They would attack it's feet, bring it down to the ground and then began attacking it's neck. Several people would get hurt, but Percy made sure none of them got maimed or injured.
Usually this was where Percy would end the training session, but today he wanted them to face off against the second method was used to deal with the second wave of zombies along with the second Legion zombie.
"Yo Percy!" Thalia yelled out, "we finished the second wave! Get us out!"
Percy remained hidden in the shadows smiling, 'time for my little suprise.'
"Guys look!" A demigod of Ares shouted as he pointed towards hearth in the center of camp. There was a huge black ball present above it, it slowly descended downwards and it cracked open. A Knight of the Damned slowly stepped out and readied his huge blade.
"What is that thing?!" Someone asked in surprise.
"Something not good," Thalia said as she readied her spear and charged the monster.
The Knight of the Damned looked at Thalia and simply waved his huge sword around forming a gust of wind blowing her back.
"This things too powerful!" Someone yelled out as John helped Thalia to her feet.
"Where the hell is Percy?!"
"Forget Percy!" Thalia shouted, "he won't alway be there to help! We need to deal with this thing ourselves!"
The others looked nervous, but before anyone could do or say anything the Damned Knight attacked. He swung at them and just as he was about to slice of the arm of one of the demigods Percy came in in a flash and pulled the demigod from harm.
Percy reappeared far away from the battlefield and put the demigod to the side, "stay here."
The battle raged on. Demigods were being pushed back and whenever it looked like they were about to be killed or even injured Percy came in and saved them.
Soon the number of active fighters became less and less. The level 1s were taken out first, and then the level 2's. Thalia had a squad around her as they tried to attack back.
John jumped into the fight and began fighting the knight with all his might. He swung his blade with careful aim as he managed to get a few strikes in. However the knight was to powerful as with one swing of it's blade John was sent flying back.
Percy managed to extract his brother in time and put him along with the others. Nico and Bianca were still fighting as the two siblings attacked the monster with all they had. Bianca distracted it while Nico somehow managed to cut into the Knight's arm. The mobster then tried to kill both only for Percy to again save the demigods in the last moment.
Soon the number of active fighter reduced to only one, Thalia. The Knight cornered her in front of the Zeus cabin, she had nowhere to run. In a last ditch attempt to win Thalia used her divine side and summoned forth all her mana in the form of a lightning bolt that went through the night blowing a hole right through him.
Percy smiled 'at least she can handle herself.'
Thalia panted as the smoke finally cleared. She smiled, 'I did it!' But as the fog further cleared up it revealed the form of the still standing knight. It had a hole through it's chest revealing that it was hollow inside.
Thalia fell to her knees from exhaustion as the knight stepped up to her. It raised it's blade high up and then brought it down swiftly.
Body Form activated: Right arm
Percy zoomed in at the last moment and knocked the blade off course causing it to land to Thalia's side. Percy then drew back his fist and launched it with the power of his Earthquake and his advanced speed.
"Impact drive!" Percy yelled out as the new skill fused attack shattered the knight into pieces leaving behind 5,000$, a sword skill book and a medium health potion. Percy quickly gathered these things before Thalia even saw them using his super speed and quickly helped the girl up.
Percy arrived in the Arena where he kept all the defeated demigods and he put Thalia with them. "Line up," Percy said as all of them slowly gathered into columns and touched Percy. Percy lifted his hand up, 'ID Escape!'
The red sky shattered and the entire group was brought back to Arena where their training session had started. Percy motioned all of them to sit down which they all did quickly, they were exhausted beyond belief.
"Do you know why I didn't warn you about the Knight?" Percy asked looking at the demigods.
"You wanted us to be thrown off our game," Thalia muttered out, "and we were."
Percy nodded, "right in one sparky," Thalia grumbled but did nothing else to object to the nick name which told Percy just how disappointed she was. Percy sighed, "look this is nothing to be afraid of. You guys are progressing nicely, I'm sure you yourself can tell. And relax, this was not an enemy you could have defeated quickly."
"So you set us up for failure?" Nico asked.
"That's not fair!" a demigod yelled out
Percy nodded, "yeah, it's not fair. But neither is life or war so get used to it. You all had a pattern, first you would fight your way out of the forest and then meet up in the center of the camp to fight of the zombies. You would then stay together in the center and work together to kill them all. Now I'm not saying teamwork isn't important, it's one of the only things that will guarantee that you will not end up as monster food. But predictability is a disadvantage."
"The Romans were predictable," John spoke up, "they had rules and they followed them methodically. The had one of the most powerful empires to date"
Percy nodded, "yes that's true, but understand that we are not Roman, we are Greeks. We are the unpredictable, that is what makes us dangerous. The Greek were known for many things, and most of those things was because we thought outside the box. The Greeks were the best at inventing new things and that is because in our very soul. There is a part of us that yearns to be different."
"So you're saying that our strength lies in our unpredictability?" A son of Ares asked.
Percy nodded, "yes. But unpredictable to our enemies, not our allies. If the zombies we fought had any brains or a proper general they would have easily separated and killed each of you one by one."
"When did you defeat it?" Thalia asked surprising Percy, "I mean when was the first time you fought it?"
"A year ago."
Thalia's eyes widened comically, "you fought that thing over a year ago?! How powerful are you now?!"
Percy shrugged, 'let's see I was level...10? And now I'm level 39, almost 40.' "I think I'm at least four times stronger now."
"Wow!" Little Percy exclaimed.
"Just how powerful are you Percy?" Bianca asked surprised beyond belief. The demigods gathered quickly went into discussion. They had all fought and lost to that thing, some badly. If Percy could have beaten that thing a year ago, and if what he claimed was true, only now did they have a proper measurement of Percy's power.
Thalia growled in anger and got up. "Where are you going?" Percy asked.
"I'm going to train some more," Thalia said before leaving Percy and the others alone. Percy sighed, 'her pride must be bruised. Well, I can't do anything to help with that.'
Percy then dismissed the demigods, it was around 1 in the afternoon and everyone was hungry.
Percy and the others entered the Mess Hall and they all quickly began to pile on their plates. After sacrificing a small amount to his dad Percy and John sat down in the Minor Gods table along with the rest of the demigods.
The minor God's table was a new addition to the Mess Hall. Since the table didn't actually belong to one god the rule that restricted demigods from sitting with other demigod didn't apply. This caused the minor Gods' table to become a hotspot of activity.
There were 4 in total and every meal was literally a competition to get a seat on the table. The minor demigod kids obviously got them first, Percy had his reserved because he was basically the reason it existed in the first place, and everyone else had to fight of theirs.
The Minor Gods table was quickly filled with different demigods that wanted to sit with each other but couldn't do so before. Percy's small group of friends usually gathered here and ate meals together while they talked about the things they did that day.
Percy sat down next Annabeth with Michael and Nina opposite them. The seat groaned under Percy's additional weight, this was the negative side to the weighted armbands, it was a pain in the ass to find a place strong enough to hold your weight.
"Hey guys," Percy said as he began eating, "what's new?"
"Nothing much," Michael said, "got a few new recipes to try out as a healing potions. We keep trying to replicate those potions you keep getting in the ID's but somehow we keep failing. There must be something we can't detect inside the potion that makes it work in the first place. If we can't find that..."
Percy nodded, "right and here, before I forget," he opened his inventory and pulled out the potion he got today, "today's spoils."
Michael accepted the potion and put it away.
"So you had to get involved today?" Nina asked surprised, "I thought the Jackson squad was getting stronger day by day."
Percy groaned at the nick name his students had gotten, "I hate that name."
Nina giggled, "well everyone else likes it."
Percy huffed, "well no, they did today. But they started to get comfortable, so I shook things up a little. I introduced a new monster and they got their butts kicked and then whined about it not being fair."
"HEY!" Half the minor god's occupants shouted at Percy's last comment.
"It's true shit stains!" Percy yelled back, "and stop eavesdropping on others conversations!"
Michael laughed, "like student like master."
Percy grumbled and nodded, "yeah. Oh and Annabeth I think I may have pissed off Thalia."
Annabeth sighed, "again? I really wish you two would get along!"
Percy shrugged, "we will, give it time. Anyway Nina what's new with you guys?"
Nina shrugged, "nothing much. Just work like usual. Charles almost blew us all up today, idiot."
Percy smiled and turned to Annabeth, "and you?"
"We have been trying to figure out where Kronos would strike next," Annabeth admitted, "we also tried to figure out whether or not he would try and attack us. After all one Titan managed to almost kill us all, and he would have if you didn't stop him."
Percy nodded, "yeah, but we are stronger this time. And so am I. If Hyperion shows his ugly mug around here I'll make sure to send him to Tartarus."
Annabeth nodded, "yeah we took that into account as well. So far we think that Kronos will wait, for possible half a year before he strikes."
"Why half a year?"
"December is Thalia's birthday," Annabeth informed him, "if Kronos is going to attack us it will be when Thalia turns 16."
Percy nodded, "so it's near the end of June right now. We have 5 months time to think of a way to kick Kronos's ass."
Michael sighed, "we are so doomed."
Percy chuckled and they quickly finished the rest of their lunch while talking about one thing or the other.
Percy was now free. After lunch people were allowed to do their own thing. John usually went to the cabin to sleep before dinner, the minor demigods would try and get into trouble along with Hermes camp. Thalia was probably still sulking, and Annabeth and the rest were still at work doing whatever they were doing.
Percy began spamming his ID skill again. He really wanted to increase the time dilution on his time ID. So Percy did that as he walked to the beach, the one place all children of Poseidon could relax.
Percy slowly walked through the Forest, a short cut to the Beach which most avoided. As he walked through he heard someone in there, someone panting. Percy stopped grinding his ID creations skills and slowly went to go and see who was there besides him.
Slowly the trees gave away towards a clearing leading towards the fist of Zeus. Percy carefully walked over and waited behind as he saw Thalia there practising with his spear.
The daughter of Zeus was sweating from head to toe. She had taken off her jacket revealing her tank top underneath showing of her powerful arms and her amazing toned body. The way she moved almost looked like she was dancing, there was a certain grace in each of her steps that was hard to understand. Her jeans were skin tight showing off her long muscular legs and wide hips as she used them to turn and twist her spear around. Her chest rose and fell from her deep breaths showing off her large perky breasts.
Percy again felt a stir in his groin, 'this girl is going to drive me mad! Curse you teenage hormones!'
It was times like this when he really wished he hadn't chosen the Goblin's Growth perk. Percy then quickly slammed Gamer's mind on top of his growing feelings of lust canceling out his, 'growing problem.'
After the feelings of lust settled down Percy focused on Thalia again, this time he looked at only the way she moved the weapon.
He was to guess she would probably be better at using the spear than any other demigod around. He hadn't really faced many spear fighters before, most had been killed before they even got the chance to show their stuff off, but Percy could honestly say Thalia was the best spear using demigod he knew.
He continued to watch her for a few more minutes when suddenly something popped up;
Ping!
You have learnt a new skill through watching someone via your photographic reflexes!
Spear Mastery, Lv— 14 (0%)
Allows user to freely handle spears or spear like weapons
70% more damage when using spears or spear like weapons
'Woah!' Percy said as he looked at the newly acquired skill. He had gotten it just by looking at Thalia practise! Heck this thing was just a level below his own mastery in sword skill! It kind of felt like cheating, piggybacking off of Thalia's hard work, but then again he didn't really want to steal anything, it was just a loophole inside the Game he didn't know about.
Thalia eventually grew too tired to train as she turned her spear back into a can of mace and sat down on the Fist of Zeus rubbing the sweat off her body. She looked up at the sky and sighed as suddenly her stomach grumbled in hunger.
'That's right, she didn't eat,' Percy realised as he walked out of his hiding place and towards Thalia.
"Hungry?" Percy asked startling Thalia.
"Jackson?! How long have been there?!" Thalia yelled out.
"Long enough sparky," Percy said with a smile, "I must admit you probably push yourself harder than anyone else I know. It really is inspiring."
Thalia huffed, "yeah well thanks..... but it doesn't matter. But you saw what happened today, I'm not even close to facing that Damned Knight thing, let alone Kronos."
