Black Prince Alec

Black Prince Alec (Alexander Gascoigne) is a Campione.

Personality
Alex is a very intelligent individual, but has a rather stiff and grim personality; Alex is also a workaholic but does take a vacation once a year. Even then he still works as his organization competency level varies.

Although he is an intelligent and sophisticated leader, he is still a rampaging savage, as he (just like Godou) quickly denies being like his other kin, however Godou states that Alec does rampage, but he only makes the condition work to his favor before going for the win.

One quality that Alec is noted for is that if he finds something interesting he'll simply take it, with no concern over what others think or desire. At most he might leave a note saying "This is interesting, I'm taking it." This puts him to have the characteristic of a thief, as he is willing to use force to further his research. Despite his disdain for other godslayers, other of his peers find him to have a bit of a motor mouth and won't stop babbling about his research. He even manages to annoy Salvatore Doni when he's passionately talking about his research within Hyperborea despite his reservation about letting Doni enters that world.

Despite his various faults, Alec is noted to be a competent and a good leader. He isn't a type laze around and order his subordinates to do his dirty works. If he can Alec will do it himself or even work along side them without complains. This part is heavily emphasized when he and his comrades help each other created a grand wooden mansion at the headquarter of his kingdom, Shadow Chaser Forest. He's also shown to care quite deeply for his friends and comrades, he is willing to go above an beyond just to kill guinevere for her crime of killing them and crippling Alice's health.

For comic effect, Alec is compared to as a distorted mirror to Godou. Both are intelligent, have organizations at their thumb, deny the tyranny, and are morons. But while Godou is tactics, Alec is strategy; Alec devotes himself to his company, whereas Godou just assists. And Godou holds back his desires, Alec always charges through for what he wants.

Another gag would be their luck with women. Godou has good luck with a working Harem, but The Black Prince's is abysmal, as his doesn't interact well with White Princess Alice, starting childish quarrels with her whenever they meet or get in each others way.

History
Alex was taught about Magic at a very young age by his father. Due to his father's obsessive goal to find the Magic Holy Grail, his mother left them. Alex’s father is what people call an occultist and not a mage. When Alex was sixteen years old, his father died and Alex started his own journey to find the Holy Grail. Through good fortune and sharp instincts, he slew the Fallen Angel Ramiel and became a Campione at the age sixteen. He has also become a political opponent of the Witengamot and their leader Princess Alice, by becoming a member and leader of Royal Arsenal, though he's shown that he at least respects her.

Volume 1:

 * Black Prince was briefly mentioned in Volume 1, as a leader of his own organization and was called the wise king who controlled the British Empire.

Volume 2:

 * Black Prince was very briefly mentioned in Volume 2, stating that he became Campione in the twentieth century or later.

Volume 3:

 * Black Prince was only mention once in the flashback of Volume 3.

Volume 4:

 * While Liliana was trying to stop Salvatore from cutting up a Grimoire, She internally gave her own opinion on each of the seven Campione and she described Black Prince Alec for being famous for having a terrible personality and being a ruffian.

Volume 6:

 * Alec made a short 1st time appearance in Volume 6, while strolling uninvited into Princess Alice’s residence to inform her that an enemy of both of their organizations had left Britain and made contact with Luo Hao. After informing Princess Alice of this, Black Prince left her place using one of his authorities.

Volume 7:

 * Black Prince Alec made a very short last minute appearance in the volume where he was just observing the situation and believed that everything was under control because there were already three Campione on the scene dealing with it.

Volume 8:
In Volume 8, there are short stories, flashback, and slice of life events in different chapter.


 * Chapter 1: (This chapter is a short story that takes place sometimes before Chapter 4 of Volume 6 of Campione!) Black Prince Alec was mentioned in this chapter.


 * Chapter 4: (This chapter is a short story that took place 8 years before the main story of Campione!) The short story kicked off just as Alec killed his third Heretic God known as Minos/Minotaur in Crete (a Greek Island) and gained a new Authority. After the battle, he returned to his hotel room to recover his strength; after a couple of hours of rest, most of the external injuries were healed. Alex originally came to the island to investigate (most likely about the Holy Grail) partially due to his curiosity, but it ended up with him facing off with a [Heretic God]. As he was having a nice drink and meal at the hotel after he woke up from his battle, his subordinate, Sir Iceman, finally arrived on the island and they started having their own conversation until they were distracted by a young lady that was clearly no ordinary person because she was using magic to walk into the places. She greeted both the gentlemen, Alex and Sir Iceman, and went straight to the point of asking a question. Alex and the young lady, whom claimed to be Guinevere, exchange a small conversation before leaving in a magical way. After she left, Sir Iceman made a suggestion that he, Alex, should ask Princess Alice about Guinevere.


 * Clearly, Alex did not want to ask Princess Alice about anything unless he really needed to, so he is headed toward another famous Witch in the area to ask the question. As he was enjoying his train ride alone heading toward Lucretia Zola's home, Princess Alice magically appeared in front of Alec's seat. They greeted each other in their own ill-mannered way and soon they were having an intelligent discussion and debate about things that are related to the Holy Grail myth. Once they got to Lucretia Zola’s place, Princess Alice greeted her senior witch as Alex greeted her as well in his first meeting. Soon after they greeted each other, they started having a deep discussion more about things related with Holy Grail myth, but they were soon interrupted with Alex’s phone call from Sir Iceman telling him that a new [Heretic God] just appeared near his location.


 * Black Prince Alec soon set out and confronted this new [Heretic God] and soon found out it’s the same [Heretic God] he defeated a few days ago. Not overly shocked, he went about by testing out his new Authority called [The Labyrinth] (named by Princess Alice). He soon discovers this [Heretic God] was a fake but nevertheless he defeated it using a combination of wit and Authority. When Alex re-emerged from the hole where he defeated the fake [Heretic God], he and Princess Alice (who happened to be there) were greeted by Guinevere (for the first time for Alice). There Guinevere explained that she was the one who created the fake [Heretic God] using the Holy Grail, and that she once worked with Lucretia Zola in the past, but due to their disagreement with certain points of view they split; then she asked Alex to join her and she would give him the Holy Grail. Princess Alice knowing his personality, he responded by stating that he could just take the thing as long as he knows where it is. When he was about to attack, the [Heretic God] Lancelot came to defend Guinevere and they hastily retreated.


 * Once Lancelot and Guinevere were gone, Alice and Alex gathered back to Lucretia Zola’s place and ask her some questions about Guinevere. Lucretia explained that Guinevere wanted to awaken something called “King who manifests at the end of eras” and with something that sounded like the beginning of an apocalypse, she ended her (Lucretia Zola) own research about it. There they pondered about “King of the End’s identity” as they continue discussing about it.

Volume 9:

 * Black Prince was mentioned as an enemy to Guinevere by Erica early in the Volume. Later, Black Prince Alec made a very short last minute appearance in the volume in which he was on vacation in Japan while supernatural battles were going on which he sensed and had known about it but left it to the Japanese Campione who was dealing with it already. Even though he was on vacation, his nature as a workaholic did not stop him from doing so per se. (On a side note, it was Alex who took the divine artifact known as “Heavenly Reverse Halberd” from Amakasu that everyone expected Alex to know about it).

Volume 10:

 * Continuing from the previous volume, Alec had “borrowed” the “Heavenly Reverse Halberd” divine weapon from the Japanese Campione’s group and left a note indicating that he was the one who did. Alec during the time he “borrowed” it, left Japan and traveled a bit around the world testing and experimenting with it based on a theory he thought up, which turned out to be true. After finishing his experiments and tests, he returned to Japan to set his plan and trap in motion and sent a message to Japan’s Campione to take a vacation and not get in his way. Of course, the Japanese Campione didn’t listen and came right back from England as Alec was in Japan, continuing with his plan. When the Japanese Campione, Godou, came back from England, Alec was waiting for him at a restaurant. There they greeted each other before they left the restaurant. Once outside, Alec and Godou along with his companions walked a few moments silently before they verbally attacked each other. After they have their verbal attack on each other, they left each other after both gave each other warnings and threats.


 * Alec was residing in Chinatown until someone triggered his trap near his labyrinth, alerting him that something was getting close to it. When he arrived on the magic vessel that was heading toward his labyrinth, he met up with Guinevere and Lancelot onboard just as he expected; however the Japanese Campione, Godou, was also onboard. Speaking in different behavior than their previous encounter, Alec sensed something was wrong with Godou. Godou challenged Alec to a fight and even prevented Alec from escaping to go after Guinevere and Lancelot who flew toward his labyrinth. Given little choice, Alec fought with Godou with him holding the upper hand throughout the fight. When they were about to go for round two, Godou’s companions arrived and told Alec that they were there to deal with Godou and Alec could leave. Alec gladly left the scene and flew to another location awaiting his plan's unfolding. Not long after he waited, one of his powers captured Guinevere and was bringing her to him while another power was trapping Lancelot within his labyrinth at the moment. Being brought before Alec, Guinevere had little choice to chose from however due to the desperation of wanting to meet the “King of the End” again, she chose to fight by transforming into a dragon though by doing so forfeited her remaining life on earth. The battle ended with Alec being the victor just as Princess Alice appeared on the scene to greet the ungentlemanly Alec. Alec then flew to where Lancelot and Godou were just as he was finishing his battle. Once done, Godou apologized to Alec for acting strangely and attacking him, Alec accepted his apology in his smug way. After the apologizing was done, they both started attacking each other verbally once again. They were interrupted by Alice when she reported that uses a spell to restore herself again; upon this both Campiones and Alice flew where she was.


 * Once they got there, they saw the last moment of Guinevere on earth. Once everything was over and Godou’s companions finally regrouped with Godou again, they then assessed the damage which was Godou who forgot he used the [Boar] in destroying part of Yokohama Bay Bridge as Alec’s subordinate reported.

Short Story 3:

 * Black Prince was mentioned in this Short Story.

Volume 11:

 * Black Prince was mentioned during the flashback story of Volume 11.

Short Story 4:

 * Black Prince was mentioned in this Short Story.

Short Story 5:

 * During the “Short Story 5,” Alex was mentioned briefly, being stated as a person who is good at gambling.

Volume 13:

 * Alex was briefly mentioned as having had a previous liaison with Circe and having badly injured her at the end of it.

Volume 15:
Alex was briefly mentioned in Volume 15.

Powers & Abilities
The Black Prince has all the powers common to a Campione, as well as an array of divine Authorities.

Immense Magical Energy: Alec's magical energy is greatly enhanced when he ascended as a godslayer. He's capable of simultaneously activate at least three authority at once without any noticable strain on his body.

Immense Magic Resistance: The black prince's body is heavily protected by an extremely strong magic resistance, unless it's a divine authority, normal magic casted by human can't harm him at the slightlest. Even time stoping authority can't hold him down completely. However, this defense can be broken through by physically cast magic through his mouth or spead it into the air and let him breathes it into his body.

Immense Vitality: Alec possess an immense amount of lifeforce. His body is capable of healing deadly injuries within several hours albeit with a small aid from magic potion. His lifespans are also greatly extended.

Immense Pain Tolerance: Alec can take a lot of damages and fight on without breaking. He's capable of maintain consciousness after facing Minos's roar directly without any defenses and winning the battle afterward. He didn't faint when Luo Hao directly attack his body with newly invented electrical strikes. In his younger years, Alec endured a backlash from his authority for more than twenty minutes, demonstrating his ability to handle physical pain.

Superhuman Stamina: Due to his immense lifeforce and godslayer physiology, Alec can perform a physcally taxing task for a long time without any rest. The author also states that Alex is an athelete person despite his scholarly exterior.

Superhuman Durability: Godslayer's bones are tougher than any kind of steel on earth. His body can tank a blow from Minos's earth shattering roar and retain its form without dying instantly. .

Night Vision: Alec's eyes can see in the dark better than any noctunal beasts.

Master strategist: Unlike Godou, who's better an improvising his battle tactics during the fight, Alec plans his battle several steps before it even begins. He also willing to spend a lot of time to prepare a battleground that will give him an edge over his enemy. His intelligent is greate enough that he can play Guineviere, an extremely cunning individual in her own right like a fiddle.

Master Magician: Alec possesses a mastery over magic to the point that he can be considered as a first class mage.


 * Sight Reinforcement: A magic capable of reinforcing his eyes to the point that he can see a precise detail of the crowds while standing on top of a commercial building.
 * Magic of Sharp Blade: Alec can apply a form of reinforcement to the tip of his pen, increasing its sharpness to the point that it can penetrate godslayer's skull.

Expert Carpenter: Alec is skilled enough to create a grand mansion made out of wood. It is also possible that he crafted his own armchair by himself.

Observation Skills: Alec is an avid researcher and probably one of the smartest godslayer from his generations. He's capable of deducing Godou's limitations during the fight and immediately using that informations to his advantages.

Alexandre Gascoigne's authorities
Like all Campiones, Alec's power are based on a theme of their personality. In his case the theme is thief, as his first authority is god-speed lightning, enabled for quick escapes and robberies. He also is a thief in that his second, third and fifth authorities are booby-traps for his quarry and for those pursuing him. the fourth would possibly be either a pet for diversion and raw muscle, or lack of compensation for his inability to work with women like other thieves.

Black Lightning - His first and most used Authority is that of godspeed, usurped from the fallen angel Ramiel (The fallen angel of visions and lightning).


 * Godspeed: An ability to shorten the time needed to travel from point A to B to be as fast as possible. Alec can move at the speed of genuine lightining when he evoke the ability. It also grants him a feline athelcism that allows him to perform a superior physical stuns that shouldn't be possible for normal human. He can slow down his fall or generate a huge shockwave by running. It is even possible to leave a multiple afterimages as a decoy to his enemy. If Alec concentrate in sense to its utmost limit, he can hide his presence from the world. There's also a trick that allows the user to grant a blessing of godspeed to other individuals too.
 * Lightning Avatar: As an authority of lightning speed, Alec can turn a part or his entire body into lighting by the technique called [Manifiesting Avatar]. In this from, Alec can fly and attack his enemy with lighting blast. It also eliminate the downsides of using godspeed, but it has a fatal weakness, Alec will lose his innate magic resistance. When his body is too damaged, Alec can't turn into lightning until he recorved from the pain.
 * Black Thunder: A secret attack mode of [Black Lightning], it's a move that release a trememdeous amount of black colored lighting from Alec's body, incinerating everything within its range. The power of this move is comparable to Kusanagi Godou's [White Stallion]. In truth, this move is an inversion of his godspeed usage, instead of using to make him move faster, he release it outwardly as a destructive wave of lightning. If Alec holds down the black lightning to only surround his body, he can use it as a barrier toward a time-related ability, since his authority is easily affected by time manipulation, it is also true in reverse where he can cancel out a time stop with his own power over time. However, he can't keep the black lightning around his body forever and have to release it out eventually.

The authority of godspeed has several limits and weakness.


 * When Alec uses godspeed in his human body, he will experience several physical abnormality if he spends his time in the accelerated states for far too long.
 * The lightning form lacks godslayer's magic resistance, it can be easily dispel by the god and godslayer. It is even possible to cancel it if mages of the higest caliber like Lucretia Zola or Alice put their everything into it.
 * Since Alec can't breate underwater, he can't operate undersea even in his lightning form.
 * An authority with an ability to control time can cancel out his godspeed.
 * One use of Black Thunder will disable his godspeed for half a day.
 * Similar to how Voban cancel out Godou's white stallion, a god of thunder like thor can easily cancel his lightning attack.
 * By using Time Reversal, Alec can use Black Thunder several times a day without cooldown.
 * After entering the godspeed realm for five minutes or so, Alec's body would start to make violent screeching noises. Due to the huge difference in the flow of time compared to the world of normal speed, the processing of this disparity caused the brain to emit a terrible sound. If he continued for another twenty minutes before deactivating the authority, the unpleasant side effects would be a thousand times worse than the symptoms initials of the time disparity.

Incantations:


 * "Thunder, descend!"
 * "Thunder of the blue sky!"
 * "Be thou faithful unto death! And I will give thee a crown of life!"



Judging Furies - The second of Alec's Authorities. This summons the three Erinyes or Furies, sometimes known as the Kindly Ones, who were the Greek goddesses of vengeance. They protect Alec and any destruction, curses, or harm caused in their sight is manifested on the doer.


 * Reflection: Alec can draw a magic circle where every form of damages dealt within this area would be return back to the preparator in full. The manifiestation of damages can be various, rainging from an invisible force punishing the body directly to the three furies directly assault the target with their weapons. Even a more abstract concept like time manipulation can be safely stored by the circle of vengence and released it back to the target.
 * Replication: When the furies are summoned and the damages have been returned, the furies won't disappear, they would remain in the physical world with 70 percents of its target's abilities and weapons. When he used this tactics during the civil war, one sword stroke of the summoned goddess can cut through Salvatore Doni's body.
 * Flight: The infernal goddesses possess an ability to fly freely on the sky. Alec can use them to carry him.

Despite it's enormous power, this authority has a weakness where Alec needs to spend a considerable amount of time to create a summoning circle needed to draw out the goddess. However, if Alec expands a large amount of energy, the time needed will be greatly lessened. It is also possible to summon the goddess by using Alec's blood and pain as a bait.

Incantation:


 * "Hear me, daughters of the endless night, daughters of the earth and shadow. Fighting evil with evil, repaying crime with crime, shedding blood for blood, knocking out a tooth for a tooth, thus vengeance begins. By the blood of the slain mother, tragic death denies all future attempts at filial piety! Megaera the demon, Tisiphone the avenger, Alecto the relentless, retrieve the curse and execute vengeance!"



The Labyrinth - The third authority he obtained from the god Minos/Minotaur. It creates a maze of tunnels underneath the earth, on the surface, or even in the sky, and traps Alec and his victims within it. Alec possesses complete knowledge of the shape of the maze, and the positions of all within it at all times. He can also instantly move within the maze created by this Authority. It can turn existing material above ground into a labyrinth, completely altering the terrain in the area to the point even Gods and Campione can find themselves easily lost and trapped, only able to enter or leave the maze with a sufficiently strong enough attack as to completely destroy it. Alec can also manifest a familiar in the form of a palm-sized black calf to keep an eye on things if he desires to leave the Labyrinth. However, the labyrinth will begin to weaken over a period of several months, and once the maze is dismissed he must wait an entire month before he can use it again.

Incantations:


 * "Wind that sings of fascination, night which devours the light, all travelers, helpless in the perilous journey, accompanied by heavy sorrow, abandon all hope!"
 * "Those who walk past my gravestone, whoever steps upon my shadow, I know each and every one of you!"



Faceless Queen - Another Authority of his is which he obtained from the Goddess Melusine, a feminine spirit of fresh waters in sacred springs and rivers from European folklore. It's an ability that allows Alec to summon the goddess as his subordinate.


 * Immense Strength: The summoned goddess possess an immense physical strength capable of shattering a tower of steel, allowing her to easily match Kusanagi Godou's boar.
 * Immense Durability: As long as her face isn't seen, she can take a lot of damages without being desummoned. She can tank a thrust from the boar while delivering a devastating counter attack back instantly.
 * Immense Agility: Despite her enormous size, the queen possess an abnormal level of speed and agility. She can perform a very delicate and nimble movement instantly without any struggle. While she doesn't possess a tremendous speed like godspeed user, her swiftness is still comparable to a raging wind.
 * Intellegence: This possibly the greatest advantages this authority has to offer. The goddess possess a very high level of intellegence, she can faithfully follow Alec's order with great competency. In turn, Alec also trusts her with many confidental missions.
 * Mobility: Faceless Queen can fly freely on the sky or swim like a fish in water. It is also possible to hide underneath the shadow, granting her an ability to move underneath the surface of the earth.
 * Mystic Arts: Faceless Queen is adapt in the use of magic. She can perform a divination or stalking someone with her tracking spell.
 * Size Variation: The queen can change her size freely, she can be as large as a several story buildings or as small to the point of unpreceivable.
 * Weapons Conjuration: The summoned goddess can create a gigantic spear out of thin air.

The only weakness of this authority is her extreme shyness, the summoned goddess will immediately fly away if someone sees her face. This is the reason why this authority is named Faceless Queen.

Weird Greed or Wandering Avarice - Another Authority that has been noted as being in the Black Prince's arsenalthat he obtained from the Christian beast Behemoth. It allows him to create a localized black hole with a radius of roughly 20 to 30 meters that attracts and compresses anything in the area it was summoned in, but it is very slow and can be escaped by using godspeed. He can have the sphere set in the form of a trap that he can use to guard his Labyrinth. Its size can be altered by reducing the spheres force of gravity.

Time Reversal - Alec's sixth authority, usurped from Lachesis, a middle sister of Moirai, the weaver of fate. This authority allows Alec to reverse the flow of time by drawing a triangle symbol on the air. Alec can reverse the damages dealt to the surrounding to zero and erase enemy's attack via time manipulation. This authority also compliment Alec's other authority greatly by restoring his exhausted authority to it's prior state, allowing him to use black thunder multiple times instead of once per half a day.

Although it has a very great use, it has a fatal weakness where the stress placed on Alec's body is high. He can't use it back to back or else he would suffer an enormous pain. The current upper limit is three times in a single fight.

Trivia

 * Alec is one of the three Campione that could actually soil Luo Hao’s clothing with dust. [Novel: Volume 6]
 * Alec the only Campione have Goddess as his Subordinate/Assistant that will do anything he command