Talk:Kaede Honjou/@comment-24053170-20200406045923/@comment-74.74.224.175-20200406075830

I haven't read the LN but based on what I've read from the web novel, I highly doubt it. The picture looks like an artist given creative freedom to draw what they expect Maple looks like to other players.

Let's look at the picture: Her right hand is weilding her dagger and using Hydra. Her left arm is deformed (creative freedom for the artist) and is likely using Seeping Chaos. Her Loving Sacrifice is active, She transformed her body/legs/boots with Machine God. She has her Predator part of Seeping Chaos active. One of her eyes has been drawn to look different by the creative freedom of the artist.

Evalutation: She doesn't have the Atrocity portion of Seeping Chaos active. Atrocity removes her armor and thus it is impossible to use Machine God with it, ever.

Based on the picture and my evaluation, this is likely Maple sometime around the 4th event, the Guild Competition which is the conclusion of the first season of the anime. This Maple is far too weak and the skills being used can be used simultaneously. Another skill is one that seals all her skills (not counting the ones on equipment) and conjures purple flames behind her, "LORD mode" so to speak. I see no purple flames so this further places it as Maple somewhere around the time of the 4th event.

Later, the ability to seal and prevent skills from being sealed is added. Later Maple will however gain a skills that disables skills of evil-origins rather than sealing them. This skill even disables Hydra, Seeping Chaos, Devour, and Venom Incantation. This would prevent her from having them active even if she were to try and master them. Of note is the Hydra tree of Hydra gets disabled but the Poison Magic that is available through the Hydra skill doesn't get disabled.