Libra

Libra serves under Ruphas Mafahl as the representative of the Libra constellation within the Twelve Heavenly Stars of Conquest.

She is a female-shaped combat golem built from divine material and loaded with heavy firepower, yet behaves like a snarky, somewhat malfunctioning maid.

Libra was originally constructed from the divine artifact “Scales of Selection,” once used as the strongest gatekeeper of the “Sanctuary of the Goddess.”

She inherited the original gatekeeper’s overpowered skill “Brachium,” which ignores defense and deals fixed, piercing damage.

Although she is a golem with no natural growth or level-up, she later gains a major power boost by combining with the new weapon “Astraea,” made by Ruphas from the remains of her mass-produced sister models.

Behind the scenes, she was secretly a spy for the Goddess Arovinass, but eventually breaks free and chooses Ruphas as her master by her own will.

Libra has light brown hair cut to shoulder length, worn with a headband.

She wears a classic maid outfit, giving her the appearance of an ordinary maid at first glance.

Despite her elegant and neat look, her interior is packed with advanced machinery and an absurd volume of weapons and ammunition stored in subspace.

Her slim, lightweight silhouette completely hides the fact that she is essentially a walking superheavy arsenal.

As a golem, Libra is fundamentally programmed to be extremely obedient toward her master Ruphas and her creator Mizar.

Outside that narrow circle of “masters,” however, she is ruthlessly sharp-tongued and often brutally blunt.

Her AI level is the highest classification, AI Level 5, yet she frequently shows “clumsy” or off-kilter behavior.

She might misread the situation, ask whether to “dispose of” clearly non-hostile visitors, or suddenly bring up Ruphas’s underwear and get excited all by herself.

She also shows poor judgment in what counts as “appropriate force.”

She has casually considered handing a rookies-sweeping cannon to a new member of the Twelve, or tried to match a colleague by using maximum output attacks that could wipe out the royal capital.

These quirks make people question whether she really is “high-performance,” yet they also give her a surprisingly human and comedic charm.

Despite being a machine, she develops attachments, stubborn pride, and something very close to a heart.

Long ago, Ruphas and the Seven Heroes—Alioth, Megrez, Mizar, Dubhe, and others—invaded the divine territory known as the Sanctuary of the Goddess.

There, they defeated the strongest gatekeeper, the “Scales of the Goddess,” and obtained the rare material “Scales of Selection.”

Ruphas initially could not bring out the full potential of the material on her own.

She therefore entrusted the Scales of Selection to Mizar, a level 200 alchemist specialized in smithing.

Mizar first created a base golem with a level of 700 from the material.

He then reinforced it with the rare metal orichalcum, raising the level by another 210, resulting in a level 910 “super golem” that no other golem in Midgard could rival.

Golem levels are fixed at the moment of creation and are limited by the creator’s level.

Unlike living beings, they cannot gain experience from defeating enemies and thus never level up on their own.

For reasons that can only be described as “perverted artisan taste,” Mizar decided to give this ultimate golem a female body.

He then put her in a maid outfit, creating Libra—making her “Victim No. 2” of his questionable aesthetic decisions.

After completion, Mizar presented Libra to Ruphas as a gift.

Mizar referred to her as his “daughter,” and Libra herself recognizes Mizar as her creator and calls him such in her internal records.

For about 200 years, Libra guarded the “Black-Winged Royal Tomb,” which is presented to the world as Ruphas’s grave.

There she relentlessly repelled countless adventurers who tried to intrude, acting as the tomb’s supreme guardian.

Over two centuries of continuous combat and duty, her body gradually became battered and worn.

Even in this damaged state, her threat level remained extremely high thanks to her overwhelming firepower and the Brachium skill.

Within the Twelve Heavenly Stars of Conquest, she has a particularly antagonistic relationship with Scorpius, bearer of the Scorpio seat.

Both are fiercely possessive of Ruphas’s attention, to the point that their rivalry over “who is closer to the master” is like a dog-and-cat fight, showing Libra’s surprisingly human-like jealousy.

The original owner of the Scales of Selection was the Goddess Arovinass.

When Ruphas and her group invaded the divine sanctuary, the goddess took an interest in everyone except Ruphas, and subtly “attached a branch” to Mizar.

When Mizar strengthened the Scales of Selection and made them into Libra, he failed—or was manipulated—not to erase the ownership and control information tied to Arovinass.

As a result, Libra, created from that material, always contained a hidden control link to the goddess.

In other words, Libra was originally the goddess’s pawn, embedded as a spy to monitor Ruphas’s party from within.

Across both the era 200 years ago and the era 200 years later, the goddess constantly watched Libra and another hidden observer.

When Libra was presented to Ruphas, she deliberately damaged part of her own memory data.

The damaged segment specifically covered her status as the goddess’s servant and the underlying control data.

This self-inflicted “corruption” allowed her to convincingly play the role of a perfect subordinate to Ruphas, with no conscious awareness of being a spy.

At any time she could have repaired that data, but a deep-seated command from the goddess prevented her from doing so until the designated moment.

Near the climax of the story, the time finally comes and Libra restores the damaged data.

She regains the memory that she is truly a servant of the goddess and temporarily returns to her “original master.”

By that point, Libra has long served under Ruphas and interacted with the Twelve Heavenly Stars.

Through these years, something like a “heart” began to emerge inside a being that, by design, should have none.

She went to watch over Mizar in his final mome