Silvan

Silvan is a handsome Munitions Factory worker Lin Sanjiu runs into during her time in Kisaragi Station.

Appearance
He is described by Lin Sanjiu to be the most beautiful man she has ever seen, managing to make all heads turn toward him no matter the age or gender. Appearing to be in his 30s, he has golden hair, emerald green eyes, a muscular body, and features like that of a Greek statue.

Personality
He seems to be kind, sincere and highly clever and intelligent, but also has a ruthless and cold-blooded streak in him. Most people automatically feel inclined to believe in him and trust him, as can be seen with the Reno and Rena upon their first encounter.

Evolving Abilities
N/A

Special Items

 * "A Detailed Guide to Forensic Reconstruction of Dinosaur Fossils" Book (Kisaragi Library)

Kisaragi Station
Silvan and his fellow Munitions Factory combat force members were sent to hunt down and capture special duoluozhongs in Kisaragi Station to bring back to the headquarters for research. Mistaking Lin Sanjiu for a special duoluozhong (she had lost her body and was currently only a skull that was sustained by her higher conscience), the task force set their sights on her and gave chase. Lin Sanjiu tried to lure them away from the siblings, Reno and Rena, but in the process got captured by Silvan in one of his vacuum cages. Learning that he was looking for special duoluozhongs, she tried to tell him that she was also a posthuman and lied that her current form was her ability, as the truth was too complicated and he was a stranger. He didn't look like he believed her, so she tried to trick him into going into the building spirit that she and the two siblings had gone into before and where they nearly killed each other. Silvan suspected that it was a ploy from her but still went in with his task force, and Lin Sanjiu took the opportunity to escape.

The next time Lin Sanjiu ran into Silvan, it was in the Kisaragi Libray in the pocket dimension where everyone had numbers on their backs that counted down the number of lives they had left before they were dead; each day they were in also counted as a life so everyone needed to earn more until they could leave, either by winning more in contest pocket dimensions or by killing others to gain their lives. Lin Sanjiu, now mostly having a full, functioning body (though skinless and with a scratchy voice) made up of her higher conscience, hid in the central wing of the library with the two siblings; they were the second to last team out of the five to arrive. The last team was Silvan and a woman called Peach, who was obviously infatuated with his looks, and they went to the east wing. Siri, the NPC librarian of the library pocket dimension, explained to the five groups that they must find five library books that she had lost within the library. The team that handed in all five books together would win and be awarded a number of lives and get to keep the books at the end.

While all the groups searched through the books on the bookshelves, Silvan sent Peach over to Siri with a question. Soon after, Siri announced that one of the groups found a book. This caused disarray throughout all the teams, as they wanted to know which team had found it. Silvan, with a polite attitude, tried to make all the rival teams suspect that it was Lin Sanjiu's team to take the attention away from his own, the one who really found the book. Lin Sanjiu, suspecting that it was his team, went up to Siri to ask her what Peach had asked her earlier. She cleverly worded it so that the other teams listening in would think one thing while she got the real answer from Siri. As soon as she finished her questions and started to go back to the central wing, someone aimed their ability at her, trying to blow her up. When Lin Sanjiu made it back to their wing, she told the siblings that she presumed the culprit to be Silvan because he probably realized that they knew what his team knew, which is that the books were not on any of the shelves.

Lin Sanjiu and the siblings hatched a plan to ask Siri more questions while also looking for the other books without alerting the rival teams of their find. While moving through the library, she got attacked by magic mushroom powers from the west wing's team, causing her senses and perception to trick her. She was released when Silvan attacked the west wing's people. When he turned to look at her, she noted that there was confusion on his usually confident face and persona for the first time, for he couldn't understand her or what she was. Once her higher conscience became strong and charged enough that she grew skin from her head to her knees and got her regular voice back, he realized that she was the skinless person who went up to Siri's desk to ask a question before. She also learned that his fellow task force members all died in the building spirit she lured them into.

He proposed that they make an alliance and that she join his team, but she refused and countered that he should join hers instead, to which he also shot down. The rules didn't allow anyone to make new teams once the game started anyway, or the players who switched wouldn't get a share in the lives reward even if their new team won. However, after Peach was killed, Silvan was visibly devastated and enraged, even though he had only met her for the first time right outside the library. He joined Lin Sanjiu's team and gave them the book his team had found earlier, thus forgoing the end prize. Reno and Rena took an instant liking to him, as, like everyone else but Lin Sanjiu, they were instantly enthralled and short-sighted by his handsomeness and charm.

Lin Sanjiu and Rena teamed up to find one of the two remaining books while Reno and Silvan formed another. They utilized Lin Sanjiu's discovery that all the books were special items, allowing the reader to make the first sentence they read in the book to take place in the library, to fight the other teams and find the last two. The South wing team was then revealed to be made up of all duoluozhongs, though unbeknownst to even the duoluozhongs, their leader, whose face was always covered, was actually a posthuman. The West wing team proposed an alliance to Silvan and Reno; although they would not be able to share in the rewards when the library books were all found, they wanted to be the ones to kill the south wing team to steal the numbers on their backs for themselves. Meanwhile, the south wing team’s leader took Rena hostage and demanded they hand over the books, but Lin Sanjiu managed to subdue and kill her after much trouble. All the books in hand and the library now quiet, she saw Silvan covered in blood, and the South and West wing teams missing. Silvan revealed that he had politely asked the West wing team to let him capture the duoluozhongs into his vacuum cages instead, but they had refused, as they had only entered the library in the first place to increase their number of lives. When they couldn’t settle on an agreement, the west wing team attacked Silvan, only for them to all be mercilessly and ruthlessly killed by him instead. Lin Sanjiu felt disturbed and questioned him if it was worth it to go that far, but he replied that she should know that capturing duoluozhongs was the original task he had been sent for in the first place, thus revealing that he knew she was the skull he had captured before. He then thanked her for letting him know about the building spirit, for he was able to capture it too.

Lin Sanjiu, before she went to turn in the books to Siri, asked Silvan if it was really ok if he didn’t share in the prize that granted numbers of lives. With a smile, he took off his shirt and showed her and the siblings his back that displayed the number 261, the astonishing amount of lives he currently had. Horrified and unable to help but wonder how many people he had killed to gain that many lives, Lin Sanjiu decided that it was better that they parted ways with him after leaving the library. Turning in the books, they won the game and Lin Sanjiu and the siblings were awarded the lives, no longer in danger of running out anytime soon. They were also rewarded with the five Special Item books they had found, able to take them out of the library. Lin Sanjiu, despite hoping they don’t meet again, thought it was better to have a friend than an enemy so she let Silvan have the first pick among the books. He surprised her by choosing the "A Detailed Guide to Forensic Reconstruction of Dinosaur Fossils" Book, which was the least powerful and didn’t have a combat ability. The other three each took one, and as per the siblings' suggestion, Lin Sanjiu also took the last one to sell in her next world, Red Nautilus (the siblings gave her a visa to visit their world), for her living expenses.

Before parting with the captured duoluozhongs in hand, Silvan told Lin Sanjiu the way to get in contact with him again was by asking for him in the Munitions Factory. He also promised to answer some of the questions she had about him the next time they met. After he left, Reno and Rena expressed that they didn’t think he was a bad person, as he had at least buried Peach. Lin Sanjiu, however, remained quiet and didn’t express her opinion.

Meat Elysium
Silvan didn’t make a real, physical appearance in this world, but Lin Sanjiu kept having hallucinations of him and other characters after having consumed some food that made others go crazy.

Heaven Underworld
Lin Sanjiu got a message from Silvan in the Mokugyo Forum when she went to see if any of the searches for her friends by the consular officers were successful. In the message, Silvan expressed that he found it a pity that he wasn’t among the people she had set a search for, as he thought she had considered him a friend. He then proceeded to send her his address in the Munitions Factory. Lin Sanjiu only replied that she might visit if she had the chance and asked how he was able to see her messages to the consular officers. He wasn’t online at the same time so she didn’t receive a reply.

Later, when Lin Sanjiu was being hunted by a combat force from the Munitions Factory, she decided to sneak into the factory in disguise to explore and also find out who sent them to hunt her and why. While there, she saw Rare Creature Nature Reserve and remembered that it was part of the address Silvan sent her. However, she passed by Levin, the captain of the combat department, who was apparently already searching for her and became suspicious of her disguise. When he discovered her true identity, he gave chase and rallied the entire factory to find her. His effort was interrupted by the arrival of the security department, led by Silvan.

The two heads got in an argument about who had the jurisdiction to catch the infiltrator a.k.a Lin Sanjiu, while the rest of the crowd gossiped about their rivalry. In the end, Silvan won but not before Levin gave him a false description of Lin Sanjiu's appearance. However, Silvan was not tricked, and after doing his own quick investigation using the "A Detailed Guide to Forensic Reconstruction of Dinosaur Fossils" Book he attained from Kisaragi Library, he ascertained that the perpetrator was Lin Sanjiu and loudly asked for the "infiltrator" to come to his office. Lin Sanjiu snuck in when everyone else was busy and was warmly greeted by Silvan.

He explained to her that Levin could be hunting her down on a commission for someone else's behalf. He also told her how he became the captain of the combat department after they parted ways in Kisaragi Library but got transferred to the security department by the higher-ups while Levin was promoted to his old position. He speculated that the higher-ups did it on purpose so that they would keep each other in check. He had done his own investigation on Levin's background but came up with absolutely nothing; it appeared as if the man had popped into existence out of nowhere one day. He then proceeded to help her escape the factory and took her to Reverie Libretto, a popular pocket dimension in Heaven Underworld and also what he thought might help her get some answers.