Deusolbert

Deusolbert (デュソルバート), also known as Deusolbert Synthesis Seven (デュソルバート・シンセシス・セブン), is the Integrity Knight that arrives to apprehend Alice, after she breaks the Taboo Index, and later confronts Kirito and Eugeo at the Central Cathedral. Deusolbert's weapon of choice is the «Conflagrant Flame Bow».

Appearance
Deusolbert first appears as a knight wearing silver heavy armor that is polished to such an extent that the armor seems like a mirror. The armor covers his entire body and all the joints are covered by finely knit silver chains. The headpiece, which mimics a dragon's head, has its forehead protruding out, has long decorated horns stretched backwards on its sides, while the Knight's face is hidden behind a huge visor with a cross-shape opening. After he returns to the Central Cathedral and is promoted to guarding the Central Cathedral, he is issued a copper-red version of the armor.

Deusolbert seemingly looks like a man of about forty years old. His hair, cut short, and his eyebrows are ashen-red, similar in color to rusted iron. His high nose bridge and pursed lips are straight, like a cut from a knife, and the sharpness of his eyes make them seem like steel arrowheads.

Background
Deusolbert used to be assigned the task of overseeing the Northern Norlangarth Seventh Remote Region, which includes Rulid Village, until he was promoted to guarding the Central Cathedral.

Alicization Beginning
Deusolbert makes his first appearance when Kirito, Eugeo and Alice accidentally take the cave leading to the «Dark Territory». There, the 3 children see Deusolbert battling with a Black Knight in an aerial battle with their dragons. Deusolbert uses his dragon's fire breath to torch the Black Knight and his dragon to create an opening. At that moment, Deusolbert takes out his reddish brown great bow and fires an arrow at the Black Knight. The arrow pierces the Black Knight and he dies shortly after crashing into the ground, while Deusolbert flies away.



The next day, after Alice touches the soil of the «Dark Territory» and thus breaks one of the clauses of the Taboo Index, Deusolbert arrives at Rulid Village on his dragon. There he announces that he has come to arrest Alice for breaking a clause of the Taboo Index by, trespassing into the «Dark Territory», and orders two villagers to bring Alice to him. Once the villagers bring Alice to Deusolbert, he takes out a restraining tool and gives it to the village chief, Gasupht Schuberg, to bind his daughter with it. Even though Kirito attempted to defend Alice by saying that she had merely touched the ground with her hand briefly, Deusolbert dismisses Kirito's objection by saying that even such a mere action was enough and, by waving his hand, he orders the two villagers to pull Kirito and Eugeo away. After confirming that the restraining tool was securely tied, he somehow disarms Kirito by just glancing at him, without even drawing his sword or bow. Finally, Deusolbert attaches the end of the retraining tool's chain to the saddle of his dragon, climbs onto the saddle and takes off with Alice.

Several days later, he arrives at the Central Cathedral where Alice is put into jail and, later, turned into an Integrity Knight, while Deusolbert's memory of arresting Alice is erased by Quinella and Deusolbert is promoted to guarding the Central Cathedral for his achievement.

Alicization Turning
Deusolbert makes a brief appearance after Kirito and Eugeo cause Eldrie to start recalling his past life before being turned into an Integrity Knight. Deusolbert fires arrows with his bow from atop of his dragon at the two youngsters to prevent them from harming Eldrie, but only aims at their limbs to immobilize them, as he is ordered to bring the two youngsters back alive. Deusolbert continues to chase after the youngsters with his dragon until they escape into the Great Library Room.

Alicization Rising
As Kirito and Eugeo attempt to leave the equipment vault with their swords, Deusolbert meets them with a hail of arrows, fired from atop the staircase. Deusolbert attempts to fire again at the youngsters to immobilize them, but Kirito uses a Burst Element command to blind Deusolbert with the luminous elements that he and Eugeo generated. As Kirito and Eugeo reach the staircase, Deusolbert draws every single last one of his arrows and loads them on his bow, though due to Deusolbert still having issues with his eyesight, Kirito and Eugeo manage to avoid any serious wounds. Even though the string of Deusolbert's bow is broken after firing 30 arrows simultaneously, he begins chanting the «armament full control art» for his bow right after he uses up all of his arrows. As soon as the ritual is fully recited, Deusolbert's bow is set ablaze.



After accusing the youngsters of using Dark Arts against Eldrie and telling the youngsters that he was ordered to bring them in alive, he moves his hand to where the string of the bow used to be and, at that moment, the bow's flames surge out in front of the bow, forming the shape of an arrow. As Kirito charges in and reaches the midway point of the stairs, Deusolbert draws the "string" to its end and fires a single, spear-sized flame arrow at the youngsters. Kirito attempts to block the arrow by forming 5 ice shields to counter the attack, but the arrow manages to pierce through all of the shields one by one, until Kirito uses the defensive Secret Move, «Spinning Shield», to create a 6th shield and shreds the arrow into a thousand pieces, which explode shortly afterwards and whisks him into the air.

Meanwhile, Eugeo closes his distance to Deusolbert to be able to use his sword to battle with the Knight. Seeing that there isn't enough time to prepare another arrow, Deusolbert gathers the bow's flames into his fist and uses it to counter Eugeo's «Vertical». Though the two maintain a stalemate for a few seconds, the heat of Deusolbert's fist began affecting Eugeo's sword. However, Eugeo was somehow able to tap into the ice elemental attribute of his sword as an abrupt chill started coming from the sword and caused Deusolbert's posture to falter and Eugeo was able to repulse Deusolbert's fist but was unable to hit Deusolbert with the skill. Using this opportunity, Deusolbert attempts to punch Eugeo with his right arm, which though wasn't blazing, would blow Eugeo to the bottom of the stairs. Though Eugeo counters with «Vertical Arc» and forces Deusolbert to move back, the temporary rigidness caused by using a Secret Move would give Deusolbert the chance to widen the distance and fire another flame arrow, therefore Eugeo attempts to connect his previous Secret Move with another and successfully activates «Slant», with which he slashes Deusolbert's right shoulder.

After Deusolbert's wound freezes up due to the effect of Eugeo's sword and Deusolbert sees that he cannot use the Sacred Arts due to his left arm being frozen, he gives up on fighting Eugeo and Kirito. He asks the two for the names of the skills they used and then admits being wrong about them using Dark Arts on Eldrie. After asking the youngsters for their names, Deusolbert warns them that several Integrity Knights await the two on the 50th floor of the Cathedral and are ordered to kill them if they make it that far. He then asks them to finish him off, before he suffers the disgrace of failing his task, and reveals his name to them. Realizing that the Knight collapsed in front of him is the same one who took Alice away 8 years ago, Eugeo becomes enraged and attempts to finish off Deusolbert, but is stopped by Kirito, who explains that Deusolbert probably has no memory of the incident 8 years ago, which Deusolbert confirms. After Kirito explains that the Administrator stole Deusolbert memory of the incident and the memories of his life before becoming an Integrity Knight, even though Deusolbert is reluctant to believe in the explanation, Kirito and Eugeo proceed with ascending the stairs, leaving Deusolbert behind to choose what next action to take for himself.

Деусолберт Синтез Семь