Devil Rune (race)

Overview
The collective term for monsters granted a Devil Rune. The main antagonistic force in Yo-Ma Great War 5. They are hostile to Witches.

They were created by Ctheasil in her pursuit of a way to turn men into witches by implanting runes into their bodies, though the demonic nature of the twisted Runes meant that only monsters succeeded in absorbing them.

She tried to break the limits of the witch race. By implanting runes, she tried to turn a man into a witch. And the result is the Devil Rune.

Ctheasil's Explanation
(As Ctheasil said all this to trick Evan, it is unknown how much of this is true.)

Devil Rune was a new race created by the devil to eliminate the God-created ancient race, the witches, and control the human world with evil. A Devil Rune monster, which develops and procreates by absorbing the witches’ rune, was the ultimate natural enemy of the witches. It was Ctheasil’s argument that if time passes and the Devil Rune’s territory expands further, eventually, all the witches throughout the entire world would be hunted by them and be eliminated.

They’re looking for the runes of the Witches. They regard all runes to be that of the devil’s and call them, who received the rune’s powers from the gods, as thieves and despise them. When it comes to skills, the Witches have them beat, but their rune powers don’t work well with them. Those Devil Runes have the power to absorb the powers of Witch runes. Moreover, if Witches beat them, it would contaminate their runes, so just by fighting them, they are putting themselves at risk.


 * It is possible for them to procreate without absorbing the Witches' Runes, but it would take a very long time.
 * The Witches fight them by having the men finish them off after they weaken them.



Mentioned Devil Rune Creatures

 * Orc chief Setus - Encountered by Evan in chapter 166. Weilded a double-edged axe. Killed by Evan's Heaven Throw.
 * Devil Rune Chaos Mole - Appeared as the boss of the 'Molerain' dungeon. Killed by Evan stomping on it in chapter 200.
 * Bird-shaped monster - Appeared as the boss of a dungeon. Killed by Shine and Serena in chapter 203.
 * Dozens of unnamed monsters - Found in various dungeons in the Leonine Dukedom.
 * Devil Rune Chimera - Created by Ctheasil in her subspace workshop . Killed by Evan by stealing its countless Runes in chapter 214.
 * Gefrel - The strongest of the Four Heavenly Kings under the Demon King. Killed by Evan.
 * Eir (artificial) - Granted through Evan and Ctheasil's efforts.
 * Matthew L. Leonine (demon form)
 * Lupark

Trivia

 * Melonia comments that there are many ways to deal with the Devil Rune monsters, and that they can't be an enemy of Witches.
 * The Devil Rune Chimera mentioned that though Ctheasil created the Devil Runes, after its defeat, Devil Runes would continue to be handed down to chosen monsters.