Phrases

The Phrase (フレイズ) are crystal creatures from Phrasia who are searching for the Sovereign Phrase.

Overview
The Phrase is a race that comes from another world. They are led by the Sovereign Phrase, who is the most powerful of them all.

History
The Phrase have been chasing their former leader Melle for a long time; ignoring her wishes to be left alone for the sake of taking her back to use her power for themselves. Unable to locate her core when its in a living being, the Phrase indiscriminately slaughter the population of worlds Melle's core went to. Ende has been fighting them off for years, though he was able to make an ally in Lycee (and her sister eventually).

In the present twin dominant class Phrase teamed up with the lower class NEET god to create a beast to kill for them. However, the beast turned against the god and ate him, transforming them into a golden cocoon. The twins used this golden power to enhance their own powers and the lower class Phrase. Ultimately they and the newly born Evil God were destroyed thanks to Touya and the World Alliance, putting an end to the Phrase faction after Melle.

Abilities
All of the Phrase are composed of a unknown crystal material (dubbed Phrasium by Touya) that is capable of passively absorbing magical energy and increases the durability of the material to an undetermined upper limit. All of the Phrase also possess a core that serves as their heart and is capable of absorbing magic that is cast directly, but is incapable of absorbing indirectly cast magic.

Lower Class

 * Cricket -This is the first kind of Phrase that Touya and his companions encounter.
 * Snake- The second kind of Phrase that is encountered. It was seen destroying a village in the Kingdom Mismede and was defeated by Leen and a group of Mismede soldiers.
 * Beetle-  The third type of Lower Class Phrase that Touya encounters. He encountered these type of Phrase while he was seeking the location of the Rampart of Babylon's transfer circle (unbeknownst to him at the time). They were attacking a nearby village that Touya happened to be passing by, so Touya decided to lend them his aid.
 * Mantis
 * Ostrich

Intermediate Class

 * Manta - The first of the Intermediate Class Phrase that Touya and his companions encounter.
 * Spider - The second kind of Intermediate Class Phrase that was encountered. It was seen attacking a village in the Great Sea of Trees and was defeated by Touya and his companions.
 * Shark
 * Dog
 * Dragonfly
 * Ladybird

Advanced Class

 * Crocodile - The first of the Advanced Class Phrase that Touya and his army encounter. It has six legs, a large horn, large dorsal fins and a large protuberance on it's tail that can fire numerous crystal arrows when fired. Like many Advanced Class it is capable of firing a massive laser with enough power to destroy an entire city as seen with the capital city of Yulong. It possesses three cores inside its body.
 * Gorilla - The second type of Advanced Class Touya and his army fight. It has 4 long, thick arms and short legs, making it do a forward-leaning posture like a gorilla. The height of the phrase is 4 times taller than a regular Frame Gear. By pounding its chest like a regular gorilla it is capable of producing a massive shockwave that can push back and damage nearby enemies. It can also fire a massive laser blast common to the advanced class Phrase by opening its chest where it's core is located and gathering enough energy.
 * Pteranodon
 * Porcupine
 * Tortoise -The third type of Advanced Class that Touya and his army fight. It has six legs, three on each side, and a spiked tail. It possesses the ability to completely protect itself from harm by retracting itself inside of its shell, making it almost impossible to damage directly. Like many advanced class Phrase it possesses a long retractable tail with numerous thorns attached that can be fired like missiles. It also possesses one single large core that is located within its shell making it difficult to destroy.
 * Nautilus - Along with the Peacock Type it was the fourth type of Advanced Type Phrase that Touya and his friends faced
 * Peacock

Dominant Class
The Humanoid Phrase speak an altered form of Japanese. The original sentence is romanized, the spaces are removed, and random characters are inserted.
 * Melle
 * Lycee
 * Ney
 * Leto
 * Luto
 * Gila
 * Yula

"#k∋#is@m@$！ o¥uwo＊d◎okΩo≒hey+@tΣt@"→"Kisama! Ou wo doko e atetta"→"貴様!王はどこへあってた (You! Where is the Sovereign?)"

Countries attacked by the Phrase

 * Roadmare Union
 * Great Sea of Trees
 * Yulong Remnants
 * Eashen
 * Knight Kingdom of Lestia
 * Demon Kingdom of Xenoahs
 * Regulus Empire
 * Kingdom of Palerius

Trivia

 * Phrase are unable to locate Melle's core when it's in a living being; hence why when they find the world it went to, they begin slaughtering all its lifeforms to force the core to reveal itself.
 * Touya considers the Mutant Phrase consuming the rest of the forces uninfected by the Evil God's power to be karmic justice; the Phrase were now getting their just desserts for all the lives they took in their search for Melle.
 * All Phrases from the Advanced Class and up can fire a powerful beam of energy by gathering energy in their cores.
 * The size of each Phrase core varies between each type and by Class.
 * According to the official translator's twitter account he regrets it's translation to Phrase, if only he knew they would be the series main antagonist.