Board Thread:4. General Discussion/@comment-124.83.16.225-20160127164816/@comment-124.83.16.225-20160212062811

Alright, so I checked the past text a bit. Sei and Sato both have 2 blessings each (one God, one Demigod) when they became full Lords. Sato had 2 orbs when she became a Half-Lord and that number didn't increase when she became a Lord (but it did increase when she became a Empress). Not sure if her ruby colored horn was an orb, though, Caudyr. I suppose it could be, though, considering her wings serve the function of improving her abilities as well (by acting as a storage tank).

Sei also gained orbs when she ranked up from Spell Lord to Queen + the floating spheres which Rou hypothesized were a subtype of the orbs embedded in her body. Before that, though, she only had the one orb like you said from becoming a Half-Spell Lord.

And yeah, that's why I attributed Asue's control over earth manipulation (like Rou's, it's not earth magic per se and it also later extends to summoning monsters related to the ground) and lightning magic to her orbs, as it seems the only way to gain access to any of the magic systems is to either have them inherently like a mage-type monster (or, in this case, by having it as a racial characteristic) or by learning it.

Anyway, it doesn't seem like the number of blessings mattered in regards to the number of orbs other Lord species get. Maybe the added orbs are supposed to be a 'bonus' for Rou to serve as extra strength for him? Since he got orbs in advance, ranking up again resulted in him getting extra strength? It might be like Kichi, who was the first to rank up twice before Rou gained his tattoo ability, and ended up getting a much stronger version of the tattoos (2 colors instead of 1 like the others) when he became a Minotaur?

As for what an Apostle Lord is, here are the conditions which Rou achieved to become one:

≪大軍虐殺≫≪疑似神性≫≪地主殺害≫≪巨人王殺害≫≪■■宣言≫

≪■■ 宣言≫ is probably ≪大神宣言≫, which was completely revealed when he became an Overlord. So I don't think it's wrong to think that Apostle Lords might be related to the gods of this setting? Considering the conditions listed are for slaughtering a large army, Rou's pseudo-divinity, killing the ruler of a land (Balor? The Lord of The Mountain? The Jade Eagle King? All 3, maybe?), and killing the giant king (definitely Balor), it might be that Apostle Lords, as a race, were supposed to be heralds of the gods who brought their "divine trials" to the people of the world? So aside from being fairly strong themselves, they can also resurrect ancient monsters from the past (seeing as how the stronger races are rarer or extinct in present times) and allow them to rampage around. Could be th

I mean, the book the Book Hero brought up to illustrate how dangerous the World Enemies are was titled something like "The Trial of The Gods" and the World Enemies are actually called a divine disaster, so it seems like the gods aren't adverse to throwing some problems towards their followers' way to test them out.