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 were led by the Sovereign Phrase, who is the most powerful of them all.

Phrases 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.

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, they are also affected by internal magic attacks, as Touya's apport magic or Yumina's Frame Gears explosive bullets

During their fight with Ney and Ende, Mutated Leto and Luto fused their bodies together making the new construction a different dominant class with a single core. It was revealed that this was only possible with Yula help, as they said that it was an ability granted by him.

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
 * Skeleton - A phrase left when a living being is attacked by a divine phrase and it's soul was taken for the devil god, it can't consume other living beings as it's a normal phrase thought its strenght can compete against battle-type gollems

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
 * Orca - It was seen during the second invasion of the Phrases in Roadmare Union and was instantly defeated by Touya.

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. His regenerative abilities are also formidable and he can create some sort of  a land tsunami with the protruding objects on its the back. It also has a tail with which it can attack others.
 * Pteranodon
 * Porcupine
 * Wild Boar
 * 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
 * Xeno

"#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?)"

Divine Class
''The golden ones?, are you talking about the mutated phrase?. (Touya)''

''Mutated?, a weird yet appropiate name. (Ney)''

- During a conversation between Touya, Melle, Ney and Lycee Also called Golden Phrases or Mutated Phrases. They are phrases that have the divinity of the fallen god.

When a divine phrase touches a normal phrase its color starts to change and if it reaches the core it transforms into a divine phrase. This is an ability that every divine phrase have and it affects all kind of normal phrases

These Phrases kill living beings to gather souls for the deivl god and can mute other phrases, this cause an increase in their base stength and their abilities, also their color changes to golden making impossible to locate their core without the use of divine sight

Lower Class

 * Snake
 * Rhino beetles

Intermediate Class

 * Sunfish - A medium flying phrase
 * Ostrich
 * Iguanodon
 * Mutated class
 * Mutated Centipede - A medium class centipede described as shaped like a monstrous centipede.

Advanced Class

 * Double Headed Dragon
 * Starfish
 * Mutated class
 * Mutated Nautilus - This was an Advanced Class Nautilus muted by some divine phrases wich made it to change into a combination of a squid, an octopus and a nautilus
 * Giant Tree Type Phrase - It's a divine phrase that can spread a snow-type toxine that kills humans (affects beings with stress and more things, usually adults) and gather their souls for the devil god, it can be seen as a mix of various types of plants, it also has four meter diameter red core at 80 meters above the top surrounded by branches and thorns. It can attack extending its branches created under the tree that can't extend over various hundred of meters, it can make a wall with the branches in order to protect againts phisic attacks; it can also make the zombies left by the toxine with skeleton phrases atack though they dissapeared after the tree was destroyed.

Lower Class Frame Gear Subtype
There is a Lower Class Frame Gear type Divine Phrase that has the same abilities that lower class divine phrases but they can be piloted by dominant class

Unknown Castle Type Phrase
An castle type structure that connected into the space between worlds where the devil god shell was located, it was guarded by an army of skeleton phrases. This structure spread a divine toxic mortal to lower level and young gods as Touya but only incommode medium level gods and up

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: Not really an attack, a phrase was able to get near enought to the barrier to be seen by the population making them believe the phrase didn't retreat 5000 years ago, thought it ended just walking away.
 * Allent Theocracy: A village by the mutated phrases.
 * Magitechnocracy of Isengard: Two villages by the mutated phrases.
 * Full world invasion by the mutated phrases (final battle time after the union of both worlds).

Trivia

 * By volume 15 all normal phrases where transformed into divine phrases
 * During Isengard's battle, a divine ostrich phrase planted a seed which ended up creating a tree-type divine phrase
 * All Phrases from mediun class and up can fire a powerful beam of energy by gathering energy in their cores.
 * Due to their size, only lower class Prase cores can be taken away by the null magic spell Apport.
 * 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.