Liberators

"Struggle until the very end."

- The Liberators' motto

The "Liberators" was an organization in Tortus which existed during the events of the spin-off "Arifureta Shokugyō de Sekai Saikyō Zero" series.

Their goal was to slay the evil god, Ehit, and put an end to his influences in Tortus. Although they failed and died (except Miledi Reisen), they created seven trials to test anyone who was worthy to carry on their mission, and reward them with their Ancient Magic should they pass.

Structure
At their peak, the Liberators comprised around 3,000 members, who were scattered around Tortus in small hidden settlements. They were split into the following three categories:

The first category were the Fighters. It was the least populated of the three groups and comprised of approximately 400 members. It consisted of all members of the Liberators with sufficient fighting strength. Their primary goal was to protect their hidden basses, rescue people who’d been branded as heretics, and recruit allies. They travelled all across the world, usually in small teams.

The second category were the Villagers. Comprised of approximately 1,000 members, it consisted of those who had no fighting ability or were too injured to fight. Most of them were civilians who’d been persecuted by the church, or children who were too young to fight.

The third category was the Support Team. It was the most populated of the three groups and comprised of approximately 1,600 members. They took care of the villagers, relayed information to the various bases the Liberators had, and helped with discovering and developing new bases. There were also a few spies in the support team who lived in large cities across the continent and kept an eye on world events. Some posed as merchants while others pretended to be adventurers. Some had more mundane covers, like doctor, butler, or farmer. They simply lived their day-to-day lives and gathered what information they could. As a result, they were in no danger, but the information they gathered was quite useful, such as rumors, major events within cities, the prices of goods, and the flow of people in those cities.

History
The organization had been said to have been created by Belta Lievre, who after her close encounter with death because of learning about the truth of the world and its god, went into hiding and started to gather comrades who had suffered and decided to fight the world itself. Though she eventually ended up losing her life in a bid to rescue many of her captured comrades, her mantle of leadership was taken up by Miledi Reisen, who also continued the work of gathering comrades in secret to fight against the gods.

Throughout their existence, members of the Liberators in small cells had been captured by the Holy Church and painfully interrogated before being executed. Even so, the church never learned of their existence. This all changed, however, when the Liberators openly battled the church's templar knights in Andika, and killed many of its members. This caused the church to view them as a serious threat, and had focused much of their efforts into destroying them.

Despite the Liberators' efforts, their fight against the gods resulted in the death of almost all of their members over the course of years. The defeated seven core most powerful members of the organization decided to seclude themselves into self-made Labyrinths around the world, where they could pass on their "special skills" to those people who in the future might want to renew their fight against the unfair world and would need the strength to do so.

In order to wait for that one chance to fight back and save the world; Miledi Reisen, the last surviving member of the Liberators, had decided to transfer her soul from her physical body to a golem would wait until an opportunity to destroy Ehit would arrive.

Legacy
Thousands of years later, when the heroes of Earth were summoned to Tortus by Ehit, the Liberators were regarded as "Mavericks" who betrayed their god.

Their goal and desire to kill and liberate Tortus from Ehit's twisted amusement was then eventually passed down to Hajime Nagumo and despite him having no intention to saving their world, he non-the-less fulfilled their long cherished wish and killed Ehit and saved their world.

Eventually upon Hajime revealing the truth about Ehit and was believed by the leader's of Tortus, the Liberators story was slightly altered by Hajime and the leaders of Tortus in order to maintain public order and faith. This was done by making it seem that "Ehit" was an evil and malignant God that had taken up the name of the "True" God Ehit in order to bring about calamity and thus a separate deity from the God that people of Tortus worshiped. Effectively allowing the governments of Tortus to make it out that the "Seven Liberators of the True God Ehit" had realized the "False God" was not the true Ehit and set out to defeat him as "Ehit's True Followers".

Although knowing that the original seven Liberators would find this story deeply distasteful, Hajime non the less supported this plan in order to insure that future strife in Tortus's future would be avoided and believed that the members would also agree.

Leaders

 * Belta Lievre (Former leader and Atavist with the ability to use Divination)†
 * Miledi Reisen (Current leader and Atavist with the ability to use Gravity Magic)
 * Badd Virtus (Former Vice-leader)
 * Salus Gaistrih (Acting Manager)
 * Brad Lumond (Leader of the Prantz Branch)
 * Howzer (Leader of the Angriff Branch)
 * Rigan Nelson (Leader of the Esperado Branch)

Ancient Magic Users

 * Oscar Orcus (Atavist with the ability to use Creation Magic)
 * Naiz Gruen Caliente (Atavist with the ability to use Spatial Magic)
 * Meiru Melusine (Atavist with the ability to use Restoration Magic)
 * Vandre Schnee (Atavist with the ability to use Metamorphosis Magic)
 * Lyutillis Haltina (Atavist with the ability to use Evolution Magic)
 * Laus Barn (Atavist with the ability to use Spirit Magic)

Other Members

 * Marshal Diamond (Combat Commander and Atavist with the ability to use Diamond Skin)
 * Mikaela Eifield (Vice-Commander and Atavist with the ability to use Soul Sight)
 * Tim Rocket (Captain of the Messenger Corps and Atavist with the ability to use Animal Harmony)
 * Susha Liv Doumibral
 * Yunfa Liv Doumibral
 * Ruth
 * Corrin
 * Moorin
 * Tony Owen
 * Abe Morgan
 * Shushu Corthea (Atavist with the ability to use Repulse)
 * Melissa (Atavist with the ability to use Penmaster)
 * Shirley Nelson
 * Snowbell (Captain of the Expeditionary Squad and Atavist with the ability to use Mirage)
 * Ben
 * Jinglebell
 * Kiara Wanda
 * Vera Wanda
 * Marcus Wanda
 * Kipson (Captain of the guard for the Crimson Desert Base)
 * Schnee Clan
 * Margaretta Schnee
 * Linnel Schnee
 * Davy Consman†
 * James Sont†
 * Forest Dyron†

Note: †; deceased as of the "Zero" timeline