Phrases

Phrases (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 servile (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.

Divine type phrase appeared when the devil god devoured the servile god, they started to attack the normal phrases until all of them were mutated.

Normal Phrases
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

Divine Phrases
Divine phrases can mute other phrases through touch or merge with them. 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.

When a divine phrase kill a human being, he transforms into a zombie after his death with a skeleton-type phrase inside, they tend to attack other living beings until they are destroyed.

Divine Phrase are stronger and have a harder shell than the normal ones, also their skin color changes to golden making impossible to locate their core without the use of divine sight,

They can also be 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.

Countries attacked by the Phrase

 * Full world invasion 5000 years ago
 * 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 attacked by the divine phrases.
 * Magitechnocracy of Isengard: Two villages attacked by the divine phrases.
 * Full world invasion by the divine phrases (final battle time after the union of both worlds).

Trivia

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