Biscas T. Balmus (Web Novel)

(Pope is the WN name)

The Pope is the highest priest of the Three Heroes Church.His actual name was not mentioned and often addressed as Pope.



Personality
He has a twisted personality. He will preach and believe anything for his convenience. When his religion begins to be questioned, he begins to claim that the heroes to be fake. He is a fanatic and so are his staunch followers. He was willing to go to any extent to defend his preaching, even if it means framing the heroes his religion worships. He would make ambitious plans that would heavily affect the kingdom.

The Pope used his deep connections in the nation to do away with any opposing authority in the kingdom. He was so narrow minded that he calls all of his actions "the will of God." He also claims that his followers who died in the fight against Shield Hero to be a gifted by being able to go to Heaven.

When wielding the replica of the legendary weapons, the Pope proclaimed himself to be God and any one opposing him as evil. After seeing his followers constantly rising from the defeat and pain, Naofumi suspects the Pope of using some-sort of brainwashing magic on them and using them for his convenience. Appearance= He wears a spectacles and a white robe. He is easily a middle aged person. Abilities=

Legendary Weapons Replica Skills
Sword Form
 * A shock-wave is produced when it is swung
 * Phoenix Blade: Phoenix takes flight from the Pope’s sword. c7-

Spear Form
 * Brionac: c7-
 * Stance of Heaven and Earth Reversal: c7-

Bow Form
 * Hide Arrow: The skill creates a large amount of illusion copies of himself. c7-

Shield Form
 * If he changed the replica weapon to a shield to receive Naofumi’s attack, then perhaps his life would have been saved.But either due to his belief or pride avoided it.

Background= The Pope of the Three Heroes Church masterminded many events, and tried to kill all of the heroes. He killed the queen's right hand man who happens to be Eclairs's father, so that the authority rest with Trash, who was at the time was very gullible and easy to manipulate. Summary= Taking advantage of the queen's absence, he headed the church to propose the idea of summoning the Heroes for the waves.

The Pope finally revealed himself and tried to kill Naofumi, Motoyasu and their parties and justified himself with his twisted logic. He was surprised by the arrival of the Ren, Itsuki and their parties, who were thought to be dead. However, he still overwhelmed them, until Naofumi used his Shield of Wrath to kill the Pope. After this incident, the Queen proclaimed that the Church of Three Heroes was to be outlawed and the country would follow the religion of the Four Holy Saints. The Queen worked to correct all the rumors the previous High Priest spread about Naofumi. But, her efforts failed to spread as much as the bad rumors about Nafoumi did. The Queen speculated that the Church of Three Heroes didn't kill Naofumi in the beginning to avoid war with the world and hoped the Waves would kill him. Due to the naivety of the other three Heroes, the Church had an easy controlling them and using them for their bidding. The Church planned to use the other Heroes when they were strong enough to kill Naofumi if he survived the waves. The Pope's actions not only put his entire nation but also the world in crisis.

His followers escaped their sentences during the Spirit Tortoise incident when the Spirit Tortoise destroyed Melromarc's jail killed their slave seal holder. They still continued their extremist actions to fulfill the Pope's dream, only to fail and be publicly executed for their attempted cue.

Chronology=

Devil of Shield Arc
c1-78

Cal Mira Island Arc
c78-114

Spirit Turtle Arc
c115-130

Slave Supremacy Arc
c131-254

World's End Arc
c255-357

Towards the Legend Arc
c358-378

The Christmas of Shield Hero
c379-385

The Valentine of Shield Hero
c386-402

The White Day of Shield Hero
c403-409

Loop 1 to 3 - Tutorial Arc
c410-414

Loop 4 - Silt Welt Arc
c415-455

Loop 5 - Melromarc Arc
c456-574

Loop 6 - Foburei Arc
c575-current Relationships= Heroes Companion
 * Shadows

Other