Pan Helliones

Pan Helliones is the fourth of Andras's Seven Swords, a diplomat and battlefield specialist whose massive physique conceals careful political judgment. His final service to the empire ends in defeat by Theodore Miller, but his deception during that battle protects his disciple Rebecca, and the force of his swordsmanship continues to influence both Theodore and later enemies.

Biography

Elvenheim, Kargas, and the Pirate Archipelago

Pan enters Meltor beside Lloyd Pollan as the senior master in an Andras delegation sent to test whether Theodore's claim of friendship with Elvenheim is credible. Because raw evidence cannot settle the dispute between enemy states, Pan turns strength into a diplomatic test: he proposes a duel between Theodore and Rebecca, his disciple, while making clear that he himself cannot fight without risking a fatal escalation. The arrangement serves Andras whether Theodore accepts or refuses, showing that Pan's blunt appearance masks a practiced political mind. (Chapters 86–87)

When Theodore defeats Rebecca, Pan immediately stops the contest, thanks him for sparing her, and concedes in the name of the Seven Swords. He later prevents Lloyd from turning private hostility toward Theodore into an assassination that would provoke Elvenheim and destroy the negotiations. Rebecca's loss and Lloyd's violation leave Andras in a poor bargaining position, yet Pan accepts the resulting estates, mines, and ten-year truce without disrupting the settlement. His conduct balances imperial duty with respect for an opponent who met the test honestly. (Chapters 88–91)

Eastern Legacies, Quattro, and the Soldun Civil War

The emperor later orders Pan to support Duke Cornwall against Soldun, placing the empire's great destructive specialist at the center of the civil war. Pan knows that Randolph has infiltrated Andras for Rebecca's sake, so he restrains his disciple and falsely claims that the restraints will kill her unless Randolph Clovis abandons Theodore to free her. The lie isolates Theodore for the duel Pan believes imperial duty requires while quietly removing Rebecca and Randolph from a battlefield where their treason would otherwise invite execution. (Chapters 221–226)

Pan's gathered aura turns the surrounding plain into both weapon and barrier, but Theodore survives that overwhelming force and answers Pan's Type 0 World Break with Abraxas. Mortally wounded, Pan reveals that Rebecca was never in danger: his apparent cruelty was a calculated way to preserve his disciple even as he offered his sword and life to Andras. He admits that he cannot see a future for the decaying empire, yet he does not renounce it at death. His defeat frees Rebecca to defect and reunite with Randolph, while Theodore carries the memory of a loyal enemy who protected another person without abandoning his own chosen obligation. (Chapters 225–232 and 236–237)

East Continent and the Northern War

Pan is already dead during the eastern campaign and northern war, so he makes no new decisions in this period. Allies use his exceptional destructive output as a benchmark for aura users, and Veronica cites Theodore's duel with him when explaining the difference between defeating individual masters and bearing responsibility for an army. These recollections preserve Pan's importance without restoring him as an acting character. (Chapters 268–269)

Invidia later reproduces Pan's first Earth Break from a stolen ability record and amplifies it enough to overturn a mountain range. The attack belongs to Invidia, not to Pan, and does not indicate possession, resurrection, or posthumous growth. Its scale instead shows why Pan's original specialty remained a feared standard after his death, while the grimoire's ability to maximize stolen techniques makes the imitation more destructive than the living swordsman's demonstrated use. (Chapter 290)

Jerem's Return and the Great Forest

Pan has no direct presence during Jerem's return. Theodore recalls that their battle supplied the conceptual clue needed to complete Abraxas: Pan's force had pushed him beyond the assumption that the spell must join only two opposing elements, eventually allowing a final form using all four. This is Pan's posthumous consequence rather than a new act or instruction; an enemy he tried to kill transforms the pressure of their duel into later magical development. (Chapter 323)

Marriage, Armageddon, and the New World

Before Armageddon, Theodore revisits places tied to his earlier life, including the Babarino Plains where he fought Pan. The location functions as a personal landmark in Theodore's review of past battles before the final crisis. Pan neither appears nor communicates there, and the chapter supplies no evidence of survival: his role in this last arc is confined to memory and the lasting effect of their Soldun confrontation. (Chapter 388)

Appearance and personality

Pan is more than two meters tall, with a frame compared to a mountain and eyes described first as black and later as tiger-like. He carries an enormous greatsword and wears heavy armor and gauntlets suited to his force-centered style. His expression is usually impassive, and his size makes even senior nobles look small beside him, but neither his physique nor his deliberately plain manner reflects the full subtlety of his thinking. (Chapters 86–89, 222, and 225–228)

He is stern, observant, and politically crafty. Pan respects proven skill, accepts an unfavorable diplomatic result rather than indulge wounded pride, and restrains Lloyd when impulsive violence would harm Andras. His loyalty to the empire is genuine even after he recognizes its declining future. At the same time, his last deception shows a protective attachment to Rebecca: he accepts being understood as her captor so that she and Randolph can survive his final mission. (Chapters 86–91 and 221–232)

Magic, abilities, and martial skills

Pan is a sword master whose aura specializes in destructive force rather than precision. He can reinforce his massive body and greatsword, close distance with speed that belies his build, and project shockwaves across hundreds of meters. Once he begins gathering power, the surrounding upheaval also obstructs approach, but the need to accumulate that force gives a prepared opponent time to respond. His attacks can devastate a battlefield, while their broad scale makes delicate targeting difficult. (Chapters 224–227)

Super Heavy Sword and Earth Break

Pan's signature style channels aura through a 34.2-kilogram greatsword forged from meteorite and adamantium. Earth Break drives its force through the ground like a falling meteor, raising and overturning the terrain; other swings release horizontal shockwaves powerful enough to function as both attack and moving barrier. These effects explain why his destructive power is treated as an exception among aura users, comparable to great magic, but the corpus does not establish that the weapon itself supplies a supernatural power independent of Pan. (Chapters 225–227 and 268)

Type 0 World Break

Type 0 World Break is Pan's culminating strike against Theodore. After isolating the fight and gathering enough aura to distort the plain, he releases the attack against Abraxas. The collision destroys the immediate battlefield but ends with Pan mortally wounded. The technique therefore demonstrates his maximum commitment and scale without establishing invulnerability: a prepared great spell can meet and overcome it. Invidia's later Earth Break is a stolen and amplified reproduction, not another form Pan personally mastered. (Chapters 226–228 and 290)

Power progression

Relationships

• Rebecca: Pan is Rebecca's master and protector. He uses her as apparent leverage against Randolph, but his dying disclosure establishes that the restraints were harmless and that the deception was intended to keep both siblings away from his fatal imperial duty. (Chapters 86–90 and 221–232)
• Theodore Miller: Pan first tests Theodore through Rebecca and accepts the result with respect. Their later duel ends Pan's life, frees Rebecca from Andras, and helps Theodore discover the path toward the completed Abraxas. (Chapters 86–91, 225–232, and 323)
• Randolph Clovis: Pan recognizes Randolph's infiltration and manipulates his concern for Rebecca to remove him from the central battle. The method is coercive, but Pan's false threat ultimately permits Randolph to escape with his sister rather than die as a traitor. (Chapters 221 and 225–232)
• Lloyd Pollan: Lloyd accompanies Pan during the Meltor delegation. Pan rebukes his unauthorized killing intent and blocks an attack on Theodore because it would ruin the mission and invite war with Elvenheim. (Chapters 86–91)
• Invidia: Invidia later uses a stolen record of Pan's Earth Break at greater scale. This is appropriation of his Aura Ability, not cooperation or continuity of identity. (Chapter 290)

Items

Pan's greatsword is his defining weapon, weighing 34.2 kilograms and combining meteorite with adamantium. It withstands the aura required for his Super Heavy Sword techniques, but the corpus provides no unique name or independent magical function, so it is not linked as a separate generated item. (Chapters 225–227)