Takt Arusahorun Faubrey (Web Novel)

Takt Arusahorun Faubrey (Tact Arusahorun Faubley) is a main antagonist in the web novel series The Rising of the Shield Hero.

He comes off as a stereotypical genius who happens to be born once a decade or so. He was chosen as the Whip Hero or at least it was thought he was chosen to wield the whip.

Appearance
Takt is a Bishonen, having a well built and in order face. His hair is gold, and his eyes are blue. He looks like a stereotypical foreigner, closely resembling the old Motoyasu.

His clothing consists of a rough jacket and pants. Under his crown is a bandana, that doesn't fit the look. Also, his hair is cut short.

Personality
He acts like a rather insufferable one and cares for children and woman, however during the fight for survival he reveals that he's very naïve and selfish.

Naofumi and Itsuki theorize that he is, in fact, a reincarnated individual, meaning his genius is most likely just a result of his previous life's memories. Ren also notes that he acts like the heroes when they first came to this world and he shows if nothing else all of their negative traits in abundance. For example, he has assembled a massive harem for himself similar to the behavior of the old Motoyasu. Like the old Itsuki, he will refuse to listen when told he's wrong and even goes out of his way to hurt his male enemies while avoiding hurting women and children under the idea that they're "brainwashed", and likely has no issue killing the men regardless of how mistaken he is. He is also arrogant and prideful to the same extent at the former Ren and refuses to admit when someone is as strong or likely stronger than him, he will either say he was holding back or that they shouldn't be so arrogant to get just a little stronger. This is despite his own clear arrogance and the fact that said opponent might, in fact, be easily dominating him in the battle.

In battle, he is very childish and quite a hypocrite, after he directly kills five Seven Star Heroes and Melromarc's queen, and also killed thousands of the allied force's soldiers, including Atlas and some of the Naofumi villagers, he complains at Naofumi for killing his childhood friend. Naofumi is quick to call him out on this, noting that Takt did nothing to protect the girl and he was dumb enough to bring her to a war zone between them, to begin with, arguing that while he did kill her it's Takt's own fault she died. He at least cares enough about his harem members to shield them when Naofumi dares him to do so.

He has no problem stealing the Legendary Weapons and Seven Star Weapons from their owners and justifies it by saying that they were unworthy of them, but in reality, he appears to be the kind of person who believes high levels and good equipment are everything and he is simply hoarding them selfishly. He went so far as to attempt to conquer the world and unify it under himself for the sake of "saving it" but it's quite clear he has no interest in hearing other people's thoughts about his actions and intentions.

Background
Takt was born into this world a rare super genius. Around once per generation, special people come around who greatly reform this world's technology, commerce, magic, and many other fields.

He was born into a noble family that served the Faubrey royal family, and he managed to master the art of magic at the young age of three.

When he was five, he reformed their process of making paper, and he rapidly revived the industry for book-making in this world. Because of his overwhelming talent, he was constantly surrounded by praise.

At seven, it was alchemy. He absorbed the knowledge of mechanics, and various magical fields, he graduated at the top of Faubrey's best academy and left to be an adventurer. He quickly made his name as an S Rank, he won the martial arts tournament in Shieldfreeden. Just before the wave hit, he was selected as the Hero of the Whip.

He has begun to research transportation. Taking a design left by past Heroes, for an airplane. Creating a way to fly without using Dragons, Gryphons, or any sort of Magic.

The Rising of the Shield Hero
Seeing the Pig King as trash that had no right to live, Takt killed him. The only thing the king had going for him was his craftiness, so dealing with him was a bit of a challenge. He ordered the people of the castle into silence.

He tried to kill the Legendary Heroes by exploding Houou, resulting in the death of Atlas and many others.

Takt's harem army, managed to subjugate Kirin, resulting in no causalities.

The Reprise of the Spear Hero
Information to be added later on.

Abilities
He is at level 350 and is supposed to be a genius as well as a magical prodigy. However, the genius he shows is just knowledge from his past life and he is only able to use up to Dreifach level ritual magic (no Choral or Revelation Magic). He also has the power to steal the power of the legendary weapons but it's clear, at least in the case of the Four Saint Weapons, that he can only take part of their power as when he stole Naofumi's shield Atlas notes he only got its physical form and the bare minimum of its power. Also despite stealing the Seven Star Projectile, it appears that a large portion of its power was transferred to Rishia, so it's likely he can't steal all of their the Seven Star Weapon's power either. Naofumi even indicates he isn't a Hero, therefore not the Hero of the Whip at all as he claims to be, so he can't use any Hero specific abilities such as Revelation Magic, Growth Corrections, etc. Despite spending years in the world he is ultimately also quite visibly unskilled and inexperienced in battle, as Naofumi very easily overwhelmed him when he manages to erase the roughly 230 level gap between them and fight him on equal ground, to the point where Naofumi could actually take the time to look away during their fight.

Magic

 * Zveit Boost:
 * Zveit Magic:
 * Dreifach Firestorm:

Seven Star Claw Skills

 * Vanzin Claw:
 * Erst Slash:
 * Second Slash:

Seven Star Whip Skills

 * Bind Whip: The whip expands as if it were a live snake. It thrusts forward as if to intertwine itself around the enemy.

Seven Star Projectile Skills

 * Erst Throw:

Legendary Shield Skills

 * Shield Prison:

Relationships
Takt stole the legendary shield from Naofumi and invaded Melmorne. Following Trash's plan, Naofumi dragged him to a one to one fight showing that Takt was indeed inferior to him and nothing more than a common boaster who steals others power. Naofumi also showed no remorse in killing his harem members for they were on the battlefield, but Takt couldn't digest the loss of his harem, even though he killed countless (including Naofumi's villagers) for his own delusion. After Takt's crushing defeat, he was given the most cruelest execution which involves forcing Takt to see the demises of his harem. With much agony, he stares with hatred towards Naofumi believing him to be the cause of this. Naofumi called on his naïve thoughts and watched his execution including Takt's soul devoured by Soul Eater, without any shred of emotion, for Takt killed Atla and his villagers without any reason.
 * -|Legendary Heroes=
 * Naofumi Iwatani

Naofumi suspects that Malty might have given her virginity to Takt with no solid evidence. Takt resurrected her from dead by means of homunculus from her dead body with the help of Rat's rival scientist. He decided to avenge the holy heroes for her. Malty even encouraged Takt to kill her own mother, father and Naofumi's villagers. She even asked him for the execution of the four holy heroes after the conquest of Melromarc. She showed sign of jealousy when other Takt's harem getting close to him. When things started to go down the hill, she tried to run abandoning him, only to be caught. Like always, Malty betrayed Takt by claiming all her action to be his brainwashing and that of her being innocent. She berated and beat him, along with other Takt's harem who also happen to share her same mindset. Finally, Takt seen her true nature and curses his own fate. She is his childhood friend and followed him around since they were young. She was also his first partner and one who accepted him, making her precious. She must have been at least the level of 250 and also had a gun. She was killed by Naofumi during a crossfire of magic, but Naofumi didn't regret, as it was Takt's fault for bringing her to the battlefield and also for not protecting her, instead dodged the attack without concern for who is behind him.
 * -|Companions=
 * Bitch (Malty S. Melromarc)
 * Tulna:
 * Nellisen:
 * Shatte:
 * Lurdia:
 * Ashiel:
 * Lurina:
 * Reldia:
 * Melris:
 * Eri