Huge

The Huge are life forms created by the rampant growth of cells of unusual size, known as Huge cells, that consume and parasitize other living beings. They first emerged around the year 2000, and soon grew to numbers that allowed them to overrun much of the Earth and nearly wipe out human civilization.

While a wide variety of Huge exist, they have the following characteristics in common:


 * They are as huge as their name implies, and bullets have difficulty piercing their sturdy, curved armor.
 * The most effective weapon against them is the Magi Crystal Force that CHARMs can discharge. A single solid hit from a CHARM is enough to kill weaker types of Huge.
 * Huge mount attacks in two primary ways: by flying unseen through the air to their targets, or through interdimensional wormholes known as "Caves."
 * They have been known to capture Lilies and drain their Magi to the point of causing them permanent harm.

After the first Huge nest was observed in Taiwan, they began to rapidly spread and became an extreme threat to almost every inhabited place on the planet. As a country with particularly favorable conditions for the stronger varieties of Huge, Japan in particular suffered greatly from Huge attacks in urban and rural areas alike. Governments and weapons manufacturers worldwide worked tirelessly to develop countermeasures against the Huge, and eventually succeeded in inventing CHARMs. This lead to the rise of Lilies and the Gardens that train and house them.

In the present day, one of the main organizations researching the Huge is GEHENA, whose discoveries have made significant contributions to the war against the Huge. One of their notable discoveries are 'Huge particles', a hard-to-detect phenomenon that appears in places where a Cave will form in short order. This has made it possible to make rough predictions of when and where Caves will appear.

Types of Huge


The Huge are broadly categorized by size in the following fashion: small-type, mid-type, large-type, gigant-type, and ultra-type.

Despite their label, small-type Huge are still significantly larger than humans, some reaching 3 meters in height. They can be killed relatively easily by a Lily or even a Madec, and soldiers with conventional weapons can also fight them, albeit with greater difficulty. Mid-types are difficult for Madecs and nigh impossible for other non-Lilies to kill. Large-types and above can only be fought effectively by Lilies.

The formidable gigant-types can usually only be injured with combination attacks such as the Neunwelt Tactic, and individual Lilies can hold them off at best. Ultra-types, sometimes known as the "queen bees of the Huge," are a rare variety with the ability to create new Huge nests. Like gigants, they can only be injured with combination attacks.

Special-type Huge
Special-types are Huge with abilities that ordinary Huge do not have. These can include the power to divide into multiple identical Huge, contaminate humans with negative Magi that cannot be neutralized through ordinary means, jam radio communications, reflect Neunwelt magispheres with Magi-Reflector, and more. They are often mid-type in size, but significantly harder to defeat than other Huge of their size class, so caution must be taken when fighting them.

The abilities of Special-type Huge can become generalized across the entire Huge population; one theory states that this happens when they survive and grow large enough to build a nest. This is thought to have begin occurring with Magi-Reflector. For this reason, despite the danger involved in doing so, it's imperative for Lilies to kill every Special-type Huge they discover.

Trivia

 * The Huge seem to be capable of surviving in extreme cold, as they have Nests in Antarctica.
 * There are two visually distinct sets of Huge used by the Assault Lily franchise: the 'original' designs, used in early setting material and in Assault Lily: League of Gardens -full bloom-, and the more mechanical Huge used in Assault Lily: Bouquet and Assault Lily: Last Bullet. It is not known why the Huge design vocabulary was changed for the anime/game.