and Lord, so he tries to halt an automatic holy-versus-evil confrontation long enough to judge their actual conduct. (Chapters 864, 867–870, 873, and 875)

The crisis leaves Damian respected as a great pope but increasingly uncomfortable with the role swallowing his personal conviction. In a spar with Grid, he realizes that prestige, his relationship with Isabel, and the apparent impossibility of catching Grid have weakened his fighting spirit; removing his papal robe and fighting for himself restores the frustration that once drove his growth. That recovery matters when the empire pressures the Rebecca Church during the Fourth Religious War. Damian deliberately prolongs a nominal war against the Yatan Church and dies repeatedly to protect ordinary priests and paladins, accepting that the choice may cost his office and access to Isabel. His loyalty has matured into willingness to lose institutional power rather than use it against the people who trusted him. (Chapters 896–898 and 1007)

Yangbans, Gods, and New Legends

Damian's trust in the Rebecca hierarchy erodes well before the final rupture. When Sariel arrives after ten years of absence and offers restored papal powers, Damian refuses because the Templar did nothing during the church's worst crises while Grid repeatedly answered its pleas. He keeps training instead of begging Heaven for strength and later rallies frightened church members against Sitri by placing himself between them and the great demon. During the Drasion raid, however, angels stab him through the heart and cut his throat for opposing Heaven's will. Their public execution of a pope known for martyring himself on the church's behalf forces priests and elders to confront the possibility that obedience to the celestial gods is not the same as goodness. (Chapters 1134, 1253, and 1355–1356)

After resurrecting, Damian renounces Rebecca, leads Isabel and the converted elders into the new Overgeared God Church, and becomes its pope. The decision costs Goddess's Agent, the First Holy Sword, his papal equipment, his healing and buff repertoire, and even his accumulated assets; the departing church also assigns him enormous debt for taking the Daughters with him. Initially assessed as roughly eight times weaker, he starts again as an ordinary church paladin and struggles with the long motions of Grid's sword dances. He nevertheless trains until he can fuse dances, then answers public claims that he is washed up by winning a National Competition event and reproducing three-fusion techniques in PvP. The setbacks make his new allegiance a demonstrated sacrifice rather than a convenient transfer of power. (Chapters 1361, 1363, 1369, 1375, 1388–1389, and 1392)

Apostles, Dragons, and the Overgeared World

Damian applies knowledge accumulated as Rebecca's pope to the Overgeared Kingdom's wars. He anticipates the Yatan Church's movements, identifies the protected servants' concealed weak points, and uses Linked Kill Wave to rescue trapped allies who had believed rumors of his decline. He then spends years contacting elders within the three major churches, enduring restraints and danger until he can remove leaders who keep obstructing human unity. Against the Dominion and Judar church leaders, his Grid-made sword cuts their combined divine attack, Linked Kill Pinnacle breaks the Templar defense, and a healing-reduction effect prevents the pair from indefinitely restoring one another. The successful purge installs cooperative successors and turns patience, connections, and preparation into authority beyond anything raw papal status once gave him. (Chapters 1519 and 1553)

This expansion also changes Damian's responsibility from protecting one congregation to managing a continental coalition. More than a thousand elite Grid Church members follow him during the purge, while Isabel acts independently at his side and prepares for their child. As Rebecca loyalists begin rebuilding around new holy weapons, Damian's institution must coexist with rival faiths rather than assume conversion is complete. By the time the Overgeared World manifests, he leads public worship and protects Grid's divine image as carefully as he once protected the Rebecca Church's people: when Grid returns visibly wounded, Damian and Sariel conceal and heal him before the congregation can panic. His playful staging is comic, but it serves the serious task of sustaining confidence during an existential war. (Chapters 1553, 1610, and 1684)

Baal, Asgard, and the Complete Ending

Damian eventually holds the title of pope again and achieves practical religious unity. He directs the Grid Church while supporting followers of the three gods and the displaced Yatan Church, giving him access to a body of believers numbering in the billions. He uses that network to recapture territory from the No Offspring Tomb and issue a mass quest that closes escape routes across an entire region. In Hell, he steps in front of an erupting Demon’s Cradle to protect a land-clearing party; by then, every step naturally carries the technique of a sword dance, and newly born demons disintegrate as they approach. These scenes show his development from a recipient of church authority into an organizer whose own technique and trust can mobilize multiple faiths. (Chapters 1734 and 1839)

The last wars also clarify Damian's ceiling and his continuing value. He recognizes Rebecca's divine message during the struggle with Asgard and can interpret its sincerity without returning to unquestioning worship. When Braham throws him among Absolute-level cultivators, Damian initially feels like dead weight, but realizes that Restraint can create the fractions of a second needed by stronger allies to land attacks. The technique cannot reliably control immortals and exposes him to enemies too fast for him to perceive, yet his support is later credited among the contributions that decide the world quest. Afterward, he accepts logistical duties from the apostles and rushes to check on Lord; being gently reprimanded by his former student leaves him proud of Lord's maturity and reaffirms that Damian's warmth is as important to the imperial family as his formal office. (Chapters 1944, 2019, 2036, and 2043)

Appearance and personality

Damian has purple hair and large, expressive eyes. In his later Grid Church role he wears heavy armor coordinated with his hair, while Transcend makes that hair rise as sword energy gathers around him. His equipment and office can create an imposing silhouette, but his expressions rarely preserve ceremonial distance: he smiles broadly, panics openly, cries when overwhelmed, and displays portraits of Isabel on his armor and shield. This mismatch between a world-scale religious leader's appearance and an excitable fan's manner is a recurring source of comedy. (Chapters 1392, 1553, and 1839)

He is sincere, patient, sentimental, and more self-aware than his exaggerated behavior suggests. Damian calls himself an otaku, praises Grid even when doing so damages his reputation in Japan, and habitually adds affectionate honorifics to Isabel's and Lord's names. He can seem cowardly when confronted with overwhelming enemies, but fear normally leads him to identify whom he must protect rather than to abandon them. His recurring weakness is low self-confidence: defeat, the loss of his class, or comparison with monsters at the top makes him undervalue his own record. His best development comes when he accepts a support role without treating it as inferiority and measures authority by the lives it protects. (Chapters 355, 573, 897–898, 1164, and 2019)

Damian's moral judgment is grounded in people rather than symbols. He refuses to kill Rin for power, dismantles the system that endangered Isabel, gives up a holy relic when hostages matter more, and changes gods only after direct evidence shows Heaven attacking humanity. This flexibility is not lack of conviction. Once persuaded, he tolerates ridicule, political isolation, repeated deaths, and material ruin without retreating. He also remains capable of revising a judgment: his doctrine once marks Agnus as an enemy, but observing Mumud's protective actions leads him to restrain that reflex. The result is an earnest leader whose faith is strongest when it remains answerable to compassion. (Chapters 122, 368, 869–870, 873, 875, 1007, 1355–1356, 1361, and 1363)

Abilities, classes, and skills

Damian's repertoire has two sharply separated phases. Goddess's Agent and the Rebecca papacy make him a defensive paladin with exceptional buffs, healing, divine magic, and status resistance. He permanently loses that unique class, its papal second class, the First Holy Sword, and their attached powers when he defects. His later Grid Church abilities instead emphasize equipment amplification, sword dances, fused attacks, control, and the institutional authority to mobilize believers. Former Rebecca skills therefore describe his history, not his latest unrestricted loadout. (Chapters 127, 456–457, 1361, 1363, and 1369)

Goddess's Agent and Rebecca papal support

Becoming Goddess's Agent triples Damian's divine-power growth and opens Dignity and randomly activated Divine Messages. Goddess's Breath spends 30 percent of maximum mana to restore all of his own health and 70 percent of his party's health, with a ten-minute cooldown. Goddess's Protection spends 2,000 mana to invalidate one enemy attack and then remains unavailable for an hour. Light's Blessing raises the party's attack, defense, and accuracy by 80 percent for three minutes. These effects are powerful emergency tools, but their high resource costs, long cooldowns, and limited durations prevent Damian from supplying continuous priest-style healing during extended raids. (Chapters 122, 127, and 573)

The papacy adds further layers. Divine Protection, Incarnation of Light, Goddess's Blessing, Light's Blessing, and Divine Favor can be stacked into a three-minute full-buff state with greatly increased health, defense, resistance, recovery, damage reduction, and chances to invalidate attacks. Pope's Charity is a fast 5,000-health heal, while Sacred and Inviolable reflects an incoming strike and can punish even a defense-ignoring ultimate attack. Goddess's Wrath quickly forms two roughly three-meter magic circles that fire destructive straight-line beams, and Holy Cross supplies basic divine offense. Healing reduction remains a hard counter: when Iyarugt cuts recovery by half, Pope's Charity restores only 2,500, helping Grid outlast the buff window. (Chapters 356, 456–457, and 1278)

Light Rain, acquired during Damian's second term, calls golden rain across a 300-meter radius. Non-evil targets have a 50 percent chance to clear their current abnormal state and recover 10 percent health; evil targets have a 50 percent chance to double an abnormal state's duration and lose 10 percent health. It costs 5,000 mana and has a fifty-minute cooldown, making it a battlefield reversal rather than routine sustain. As pope, Damian also reaches 80 percent dark resistance, complete resistance to black-magic control effects, and enough anti-evil presence to weaken the morale and combat effectiveness of nearby black magicians. These defenses do not make him invulnerable to raw damage or opponents whose status overwhelms his statistics. (Chapter 869)

Shielding, swordsmanship, and defensive adaptation

Goddess's Agent remains a paladin class and permits higher Sword Mastery than ordinary paladins. Piaro's training adds Supreme Swordsmanship and a separate 30 percent accuracy increase with swords, teaching Damian to vary a paladin's normally simple attack orbit through intent rather than fixed force. He later uses a shield with precise timing to interrupt, bait, and restrict opponents, adapting after seeing the same attacks repeatedly. His full-buff defense is among the highest available to players and produces the “Zombie Demon King” reputation, but fixed damage, equipment-disarming effects, attribute-resistance reduction, and healing suppression can dismantle its layers. Once the buffs expire, his survivability drops sharply, so delay and resource pressure are reliable counters. (Chapters 247, 250, 259, 356–357, 456–457, 761, and 1278)

Grid Church protection and sword dances

At level 1, Overgeared God's Protection reduces ordinary item requirements by 5 percent, temporarily reduces the requirements of Grid-made items by 10 percent, and improves both the performance and attached skills of Grid-made equipment by 5 percent. The mechanic rewards exceptional gear rather than directly increasing base statistics, which initially leaves Damian dramatically weaker after the Rebecca Church confiscates his papal assets. The Grid Church's Sword Dance begins with a 20 percent physical-attack increase, 10 percent magic-attack increase, and 30 percent increases to critical chance and critical damage when used with the appropriate weapon. Its early attacks carry high damage ratios but require conspicuous multi-step rituals, allowing intelligent opponents to interrupt or evade them. (Chapters 1369 and 1375)

Training, faith, and Grid's growing myth progressively shorten that practical gap. Damian develops fusion dances including Transcended Link Kill, a sustained ranged barrage of sword energy; Linked Kill Wave, which combines penetration and area pressure; and Linked Kill Pinnacle, a concentrated sequence capable of breaking heavy protection. By the Demon’s Cradle campaign, sword-dance steps have become part of his ordinary movement, so approaching demons die without a conspicuous preliminary ritual. The dances still impose tactical commitments: Link fixes his feet during its rapid sequence, early fusion options leave openings, and the church's power depends heavily on equipment quality. Damian's progression succeeds because long practice turns ritual motion into positioning rather than because those limitations disappear. (Chapters 1375, 1392, 1519, 1553, and 1839)

Restraint, purification, and latest-state limits

Restraint is Damian's most important late support technique. It applies wide-area control through the pressure of the sword dance without requiring a direct weapon hit, and its accuracy is high against targets whose status does not exceed his own. Damian makes preemptive use a habit, allowing it to preserve his invincibility passive and briefly halt an Absolute-level cultivator so apostles and Tower members can attack. The limit is status: even Master-level Restraint is not expected to stop immortal cultivators reliably, while full cooldown-reduction equipment would still leave an estimated two-minute-thirty-second cooldown. At the latest appearance, Damian is identified as the rank 1 paladin and can remove Silence with purification magic, but the corpus does not provide a complete current skill sheet or establish how every post-conversion passive was acquired. (Chapters 2019 and 2043)

Power progression

Relationships

Grid

Damian regards Grid as rescuer, benefactor, god, friend, and the standard against which he measures his own growth. Grid saves him and Rin from Drevigo, restores Isabel's weapon, supports his election, and repeatedly crafts or tests equipment with him. Damian returns that aid through temples, political protection, battlefield support, and eventually open worship when following Grid costs him his class and wealth. The relationship is not purely submissive: Damian refuses to let Grid's power excuse his own weakness, challenges him in spars, and makes independent institutional decisions that Grid initially finds uncomfortable. Their trust endures because both repeatedly choose people over divine or political convention. (Chapters 122, 124–125, 127, 261, 265–267, 271, 273, 279, 282, 355–357, 368, 897–898, 1361, 1363, and 1369)

Isabel

Isabel is the central personal motive behind Damian's pursuit of the papacy. He sees her and the other Daughters as people while Drevigo and Pascal reduce them to weapons, spends his fortune seeking a cure, and abolishes the candidate system to prevent their suffering from recurring. Isabel initially longs for Grid, and Damian accepts her feelings without treating Grid as a rival. After Grid repairs Lifael's Spear and frees her from White Transformation, she comes to understand Damian's sustained care and accepts him. They later marry, work as partners in the Grid Church, and expect a child; his protectiveness persists, but Isabel increasingly acts on her own judgment rather than as someone he must merely shelter. (Chapters 226, 261, 265–267, 271, 368, 569, 571, 573, 582–584, 589, 1363, and 1553)

Piaro and Kraugel

Piaro and Kraugel dismantle Damian's early confidence by defeating him when he arrives in Reidan expecting his rank and hidden class to place him near the summit. Piaro then turns the humiliation into instruction through fieldwork and sword training. Damian carries the resulting accuracy, control, and willingness to learn throughout both religious careers, and much later works beside Piaro in Hell with enough competence to surprise their allies. Kraugel is less a formal teacher than another proof that the world contains disciplined players beyond Damian's imagined hierarchy. Together, the encounters teach him that losing can expose a route to growth without invalidating his chosen role. (Chapters 247, 250, 259, 357, and 1839)

Lauel and Lord

Lauel first treats Damian as a strategic partner whose election can secure the Overgeared guild, but their alliance becomes reciprocal trust. He supplies campaign resources, stabilizes the church after Damian's dangerous reforms, and later sends him where his religious knowledge or support mechanics are uniquely useful. Lord is Damian's divine-power student and eventually a close friend as well as an imperial heir. Damian's affectionate, unserious manner gives Lord relief from stricter teachers, while Lord's latest reprimand reminds Damian that his office represents the empire. Damian responds with sincere embarrassment rather than wounded authority and takes pride in the student's maturity. (Chapters 256, 355–357, 368, 371, 584, 862, 992, 2019, 2036, and 2043)

Braham, Agnus, and Pascal

Braham values Damian's battlefield utility more than Damian initially understands, placing him among the Absolutes so Restraint can create openings; Damian experiences the assignment as terrifying abuse but ultimately performs the required support. Agnus challenges his religious assumptions: Damian first opposes him as an evil figure, then notices his protection of Irene and Lord and tries to prevent doctrine from erasing that evidence. Pascal, by contrast, embodies the church politics Damian rejects. Pascal's willingness to consume Isabel for authority motivates Damian's election, and defeating that system teaches him that protecting individuals sometimes requires taking and then transforming institutional power. (Chapters 226, 265–267, 271, 273, 279, 282, 864, 867–870, 873, 875, 878–879, 881, 2019, 2036, and 2043)

Items

No notable items are documented for Damian in the supplied corpus.