GreyFang82 said:
I was unknown of his stuff since his intelligence section or feats overall is quite blank. But thanks for clarifying.
In that case, i will reiterate my answer to them having quite a similar experience age. I'm not going to bring the thing that "austerus is 2000+ yr's old so he has immense intelligence stomp lul", no. Black Eyed Aliens actually do slack off in activities rather than intensively training all day all years. This is the same reason the civilization itself takes two or one millenia to advance what humans have done in two centuries, the biological immortality.
However, i will not say him is just a big ol' sloth. As it says on his profile, he's been "training" (or more properly trying to find his own philosophy/martial art) after he was teached in the government's official army, but ultimately left due to viewing their studies as "savage" or "wild" (see the attack "Dim Mak").
How many years? I don't know, to be honest. It would be an absolute exaggeration to say so, but he should have enlisted himself enough time to have the proper action of leaving (we could say an 8 years training?) Though, take into account he escaped, he did not tell "hey i'm leaving, goodbye".
After this, he should have taken quite a bit of time to find out that closing his hand would just crush his fingers and knuckles due to its inherent natural structure, or his own philosphy, yada yada. He's also the leader of a relatively small camp, but it takes quite an effort to be the only staff member and directing over 50 units at different time and places.
In other words, not only has he trained intensively in a previous span of time, but has actually found himself in an even longer one after he escaped perfecting his techniques, modifying new ones or even creatings his own. As a previously mentioned, though, this amount of experience or time is unknown.
I'd say he's own par with The King, taking into account your statements.
On the soul stuff, honestly i still think he has a resistance against it. Anima, mens and corpus (fancy names for soul, mind and body) are things all present on living beings, as well. Even unliving things, the corpus is the thing that gives "shape" or a "form" to them, if i explain myself well. Mens is self-explanatory.
Anima, however, is a bit different. Other than being what it says on the title, it is rather the "pillar" of the two other things. I like to refer to it as the balance; if you sever the anima in some way or another, you sever the other two as well, in a greater or smaller extent depending on the damage. You destroy it, the two things are going to eventually fade as well. They are all essential for life, but we could say the anima is an step higher contrasted to the two in terms of priority. Even if The King didn't have his sword, if he could well land a hit on Austerus anima it'll eventually fade as he has no way of resisting, and eventually the other two will be gone, as well.
Seeing what you say about your soul thing, it is actually quite similar removing the consciousness thing.
However, the alien guy does not have this anima-thingy issue. In fact, he does not even have one, as well as most aliens from the same species. This is not common, but it does happen in the universe, not only on them.
As i said previously, if there's no anima, there's no balance whatsoever. This is a HUGE loss if a living entity does not have the aforenamed, but in compensation, their very own beings have developed and "enhanced" the other two concepts in the abscence of anima, to prevent them from "collapsing". You could think of these three as a bulding; while the anima is the pillars on it, the corpus is the concrete surrounding the structure, while the mens is the decoration, roof and aesthetic stuff. Hopefully it'll be more understandable with this analogy.
This is also the reason these extraterrestrials are quite more beefy and inherently "intelligent", but that's not the case for now.
However, there's a thing i forgot to mention, which is abscent descriptio-wise on Austerus profile due to being partially incomplete, but you could check it on Abspatio's page, which is a guy of the same characteristics: the Oculinani. The full description is on the page, i don't want to make this wall of text any longer.
I must note, though, that these guys due to being in a society full of these interesting features, most of them just go plain unnoticed. Sadly, this is the case of the oculinani, as well. If Austerus manages to land an accidental stare on The King (which, as you mentioned, has a soul), it'll be "freezed" or "spooked" for the same amount of time the alien keeps the eye contact. It would be enough to cease whatever King is currently doing, but should recover relatively quickly.
If both spend enough time and not get both killed/incapacitated prior to that, i can see one of them figuring out what's that one thing that disables The King's movements for some seconds. If it is Austerus, it would turn on a big advantage to him before the mental stress builds up on himself for too long, but if it is The King... well those are not good news for our loud military leader. It would go unnoticed for him, not seeing any difference, yes, but The King just has avoided a big thing that could counter him. In this scenario, i honestly don't know who would outlast who or deliver the coup de grâce.
I'm sorry for these long answers, i personally prefer seeing a bit of interactions and not just outright throwing the hax as if they were killing machines specifically designed for that. No offense to anyone in here, i'm just saying.
