Garius

Garius is the man who took in Abel afeter finding him on the street.

Personality
Garius comes off as a caring and well meaning person. He was very close to Abel, even calling him his son on several occasions.

In reality, he is a cruel man obsessed with studying "Human Body Training". When Abel betrayed him, Garius didn't hesitate to ruthlessly attack and try and kill the boy.

Background
Garius was a brilliant magician who had helped many people, even becoming a court magician directly under he government. However, because he was born a commoner, the credit for his achievements went to others and he was eventually sent to the frontier.

Garius operated the orphanage in the outskirts of the royal capital.

Plot
One day, Garius happened upon Abel, who was about to die in an alley. Noticing his amber eyes, Garius took able back with him to the orphanage.

Garius acted as a teacher, benefactor, and father to Abel. Garius encouraged Abel to use his eyes to try and protect others. While this was happening, Garius experimented on children in order to learn more about "human body training" by experimenting on children. However, he ignored it due to his faith in Garius.

Later, Garius ntakes note of how Abel constantly refuses Maria's invitations to leave the orphanage and later asks Abel why he always refuses her. Abel admits that after being abandoned, he's afraid of opening his heart to anyone. However, Garius reassured him that as long as he was there, Abel has nothing to worry about. Soon after Garius abducts Maria.

When Abel finds his underground labs and explains that he's known about the lab for a while and understands Garius's motivations, the man beleives that Abel is on his side. As a test of his loyalty, Garius tells Abel to stab a captured Maria. Abel initially agrees, but then attacks Garius. The two fight with Abel being on the defensive. Garius eventually overwhelms and seemingly kills Abel. Garius laughs to himself only for Abel's corpse to diappear and an alive Abel to appear behind him, revealing that Garius had just been fighting an illusion. Garius is stunned as he hasnt finished creating that magic yet and Abel tells him that he the man's research paper and not only completed the spell, but improved it. Shocked that Abel has been thinking so far ahead for so long, Garius calls him a monster. Abel then stabbed Garius before he can react.

After regaining consciousness, Garius killed himself, knowing that his life as he knew it was over, and Abel leaked the man's actions to the public.

Magic
Garius is a master magician.  - Summons needles of ice to attack the opponent from every direction.