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| - Xelloss (Japanese: ゼロス Romaji: Zerosu) is a mazoku and the priest of Greater Beast Zelas Metallium in the Slayers series. Xelloss was created by Zelas during the Kōma War, which took place approximately 1013 years before Slayers TRY. Unlike other subordinates of mazoku lords, Xelloss is the sole immediate servant of Zelas Metallium, and thus a great deal of her power went into his creation. Because of this, Xelloss is the most powerful of all the priests and generals of Ruby Eye Shabranigdu's subordinates. In the Kōma War, Xelloss singlehandedly killed thousands of golden dragons; he is feared and hated by them ever since. They refer to him as the Dragon Slayer, although he does not like this name, probably because it does not fit the "image" he wants others to view him as. After the war, before serving Hellmaster, Xelloss' duty for a thousand years was to find stray copies of the Claire Bible and destroy them so that humans could not find an easy way to defeat mazoku (with Zanaffar), or utilize the power of the Lord of Nightmares. Xelloss possesses all the abilities of a high-ranking mazoku, including the ability to teleport with items or even people, and also the ability to maintain an incredibly detailed projected form, mimicking even the insides of the human body. He can also change his human form at will, switching his gender from male to female if he wishes. He has narrow purple eyes that are catlike, and his gaze very cold and sinister. This may very well be intentional: He usually keeps his eyes closed or at least slit, along with wearing a cheerful expression, but when he opens them, his face changes from harmless to menacing in an instant. The clothing he appears to wear and his staff are all part of his physical manifestation and can become as incorporeal as the rest of him. (For example, in the fifth Slayers novel, he was able to slip away from Amelia Wil Tesla Saillune even though she had a tight grip on his clothing.) Before he sold them to Lina, he possessed the Demon's Blood Talismans. He received these during the Kōma War as a reward from Shabranigdu. Somewhat unusually for a mazoku of his stature, Xelloss' true astral form is that of a simple black cone. When he battles in his true form (which usually occurs when confronting fellow demons), his preferred tactic is to hurtle towards his opponents at high speed like a giant drill, appearing on the physical plane only at the last moment to impale them. As simplistic as this attack may seem, it is powerful enough to kill low-ranking mazoku like Seigram in a single blow, and even seriously damage a general like Rashatt. If the situation warrants it, Xelloss can also divide into a swarm of smaller drills which rapidly skewer a target, repeatedly slipping out of the astral side to attack and then vanishing. While this attack deals less damage per individual hit, the frequency of the hits and the difficulty of dodging makes it all the more effective. It is possible for Xelloss to use this attack while still maintaining his human form.
- Xelloss was created by Zelas during the Kōma War, which took place approximately 1013 years before Slayers TRY. Unlike other subordinates of mazoku lords, Xelloss is the sole immediate servant of Zelas Metallium, and thus a great deal of her power went into his creation. Because of this, Xelloss is the most powerful of all the priests and generals of Ruby Eye Shabranigdu's subordinates. In the Kōma War, Xelloss single-handedly killed thousands of golden dragons; he is feared and hated by them ever since. They refer to him as the Dragon Slayer, although he does not like this name, probably because it does not fit the "image" he wants others to view him as. After the war, before serving Hellmaster, Xelloss's duty for a thousand years was to find stray copies of the Claire Bible and destroy them so that humans could not find an easy way to defeat mazoku (with Zanaffar), or utilize the power of the Lord of Nightmares. (This is not what he told Lina and her friends in Slayers NEXT, as he said he was a priest of a temple who wanted to get back a missing copy of the book.) Xelloss posesses all the abilities of a high-ranking mazoku, including the ability to teleport with items or even people, and also the ability to maintain an incredibly detailed projected form, mimicking even the insides of the human body. He can also change his human form at will, switching his gender from male to female if he wishes (or so it is believed; there is no proof he actually changed genders any more than the other men did in episode 17 of Slayers NEXT). He has narrow purple eyes that are catlike, and his gaze very cold and sinister. This may very well be intentional: He usually keeps his eyes closed or at least slitted, along with wearing a cheerful expression, but when he opens them, his face changes from harmless to menacing in an instant. The clothing he appears to wear and his staff are all part of his physical manifestation and can become as incorporeal as the rest of him. (For example, in the fifth Slayers novel, he was able to slip away from Amelia Wil Tesla Saillune even though she had a tight grip on his clothing.) Before he sold them to Lina, he possessed the Demon's Blood Talismans, four orbs that draw upon the power of all the ma-ō. He received these during the Kōma War as a reward from Shabranigdu. Somewhat unusually for a mazoku of his stature, Xelloss' true astral form is that of a simple black cone. When he battles in his true form (which usually occurs when confronting fellow demons), his preferred tactic is to hurtle towards his opponents at high speed like a giant drill, appearing on the physical plane only at the last moment to impale them. As simplistic as this attack may seem, it is powerful enough to kill low-ranking mazoku like Seigram in a single blow, and even seriously damage a general like Rashatt. If the situation warrants it, Xelloss can also divide into a swarm of smaller drills which rapidly skewer a target, repeatedly slipping out of the astral side to attack and then vanishing. While this attack deals less damage per individual hit, the frequency of the hits and the difficulty of dodging makes it all the more effective. It is possible for Xelloss to use this attack while still maintaining his human form.
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