Alva

Alva (アルヴ) was an antagonist of the "Arifureta: From Commonplace to World's Strongest" series.

Alva was a god that was worshiped by the demon-race of Tortus. In reality, Alva was a retainer god of Ehit that acted as Ehit's hands and feet. Alva possess the body of Yue's uncle Dienleed in order to persuade Yue to join their side to be Ehit's vessel. During the battle between Hajime and his companions, Alva was tortured and later killed by Hajime as Hajime was lamenting of the loss of Yue to Ehit. Even though he begs for mercy from Hajime by saying he will be his servant and becoming a guide for him to reach Ehit, Hajime merciless kills him.

Appearance
Originally, Alva is a being that lacks a physical form, and has possessed the bodies of various beings throughout Tortus' history.

Personality
Much like his master, Alva personified himself as a benevolent god. In reality, however, Alva is cruel towards all mortal races.

Scared as Ehit, Alva is a coward who is afraid to die or be discovered as an evil god. He was willing to beg someone to spare him to become their complete devoted servant to every of their commands, but it has ultimately become his downfall when Hajime ruthlessly killed him.

Biography
Alva was created by Ehit and ensured that the Demons of Tortus would worship him. Throughout the years, Alva has possessed the bodies of the various demon lords in order to ensure the continuing conflict between the Demons and Humans in his name. When the Vampire nation Avatarl had collapsed, Alva possessed its prime minister Dienleed Galdea Vesperitio Avatarl and continued his rein as the demon lord using his body for 300 years.

When Alva discovered the existence of Dienleed's niece Yue from General Freid Bagwa after the Demons' failed invasion of the Heiligh Kingdom, he ordered Freid to bring the "Irregular" (Hajime Nagumo) and his friends to him by using Apostles to capture the rest of Hajime's classmates, his teacher Aiko Hatayama, Princess Liliana, Myu and her mother Remia (the last two having been learned from Eri Nakamura).

After Alva succeeded in bringing Hajime's party to the Demons Lord's castle, while still disguised as Dienleed, he begged Yue to join him in fighting Ehit while by claiming that he had been plotting to overthrow his creator, but was momentarily stopped by Hajime by shotting him. although it looked like Hajime managed to severely wound Alva, it had all been an illusion so that Alva's forces could ambush Hajime and his allies.

After his master Ehit succeeded in acquiring Yue's body, leaving with Eri, Kouki (who is controlled by Eri with her "Spirit Binding" spell), and Freid to the Sanctuary. Alva stayed behind and was tasked with killing everyone else.

After a prologue counterattack from Hajime's party members, Alva eventually used the power of "Divine Edict'" to make everyone submit by force then took Myu from Remia in order to kill her in front of Hajime (who suffered from a gruesome attack from Ehit after possessing Yue) as punishment for defying the gods. As Alva grabbed Hajime in order to force him to watch, he immediately backed off after sensing a terrifying emptiness from Hajime. The loss of Yue caused Hajime to activate the Concept Magic "Deny All Existence".

Alva first tried to stop Hajime with 'Divine Edict' but before he could finish both of his arms were cut by a chain result giving him tremendous pain. After seeing the prided God's Apostles getting killed instantly, including the monsters powered by one of the age of gods magic, he becomes frightens and tried to escape but instead tried to take Shea as hostage but was stopped. Then turning his gaze at Aiko and the others trying to make them as hostages as well but was foiled again by Hajime. As he badmouths Hajime for opposing God, suddenly his legs were erased from existence. Alva, desperate of escaping that place, tried to escape but Hajime trapped him inside of a small spherical cage.

Hajime then tortured Alva to tell him about Yue's location. While about to die, Alva begged Hajime to spare his life in exchange for Alva being his servant & guide to wherever Yue's is but Hajime mercilessly killed Alva by shrinking the chain sphere cage to a subatomic level, crushing the so-called god into nothingness.

Relationships

 * Ehit - As his retainer, Alva is loyal to Ehit. When Alva died by Hajime's hand, Ehit shown in even greater fear.
 * Hajime Nagumo - Hajime is Alva's killer. After Ehit possessed Yue, Hajime fought and defeated Alva. Alva attempted to escape until Hajime captured him into a sphere cage to torture him for Yue's whereabouts. Moments when the severely agonized Alva was about to die, he begged for mercy to become his servant to obey every his command. But Hajime ruthlessly murdered him by shrinking the chains from the sphere cage.

Powers & Abilities

 * Magic Master - As a being created by Ehit, Alva is privy to all of his creator's abilities, but to a lesser extent. Nevertheless, he is still extremely powerful, and is able to easily defeat most mortals.

Skills

 * All Elemental Affinity - A skill to use all kinds of magic.
 * Spell Melding - A skill to fuse 2 kinds of magic.
 * Mana Manipulation - A skill to use magic without chants and magic circles.
 * Image Composition - A skill that creates a magic circle can be just by imagining it.
 * Creation Magic - One of the "Ancient Magic" originating from the "Age of Gods", which grants the user control over any object, structure (be it physical or magical) or mineral, allowing the user to shape or transform them in anyway they wish. It is the only form of Magic which allows for the creation of an "Artifact". The true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with any inorganic material'.
 * Gravity Magic - gives the user control over gravity. The true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with the energy of a star', and not just gravity. Theoretically, it could also interfere with things like earth veins or terrestrial heat, bedrock or magma; and it isn’t impossible to use this magic to purposefully generate an earthquake or volcanic eruption.
 * Spatial Magic - One of the "Ancient Magic" originating from the "Age of Gods", which allows the user to manipulate the space around themselves, allowing them to either bend or expand the space near them or move themselves to another space or location. The true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with the boundary'. Meaning it can allow the user to manipulate anything, like elimination of race-creature gap, or formulating a new boundary to create the spirit world; its possible to achieve those kinds of things.
 * Restoration Magic - It allows the user to restore the state of anything to either its previous or original condition. The true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with time', meaning it has the ability to manipulate the time of anything, anyplace or anyone to a point the user desires to.
 * Spirit Magic - One of the "Ancient Magic" originating from the "Age of Gods", which allows the user to manipulate the soul of a living being directly. It's possible to revive a living being back from the dead (time restriction applicable), or transfer the soul of a living being from one body to another, or even into a non-physical body as well, practically granting a living being immortality. The true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with the negative material possessed by living things'. To be more specific, this magic could also interfere with things like energy inside the body such as mana, heat, electricity, then thought, consciousness, and memory. Those who have mastery over this magic, can even create an artificial consciousness, and allow it to inhabit any body they wish.
 * Evolution Magic - One of the "Ancient Magic" originating from the "Age of Gods", which allows the user to enhance or evolve all other forms of power, be it strong or weak. It can even work on other "Ancient Magic" as well, boosting their power and scope. The true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with the information of existing things'. This magic enhances or evolves an ability or power by a stage of 1, by interfering with the targets information, and then increasing it‘s stage one-by-one.
 * Metamorphosis Magic - One of the "Ancient Magic" originating from the "Age of Gods", which allows the user to remake the form of a normal being and reform them into a different form. Normally its used to remake a normal organism and turn it into a monster, or even manipulate the magic stone of a monster and remake them. But the true power of this magic is the ability to 'interfere with any organic material'. Meaning not only animals, it's also possible to remake plants or intelligent beings, and reform their structure as needed. Even byproducts of organic material, like paper or food can also be manipulated by this magic. The magic stone which gets created during the process is just a byproduct of the process.

Spells/Attacks

 * Divine Edict - An extremely powerful form of spirit magic that allows the user to control anyone that hears their voice.

Quotes

 * (To Hajime Nagumo): "I thought you might hesitate when it came to attacking your girlfriend’s most important relative, but it seems my plan backfired. I forgot how petty and jealous humans could be."
 * (To Yue): "You make it sound like I’m the bad guy here. I simply put this worthless body to good use. If anything, you should consider it an honor that I, Ehit’s faithful servant, deigned to continue using Dienleed’s body after his death. Especially after how disrespectful he was. Even on the verge of death, he hid the fact that he sealed you away instead of killing you, and that he’d obtained the power to use ancient magic."
 * (To Liliana S. B. Heiligh): "I am simply following my lord’s will. By stealing the mana from this world, we will finally have enough to transport the Sanctuary to a new one! And then, my lord shall become the one true god of the next world he visits!"
 * (To Hajime Nagumo after being tortured by him): "I’ll pledge myself in service to you. You’ll be my new lord! I swear I can be useful! So please, I’m begging you!"
 * (His last words to Hajime Nagumo): "Huh? Wh-Why!? No, stop— Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahg!"

Trivia

 * Alva's name may be based on "Alfr", which a term that means "good elf" in Old Norse; the word Alv itself is the Norwegian term for "elf".
 * In the English version of the light novel, Alva's named was initially spelled "Alv".