Belial

Belial is the Incubus Duke of the Lust Dukedom, father of Bella Bellfrost, and one of Aengus's earliest high-ranking demon sponsors. His territory, armies, spatial craftsmanship, and eventual transfer of authority give the Army of Liberation its first major institutional base, while his choices as a father repeatedly override the pride of a duke. (Chapters 80–151, 263–350, and 412–448)

Biography

Duke, father, and wary sponsor

Belial enters the story as ruler of an immense dukedom and father to many competing heirs. He has given Bella Bellfrost a valuable marquisate because her strength and judgment distinguish her, but her decision to bring the newly transformed Aengus Degaro into court creates both opportunity and risk. Belial cannot ignore the half-breed's Beelzebub bloodline, yet he also cannot treat Bella's judgment as irrelevant without weakening the daughter he has chosen to advance. He therefore sponsors Aengus conditionally, granting access to resources and status while watching for proof that the investment will strengthen rather than destabilize his domain. (Chapters 80–108)

His support operates through institutions, not paternal sentiment alone. The name Belial discourages lesser officials from obstructing Bella, his non-aggression pacts structure relations with tribes, and territories granted through his authority let Aengus organize followers without immediately fighting every noble in the region. Belial himself remains subordinate to Demon Lord Crimson, so assistance has limits: open rebellion could cost the dukedom millions of subjects. This tension explains his caution. He can protect Bella and quietly make room for her partner, but he initially lacks a safe way to challenge the demon lord whose rule defines the surrounding political order. (Chapters 107–125)

The court battles surrounding Aengus's disguise as Agus turn observation into personal approval. Belial studies the half-breed's Hellfire, speed, and ability to defeat established nobles, then accepts his relationship with Bella and warns him not to neglect her as his influence grows. The advice is colored by Belial's own vast household, but the fatherly purpose is distinct from his behavior as duke: he wants Bella to retain honor in any future partnership. By providing a one-way gate to Crimson City, a sealed letter, and access to his spatial network, he becomes a sponsor who equips Aengus to move beyond the dukedom while still demanding that Bella return safely. (Chapters 131–151)

Alliance with the Ruination Emperor

When Belial learns that Aengus has accepted Aria as another partner, he arrives through a personally crafted teleporter and challenges his son-in-law. Pride and concern for Bella combine in the decision: he wants proof that rapid conquest and another wife have not made Aengus careless with her future. Their spar instead demonstrates that Belial has been decisively surpassed. His full spear charge rebounds without harming Aengus, but he responds to the humiliation pragmatically. The strength that wounds his ego also assures him that Bella has chosen a protector capable of surviving the enemies their ambitions will create. (Chapters 263–268)

Belial then accepts Aria as family and converts that private trust into public commitment. He transfers the Lord's Seal and command of twenty million Lust Dukedom minions to Aengus, describing the handover as a chance to pursue a future beyond their narrow vision. This is more than military reinforcement: a sitting duke gives the Liberation Army territory, population, administrative legitimacy, and his own reputation. The choice knowingly breaks the safety of submission to Crimson, partly because Belial sees Aengus as an anomaly greater than a Demon Lord and partly because Crimson's fall offers reckoning for the separation of Belial from Celeste. (Chapters 268–273)

During the Crimson campaign, Belial accompanies the leadership into battle and fights high-ranking enemies below while Aengus confronts the demon lord. His physical strength contributes directly, but his more lasting role is political consolidation. After victory, Belial helps reorganize the captured domain, receives responsibility for multiple dukedoms, advises Aengus about the Demon Lords' Council, and warns him to preserve an escape route even when attendance is strategically necessary. He does not confuse sponsorship with control; once Aengus becomes emperor, Belial supplies experience and infrastructure while accepting that final military authority belongs to his son-in-law. (Chapters 273–296)

The Phoenix campaign exposes a failure his political competence cannot excuse. Belial remains behind to manage war because he is ashamed to face Celeste after years of separation and tells Aengus not to force her return if she has chosen someone else. This is restraint, but also avoidance. When Bella later brings them together, his drooping wings and hesitation contrast sharply with the assured duke who faced armies and courts. Reconciliation is not immediate absolution; it begins when he admits that he missed Celeste and accepts her anger. By facing the relationship he could not solve through power, Belial starts integrating his responsibilities as husband and father with those of commander and ruler. (Chapters 296–317)

A place in the restored household

Belial continues supporting unification after the family reunion. He uses spatial devices to move Bella, Aria, and allies toward Aengus's divine battles, sits in the new imperial court, and volunteers to return to the Demon World when his strengthened abilities can help subdue remaining lords. His instinct is still protective—he hesitates to send Bella into obvious danger—but he increasingly trusts the wider family to share that risk. The duke who once evaluated Aengus as a useful asset now treats the empire's survival, his daughter's marriage, and his own territorial service as parts of one cause. (Chapters 327–350)

After Aengus and Bella disappear into the Primal Realm, Belial ages beside Celeste and waits without certainty that either will return. His first question when Aengus reappears is not about office or lost territory but whether Bella is safe. News of her pregnancy transforms that anxiety into open joy, and he resumes service in imperial councils while waiting to meet her. This period clarifies the hierarchy among his roles: the former ruler remains a useful official and adviser, but father and prospective grandfather are the identities that determine what he most urgently wants from the restored empire. (Chapters 412–439)

At Emily's birth, Belial paces outside Bella's chamber despite Creation itself being present to protect her. Once the child arrives, he competes gently for the chance to hold his granddaughter, a domestic conclusion far removed from the bone throne and succession politics of his introduction. The scene does not erase his appetite, vast household, or history of political calculation. It shows instead what those ambitions ultimately secure for him: reunion with Celeste, continued relationship with Bella, and a place in a family where demon, phoenix, and cosmic lineages can remain together. (Chapters 447–448)

Appearance and personality

Belial is a 1.9-meter-tall incubus with shimmering purple skin, a lean but muscular build, twin curved purple horns, and broad crimson-red wings. His features and bearing project an overwhelming masculine allure, and later scenes describe him as clean-shaven and devilishly handsome. His posture changes visibly with emotion: he is imposing in court or combat, while his wings droop when embarrassment and guilt make him hesitate before Celeste. He can assume a human form that conceals obvious demonic heritage, though the corpus does not provide a separate stable description for it. (Chapters 80, 267, 317, and 329)

He is hedonistic, proud, politically experienced, and more emotionally perceptive than his first presentation suggests. Belial enjoys a vast harem and speaks from that experience, but his support for Bella and anxiety over Celeste reveal loyalties that are not reducible to lust. He can laugh off a lost spar, transfer power when another ruler is more capable, and advise caution without mistaking it for cowardice. His chief weaknesses are pride and avoidance: he challenges Aengus despite clear warning and postpones facing Celeste because shame is harder for him to manage than war. (Chapters 80, 131–140, 267–296, 317, and 412–448)

Skills, laws, and abilities

Belial's capabilities combine semi-royal incubus bloodline traits, an unusually strong physique, spear combat, flight, mental influence, spatial engineering, and territorial command. The corpus establishes that later imperial strengthening makes him more confident against Demon Lords, but it does not supply a reliable chronological status sequence or clearly defined persistent transformation. His powers can therefore be described from direct demonstrations without assigning a public progression row. (Chapters 80–151, 267–296, and 327–350)

Incubus charm and mental influence

Belial naturally radiates charm capable of ensnaring women when he directs it, an inherited incubus effect presented as both aura and mental influence. His courtly presence can dominate attention before he acts physically, and his reputation reflects long practice using allure in personal and political life. The story does not provide a measured range, duration, or named activation for this charm. It also establishes a hard practical counter: Aengus's mental immunities make Belial's mental attacks irrelevant during their spar, showing that bloodline potency does not override specialized resistance or a vastly stronger will. (Chapters 80 and 267–268)

His influence should be distinguished from formal rulership. Hundreds of partners and attendants may respond to his allure, but the Lust Dukedom's armies obey seals, ranks, bargains, and political authority rather than charm alone. Belial's most consequential persuasion is often ordinary judgment: accepting Bella's chosen partner, convincing nobles that a transfer of rule is legitimate, and warning Aengus about the costs of provoking the Demon Lords' Council. The exact interaction between incubus charm and consent is not mechanically resolved in the supplied chapters, so only directly demonstrated or described compulsion can be attributed to the ability. (Chapters 80–140 and 268–296)

Semi-royal physique, flight, and spear combat

Belial's semi-royal bloodline gives him a physique stronger than ordinary incubi. During his challenge to Aengus, activating that body triples already enhanced demonic physical statistics, producing a charge powerful enough to gouge the landscape with its rebound. His crimson wings provide natural flight and rapid travel, while his S-grade spear concentrates full-body momentum into a single piercing attack. The weapon is a product of careful craftsmanship and represents the highest grade he could personally achieve at that stage. (Chapters 80 and 267–268)

The spar also defines his limits. Belial commits his strongest direct strike and cannot injure Aengus; the force rebounds and throws him back instead. His mental attacks offer no alternative against immunity, and he depends on Aengus's barrier to protect spectators from the collision. Against peers, however, the same physique makes him formidable: he fights Demon Generals in the Crimson campaign through raw strength and remains an important commander after later strengthening. The source does not specify healing rate, stamina ceiling, or a complete named technique list, so those mechanics remain unknown. (Chapters 267–275 and 334)

Spatial gates and artifact craft

Belial is a skilled spatial engineer who builds fixed gates, personal teleporters, and portable devices. A one-way gate in his estate carries Bella and Aengus directly to Crimson City, while his personal teleporter lets him cross the distance to their army efficiently. These mechanisms require prepared destinations or maps rather than granting unrestricted travel to any imagined location. Belial can also supply spatial Law Crystals and explain portal construction, making his knowledge valuable to Aengus even after Aengus's raw Space Law surpasses the duke's practical reach. (Chapters 140, 147–151, 267, and 295)

His best documented artifact is the Spatial Teleportation Disk, an S-rank device identified by Appraisal as Belial's creation. It opens stable rifts over vast distances and can cross into restricted human territory, but it is limited to mapped locations, carries a seventy-two-hour cooldown, has a finite use count, and is bound to Belial's bloodline or explicit permission. Bella says her father can recharge it. These restrictions make it a powerful retreat tool rather than limitless teleportation, and Aengus's decision to synthesize it into his body is a later modification rather than part of Belial's original design. (Chapters 147–151)

Governance, sponsorship, and command

As Duke of Lust, Belial controls a territory spanning tens of thousands of square kilometers and a population that includes at least twenty million military minions. Lord's Seals encode command relationships to those forces, allowing transfer of authority but creating danger if the artifact is captured. Belial's ability to grant Bella a marquisate, recognize Aengus as lord, and redistribute dukedoms after Crimson's fall shows administrative reach beyond combat. His sponsorship gives the Liberation Army land, supply networks, legitimacy, and experienced officials—resources Aengus's personal power alone could not instantly replace. (Chapters 80–125, 268–280, and 295–296)

Belial is not the empire's supreme strategist. He initially underestimates Aengus, remains bound beneath Crimson until a stronger coalition emerges, and sometimes lets paternal anxiety or masculine pride distort his decisions. His value lies in reading the demon world's institutions and translating revolutionary strength into durable rule. He advises sending a clone to dangerous councils, preserving an escape route, and maintaining conquered territories while Aengus pursues other campaigns. At the latest supplied point he remains connected to imperial leadership, but family life and Celeste's return have become as important as the authority he once treated as his defining achievement. (Chapters 267–350 and 412–448)

Relationships

• Bella Bellfrost: Bella is Belial's daughter, favored heir, and strongest personal reason for supporting Aengus. He distinguishes protecting her future from controlling every choice she makes. (Chapters 80–151, 263–350, and 412–448)
• Aengus Degaro: Belial begins as Aengus's wary sponsor, becomes his father-in-law, and ultimately transfers military and territorial authority after accepting that Aengus can realize a vision beyond the dukedom. (Chapters 80–151, 263–350, and 412–448)
• Aria: Belial welcomes Aria as Bella's sister-wife after recognizing her strength and respectful place within the family. (Chapters 263–273)
• Celeste: Celeste is Bella's mother and the partner Belial loses through demon–phoenix conflict. His shame delays their reunion, but he eventually faces her anger and rejoins her in the restored household. (Chapters 296–317 and 412–448)
• Vespera: Vespera serves Bella within the political order Belial created and helps connect his dukedom to the expanding Army of Liberation. (Chapters 80–151 and 268–280)
• Sienna Alsker: Sienna is one of the liberation commanders whose rise demonstrates how Belial's transferred forces become part of a broader imperial hierarchy. (Chapters 268–296)
• Emily: Emily is Belial's granddaughter, whose birth fulfills his hope that Bella's dangerous imperial life would produce a lasting family rather than another separation. (Chapters 438–448)

Items

• Spatial Teleportation Disk: Belial creates, binds, authorizes, and can recharge this limited-use S-rank artifact for travel across vast and restricted boundaries. (Chapters 147–151)
• Lord's Seal: As duke, Belial transfers this soul-linked command artifact and authority over twenty million Lust Dukedom minions to Aengus. (Chapters 268–271)
• S-grade spear: Belial's personally crafted primary weapon channels his enhanced physique during his full-force challenge against Aengus. (Chapters 267–268)