Undying Legion

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## Summary

Undying Legion is a peak-quality capstone skill that Zac gained as one of his two level 75 skill quests for his Undying Bulwark class. It is an offensive skill that creates an army of skeletons that Zac could command and who also could absorb some of the damage Zac took in battle. It used over half of his miasma to use summon the skeletons, but none was needed to sustain them and each creature killed by a skeleton while in Fields of Despair would generate miasma for Zac.

The skill was fused with Immutable Bulwark to create Profane Exponents using one of his two upgrade skill quest rewards from his Fetters of Desolation Class.

## Skill Quest

* Undying Legion (Class): Gather the resentment by vanquishing 500,000 foes Reward: Undying Legion skill. (500,000/500,000) (Complete) **Book 4, Page 420**
* The quest had been to kill 500,000 things, something he had long accomplished between the beast hordes, all the Zombies, and his grinding during the Hunt. **Book 4, Page 421**

## Skill Location

**Right Wrist**

* The moment he focused on the quest, it immediately disappeared from the list, forming a fractal around his right wrist. **Book 4, Page 421**

## Early Proficiency

* One shape after another started to rise from the hazy shroud created from **[Fields of Despair]**. They were humanoid skeletons that shone with sinister energy, and Zac felt their power was comparable to pretty strong Peak F-grade warriors, judging by their auras. Figures kept rising until over a hundred of them stood in formation, creating a small army. **Book 5, Page 6**
* A thought struck Zac as he watched, and he tried infusing the Fragment of the Coffin into one of the skeletons. The summoned warrior turned a shade darker as a result, and its sword started to emanate a pretty terrifying aura. **Book 5, Page 6**
* Zac kept experimenting with **[Undying Legion]**, and he found that he could infuse the Fragment of the Axe into skeletons as well, but only into the few who were wielding an axe. **Book 5, Page 8**
* It appeared they couldn’t use weapons that he provided either, which made it impossible to hand out a bunch of disposable axes to improve their power. **Book 5, Page 8**
* Only then did the real use of **[Undying Legion**] dawn on him. They were not only soldiers but also decoys that took damage for him. **Book 5, Page 319**
* He wasn’t given a hundred lives, though, judging by the fact that over ten skeletons had been destroyed from one single strike. **Book 5, Page 320**
* The skeletons didn’t stop there, but they kept running into the jungle, only stopping hundreds of meters away when he couldn’t control them any further away. **Book 6, Page 124**

## Late Proficiency

* Reaching High-mastery increased the army to 350 skeletons and added a dozen mages who launched fireballs similar to the turquoise flames of his pygmy. **Book 8, Page 148**

## Peak Proficiency

* At Peak mastery, the skill conjured 500 skeletons while adding 5 captains and one extremely powerful general who would probably be able to defeat anyone else on Earth by himself. **Book 8, Page 148**

## Fusion

* The fit of his skills, especially **[Undying Legion]** and **[Indomitable]**, had worsened in compatibility since evolving, but they were still useful. **Book 5, Page 5**
* The trio came from the last of his skill fusions, which resulted in a skill called **[Profane Exponents]**. **Book 8, Page 148**
* The fusion came from **[Immutable Bulwark]** and **[Undying Legion]**, and they were Zac’s solution to completely overhauling his defensive capabilities. **Book 8, Page 148**
* **[Undying Legion]** had grown a lot more powerful having pushed it to Peak mastery. It combined both death and war in a very palpable way. Unfortunately, that didn’t mean it really fit Zac’s tool kit, and the skeletons were ultimately only used for their damage diversion. **Book 8, Page 148**

## **Synergy**

* The skill might have had a massive initial expenditure, but Zac was happy to see that there was no cost at all to maintaining the skill after the skeletons had formed. They kept hacking and slashing without Zac losing an iota of Miasma. It was actually the opposite, as his reserves kept getting filled thanks to **[Fields of Despair]**. **Book 5, Page 6**

## Commentary

* Zac resolutely kept moving downward in the cave, and between the increasingly thick haze of Miasma and the constantly appearing specters, it looked like an undying legion was trying to break into the underworld. **Book 4, Page 110** [*Foreshadowing*]
* The Miasma in the area started to churn and swell as Zac fused more and more of his stored Miasma into **[Undying Legion]**, but he was shocked to realize that the skill still kept craving more even after having imbued the fractal with a third of his Miasma. It actually gobbled up half of his stores before the skill was satiated. This was a shocking cost, more than twice compared to **[Profane Seal]**. **Book 5, Page 5**