"Dread Emperor" Ganishka

Berserk · Apostle, Emperor of the Kushan empire, Towering demon God

Apostle Form

Tier
8-A
Attack Potency
Multi-City Block Level
Speed
Massively Hypersonic, up to Massively Hypersonic+
Durability
Unknown

Shiva Form

Tier
HIGH 7-A
Attack Potency
Multi-City Block Level
Speed
Subsonic, up to Subsonic+
Durability
Large Mountain Level

Powers and abilities

  • Superhuman Physical Characteristics
  • Social Influencing (Instigating Fear; In order to survive as the Kushan Emperor, Ganishka constantly inspired fear into people. He was known as the Dread Emperor and turned the city of Wyndham into a "nightmare")
  • Immortality (Type 1; Apostles are undying)
  • Large Size (Type 1; Usually larger than most buildings)
  • Fog Manipulation, Water Manipulation & Air Manipulation (Ganishka's apostle form is made of fog and he can make fog roll into any area. Specifically, his form is made up of wind and water elementals surrounding his ethereal body and gathering moisture
  • Intangibility (Elemental, Type 4; His fog form is intangible, there's no weapon with which to strike mist)
  • Pseudo-Teleportation (Ganishka can take form and appear in any place in which his fog is present. He can switch place within his fog)
  • Enhanced Senses (Ganishka could cover an entire city in fog, which allowed him to feel people trespassing onto it)
  • Regeneration (High-Mid; Even if his fog form is scattered to pieces, Ganishka can put it back together as long as there's enough fog in the area. However, this only applies to his fog form and not to his ethereal body or actual body)
  • Size Manipulation & Shapeshifting (Due to his form being made out of fog, Ganishka can make it take different shapes and sizes. He could increase the size of his fog form to engulf a group of apostles and attack them with lightning)
  • Incorporeality (1 Layer; In order to harm Ganishka it's necessary to strike his ethereal body, as his fog form is merely a projection. His ethereal body exists deeper than the Interstice, a layer where substance does not reach, regular arms cannot harm him)
  • Electricity Manipulation, Paralysis Inducement & Homing Attack (Can fire lightning from his body in all directions, it causes numbness on the body and pursues enemies. Ganishka's lightning burnt Guts and can nigh incinerate apostles)
  • Possession & Mind Manipulation (Ganishka could take control of a group of sorcerers by entering their bodies with his fog. This sorcery allows him to control armies of monsters)
  • Flight (Floated above a building)
  • Deconstruction & Absorption (When he lowered himself into the reincarnation vessel, Ganishka broke down every living being the fog was touching and absorbed their life)
  • Resistance to Electricity Manipulation (Ganishka can make lightning travel within his body without suffering any effects)
  • Superhuman Physical Characteristics
  • Large Size (Type 3; Shiva Form Ganishka stands 1053 meters tall)
  • Non-Physical Interaction (2 Layers, Non-Physical; Ganishka realized that he and Griffith weren’t on the same level and reincarnated himself again to obtain power originating from the very depths of the Astral World, the Abyss, as such he should exist on the same level of the Astral World as the God Hand. His twice reincarnated form, along the Skull Knight's slash, made it possible to merge the Astral and Physical Worlds)
  • Breath Attack, Fire Manipulation, Explosion Manipulation & Danmaku (Can launch barrages of fire from his mouths which explode on impact)
  • Air Manipulation & Weather Manipulation (His presence formed a raging thunderstorm and a vortex of air around his figure)
  • Enhanced Vision (Has tons of eyes all around his head)
  • Additional Limbs (Has multiple arms)
  • Aura (Catastrophe-Inducing; Shiva Ganishka is the personification of all calamity and his appearance made the world tear apart. His presence also caused a fierce thunderstorm)
  • Biological Manipulation & Corruption (Type 1; Transformed the soldiers he stepped on into a swarm of pseudo-apostles)

Weaknesses

His mist form can be blown away by powerful and constant enough wind. | Lost his sense of self and is too large to hear human voices.

Ranked #4 of 27 in Berserk by strength.

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