Orsted/Powers and Abilities

""I shall grant my child my every technique, and to him the ability to remain concealed until he could defeat Hitogami... but that will not be enough. He must find out what happened to Human God, and how Hitogami obtained divine powers in the first place. Until then, defeat is inevitable.""

- -First Dragon God to Laplace

Power and Abilities
Having the blood of both the First Dragon God and true Human God flowing through him, Orsted is a demi-god with potential surpassing mere mortals. He is the current holder of the Dragon God title, which is only given to the strongest member of the Dragon Tribe, who are themselves considered the strongest species. As a result of his kind's advanced lifespan and great power, along with being stuck inside a time loop, he has mastered virtually every form of swordsmanship and magic to their highest level. He is also a quick learner, being able to perfectly copy Rudeus' dual casting technique after just seeing it once.

Overall, Orsted is without a doubt the strongest character in Mushoku Tensei, held back only by one weakness that forces him to be careful with how much of his power he uses at once: a slow mana-recovery. However, on the rare occasion when he does go all-out, all of his battles have ended with overwhelming victories, defeating fellow God-Rank opponents like Rudeus, Reida Reia, and Kalman III with relative ease. In one of his loops, he even managed to defeat the Sword God, North God, and a Demon Lord at once.

Hitogami claims Orsted has enough power to destroy the world.

Physical Abilities
Easily defeated North God Kalman III while he was equipped with Dragon king sword Kajakuto and wearing the Fighting God armor; the same armor that tanked an attack that split a supercontinent into two. Perceived the lightning bolt from the sky and was about to run from its course; had he not been trapped by Rudeus. Speed of Light reactions and combat speed (Was casually deflecting with his hands Water god Reida Reia's trump card, "Sword of Deprivation" that was able to land a blow on "Almanfi of Light" (who has lightspeed burst movement); Speed of Light with the attack, Longsword of Light, its variants and its equivalents in other sword styles. Unknown Magic capacity Extended melee range with a sword (Orsted can see several kilometers away); A few hundred meters to several kilometers with Magic. Killed 2 red dragons with one hit each. Defeated Ruijerd in 10 seconds. Punched Rudeus several hundred meters away while he was wearing magic armor Mk. 1 which weighs hundreds of kilos, showing his immense physical strength.

Stamina and Resilience

 * Orsted is never shown to be tired in his limited combat scenes. Has high pain tolerance and was not bothered by his arm getting cut off, that he even picked it up and used his own severed arm as a weapon. He is able to withstood several of Rudeus' strongest attacks while he was donning the Mk. 1 Magic Armor that that is said to imitate Badigadi's Fighting God Armor.
 * Also, being from the ancient dragon tribe, he can survive for about 100 days without food and go without sleep for 10 days due to their high resilience.

Combat Ability

 * Most of Orsted's abilities and sword techniques are God ranked, the highest attainable. He tends to fight defensively to see how his opponent attacks, observes an opponent's attacks he has never seen before to learn the technique or spell himself otherwise he tends fight only with his bare hands and Saint Dragon Battle Aura when he knows the opponent's skill or technique they are using, giving the impression that he does not fight seriously but he gradually adjusts to using magic depending on how strong the opponent is. Orsted usually finishes off his opponent by punching a hole in their chest with his claws especially on apostles of Hitogami called Claw Technique, a part of the fundamental fighting style of the Dragon Tribe: Teaching of Nail, Fangs and Wings

Saint Dragon Battle Aura

 * The strongest unarmed fighting style that makes the least use of mana in combat. Created by the previous Dragon God Urupen that protects the user from most magic spells and sword techniques. Orsted learns Saint Dragon Battle Aura from a secret note left behind by Urupen and with that information, he successfully learns his predecessor's greatest fighting style and mastered it to the highest level. On their first battle, Rudeus is able overcome the Saint Dragon Battle Aura to wound Orsted's hand using a beginner rank Rock Bullet because of his magic power that matches Laplace that surprises even Orsted.
 * As a testament to its toughness, Rudeus's rock bullets could barely break through Orsted's Battle Aura even when they could completely blow away strong opponents like Badigadi and Atofe as they too have very strong battle aura's. For example, Nina's longsword of light(when she was a sword saint) barely hurt Badigagdi.



Intellectual Abilities
Orsted knows most if not all people in the world, at the very least those of great importance, including how and when they are born and from whom due to his multiple reincarnation time loops. Orsted would give Rudeus what seems to be odd missions on the surface (eg. rescuing an adventurer in a labyrinth, helping a merchant lost in the forest, going to the slave market to buy a slave to be sold somewhere else or even helping a young female dwarf thief called Tal Qi) but they are step-by-step preparations. Thus those people they help will be useful to Orsted in the future and making it the key to not only make sure that he is in his best condition for the [decisive battle] but also for Rudeus to establish a network of new contacts and friends.

In addition to his multiple reincarnation time loops, he knows how to battle against every kind of opponent such as crushing the lungs of a magician to prevent them from casting spells and can give advice on improving the Gattling Gun to combat Water God Style users. After Ariel Anemoi Asura becomes the next Queen of Asura Kingdom, Orsted begins training Rudeus on different magic and tactics such as fire mage and swordsman strategies that are hard to defend against. With his knowledge of the ultimate attacks of all three sword styles and how to counter each one, Orsted also teaches Rudeus numerous techniques, especially from the Sword God Style, like what to be careful of and what to counter with that Rudeus made very good progress for only a year that he feels that he has been fooling around too much in the past.

Magic Abilities
Knows most Magic Spells but because of his slow mana regeneration he rarely uses magic unless fighting a strong opponent.

Silent Spell-Casting

 * Orsted is among the few people who can use spells without the use of chants. Despite this, Orsted is puzzled that Rudeus needs to use the chant of a new spell being taught to him before he can use its voiceless incantation version.

Healing Magic

 * On his second battle against Rudeus and Eris, Orsted combines Silent Spell-Casting with Healing Magic that restores his severed arm and his wounds fully healed in an instant. After the battle, Orsted heals Rudeus' wounds that also restores the arm that was severed from the Teleport Labyrinth which is classified to be at least King Rank Healing Magic. He has also healed the hole he put in Rudeus' chest. Although the rank of this healing magic is never confirmed, it is safe to assume it is emperor or god class.

Summoning Magic

 * Although the magic rank is not specified, Orsted is able to write a magic circle for Summoning Magic for a being to serve as a guardian of Rudeus' family against Hitogami. Almanfi describes the Summoning Magic to be "a complex technique" and when used with Rudeus' magic power, it is able to override the contract of Almanfi as Perugius Dola's familiar which Almanfi deems impossible.

Voice Magic

 * Magic of the Doldia tribe that uses sound. The user howls or roars to disrupt an opponent's balance like an electric shock and paralyze them.

Hypnosis Magic

 * Magic of the Nuka tribe that Orsted uses to put his opponent to sleep

Disturb Magic

 * Disturb Magic (Ran Ma) cancels an opponent's magic by disrupting the magic and causing it to never take shape and scatter. Ran Ma only targets one part of the body. On Orsted's first battle, Ran Ma seals the magic on Rudeus' right hand but is able to use magic with his left hand.

Dragon Gate

 * Orsted summons a gate engraved with dragon statues that absorbs the magic power of his opponent. When Dragon Gate is used against Rudeus, the gate cracks leaving some of the effects of Rudeus' magic to make a smaller explosion causing Orsted to remark that Rudeus' magic power is on the same level as Laplace.

Unnamed Presence Search Technique
Orsted can use an unnamed magic technique to search for presence of people in a certain radius(although it could be the case that the radius depends on the amount of mana he puts in). He used it in his second battle against Rudeus to search and quickly catch up to him. Also, he once used it to find Lara when she got lost in his office. Since he is quite mindful of using mana, it could be inferred that this technique uses negligible or minimal amount of mana.

"Secret technique"
Orsted isn't tied to the principles of the world, which means that he can redo things from the beginning with his memories intact no matter when and where he died. If he hasn't killed Hitogami 200 years from the "winter of Dragon Armor year 330" he'll be forcibly "returned" there. The First Dragon God created this technique with multiple Magic Circles embedded. The slow recovery of magic is a side effect of using it.

Slow Mana Regeneration
Due to the numerous Magic Circles placed on Orsted, he has extremely slow mana regeneration (he may not be able to replenish his mana capacity fully in 100 years) due to his unique situation of time loop reset via reincarnation slowing it down, making him reluctant to use magic as he is saving it for when he faces Hitogami.

Dragon Tribe Curse
""Ever since I was born, I was indeed shunned by all living creatures.""

- -Orsted

Orsted has a curse on him that makes all living creatures of the Human World whether its man, beast, demon, etc., either hate him or fear him extremely. However, this is not a problem for people not of this world like Rudeus and Nanahoshi.

Although it is not directly implied to be a curse until it was mentioned by Hitogami, this effect of fear and hatred towards the Dragon Tribe is traced beginning from the Six-Faced World Era where the Dragon Tribe waged war on the other world and after witnessing the First Dragon God kill the God, and with it, the world that that God ruled is also destroyed and the denizens of that world to flee in fear to the Human World. Due to the final battle between the First Dragon God and Hitogami, this caused the Human World, now merged with all the terrain characteristics of the rest of the worlds to be beset with all sorts of natural disasters such as tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes and lightning with plague all the denizens of the Human World with fear and loathing. This permeates throughout the world which resulted in all the denizens of the Human World to fear the Dragon Tribe especially the Dragon God.

Curse Suppressing Helmet
A black helmet developed by Cliff that suppresses the curse that causes him to be feared and hated by everyone who looks at him.

『Godsword』
A katana that Orsted summons by pressing his hands together, making Godsword materialize from his left hand after separating them slowly that he uses on his second battle versus Rudeus and later against Kalman III. A lot of Mana gets consumed just by summoning Godsword. Rudeus estimates it takes around 15% of Orsted's Mana just to summon godsword. Using godsword Orsted can cut anything within several kilometers range(except certain magical items such as Yulian's cursed swords, Paul's tantou, fighting god armor, etc.). It also has a time restriction of at least 10 minutes which is the time it took for Orsted to defeat Kalman III even though Kalman III was using the Fighting God Armor and Dragon King Sword Kajakuto.

Curses
According to Hitogami, Orsted was said to have 3 curses. However he only has 1 curse, and 2 of these "curses" are the result of the First Dragon God's technique used on him.


 * The curse of being hated and feared by all living creatures in this world.
 * The curse of being invisible from Hitogami's view. In reality this is a result of the secret technique which allows him to "reset" when he fails a loop.
 * The curse of being unable to go all-out in combat. This is later revealed to be a side-effect from the technique that the first Dragon God used on Orsted to send him forward in time and repeat the time loop until he beats Hitogami. It causes him to have extremely slow magic power restoration, thus he can't freely use magic and several of his techniques.