Beru

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Beru
Hangul	베르
Debut	Chapter 124NV Chapter 105WB Episode 25AN
Type	Insect
Rank	General Grade (formerly) Marshal Grade
Origin	Ant King
Abilities	Conversation Regeneration Gluttony Size Manipulation Paralysis Poison Healing Magic
Portrayal
Japanese	Akira Ishida
English	Jason Liebrecht

Beru (베르) is the shadow of the Ant King.

Appearance

Beru is a huge humanoid shadow ant with a light purple glow, neon eyes, sharp claws, and smoky wings. Following Jinwoo's decision to give him to Suho, he loses the majority of his powers and is reduced to nothing more than a floating head.

Personality

Due to having been born to kill, Beru revels in his power and has an obvious bloodlust for battle. As such, he is extremely brutal towards his opponents, rarely holding back unless ordered to, and goes straight for his enemy's weak spots. He is also somewhat condescending towards his fellow shadow soldiers, as displayed when he started screaming furiously at them when they failed to follow his lead and break out of the Frost Monarch's ice prison.

Outside of battle, however, Beru is fiercely loyal to his master and has a lighter side of his personality, even complimenting him in a middle of a fight. A running gag to his character is his strange hobby of watching Korean period dramas, which caused him to develop an amusingly historic way of speech. He is very fond of Jinwoo's son, Sung Suho, having been won over by the child's innocence and fascination with him, and was brought to tears when he learned that Suho would be forced to forget about his existence so that he could live a normal life.

History

Jeju Island Arc

After Jinwoo kills the Ant King, he extracts its shadow to add to his army. When the shadow displays the ability to talk to him and asks for a name, Jinwoo names him Beru, after the author of The Ants, and sends him out to go slaughter what was left of the ant colony.

Ahjin Guild Arc

When Cha Hae-In asks Jinwoo if she can join his guild, he decids to test her by having her fight Beru after defeating Igris, and orders him not to hurt her under any circumstances. Although Beru initially follows through with the order, he eventually loses control when Cha stabbs him in the back and attacks her with the intent to kill, forcing Jinwoo to step in and grab his hand before the attack could land.

Several days later, while he was in the middle of helping the Knights Guild clear an A-Rank Gate in Busan, Jinwoo starts to receive signals from the shadows that he had planted on his sister Jinah that she is in danger, prompting him to summon Beru to take his place. As the hunters in the Knights Guild are all too intimidated by him to keep going, Beru decids to take the lead and make easy work of the monsters inside the gate, including the boss, which he kills in one hit.

Double Dungeon Arc

During the time when Jinah was recovering from the trauma she sustained during the orc attack at her school, Jinwoo gave Beru the task of watching over her while he was away at work. Since Jinah spent most of her time sleeping, Beru eventually got bored and used the opportunity to watch Korean period dramas, causing him to develop a historic manner of speech. Unfortunately for Beru, Jinwoo easily found out about this by using Shadow Preservation and scolded him for it soon afterwards.

Japan Crisis Arc

Upon arriving in Tokyo, Jinwoo deployed his army, including Beru, into the city to slaughter the surviving giants. Beru would then later help Jinwoo kill the giant guarding the Tokyo S-Rank Gate by entering its body through its eye and ripping it to shreds from the inside.

International Guild Conference Arc

After Jinho was nearly killed by Hwang Dongsoo, Jinwoo used Shadow Exchange to swap places with Beru and ordered him to heal Jinho to the best of his ability.

Monarchs War Arc

Jinwoo faces the three monarchs, Querehsha, the Beast, and Frost Monarch alone before he summons Beru to aid him in the fight. Beru furiously attacks them cursing at them for attacking his master but gets restrained. Out of desperation, Jinwoo tries to help his shadow as he sees his soldier disappearing, only to learn that he is unable to extract him due to being restrained. He eventually rescues him by charging at the enemies. Beru faces Querehsha who tells him he is punished for fighting back his "mother".

Later on in the battle with Querehsha killed by Jinwoo, who easily tracks down the location of the Beast Monarch (who had left the battle). During his master's absence, from far away, he is seen healing the American hunter, Thomas Andre, who aided Jinwoo earlier in facing the monarchs.

Final Battle Arc

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Frost Elf Monarch Successor Arc

During the battle near the World Tree, Beru arrived to assist Sirka as she confronted Nidhogg. He physically forced open the serpent’s maw so she could reach the head containing the Primordial Darkness. Once she entered, Beru engaged Nidhogg directly, realizing his true form and using full strength for the first time in a long while. Thanks to the nightmare realm created by the Apostle of Nightmares, Beru could unleash his accumulated power without limit.

In the chaos, Beru absorbed the Apostle’s nightmare energy—having previously devoured part of his brain—and transformed his body into a colossal illusion, rivaling Nidhogg’s size. This form overwhelmed the serpent both physically and psychologically. Beru’s power now combined his own evolution-based devouring ability with the Apostle’s illusion-based control, making him a nightmare incarnate.

As Suho revealed the truth behind Beru’s sudden evolution, the Apostle realized that his entire research had been stolen. Beru, now wielding the power of nightmares alongside his Shadow Soldier strength, dominated Nidhogg and protected Sirka until the succession was complete.

Abilities

As a Marshal-Grade ranked shadow and the shadow of the Ant King, Beru is an immensely powerful individual and is the strategic weapon in the shadow army able to adapt to any situation. He is also one of the strongest shadows in Jinwoo's army and is only rivaled by Igris and surpassed by Bellion.

• Immense Strength: Beru possesses immense physical strength. As a testament to this, he was able to effortlessly crush Cha's sword in his bare hand, one-shot an Arch Lich, break out of the Frost Monarch's ice prison, and slash off Querehsha's fingers. Over time his strength increased allowing him to fight against Nidhogg.
• Immense Speed: Beru can move at immense speeds. He was able to effortlessly dodge Cha's attacks at point-blank range without moving his feet, plunge his hand into an Arch Lich's chest before it could even react, and fly from Jeju in Busan in a matter of minutes.
• Immense Durability: Beru possesses immense durability. He was able to tank Jinwoo's attacks during their sparring session without much trouble and get back up after getting pulverized by Bellion.
• Conversation: As a Marshal Grade ranked shadow, Beru is capable of talking to others.
• Regeneration: Like all shadows, Beru can completely regenerate his body as long as his master still has mana.
• Gluttony: Beru is able to absorb the skills and knowledge of those he consumes.
• Healing Magic: Beru is a master healer and was able to not only heal Jinho back to full health from the brink of death, but also heal himself after his sparring match with Jinwoo.
• Flight: Beru can use his wings to fly at high speeds.
• Size Manipulation: Beru is able to increase his strength at the cost of his agility and speed by growing in size, and vice versa by compressing his body.
• Paralysis Poison: Beru can spit an extremely concentrated poison from his mouth using his bladed tentacle-esque tongue. Due its magical nature, this poison is exponentially more toxic than its original version and kills a target in seconds.
• Harsh Orders: Beru can increase another individual's stats by 50% at the cost of their sanity for a brief period of time.
• True Slaughter: Is a skill that targets the opponents vital points increasing both power and speed.
• Unwithering Spring: After consuming the Apostle of the Infinite ability he acquires the ability to receive infinite divine power from the Outer God but to receive that immense power it involves piercing a direct gate the Outer God existing in a far distant universe.
• Barrier Magic: A skill open devouring Orloff allowing beru to create magical barriers that is potent enough withstand against and Outer Gods Wrath's to an great extent. Additionally combined with the infinite mana supplied from Jinwoo and Unwithering Spring and allows the barrier to separating and severing space and pierce Dimensional walls.

Trivia

• Beru is named after French novelist Bernard Werber, who authored a famous book in 1991 called Empire of the Ants.
• In the novel, after Beru loses most of his powers during his tenure as Suho's adviser, he appears as a chibi version of himself instead of just a floating head.
• Beru is the second strongest shadow in Jinwoo's shadow army, only being behind Bellion and rivaled by Igris.

External Links

• Beru on the Heroes Wiki