Richard Archeron/Items

## **Equipment**

* **Twin of Destiny** *[Legendary grade]*: A nearly divine class staff with six enchantments that empowers all sorts of attacks and curses.

* **Moonlight** *[Divine grade]*: An elven long sword that is one of the divine weapons of *Silvermoon Palace*. Blessed by Alucia herself, it possesses the strength of all seven moons.
	+ **Final Upgrade (Lithgalen)** - From one of the premier divine weapons of the elven empire to an indestructible yet otherwise unremarkable sword, it had finally climbed back into the ranks of one of the best divine weapons in existence. The blade had now become a darker green, distorting space around it. It had gained a new property as well, the ability to chase after opponents even through the void. It could phase shift even when its user remained in the base plane. *Became a top-tier Extradivine sword.*
	+ This was an extremely powerful ability. Had Richard possessed it during his battle with Apeiron, she wouldn’t have lasted for any length of time. He would have surprised her during her first void jump, perhaps even grievously wounding her in one go. Moonlight was now truly equal to his other two swords once more, not used purely for nostalgia.
* **Extinction** *[Legendary grade]*: A jet black long sword that was the family heirloom of the Schumpeter family.
* **Judge of Destiny** *[Divine grade]*: A divine class short sword/dagger that absorbed its user’s blood.
* Divine bow with ten divine arrows
* **Book of Holding** *[Divine grade]:* A magical book capable of storing magic and releasing it
	+ 1st page: Church of Valour raided
	+ 2nd page: Land of Turmoil space nodes
	+ 3rd page: Ancestral Lands of Ogres
	+ 4th page: Great Church of Valour (statue of Neian)
		- The fourth page hadn’t increased the number of spells that could be stored but instead increased their strength from grade 7 to grade 8. This meant that he could have a total of five grade 8 spells that he could cast almost instantly in battle.
* **Book of Calamity** *[Extradivine grade]:* A magical bookwhich could store & create creatures for summoning.
	+ Combined with the Book of Holding.
	+ Two Silver Pages of Arbidis - With the addition of these two pages, the Book of Destruction was close to perfection. There were now effectively infinite pages; every time he took control of a new law, he could form more pages. The upper limit of the creatures it could summon had also increased to level 20, making them just shy of legendary.
* **Destiny Crystal** [x1]: This was the last of his destiny crystals, something that had accompanied him through countless dangerous situations. There were many times he had wished to use it, but every time he had fought the urge and was lucky enough to avert disaster himself. So long as this was around, he would have a sliver of hope to deal with any issue he came up against.
* **Midren Silver Battle Armor** (Grade 6 Rune Set) *[Extradivine grade]*: A silver armor shrewn with the lines of a grade 5 rune set,
* **Michael's Divine Sword** *[Extradivine grade]*: A flaming sword of the archangel himself.

## Runes

### **Current**

After thoroughly defeating Lithgalen, he used the long journey to his advantage. Outside of Lifesbane, which had been redone only recently, he examined and re-engineered every single rune on his body. By the time Norland was on the horizon, every single rune on him was grade 5. This made Disintegrator the first true grade 5 rune set of Norland, the only one designed by a native!

* Mana Armament (Lv. 5)
	+ Richard’s freakish physique or Mana Armament that gave him a saint’s energy.
	+ Grade 4: Sky Saint's internal energy
	+ Grade 3: Saint's internal energy
* **Disintegrator**
* Midren - Battle form
* Lifesbane [36 layers]
	+ 4 Layers [Lv. 17]
	+ 5 Layers [Lv. 18]
	+ Even though the rune itself was only grade 3, it had been stacked to the point that only someone like Sharon could bear it outside of himself. If he activated all 36 layers, it would be no different from a true grade 6 rune.
* Magic Break (Lv. 5)
	+ Grade 4

### **Past**

* Vitality (Lv. 3)
* Magic Penetration
* Unshakeable Will (Lv. 3)
* Wanderer's Domain
* Spell Penetration
* Ruler's Domain
* Kingsteel
* Stealthwalker

### **Info**

* At level 22, he was a saint runemaster who could craft one of eight saint runes whenever he wanted.

## **Military**

### **Faelor**

* He had a slave army when he first started his campaign in Faelor. Most of them desert warriors, half and full-fledged barbarians from the ancestral plains, and ogres. The broodmother had equipped him with raptors, mutated bats, direwolves, and workers at first. Then, it was the throwers which was the first humanoids.
* After conquering many parts of the Bloodstained Lands, he gained an army with the base level at around level 5 to 10 warriors. His slave army slowly dwindled until the humanoid troops from the broodmother took over. Various species made up Richard's army, many of which were flying serpents. The humanoids troops slowly evolving into proper destroyers on the battlefield, the elites reaching level 14 to 15.
* After conquering the entire west part of Faelor, most of the south, east, and north, Richard had effectively power of a plane's forces.

### **Norlad**

* After returning to the Archeron islands, he immediately held a foothold within Faust. One year later in Norland time, he becomes king of the Archerons. As a budding runemaster, he was able to have a proper army that comprised of elite rune knights reaching the hundreds initially. This came with the Shadowtroop Knights that comprised the main army.
* The main attack of the rune knights were javelins that were thrown long range. Even common legends would cower from this onslaught. Sometimes dipped in the refined gunpowder from the Fireforge and modified from Deepblue. Richard’s army seemed to be made of killing machines that were born for war.
* The broodmother and now her clone were still his biggest strength. While the rune knights were his strongest spear against his enemies. It would soon become imperative to build a regular army that wasn’t solely made up of Archerons. This army would need more average combat effectiveness and loyalty, used as the first line to protect his core soldiers. There weren’t all that many Archerons in the world, and their numbers certainly couldn’t grow to a scale where they would be enough to support all of his military endeavours themselves.
* Five Archeron regiments was completely different from most other private armies. Richard had led less than twice as many soldiers only a scant few months ago, crushing combined armies across all three empires and crushing any hopes of annexation. Even now, he had power comparable to multiple dukes at minimum.
* At this point, the forces from the broodmothers were quickly becoming the core of his army. With all eligible Archeron warriors having already joined his cause in the past few years, they were the only way to quickly expand his army outside of warriors from outside the family. At this point, only about 60% of his 120,000 warriors were Archerons, of which about 20,000 could be turned into some sort of rune knight. Every rune knight took an enormous amount of money, but they were also a terrifying force on the battlefield.
* Having been through so many wars himself, Richard now controlled a terrifying army that entire empires would have to be wary of. His own followers now surpassed the surviving members of Gaton’s thirteen, making it clear that he had surpassed his father.

### **Level 27**

* The Archerons currently had a terrifying army, with over a million soldiers in Norland which included a thousand rune knights. A third of those thousand were grade 2 set knights, while a full fifty were grade 3! Already level 17, that last set could easily suppress most saints in battle.
* Another million soldiers had been amassed across his various planes, of which 100,000 night elves in the Forest Plane were core elites. His will transcended the crystal walls of Norland to connect to the broodmother’s clone and the Golden World Tree, but before he could do so he was stunned by a number of changes to the plane.
* Emerald City was no longer a military stronghold with limited scope, but instead a true city with almost a million residents. Most of those citizens were from Faelor, and dozens of small towns were scattered all around the city to support it in various ways. Surrounding the Golden World Tree and the broodmother’s clone were another belt of nearly a hundred towns, though these ones were more appropriately called villages instead. Living in these villages were the night elves!

## Trivia

* If one looks through all of Richard's items, one would find the sheer quantity of things that related to destiny. Some are even named as such, for example: the Twin of Destiny, Judge of Destiny, Destiny Crystal, Book of Destiny, etc. While others are merelt tied to destiny, such as the broodmother and the beast god tooth. These things mean much more than what meets the eye, showing how grand the heights Richard has to reach.

## **References**

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Book 9, Chapter 99
2. ↑ book 5, Chapter 51
3. ↑ Book 9, Chapter 100
4. ↑ Book 6, Chapter 110
5. ↑ Book 9, Chapter 97
6. ↑ 6;111
7. ↑ 1;63
8. ↑ 2;180
9. ↑ 6;111
10. ↑ 6;145
11. ↑ 6;145
12. ↑ 6;111
13. ↑ 7;112
14. ↑ Book 8, Chapter 88
15. ↑ Book 6, Chapter 147
16. ↑ Book 8, Chapter 60
17. ↑ Book 8, Chapter 89
18. ↑ Book 8, Chapter 99
19. ↑ Book 9, Chapter 131