Summary[]
Arthur Rivera is the son of Hiroyuki Rivera and the second generation of the Rivera, being the titular protagonist of Dawntreader. Born as the son of a widowed mother, as his father had died, he tried his best to take care of his mother and still learn from school. But, he wished for a connection with someone as he was ostracized by his classmates for believing in Christianity. But one day all of that would change as he was suddenly whisked away into the realm of the gods. His purpose for being there was to participate in a battle royale called Samsara to decide the fate of his world. Angered by his belief, the gods would create the worst conditions for him before he would be sent down into the game. When he was thrown down into the world, Arthur would fight for his life against participants from other worlds. He was even betrayed by the one who helped him firsthand. But he managed to find companionship in a human from another timeline. Together, the duo swore to end the games of Samsara and make the gods change their ways.
Powers and Statistics[]
Tier: 9-B physically, 6-A with Atman | At least Low 4-C | At least 4-A | Low 2-C
Key: Base | Post-Awakening | Heavenly War | Eine Faust Overdrive
Name: Arthur Rivera
Origin: Dawntreader
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Classification: Human, Sorcerer, The True Spark
Powers and Abilities:
- Immortality (Types I, II, III, IV, V, VII, and VIII): Connected to Dinah via Contract, and when killed, was revived in a state between life and death thanks to the Contract intervening. Was able to come back from being reduced to a skeleton but it took multiple days.
- Regeneration (Up to Mid): Was able to heal being cut in half in 'instants' and came back from being reduced to a skeleton, but it took multiple days
- Self-Sustenance (Type I): Was able to breathe in space
- Extrasensory Perception: Was able to see the Gods, who are the very laws of nature
- Non-Physical Interaction: Capable of interacting with Dinah, even in her intangible form, was capable of attacking Maverick even though he had taken the form of complete ectoplasm, with ectoplasm being unaffected by even Dinah who could interact with other ghosts.
- Accelerated Development (Battle - Skill): Was capable of defeating entities who have trained for millennia and are geniuses in the way of combat over the course of a single battle, using techniques that would've taken dozens of years to learn.
- Master Martial Artist: Was able to defeat beings like Maverick, who are combat-geniuses of their own world.
- Enhanced Senses: Capable of fighting even without his sense of sight. Was able to find Maverick despite him being invisible to the naked eye
- Instinctive Reaction: Despite being knocked out, his body was able to fight on instinct. Instinctively dodged and blocked attacks multiple times.
- Energy Manipulation, Illusion Manipulation, Light Manipulation, Darkness Manipulation, Temperature Manipulation, limited Holy Manipulation: Atman was capable of dispelling illusions made by Maya, which could even trick those of enhanced senses. Was also capable of dispelling darkness to create light. Unleashes the heat of the sun and was described as a 'beam of holy energy'.
- Kinetic Energy Manipulation: Can charge attacks and projectiles with kinetic energy.
- Vector Manipulation: Manipulates the position, velocity, and force of objects with Faust.
- Statistics Amplification: Increased the force of his attacks with Faust. Was able to increase his velocity with Faust.
- Damage Transferal: Redirected the force of Maverick's attacks into the atmosphere.
- Statistics Reduction: Capable of reducing the force of attacks.
- Forcefield Creation: Faust is capable of creating shields of physical forces.
- Pressure Manipulation, Gravity Manipulation: Faust is capable of unleashing bursts of pressure and gravity as projectiles)
- Explosion Manipulation: Faust is capable of compressing air to create gigantic explosions.
- Radiation Manipulation: Was able to compress radiation and release it back in a blast of energy.
All previous enhanced plus
- Existence Erasure: Can halt the force of a target's 'existence' to erase them. Capable of directly altering a target's 'force of existence' backwards, reverting practically everything such as powers, concepts, space, existence, and time to nothingness.
- Time Manipulation: Can halt, accelerate, and stop the force of time.
- Weapon Creation, Weapon Manipulation: Was able to form and manipulate weapons out of cosmic energy.
- Telekinesis (Type II): Can create projectiles and weapons out of atoms through his telekinesis.
- Black Hole Manipulation: Created projectiles out of manipulating black holes while still keeping their properties.
- Causality Manipulation: Was able to 'halt the causal sequence of the world' with Eine Faust.
- Invulnerability: By halting his own 'causal sequence' effects are unable to harm him.
- Power Nullification: Can halt the 'flow of power' and nullify abilities in the process.
- Reality Warping, Conceptual Manipulation (Type II): Compressed the 'flow of conceptual reality' to form conceptual attacks that attack on a symbolic level. Was able to destroy Agni on a conceptual level.
- Void Manipulation: Compressed 'existence' into one singular point to create a void projectile.
- Spatial Manipulation: Eine Faust is capable of altering spatial relations and distances, directly altering its position and force.
- Probability Manipulation: Eine Faust was able to enforce one possibility amongst all others
- Fate Manipulation: Altered the 'velocity of fate and completely halt it' to stop Dinah from being struck by Gungnir, which enforces the fate of always being struck.
- Accelerated Development (Battle - Speed): Eine Faust will continuously boost its wielder's speed to make them virtually untouchable by continuously increasing their velocity while simultaneously increasing their reactions.
- Perception Manipulation: Through Eine Faust, Arthur was capable of seeing the world slow down entirely.
- Afterimage Creation: Eine Faust will always create a past afterimage each time Arthur breaks past his limitations of speed.
- Empowerment: Empowered by the concept of souls, which allowed him to draw power from all souls across space and time.
- Mathematics Manipulation: 'Altered the position and force of mathematics' to rewrite subtraction, addition, and fundamental rules of mathematics. Made the number of uses on Beethoven zero by forcing the number of three to zero.
- Durability Negation: Reverted a target's durability to zero.
- Resistance Negation: Capable of reverting a target's resistance to his attacks to zero.
- Danmaku: Comparable to demigods who are capable of creating danmaku that cover entire solar systems.
All previous enhanced plus
- Regeneration Negation (Up to High-Godly - Concept): Completely eliminated a god's regeneration by 'forcing it to zero', with gods being able to come back from conceptual destruction.
- Immortality Negation: Forced gods to become mortal by reverting their immortality to zero.
- Transformation: By enforcing the 'conceptual laws of physics' onto himself, he can transform into a fundamental law of the cosmos.
- Abstract Existence (Type II): Can become a fundamental law of the cosmos. Is the physical embodiment of Hope and can never die as its flame continues to burn.
- Regeneration (High-Godly - Concept): As the flame of Hope didn't die out, he was capable of coming back from Agni's flames which raze a target on every level of existence, including conceptually and symbolically.
- Power Bestowal: Altered the 'flow of supernaturality' to grant his group other abilities, though they were randomized.
- Healing Negation: By enforcing the concept of eternity into his attacks, he was capable of making wounds he dealt eternal and never heal.
- Life-Force Manipulation Manipulated the flow of life-force.
- Soul Manipulation: Capable of moving his soul around and manipulate souls across time and space thanks to his connection.
- Cosmic Awareness: As he is connected to both Hope and Soul, he is capable of seeing both realms and sense across the cosmos.
- Duplication, Summoning: As his allies have a portion of his essence within them, it can spawn a clone of himself and manifest another version of himself from another world when they are in trouble.
- Morality Manipulation, Mind Manipulation: Pulled out Galahad's original personality and morality out of his own mind that was sealed by Ashvins.
- Social Influencing: Was able to break Dinah free of Lakshmi's mind alteration and control by talking to her and reminding her of their memories together.
- [[Precognition]: Can 'hasten moments' to see future sequences and alter them.
- Paralysis Inducement: His presence was able to paralyze multiple gods in fear.
- Fear Manipulation: His anger manifested itself as a primal fear at Lakshmi.
- Dimensional Travel, Deconstruction: His attacks were able to cross interdimensional distances and across multiple universes and the Axis Mundi itself. These attacks are also imbued with the ability to tear apart bonds, both physical and metaphysical, by forcing them apart.
- Limited BFR: By completely altering the direction and force of teleportation, he can send teleporting individuals past the Axis Mundi.
All previous enhanced plus
- Conceptual Manipulation (Type I): Forced the concept of 'Primal Cannon' to ascend to become a higher concept that was not bound by the Axis Mundi and used it to attack.
- Law Manipulation: Primal Cannon became a primordial law of the cosmos that existed across past, present, future, and all worlds.
- Enhanced Existence Erasure and Nonexistence Erasure: Primal Cannon is capable of eliminating its targets on both existential and nonexistential levels.
- Reality Warping: Primal Cannon altered reality with its mere presence and 'tore through the fabric of all existence' when unleashed.
- Elemental Manipulation: Primal Cannon uses the primordial elements of the cosmos.
- Space-Time Manipulation (Type II): Primal Cannon broke through the very boundaries of space and time, altering both the Axis Mundi and the worlds connected to it. Destroyed the Axis Mundi and created spatio-temporal barriers between all realms.
- Subjective Reality: Capable of altering existence and turn what is to what is not and vice versa.
- Creation: Can create things out of nothing.
- Pocket Reality Manipulation: Formed a pocket of localized space-time.
- Avatar Creation: Can create split parts of his true self.
- Order Manipulation: Can manipulate the concept of order.
Attack Potency: Wall Level physically (Comparable to his durability), Continent Level+ with Atman (Atman was able to contend with and overpower Maya, which had the power of a solar flare [2.4 Petatons]) | At least Small Star Level (Was able to contend with demigods and even overpower many of them, who are capable of piercing stars with their blasts [~32.12 Quettatons]) | At least Multi Solar System Level (Could contend with the gods and defeat them in combat, who are capable of casually annihilating the arms of spiral galaxies [~1.9 Exafoe]) | Universe Level+ (Was able to contend with Shiva and eventually overpower him, who is the one responsible for destroying the loser universes. Was said to be far more powerful than Shiva in his prime by Saraswati)
Speed: High Hypersonic physically (Was able to dodge attacks from Maverick, which could move fast enough to escape Earth's escape velocity), FTL with Atman (Atman is just as fast as Maya, which could attack Dinah before she could even react, although she could see at light-speed) | Massively FTL (As fast as demigods who are capable of moving to the edge of the solar system in a minute), far faster with Eine Faust (Eine Faust will continuously increase his speed) | At least Massively FTL+ (Comparable to the gods and could even blitz some of them, who are capable of crossing the universe in 30 seconds [9.78 Quintillion c], far faster with Eine Faust | Infinite possibly Immeasurable (Should be much faster than his beams and projectile-based attacks. Primal Cannon crossed an infinite distance of altered space in mere moments and struck Shiva before he could react, with Shiva in his prime being able to move to across past, present, and future with his footsteps)
Lifting Strength: Unknown, possibly Athletic Human, Class P with Faust (Faust was capable of halting and throwing back a small asteroid created by Maverick) | Stellar (Comparable to demigods who are capable of tanking and even holding up the weight of the most massive stars) | Galactic (Could grapple with and overpower the gods who are capable of lifting up the weight of the milky way with ease) | Immeasurable (Was able to overpower Shiva and was considered to be stronger than him in his prime, who was capable of lifting up the entirety of the Axis Mundi)
Striking Strength: Wall Class | At least Small Star Class | At least Multi-Solar System Class | Universal+
Durability: Wall Level physically (Was able to survive a fall from a great height just like the rest of the other inhabitants through pure durability), Continent Level+ with Faust (Faust was capable of protecting him and Dinah, just barely, from a causal use of Maya, but was on the verge of breaking) | At least Small Star Level (Was able to tank attacks from demigods who can output much more power than their casual blasts) | At least Multi-Solar System Level (Could tank attacks from the gods) | Universe Level+ (Took blow for blow against Shiva and yet seemingly received no damage)
Stamina: Superhuman. Was able to survive within Samsara after getting used to its condition in mere moments while normal humans would have taken days and would've died by the stamina drain alone. After taking a Contract, he was able to fight without seemingly any signs of fatigue. Contracts drain the life force of both parties and Dinah had to sleep right afterwards. Fought Maverick over the course of an entire week with neither side giving each other any ground. Was able to fight as a skeleton even after death, though this could be thanks to his Contract. Even after fighting against dozens of gods and was on near-death, he was still able to fight Shiva in prime condition.
Range: Standard Melee Range, Thousands of Kilometers with Atman (Atman is considered to have the same statistics as Maya, with Maya being able to strike targets over thousands of kilometers away with perfect accuracy) | Interstellar (His attacks are considered to be the same as a demigods' own, whose attacks can span over multiple solar systems) | Interdimensional (His projectiles and beams of energy were capable of reaching the gods which are separated from Samsara by a dimensional barrier. Consistently was able to surprise the gods and strike from distances they could not see, despite being able to see across the entirety of the universe) | Low Multiversal (Comparable and was said to be far stronger than Shiva who was capable of affecting the entirety of the Axis Mundi)
Standard Equipment: None Notable
Intelligence: Gifted (Considered to be rather smart and could use his powers in rather unique ways, even surprising the gods on occasions. Rather cunning and resourceful, using what he can on his own self and his own environment. Despite having to face Maverick for the first time, Arthur was capable of tricking him into thinking he was dead, with Maverick being a combat-genius even amongst his own universe. Even if he is a bit headstrong, he is often capable of tricking opponents and was able to outsmart Maverick in combat, though it required him to have the help of Dinah and others)
Standard Tactics:
In his base, Arthur will engage in hand to hand combat and use Faust to enhance his attacks and decrease the physical strength of those attempting to strike him back. He only enhances his speed with Faust in small bursts due to how he is unable to react to the sudden boost in speed and will only use it to avoid attacks if absolutely necessary. If he knows that he can't tank an attack outright, then he'll form forcefields and when the attack strikes, attempt to redirect both the damage and force of the attack back at the opponent. But if the opponent is too far away for him to close the distance, then he will use various projectiles, but he is rather inexperienced at it. Using projectiles is where he is most vulnerable, and there are multiple entities who used this to their advantage. Finally, when he is pushed into a corner where he cannot do anything else, then he'll release Atman at full force. But there are certain circumstances where he knows that he can use Atman to his advantage. Things like dispelling illusions and darkness are when he will use commonly use Atman the most often.
In his post awakening, he will first start out by using Eine Faust to enforce a singular possibility and force away Fate from the fight. During this time, he will attempt to spam his time-stop in order to gain faster speed as Eine Faust builds it up. Unconsciously, his body will begin to draw in the power of souls from across space and time. While Eine Faust builds up his speed, he will start to spam various projectiles for distraction. If he believes that he has built up enough speed thanks to Eine Faust, then he will go on the offensive. First off, he will completely eliminate the distance between him and his opponent and strike with conceptual attacks. If he can figure out that an attack has a limited number of uses, he will attempt to revert the number of uses to zero. Essentially, he will began to eliminate variables that his opponent can use to win based on how high of a priority it is. Such as if his attacks are unable to affect his foe, then he will revert their durability and resistance to zero in order to make his attacks work. If they attempt to attack him physically, then he will use his invulnerability to his advantage. If he ever begins to grow tired during the fight, then he will simply make his stamina become infinite. If none of those ever work, then he will resort to using Eine Faust to attempt to erase them from existence.
Even being able to stand and even move in his presence will make Arthur deem his opponent worthy. Firstly, Arthur will see into the future using his precognition to see what his opponent can do. While doing this, he will try to eliminate all chances of survivability through reverting a target's regeneration and immortality to zero. Spamming various projectiles, he will then begin to enforce the conceptual laws of physics onto himself to insert himself as a fundamental law of the cosmos. Each attack is imbued with his deconstruction, making it so that one attack is completely fatal by separating their existence from self. If his opponents are able to survive his barrage, then he will engage them in hand to hand combat and stop them from trying to teleport away if they could. Eine Faust would push away all of probability and Fate to see if the foe can handle without those two concepts. In order to try and gain an advantage, he will attempt to nullify his opponent's abilities at all costs.
In this form, Arthur will immediately use Primal Cannon to eliminate his foes, not giving them a chance to fight back. If his foe is still somehow able to survive that, then he will disappear into a pocket realm outside of the Axis Mundi and start throwing attacks from there. During this time, he will mostly rely on his cosmic awareness to help him kill his opponent, by finding their position in space-time. His attacks are always imbued with the law of the cosmos, making it bend to strike his foe somehow. Making sure that he won't be hit by anything, he will imbue himself with invulnerability, abstract existence, and subjective reality to make sure no attack can actually strike him. In this form, he will use all of his hax options in order to completely eliminate his foe's chance of survival.
Weaknesses: As he is contracted to Dinah, if Dinah were to ever die then he would die alongside her. Inexperienced in using Faust for projectiles or attacks that use distance, always going for hand to hand combat. His reaction speed does not scale when he increases his speed with Faust. | Eine Faust takes time for it to build up speed. As he is connected to the concept of souls, any soul destroyed will directly affect him. | None Notable | None Notable
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
- Faust: The unique and intrinsic ability that was hidden inside of Arthur, being woken up by the Contract he made with Dinah. It is the last gift that Hiroyuki could give to his son, hidden within his genes, before he was killed. It allows Arthur to be capable of manipulating position, velocity, and force of objects. It is seemingly an ability that can take hold of the world, using it to boost the abilities of his allies by strengthening themselves and redirecting damage back at opponents. It was even capable of halting an asteroid aiming right for Arthur, and firing right back at Maverick. Truly a powerful ability, many people vied for its power and attempted to steal it from Arthur during Samsara.
- Atman: The strongest ability Arthur had at his disposal at the time. Atman allows for the wielder to generate, manipulate, and produce large bursts of holy energy. It is the direct opposite to Maya, being the eyes that see past illusion and darkness. It is the light that bursts forth from the darkness, unleashing immense amounts of heat when in use. It can seemingly attack and strike anything, striking ectoplasm, a unique substance that is unable to be interacted to even ghosts. Despite this, Maverick, who had an entire body comprised of it, was still hit by Atman.
- Shikuzeka: Silent Fist: A martial arts adapted and evolved from various fights with not only Maverick, but many other combat geniuses in Arthur's time in Samsara. This unique martial art developed by Arthur himself revolves around the use of many concepts. But the three major ones are using the opponent's own force, harmonizing with their own attacks, and quick but powerful strikes to end the fight. Altogether, this martial art focuses on recognizing the right time to strike. The one who made it in the first place, Arthur, describes it as a fluid combat, starting off slowly as a small stream of water, before eventually becoming a raging ocean. Although it usually starts off slow, the wielder will eventually adapt to the combat around them, before using it to their advantage. In this way, their attacks become rougher and faster, eventually becoming something akin to an ocean of battering waves, constantly striking and yet, dodging each attack thrown at them. Soon enough, it was combined with Arthur's ability to instinctively block and dodge attacks to become that much more efficient.
- Mizu: A main concept in Shikuzeka, making the wielder enter a state of almost water-like consistency. It usually revolves around dodging at first, adapting to the opponent. During this time, the wielder should note various details, such as various combat ticks like moving eyes or twitching muscles. Not only that, but the wielder has to take note of patterns and create their own pattern amongst it all, constantly adapting to new things being thrown at them and move around them. In this way, it becomes something more akin to a river. In this state, the wielder should be entering a calm mind and starting to use their opponent's attack against them. Not only that, but beginning to start striking back. Finally, the last state of this is using Mizu to its maximum potential, taking everything from before into account to perfectly attack and dodge at the same time. In this moment, wielders are not only constantly dodging attacks from their opponent, but also attacking back at the same time, giving no chance of recovery.
Primal Cannon: The ultimate weapon and the one that surpasses all else within the cosmos. Primal Cannon wields the very primordial elements that shaped reality today. It gains power from the primal aspects, with Arthur forcing its very concept to ascend to become a higher concept that exists unbound by the Axis Mundi itself. This attack was something far beyond anything within the Earth and Heavens could even comprehend, its mere presence altering reality. As it was used, it was an attack 'that transcended space and time' entirely as it broke through multiple realms and completely altered and ultimately destroyed the Axis Mundi. It strikes with the force of the creation of all existence itself, decimating its opponents on all levels of existence entirely without question, returning them to complete nothingness. Without a doubt, it is an attack that surpasses the divine.
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