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High Chief Priest Lumachina Weselia
Yes, this beauty is a High Priest.
Voiced by: Miku Itō (Japanese), Amber Lee Connors (English)
The High Priest of the Church of the Divine Beings, she is introduced being hunted down by "Holy Knight" Gewalt for assassination because she dared to investigate complaints of fraud, corruption, and other unpleasantness from the Church Of Divine Beings.
- Accidental Proposal: She was raised to believe that the only man she should ever reveal her body to is her marriage partner, with the sole exception of "Kami-sama" who is a supernatural divine being that's been watching over her since she was born. Since she was buck naked after enduring a Shameful Strip from Gewalt before Diablo showed up on the scene to rescue her... Fortunately, this mindset doesn't include men who rip off her clothes against her will.
- Born Lucky: Things just seem to work out for her whenever she's in trouble. Of course, given that she's a high priestess who has divine intervention on speed-dial, it's probably not just a matter of luck.
- Curtains Match the Windows: Her hair and eyes are the same color.
- Entertainingly Wrong: In direct response to her prayers, Diablo, who was testing "Flight" magic at the time goes to investigate. By sheer coincidence, his spell runs out, causing him to crash right on top of the monster threatening her, and since his aura is both the most powerful and most pure she's ever seen, she confuses him with "Kami-sama" whom she was specifically praying to.
- Hate at First Sight: And it's mutual. When she meets Krebskrum, they immediately hate each other, due to their polar opposite origins. Krebskrum hates the gods she worships, for good reason, and she is repulsed by Krebskrum's Demon Lord aura.
- High Priest: She is this.
- Light Is Good: She wields light-based magic, prefers to dress in white, her name means "light", and she's an undeniably good individual.
- Made Out to Be a Jerkass: When she arrives at the capital of the Kami-sama church, she steps forward presenting hard evidence that the Paladins were trying to murder her on the orders of Vishos, and a wheelbarrow full of evidence of his corruption. Vishos responds by claiming himself to be the wounded party, calls all the evidence "forgeries" and decries her for failing to show up in Faltra because hitmen were trying to murder her. The rest of the clergy insist that she be the one arrested instead. A pissed-off Diablo calls them out on it, after blowing up a few high-value buildings and beating down the corrupt paladins.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: She's her god's most favoured mortal representative, and when she prays for miracles, she gets them. As such, it's never entirely clear whether any of her strokes of more mundane good luck are just good luck, or the result of friends in high places tipping the scales.
- Mystical White Hair: She has long white hair to highlight her very high magical power.
- Necessary Drawback: Her magical powers are incredibly strong, able to cure the gravest of wounds and curses with astonishing ease, but in exchange, healing magic doesn't work on her at all. The only method by which she can be healed is by the use of potions.
- Pals with Jesus: Played with. She's right that she has a great relationship with her god, who's only too happy to give her whatever she asks for (and is strongly implied to be the reason she's Born Lucky). She is, however, extremely wrong about him personally accompanying her in the guise of Diablo.
- The Pollyanna: Despite being directly threatened by the corrupt Cardinal Institution that is engaged in all sorts of unsavory activities and subverting the church, she refused to give up the investigations, expecting "Kami-sama" to protect her, as befits her station of High Priest. She was almost proven wrong.
- Shameful Strip: As he was preparing to kill her, Holy Knight Gewalt summoned a "Beast Mushroom" monster that ripped of her clothes while she laughed at her distress and relished humiliating her by saying she'd be good as a whore, mocking her cries of desperation.
- She Knows Too Much: Because she uncovered too much direct evidence of Cardinal Institution corruption, and refused to be cowed, the Church ordered her assassination. Unfortunately for these corrupt elements, they got Diablo involved.
- Squishy Wizard: She's no fighter, and her prayers and rituals are generally too time-consuming to have any value in direct combat, but her god can and will work extraordinary miracles through her, and she's Born Lucky enough that things tend to work out for her and her allies suspiciously often without her even having to lift a finger.
Vishos
The leader of the corrupt Cardinal Institution.
- A God Am I: Proclaims himself as a god after merging with Europa, the God of Destruction.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Spent his last moments begging for his life from former Holy Knight Gewalt.
- Asshole Victim: No tears were shed when he met his bloody end in a sewer or when he was annihilated by Diablo.
- Adaptational Badass: Is a much more competent villain in the anime, using the raid boss, Europa to battle Diablo, even giving him a hard time.
- Beat Still, My Heart: He sees one of Gewalt's summons with his heart in its mouth.
- Corrupt Church: VERY corrupt. Wheelbarrows were needed to present the evidence of his misdeeds.
- Dirty Coward: When a pissed-off Diablo came knocking, he took his merry band of scoundrels and fled into the sewers. Averted in the anime, where he faces Diablo head on.
- Dies Differently in Adaptation: Is killed by Diablo during battle in the anime instead of being killed by Gewalt in the sewers.
- Hijacking Cthulhu: Manages to merge and use the body of the God of Destruction to fight Diablo in the anime.
- Light Is Not Good: Comes with being a corrupt authority of the church.
- Smug Snake: He prances around like he's untouchable until Diablo started blasting his compound apart, one building at a time.
- Villain with Good Publicity: So much so, that when hard evidence of his misdeeds is presented to the public, he just waves his arms and says "forgeries", and everyone believes him. Not only that, but he gets Lumachina arrested for daring to accuse him in the first place.
Paladins
Paladin Captain, Batutta
Curse you, Diablo!
Voiced by: Kazuhiro Yamaji (Japanese), D.C. Douglas (English)
The highest rank of Holy Knight. He leads a "Holy Knight Unit" or rather lets a bunch of people with the mindset of brigands run around calling themselves such in the town of Zircon Tower. When he realizes Lumachina is the one they were provoking...
- Beard of Evil: Long, flowing beard, evil sot who took advantage of a Fallen curse to extort "offerings" to line his own pockets.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He pretends to be a good and devout Knight in horrible circumstances. In truth, the feudal lord of Zirconia town is right to call him and his followers "parasites" and "liars".
- Freudian Excuse Denial: When Lumachina asks what happened to him to make him evil, he pretends that he lost his family and soldiers, then immediately admits he was making it up and he has no excuse for his actions other than he enjoys them.
- I Never Said It Was Poison: He carelessly reveals himself by saying "person" when he's told a certain "illness" is actually a magical curse.
- Light Is Not Good: His nice facade and holy knight status can fool anyone.
- Jousting Lance: He wields one brimming with powerful magic.
- Mugging the Monster: By proxy. His "Holy Knight Unit" provoked and antagonized both Lumachina and Diablo, doubly so when he arrived on the scene, and then he recognized Lumachina...
- Poison and Cure Gambit: He is exposed when Lumachina and Rem analyze the fact that thousands of people per day are made ill with a curse and Batutta's clove of priests are the only ones who can heal them, for a "donation".
- Razor-Sharp Hand: Has the martial art 《Finger Blade》.
Paladin Saddler
Voiced by: Daisuke Namikawa (Japanese), Anthony Bowling (English)
- Asshole Victim: The only complaint fans have regarding his death is that it was way, way too quick to balance the scales of what he's done, just onscreen alone.
- Ax-Crazy: He takes a lot of pleasure in "inviting people to Heaven".
- The Chosen Many: There are thirteen Holy Knights in total.
They all think the same way he does, and have similar power levels. - Church Militant: He is a devout follower of the Church of the Divine Beings, and a powerful warrior.
- Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: He sees Krebskulm transform in front of him and utterly obliterate the church he's standing in, everything above the height of a small child, and he decides to trash talk a grieving and enraged Demon Lord because he thinks he's "god" and his victory's already assured.
- Eyes Always Shut: Downplayed. When he's being "polite", he smiles with his eyes shut. But when he gets serious, he opens his eyes and delivers a Death Glare at his intended victim.
- Fantastic Racism: Simply having demi-human traits is enough to be seen as a Demon Being worshipper. In fact, he starts by cutting Rem's ears off with rusty shears as part of the "purifying ritual." It doesn't take as she fights back and later illustrations show she still has them both, but still.
- Faux Affably Evil: He behaves in such a jovial manner that it's easy to forget that's he's an Ax-Crazy Knight Templar with a massive body count.
- General Ripper: He is so eager to wipe out Demon Being Worshippers that he slaughters entire towns, and calls it "granting them salvation".
- A God Am I: When Rem asks him, point-blank, in volume 3, Chapter 4, he happily attests that he's "become God", by torturing people to death, and thinking he's "granting them salvation" because death is an immediate invitation to heaven and the fact that none of the six races he's ever encountered could ever stand against him. Krebskulm proves him wrong.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: After being squashed like a grape, the upper half of his body is utterly vaporized by the flames of Krebskrum's hatred, leaving only his lower half. Precisely the same fate awaited his men, which he ordered to act as shields, just moments before.
- Hate Sink: He is a twisted church zealot who acts racist to any non-human and considers his own acts of killing and torture to be a work of God.
- Ignorant of His Own Ignorance: His "ultimate magic" is the elemental magic Flame Burst, which due to the rest of the races preferring Summoning magic to prioritize their own safety, usually can't stand against. When he's up against a Demon Lord, i.e. the pinnacle of a race of beings that uses magic of that level as a parlor trick at best, he's completely outclassed, but utterly fails to realize it because he believes himself to be "god made flesh".
- Insane Troll Logic: He doesn't think using torturing tools is actually torture. And doesn't understand why torture brings death. He honestly believes he's god because the "cleansing ritual" suddenly "invites souls to Heaven".
- Light Is Not Good: Like most Holy Knights, his holy beliefs are what made him go far.
- Karmic Death: He spent the vast majority, if not all his Holy Knight career, crushing people mentally, and emotionally, via torture on suspicion of being Demon Lord worshippers, on the flimsiest of evidence, or no evidence at all, purely to sate his own ego. He ultimately winds up literally crushed like a grape as a direct result of his actions regarding Krebskulm and Rem.
- Knight Templar: He is wholly devoted to rooting out Demon Lord Worshippers. Unfortunately, he's quick to condemn anyone as a worshipper on even the slightest suspicion and considers it a mercy if they die quickly. "Having them blessed by the Divine beings."
- Moral Sociopathy: He honestly believes he's living in a moral and upright manner, but he is utterly batshit insane. He is both willing and eager to accuse anyone he meets of being a Demon Lord Worshipper on a whim, without any kind of evidence, and torture them until they confess, guilty or not, so he can "offer them salvation" by brutally killing them. The Church of Divine Beings sanctions this behavior and gives its knights carte blanche to do it, with Saddler being supposedly the most "devout".
- Mugging the Monster:
- In three ways. First, he willingly accuses Alicia falsely of being a Demon Lord Worshipper on the flimsiest of pretexts, notably that she's meeting Diablo, a known savior of Faltra, simply because he's of the "Demon" race, strike one. Strike two, when Rem protests Alicia's innocence, he grows haughty, dismisses her as a "lowly slave" and uses the "chantless" skill, acting like a complete charlatan by hiding his spellcasting, to torment Rem with a magic spell that causes pain, the terror of having trouble breathing, and the "stun" debuff, effectively a magical form of "waterboarding", claiming it's an act of divine retribution delivered by the Divine Beings, not knowing or caring that Diablo (if not others) can see through it. Strike three and out, when an enraged Diablo points out his theatrics, only refraining from violence due to the very real threat of collateral damage, and calls him out on how he's disgracing the name of the Church, if not the Divine Beings themselves, by using petty magic tricks to throw his weight around and pretend the Divine Beings have given their sanction, he claims "divine judgement" will turn Diablo to stone as punishment for besmirching the name of the Holy Knights, only to be completely exposed when his "petrification" spell rebounds, turning himself to stone instead.
- Utterly failing to learn his lesson, he does it again by antagonizing Krebskulm, through both threatening her directly due to having the appearance of a small, helpless child and by attacking her guardian, Rem, who he sees pleading for Krebskulm not to kill him. Upgrades to Do Not Taunt Cthulhu when he strikes down Rem while she was trying to protect the child, and Krebskulm, overcome by grief and rage, retaliate when he starts to taunt and mock the enraged Demon Lord.
- Never My Fault: Any and everything he does, such as using his subordinates as shields? Why it's the will of "god."
- Obliviously Evil: He honestly doesn't comprehend why bathing entire towns in the blood of its citizens is a bad thing.
- One-Man Army: He alone is so strong, King Deloauch, with thousands of troops at his beck and call doesn't want to challenge him.
- Principles Zealot: He's so utterly devoted to "worshipping God" that he will do anything to carry it out, no matter how vile.
- The Sociopath: He is clearly clinically and criminally insane. Just check out this line."Oh, I'm not so petty as to judge you on your facial expression. A man's true worth is in the color of his internal organs, after all."
- Suicidal Overconfidence: Since he's a Holy Knight tasked with hunting down Demon Lord Worshippers, and believes himself not only getting God's ultimate blessing, but being god he thought he could take a direct blow from an awakened Krebskulm, unscathed, and "divine intervention" would strike down Krum instead. He was wrong.
- Supernatural Gold Eyes: He is illustrated with golden eyes in the anime and is a spell-caster of at least level 60.
- Taken for Granite: Combined with Hoist by His Own Petard. While trying to deliver "divine judgment" on Diablo, using "Chantless" to conceal that he's using magic, his "Cement Lock" spell rebounds and turns him to stone instead. All the patrons in the bar where this is happening don't hesitate to heckle him for it. Diablo decides to not push him over and shatter him on the spot. Given the damage Saddler causes later, he probably should have.
- Tautological Templar: He's so convinced himself that he's an invariably good and kind person, that anyone who agrees with him is a "blessed servant of God" while anyone who opposes him, regardless of the reason, is irredeemably evil, and needs to be tortured into despair before being "granted the blessing of the divine beings."
- Torture for Fun and Information: Par for the course for anyone he suspects of being a Demon Lord Worshipper, he tortures them until they confess, guilty or not, for his own gratification, and then he "grants them salvation" by killing them in brutal and horrific ways.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: By striking down Rem in his attempts to go after Klem, he awakens the latter's Superpowered Evil Side.
- Unwitting Pawn: His very own fanaticism, racism, and insanity make him very easy to manipulate.
- Would Hurt a Child: After cutting off at least one of Rem's ears, and Krebskulm angrily complained, he turned his sword on Krebskulm, and trying to strike her down "as a demonic" being despite thinking she's nothing more than just some kind of Demi-human hybrid just because.. The narration implies this isn't the first time he's done this, but it sure as hell was his last.
Paladin Gewalt
You would make a good whore, Lumachina! HAHAHAHA!
Voiced by: Kazuyuki Okitsu (Japanese), Garret Storms (English)
The second Holy Knight encountered by Diablo. A "Holy Knight" in name only, she is a blasphemous fool that only serves "Kami-sama" due to being paid very well. She's also a depraved Okama, who hates being born male, and is murderously jealous of beautiful women.
- Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: She kills the corrupt Cardinal Institution, to the last man.
- Cover-Blowing Superpower: Diablo realized she was the one attacking them when he recognized her summon worm beasts.
- Debt Detester: She repays Lumachina's kindness because she regenerated her arms by giving Rem the key to Tria's cell, lampshading that she doesn't like being in debt in the process.
- Dirty Coward: She "fights" by hiding behind monsters of a much higher level than himself, that he bought, many of which ambush their victims from underground, and then when the monsters are done, goes in to claim the kill.
- Effeminate Misogynistic Guy: She sees herself as a woman born in a man's body, and is so jealous of actual women's physical beauty, and contemptuous about their relative lack of strength, that the term fully applies.
- Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance: Just because she's never done something, or seen it done, she thinks it's impossible. This gives her a serious initial disadvantage fighting Diablo.
- Light Is Not Good: Being a Holy Knight is not telling of Gewalt blasphemous nature.
- Love Makes You Evil: Falling in love with Maximus of the Knight Chevalric Order made Gewalt even more depraved.
- Might Makes Right: She believes the only thing that matters in morality is who's stronger. As long as she's winning, that is.
- Only in It for the Money: By her own admission, the only reason she's "better" than a mercenary is that he's far more expensive.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gives a truly cathartic one as she's purging the Cardinal Institution.
- Recurring Boss: Diablo's party encounters this gal repeatedly in the story. Circumstances conspire to keep Diablo from killing her, and she keeps winding up in places where Diablo or his companions go. This culminates in an Enemy Mine situation in Volume 11, chapter 4, where she heads the Imperial subjugation force to deal with the Kobolds which Diablo's also been commissioned to deal with.
- Sore Loser: Should she ever find himself on the receiving end of a beatdown, as opposed to being the one delivering it, even if it's a fight he both provoked and demanded, she will run and hide inside her "Trap Worm" monster, and then emerge swearing brutal vengeance "for being subjected to the stench" of hiding inside the beast... that she decided to do.
- Uncertain Doom: Is last seen in volume 11 fleeing deep underground where a powered up Rem can't reach him, losing consciousness inside the summoned Trap Worm monster, which will disappear when Gewalt becomes unconscious, leaving this psycho buried alive...
- Villains Want Mercy: After sadistically tormenting both Rem and Shera for a while, preparing to kill them upon getting bored in volume 11, Rem retaliates with the Chekhov's Gun Krum gave her earlier becoming a level 130 fist-fighter. The moment Gewalt finds herself on the losing end of a Curbstomp Battle against Rem, she tries to surrender and beg for mercy, lying when Rem asks if mercy would be forthcoming if the kobolds surrendered, saying "yes." The beatdown is so brutal, Gewalt has no choice but to flee deep underground, consciousness fading away, with the very real risk that the summoned Trap Worm monster would disappear, resulting in being buried alive...
Paladin Tria
Save yourself, your holiness Lumachina!
Voiced by: Maki Kawase (Japanese), Kimmie Britt (English)
To show that the Holy Knights are not a monolithic organization, she's introduced trying to protect the priestess Lumachina from the deprivations of Gewalt.
- Heroic Sacrifice: To try and protect Lumachina from Gewalt's "Trap Worm" monster, she throws Lumachina clear at the cost of getting swallowed herself. It proves a Senseless Sacrifice. Fortunately for Lumanchina, Diablo happened to be nearby, and Gewalt decided to antagonize him when he accidentally landed on Gewalt's "Beast Mushroom" monster.
- Not Quite Dead: Although Lumachina last saw her swallowed by Gewalt's Trap Worm, she was actually still alive and imprisoned. She was later freed and reunited with Lumachina.
- The Smurfette Principle: To date, she's the first and only female Holy Knight shown in the order.
- Token Good Teammate: The first, and possibly only one, of the Holy Knights shown that isn't a truly monstrous individual.
Gufuyun
A Grasswalker Holy Knight introduced reading books while Lumachina, Diablo, Rem, and Shera were arrested in the Royal capital.
- Badass Bookworm: He's almost constantly reading books, and he's tough enough to give Diablo a hard fight.
- Better to Die than Be Killed: Rather than accept Diablo's healing potion in exchange for giving up information on Lumachina's cell, he uses his summons to kill himself.
- Evil Gloating: When he's beaten by Diablo, he laughs and taunts Diablo that the hero party would never find and rescue Lumachina from execution.
- Flunky Boss: His powers revolve around an usual summoning magic from the books he reads.
- Older Than They Look: Looks like a child like all Grasswalkers but is actually 59 going on 60.
- Only in It for the Money: He knew Bishos was completely corrupt but turned a blind eye to it as long as his salary and retirement plan were taken care of.
- Skewed Priorities: When Diablo breaks out of jail and bests him in combat after he harmed Horun, the first thing on his mind was that his retirement plan was messed up.
- Stupid Evil: It would have been very easy for him to arrest and imprison Horn. Instead, he chooses to blow a hole in her torso and taunt Diablo from the other side of a cell door.
- Would Hurt a Child: His first villainous act was blowing a hole in Horn's torso for the "crime" of visiting Diablo and crew in jail.
