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chapter 62 the prototypes

chapter 62 the prototypes

Maxwell used his necrotic sight to examine the divine artifacts of the monster pantheon looking over inch of the divine relics he now had in his possession. He was now found himself thinking about what to do with the relics. As well he had been given permission to do as he willed with them that didn't mean he shouldn't try to use them in the most optimal manor possible nor that he shouldn't be respectful as well.

So taking all that into consideration Maxwell found his mind swirling with ideas on how to use the divine artifacts but he had to choose the best. So he began to go through them with the process of elimination hoping he would have the best idea by the end of his thought process. The first and most obvious would be to create a temple to the monster gods and have the divine artifacts displayed there.

Maxwell thoughts on the idea for a few moments before dismissing it. Well it would be respectful to the artifacts and the monster gods that created them it would also mean the artifacts saw no use which would be a bit of waste. Which would probably be disrespectful in of itself to the aetifacts and the monster pantheon that created them. so that idea was out and it was on to the next one.

The next idea in line would be to find warriors he could bestow the artifacts on to that would be both champions of the gods that made the artifacts and of his realm. The problem with this idea was for that to work he would have to have great warriors of martial prowess. He did not have that well it was true he had powerfull elementals in the undead smog grass elementals and he had what could be considered vivacious slayers of life with his undead insects. Not to mention his smog grass catapults were always willing to prove their ability to bring devastation to the living.

The problem is none of these were skilled warriors. They were more than capable as forces of the undead but when bringing the artifact of a monster god you did not want to be shamed because the one welding it wasn't able to use it properly. Now the grass pixies could do it but he didn't have anyone among them he could trust and well Wormer or one of his worm dark pixie clamsmen might prove worthy to wield a divine relic they were to few to risk any of them at this juncture.

So the champion idea was out as well leaving Maxwell with the final and most difficult idea but the one that was probably the best out of all them. Which was use the three monster god artifacts to create a new monster. It seemed a rather tell ask for one as lowly as him but surely there is no other great form of faithful worship to the monster god pantheon then the creation of a monster in their name.

Though how he was going to do it was going to be a bit of a problem. Maxwell pondered on the issue for a long while and came to the conclusion that the best option was to create a body that would then have the three artifacts added when it was brought to life. This would create a monster of immense power surely and one that would make sure his realm was protected. As none would ever threaten him or his kingdom if they new such a monster would retialate against them.

Though with artifacts of such power he would have to do a few test runs before he did it with the divine artifacts. " So it is time to experiment once more!" Maxwell said excitement filling his necrotic voice at what he would soon get to create. Though first he needed to gather material for his experiments. So he gave a command through his necrotic connection and soon his undead butterflies and undead hornets were dropping of heaps if material in front of the inner wall that was near him personally.

He waited for a little bit letting the pipe fill with twigs, leaves, grass, pebbles and corpses of dead insects. Maxwell looked at all the material he had and figured he would experiment with what he learned from the pixie grass clans invading. He would also seperate the process into two phases with an initial frame phase and then a secondary part where the nesscery part would be put in. This will allow him to practice for the divine artifacts monster he planned to create later.

So now that he has set on a course of action there was only one question left. " Where do I began?" Maxwell said somehow feeling a phantom smile on his skull though it was phantom as he didn't have the lips or the muscles to have a real smile. Maxwell though on how he should experiment for a moment and came to a conclusion that he would start with what he had seen from the battle fleet belonging to the grass pixies.

So just as he had said he would be began with the body. He took from the piles of material with hands made of smog using them to get twigs out and began using them to make a frame similar to the grass pixie warships. Maxwell spent a long while bending and shaping the frame to get it right. Once that was done he got dead grass and wrapped it around the different parts of the twig frame forming the walls of the vessel.

Maxwell looked over his work once he was done and adding the dead grass he then proceed to add dark worm magic to it. This caused several worms made out of dark ooze to appear and began squirming and wrapping around the frame of the new ship. The worms of dark ooze finnaly stopped moving once they had reached where they were heading within the vessel. Theae magic worms caused the frame to become firmer as loose parts were tighned and the dead grass to hardened as they waved themselves into it.

This casting of magic left the ship's body done now it was time to add three parts to truly bring it to life. Though first he had to create the parts to began with and the most obvious was the sail. So he began doing just that. He first grabbed a rather long twig and some leafs from the pile of material. He then cast his dark worm fey magic once again binding the leafs to the twig.

With that done he then began the next step and began to cast his usual ghost winds though this time he didn't destroy any leafs to do it causing no ghost leaf to form in the necrotic winds. He then had this winds pushed into the small leaf sail causing the lower half of the leafs to be shredded and cause a small gust of wind to blow around that had small shredded ghost leaves flowing it. Maxwell looked over his little haunted leaf sail and found himself happy with it.

So he moved on to the next item for the ship. Which he figure should be a figure head. So he got to work and grabbed a lot twigs even had his undead insects bring in a few more before he got to making it. Once he felt he had enough he began to work crafting a two headed mask with one face sad the other angry. He wasn't an artist so well not the greatest thing ever it looked decent enough he thought when he was done.

With the body made he then filled the angry face with necrotic rage smog and the sad face with sad necrotic smog causing the eyes in both joined faces to glow ominously once he was finished. Though with the magic applied to the figure head he now had two items of power for the ship so he moved on to the third and final item.

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Maxwell figured the ship he was working on should have a way to hunt things that were below it. So he first grabbed some twigs once more and began shaping them creating a giant skeletal clawed hand that when attached the ship should allow it to hunt anything beneath it. Once he was done crafting the claw to the best of his ability he then filled with the magic of dark worm fey. This caused what seemed like veins to appear in the claw but was the dark worm fey magic making the claw magic easier to use.

Now with three items of power for his expermination Maxwell grabbed all three with his hand of necrotic smog and carefully added them to the ship. Maxwell watched as a change seem to come over the new warship as the three items war incorporated into it. Maxwell watched the ship as it went through practice maneuvers using it ghost leaf gust to move on its small river of rage and sad smog that it created beneath itself. At one point Maxwell even had the ships use its claw to snatch some rocks for him which it did with rather explosive results as the ships claw shattered the rock with ease and by mistake.

With that last test done Maxwell sent the ship off to began patrolling around him in his capital territory. "So on to the next experiment which will be based on the hydra. Though my attempt won't have as many heads." Maxwell said to himself a bit eager to began the next round of experiments as he was always eager to get new units for his realm though he might not have always showed it. But he was a skull so he didn't think anyone could hold it against him.

So since he was doing three objects of power for this round of experiments. He would instead of making a full nine headed hydra he would instead make a three head serpent. So with the plan he got to first grabbing a lot of dead grass and shaping the serpents lower body then once hat was done the three upper necks. This took a lot of time but once he was done Maxwell used his dark worm fey magic conjuring worm made of black ooze and having them act as threads binding the giant three headed serpent body together making it more stable.

With the body done Maxwell moved on to the heads taking pebbles from the pile and slowly shaking them into three serpent skulls. Once that was done he moved on to making the three serpent skulls powerfull objects. He did this by filling each of them with necrotic magic. He filled one with angry necrotic smog another with sad necrotic smog and the last with his ghost wind.

Once all three serpent skulls were done being filled with necrotic magic Maxwell attached them to the three headed grass serpent body and watched it as it came to undeath. He watched the three headed serpent as it came into its new existence and slithered around getting used to its form. Though once Maxwell thought it had gotten good at moving Maxwell had the three serpent show the effect of its necrotic heads.

The results were rather interesting as the host wind head sucked in things to then shoot out phantom versions of whatever it had devoured. The angry necrotic serpent head shot out a gas that turned all plant caught in it into angry grass serpents. While the final serpent head the sad necrotic serpent head shot out a strange substance that moved like tears when it hit the ground but also burned anything it touched.

So all in all Maxwell was rather satisfied with his three headed grass serpent. So with him now satisfied with it he had the three headed serpent patroll like the battleship he had made earlier was. " Well it's now time for the final experiment. Which also happens to be the one closest to what I'll be doing with the divine artifacts later." Maxwell said to himself both eager and wary. As this experiment wouls show how well his plans with the divine artifacts would go.

The experiment would be replicating what the grass pixies had done when creating that strange living armor of theirs hence why he had gotten his creations to gather the insect corpses. As he needed them for this specific experiment. So Maxwell began gathering material for the experiment from his material pile. He chose to go with mantices, beetles and centipedes as the material for his creation.

Once the insect bodies were chosen he got to work. Maxwell first took the centiped and sure he'd them to their max limit as he made their bodies both the spine and the limbs of his creation. Once he had them all layed out as he wanted he then added beetles making them armor for what he was making. Once the beetles were all placed over the centiped skeleton Maxwell then added the mantices making them essentially hidden close blades scattered through out the strange amalgamation he was creating.

Once Maxwell had double checked the placement of everything several times and was sure everything was where it needed to be he then used the magic of the dark worm fey to conjure worms of black ooze. The black ooze worms sprang up and into the strange insect form Maxwell had created binding it together. With that done Maxwell moved on to creating artifacts for it to use.

He first created a chest piece made out of pebbles figuring extra protection never went wrong. Once he had finished created the chest piece he filled with angry necrotic smog causing it to dark angry hurt and become sharper. Maxwell having finished the chest piece moved onto a helmet once again taking pebbles and slowly crafting them into the shape he needed using his necrotic power.

Once the helmet was fully shaped he put sad necrotic smog in it causing tears of green to pour out of the eye socket that burned the ground where they hit. Now with a helmet and chest piece done he decided to make a gauntlet with a big spike on the end. Once again using pebbles he quickly crafted it and once he was sure it was good he filled it with dark worm fey magic.

Which gave Maxwell the strange task of watching as the strange worm magic dug into the spike wiggling into and causing it to turn. This gave the gauntlet a drill bit effectively instead of a spike. Maxwell now had three apowerfull items for his rather strange bug armor and so he put it on the creation and watched as it sprang up to its feet. Maxwell had it for through it paces before deciding it was ultimately good to go and sending it to patroll with the other two.

With this Maxwell was done experimenting and could now began his grand act of worship to create a monster with divine relics inside of it. Though before he could do that he had a status window appear informing him of what exactly his creations were.

Through expermination you have created the following units.

The haunted grass warship- it uses the smog generated from its dual headed figure head to sail and it's haunted sail to help push it forward. It also has a claw that has immenseness strength to crush any enemies below it.

The three headed grass skull serpent- a large grass serpent with three magical necrotic skulls each of the skull have a different breath of nectotic might to each other. This allows the serpent to deal slot of damage in a short amount of time well also being hard to counter.

Living insectoid armor- a large body made out of three species of insect it is made almost entirely of carapace making it rather durable. It also has surising amount of hidden mantice blades that acted independent as well as a drill gauntlet to deal massive damage.

This units well expensive are mass producible with the proper facilities.

Maxwell looked over the details of his new units liking what he seeing. But then he looked away from the screen getting back on task as he had great holy work to do. He could try and began mass producing these elite units at a later date. Meanwhile a certain hero was getting closer spelling a possible doom for an unaware Maxwell and his kingdom of necrotic smog.