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General
- Emotional Resonance. If a Nastika king loses control of his emotions, the lesser sura and halfs go berserk. Halfs are just about everywhere; they have super strength and possibly transcendentals. They will attempt to kill anyone in this state, even friends and family.
- You know that cute little guy who's just so deeply in puppy-love with the main character it's beyond sweet (to the point he'll try giving himself food poisoning on a regular basis)? You don't want to get on his bad side. Really. You don't. You know it goes beyond Game Face when Nastika Kings start pulling Oh Crap expressions when he lets loose. And, that side of him? Is never that far away.
Humans
- The humans hunting sura. At least other sura just kill their opponents, not make ingredients and products out of them.
- The Cataclysm was a horrific event. Not only were the Halfs going crazy due to Emotional Resonance, there was news each day about planets being destroyed.
- Hoti Yama; it is an execution spell. The victim's lifespan is eaten up within 24 hours, and it affects everything within a certain radius, and sura are only immure because they are they The Ageless. Not even the caster is protected, and has to remove the spell.
Season 1
- In Half, a trio of slavers strike down the Half he's rescuing. Yuta's immediately enraged and thinks (recalling his promise to Shuri) he won't eat them, he'll chew them up and spit them out.
- Sagara using her Fatal Touch transcendental makes Brilith rot alive. Readers are treated to several panels of Brilith's flesh decomposing and sloughing off.
- Takara's first appearance - the page image - is just a HUGE pair of red eyes in an ice water channel with a dark ceiling. Those little dots of color near the bottom? Those are the main characters. And then when Yuta moves towards her, she lifts her arm and her index finger unravels into a series of tentacles.
- A couple cheerily talking about buying a Half to kill him to celebrate their engagement. By the way they talk, it sounds like they just talking about buying food for dinner. We even get to see the chained Half in question that was gonna be killed and how people around get excited to see the act.
- Later, Agwen sees the dead Half's body and it's bad enough to require a Gory Discretion Shot.
- When Agwen encounters Yuta, all she sees is a potentially hostile Half with a god-level item in a blood-spattered clearing. When she tries to peacefully restrain him, her magic doesn't work. She clearly felt she was in danger.
Season 2
- Yuta kills a sura while making its friends watch. He then eats them all while they were still alive and squirming.
- Taraka herself is this, and also an in-universe example. All other sura, including the ones in her own clan, are afraid of her.
- Teo catches a glimpse of Gandharva's sura form in the Lake of Reflection. She just found out her houseguest is a Humanoid Abomination and if she gives away that she saw, he would most likely kill her. Just think; she found a stranger injured outside of town. She let him through the checkpoint, and let him stay in her home. One day, he helps her out at work. At work, she discovers, like seeing a vampire's reflection (or lack thereof), that he's a monster. And she doesn't know what he's after.
- While Teo does research on sura to try to find information on Gandharva, she comes across information that says he's destroyed at least one populated planet, and eaten a star.
- Gandharva's berserk attack on Kalibloom. He completely flooded the lower half of the city when he took his sura form, which dwarfs the city. Then, he destroyed the barrier by headbutting it. It's clear that no matter how great a magician like Asha is, there is no hope of defeating him.
- And this is when he's weakened!
- When Agni arrives, he notes that this is the smallest he's ever seen Gandharva. That's right, the gigantic monster towering over the 9,000+ meter high Kalibloom is considered small.
- Yuta behavioral changes after reaching his 3rd stage. His Lack of Empathy becomes more pronounced, and he starts expressing the desire to kill Leez.
- Yuta loosing control and eating Leez's face.
- Claude's proposal on how to keep Yuta on the side of humanity: to allow Yuta to repeatedly eat Leez because she's the reason he's there, and she can just regenerate anyway. Ran is understandably horrified, but no one agrees with him because of the The Needs of the Many attitude that they all have.
- Asha is a Serial Killer and has been since the age of ten. She's killed over 60 people.
- And then there's the way she killed them. She would use them to practice her spells. She would use Hoti Visnu to resurrect them, reset her daily spell uses, and recover her vigor. She only stopped when she ran out of Hoti Visnu uses for the day.
- In the Flashback Arc of Asha's past on Carte. Carte was flooded through its many water channels. So much, actually, that it changed the topology of the planet, and killed over twenty million people. THEN there were many, many Red Sky incidents, as to kill the survivors who fled to higher ground. Those apparently killed over four hundred thousand people. This was most likely done by two beings- Maruna and Gandharva. That's right, a powerful Nastika/Rakshasa pair]] can ravage a whole planet in a few weeks' time, and that was when most of Gandharva's skills were sealed- Now he has access to them again. Humans can be glad he's on their side now...
- Funnily enough, the most horrific part isn't the numbers. It's Asha's discovery of her mother's body. There's no visible blood when she arrives, her mom seems to be resting under a blanket, in what could be her room. Asha asks her to wake up, to no avail, but her uncle tries to stop her form touching her mother. She ignores him and reaches for the bed. Her startled face says it all. Without a word, she lifts the blanket, and there is no body, just a rolled up blanket to make it appear there is. Her reaction only makes it worse.
- Chapter 135: What happened with Leez and Asha on the transport ship: Asha used Hoti Marut at a close range and cut Leez in half.
- Asha uses the same spell to kill Saha onscreen. In front of his fiancee. An it's drawn in its full gory glory. Doubles as a Tear Jerker, since he died pushing Lorraine out of the way. Could also be Fridge Brilliance or Fridge Horror if you remember that Word of God jokingly said Asha was trying to make the webtoon R-rated.
- Visnu isn't as benevolent as he initially appeared. In fact, he's downright amoral and manipulative. He clearly manipulated Asha into accepting his deal, and even if she's responsible for her own actions, he clearly tailored his words to influence her.
Season Three
- The Takara parasites: They've been infesting and taking control of sura from other clans, and stealing their power. If one were to get a hold of a nastika like Gandharva, which is an In-Universe concern, it'd be nigh unstoppable.
- When Maruna manages to reach the sura realm, he finds chaos as what appears to be sura from allied clans battle it out. When he asks Akasha what's going on, and the Garuda are, she states she's the only one left who can fight.
- During Agni and Chandra's discussion, they believe that the Takara have overrun the Sura realm and devoured almost everyone there.
- Gandharva, when speaking to Maruna, implies that Kali is totally off her rocker and seeks the end of the universe. She's so bad apparently, she's been sealed over a hundred times over the history of the universe. And she's currently sealed, which is why Chaos magic disappeared. That's right, all the shit Kali has caused recently, including the Taraka mess? She did it while sealed.
- The precursor humans achieved perfect tolerance, even between gods that could crush them to bits. Except their all-loving peace didn't fit the gods' plans of a tormenting cycle of reincarnation to sustain the universe, so the gods ordered the Sura to murder them all. Then the humans came back stronger than ever, and even discovered a way to recover their past incarnations' memories, bearing miserable grudges for having everything taken from them through no sin of their own. In response, the gods ordered everyone in the universe to shred their souls into fertilizer. The new replacement species of humans is filled, by design, with shallow, selfish assholes, including their unrepentant serial killer Asha (who they created), and the gods are content because said assholes work well with their plans, for now. To those higher in caste and in power, your morality in this universe doesn't matter, only your utility to the 'greater good' - which crushed the innocent and (temporarily) rewarded the guilty.
- The true scope of the story of ancient humanity can be considered a horrific Cosmic Horror Story. Not only did Brahma not favor them, ensuring a cruel fate no matter what they did or how kind they were, the only reason Brahma acted this way was because they bore a grudge against Kali, the goddess most infamous for her persuasive capabilities, and took it out on her pawns. This is on top of ancient humanity winning the previous universe's competition fair and square by Brahma's own rules, which ticked her off further. In other words, their billion years' worth of suffering and torment was caused simply due to the whims of a higher being they could not understand and had no chance to appease. Mull that over.
- And now we learn there's a second faction of gods who don't even like the universe, and want to destroy it so they can move on to the next one. The nihilism of two sociopathy-worshipping factions of all-powerful deities, using entire populations as pawns in a cosmic game that is even less dignified than schoolyard bullying, is nauseating.
- When Maruna encounters Garuda around the time of the Fiendish Magic Incident he leads his to believe he’s one of his dead older siblings. Garuda responds by trying to kill Maruna.
