Demon King Rance

"Humans...? It's been a long time since intruders have made it this far. Right on time. I was feeling queasy, a massacre will make a good diversion."

About
Demon King Rance is the 8th Demon King of the Planner Scenario, the system created to bring destruction and despair to the protagonist race of the continent. Created from the famed adventurer and, following the events of the Second Dark Lord War, world renowned hero Rance. He originally became the Demon King in Kurusu Miki's place after his slave Sill Plain was slain by Bird Lithfie. His true persona only surfaced once Rance was completely corrupted by the inherent bloodlust of the Demon King's blood, almost erasing his previous personality in the process. His presence during the RA Era was largely limited due to Rance restraining his destructive bloodlust through a combination of force of will and the use of his daughter Reset Kalar's cleanse hand, a power capable of restoring one's sanity.

During the events of Rance X: Part 2 his real persona is still kept under control by Rance, while his condition worsens day by day, with many of the Dark Lords on his inner circle showing concern for his state. His silence only makes humanity more nervous, but in an attempt to prevent a full on war, Crook Mofus makes the first move and sends her child El Mofus to form a party between all of Rance's Children that could defeat Demon King Rance.

He makes first physical appearance when El recklessly entered Dragon Rising Mountain while their still small party, consisting only of Nagata-Kun, Rocky Bank, Dosu, Wasu and Arms Arc (who had temporarily joined), was fighting against Dark Lord Satella. Rance left his castle in order to take a walk, coming across the battle taking place. His mere presence generated an intimidating aura of fear so oppressive that the party found themselves completely overwhelmed, whereas Satella was simply surprised by his unexpected appearance on the external area. Rocky attempted to talk with Rance, revealing that El was infact his child, but Rance displayed no interest whatsoever in the matter at hand and simply ordered Satella to accompany him, seeing the group as completely irrelevant. While the Dark Lord showed herself as enthusiastic of the idea of slaughtering the party, she complied to the Demon King's command and left the area along with him. Over the course of the game Rance struggles to keep his Demon King persona on check, resorting to sex with Shizuka and Nagi in order to keep his bloodlust under control. He shows up on Shangri-La on an inn where they're staying in order to rape her, as well as assaulting them during their travels with the El Party by making use of Dark Lord Warg to keep everyone asleep. However, as the weeks turn into months, even this has little effect on him as he finds himself corrupted more and more, with his Dark Lords and close advisors growing increasingly worried as his appearances become less frequent, locking himself on his personal room.

By May of RA15, his mind was almost completely absorbed by the bloodlust when he is informed of the sudden appearance of a party formed by his children entering Rising Dragon Mountain. Despite being his own children, Demon King Rance is completely uninterested, merely ordering his subordinates to subjugate the intruders. By a twist of fate involving the hanny subordinates of Dark Lord Rizna, the party manages to get to the Demon King's throne room on his castle. However, the group was in a state of confusion and desperation after one of their own, Reset Kalar, was kidnapped by Dark Lord Satella, clouding their judgement. A battle takes place with catastrophic results for the El Party, getting easily defeated and severely wounded. Being El, Rangi and Zance the only ones left barely standing, Rance expressed disappointment over his children's fighting ability and was determined to finish them off, before he was stopped by Shizuka who offered herself in exchange of letting everyone go, with Nagi staying with her. Amused by their resolve he agreed to focus his undivided attention on torturing them, brutally raping them while the group reluctantly ran away. Some time after the battle Rance payed a visit to Satella, who had recently come into possession of the Frozen Sill Plain. Believing it to be a replica produced by humans to disturb Rance she attempted to destroy it, with little success, and instead opted for disguising it in order to conceal it. Despite its altered shape and Rance's lack of sanity, he could still perceive something strange within it. His curiosity was eventually interrupted by none other than his children, who once again appeared on his domains to challenge him after having increased their Levels a considerable amount. While Rance was still dominating the party, his concentration was momentarily shaken when he caught sight of the Frozen Sill Plain during the battle, giving the party a window of opportunity for Reset to slap him and restore his sanity, making the personality of Demon King Rance go dormant once more.

During the final battle with Blood Memories, Demon King Rance manifests when it uses past recollections to imitate the fighting style of the previous Demon Kings. As the most recent Demon King, he was the first form Blood Memories took in the battle, shocking everyone present.

Personality and Appearance
In his Demon King persona, his skin got darker and his eyes become of an intense bloody red when fully corrupted by the bloodlust. Often clad in a black armor decorated with golden adornments and covering his face behind a black helmet, his appearance much resembles what one would expect of a traditional Demon King.

An emotionless puppet of destruction and suffering, Demon King Rance has next to no personality traits from the previous Rance, being a serious and cruel monster that nonchalantly bring chaos upon others. He appears to be amused and entertained by slaughter and torture, but he displays little enjoyment out of it himself. He's usually very calm and composed, undisturbed by everything around him. Over the RA era he has brutally raped hundreds of women, but it is seemingly less out of pure lust and more out of a desire to make the other party experience pain and despair, with his assaults being considerably more brutal and sadistic than they were during his time as a human. Despite all this, somewhere within him a shred of his conscience still remains, enough so that the image of Sill Plain trapped in ice was enough to leave him momentarily perplexed.

Abilities
Created from one of history's most important and talented adventurers, Demon King Rance is an incredibly powerful individual that stands above even other Demon Kings. An already genius swordsman since his time as a human, his swordplay became legendary upon turning into the Demon King, gaining a Sword Combat Lv3 skill. His most powerful special move the "Kichiku Attack" became far deadlier, appropriately renamed by the brutish warrior as "Demon King Attack". Additionally, despite having a complete lack of talent in the art while he was human, he also gained a Magic Lv2 skill that allowed him to perform high level magic which, combined with the inherent godlike powers of the Demon King, allowed him to employ even magic comparable to Lv3 users like opening gates to Alternate Dimensions.

Much like every Demon King, Rance is an unbeatable force that stands above every other creature in the continent, being perfectly capable of annihilating armies single-handedly and even the El Party at their strongest were barely capable of standing against him.

RA - Rance's Era

 * LP0008/RA0000 - The Second Dark Lord War ends with a miraculous victory for the United Human Army. However Kurusu Miki, at her limit restraining the awakening of Little Princess, cedes the Demon King's blood to Rance. With full control of his actions, he withdraws all monsters from the human world.


 * RA01 - An army called the New Monster Army is formed by Demon King Rance, consisting of thousands of powerful monsters and Dark Lords Satella, Hornet, Silky, La Hawzel, La Saizel, Warg and Lei. The army conquers the area of the Crystal Forest and set themselves on Rising Dragon Mountain. A new castle for the Demon King named Amazing Castle is built at the top, as well as launching a large scale project to expand it that will take centuries to finish.
 * The world leaders tried to gain an audience with Rance, but none of them were allowed to see him and the gates of his castle remained shut to anyone.
 * Rizna Lanfbitt, who had suffered extreme mental and physical damage during the war, was taken from the mental asylum she was in by Demon King Rance and turned into a Dark Lord in an effort to restore her.


 * RA02 - As a response to Rance's non-interference policy, over 10 factions of monster armies were formed, who wished to take down Demon King Rance, some of which include the Orblight Faction, the Camilla Faction and the Haughtsmon Faction. While conflict among them was frequent due to different ideals, many of them attempted to fight the Demon King on Rising Dragon Mountain but they were easily crushed.
 * Without Rance as a unifying force, the world leaders distanced from each other and the human alliance had completely disappeared. Seeing an opportunity Queen Lia of Leazas declared war on the rest of the world, but after 6 months of fighting without any notable victory, a peace treaty was signed.
 * Pope of the AL Church, Crook Mofus, gains an audience with the Creator God Ludo-Rathowm.


 * RA03 - Many of the different factions were unified under Dark Lord Camilla, who managed to gather over a million monsters to attack Amazing Castle. The battle ended with a crushing defeat for the Camilla Faction, with the leader being personally punished by Rance.
 * Rance's eldest son, Dark Rance, attempted to defeat his father but was defeated.


 * RA04 - For mysterious reasons beyond mortal's understanding, the Gods abandon the world. The art of Divine Magic, Level Gods and Level Stores, Angels, all disappear from the world, with only rudimentary means for leveling up maintained by humanity remaining. The AL Church quickly begins to lose its power and influence.
 * The Hero Calamity takes place. The new Guardian Hero of the World Geimark began a mass-slaughter in order to power up Escudo Sword and defeat Demon King Rance. Despite the attempts to fight back, 30% of humanity perished at his hands until he was ironically defeated by Rance.
 * RA05 - Demon King Rance fully awakens for the first time. He leaves his castle and begins an indiscriminate carnage, raping and killing everyone in his way. His rampage was stopped by his daughter Reset, who managed to restore his sanity. With his mind back, he returned to his castle once again.
 * RA06 - After his first direct act of brutality against humanity, many started to resent Rance for his actions. A group of 22 talented adventurers gathered to defeat him, but they were repelled with ease.
 * RA07 - The hero Geimark returns and climbs Rising Dragon Mountain in an attempt to defeat the Demon King but he was defeated and this time thoroughly destroyed.
 * Most of Rance's Children meet at a New Years Party arranged by Reset. From this point on it would become a tradition among the siblings. Invitations to Rance were sent every year but he never attended.
 * RA08 - Demon King Rance awakens once more and yet again descends from Rising Dragon Mountain, slaughtering and raping left and right. His daughter Reset attempted to stop him but was foiled by Dark Lord Satella.
 * The AL Church has already lost most of its followers and a new religion is formed by a priest named Zandeburg preaching "God is Dead" and declaring that a new god has to appear. The RECO Church is founded under this new ideology.
 * RA09 - The War of the Brutal King begins. Completely under control of his bloodlust, Demon King Rance fires a large-scale invasion against humanity comparable to that of the Second Dark Lord War. All-out war breaks out once again between the human countries and Rance's monster army.
 * Miracle Tou assembles an elite group named the Neo-Twelve Knights to fight against the invading army. Some of its members include Arms Arc, Patton Misnarge, Karma Atranger (owner of Chaos at the time), Yamamoto Rangi and Alexander.
 * Neluaporon, Hebicalorie, Waluluport and DD are all turned into Dark Lords by Demon King Rance. They are all savage and brutal monsters created as a response to the Neo-Twelve Knights, who they often engage in combat against.


 * RA10 - When all hope seems lost for humanity, Miracle and her Neo-Twelve Knights conduct their master plan and manage to restrain Demon King Rance for a brief period of time, allowing Reset to slap him and restore his sanity. The War of the Brutal King ends.


 * RA11 - The scars of the war run deep among the citizens, motivating multiple rebellions from people that despise the world rulers and their children for their direct connection to Demon King Rance.
 * Democratic crisis in Helman. The country is split into two between those that support president Sheila and those that despise her.
 * A coup took place in Leazas in an attempt to kill the prince Zance Leazas but it was suppressed without much effort.
 * President Copandon Dott of the Copa Empire, the company with the highest economic influence on the Free Cities Alliance, is imprisoned after she's accused of having a relationship with Rance. Her entire fortune is taken away as well.
 * A rebellion to kill the heir of the Yamamoto House, Rangi, took place in JAPAN but it was eventually put down.
 * A large secret cult kidnaps the princess of Zeth, Sushinu the Gandhi, and nearly sacrifices her in a bloody ritual, but she's rescued at the last moment and the cult is destroyed.


 * RA12 - Helman is officially split between West Helman and the new East Helman after the later declared formal independence, led by General White. They amass a huge army and declare war on the world, with many people not just from Helman but from many of the main countries supporting their endeavor to free the world from the Demon King's progeny.
 * With their huge numbers East Helman was making progress on multiple fronts, but a great disaster occurred when a colossal and mysterious creature appeared in the middle of their main force. Most of the army was crushed and absorbed by the monster. The war was instantaneously put into a full stop as all the nations work together to fight the titanic creature.
 * Famous Monster Hunter and Treasure Hunter Arms Arc becomes a legend after single-handedly managing to kill Dark Lord Waluluport with the Holy Katana Nikkou. She gains the title of "Dark Lord Slayer".


 * RA13 - The beast is now publicly known as The Great Beast Quelplan. What is it or where it came from nobody knows, but it would appear randomly on any location and produce immense damage. After multiple attempts to fight it with armies, humanity officially gave up and it was cataloged as an unstoppable natural disaster. Because the creature never actually engaged in combat and produced damage merely by moving the final decision was to minimize damage if it was sighted.
 * Angel Knights appear and attack the Great Beast Quelplan, but they are effortlessly absorbed by the creature just the same.
 * The bloodlust begins to overpower Demon King Rance once more. He tries to suppress it through sheer will. He continuously tracked down one girl specifically that he was particularly fond of and raped her, using the pleasure to calm his impulses. Shizuka Masou becomes famous as the Demon King's favourite lover.


 * RA14 - The silent year, no notable events happen but the fear and anxiety among the population can be felt in the air. The world is awaiting for the next disaster to burst at any time.


 * RA0015 - Getting closer and closer to awakening to the Demon King persona, Rance grows quiet. At his limit, a second War of the Brutal King seems inevitable.
 * Events of Rance X: Part 2.

Known Dark Lords Created: Rizna Lanfbitt, DD, Neluaporon, Hebicalorie, Waluluport

Preceded by: Demon King Little Princess

Succeeded by: N/A