Legotas was the god of legends and being a legend was quiet a good thing. Legotas had been a winning streak as far as he could remember l. No challengers to his throne endless new legends to add to his power and ever growing list of tales. Honestly several of his temples looked more like tombs for his archivest with all the scrolls on legends he had in there then actual places of worship.

So when he heard Phabium god of monster was plotting once again he was quiet happy. As everyone of them had failed so far and usually when they did they only added to the strength of his legends. Not to mention with another age of legends coming up which was decades long holiday dedicated solely to him as far as Legotas was concerned. So he didn't have any fears of Phabium breaking the cycle of his monster being cannon fodder for his glorious legends.

Legotas good mood lasted until he heard from his fellow gods about how Phabium wasn't going to get action Zostrora no he was getting outside help. Which as far as Legotas could remember Phabium has never done before and knew enough about someone pulling out something never before seen to be be concerned.

So Legotas knew he had to be on the safe side and interfere as he couldt outright stop the summoning of outside help by Phabium ancient to aws among the gods prevent that. But he could do other things such as messing with where whatever Phabium summoned was supposed to end up.

So he did just once he felt the summoning and something enter Phabium's heavenly domain he simply waited for it to leave once it did he time it just right. Just as the being formed into a skeleton he knew exactly where to send it and swatted it with once of his gold platted hands towards the fairy lands. " Let see how your skeleton does in the land of the fair folk hahahaha." Legotas said in a dark tone before laughing to himself meanwhile a certain skull found himself dealing with the fall out of the gods actions.

Maxwell was at a bit of impasse he didn't have any hands to dig a hole nor did have any bones. So he couldn't start building his bone chamber. He also was missing his legs so he couldn't walk any where to find his hands so he could try and build his bone chamber and start his skeletal kingdom.

Honestly if he had tear ducts Maxwell would probably be crying after god only knows how long in the void he's freed and given a divine task only to fail right out of the gate. " Truly I am a total and complete failure." Maxwell said with such sorrow that when paired with his now undead nature created a black necrotic smog that came out of his empty eye sockets that killed all the grass in about foot diameter area around him.

Distracted momentarily by his sadness at his total failure he took in the dead grass that surrounded him. Then as he was about to wonder if he could do anything with the his new found tears of death to build a kingdom like he was supposed to he began to hear the voice of Phabium.

" My apologies for your rude change in location my new ruler of bone it would appear my rival god Legotas god of legends interfered and sent you into the ancient fairy woods instead of of the bone caves I had meant too. But besides that are you alright?" Phabium asked concerned about Maxwell's being as he doubted Legotas had been gentle with his sudden changing of Maxwell spawning location.

" I've been reduced to just a skull." Maxwell stated sadily worried that Phabium would abandon him considering how badly he had fallen so early in the beganing of his quest. Luckily Phabium would not abandoned his young ruler of bones.

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" Well it appears we'll have to adjust our plans. As you clearly can't start as ruler of skeletons when you aren't a full skeletons yourself. Nor can we wait for you to become whole to began when the inherit magics of the magical forest you are in will be trying to destroy you. So we'll have to adjust accordingly to the current situation." Phabium said to Maxwell as he began to change what exactly Maxwell started as.

This caused Maxwell to feel a sudden change as something fundamental about his new form was changed. He began to leak a constant small stream of black smog from his eye sockets leaking into the small area of dead grass around him.

" There that should help you to become the ruler I have asked you to become no I must caught are connection before I bring the attention of those who's govern the fair folk down upon you. Best of luck I believe you will succeed." Phabium said before his presence was gone and Maxwell was left alone and then the scroll appeared showing him the changes to his undead race.

Undead construct- unlike other undead that are brought back that then set out into the world this undead does not. It instead remains were it is became a building adding more material to itself over time to become an impregnable fortress.

Bonuses can repair and expand its building on its own so long as it hadls the materials. Negative is vulnerable to siege weaponary and and has hard time commanding undead armies.

Ruler form: current form: skull fort- a human skull made to act as a defensive necrotic structure.

Starter building: the tears of smog- the empty eyesl sockets create a continuous flow of black smog that fills the surrounding area maintaining power over the territory the ruler controls and making attackers cross the dead lands around the falls rather then attack from a distance.

Maxwell after looking at the scroll and seeing he had been made into a undead construct from the broken skeleton he had been. Which was good as it seemed his new starter building was the only thing preventing the natural magic which he guessed was some combination of fairy and nature from overwhelming and destroying him as a member of the undead.

Though it was weird to somehow feel a constant flow black smog running down his face from his eye sockets despite not having skin to feel it with. Though he supposed he would get used to it now it was time to get to business if he was to be an undead skull fort he would need defenders.

As it wouldn't be hard to imagine that the local fairy he could see of in the distance were not happy with him skull suddenly appearing and leaking necrotic magic in their part of the forest. So as any decent ruler of the undead should he began to look for bodies to raise into undead then proceeded to run into a problem as there weren't any.

As Maxwell took in his effectively grass graveyard he saw that it seemed his crashing landing has spooked of all the nearby insect and him now leaking deadly necrotic smog was keeping them out. So that meant he had no bodies to raise and considering he could expect the local tiny fairies to come deal with him at some point he would need defenders when that time came.

So as Maxwell took in his grass graveyard he knew he had only one option. " It looks like my first order of business as a skull fort is research and development." Maxwell said as he began looking into seeing what he could do with the only bodies he had which was grass. So began the first step of Maxwell the skull fort in his battles aginst the fairy woods of Gregal.