Decem Hougan
Last king of the Elf Country · Other Factions · Humanoid (Elf) · Unknown (Ainz estimates Lv70 or higher but below Lv80 from his HP and MP)
Personality
Extremely narcissistic and arrogant, respecting only himself and caring nothing for his country or people. Obsessed with breeding an army of powerful beings from his own bloodline to conquer the world, he treated his children and women alike as tools; until his death he could not understand why he met such an end.
Abilities
- Summons the level-87 Primal Earth Elemental "Behemoth" (he did not name it); he can command elementals stronger than himself at the cost of continuously draining mana during battle; presumably summons it with an item left by his father
- Can use magic up to the 10th tier, such as [Mercy of Shorea Robusta], [Tempest], [Shining Burst], [Aspect of Elemental], and [Tremor Sense]
- Physically tough; even Ainz has no chance against him in close combat; Ainz's [Time Stop] and Aura's [Shadow Sewing Arrow] do not work on him
- Over a hundred years ago he dealt heavy damage to the Black Scripture, and he has also slain an Elder-class dragon
History
- His father was one of the Eight Greed Kings (an elf). He once cooperated with the Slane Theocracy but later betrayed it, deceiving, imprisoning, and raping the Theocracy's trump card Faine; the child born of this was the Extra Seat, and this is considered the cause of the war between the two countries
- Vol. 11: As the Theocracy's great army closed in, he refused to save his country, intending to go to the Theocracy himself after the country fell and reclaim "his child"
- Vol. 15: Sent his daughter Rugi to the front, watched idly as the Holocaust Scripture killed her, then summoned Behemoth to kill Schoen of the Holocaust Scripture; Rugi's mother threw herself to her death, which left him unmoved
- Vol. 16: Mistaking Aura and Mare for his grandchildren, he declared he would breed with them, which enraged the invisible Ainz, and the two fought; with Behemoth destroyed and himself badly wounded, he fled
- Vol. 16: Fleeing back to his bedchamber, he ran into the Extra Seat, who stomped his chest in; he revived through a prepared means of resurrection (whether magic or an item is unknown) and was killed again
Trivia
Decem means "ten" in Latin, so some readers speculate his father's name was "Kurō Hōgan" (Minamoto no Yoshitsune).
Related lore
- Eight Greed Kings
- Theocracy–Elf War
- Fall of the Re-Estize Kingdom
- Elf Country
- 7th Tier
- 8th Tier
- 9th Tier
- 10th Tier
- Divine Magic
- Time Stop
- The Goal of All Life is Death
- Mercy of Shorea Robusta
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