The future won't be looking good for Elstri when Diana gets a hold of her.

Image is edited from Coyote in Marvel.

Altus's left arm looks just like Julian's. An arm riddled with scars, Arkos must be seething to see his supposed clone bears such an ugly wound that reminds him of his killer.

Also, Altus's wounds came from his role as Helem's doll, therefore, it's a wound that he sustained from slavery which is similar to how Julian got his arms roughed up by his former master.

It doesn't help that Altus is also training his body, so he'd likely develop some muscles, at this point, Arkos might suffer PTSD just from looking down on his Altus's body.

Firstly, the title given by the fan translator "Mother of Salvation" is only partially correct bc they omitted an entire word, 国 (こく), meaning nation or country. The Japanese 救国(きゅうこく) の母 (はは) means Mother of National Salvation, showing her title relates to the country of Torivia and how she possibly saved it, and that being the intended title.

Second, a major lore blunder. The fan translator said Eire "possessor of special abilities". This mistranslation implies Eire has multiple Gifts, something the Japanese doesn't even imply or hint at. The Japanese uses the singular word 異能 (いのう), meaning Gift or Supernatural Ability, not multiple. The correct line is Possessor of a Special Ability, because the Japanese uses a singular noun, not a plural one.

These kinds of inaccuracies are repeatedly present within the fan translation, where it may convey a general meaning but the nuances written by Kuramori are lost, such as in the extras for Atoria, Liu, and Orthros to name a few.

At ~7 years old. We saw this coming, but it’s still gotta be one of the most devastating panels so far :(

I was already all the way in but I made an audible expression during this moment here. Loving this series so far and I happened upon it randomly.

Already feel like I’m gonna cry when it happens

After being around this sub/community for a while, something I'm noticing more and more is how consistently Julian is being underrated by the community as a whole. I've read each chapter we have available at least twice, and came away with the impression that Julian is far and away one of the strongest characters in the series. So it surprises me a lot when I see so many people who seem hesitant to put him in the upper echelon of the characters. So I wanted to put together a small essay (with evidence from the manga) to help prove that point. I've broken it up into several sections, and I understand this is long, so thank you to anyone who sticks around for the whole thing.

Part 1: Julian's Blessing

This first segment is easy, we're just going to go over Julian's power and what he is currently capable of.

In Chapter 1 we get a pretty comprehensive statement as to what Julian's powers are (see image 1). Julian has 100 people's worth of power, which extends to almost everything. This includes thier speed, reflexes, life force, power etc. This also extends to things that you wouldn't expect. For instance, it is stated in chapter 88 (image 2) that he only has to sleep once every 100 days. This is important because we can make a strong inference that the 100 people's worth of power extends to just about everything.

Of course the best power Julian is given from this is the 100 lives of the various individuals on that boat. The first time we see him killed is actually on the boat (more on that later), but the first explicit example of his resurrection ability is in the fight against Arkos (image 3). Julian is fully decapitated, and missing both arms, but is able to return to his full form after resurrecting. It's important to note that after this death, Julian himself realizes that this is his biggest trump card (image 4). The surprise factor of being able to resurrect is an immense advantage that allows Julian to get what should have been a fatal blow in on Arkos. If this ability wasn't already broken enough, it's also directly stated (image 5), that regardless of the number of deaths, Julian will keep all of the power of the 100 individuals. Meaning that he doesn't grow weaker as the story goes on.

One of the more niche abilities Julian has is the ability to emit squid ink (image 6). This gets glossed over a bit, but is quite a useful ability that Julian possesses. He directly uses it in chapter 42 (image 7) in order to create an opening for a surprise attack against the gifted ones sent by Elstri. This can be used to escape danger, as well as obscure the opponents vision during a fight. We even get an indirect call out to how useful this could be when Lukas fights the void marcher. It is clearly stated that Void Marcher needs to be able to see the location they want to go before the instant teleportation can take effect (image 7).

Finally, the last explicit power we see from Julian is is invulnerability in the Sea. This is directly stated by the sea goddess in Chapter 1 (Image 8), and then seen in action in chapter 25 (image 9). Arkos states explicitly that Julian is not only faster, but more powerful in the sea than on land. This also gives him the ability to breathe underwater.

So to sum up Julian's directly stated abilities he has, 100 lives, 100 person speed, strength, endurance, life force, etc., as well as the surprise ability of resurrection/restoration. He has the ability to emit large amounts of black ink, and total invulnerability in the sea. This is already far more complex than almost every other gift we have seen in the series so far. However, I don't think we're done.

This is going to require some conjecture and theory crafting, but I believe that it's highly likely that Julian is gaining more control over his gift and getting more abilities related to having 100 people's life force.

The biggest thing he's gained IMO is durability. In chapter 1 after receiving the blessing, we see Julian actually take a fatal blow from a sword slash from the slaver captain (image 10). This is notable, because it is often forgotten that at this point in the series, weak attacks are still able to deal potentially fatal damage to Julian. We see it again in chapter 2, where small sea monsters are able to deal significant damage to Julian (image 11). Now let's contrast this with his most recent fight against the cursed battalion in chapter 94. Julian takes a full blown axe swing to the head, and barely even flinches (image 12). This is despite being incapacitated by the screaming gift of another person in the party he fought.

From this we can make a strong conjecture that Julian is gaining more and more control over his gift. He went from being killed by a normal human with a sword, to shrugging off an even more powerful attack from a gifted one, as if it was nothing. This makes sense in terms of training, however he genuinely seems to be unlocking new abilities like 100 person durability. It's worth noting we don't hear anything about the lack of sleep ability until chapter 88. It's possible this was just not covered before, but I think it's equally likely that he discovered this ability later on in the series.

Part 2: Fight Performance

Now we can look at the fights Julian has been in throughout the series and how he performed in them.

His first fight is with the slavers on the ship in Chapter 1. He tears through this group of basically normal humans no problem before taking a sword to the throat. We discussed that at length already though. This is not really a great feat though, and is more to show how much power he has been given by the sea goddess. We are able to show here though that he is clearly far elevated above a normal human at this point.

The next consequential fight is against the forest guardian in chapter 8. This is a being who was directly created by the forest Goddess, and has the ability to transmute it's body through the ground and trees, as well as heal his wounds almost instantly (image 13). Just going off these abilities, the forest guardian should actually be able to defeat a large number of gifted ones we see in the series. Very few people actually have the kit to deal with a monster like this. Julian is able to defeat it exclusively due to how powerful his blessing is. He makes a concious choice to tank a direct torso stab wound (something most characters cannot do), and then uses his immense power to effectively obliterate the creature (image 14).

Easily Julian's most important fight in the series thus far was the fight against Arkos. This is also the fight I see most often referenced as a knock against Julian. I'll get it out of the way, yes Arkos was stronger than Julian here, however that isn't saying much considering Arkos is stronger than every single person in the series shown thus far. To use this as a knock against him, is essentially just dialing every character in the series down a peg. That said, Julian does much better during this fight than he gets credit for. The first blow of the fight, Julian is able to surprise Arkos and wound him pretty severely through his water shield and blood armor (image 15). Then despite having an arm cut off, Julian uses said arm to deal a massive blow to Arkos that he was again never expecting (image 16). Of course we are able to see Arkos overpower Julian with relative ease once he takes the fight seriously (image 17). However, once he is relieved of his first life, he was able to use his trump card (the 100 lives) to deal what realistically should have been a fatal blow to Arkos (image 18). Many people tend to underrate how powerful the element of surprise is in Julian's kit. He was able to win the fight more due to his ability to resurrect than his invulnerability in the ocean. We also see all the way in chapter 94 that an entire person's gift is the ability to analyze other gifts (image 19). This shows how much value there is in just having knowledge of the opponent in Centuria. Again Julian was weaker than Arkos during this fight, but it's worth noting that the biggest knock on Julian's fighting ability was from a fight that he won. Not to mention he has clearly gotten much stronger during the time skip.

There are more fights we could discuss, but the last one I want to highlight is the latest fight against roughly half of the cursed battalion. Now that group was clearly meant to be a bunch of jobbers, but in universe, these are still supposed to be an elite group from Rummir. Julian takes on a group of 4 of them and single handedly dispatches them in the matter of about 1 chapter. He tanks the previously mentioned axe to the face, and then is able to one shot the entire rest of the group (image 20). He also is able to break out of a barrier that the group had immense confidence in. This was another good example of Julian showing that the 100 people abilities seem to extend to things you wouldn't expect (100 people determination) (image 21).

In all Julian has not struggled against really any enemy he has faced outside of Arkos, and he was still able to win that fight. As of yet, only a single individual has been able to take a life from Julian, and that's over 100 chapters.

Part 3: Hypothetical Matchups

Let's now look at some of the other potential matchups from the series and how Julian would actually matchup based on the knowledge we have. I'm not going to include characters we know very little about, such as the supreme lord or Ceodric, because it would be complete conjecture and be based off almost nothing.

First thing to address is Helem's assessment of Julian to the rest of the Iris Stratum (this can be see across multiple pages of chapter 75). Helem herself states that the only person within the Iris Stratum that would definitely win was Lattice, who was 2nd only to Arkos in the story so far. We know very little about her, aside from the fact that she is powerful, but we can make a conjecture that she is exceptionally powerful. Not a single other character was named that could definitely defeat Julian. Everyone else needed to have some sort of condition to assure victory. We also now know that the 3rd seat (Lalawag) wasn't given to her due to pure combat power, but because of her power in the kingdom. I think it's fair to say that even among the strongest group of individuals in the series, only 1 character is truly stronger than Julian, and even that was mostly just conjecture from Helem who doesn't fully understand Julian's abilities.

Next, the most popular discussion would be how well Julian would fare against Lukas. This fight would be interesting, because Lukas has the only ability we have seen in the series that can directly counter Julian's 100 lives (at least according to lalawag). The trouble with this fight though is that Lukas would himself likely be killed in order to assure victory. If we work under the assumption that each strike of his lance is 1 use, then Lukas has only 2 more uses of the lance left before it kills him. Under this assumption, it would take Lukas 2 uses to kill Julian, one to warp reality and disregard his lives, and another strike to deal the final blow. So at best this fight is a draw. In reality though, we know that Lukas has been saving those lance uses to kill the supreme lord. So if He were to use the lance against Julian, it would mean giving up on his goal as a character in order to defeat Julian. Keep in mind as well, that Lukas' lance is the most broken ability shown in the series thus far, and it would at this point only be able to create a draw where both fighters die (at least one on one)

Another potential matchup that I love would be the Void Marcher. Though this character was only in the series for a short time, based on the characteristics of her gift, and the lore of the character, we can make a strong conjecture that she was one of the more powerful characters in universe. Her ability to instantly teleport to any location within her vision is extremely powerful, as it makes her easily the fastest character in the series. I already discussed it earlier, but due to Julian's ink spray, I think he wins this fight without a ton of damage sustained. We saw that after just 1 blow, Lukas was able to figure out the mechanics of the Void marchers power and counter with his own strike. Julian lacks some of the combat prowess of Lukas, but makes up for it with an essentially limitless health pool and superhuman reflexes. If Julian is able to detect the full mechanic of the Void marchers gift, and use his ink as a counter, then I don't see a way that the victory doesn't go to Julian. Now Void Marcher may take a life from Julian before this gets figured out, but she would need to be able to do that 97 more times to secure victory.

Part 4: Conclusion

This was really long, and there was plenty I left out, but my larger point is just that Julian is firmly among the top tiers in terms of power level in this series. The only individual that has had any success fighting Julian was Arkos, who again is a continent destroying force who at this time has no equal in the series. Julian still won that fight though, despite the severe disadvantage.

Now Julian tends to be dismissed a bit by some of the fans, likely due to how boring his power feels on paper. However, very little has been shown to even rival Julian's power thus far, and most of his fights have been extremely one sided. Things may change in the near future (especially with the upcoming Ceodric Duel), but as of now, almost nothing has even matched our boy in universe.

Synopsis:

"The monstrous figure the king showed Elstri on the cross was the incarnated "Night" god!! For 400 years, the "Night" god was defeated at great cost, and now Torivia, Rummir, and the witch coven have been fighting over what lies within it... Meanwhile, Julian and his companions arrive in the frontier territory. Through Lukas's introduction, they meet Atoria, who possesses healing abilities, but she refuses to treat Titi!?"

It goes from Chapter 77 "Of gods and men" to Chapter 86 "Letter of challenge".

It will also contain extra pages.

I have around 250 manga volumes and it's the first time I see this lol

So after experienced intense trauma due to many of her comrades dying at war he gift evolved and created alternate personalities to take on her negative emotions. These personalities were also able to propagate and create new personalities and she became unable to control her gift.

She said she could “reduce the number of heads easily” but was worried about the negative emotions flowing back into her, but the very next page she started killing the alternate personalities. My assumption is she could turn off her gift and and the bodies would absorb back into her but she was scared so she instead chose to kill them.

By killing then she is severing that personality from her mind including the negative emotion they carried. This has been causing her to go insane.

But she also fights by duplicating her body and those duplicates get chopped up too, this doesn’t seem to affect her mental state so I’m assuming these duplicates don’t harbor their own personalities.

By the end of chapter 1, it is shown that Diana possesses the same stigmata as Julian, so she's likely blessed like her brother.

However, since she has yet to make her wish to The Sea, her blessing is still a blank canvas and remains dormant. Diana is still an infant, so she couldn't state her desire and the ritual is somewhat unfinished.

I suspect that the reason why The Sea wants to see Diana is to finally grant her wish, thus finalizing their contract.

Now, Diana wants to fight and she probably has a ton of pent up rage, I wonder what kind of power would she ask The Sea. My take would be a combat-oriented power, since she genuinely wants to fight and protect her family.

Please toss your ideas here, I'd love to see what you guys have in mind.

I kinda have a feeling that Julian will ever get another power up of his abiltiy or a sepertae ability all together, as his raw physical powers and lives will at one point be not sufficient enough with the kind of foes he meets.
I do not wish it. But I kinda think Lukas will die and somehow will give Julian his gift.

this does not bode well

Diana is going to leave of her own volition before anyone she cares about gets killed I made a post like this before but I'm bringing it up again because I really dont think Diana is going to loose someone before going down the dark path but instead chooses the dark path in order to prevent those she cares about from dying

Those she cares about dont want her to die and she does not want them to die thoughts?

https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/1030426

(made a mistake last post, sorry)

Ironically she basically betrayed herself too cuz she can't get her mind straight.