Chapter 37
Chapter 37:
Percy sat crossed legged in the middle of the Amphitheatre. He had one hand on his lap and one on Wave rider which stood straight by his side. The sky was red indicating that Percy was inside his ID world. He took a deep breath in, and slowly let it out.
Percy opened his eyes and placed Wave rider across his lap. 'Okay, let's see how you work.'
Percy slowly let anger take over. It was difficult to start, you couldn't just decided to get angry, it had to come out on it's own. So Percy created his own motivation. He recalled all the times he was angry. The time Mera got attacked, the time in the illusional world when Kronos killed Thalia. That time Hades took his mother. That time he found out Luke was a traitor.
Anger slowly poured out of him in earnest. Percy knew this wasn't his limit to how angry he could get, this was barely the surface. But it enough to activate the special mode on his weapon.
Ping!
Special mode activated! Emotion: Anger
4 X attack, Rage blast— beam of light that causes affected individuals to go into a rage filled frenzy
The white in Percy's blue trident turned blood red as an aura of rage covered the weapon and Percy.
Ping!
Perk: 'Le Bete' activated! You gained +20 to all stats!
Percy's eyes slowly began to change. While before the Le Bete curse was uncontrollable and gave +50 extra stats, the new improved perk gave only +20 stats, but allowed Percy to remain in control. As such to reflect on this change, instead of Percy's eyes turning yellow, they turned bright red.
Percy got off the ground and began twirling the weapon around. Percy's skills in spear handling would be useful in fighting with a trident, the principle of attack was basically the same for both.
Percy trailed his weapons over and over before harshly swinging the trident in a wide arc sending a blast of wind so powerful it damaged the rocks in front of Percy.
'Guess that's what a weapon with 400,000 attack points can do,' Percy realised as he slowly let the weapon depower by releasing his anger. The red in the trident turned back to white and his eye turned back to their normal sea green.
'Let's try... will power.'
Percy placed the trident before him and focused on the blades. His brain no longer tried to divert his attention, when in battle his focus was like that of a hawk's. Percy slowly removed all other emotions, they would just get in the way. He then thought, 'activate.'
Percy's will was strong enough to activate the special mode in his trident causing the white lines to turn green;
Ping!
Special mode activated! Emotion: Willpower
Power supplied due to willpower— X 2
'I didn't concentrate enough,' Percy realised as he let go of his concentration returning his weapon back to normal. He then focused again. This time didn't think of anything else except activating his weapon's power, and once again;
Ping!
Special mode activated! Emotion: Willpower
Power supplied due to willpower— X 4
Percy realised the mode and he panted. He was tired, the amount concentration needed for only a 4 times power boost was ridiculous. Even with Gamer's mind Percy couldn't muster enough willpower. But maybe that was because this was training. Percy had always been the type to grow stronger under pressure, maybe that was what he needed to become stronger with willpower.
Percy sighed and twirled his trident transforming it into a sword and then into a fountain pen. He capped the pen and put it into his pocket. It was time to test out his other skills.
Percy opened his skill list and saw them all. He couldn't help but whistle. He had a lot of different skills, but was never master of any one in particular. Maybe he should change that soon. Percy saved that thought for later and instead looked at the skill he obtained from Necron;
Necromancy, Lv— 1 (0%)
A branch of magic that involves magic surrounding the dead or the un-dead.
Skills,
Revival of the dead, Lv— MAX
Brings back the spirits of the dead in their natural bodies. Limit— 1 time per day. No limit on the number of revived, the only limit is the ability of the user to channel the powers of death.
Note: If the soul of the person is unavailable then a copy will be made of the soul which posses all of the original soul's knowledge and memories.
It was honestly a skill Percy never saw himself having. It always seemed kind of.....a Hades thing to do by reviving the dead. But now he had it, and he might as well make use of it.
'No.....who should I bring back from the dead?' Percy knew he basically had a wide variety of people to chose from. He could call Julius Caesar, Shakespeare, Churchill, Cleopatra or even Walt Disney! All of human history was at his all so the question came, who to pick?
'Hm....well why not the original Perseus?' Percy wondered, 'he and I do have a lot in common. And we do both have the same name. It should be a blast.' Percy nodded as he made his choice. He closed his eyes and slowly activated his revival spell. Percy felt a drain on his body, it felt like his stamina was being sucked out through a straw. He felt drained, but luckily the power sapping stopped before it did to much damage.
Slowly a figure in white appeared before Percy. The person was blurry, he could barely make out the edges, but slowly the image of the person focused itself. Standing before Percy now was an older man wearing a white robe and a purple cape. He blinked and looked around before settling his eyes on Percy.
[Ah....who are you?] the man asked.
Percy smiled, [hello, I am Percy Jackson, the son of Poseidon.]
The figure nodded, [I am Perseus, son of Zeus. May I ask why I was summoned here? And how has a son of Poseidon summoned me? Usually it is the children of Hades who posses such a power.]
Percy nodded, [usually, yes. I am what you would call a special case. I apologize for calling you Perseus, I was testing my abilities and who better to try and call than my name's sake?]
Perseus rose an eyebrow, [ah, I see. You were named after me where you? Ironic that a son of Poseidon bears the name of a son of Zeus.]
Percy smiled and nodded, [indeed. My mother knew the life of a demigod is filled with tragedy and in all of Greek history you were the only one who achieved a long and fruitful life. Hence she wish to give me your name in the hope that I would obtain some of your luck.]
The greek hero smiled, [I am glad my name can be in the form of such optimism. Usually it is because of my deads of other things, and while it is flattering one does get tired of hearing every other person in Greece name their child after you.]
Percy laughed, [I figured. Well thank you for showing up when you did, sorry if I disturbed your after life.]
[Not at all,] the man shook his head, [after all the 24/7 orgies tended to get boring and repetitive after a while.]
Percy blanched at that but quickly sent the old Perseus on his way. 'A 24/7 orgy huh?' Percy wondered as he started to wonder what that would be like. Immediately his imagination produced an image of himself sitting in on a large bed. He was stark naked as slowly the bed began filling up with people.
Thalia was first as Percy imagined her thick juicy thighs and perky breasts crawl towards him. Then came the sight of Annabeth as she pressed herself up against his arms while looking at him with those sharp blue eyes of hers.
Percy's blush grew bigger as slowly his pants started to tighten. 'No!' Percy snappe dout of it slamming his Gamer's mind on the image. 'No, no, no! Nope! They are your friends man! What's wrong with you?! You can't think about your friends like that!'
Jackson sighed, 'I really need a girlfriend.'
Percy sat down on the ground and opened up his skill list again to look for things to do to distract him. Just then he noticed the large amount of points he had. It was a great bonus he got from the trials, and they were just sitting there. All 279 of them.
Percy pulled up his status;
STR-55(+20)=75
VIT-86(+10+20)=116
DEX-50(+10+20)=80
INT-83
WIS-53
LUC-50
POINTS— 279
He wondered what he should invest in. Right now Percy had a pretty comfortable fighting style. He used a variety of spells in battle or other situations but he mostly focused on fast and powerful attacks. Speed was he speciality, so maybe he should improve on that first.
So Percy poured 14 points into VIT raising it to 100;
VIT-100(+10+20)=130
Ping!
You have achieved 100 points in VIT! You have gained a new perk!
Please chose two new perks!
Speed thinking— allows user to think 10 times faster than the normal human.
Flying Thunder God— Allows a short burst of speed that is similar to teleportation. Limit— range of 10 meters.
Minor Godly stamina— Your present stamina level is tripled.
Iron body defence— allows user's body to become as tough as iron on command ensuring a level of armour to be created over the skin. It is a tough as iron.
Percy was in a pinch now. He wanted every single one of those perks. The speed thinking would be unbelievably useful in fights. He could think quickly now, but that was only when the rest of his body was also moving fast. He never quite got the trick of increasing his brain's speed independent of the rest of his body. He may have gotten it once or twice, but that was barely for as second.
The flying thunder god perk seemed like the next logical step for Percy to take. After all most of the time Percy used his speed to fight people close to him, not those afar. And even so, 10 meters would easily get the job done.
Then there was the extra stamina boost. With all the running he would possibly do in the future it seemed like something he would definitely need.
And the Iron body defence was basically his answer for not wearing armour. If he could use his perk tree the right way he should be able to increase the toughness from iron to who knows what. He could even end up with skin as tough as diamonds!
Percy sighed, this was a difficult decision to make. But in the end it came down to what he needed, not what he wanted. He needed to be faster and he needed to be able to run longer. The Iron body defence was great, heck it was more that great, but he didn't need it now. And while the speed thinking thing was great and all, it really wasn't his style. Plus he always had his natural battle instincts to fall back on.
So Percy made his choice and pressed the Flying Thunder God perk and Minor Godly stamina.
Ping!
Congratulations! You have obtained two new perks!: Flying Thunder God & Minor Godly Stamina.
Percy closed the box and pulled up his perk list. Now that his VIT had increased by 20 levels that meant he could now buy four new addons for his Speed demon perk.
Each add on increased his max speed by 100 Km, and each cost an single point. Hence Speed Demon got a new upgrade;
Ј Speed demon— Allows user to travel at unbelievable speeds at the cost of 200 HP per minute. Can be improved on with training, at present speed is: 932 Miles/hour (1,500 KM/hr)
Percy then opened up his newly acquired Flying Thunder God perk and found that he could buy 20 new add ons. He bought them all. Each add on increased his range of 'teleportation' by 10 meters.
Ј Flying Thunder God— Allows a short burst of speed that is similar to teleportation. Limit— range of 210 meters.
Wit this Percy knew he should be the fastest man alive. His max speed was above mach 1, if that didn't make him the fastest then he didn't know what would.
Percy then opened the second new skill he got but found that this one didn't have a perk tree. It seemed that the minor godly stamina was something you couldn't improve upon.
Percy shrugged, it didn't really matter. He then looked through his many perks again and his eyes fell on Chimera's blood.
Chimera's blood— Allows user to temporarily take on one trait from the last monster he killed. The user can use this trait for however long he wishes.
Percy opened the perk tree and found a few new add one. The first one he could buy resulted in the number of traits the perk could store be increased to two. Which did seem like a nice trait to have. So Percy spent 5 points and unlocked that.
Percy then opened up his Le Bete perk, now that he no longer lost control while using that form it was a good idea to invest in it. He opened the perk tree and saw only one add on available. It costed 5 points but would add and increase of 4 additional stat points for every person killed while in the Le Bete mode.
So Percy payed the 5 points and upgraded what seemed like his trump card when in battles that called for him fighting an army.
Ј Le Bete— gives +20 to all every time Percy gets angry. For every person Percy kills while in this berserk rage he will gain+6 stat points. Note: Percy will have full control while in this mode.(Permanent)
Percy still had 231 points to use and not many perks to use it on. He knew that he shouldn't try and waste them on pers he didn't need, but having so many of them and not using it.....it just felt like a crime.
So Percy decided to spent 45 points on STR increasing it to 100;
STR-100(+20)=120
Ping!
You have achieved 100 points in STR!You have gained a new perk!
Multistage Strengths— This perk allows you to reduce your own strength by half per layer of seals you have on place. When the seal is broken you gain twice your normal strength for half the time the strength was sealed away.
Note: you may put a seal on your seal. This will result in strength stored up on your bottom most seal to double its release strength since it is already in a seal.
Example: If you have three seals, the energy released from the first seal will increase your strength by 2, the second by 4, the third by 6 and so on.
Percy smiled, this was so going to useful. 'Let's see what this thing is,' he decided.
When he first activated it, a chain like tatoo appeared over his right forearm with the number 1 above it. Percy felt his strength reduced by half leaving his stat at;
STR-50(+20)= 70
It seemed that only his base strength was affected by this, not the bonus he received from his necklace of Poseidon.
When Percy removed the seal his strength had doubled;
Seal Release: Layer 1, Time: 20 seconds
STR-200(+20)=220
Percy then reapplied the first seal he had, but then added another one. The second one was also a tattoo of a chain, but this one appeared on his left forearm and had the number 2 above it. This reduced his strength to a mere quarter of what he had;
STR— 25(+20)=45
And when Percy released the second seal it resulted in his strength returning to 50, but he got a bonus of 2 turning his added strength into 100. And when Percy released his first seal that strength was multiplied by 4 resulting in;
