Reapers

**Reapers**, also known as **Pillagers**, are a swarm of war machines that crom from the domain outside of the Dragon of Eternity and Time. They invade planes marked beforehand by a Doomsday Imprint and use all resources, including the living beings, to enlarge their army until the plane is left barren.

The reapers were the catalysts to the Reaper War in Faelor, a proud moment of history throughout all those under the realm of order.

Richard defeats Reapers and stops them from destroying Faelor [9;79]

## Overview

These Doomsday Imprints are precursors to such an attack. They only target one plane at a time, and every plane they target ends up with one or more such marks. It can be a piece of jewellery, a weapon, a piece of art, even a creature. So long as the law signature matches, we can confirm that they will appear to harvest it soon enough. 6;67

This race has extremely advanced metal smithy and machinery. They also poses Ember Essence, which is crucial for all their soldiers. Ember essence is also the only limiting factor in their invasions: it is not produced in the planes they invade.

### **Dread**

As the representatives of destruction in the world, they represented the order of the world in the form of chaos. In other words, they are the true cleaners of the worlds chaos.

The doomsday imprints represented the reapers. Richard had known they were powerful, but not how much. Even though they had destroyed every plane they struck, he’d once fantasized that they weren’t as strong as they were billed to be. With the proper preparations in place, including binding numerous legends to his side using the Dragon Plane, he felt like he had a chance to prevail.

But now, seeing one of these warships, he felt a chill overcoming him as he realised the sheer scale of what was to come. The single warship was more than a few hundred metres across, and was only one of dozens of different forms the imprint could morph into. Even though he had no idea just how strong one of these ships was, the damage done all around him showed just how powerful they were.

### **Ember Essence**

This was the mercury-like material that made up the core of a reaper's body. It was the energy source that acted like a source, but more like radioactive material not from this world.

“This is the core of the reapers, and they only have a certain amount in any given invasion. Without it, they can’t build new warships; that’s why we need to stop and work on the wreckage after every battle. We can’t afford them recovering this and simply refreshing their troops.”

Picking up a piece, the Prince carefully examined the essence, “This doesn’t have a bulk of its energy; does it need to be energised before it can be used again?”

“Correct. I obtained some activated essence from the Eternal Dragon, a portion of which is the reason for my wealth of divine weapons. But that’s basically the only way for us to activate it; otherwise, we have to find a current of time and somehow wash it within.”

## **Warships**

The reapers were organised in almost the exact same way as the broodmother; the only difference was that one was mechanical while the other was organic.

### **Mothership**

It appears as the first ship to set foot onto the plane so far. It seems to be capable of unleashing hundred of ships. It also able to create cuboid like machines capable of morphing into a building.

The mothership was a monolith that embedded itself in the seabed of a plane, inching closer into the core of the world. This would let it tap into the origin energy of a plane, using it to power the ember essence in order to activate the warships and flesh warriors.

As for the thought centre, it was similar to a cloned brain; useful more as a node in a network than anything else. The mothership was communicating with something else to make actual decisions, relaying commands to the fleet. Of course, this technology represented a different kind of law unto itself. There was definitely value here, but it was like catching a broodmother only to find that it was just a cloned brain. The limited abilities made any replicas near useless.

### **Small Warships**

These small ships are able to shoot beams of light, and bullets capable of melting shields. They're capable of destroying Broodmother's current drown with ease.  The ships are able to defeat 300 of Broomother's elite drones with only 1 loss. reapers had great resistance to most magic, but while they were almost impervious to cold, heat and lightning spells did have some effect. Even the smallest of the war machines were extremely powerful and made from metal, full-fledged attacks from the winged serpents only leaving scratches on the surface. The entire battle had only killed ten of the smallest ones, while the bigger ones were completely unharmed.

### **Beetles**

These machines process organism or people into cubes of flesh. This was eerily similar to how the broodmother’s drones collected resources! The only difference was that the drones were living beings, while the reaper machines seemed almost purely mechanical. However, the way these machines performed their tasks made it obvious that they had to have some form of intelligence as well, intelligence that was not inferior to his drones.

### **Transport Ship**

These ships deliver the cubes of flesh processed by the beetles.

### **Flesh Warriors**

"Creatures made of a mix of flesh and machines. Each only a meter and a half tall with reversed knees like demons. These creatures had four arms connected to their torsos, two holding swords while the other two held guns shooting destructive beams of light. Powered by metallic skeletons, they were extremely fast and strong, even level 10 elites finding it difficult to block their blades.

## **Weapons**

### **Beam Weapons**

Attached to almost all of the warships. Their beams are lightning fast, and they can even char the flesh of Richard Archeron. They are capable of piercing through a Saint's defenses. The beams are capable of producing a green glow

### **Poison**

They contain poison strong enough to affect legendary beings

### **Armour**

It is stated by Richard that they machines have the same level of defense as a Rune Knight's armour.

## Trivia

* Ever since entering the legendary realm— no, ever since he had ventured into the Land of Dusk, this was the first time Richard had experienced such deep-rooted fear. He was unable to quantify the sense of terror that the reapers instilled in him. Many considered that the greatest fear was that of the unknown, but he knew that an unknown could be anything. It was what he knew only a tiny bit about that truly horrified him; he had an idea of what they could do, but none on how to counter it.
* They are virtually unstoppable. Any form of resistance is ultimately futile, even the most powerful families in Norlandic history have failed to fight them back. The most realistic thing to do is to withdraw your troops at the earliest and destroy the Lighthouse of Time

## References

1. ↑ Book 8, Chapter 99
2. ↑ Book 9, Chapter 71
3. ↑ Book 9, Chapter 23
4. ↑ Book 9, Chapter 81
5. ↑ Book 9, Chapter 24
6. ↑ Book 9, Chapter 25
7. ↑ Book 9, Chapter 28
8. ↑ Book 9, Chapter 30
9. ↑ Book 9, Chapter 32
10. ↑ Book 9 Chapter 57
11. ↑ Book 9, Chapter 32
12. ↑ Book 9, Chapter 22
13. ↑ Book 9, Chapter 26