Broodmother

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**Feikinbolo Sillo**, commonly referred to as the **Broodmother**, is a Worldeater that was given to Richard after he had rejected the Eternal Dragon's desire for the Beast God tooth. Later on, she would gain independence but still remained loyal to his master.

From then on, the broodmother would become an indispensable asset to Richard's military prowess, largely influencing his title as an undefeated war god on the battlefield.

## Description

### **Larva Stage:**

Something which seemed like a black insect crawled out from within. This creature had six limbs like an arthropod, with an exceptionally large abdomen. Two sharp blades were attached to the area near its head, making it look like a comical little ball with a few blades stuck on it.

A large, exotic insect off his body. It was a metre-long worm that shone black, dragging along a strangely large abdomen with six stout legs. It looked very clumsy.The shell on the creature’s back was open, and it flapped its wings from time to time.With a pair of short yet sharp pincers.

sometimes plots behind Richards back with Flowsand

"Because I have no soul, only an approximation of one. My advances are entirely dependent on the soul I first imprinted from, Master Richard. His death will give me true free will, but I will also be stuck forever.”

### **Level 8**

She had grown further after this evolution, becoming seventy metres long, ten metres tall, and twelve metres wide; she was now bigger than most adult dragons. A golden strip ran down her abdomen, with many pores on top that resembled spiracles opening and closing intermittently. It took some scrutiny to realise that this seeming vulnerability was just a trap; those weren’t spiracles at all, but outlets for her powerful acid spray. Her real spiracles were concealed on her back and upper torso.

She seemed to be extremely mindful of her defences after the battle with Raymond’s armies. Her natural armour was now almost two metres thick, and the material itself was no worse than what was used in superior-grade equipment. Normal weapons could no longer break through; even ballista bolts wouldn’t be able to go through completely. The talons of a powerful dragon like Kaloh wouldn’t be able to break through either. On the other hand, the red dragon wouldn’t necessarily be able to resist her acidic fog.

The holes in the armour that were meant to reduce its weight had now grown in number, but the bone structure nearby had more of a metallic component to increase its defences there.

### **Level 9**

Compared to the broodmother who was about a hundred metres long, Richard was as small as an ant.

## Plot

Started as a seed (Egg) which created a mental link with Richard Archeron and used a drop of blood as a medium upon creating the link the egg hatched.

The Broodmother eats most life forms. she gains power through eating. she also analyzes the lifeforms she eats. she gains the ability to give birth to eggs, which produces drones.

She has created a *nest* in the land of turmoil

She becomes Richard's indespensable army supplier and cashcow. The broodmother would create large groups of races that was used for war all year long. As well as rune knight mounts that would sell for millions of gold

### **Volume 7**

In volume 7, she heals her soul, making her independent of Richard. This was Raymond's plan to destroy Richards, while also branding the Broodmother. Broodmother decides to stay with Richard as long as he keeps up with her. She also manages to reverse the brand, which allows her to destroy anyone who tries to enslave her through the brand.

### **Three-year Gap**

Once he was appraised about the situation in Faust, Richard then asked about the broodmothers in Faelor and the Forest Plane. The former had now embraced her new identity and taken on the name of Mountainsea, and having gotten to level 15 she was only a step away from breaking through the limits of the plane. With Faelor’s population having bottomed out to the point that any deities outside of Richard’s trio were on the verge of falling, she made her move on the pantheon. The three goddesses had remained neutral instead of siding with her, but that hadn’t mattered as she swept through the rest with ease. That war had spanned three years, and only the three goddesses still remained in its aftermath. With that time being decades ago in Faelorian time, it was now termed the Twilight of the Gods.

The fallen deities and their divine kingdoms had become food for Mountainsea. She was still absorbing that energy to strengthen her two truenames, but it wouldn’t be long before she got to level 16 and officially became a matriarch.

Things were different in the Forest Plane. The clone was still only at level 12, but with the help of the Golden World Tree she could produce saint-level night elves and had amassed a frighteningly powerful army. Having devoted the entirety of her effort into creating combat units, she was well beyond even the original in this regard. She could specialise her drones for certain traits, like vision and elbow strength enhancements on archers that made her units much more effective than any saints. Richard’s own attention was drawn to the fact that she could add an elite’s level of intelligence into even the common drones now, which would be a huge boon to their autonomy in certain situations.

## Abilities

In the end, she was not a creature designed for combat; while she could take a really hard beating, the only offense she had in her situation was her acidic fog. Her spiritual attacks only worked against ordinary opponents.

With the cloned brain stationed in Bluewater, every drone was basically an eye for the broodmother. With her outstanding intellect, her grasp on numbers was far beyond his own. All her analyses were accurate at every digit

### **Mind Flay**

* Level 10 - Already comparable to the attacks of a grand soul mage, and her personal strength in battle exceeded that of a Norland saint. She could even hold against most legends, even outlasting some on stamina alone. This strength made Richard much more confident in his decision to start an all-out war.

### **Adaptability**

* This was the real horror of the broodmother; wherever she grew she adjusted herself to the environment, creating drones that were designed for fighting in the environment of the plane. This was an unparalleled adaptive capability; in planes like this one where the world itself was the biggest enemy, she was the greatest of weapons. The same held true in even more extreme examples like the abyss and the hells, where ordinary humans couldn’t even survive.

### **Wormholes**

* The thing was obviously different from normal teleportation gates, with a dark brown texture to the frame and a pulsing body, but this left him impressed. He had never even imagined a creature that could form a portal with its body. The mana required to power this takes about 300,000 gold in crystals.

## Progression

Although she was still stuck at level 9 for more than 5 years, the broodmother had finished all preparations to hit level 10. The only thing she lacked was divinity; she had 600 units stored within her already, but 500 units of that would be taken up to create the avatar. The avatar also needed about 10 million gold’s worth of other materials, weighing almost 20,000 tonnes in total. 6;9

### Level 10

* As per his decision, the broodmother had chosen to maximize her survival with this advancement. From amongst her countless options, she had chosen a core ability called World of Millions. It allowed her to nurture numerous tiny broodmothers within her body, each the size of a mere fist. Producing ten of these miniatures required a unit of divinity and an appropriate amount of the world’s origin energy, but once created they would go into hibernation with her soul brand upon them. Whenever required, one of them could evolve into her true self.
* If in danger, the broodmother would just catapult the countless miniatures into the outside world, launching them all across the plane. Even if her main body was destroyed, these clones could still grow. Only one of them would ever grow to become a new broodmother, the others continuing in eternal sleep, but they were all extremely adaptable and wouldn’t be destroyed unless they were thrown into abyssal lava or some other such powerful thing. Every miniature had the energy stores to last for centuries before they were rendered useless. With the World of Millions, the broodmother was basically indestructible in this plane.

* Eight level 14 or two elite level 15 units in a day, with the possibility of a level 16 that took two days of time. This meant she could mass-produce what Faelor normally called saints.

### **Level 11+**

* The ascension requirements for level 11 were rather simple as well. The broodmother would only require divinity, even if the total amount was absurd. The thousand units she needed was equivalent to what any of the three goddesses had before they started cooperating; in other words, the broodmother needed a lesser god’s worth to advance. She had finally reached the point where she would have to eat gods to advance.

## Drones

“The shape is not important. I can create a human shell for the cloned brains if you wish, but you know that life is far beyond one’s outer appearance. Do you not think the current forms of these cloned brains are perfection?” 6;45

### **Regular**

* Humanoids
* Dwarves
* Goblins
* Cavemen
* Barbarians
* Elves
* Mutated Bats
* Winged Serpent
* Flamewing Serpent
	+ This was a variation of the winged serpents he already had, but instead of using natural means it could use true magic. Each drone would be able to cast six grade 4 fireballs a day at short ranges, or four a day if the target was more than a hundred metres away. On top of that, they could create two walls of fire. They had the third generation carapace added on, boosting their defences to the point that ordinary human archers posed no threat to them. Even elven archers would only be able to deal significant damage when less than fifty metres away.

### Special

* Broodmother’s clone
* Eternal Warriors of the Night
	+ Phaser
	+ Asura
	+ Three warrior drones I designed, the combined results of my analysis of various races. They were originally meant to protect me, but there is more meaning in leaving them by your side. I call them the Eternal Warriors of the Night.
	+ The term appeared in my mind as I designed them. It must be an implant in my memory from creation or unlocked during my growth.
	+ Flowing within them is the blood of gods. All of their bodies have the characteristics of bastard demigods, and their souls have been extracted from defeated enemies. They do not share the same restrictions as other combat units, having the capacity to learn and grow. However, their body structure is completely unlike those of a human; every expected weakness is actually a fatal trap. I can resurrect them even if they die, so long as I have enough divinity and divine blood.
* Andrika
* Unicorn

### Short range

* Winter soldiers- newest generation war drones
* Shadowspear knights- elite war drones. Known as the bane of runeknights.
	+ The humanoids were modified as well; they were now created with orcs as the base and reached level 12 even without their mounts. The infantry were given heavy armour just like the barbarians, while the knights were given lighter armour so they could wear the chainmail he had purchased. In terms of defences, they now surpassed grade 1 rune knights. Richard planned to equip them all with level 12 mounts, putting them on par with the bearguard knights of the Schumpeter Family. The elites who were level 13 could even compare to a level 14 grade 1 rune knight in battle due to the advantages of their structure.
	+ News of Richard’s shadowspear knights having defeated Earl Goliath’s rune knights had already spread throughout the land.
* Raptors- second generation war drones
* Wind wolves- first generation war drones

### Long range

* Arrow beast - horse like beasts with long claws. Capable of spitting out arrows from a long distance
* throwers- Dwarf like creatures capable to throwing hatchets
* His choice for ranged offence had changed as well. Since the analysis of the elves still hadn’t met his requirements, he chose towering barbarians with long limbs and armed them with steel javelins. These level 10 javelineers had been enhanced for strength as well, able to throw their steel weapons a formidable 150 metres away and still pierce knights in heavy armour. Of course, they had their own weaknesses as well. Since their javelins had to be specially manufactured, they didn’t last as long in battle before they ran out.

### Other

* Worker Drones
* Cloned Brain - transmitter of Broodmother's orders and prerogatives. Just like Phaser, cloned brains were a special unit that needed divinity to create.
* trees -supplies food for drones
* horses- special horses fitting for runeknights. sold in large quantities to the royal family.
* Elite snow owls from the barbarian plains (replacing bats)
* bats
* Bird-eating Spiders (for use in the level up of lifetrees against woodpeckers)
* Drider
* Astral Chrysalis
	+ Looking like a giant pupa, it had little combat power but could grow without limits. It also had the ability to float through the air, and with the addition of image diamonds it would be able to open up a space in its own body that allowed it to replace ordinary spatial equipment. The more image diamonds it ingested, the larger its internal space became.
	+ The astral chrysalis was only about two metres long in its initial stage, but it could accommodate nearly ten cubic metres within. It could also carry about ten tonnes without issue. Creating it required at least three image diamonds and ten units of divinity, and at the same time there was a precondition that left Richard speechless: *Analyse Zangru.*
	+ This astral chrysalis could certainly serve all of his equipment storage needs. There would be a significant advantage when it came to transporting supplies across planes as well.
	+ The astral chrysalis had no eyes nor ears, and its pitch black skin was hard and smooth. It wasn’t particularly fast, but it was stable and silent. Like a magic ship that could float through the air

## Tactics

The best use of the broodmother’s elites was in taking on enemy rune knights in a war of attrition. The drones never had issues with morale, not caring for even the most grievous wounds so long as he ordered them to fight. On the contrary, rune knights were still human; they could feel pain, they could feel fear. If the circumstances were bad enough, if the battle drew on to a point where the robotic resolve of the drones inspired terror in them, they would be worn away.

He had considered the traditional strategy of pitting rune knights against rune knights. The Savage sets were extremely useful in such a battle— Savage Barrier being about a third more valuable for its defensive capabilities with the cost fated to rise further— but he didn’t have as much control over rune knights as he did over the drones. This was especially true for the more powerful ones, which tended to act more upon their instinct and experience. Ideally a 1:1 ratio of Savage Barrier and Savage Strike would be perfect— one knight could block two enemies with the barrier while the other took care of one with the strike— but the problem of ensuring proper coordination had caused him to abandon the idea.

### **Thinker**

The Thinker, the broodmother’s new cloned brain in humanoid form, had now become one with his consciousness and taken over a large part of the command duty. He could already command over a hundred soldiers with every single one of his minds, and the Thinker tripled that at minimum. In a large-scaled battle, this meant he could control nearly a thousand individual troops in total. 6;74

## Background

“If you wish to know about the impact on me, then Master’s death will leave me stuck at level 9 for all eternity. I can continue to build new drones, and given enough time I will turn the entire plane into my nest, but even if I become as big as a mountain I will be stuck here forever at level 9.”

Flowsand’s brow unwrinkled, “Why?”

“Because I have no soul, only an approximation of one. My advances are entirely dependent on the soul I first imprinted from, Master Richard. His death will give me true free will, but I will also be stuck forever.”

“Hmm… You aren’t a natural life form, are you?”

“I believe my kind is bred exclusively as weapons in planar war.” 6;45

“Master, I already have the clone in the Forest Plane; if my body is destroyed here, I can simply be reborn afterwards. I do not plan to leave; my drones are the only way to fight off the reapers until we evacuate. Without me, you won’t even be able to withdraw a hundred thousand people.”

He couldn’t bring himself to respond. The broodmother was speaking the truth; with her in charge, the Land of Turmoil was an important stronghold. If she left, it was a supply base that could be raided to reinforce the reaper army. To an existence with countless clones, the destruction of her main body wasn’t the end of everything. So long as she had the resources and time, she would regain her strength soon enough.

Have you thought of the consequences if you die? All of us who follow you do it for you, not for the Archerons. We would part ways immediately.

## Trivia

* After the battle with Raymond Joseph in Faelor, the broodmother was able to hide its identity through folklore of the people. She was then known as the Beetle Queen Aquila, an ancient behemoth that hadn’t shown itself for hundreds of years. Once rumours had started circulating that the broodmother was the Beetle Queen Aquila, Richard had christened the humanoid knights the beetle knights to the outside world.
* She tortured Zangru. The broodmother had her mouth-tentacles wrapping around Zanhru’s body and piercing into his bloodstream. They then started to pulse regularly as they drew out the purplish-black blood into her body. In only five minutes, she had sucked him dry. Zangru’s body started to shrivel at a noticeable rate, but the tentacles holding him started to pump his body full of nutrients. His amazing physique showed itself as he absorbed all of the nutrition greedily. He was conscious within half an hour, no obvious injuries to be seen. However, the minute he opened his eyes the broodmother started drawing his blood again. Within a few minutes, he was shrivelled up once more.
* The broodmother came from the Eternal Dragon, and the old dragon almost certainly had his ways to control her. She wasn’t difficult to deal with yet, a proper legendary being could kill her if they knew how to do it, but just like Io and Nyra she was no ordinary being. Of course, he couldn’t compare her to other broodmothers because he hadn’t seen one, but he felt like there had to be something special about her. 6;37
* Even with the broodmother’s power, a single soul strike from her shouldn’t have had that power. Even a greater god couldn’t do such a thing. This only made one thing clear; the divine defences of the gods were exceptionally weak in front of the broodmother. She was a natural predator.
* She never really cared about her own drones during battle, and that sentiment extended to Richard’s warriors as well. Outside of Richard himself and the few followers who had made an impression on her, everyone else was expendable.

## References

1. ↑ Book 6, Chapter 87
2. ↑ Book 9, Chapter 128
3. ↑ Book 6, Chapter 45
4. ↑ Book 1, Chapter 103
5. ↑ Book 9, Chapter 128
6. ↑ Book 8, Chapter 43
7. ↑ Book 7, Chapter 92
8. ↑ Book 6, Chapter 140
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Book 9, Chapter 52
10. ↑ Book 7, Chapter 91
11. ↑ Book 7, Chapter 92
12. ↑ Book 6, Chapter 45
13. ↑ Book 5, Chapter 24
14. ↑ Book 4, Chapter 134
15. ↑ Book 5, Chapter 58
16. ↑ Book 6, Chapter 140
17. ↑ Book 9, Chapter 26
18. ↑ Book 8, Chapter 22
19. ↑ Book 8, Chapter 42