[h1][center][color=gold]The Rise Of Jaxx[/color][/center][/h1]
[h2][sub][center][color=gold]Hero Chronicles & The Cycle of Asheel[/color][/center][/sub][/h2]
[h3][sub][center][color=gold]The Goblin Savior[/color][/center][/sub][/h3]

Galaxor soon left his new holy temple before giving instructions to Maxima and her tribe to make sure they don’t cut into the tree’s roots…’lest they’ll attract the wrath of a different divine being. His destination? A place where he felt hundreds, if not more, goblins all at once and where Jaxx’s essence can be felt from. 

Appearing above the giant river, Galaxor’s majestic form cast a large shadow over the goblins, who, out of a sense of fear and maybe recognizing their creator, went on their knees. 

“[color=gold]Ha! HA! HA! Cute little goblins! You don’t need to fear me, I’ve created you. I am your creator, if I wanted you gone…I wouldn’t have made you. Ha! HA HA! Gods, you sure are cute on your knees. Isn’t there at least ONE of you standing up to me? One of you trying to show me who’s the big bad goblin, defender of his kind? A HERO?! [/color]” shouted Galaxor with his usual happy but challenging tone. 

Responding to his challenge, one goblin stood up. One goblin that was 2 metres tall and had grey skin. He pointed a hand at Galaxor and shouted at him…something as he charged Galaxor, who has since landed.

“[color=gold]Oh’ my. Jaxx! There you are and you’re attacking me? You remind me of myself a bit, y’know? HAHAHA! Little one, I shall only use my little finger on you. [/color]” continued Galaxor as he easily evaded every single one of Jaxx's clumsy blows. As Jaxx became more and more winded, Galaxor decided to end the match. Lifting his little finger, he [i]very[/i] gently tapped Jaxx’s chest sending him flying.

The goblin skipped like a stone across the waters of the river, and then began sinking down into it as the goblins wailed in dismay, and the Daffotales chattered, relaying this tale all along the river bank. 

Then after a moment the goblin suddenly re-surfaced, and seemed to be standing atop the water. In actuality he was standing atop the back of a sea-turtle-goblin that had bailed him out, stoking its inner fire of helpfulness in the process, but only those close to him could see that. To the others it appeared to be a miracle. .

The goblins around were amazed, letting out cheers for Jaxx and Galaxor for saving Jaxx. Even if Jaxx lost the fight, he had the guts to do it and in Galaxor's eyes it was enough. 

"[Color=gold]Good fight, little one. You haven't backed down for 1 second! Very impressive but you lack a lot of skills. Like, a lot, a lot. You definitely need to train more but I guess you've earned something from me. First of all, here. [/color]" shouted Galaxor as he waved his hand and taught Jaxx the language of the Goblins. Nothing requiring even a smidgen of divine power, just a simple download of information. 

But Jaxx wasn't done. He jumped from atop the turtle back on the shore and screamed at the top of his lungs: 

"[Color=gray]I'm not done! For what you've made me to, I'll take you down! No matter what![/color]" 

Galaxor lifted an eyebrow at him and let out a laugh that shook the ground and pinned down the goblins that were closer to him.

"[Color=gold]You want to fight, little Jaxx? Very well. No magic, no divine power, no tricks. [/color]" said Galaxor when he finally managed to stop laughing. 

At that, Galaxor's form shrunk and changed to match Jaxx’s. His muscles retracted, his aura diminished, everything that would scream "DIVINE!" was gone for a mortal at least.

Not that Jaxx cared, he started throwing blows at Galaxor. One by one, they'd be defected and he'd be hit back with the exact same strength that Jaxx put behind them. It was clear for everyone around that Galaxor, even reducing his powers to a mere mortal, would be the winner. 

"[Color=gold]It isn't about divine power. This is only pure skill. I'm using the same strength that he does, same speed, everything is mortal levels. Everything but my experience and skill. I've trained longer and I became stronger than anyone else. Even when I was a mortal I worked my way up and now I'm a God and so can you…if you train hard enough. I give you my word as a divine being. [/color]" said Galaxor while fighting without any interruption. For him this was nothing more than friendly sparring but for Jaxx…Jaxx took it more seriously. One could clearly see that Jaxx was giving it his all and that he was slowly improving as he was fighting. 

For less than a nanosecond, Galaxor became distracted and felt something. But it was enough for Jaxx to strike him with a glancing blow. Closer than any other hit before. One could see Jaxx's pride when he managed to touch the God of Heroes and then the pain in his body, as Galaxor shook his head at Jaxx's pride that had no skill to match it.

"[Color=gold]Very well. [/color]" it's all that Galaxor said. His Heroic Aspect awakened. The goblins around cowered in fear as every survival instinct they had screamed [b]RUN[/b]. Even Jaxx, in his hatred, noticed it.

Galaxor caught both of Jaxx's arms and broke them and as Jaxx screamed, Galaxor lifted Jaxx in the air by the throat, looked him square in the eyes and uttered one word.
"[Color=gold]Yield.[/color]"

But Jaxx didn't, instead closing to strike at Galaxor with his feet. Kick, kick, kick…kic…ki…k……
"[Color=gold]Yield. [/color]" 

To the right, in the distance, sand exploded into the air in a line travelling along the outskirts of the river land, only for the twin showers of sand to turn into one blast as whatever was kicking it all up pulled a sharp turn straight towards them. The source, a wheel, came flying through the air, landing in the clearing the god and mortal had been fighting in, before it began to rapidly circle them.

As the wheel spun donuts around the pair, the pointy hatted goblin running like a madwoman inside the wheel pointed a finger at Galaxor and demanded he “put the guy down right now, miser!”

The Heroic Aspect of Galaxor didn't care about the sand exploding, nor the shockwave it made. For THA Galaxor, it was background noise.

He felt the divine essence around him and spared the divine a glance with one eye before returning to Jaxx.

"[Color=gold]Yield. Now. [/color]" he said once more. 

To which Jaxx eventually nodded and uttered a weak "yield…" 

The moment the words were uttered, Jaxx’s arms and bruises healed but he fell unconscious on the ground.

Returning to his usual self, Galaxor turned to the other divine and offered her a bow as he returned to his size, his muscles bulging, smile wide and mesmerising. 

"[Color=gold]Ha! Ha! HA!! Greetings O Muse of mine. I thought I felt you earlier. Let me introduce myself, I am Galaxor! The God Of Heroes, The Hero Maker, Divine Artisan of Heroes, Celestial Forger of Legendary Champions, Master of Heroic Destinies, Architect of Heroism and Valor, Weaver of Epic Tales, Cosmic Mentor of Heroic Prodigies, The Legendary Enabler of Greatness, Creator of Champions, The Mythweaver, The Cosmic Patron of Heroic Aspirations, The Celestial Architect of Legendary Deeds" and this was a duel, no harm done. [/color]" 

“Jeez that’s quite a mouthful” the small goblin goddess said, still spinning around, before deciding “I’ma call you Gax instead” before furrowing her brow furrowed as she rolled her mind back to the start of his words and repeated “muse?” right before shifting form.

Galaxor put a hand on his chest as if struck in the heart. "[Color=gold]Gax? No, no, no! Gaxi. That's what maidens would call me. [/color]" said Galaxor before laughing it off. 

He turned towards the goblins as Asheel told him off and looked at them inquisitively before turning back to Asheel.

"[Color=gold]Yes, Muse. We haven't been properly introduced but I needed inspiration for my goblins and I gazed upon your form, one of them at least. I think it was…the youngest one and you’ve reminded me of something I forgot, a different life from before I raised myself to become the God of Heroes. I knew right then and there, I had to do something ‘lest I forget that memory again and I gave life to the goblins, all shaped like you with a bit of a personal spin. [/color]” 

“Gaxi huh? Call me a Maiden then because that’s a cute name” the goblin said with a mischievous grin, only to be cut off by and with a “No!”

In the blink of an eye, the wheel was replaced by a crystal sphere that slid to a halt, from within which a middle aged goblin woman, also wearing a pointy hat, glowered at him. 

“We are Asheel, and you? You have something to answer for!” she declared from within her spherical chariot, before flicking a hand and causing sand swept skulls to spill out of the entrance of the orb to pile between them. “You really think I'll believe you’d do no harm when this is the care you have for your creations. Cast into the desert to die?! Created to suffer and perish if not for my helping hand?” 

“[color=gold]I’ve got to answer? I don’t answer to anyone, my muse but I’ll set your record straight. I wouldn’t purposely kill any of my creations in a duel unless they’d agree with it. Any of the goblins around will agree to the fact that I’ve met Jaxx in battle as a mortal, not a divine being. I haven’t used anything divine. Just my skill. How else would he learn? How else would a hero grow to be a hero if not met with a stronger foe than they are? Jaxx here choosed the best foe he could, myself. His creator. If he wishes to defeat me, he’ll have to train and train until he becomes stronger than me…as for the others? Cast into the desert to die? What do you mean? Jaxx here was able to survive even without your help. He fought his fear and met the crystal creature, he knew he stood no chance against it…so, he befriended it. Quite…heroic I’d say. All the other ones could’ve done that. Any hero worth their salt will tell you that without struggle, they would’ve never become a true hero. The strong would’ve survived anywhere I would’ve thrown them, even in the ocean if they had the drive to do it. Also, they weren’t all in the desert. I threw them [i]everywhere[/i] on the planet. If too many of them would’ve died, I would’ve saved them myself. Yet…I didn’t. That was by design, not a flaw. [/color]” said Galaxor, his voice weirdly calm. Collected. 

“Rather neatly leaving out the part where [i]I[/i] pulled him out of the desert I see” the goblin noted “If you were the only god, he would still be dead, perseverance or no”

 “Is this what passes for gods beyond the cycle?“ she then asked, before listing off his failings with the tone of a disappointed mother “Deceitful, irresponsibly from passing the care of your creations off on to others, and a complete lack of foresight when it comes to seeing the consequences of your actions. Given you’re not the only one to dump mortals in the desert it seems so” and then shaking her head at this sad state of affairs.

Galaxor looked hurt initially before shaking his head. “[color=gold]Maybe, [i]just[/i] maybe you’ve got a point. I should thank you for saving the ones that would’ve died. The struggle they went through will forge them into greater heroes. [/color]” replied Galaxor, suddenly calmer than before, all while bowing slightly to the goblin god.

“[color=gold]And yes, you’ve pulled Jaxx out of the desert but I’m sure you’ve seen that he wasn’t far from habitable lands. Lands which needed a hero to be. But I think I can see your point. To a degree. You don’t grasp the concept of heroism, out of no fault of your own. I’m sure I don’t understand your cycle any better. To make up for it, if you wish to guide the goblins here to the underground, they’ll have everything they need. Food, a leader our their own kind, shelter, protection from the elements and knowledge. [/color]”

“Don’t mind her, she just doesn’t know how to let go” Asheel’s third form took over to say, the old goblin leaning casually on her spiky wheeled vehicle, before adding “Everything has to end, even your foolishness”

“And that just means something new can begin. It’s not like they're gone after all” the Maker who had named herself Maiden added, before pointing at a skull in the pile and then at a 3 day old goblin one in the arms of his mother and saying “see he’s over there now. Same soul, new turn of the cycle”

“And yet what a waste of the first” The Maintainer broke back in again to say “What can he learn from his past life? Nothing other than what it feels like to die of dehydration”

“He knows it can always be worse, and that we have made sure that death is nothing to fear”  the Breaker insisted, before the Maiden quietly pointed out that “Or will. We still need to teach them how to actually get in touch with the past”

“This … is getting off topic” the Maintainer insisted, before getting back to the point “you want to take them underground? Why? Is this river not a lovely thing? A perfect place for living”

“Well it [i]is[/i] getting a bit overcrowded,” one of the Daffotales interjected, before asking “What? It is!” When every creature with green skin looked at it with frank amazement that it had enough ego to butt into a conversation between gods.

“It does… have a point” the Maintainer admitted “The beastfolk someone else also dumped everywhere have doubled the population and some of them are a bit … rowdy”

“So tell me more about this underground” she conceded, before adding caveats “is it safe? Is there space, food and water enough for all the goblins you would [i]invite[/i] there? Is there adequate transportation in and out of this underground?” not at all trusting him to have thought this through. 

Galaxor took a seat as the 3 aspects of the divine discussed between themselves. He summoned something in his right hand and eat with his left, from time to time. That something was invisible to the mortals. 

"[Color=gold]Beast folk? Is that what I saw down the river? Those sound interesting, must pay'em a visit but that's for later. But how are they rowdy? Have they attacked anyone? Killed goblins? If so…I think we have a task for Mr. Jaxx here. Anyways. Now. What was that? Underground. It's very safe, hidden from view, deep underground. Last I went there, they slowly started to dig upwards. I've created them an artefact that provides them air, one that gives them food and one that holds knowledge. They bring things to it and it shows them different usages of what they've brought it. Think of it like a recipe book. Transportation to the surface is, as I said, in progress by the goblins themselves. Again, this is by design. Above them, stands the Khodex and that big tree. If these goblins leave here now, they'll reach the underground exactly when the surface will be reached. Unless you're going to offer them a lift, of course. [/color]" said Galaxor, the jumble of words coming out of his mouth.

“Oh yeah, there’s some bad seeds among them for sure-” the Daffotale once again spoke up to reply to the question regarding the beastfolk “-and among the goblins too, sure, but the most bestial of the beast folk ones are way more capable of being a nuisance, if what I’ve been told is true. I heard of this one that’s called ‘Maw Who Slew In Salvation.’ Spooky title right? And then there’s the Fisher King, The Talons which Crave Prey, Birbarus the Dreadful, The Stalker of Scale and Tooth, Death Roller and-”

At that point the goblin goddess started to speak over the plant to summarise that “Yes, It seems there are a number of folk who have learned rather … poor lessons from the desert. To sadly be expected when the only edible thing around is other people”

“She wanted to handle each and every one of them herself, the coddler” the Breaker mocked the Maintainer's apparent position on that  matter, before stating “but there’s power to be gained from breaking an impactful pattern like the regular spilling of blood, and the mortals deserve to claim that for themselves”

“And power in forming one too” the Maiden agreed “like a string of heroic victories against the odds! That sounds like a cool one” 

“Yes, well, helping the mortals help themselves would be a boon to them I’m sure, should they wish to receive it” the Maintainer conceded, only to push back against his cave idea by pointing out a few flaws “as for your little cave, well I’m quite concerned by the apparent singular points of failure it has. A single artefact breaking, being stolen, or what have you, and the whole place turns into a death trap”

The Breaker shrugged at this fate, but the Maiden was interested, saying that “Well maybe we can make it more self sustaining? Add some cycles down there that can keep themselves running? You’d need some kinda power source like the sun. Only better than the sun, coz it's kinda a single point of failure too right? Same with the source of this river”

“I suppose” the Maintainer conceded again, before getting down to the crux of the issue, namly “you’ll have a hard time convincing them to go with you however, given your previous performance” she gestured to the pile of skulls that was still sitting between them, a reminder of both god’s position in the goblin’s eyes. Perhaps she should have not been quite so confident in her own higher standing in their eyes however, given the Daffotale was still listing off the nicknames of infamous beastfolk that she had delivered into their midst. 

Galaxor only laughed as the three Asheels talked between themselves and to him.

“[color=gold]Let’s split your bits, shall we? First of all. Heroic victories is what I’m all about. Victory against all odds. That’s what Jaxx here was trying to achieve after all. Defeat me in single combat because I dropped him into the desert and he had to survive…by any means necessary. If these beastfolk cause issues, I’m sure Jaxx here will rise to the task and he’ll even get a boon from me if he does…to help me in his journey. [/color]”  said Galaxor as he raised 1 finger in the air.

“[color=gold]Second of all. There is no chance of failure. I’ve got something hidden in there as well. If something would happen, I’d know and I’ve got a plan for their food…soon. Just need to gather some more power to do so. You could say…I’m in the process of learning some new things. As for a power source, they’ve got magma, lots of it. Go and see if you don’t believe me. As soon as they learn how to use it, they’ll be very well off.  [/color]” as he raised another finger in the air.

“[color=gold]And last but not the least, I don’t [i]need[/i] to convince anyone to do anything. They can do however they wish. They can stay here, go to the place where the Goblin Queen will rise from or they can go to the goblin states in the south east. It’s absolutely up to them. They can do whatever they want. It’ll be a journey either way. Here they’ll have to face the beastfolk, in the goblin states they’ll have to fight each other and the Goblin Underground? They’ll have to face Maxima. No matter what they choose, it’ll be a heroic journey. The weakest of them will either die or become strong. The strongest of them will become stronger, heroic. [/color]” 

“The little dears can’t exactly [i]choose[/i] travel somewhere that isn’t accessible yet now can they?” the Breaker sardonically pointed out before the Maiden was more fixated on the fact that “The world was full of spinning hot goop?” which she thought was “So cool!” after which the Maintainer got back on topic and said “And even for these ‘goblin states’, whatever they are, it's quite a trek I imagine, especially for those further away from the sea” 

“Oh, we’ve heard some stuff about them coming along the grapevine. They have this metal called copper they get by melting rocks! Neat isn’t it?” The fearless Daffotale broke off its recounting of the world's many villains to interject again, this time about tales that had come up from where the rivers flowed into the goblin states.

“That’s lovely dear” the Maintainer said dismissively before pausing and then actually addressing the flowers ”wait, what else do they have? Something to help people travel long distances perhaps?” to which the plant replied “yeah! They have these little things called boat  for travelling on rivers”

“Fascinating” the Maintainer replied, before turning back to Galaxor and saying “Well that might solve that problem, if you give them some time to interrogate the flowers for all this information they’ve apparently been picking up. Enough time for these diggers to breach the surface I suppose”  

“[color=gold]You’re misunderstanding me, I think. They can choose to travel to the Goblin Underground and by the time they reach it they will have reached the surface. How they get that isn’t my problem. They can find ways for themselves. For example, as your flowers have noticed, others have invented boats to travel up and down the river. If one is persistent enough, any problem that comes their way will be resolved. Creative thinking, strength of will, the power of their internal cycle if you want to call it like that. It is up to them. They’re free to do whatever they want, that’s why I created them after all. Heroes will rise wherever they are good, bad or somewhere in the middle or they can choose to stay here and do what they’re doing. They can do whatever they can and want. I threw them all over Galbar, a thing that I can understand that might’ve caused them pain, so that they’re everywhere and do something with this world. Others have created slaves tied only to their worship or to follow their commands or creatures with a specific purpose in mind. I didn’t. But, feel free to see for yourself. Come to the underground, see how the other goblins live. We can go as soon as I give Jaxx here, a gift for having the guts to face me in battle. [/color]” 

“You have been rather talking around each other, so how about we break that cycle and move on dearies” the Breaker suggested, to which the Maiden agreed “Yeah, I wanna see new stuff”

“Fine fine, gift away” the Maintainer conceded with a wave of her hand, before being replaced by the Breaker who cackled and joked that “she’s sulking”

“[color=gold]HA! HA! HA! You figured out what I was doing! HA! HA! Well played, Maintainer of the Breaking Maidens. Very well. Jaxx! Wake up! [/color]” laughed Galaxor with a hand on his belly before turning to Jaxx, who stood up almost immediately. Something inside him stirred as his creator spoke to him. 

Jaxx stood up and while initially prepared a punch to throw at Galaxor, stopped when he realised he wasn’t alone this time. The other divine. The goblin divine. She was present too. He stopped his plan and turned towards the lady.

“[color=gray]My saviour. I thank you for saving my life. [/color]” said Jaxx with as much courtesy he could muster.

“You’ve got the wrong one of us deary” the Breaker, replied, before telling Jaxx that “You’ll have to wait till she’s not in a huff to tell her that yourself, looks like”

“[color=gold]Now, now. Jaxx, I understand you wish to defeat me. It’s a fine goal and one couldn’t find a better enemy but you’ve got to train a long time to reach my level and you’ll need to go many quests. You’re angry at me because you had to kill your tribe to survive, well, now there are others that are killing goblins. Many, many goblins and not because they don’t have any choice. I offer you this deal. Go on this quest, save your fellow goblins and if you win, I’ll offer you a rematch on equal footing. [/color]” 

Conflicted initially, Jaxx eventually nodded. He wished to save his kin and he wished to kill Galaxor and if doing quests for him are the only way for that to happen, then that’s what he’ll do. 

“[color=gray]I agree to your terms. I shall save my kin and we will have our rematch. It’ll be to your death. [/color]” 

Galaxor laughed at the sudden seriosity of Jaxx then turned serious himself too. His aura blaring with power, pushing the goblins around to the ground, pinning them there. 

“[color=gold]Ok. Sounds like a challenge. [/color]” the Heroic Aspect of Galaxor said before the aura was reduced in size and the cheerful Galaxor “came” back.

“[color=gold]I shall offer you two blessings to help you in your quest. Be smart and use them. First, you’ll receive the hero's senses. They will act as an early danger system. If something’s coming your way, you’ll know about it a few seconds before. 

You will, as well, receive the ability to sense if others that are part of your quest are near to you and their general direction. Use it to guide you wherever you need to go. These two are not making you a true hero. You’ll earn that yourself. [/color]” said Galaxor as a wisp of divine power flew from him to Jaxx. As the wisp connected to Jaxx, his eyes turned a bright yellow. Soon he’d find out that his eyes will never change colours again, they’ll always be bright yellow and they’ll always shine in the dark. 

Afterwards, Jaxx gathered whatever weapon he could find and went where his senses told him. Somehow he [i]knew[/i] just where to go. 

“[color=gold]Apologies it took so long, Maintainer of the Breaking Maidens. Business is concluded. Let us go. Permit me to teleport us. [/color]” said Galaxor as he teleported both of them to the goblin underground.

“You really have an endless amount of breath, don’t you deary. Asheel will do just fine” the Breaker told him (not that it helped), before letting the Maiden take over again so she could get a look at all the new things there were to see down here.

While not much time passed since he was there last, it already looked different than before. There were many different stone tablets with information they gathered from the Smilegma written down, goblins were walking in every direction trying to write as much as they could about their closed-up world. Some were mining and talking with a goblin which wrote everything they could about the miners and their techniques. There was a very audible murmur of voices, of knowledge being shared all around the cave. Different types of furniture could be seen in the cave and clear delimited areas with built walls were made in the cave. It started to look more like a city than a cave.

As soon as the two divines appeared, it seemed like the whole cave just stopped. Maxima quickly stood up from her chair, goblins making her space to approach the two divines.

“[color=red]Greeting creator and divine guest. We are greatly honoured to receive you in our home! Creator, we’ve followed your indication and have started learning new things, everything we know is being written down and the tablets have been stored into a newly dug out room. Smilegma called it a “library design”. We’ve stored everything there neatly on shelves. Progress is slow going more down unfortunately, the rocks seem harder to break than before and the tools of our miners are breaking faster than we can repair them. [/color]” said Maxima with a bow. 

“[color=gold]Thank you, Maxima. You’re following up on my plans, you’re learning more things. I appreciate it. Well, Maintainer of the Breaking Maidens. This is the Goblin Underground and that’s Maxima. The Queen. [/color]”

“Super neat place you’ve got down here Gaxi” The Maiden, who had stepped out of her wheel and darted out to read the entirety of the library in the time it had taken for Maxima to give her status update, and particularly fixating on one rather new discovery that she found very funny as she read the tale bout them.

“ooo and glowing ‘spooky’ rocks. I want some!” she declared before in a flash she had returned to her wheel, sped off, and then returned with one which she looked rather more contemplative than entertained. She eyed the glowing rock. Polished it on her dress.Then bite it lightly.

“Hmmm. Tough. Super tough” she noted, before biting clean through it  and then examining the two halves, the exposed cores of which revealed the entire thing to be a luminous diamond of some kind “buuuuut also kinda easy to cut. I mean not for you lot with the tech you got, but still. Hmmm”

She then proceeded to ‘peel’ one half of the diamond like an onion using her teeth, cutting it until she had fully exposed its shimmering centre. She examined her work for a moment, before sticking it into her mouth again, and chomping away. As she did she moved over to the goblin’s primitive copper forge, and made herself a disk of heated metal. She stuck the rim into her mouth as well, and began affixing a series of razor sharp thin slices of diamond onto the outside, till she had formed a circular saw with a diamond blade.  

“And there, all done” she declared as she spun the saw around on one finger, before approaching the other uncut half of the diamond and telling them to “now watch this” before using her new saw to first cut that diamond, and then split it into more blade fragments.

“And just like that, you can make more of these without my help, and a bunch of other stuff with diamond tips too. Like drills. Trust me you wanna make those, it'll be great” she told them as she set down the blade next to the shards, and then gestured to offer both to the queen.

Galaxor continued talking with Maxima about what other events happened since he was last there, learning about Tunni and Ralk, the new tribe that joined and brought glowing diamonds with them. Lots of events.

Nonetheless, as he talked with Maxima, his senses were trained on Asheel. He noticed how she left to go to the library and potentially read everything inside and then she brought with her…the glowing diamond. Galaxor excused himself from Maxima and watched with great interest what Asheel was making.

A blade. A saw. Knowledge of tools above any others created in this world. Now [i]that[/i] was interesting. Galaxor quietly motioned to Maxima to take the blade and the shards which she did, slowly, carefully and still managed to cut herself slightly.

“[color=gold]My, my. You’ve sure evolved my goblins quite a lot with diamond technology. This will propel their civilization a lot forward. Especially with the Smilegma now having access to diamonds and unlocking new technologies for them. Maintainer of Breaking Maiden, if I’m not mistaken, I’d say you like my people and…maybe changed your mind about this place, am I correct? [/color]” said Galaxor with a laugh and a large smile.

“[color=gold]You know, I owe you a favour now. Tell me, what do you wish for? Maybe a hero? Someone to spread your ways? I’d take that, trust me, my heroes…they’re a bit different than your usual hero. Or maybe you require an upgrade to your wheel. [/color]” 

“Hey now [i]I[/i] was always a fan” the Maiden insisted, before pointing out that “I mean you already gave me a hero to root for buuuuuut if you still wanna trick out my ride I ain’t gonna say no now am I?” the little goblin replied, stepping out of her wheel and gesturing to it “so tell, me, what did ya have in mind?”

“[color=gold]Do the others agree with the pimping of your ride? I’m more than happy to leave it as a favour for later but if they don’t have any issue…Do you wish your ride to sense danger to mortals, seeing that you like saving them? Maybe you want it to be able to inspire mortals to do heroic acts if they’re in the vicinity or maybe…I’ll leave you Jaxx. How does that sound? I’ll forever remove him from my plans. I still promised him a fight if he manages to save those goblins but after that, I’ll leave him alone forever. How does that sound? [/color]” 

“Deal” the Maintainer popped back in to accept that final offer, before leaving again almost immediately, being briefly replaced by a cackling Breaker who was very amused by that theft, and then finally cycling back to the Maiden again who threw her arms up in frustration, before sighing and huffy also agreeing to that with a “fine”

"[Color=gold]Perfect! He's all yours. Make sure to let him know next time you meet him. Ha! HA! Haha! He'll hate me SO much more! He'll be a worthy adversary. I'm sure! Now, ladies, I think it's time for me to leave. The Goblin Underground has a lot of work to do ahead of them and not sure if you've noticed…but they're all staring at us. Godly presence and all that. 

So, I wish you goodbye and thank you. It was truly a pleasure! [/color]" said Galaxor, turning on his charm and winking at, hopefully, the Maiden.

The Maiden was indeed there to be winked at, and she flushed just a little as a result, before nodding and swiftly agreeing “right up gotta be off things to do adventures to watch! See ya!” before hopping back into her wheel and spinning it around on the spot before vanishing in the blink of an eye.

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Galaxor goes to visit the river lands, and runs into Jaxx. The little goblin tries to fight his creator but is naturally no match. Asheel shows up to try and put a stop to this one sided bout, but the god was merely humouring Jaxx and lets the defeated goblin go.

Asheel’s Maker personality is then rather crucial of Galaxor, what with her having had to save many of his creations from death by desert. The stone wall of personality that is Galaxor takes this all in his stride, and eventually convinces Jaxx to go after various fullblood beast folk trouble makers, and Asheel to come assist the goblins he has in his cave. 

During this talk a Daffoflower keeps interjecting, and in doing so reveals them to be quite the convenient information transmission network, informing the riverfolk both of the goblin city state’s technology, and of the aforementioned trouble makers.

Then the Maker, now going by the Maiden due to some earlier flirting, goes with Galaxor to the underground. She snoops a bunch to learn about all the new things they are doing, finds the glowing rocks from the quest post after reading the goblin’s rendition of the tale, and discovers they are actually glowing diamonds. She turns one into a diamond edged saw blade, and then demonstrates how they can use it to make other diamond edged tools, including, importantly, additional sawblades.

Galaxor offers the Maiden a boon for this gift, but the Maintainer swoops in and steals said boon, getting the god to promise to stop harassing poor Jaxx. 

Then they both go their separate ways.
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[Hider=MP usage] 
Galaxor 
Available MP - 2 
-1 MP + 1MP domain boost: Blessed Jaxx with the hero sense, Jaxx will now have a few seconds of "danger sense" before being attacked or so (Think Spiderman) + blessed Jaxx with the heroic questing sense, he'll know the general direction when people are in danger and can follow it to reach them.
End MP - 1 
Asheel 
Available MP - 5
1 mp, boosted by wheel, to make a diamond tipped copper saw blade (1), and to then teach the goblins of the underground how to make more diamond tools using that blade, most importantly including additional blades (bonus)
End MP - 4
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