Arc Lalatoya

Arc Lalatoya is a male anime and manga character who features in Skeleton Knight in Another World.

Biography

The Skeleton Knight Arc.

Arc (Japanese: アーク, Hepburn: Āku) was a Japanese male who was born in the normal world. By his teenage years, he came to be an avid gamer who regularly played a fantasy MMORPG. One day, he found himself falling asleep whilst playing his online game only to finds himself trapped in his game avatar, seemingly transported to a different world. Upon awakening, a gamer finds himself in his avatar body that he uses in his online game. Going by a river he is shocked to discover that his facial appearance is that of a skeleton due to the customization skin he used. In unfamiliar territory, the gamer decides that it would be best to hide his appearance and search for inhabitants. He spies a band of bandits attacking a group at a distance. While contemplating whether or not to get involved, after he sees the bandits about to man handle two women, he springs to action, killing the men.[1] The women introduce themselves as Lauren, a noblewoman, and Rita Farren, her maid. Introducing himself as Arc, the knight agrees to escort the two ladies to the town of Rubierute. Though he refuses a reward, to avoid meeting Lauren's father, Buckle, as it would cause complications should the noble ask to see his face, Rita gives him a copper passport to allow him easier passage through any city in the territory. After selling several articles from the bandits for funds to a merchant, Arc decides to become a mercenary, thus he registers at the Rhoden Kingdom's Mercenary Guild. After subjugating three beasts to gain admission into the guild, Arc takes an assignment in Rita Village.[2] He meets a young girl named Marca, his client and helps her collect herbs in the forest. The pair come across two Giant Basilisk, to which Arc slays to protect his charge, though the other escaped. And later upon returning to the village come across the Fanged Boar, which Arc also kills and offers its corpse to the village. In order to avoid creating panic amongst the villagers, he asks Marca to refrain from mentioning the Giant Basilisks.

A few days after returning to Rubierute, there is an uproar of a mercenary group known as Iron Fang slaying a Giant Basilisk. Though Arc knows they are taking credit for his deed, he allows to so as not to draw attention. The tale of the monster-slaying attracts the attention of Viscount Buckle, who questions the validity of their claim. Arc takes the opportunity to vouch for them stating he saw a pair of the creatures in the area which causes the lord and his knights to organize a party to slay the remaining monster. Arc later travels to Diento and hears rumors that a band of mercenaries vanished near the base of the Calcutta Mountain Range. While doing some hunting in the forest, Arc is ambushed by a band of thieves, but he easily dispatches them. He finds the thieves based in a cave and slaughters the remaining men. Arc beings to salvage what goods he can take, and comes across a strange green fox creature in a cage. Taking pity on the creature, Arc releases it and heals its wounds inflicted upon it by the bandits. Rather than run free, the fox chooses to remain as Arc's side, to which Arc names it Ponta. Arc and Ponta traveled together back to Diento and came across a lone figure by the Rydel River. Arc noticed that the figure was an elf and decides to greet him. The elf surprised by Arc'a abrupt appearance readies to fight. Arc attempts to show his sincerity, though the elf doesn't trust the human knight, but eventually lowers his guard upon seeing Ponta. The elf explains that Ponta is a spirit beast and normally wouldn't approach humans. The elf explains he was searching for a group of captured elves before departing back into the forest.

Arc eventually reached Diento and the next day decided to explore the surrounding forest. He spied a pair of elves fighting against a band of kidnappers who had taken several elven children. While debating on whether or not to interfere, after the humans began to coerce the elves to stand down with the threat of harming the children, Arc acted and attacked the kidnappers. After the kidnappers were all killed, Arc proceeded to free the elves from the cage, but was stopped by the female elf who demanded why he should be trusted. The appearance of Ponta however alleviated her concerns and he was allowed to use his magic to heal and free the children from the Collars of Submission. Arc takes a commission with the elves promising to help free their brethren in Diento. Working with the previous elf he met by the river, who is Danka, he and Ariane attack the warehouses containing the elves. To the trio's surprise, they find that the slavers have already been killed by an unknown party. Arc having been separated from the two elves meets a ninja while searching through the area. The beastman ninja at first attacks him, however, the appearance of Ponta by his side makes her pause and convince her that he is not an enemy. To help him free the captive elves in the city, the ninja provides Arc with a map of their locations. After freeing two captive elves and transporting them to the outskirts of the city, Arianna invites Arc for additional contracts. He is hesitant to commit to a long-term contract due to his condition. Arc reveals to Arianna of his condition, and though she is shocked she notes him to be vastly different from a typical undead who agrees to introduce him to the elders.

Arc was taken to Lalatoya where he was introduced to Ariane's parents. Once they learned of his condition and also his unique teleportation abilities, Arc accepted the mission in helping Ariane locating seven missing elves that were still unaccounted for since the raid at Diento. The first noble that they were sent to investigate was Fulish du Houvan in the town of Houvan. Whilst journeying through the human kingdom, Ariane heard rumors a pack of Haunted Wolves plaguing the area. Interested the female elf decided to make a detour in order claim the tails of the wolves for her sister’s wedding veil. After procuring the tails near the Anetto Mountains, Arc briefly explored the surrounding forest where he found the remains of a convoy. All the members of the convoy were dead, but Arc experimenting with his revival magic managed to bring them back to life. To hide his involvement, the knight hid and allowed the humans to think they had been saved by divine intervention. Unknown to him the convoy he revived was Princess Yuriarna Merol Melissa Rhoden Olav and her followers who would then use their second chance to journey to continue to Grand Duchy of Limbult in order to open a diplomatic dialogue with the Great Canada Forest. Arc later met up with Ariane and together they used teleportation magic to return to Lalatoya to deliver the wolf tails as well as rest. At the residence of Ariane's parents, the knight received permission to use the family's bath. Arc took off his armor, had Ponta join him in the bath and together they washed up in the water. Later while they dried themselves in the changing room Arc was brushing Ponta's fur when Ariane in only a towel came into the room. Since Arc was without his armor, Ariane freaked out thinking he was just another skeleton. When Ariane realized her mistake, she kicked the two out of the room in her embarrassment.

The next morning Arc and Ariane used Transport Gate to teleport back to the Anetto Mountains and headed south to Houvan. They found town to be heavily under guard and on the look out for an outside attack. To avoid the guards at the gate, the pair used Dimensional Step to sneak over the wall and into town. Their presence in the city did not go unnoticed by the local peasants, though they were avoided as they assumed Arc was a mercenary under the purse strings of the count. While walking through the streets, Arc and Ariane came across a scene where several guards were beating a young boy. Arc disgusted at the brutality intervened, his intimidating appearance scaring the guards and crowd away. Arc then attended to healing the boy, who's name was Shil, despite the latter's objection of being given charity. After some convincing Shil came to trust Arc and Ariane who he took to his sister Shia so that Arc could heal her. After they healed her and paid Shil, the boy learned that the two intended to raid the castle, which he advised not to. As they were adamant of sneaking into the castle, Shil brought them to Rabaught, the leader of the rebellion in Houvan.

After coming to an agreement to aid in the rebellion, Arc and Ariane waited with Shia and Shil until the revolution started. With the other rebels they breached the castle, and while the rest sought to loot the place, the pair managed to save the captive elf, who was nearly assaulted by some rogue rebels. The group then teleported out of town leaving it to its revolution

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Arc Lalatoya's form was based on his game avatar resembles a knight, clad in a silver full body armor toned with white and blue with a dark mantle that has a starry appearance as if it were cut out of a starry night sky. Arc is a very tall man of intimidating stature, standing at two meters. However, the most unique trait of his body is that underneath his armor is the body of an animate skeleton whose eyes sockets shine with blue lights. It was later revealed that his original game avatar form was that of a brown-skinned, muscular Dark Elf with long pointy ears, long, curly, raven-black hair, a strong jaw, and dark red eyes where he was considered quite handsome.

Arc was mostly a laid-back individual and a practical man. He enjoys exploring and traveling. Arc can be considered opportunistic as he is always looking to gain more money.

When a moral situation occurs before him, Arc is willing to stand for what was right. However, his skeleton form prevents him from feeling strong negative emotions.

During his awakening into the new world, on his travels he came to meet a Dark Elf named Ariane Glenys Maple (アリアン・グレニス・メープル, Arian Gurenisu Mēpuru). They met when Ariane clashed swords with him in an attempt to free the elven children, mistaking him for one of the slavers. They met again when the slavers took the elven children as hostages and surrounded her in order to capture her into submission. Arc thus came to her aid by using teleportation magic to protect the elven children. At first, she was distrustful of him due to her low opinion of mankind from their abusive treatment of elves. However, her opinion of him improved as she was impressed when she saw the spirit creature, Ponta, on Arc, an indication of his kind nature. Moreover, he used anti-curse spell to remove the collars from the elven slaves and also healed them with magic, showing that he has no prejudice against the elves. She thereby tried to employ him as a mercenary for 10 elven gold coins, acknowledging his strength and abilities. As they were successful in their cooperation, she brought him to her village to continue employing him for future tasks. According to Arc, this hence marks the beginning of a "very long quest".

Powers and abilities

Originally, Arc had been an ordinary human teenager who was born in the real world with no special abilities or talents.

Arc had incredible kinetic vision. As an elf, he has the ability to see spiritual magic, though to a lesser degree.

Arc's avatar body was at the highest level of 255 due to his hardcore grinding. The weapons and equipment Arc had equipped were mythical grade, and his main occupation was Heavenly Knight, with the subclass Pope.

Among the techniques known to him included:

• Wyvern Slash : a mid-tier Knight skill where the user swung and activated the skill causing the blade to release a blast of energy straight into the target, cleaving it effortlessly.
• Sword of Judgement :
• Shield Bash :
• Reanimation :
• Purification :
• Resurrection :
• Rock Bullet :
• Dimensional Step :
• Lightning Downpour :
• Execution :
• Holy Light Sword Slash :
• Holy Protection :

Notes

• Arc Lalatoya was created by Ennki Hakari and KeG where he featured in the setting of Skeleton Knight in Another World universe.

Appearances

• Skeleton Knight in Another World:

External Links

• Skeleton Knights in Another World Wiki Entry

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