Piaro

Biography

Pagma's Legacy and Winston

Piaro first enters the story as the supposed traitor hunted by the Saharan Empire. Hidden in Kesan Canyon with other disgraced soldiers, he has survived by turning the terrain into a killing ground of traps and ambushes. His Supreme Swordsmanship and the execution-like technique Fated to Perish make him terrifying even to unusually capable intruders, yet he refuses to kill an innocent stranger merely for crossing his path. Beneath the murderous pressure is a soldier whose rage still has rules, and whose entire life has narrowed to exposing Asmophel and avenging the followers condemned with him. (Chapters 37, 80)

When Piaro tells Grid his story, he believes Asmophel conspired with Empress Marie, framed the Red Knights, and forced their flight from the empire. Grid does not accept Piaro's revenge request, leaving him trapped between overwhelming martial ability and a grievance he cannot resolve alone. Much later, the missing truth emerges: Asmophel acted under the influence of the Yatan Essence and was also manipulated by the empress. That revelation does not erase Piaro's suffering, but it recasts his earliest certainty as the incomplete judgment of an injured man rather than the whole history of the betrayal. (Chapters 82, 256, 258)

Reidan and the Overgeared Alliance

Grid meets Piaro again after becoming lord of the desolate Reidan. Piaro initially rejects service because betrayal has made allegiance intolerable, but he accepts an invitation to travel with Grid while retaining the right to pursue revenge. Teaching Grid and Bland gives him a purpose unrelated to hatred, and working Reidan's barren land reveals a talent he had never valued. He locates water, reads the soil, and begins producing food for a territory whose survival depends more on cultivation than swordplay; the frozen parts of his personality start to thaw through useful daily work. (Chapters 208–210, 214–215, 218)

That recovery becomes a transformation when enemy guilds attack Reidan. Piaro defends the city with hand plows, seeds, and agricultural movements that are as lethal as sword techniques. By abandoning his fixation on becoming the Sword Saint and accepting the work that genuinely fulfills him, he awakens as the Legendary Farmer. The change is neither a joke nor a rejection of his warrior past: farming lets him feed the population, restore the territory, and defeat invaders through one coherent calling. Reidan's first great harvest proves that his new legend creates life as decisively as it destroys threats. (Chapters 250–255)

Kingdom Building and the Great Demons

Asmophel's arrival forces Piaro to test whether his restored life can survive contact with the past. He nearly kills his former friend, then listens as Asmophel explains the empress's manipulation and the guilt that followed it. Piaro recognizes that Asmophel was also a principal victim and chooses forgiveness, redirecting blame toward Marie instead of preserving a simpler hatred. Reconciliation allows him to commit fully to Grid, whose trust, land, and people gave him the conditions to heal. Piaro thereafter treats service not as repayment to a new master alone, but as the life he freely chose after revenge stopped defining him. (Chapters 259–260, 381)

Piaro helps turn that private recovery into institutional strength. He and Asmophel develop Reidan Spearsmanship, while Piaro trains figures as different as Kraugel, Hurent, Damian, Bland, and Lord. Against the great demon Belial, however, a newly born legend remains limited by level, demonic resistance, and orders to protect the kingdom's forces. Piaro suppresses his urge to fight alone, combines his transformed fields and Pounding Mortar with his allies, and contributes to victory through coordination. The battle establishes a recurring lesson: his legend is extraordinary, but its best results come from prepared ground, trusted companions, and judgment about when not to overreach. (Chapters 505, 569–580)

East Continent and Imperial Reckoning

The unresolved imperial stigma returns when Piaro confronts Mercedes, once his subordinate and now a loyal Red Knight. She mourns the captain she remembers while treating the fugitive before her as a traitor; Piaro, in turn, is prepared to kill her to protect Grid. Grid stops the clash and reveals Asmophel's survival and the hidden circumstances of the purge. Piaro's wish is not merely to humiliate Mercedes or reclaim his old rank. He sees her talent, trusts the person she can become, and wants the truth to free another worthy knight from an allegiance built on deception. (Chapters 787–790, 799)

Mercedes eventually joins the Overgeared Kingdom as part of the empire's atonement, but the deepest reckoning comes from Emperor Juander. During the succession crisis, Piaro prevents Grid from treating death as a disposable solution and offers to risk himself instead, showing how completely his priorities have moved from revenge to protection. Juander apologizes and sacrifices himself before Piaro can deliver the vengeance he once imagined. Denied a clean conclusion, Piaro grieves and rages until Grid silently stays beside him. In that extremity, Natural State advances, and Piaro decides that the empire's betrayal belongs to his past while his future belongs with Grid. (Chapters 811–813, 1082–1085)

Yangbans, Gods, and New Legends

Freed from the obligation to settle his old life, Piaro concentrates on making his chosen path deeper rather than imitating a swordsman. His Natural State lets him draw on surrounding earth, water, wind, and sunlight, but it is initially incomplete and cannot sustain an endless fight. Battles against imperial enemies and Berith show both sides of the method: farmland magnifies his presence, poison can be overcome through legend and natural energy, and allies can create the opening his strongest techniques require, while exceptional defenses can still weaken Pounding Mortar. His progress comes through interpreting nature's changing properties instead of assuming raw power will solve every encounter. (Chapters 812, 1040, 1051)

Sparring with Braham makes that process explicit. Piaro links sowing, accelerated growth, harvest, and Natural State into Sweet Potato Battering, but the sequence is demanding and Pounding Mortar still loses to a superior Meteor. Braham's explanation that natural energy can acquire different properties prompts Piaro to develop Sprinkling Pesticides with a poisonous quality. Later battles reinforce the limits: Helena can counter the descending force with the Dragon Killing Sword, and Drasion's corruption of the soil disrupts the terrain Piaro needs. Rather than invalidating farming, those failures push him toward more adaptable cultivation and closer cooperation with other legends. (Chapters 1138–1139, 1244, 1350–1355)

Apostles, Dragons, and the Overgeared World

In hell, Piaro defines himself as Grid's sword, shield, and provider of grain. He can see poisoned soil as a future medicinal field, yet he remembers that an apostle's immediate task is to defend the expedition. His support against Dantalion illustrates both ingenuity and constraint: he grows a bean tree to shelter a fellow expedition member and shapes the battlefield for allies, but lava consumes seeds before many techniques can mature. Continued training fuses the Matchless Heart Technique into Matchless Farming, giving his cultivation the focused circulation and territorial pressure of his former martial discipline without turning him back into a conventional swordsman. (Chapters 1419, 1422–1423, 1496)

Piaro nevertheless fears that he is falling behind the other apostles, and the strain leaves him haggard enough to seek another test from Braham. The resulting confrontation reveals the completion of Natural State. Instead of commanding nature as an external resource, Piaro joins it: mountain, wind, rain, and ground can carry his intent and sustain his action, while even Braham's detection magic fails to isolate him. This harmony inspires Braham to reconsider his own magic. At the Tower of Eternity, Piaro later holds off scores of angels and accepts death without regret, only to be saved by a fruit he cultivated. The ordeal grants faint divinity and recognition that his supportive achievements can themselves approach myth. (Chapters 1607, 1696–1698)

Baal, Asgard, and the Complete Ending

The title of farmer god becomes an aspiration as well as public recognition. Facing Aldro, the God of Abundance, Piaro carries the expectations of ordinary farmers, his family, and Grid into a duel between cultivation and established divinity. Their hopes allow him to raise an immense tree and contend with a god, but he still loses. The defeat does not establish that Piaro formally replaces Aldro: Aldro instead acknowledges him, asks to learn farming, and recognizes that Piaro earned devotion by improving human lives. Afterward, Grid identifies a narrow cause of the loss. Piaro's tools were correctly optimized for cultivation, but that choice made them slightly unsuitable for combat against a being approaching an Absolute. Piaro's guilt and Grid's regret turn the defeat into a lesson expected to break Piaro's stubbornness and support further development. (Chapters 1717, 1719)

That lesson matters because Piaro continues to doubt whether farming makes him worthy of standing beside rapidly advancing apostles. Before the next hell expedition, he asks Muller for sword instruction, but the Sword Saint recognizes that Piaro has already become a complete farmer and understands that the request is really for an objective judgment of his path. Their exchange teaches Piaro to treat stronger peers as support and inspiration rather than proof of his own uselessness. Muller then certifies that Piaro's cultivated land lets sword-wielding apostles demonstrate their full skill. Their insight establishes a new world law that greatly strengthens learned swordsmanship in a party with a farmer; farmers broaden their ambitions beyond the fields, humanity worships Piaro, and his deity rises by three points. (Chapter 1767)

Piaro applies that certified support role during the campaign against Baal. His party is sent to transform the Demon’s Cradle, which produces demonic energy and new demons, into agricultural fields that would make hell more favorable for human forces. Because Piaro is essential to creating and sustaining the fields, Hurent, Damian, and Zednos protect the operation while he sows and clears the land. The cradle reacts by producing a mass of demons before the work can finish. More importantly, hell exposes a firm environmental limit: its soil contains no nutrients and nature itself supplies almost no energy, so Rapid Growth cannot immediately mature the crops and even Natural State makes little difference. Piaro must maintain his pace and rely on specialized companions rather than overpower the terrain alone. (Chapters 1834, 1839)

Piaro's late influence continues to spread through people and harvests rather than conquest. Yangbans learn farming under him, he uses grain wine to turn a tense encounter with Zeratul into fellowship, and golden walnuts let medicinal plants gain centuries of growth within days. He also builds the domestic peace denied to his younger self with his elf wife Beniyaru and their daughter Cecil. By Chapter 2035, he remains alive and serving as Grid's apostle. The Three Masters arrive to aid the “farmer god,” and Piaro welcomes their wind and rain talents by immediately planning work, while herbs from his fields have already strengthened Mir. His latest role is practical and communal: even transcendent guests become partners in cultivation. (Chapters 1894, 1926, 1955, 1964, 2035)

Appearance and personality

As a fugitive, Piaro is a young man made prematurely old by isolation and rage. His matted hair, shabby clothing, calloused hands, and severe expression reflect years spent hiding, training, and preparing revenge; despite being only twenty-nine when Grid encounters him again, he appears middle-aged. As the Legendary Farmer he is commonly covered in dirt or sweat and may wear a straw hat, so strangers can mistake one of the world's most formidable legends for an exhausted agricultural laborer. His haggard appearance returns when doubt about his value among Grid's apostles deprives him of emotional balance. (Chapters 80, 210, 787, 1607)

Piaro is earnest, disciplined, and almost incapable of treating either combat or farming casually. Betrayal initially makes him guarded and vengeful, but he retains compassion for uninvolved people and responds strongly to sincere trust. Reidan reveals a patient teacher and provider beneath the soldier; forgiveness of Asmophel, concern over Grid's willingness to die, and devotion to his students show that protection gradually replaces revenge as his central motive. His solemnity also produces dry humor in later chapters, especially when divine visitors and legendary warriors discover that Piaro's welcome usually includes an immediate assignment in the fields. (Chapters 37, 214–218, 259–260, 1082–1085, 2035)

Abilities, classes, and skills

Great swordsman foundations

Before becoming a legend, Piaro is the strongest Great Swordsman produced by generations of his family and the former captain of the Red Knights. Supreme Swordsmanship provides powerful forms and auras, while Empire Military Tactics gives him command judgment and the ability to read organized combat. Years as a fugitive add traps, concealment, and ruthless use of terrain. His accumulated sword mastery remains inside his farming techniques even after he stops carrying a sword, which is why ordinary agricultural motions can disperse or overwhelm elite martial attacks. Asmophel's later use of related methods also demonstrates how Piaro's instruction can transmit parts of that foundation. (Chapters 37, 209–212, 505, 1112, 1708)

Fated to Perish concentrates killing intent and technique on a single target, producing an execution-like strike that Piaro can deliver with a sword or farming tool. It is especially dangerous to opponents unable to resist its judgment, but it is not an unconditional death command: exceptional named beings, great demons, and opponents with sufficient power or protection can survive, mitigate, or interrupt it. Aura-based sword techniques also require accumulated energy rather than limitless repetition. By the later story, Piaro uses these skills as components of a broader agricultural style instead of treating them as proof that he should have remained a Sword Saint candidate. (Chapters 37, 209, 250–253, 577, 790)

Legendary Farmer and Free Farming

The Legendary Farmer class awakens when Piaro accepts cultivation as his true path. Free Farming translates purposeful agricultural labor into combat and environmental control: Plowing the Field breaks and softens terrain, sowing establishes seeds, Rapid or Super Growth accelerates them, Harvest weaponizes the result, and Polishing Rice produces sweeping attacks through grain. These techniques can restore barren land, create food, and build a temporary domain favorable to Piaro, so their strategic value outlasts a single battle. Their activation still depends on usable ground, viable seeds, tools, and enough time to complete a sequence; lava, corrupted soil, or abrupt disruption can sharply reduce his contribution. (Chapters 218, 250–253, 812, 1040, 1350–1355, 1422–1423)

Pounding Mortar is one of Piaro's strongest direct attacks, gathering force overhead and driving it downward across a wide area. It damages Belial and suppresses battlefields, but its effect is not established as automatic proportional damage, and comparable power can block or break it: Berith's defenses, Helena's Dragon Killing Sword, and Braham's Meteor each expose that limit. Sweet Potato Battering is a more elaborate combination of Natural State, sowing, rapid growth, and harvest, making it versatile but condition-heavy. Matchless Farming later integrates the Matchless Heart Technique's energy circulation into Free Farming, preserving the precision of Piaro's sword training while strengthening his control of a cultivated territory. (Chapters 569–580, 1051, 1138–1139, 1244, 1496)

Natural State

Natural State begins as an ability to sense and borrow the energy and properties of the surrounding environment. Sun, earth, water, wind, crops, and prepared farmland can replenish Piaro and reinforce his techniques; atmospheric disturbance can also warn him of danger. Its early form is incomplete, varies with available nature, and cannot provide infinite stamina, so prolonged fighting or hostile terrain remains dangerous. Extreme grief during the imperial crisis advances it to an intermediate stage, and experimentation with Braham teaches Piaro to change the quality of natural energy, including developing the poisonous Sprinkling Pesticides rather than relying on one fixed expression. (Chapters 812, 1040, 1085, 1138–1139)

Completed Natural State changes the relationship from control to participation. Piaro becomes indistinguishable from the mountain and its weather to Braham's detection, allowing ground, rain, and wind to act as extensions of him and support those he protects. The technique produces a field resembling a mental world during the angel battle, but the chapters do not define it as omnipresence or immunity: Piaro can still be exhausted, injured, defeated, or forced to rely on an ally's rescue. Muller later verifies another support application, recognizing that Piaro's cultivated ground lets sword users display their full skill; the resulting world law increases swordsmanship power for parties containing a farmer and accompanies a three-point rise in Piaro's deity. Hell preserves the environmental limit even at this stage. Nutrientless ground and scarce natural energy prevent Rapid Growth from quickly maturing crops, while Natural State provides little compensation. (Chapters 1607, 1696–1698, 1767, 1839)

Cultivation, teaching, and support

Piaro can evaluate soil, locate water, breed or accelerate crops, and turn inhospitable environments into productive land. His harvests range from staple wheat to medicinal plants, the Fruit of Good and Evil, and golden walnuts that dramatically accelerate the aging of herbs. These products can heal, empower, or rescue allies long after Piaro leaves a battlefield, making preparation one of his greatest powers. He also reads toxic ground as a source of rare medicine rather than merely a hazard. The Demon’s Cradle operation expands cultivation into strategic environmental conversion, but also establishes that he needs nutrients, natural energy, time, and protection when working the most hostile soil. The upper limit of his late growth acceleration is not fully quantified, although centuries of herbal development within days is demonstrated. (Chapters 218, 250–255, 1419, 1696–1698, 1834, 1839, 1955, 2035)

As a teacher, Piaro adapts instruction to the student instead of reproducing himself. He refines Grid's and Bland's fundamentals, gives Kraugel a standard against which to define the Sword Saint, recognizes Hurent's potential, helps train Damian, and contributes to Lord's unusually broad education. His collaboration with Asmophel produces a military system for Reidan, while later farmers and yangbans learn to create potent fields and disciplined communities from his example. Teaching is also a personal mechanism of recovery: giving skills and food to others is what first interrupts his revenge obsession and ultimately turns an isolated swordsman into a cultural founder. (Chapters 214–215, 259, 381, 386, 505, 672, 1397, 1708, 1894)

Power progression

Relationships

Grid

Grid is the person Piaro credits with curing his wounded heart. Grid rejects the first revenge quest but later offers Piaro a home without demanding that he surrender his grievance, then brings Asmophel back with the truth necessary for reconciliation. Piaro's loyalty becomes voluntary and absolute: he farms, fights, and teaches for the kingdom, identifies himself as Grid's sword, shield, and grain provider, and treats Grid's divine world as the community his own legend must sustain. Grid reciprocates by trusting Piaro's path and remaining silently beside him when imperial vengeance ends in grief rather than satisfaction. (Chapters 80–82, 208–218, 259–260, 381, 1082–1085, 1419)

Asmophel

Asmophel is Piaro's closest friendship and deepest wound. Piaro spends years believing that Asmophel consciously betrayed the Red Knights, while Asmophel's manipulated attack and subsequent guilt destroy both men's lives. Their reunion nearly ends in execution, but Piaro recognizes the Yatan Essence's victim and forgives him after hearing the truth. The friendship that follows is not a return to ignorance: Asmophel continues atoning, asks Piaro for training, and collaborates with him on Reidan's military development. Their bond becomes stronger because it has survived responsibility, disclosure, and a deliberate choice to rebuild. (Chapters 80, 256, 258–260, 469, 505)

Kraugel

Kraugel trains and spars with Piaro before becoming the Sword Saint. He cannot defeat Piaro, but he also sees that farming has made Piaro stronger and more complete than continued pursuit of the sword would have done. Piaro's example helps Kraugel distinguish vocation from prestige and inspires the redesign of Splitting Sky rather than a simple imitation of another person's technique. Their later cooperation against Belial places two very different legends on the same battlefield, with mutual recognition replacing the assumption that only one of them can embody martial greatness. (Chapters 259, 569–580)

Mercedes

Mercedes once served beneath Piaro and preserved an idealized memory of her captain while obeying the empire that condemned him. Their reunion is painful because both loyalty systems appear honorable from inside them. Piaro is willing to fight her for Grid, but he also identifies her talent and hopes she can be freed from the false history surrounding the Red Knights. Once the truth is exposed, Mercedes joins the Overgeared Kingdom and later fights beside Piaro as a fellow apostle, turning their relationship from inherited command into chosen comradeship. (Chapters 787–790, 799, 811–813, 1355)

Braham

Braham is both an abrasive evaluator and a crucial intellectual partner. Their spars expose the practical limits of Piaro's combinations, while Braham's explanation of natural properties leads directly to a new pesticide technique. The exchange later reverses when Piaro's completed Natural State shows Braham a form of power based on harmony rather than domination, influencing the way the magician conceptualizes Punishment. Braham may ridicule farming, but by the late story he calls Piaro the best apostle after witnessing the astonishing value of his accelerated medicinal cultivation. (Chapters 1138–1139, 1607, 1955)

Students and family

Piaro's students include Hurent, Damian, Lord, Bland, soldiers, farmers, and eventually yangbans. He teaches because he sees character and future service rather than because a student already possesses status; Hurent's labor and Damian's growth matter to him as much as elite talent. His family with the elf Beniyaru and their daughter Cecil gives him an ordinary happiness that the fugitive could not imagine. Their expectations join those of Grid and countless farmers when he challenges Aldro, so his pursuit of divinity remains anchored in responsibility to specific people rather than personal grandeur. (Chapters 381, 386, 672, 1397, 1717, 1894, 1964)

Items

• Piaro's Farming Tools: A changing set of hand plows, sickles, mortars, and related implements used for both cultivation and combat. Piaro channels sword mastery, Free Farming, Fated to Perish, and Natural State through them, although their agricultural construction can be less durable than weapons forged with more metal. Grid later recognizes a second limitation: because Piaro insists that the tools remain ideal for cultivation, they are slightly unsuitable for combat at the level of an opponent approaching an Absolute. The loss to Aldro teaches both men that respecting Piaro's farming philosophy need not prevent further development of his battle equipment. Accepting the tools still marks Piaro's decision to stop measuring his worth by the sword alone. (Chapters 250–253, 812, 1138–1139, 1719)