Kandiaru

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Kandiaru
Hangul	칸디아루
Debut	Chapter 2NV Chapter 6WB Episode 1AN
Status	Alive
Type	Demonic Spectre
Rank	S-Rank
Dungeon	Double Dungeon
Abilities	Conversation Statue Manipulation System Moderation Ruler's Authority

Kandiaru (칸디아루), also known as the Architect (건축가), was the hidden boss of the Double Dungeon and the moderator of the System.

Appearance

Kandiaru took the form of a large stone statue of a hooded angel with six wings that he could shapeshift into additional arms (giving him eight arms total), glowing red eyes, black sclera, and a thin oblong-shaped purple gemstone in the middle of his forehead. Much like the Statue of God, he also had a very creepy and sadistic smile. After Jinwoo punched him in the nose, a portion of his mask fell off and revealed his real face underneath to have whitish-blue skin and light blue eyes with dark blue sclera.

Personality

Kandiaru was an extremely psychopathic and egotistical individual who took great pride in his work and had a very disdainful attitude towards humanity, as displayed when he started screaming in both rage and disbelief when he realized that Jinwoo was winning against him in battle. He was also fiercely loyal to the Monarchs and worshiped them as if they were gods, which also led him to become outraged when he realized that Ashborn had sold him out and allied with the Rulers.

History

Kandiaru was originally a resident of the magic world who studied sorcery. He was also driven by his goal to surpass Yogumunt and take his mantle as the Monarch of Transfiguration.

At some point after the Monarchs launched their assault on the human world, Kandiaru came to Ashborn and offered to help him find a suitable human vessel in exchange for a chance at immortality. As he was already having a hard time finding a vessel on his own, Ashborn agreed to his proposal and Kandiaru created the System in order to speed up the search. He also worked together with Tarnak to create Ammut, and was responsible for imprisoning him inside the Pyramid Field for unknown reasons.

After years of searching with little luck for some who had both the right physique and the right mentality to become Ashborn's vessel, Kandiaru finally found a human who passed all of his tests and exceeded all of his expectations: Sung Jinwoo. Despite this, he did not believe that Jinwoo was the right choice and protested when Ashborn ultimately chose him to be his vessel.

Double Dungeon Arc

When Jinwoo reached level 100, Kandiaru invited him back to the Double Dungeon so that Ashborn could take control of him as his vessel and finally descend into the human world as they had originally planned. Once Jinwoo arrived, he decided to test him by having him fight his puppets, including the Statue of God. After Jinwoo defeated them all without too much difficulty, Kandiaru revealed himself to be the former's final test and assigned him an urgent quest that would automatically kill him if he didn't win within the next 10 minutes. Despite being initially outmatched, Jinwoo was eventually able to gain the upper hand against Kandiaru and defeat him with 2 minutes and 14 seconds remaining on the quest's timer.

Thrilled at the prospect of finally fulfilling his deal with Ashborn, Kandiaru put Jinwoo into a trance-like state and eagerly waited for the Shadow Monarch's arrival. However, while he was waiting, a group of hunters, including Woo Jinchul, Choi Jong-In, and Cha Hae-In entered the temple in search of Jinwoo. Surprised that they were able to enter the dungeon despite not being explicitly invited, Kandiaru decided to offer them up as sacrificial offerings to Ashborn and ferociously attacked them, with the exception of Cha Hae-In, who discovered that Jinwoo planted her a shadow, piquing his interest of her. An all-out brawl then ensued between the humans and Kandiaru's statues, and when it became clear that they wouldn't be able to win on their own, both Choi and Cha attempted to snap Jinwoo out of his trance to no avail.

However, just when it was looking absolutely hopeless for the humans, Jinwoo regained consciousness on his own and attacked Kandiaru, punching right through his face and smashing him down into the ground. Although initially confused as to how Jinwoo had regained control of his body and obtained Ashborn's black heart, Kandiaru eventually realized that the Shadow Monarch had betrayed him and left him to die. Furious but not beaten, Kandiaru ordered his statues to kill the surviving humans and attempted to manually disable the System in order to strip Jinwoo of his powers. However, when he tried to do so, he discovered that Ashborn had already locked him out of the System and that he no longer had access to its controls.

Now completely defenseless, Kandiaru could only scream at Jinwoo in rage before the latter sliced him to pieces, destroying his body. As he crumbled away, Kandiaru cursed Jinwoo with a prophecy that once the Monarchs emerged from hiding and launched their crusade to destroy the human world, he would inevitably die at their hands. However, this failed to intimidate Jinwoo, who simply accepted this and proceeded to presumably engage Kandiaru's remaining puppets in battle.

After leaving the Double Dungeon and returning to the human world, Jinwoo correctly deduced that the statue he destroyed wasn't Kandiaru's physical body and that the real Kandiaru was still alive elsewhere.

Ragnarok

In the revised timeline shaped by the Cup of Reincarnation, Kandiaru the Architect managed to escape the genocide of his kind at the hands of the Shadow Monarch. Rather than choosing to fight, the Architect fled—beyond the boundaries of the known universe. Eventually, he crossed into the realm of the Outer Universes and entered the service of an Itarim.

However, the Outer God required a reason to accept Kandiaru into its service. To justify his worth, Kandiaru revealed the state of his home universe: its creations had slain the Absolute Being, leaving the realm godless and without a master. In effect, he betrayed his universe.

Upon learning that a universe lay unclaimed, the Itarim gathered its forces to conquer it. This movement soon drew the attention of other Outer Gods, who followed suit—bringing them into direct conflict with the self-proclaimed new gods of Kandiaru’s home universe: the Rulers and the Shadow Monarch. Thus began the Outer God War.

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Abilities

As the creator and moderator of the System, Kandiaru was an immensely powerful individual.

• Immense Strength: Kandiaru possessed immense physical strength. As a testament to this, he was able to send Jinwoo flying with one punch and push him to his limit over the course of their battle.
• Immense Speed: Kandiaru could move at immense speeds, as displayed by how he was able to move so fast that Jinwoo initially had trouble reacting in time to his attacks.
• Immense Durability: Kandiaru possessed immense durability, as displayed by how he was able to tank several nasty injuries from Jinwoo during their battle and continue to fight back without much trouble.
• Combat Mastery: Kandiaru was an incredibly proficient fighter. He also appeared to be evenly skilled in both hand-to-hand and sword-based combat, and was able to easily match Jinwoo in technique regardless of whether they were wielding weapons or not.
• Conversation: Kandiaru was somehow able to speak and understand Korean perfectly.
• Statue Manipulation: Kandiaru was able to effortlessly control his statues like puppets.
• System Moderation: Kandiaru had near-absolute power over the System and was able to manipulate it however he pleased, to the point that he could have stripped Jinwoo of his powers had Ashborn not locked him out of it first.
• Ruler's Authority: Kandiaru was able to telekinetically move and control objects.

Trivia

• During the Pyramid Story Arc in the novel version of Solo Leveling: Ragnarok, it is revealed that Kandiaru is a Demonic Specter.
• The writing on the large stone tablet that Kandiaru carries is written in the Hebrew alphabet. However, the ordering of the characters appears to be random, making it impossible to decipher.