Flügel

The  are the sixth-ranked race of the Exceed. Their homeland is Avant Heim, a floating city in the sky. The kanji for their name can be read as angels, but Sora noted that they are more alike to demons, as they hold powers of mass-destruction and massacred countless beings during The Great War. After the demise of their creator, the Old Deus Artosh, the race is governed by the Council of Eighteen Wings consisting of 9 Flügels that rule in an oligarchical fashion. In emergency situations, Azriel, the Representative of the Winged, has the right to put forth decisions on her own. The Flügels killed numerous Elves in the past, so the elves share a hatred for the Flügels. Flügels are also known as angels of death.

Strengths
"An Imanity who cannot think, a Werebeast who has no senses, a Flügel who doesn't know how to fight, a Seiren who is not attractive at all, an Ex-Machina unit who fails to learn..."

---Nýi Tilwig, emphasize each races' vital elements.

God-killers: As the Flügels were created to kill gods, their very body can easily break physical limitations. Using their magical skills, they can teleport into anywhere they can see, or where they have visited.

Heaven Strike: A attack spell formed by concentrating all Elementals nearby, powerful enough to destroy the former Elven capital Melrein's magical barrier formed by 3000 mages and level the city itself. In Light Novel Volume 4, Jibril literally split the sea apart with only 5% output. In the dating sim, she was able to continuously flatten the Seiren city while it regenerated.

Immortality: The Flügel race is absolutely immortal, possessing an infinite life span: immune to all diseases, illnesses, disorders, toxins, impurities, and physical and/or mental interference; they are entirely self-sustained; will never age (always remain in her physical and mental prime) and is immune to aging abilities; they are virtually invulnerable to all harm (including a point blank H-Bomb explosion) and can regenerate from almost any damages.

Immense Knowledge: After the introduction of the Ten Pledges, the Flugel collected books rather than severed heads. They've read a huge number of books and thus have accumulated an immense amount of knowledge. An example would be Jibril who knows more than 700 languages. Therefore, they are very fond of word games, such as Shiritori and Tag shown in the story.

Flügels have no sense of shame, as was shown when Sora used magic in the Tag game against the Flügels. He made a group of them naked, but they continued to chase Sora and Shiro without any hesitation. They only stopped after Sora used magic that made them grope each other.

List of Known Powers:
 * Teleportation
 * Superhuman Intellect, Intelligence, Speed, Resistance.
 * Immortality
 * Innate Connection with the Spirit Circuits
 * Flight
 * Levitation
 * Flow Acceleration (Accelerates entity while moving) [LN V6 and NGNL Zero]
 * Destruction Magic (Purple in color)
 * Dimensional Shift (Ability to move and create separate dimensions at will) [LN V6, and NGNL Anime]
 * Ability to detect elemental/magic use within a vicinity
 * Heaven’s Strike

Weaknesses
Sora and Shiro are able to beat the Flügel in a physical flying game of Tag in Light Novel Volume 5 by abusing their lack of information on aerobatic maneuvers, although they later adapt. In both games against Flügel (word materialization and Flying Tag) Sora and Shiro are able to abuse their lack of scientific knowledge to win.

After using Heaven Strike or God Strike in full power, the Flügel will be left in a weakened state, with their appearance regressing into one of a child and in some cases unable to move. It will take as long as 5 years to restore them using the Rite of Restoration in this state, or 50 years naturally.

List of Known Weaknesses
 * Higher Ranked Exceed
 * Disruption of Spirit Circuit Connection
 * Dhampir Illusions limiting magic usage [ As displayed by Plum, who can negate Fiel’s Magic ]
 * Knowledge as bait

History
The Flügels were created by Artosh during the Great War to act as living weapons, to kill other Old Deus. The first Flügel is Azriel whilst the final and most powerful was Jibril. During the final act of the Great War, Artosh uses all his and the Flügels strength to release the God Strike. This did massive damage, but exposed himself and leaves the majority of the Flügels unable to fight back against the invading waves of Ex-Machina, which came and peel off his Ether. This ensured the Star Cup did not materialize to him. Tet, who was spawned from Riku's imagination and prayers, obtained the Star Cup and became the One True God.

Artosh dies, and Tet reforms the entire world with the 10 pledges. This means that the Flügels, a race designed to destroy, were left without a purpose. Some of them were even driven to suicide. In order to remedy the despairing situation, Azriel commanded all Flugels to dedicated themselves to obtaining knowledge in accordance to Artosh's words, “I can’t understand it, because only the weak are able to. It’s the unknown possibility that I may lose to one stronger than me.”. Artosh's loss is credited to his lack of understanding so the Flügels seek to understand all.

The Imanity's former King's view on Flügels from seeing Jibril were, "Flügels, the Godslayers created by Artosh, the God of War, didn't collect knowledge for their own interest. It was an act of necessity for them to stay alive, or rather say, to keep themselves from death. As for living weapons without its wielder... are nothing more than empty, living deads wandering around the world. What kind of reasons motivated them to stay alive... No, what kind of proofs they had shown to us that prove they are "living?"

After the declaration of the Ten Covenants, the Flügels began collecting knowledge all over Disboard by robbing the other races of their books. As Disboard is a world without printing technology, these robbed books were not easy to replace. When their homeland became stacked with books, the Flügels passed a law to share the books among themselves.

Form of Government
The Flügel have The Council of 18 Wings as their main form of government, all major decisions regarding the race must be taken to the council. There are a total of 9 council members with Azriel being the leader as she is the First Unit.

Trivia

 * Flügel means wing or wings in German.
 * Being weapons of war, the Flügels are believed to not possess the emotion of love (or rather not truly able to grasp its meaning). They do seem to have the rest of the wide range of emotions (Mostly bloodlust and curiosity).
 * The Flügels are known to have collected the skulls of their slain enemies. Although they now mainly collect books due to the implementation of the Ten Oaths, the skulls are still displayed within their homes, as noted by the skulls in Jibril's library.
 * All the Flügels may have names ending with the "eel" sound, considering Jibril and Azriel do and a random Flügel in Book 6 is named Raphael. It is a reference to angelic names across Abrahamic religions (such as Judaism or Islam), note that Jibril (or Gabriel), Azriel and Raphael are names of angels.

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