Golden King

• Rosenkreuz
• Ultharathotep

Summary

Christian Brocken Rosenkreuz, more commonly known as the Golden King, is the main antagonist of Ourai no Gahkthun ~What a Shining Braves~.

He is a member of the West India Company, also known simply as The Society and is one of the highest-ranking members in the organization, belonging to the commanding echelons; his title in the Society being the "Golden King. Rosenkreuz is, in reality, a member of the Great Race of Yith, earthly beings who existed in the old days of the planet and former ruler, and was also the founder of the organization from which later became the large organization it is known in the present as the Society.

Rosenkreuz has became the Society's Acting Leader several times in place of their true leader, Altothas Thoth Hermes. At one point, he later enacted a plan to eliminate Nikola Tesla, another member of the Society who defected from them and even stole the Machine Belt, both of which invoked the wrath of all the Society to the point of casting him as their one and only great enemy. For this, the Golden King spent the next 50 years by utilizing the artificial island of Marseille Offshore Academia as the place to achieve enough power to wipe out Tesla once and for all.

Powers and Stats

Tier: 6-B | Low 5-B

Key: Pre-Ultharathotep | Ultharathotep

Name: Christian Brocken Rosenkreuz, Golden King, King of All that Glitters, Ruler of Rosy Cross, Rose Ruler, Great Equation

Origin: Ourai no Gahkthun

Gender: Male

Age: Most likely as old as Earth

Classification: King of the Great Race of Yith, Acting Leader of the West India Company

Powers and Abilities:

• Pre-Ultharathotep
• Ultharathotep

• Abilities
• Resistances

• Superhuman Physical Characteristics

• Genius Intelligence

• Cracking (1 Layer - Golden King's eyes are in complete control of the Cracking Field, which is formed via Cracking)

• Mind Manipulation (2 Layers - Blanketed the Academia with Psychological Camouflage, making the students unquestionable believe arts to be blessings. Made the Governing Council of the Academia agree to killing others)

• Telepathy (Can speak to the minds of others)

• Dream Manipulation (Can appear in the dreams of others)

• Immortality (Types 1 and 6 - He is said to be an "ancient earthling" from the Great Race of Yith, and was also rumored to have live in a time when science was known as alchemy, and also is stated to be immortal like Tesla. He also possesses the ability to transfer his consciousness to other bodies that he can use as his own, allowing him to keep on living so long as he has a body to use)

• Durability Negation, Death Inducement and Deconstruction (1 Layer - Within the Cracking Field, Golden King can induce death and atomize anyone that falls upon his gaze or with his mere presence in the sky, as he has complete control within its borders. If not for her Art, the very instant Nightingale became aware of his gaze, she would instantly died, reduced to particles, but she was shielded by her Art. However even her strongest shadow of the hundreds she possesses, was instantly atomized upon Golden King's gaze falling upon it. His power is immaterial, having no heat, mass or pressure. His gaze can even atomize Critters, as he instantly glared out Will-o'Wisp, a Critter formed out of hundreds of Nightingale's Others, causing it to instantly die. Outside of the Cracking Field, Golden King needs to stare at his target in order to atomize them)

• Non-Physical Interaction (Can atomize the Others, illusions made up of light and shadow by simply looking at them. He can also even atomize Critters, beings of phenomenon that exist only as possibilities and possess invulnerable information bodies)

• Cracking Being Physiology (Other)

• Technology Manipulation (Took control of the automatons, which were under Berta's control)

• Power Bestowal and Curse Manipulation (Is the source of all the Academia's, including the Council members, Arts, bestowing parts of its power by weaving Cracking into countless blessings and curses)

• Invisibility (Has control over the Shadowmen, which are invisible)

• Dimensional Travel (Can leave the Cracking Field, which exists within a rift in reality)

• Flight (Golden King floats in the sky)

As the source of the Academia's Arts, he should be capable of using the following:

• Body Control (Possesses Jo's art which can manipulate her flesh and blood)

• Instinctive Action (Possesses Jo's art which makes it possible for her body to move on it's own regardless of her concentration)

• Perception Manipulation, and Memory Manipulation (Possesses Jo's art which can manipulate the minds of others as her ability is even more fundamental than Mesmorology. Mesmorology, a field of study that is about the mind/psyche. which can control the senses and memories of their targets)

• Biological Manipulation (Possesses Jo's art which allows her to control and manipulate any biological body with a human form)

• Analytical Prediction and Information Analysis (Possesses Emilie's art which can calculate anything and everything, which allows her to foresee her opponents coming. Just from observing Louis's appearance, and movements, she was able to tell he was hiding a forbidden computation device. Can calculate where a person is, and what they are doing)

• Body Puppetry (Possesses Jo's art which can control the body of who she touches. Possesses Berta's art which lets her control any object with a human form, including automatons)

• Stealth Masterybe used to (Possesses Emilie's art which can evaded the gaze of all the 300 people around her)

• Pain Manipulation (Possesses Jo's art which can manipulate pain)

• Statistics Amplification (Possesses Jo's art which can amplify her strength. Possesses Berta's art which can strengthen any human-like objects in her possession)

• Invisibility, and Summoning (Possesses Erich's art which can call forth invisible colors from another dimension)

• Madness Manipulation (Possesses Erich's art which, drives anyone who sees it insane. Despite being under the effects of Tesla's suppression, which numbs fear, which Tesla used to free Erich's mind from his teachers mind control, Erich's colors could still affect Neon)

• Soul Manipulation (Possesses Erich's art which can burrow into the soul itself)

• Intangibility (Possesses Erich's art which has no heat, light or smell, nor any perceptible mass)

• Duplication (Possesses Erich's art which is capable of multiplying)

• Corrosion Inducement (Possesses Erich's art which can rot whatever they touch)

• Status Effect Inducement, Spatial Manipulation, and possibly Law Manipulation (Possesses Wilhelm's art which allows him to "rule over every inch of space, every corner of his opponent's existence", In essence, his power makes him "invincible" in the battlefield, it allows him to take down his enemies with normal attacks. His Art also grants him the ability to cut the fabric of the Cracking Field, creating a breach to escape it)

• Perception Manipulation, Mind Manipulation, and Illusion Creation (Members of the Society are unaffected by Moran's suggestion camoflauge, which is similar to Jane's ability to manipulate minds)

• Madness Manipulation (Type 3 - Anyone who enters the Bar dies from madness. The Bar is the madness of the abyss, yet no one who visits it, such as Golden King, think or even feel the madness)

Same as before plus:

• Large Size (Type 2 - Golden King is thousands of feet tall)

• Immortality (Type 3), and Regeneration (High-Godly - Instantly regenerated from Tesla's Alternate Buster, which had destroyed his whole body completely . His regeneration was also stated to be on par with Tesla who can regenerate after being destroyed by the Grotesque Demonic Hand),

• Enhanced Deconstruction, Reality Warping and Law Manipulation (2 Layers - His presence and gaze is hundreds of millions of times stronger than before. It reshapes the world and all its laws, and his hands can tear through the fabric of reality and all of creation)

• Enhanced Information Manipulation (2 Layers - Type 2 - The Grotesque Demonic Hand can destroy the real, illusory, physical and metaphysical. Using this ability, Golden King reduced Tesla to nothingness, including the data which composed him)

• Enhanced Senses (The ability of his Grotesque Demonic Hand is made possible due to Cracking, and The Golden Eyes. The hands range is such that Tesla couldn't escape them no matter where he fled, implying Golden King's eyes would have been able to track him)

Attack Potency: Country level (Capable of atomizing the whole academia alongside the island it's on, from another dimension hidden within a rift in reality at the top of Chateau d'If without assuming his Ultharathotep form, which results to this much), Can ignore conventional durability with Crimson Eyes | Small Planet level (His Crimson Eyes is hundreds of millions of times stronger than before. The scale of his Cracking was boosted to the point that it covered the area of the entire planet, and was continually expanding. Ultharathotep holds dominion over the sky itself, and is equivalent to being the very embodiment of the world), Can ignore conventional durability with Crimson Eyes and Grotesque Demonic Hand

Speed: Unknown, likely Relativistic+ to Speed of Light combat and reaction speed (Should be able to keep up with and fight against Tesla on equal ground) | Relativistic+ to Speed of Light combat and reaction speed (Comparable to Tesla's maximum power), Infinite attack speed with Grotesque Demonic Hand (His hand tears through all creation and breaks the boundaries of space-time, making his attacks always happen in an instant, and evasion impossible)

Lifting Strength: Unknown

Striking Strength: Unknown | Small Planet level

Durability: Unknown | Small Planet level (It took Tesla’s Mega Thunderblade: Alternate Buster at maximum output to destroy his body). His regeneration and nature makes him hard to kill

Stamina: Infinite (Golden King's power rains down endlessly, infinitely) | Infinite

Range: Interdimensional (His Gaze of the Rose can affect the Marseille Academia from his Cracking Field, which is disconnected from the universe) | Interdimensional (Same as before. Upon assuming his Ultharathotep form, the Cracking Field expanded to the size of the very world itself, and continued to expand even more)

Standard Equipment: The Bell of Gahkthun, multiple bodies and terminals, Crimson Eyes, and The Shadowmen

Intelligence: Extraordinary Genius (He invented the Kreuz Circuit at some point in his life, which is capable of making its user immortal and physically enhanced; the Circuit uses a special "Mathematical Formula" which is Cracking that modifies the user’s body, which automatically grants them a pair of Crimson Eyes,and is the main Circuit used by members of the Society. Said Circuit has also been used for other things such as the Society creating their own Meta=Critters as well as by members of the Academia Governing Council. Rosenkreuz has also lived for a long time and has amassed a massive amount of experience and knowledge along the way. He was also recently granted the title of Erudite Scholar, an honorary title given to scientists of rare talent who contribute to humanity, specifically becoming the second generation "Great Equation" amongst the Ten Erudite Scholars recognized by the world and Kadath. Possesses Emilie's art which with just a quick glance, can predict the behavior of all 100,000 students instantaneously. Emilie is able to even calculate the exact sentence, word per word, that another person is going to say in a conversation, as well as creating mental maps of the city with just a glance, read body movements to guess someone's state of mind, etc. The Bar, which exists at the far reaches of dreams, the boundary between conscious and unconscious, is accessible only to those, such as Golden King, who know the secrets of the Collective Unconscious, which is the connection of consciousness, the synthesis of information, a sea of nearly infinite knowledge built up from the past to the present)

Weaknesses: He can act arrogant sometimes, otherwise none notable

Notable Attacks/Techniques:

• Base
• Ultharathotep

Cracking: Also known as the Phenomenon Equation. A form of “scientific formula” that was supposedly invented by Archduke Astaire (Tick Tock Man planted the idea into his mind, and Cracking’s power comes from him), that’s capable of warping reality to achieve a variety of effects. The effect it can achieve varies from producing firepower that exceeds firearms and explosions, being able to heal a damaged body.

• Crimson Eyes (Gaze of the Rose): A pair of glowing, crimson eyes formed as a result of implementing a special "scientific formula" into oneself, the nature of which is powered by the Tick Tock Man's power, used only by the highest ranking members of the Society. In the Golden King's case, he can annihilate anything in his line of sight, or in the range of his Cracking Field, reducing the target to mere particles. It also works against beings impervious to all aspects of physics and essentially just a phenomenon, such as Critters. When used against Nightingale, the instant she became conscious of his gaze, her Art had died hundreds of deaths in her place. As such the gaze can atomize and kill hundreds of beings in an instant such as the Others, illusions formed out of light and shadow, and works on even Critters, who are supernatural phenomena impervious to all aspects of physics and can exist only as possibilities.
• Art: In the time the Bell of Gahkthun is undergoing its maturation process, Rosenkreuz granted many students of the Academia with a limited form of his Cracking in the form of Arts as both a blessing and curse to grant them power in exchange of feeding off their desires and radiance to further the Bell's maturation. Despite their limited application, Arts are an expression of the Cracking Effect which can control and warp physics, thus its users can ignore even the laws of physics and can perform any phenomena in a limited manner such as creating fire, walking on air, fly, and so on. Known Arts as seen in the series are as follows:
  • Colors from Beyond: An Art that summons an immaterial mass of color from another dimension that passively erodes the mind of anyone that sees it. The color is also capable of breaking the mind of someone with a direct physical touch in addition to possessing a rotting property that affects whatever object it hits.
  • Accelerate: An Art which can be used to increase his speed and of any object to insane lengths.
  • Calculate: An Art which breaks down every tiny bit of info the user's senses register and lets the user's brain completely analyze it.
  • Manipulate: An Art which lets the user control and manipulate any biological body with human form. This Art can do things like forcing others to do certain movements and manipulates brain cells.
  • Operate: An Art that lets the user control any machinery that has the form of a human or close to it.
  • Dominate: An Art which grants the user various superhuman qualities when wielding a sword, granting them various superhuman abilities such as creating sonic booms from mere movement to cutting anything including that of lightning and slash apart the fabric of a Cracking Field. Its greatest power allows the user to "dominate every corner of space" on the battlefield and "dominate every inch of the opponents existence", allowing them to be invincible on the dueling ground and instantly defeat their foes.
  • Other-Caller: An Art that allows the use of summoning phenomena in the form of various legendary figures, illusions made of light and shadow to fight in their stead as well as perform various actions. It can also be used to form up Critters, which are phenomenon that have no physical form and exist as only possibilities, impervious to all aspects of physics, and have no physical form capable of striking with death and warping space.

Ulthrathotep: The result of Rosenkreuz's ultimate form from the Bell of Gahkthun's complete maturation process. It is a gigantic form that is thousands of feet tall (much taller than Berta's Typhon and Tesla's Knight of Thunder, even when the latter increased the Knights size 10x its base size), and possesses numerous giant golden eyes he has given and gathered to numerous students including the Governing Council over the years since the start of the Bell's maturation.

• Enhanced Cracking: Upon his transformation, Rosenkruez's Cracking increased dramatically, allowing him to shape the very laws of reality as he sees fit, and control and warp the laws of physics beyond what a normal user of Cracking could achieve. In addition, the range of his Cracking expands to such a degree that it rivals the entire earth and was continuously doing so.
• Enhanced Crimson Eyes: In Ultharathotep, the Rose Ruler's gaze was further strengthened to the point that it was hundreds of millions of times stronger than before. This gaze was powerful enough that Tesla, who was previously unaffected in the slightest while in direct line of sight in his base, started to get affected after Rosenkreuz transformed even with the use of his electric barriers protecting him while in his Knight of Thunder form.
• Golden Eyes: Amongst the gigantic form of Ultharathotep are numerous Golden Eyes of gigantic proportions, each one dwarfing Tesla's Knight of Thunder at its base size and still bigger in size after the latter increased its form. The Golden Eyes are derived from the countless sacrifices given to the Bell of Gahkthun in its maturation. Rosenkreuz uses these eyes as part of his branch hands, which given its numerous legends where the user can "see through all things", he uses them in conjuction with the hands to make his attacks next to impossible to dodge to the sheer speed and force they can attack.
• Grotesque Demonic Hand: The strongest ability in Ultharathotep. Through the power of the Golden Eyes he collected and his enhanced Cracking, Rosenkreuz can manifest multiple hand-like branches from his body and all over his Cracking Field. These branches, each fitted with several of the Golden Eyes, are capable of erasing the "real and illusory, the physical and metaphysical". In other words, not only are the hands capable of affecting corporeal entities, they're also effective in being able to interact with and harm metaphysical entities such as Nikola Tesla, a being whose essence by making contact with the Thunderbird (an Old One who is the embodiment of lightning) makes as such. Additionally, they can tear through the fabric of reality and break through the boundaries of time and space, making anything they annihilate hit without fail as it is completely instantaneous in its attack speed and, due to the nature of the Golden Eyes, they're just as highly accurate in ensuring the attack lands, making evasion useless as well as nullifying all physical defenses.
• Regeneration: In addition to the great power of Ultharathotep, Rosenkreuz is also capable of regenerating its form in the event it gets destroyed. In his battle with Tesla, he instantly regenerated and reformed his body even after it was completely destroyed by the latter's Alternate Buster at its maximum power, with his regeneration stated to be on par with Tesla's who can reform through electricity itself and regenerate from attacks made by his branch hands while his level of radiance is at its lowest point.

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