Hell

Hell
Name
Gift Name	Hell
Battle Data
Classification	Materialization
Usage	Generate and manipulate shadow-based constructs.
Information
First Seen	Episode 6
Known Users	Engen Ihwa/Hero Killer

Hell (기술) is the Gift used by Engen, the Smiling Man. It allows him to create and control darkness based around the 8 layers of the hot side of Buddhist Hell.

Description

Hell enables Engen to create a solidified form of darkness. By default, he is capable of manifesting humanoid creatures or their specific body parts to create groups or an army to overwhelm his opponents, and thanks to their shadow-based properties, that can be utilized to blind an opponent's visuals.

His army can merge into one larger entity, taking the appearance of a large undead woman, which he can mount or hide inside her mouth, or monstrous-looking apparitions to manifest large organisms or objects. While the Gift itself is pure darkness, he can manifest it as a large executioner's sword that allows for further action to manifest stronger techniques.

Usage

The darkness of Hell, being solid, is capable of inflicting physical damage, this was shown to be strong enough to knock out or kill people with a few strikes. Engen can create numerous forms of constructs out of the darkness, making constructs as complex as giant humanoid creatures, armies of undead-like creatures, and appendages that all act according to his will with the Gift appearing to take a tremendous amount of control and experience in properly utilizing it to its full potential, especially so at night.

This was first seen when Hero Killer used the Gift to escape from the hero, Victoria by wrapping the Elder in a torrent of darkness but lacked the power to control it in any other fashion.

Similarly to Victoria, Engen can create tangible darkness that allows him to levitate and fly. Aside from his constructs, each of Engen's primary techniques revolves around the 8 layers of hot hells in Buddhism that use an extremely all-rounded combat with versatile move sets.

A EST blast from Hell.

After climbing the Tower of Milen Kula and gaining a successful Breakthrough, Hell increased to unbelievable heights as Engen expanded and improved his abilities. He can create energy beams of pure immense darkness that sheared apart larger landscapes, manifest his undead-like creatures in a more bipedal manner that can move with greater speed to overwhelm trained soldiers instead of the usual "horde wave" and attained a form of teleportation that can transport him in shorter distances albeit not on the level of Vector's Portal Creation.

But Engen would showcase his new abilities further having gained the ability to create dimensional portals that can summon otherworldly monstrosities, unleash darkness capable of disintegrating matter, and combine it with massive spires to destroy entire landscapes while also channeling Hell itself within his body to unleash dark flames.

Weaknesses

The Gift is versatile in its power but has quite a few weaknesses. Hell has a decreased performance when exposed to the sun or light and is highly susceptible to those that can manipulate light-based Gifts like Victoria's A Beautiful Dream, as Sunlight or Light-based Gifts appear to reduce the destructive output of the manifestations of Hell.

Techniques

Image	Name	Description
	Hell (기술)	Engen creates a large executioner broadsword that he wields as his main weapon against his opponents or telekinetically redirect and control Hell's manifestations.
	Sañjīva (산지바)	Engen creates a giant harvestmen-like creature with a tiny exoskeleton body and 12 giant legs with blades at the end of each one with the creature appearing to be able to fuse with their target and immobilize them.
	Kalasutra (칼라수트라)	Engen summons a multitude of umbral spikes from a surface to impale a target or opponents all over their body.
	Samghata (삼가타)	Engen summons a series of giant halves stones larger than each other from each other that will collide at a chosen point in a sequential motion to pulverize the target. It can also serve as a shield from multiple directional attacks.
	Raurava (라우라바)	Engen envelopes his eyes with Hell to manifest a portal that exposes a giant grotesque mouth of a monster that can either eat everything in its path or shriek at a very loud, high frequency. The manifestation of the portal is dependent on where he's left eye looks at. This technique was obtained after his Breakthrough in climbing the Tower of Milen Kula.
	Mahāraurava (마하라우라바)	Engen, similar to Raurava, manifest a portal that summons grotesque looking insects that devour and consume anything in their path. This technique was obtained after his breakthrough from climbing the Tower of Milen Kula.
	Tapana (타파나)	Engen lifts Hell above his head and it dissipate into the air to create countless giant sphere above the skies. Once created the spheres fickle off tiny bits of energy that instantly "erases" anything they touches. This technique was obtained after his breakthrough from climbing the Tower of Milen Kula.
	Incineration (소각)	Engen, using the spheres of Tapana, creates large cone shaped spikes capable of "erasing" anything that they touch. These cones are gigantic in size that they encompass the skies and can reshape entire landscapes. This technique was obtained after his breakthrough from climbing the Tower of Milen Kula.
	Pratāpana (프라타파나)	Engen subsides all of Hell into himself to unleashes sheathing purplish black flames that are capable of erasing anything that touches the flames or darkness, this technique is noted to be like an "ultimate sword" when it clashed against Reagan Sinclair's "ultimate shield" of Verdancy empowered by Project Yggdrasil. It is a double-edged technique as Engen burned through his life force with his first real use of it. This technique was attainted as he was near death which allowed him to Breakthrough his limitations during the battle with the Mad Elder, Reagan Sinclair.
	Avīci (아비지옥)	Engen, in honor of all those that fought for and alongside him, creates his closest allies "reborn" through Hell to fight for him. This technique was attainted as he was near death during his battle with the Mad Elder, Reagan Sinclair which allowed him to Breakthrough his limitations.
	Sañjīva Convergence (산지바 수렴)	Due to how both Hell and Abyss Dancer's Sañjīva were similar, Engen was able to merge their respective Gifts to become one and utilize Abyss' body as an extension of Hell to merge their techniques to perform destructive attacks against their opponents.

Unnamed Techniques

These techniques have no official name and are named solely based on conjecture.

Image	Technique	Description
	Eclipse Veil	Engen cast and spread his Hell to block out the sun, therefore giving his other abilities a power boost but at the cost of presumably increasing his EST requirements and a massive cost of his EST reserves overall.
	Army of Shadow Souls	Engen releases a wave of umbral-based humanoid creatures that can overwhelm all opponents in their path. It can also be used to restrain his targets with the hands provided by the humanoid shadows.
	Hands of Hell	Engen manifest giant humanoid hands that can block the attacks of others aimed towards him. The techniques can block an attack from that of an Elder such as Bishop but presumably when he was holding back and withstood Jintae Yang's Torce powered sword strike, these hands can also be used to restrain or attack his targets.

Trivia

• Hell used to have the color schemes of black and gray shades along with highlights of night blue and cosmic-like star patterns on Engen's manifestations but after climbing the Tower of Milen Kula, the Gift's color was converted to a more purplish appearance.
• The Gift pays homage to the Hot Narakas, the eight great hot hells located on one Cakkavāla in Buddhist sutras.
  • Sañjīva, the "reviving" Naraka, has ground made of hot iron heated by an immense fire. Beings in this Naraka appear fully grown, already in a state of fear and misery.
  • Kālasūtra, the "black thread" Naraka, includes the torments of Sañjīva. In addition, black lines are drawn upon the body, which hell guards use as guides to cut the beings with fiery saws and sharp axes.
  • Saṃghāta, the "crushing" Naraka, is surrounded by huge masses of rock that smash together and crush the beings to a bloody jelly. When the rocks move apart again, life is restored to the being and the process starts again.
  • Raurava, the "screaming" Naraka, is where beings run wildly about, looking for refuge from the burning ground. When they find an apparent shelter, they are locked inside it as it blazes around them, while they scream inside.
  • Mahāraurava, the "great screaming" Naraka, is similar to Raurava. Punishment here is for people who maintain their own body by hurting others. In this hell, ruru animals known as kravyāda torment them and eat their flesh.
  • Tapana, the "heating" Naraka, where hell guards impale beings on a fiery spear until flames issue from their noses and mouths.
  • Pratāpana, the "great heating" Naraka. The tortures here are similar to the Tapana Naraka, but the beings are pierced more bloodily with a trident.
  • Avīci, the "uninterrupted" Naraka. Beings are roasted in an immense blazing oven with terrible suffering. Life in this Naraka is said to last for the length of an antarakalpa.