But it would probably be a good defence for the public, after all not all of them could lift mountains over their heads and celestial bronze was a very precious and rare metal.
Behind the glass Percy saw several items of importance, an entire rack of celestial bronze weapons, a quiver with arrows that were made out of, what looked like ivory. The walls were covered with paintings and the skins of several animals and in the center was a man dressed in a fine silk robe with a very expensives looking shirt underneath it. The man was fat and hairless. Percy couldn't even see his eyebrows. He also smelt like someone dropped him in a sea of sinnamon, Percy could smell it off of him the moment he entered the room.
"Can I help you?" the man asked with a smile that creeped Percy out.
"Yeah....ah," Percy looked at his name and title;
Rodrigo Gomez, Merchant of Spain
Lv— 14
Percy raised an eyebrow, 'this guy is pretty weak,' he shrugged it off, "I was sent by the Collector. I was told you could help me."
The fat man smiled creepily and nodded, "I can, for the right price."
Percy nodded as he opened his inventory and pulled out a gold brick presenting it to the fat man. Rodrigo snapped his fingers and the gold floated out of Percy's hands and through the glass. It landed on Rodrigo's stretched out hands as the Merchant observed the brick closely.
"Hm....this is definitely government grade," he turned it over and took out a metal pin which he used to scrape the underside of the brick, "and definitely not a fake," his hands then glowed with a bright gold aura as he raised an eyebrow, "magic was used to lift this out of the ground, but not to create it.....but is is unstamped, and so that cannot guarantee me the price of the brick."
Percy raised an eyebrow, "so how much can you give me?"
The merchant tossed the brick as it flowed through the glass and into Percy's hands, "I can give you 300,000 $, at the most."
Percy raised a single eyebrow, "really? Three hundred thousand? That's all you can give me?" Percy crossed his arms.
The fat man nodded with a sad smile, "I'm sorry I cannot give any more without damaging my store credibility."
Lie detected!
Percy rolled his eyes, 'no shit that was a lie!' "Look you and I both know that the price you just stated is complete bull, so can we just skip the part where you and I heckle each other and just get to the part where you pay me 500,000 $ for this?"
"500,00?!" The man nearly jumped out of his seat, "for this unmarked bar?! Impossible! Which fool told you that?"
Percy smiled, "the Collector," the fat man paled, "I visited him just before coming here, and he was the one who told me that this bar of gold would be worth at least 500,000$, and he didn't say shit about it being unmarked."
The Merchant was sweating now as he bathed his forehead with a napkin, "w-well if the good Collector believes this is worth 500,000$ then who am I to argue?"
Percy smiled, "I know. So....do we have a deal?"
The fat man sighed, "yes, we have a deal." The fat man then bent down, which took a lot of effort, and pulled out a silver briefcase. He put the case on his side of the counter and pulled out several bands of hundred dollar bills.
He stacked them all on the counter as they slowly increased in number. Percy watched the growing stack in amazement, each band of money was worth 10,000 dollars, each looking they were just taken out of the mint.
After putting down 50 perfect bands of 100$ bills the Merchant turned to Percy, "your brick sir."
Percy nodded as he slid the brick towards the Merchant, passing it through the glass while to he did the same for the money. Percy took the cash and put them inside his inventory. The Merchant raised an eyebrow at the money disappearing but said nothing.
"I believe our business is done," the Merchant said with a smile, "please do come again."
Percy grinned, "oh no, my new rich friend," Percy opened his inventory and took out the four other Gold bricks he hand inside it, "we aren't done by a long shot."
The fat man didn't know whether to be excited for getting so much more gold or sadness because he didn't get them all at a cheaper price.
In the end the Merchant had to go into the back and take out all the money he had on hand to buy what Percy was selling. And that included the gold, the 8 bricks of silver he had, a couple of precious stones that Percy collected from Alcyoneus's body.
But the biggest sale that day was one of Alcyoneus's platinum bones, more specifically his humerus, that weighed in at around 5,000 pounds.
The Price of platinum was determined by its weight. At the current price it is measured at 1,500 per ounce. The humerus weighed in at around 1,000 pounds, or 14,583 ounces. That meant that the bone was worth 21,874,500.
And that was when the Merchant fainted.
Percy basically cleared out all the physical money the Merchant had. He had gotten 2.5 millions for the gold bars, 750,000 for the uncut jewels and Percy took pity on the Merchant and reduced the price of the platinum bone to only 21.5 million dollars. After all he had plenty more bones where that came from.
All in all Percy had racked up a total of 24.75 millions dollars. He still had a lot more to sell, but this was enough for now.
The Merchant basically treated him like royalty after that. He even gave Percy his phone number to call before coming over. He wanted to make sure he had enough money stored for the large amount of business Percy was sure to bring with him.
By the time Percy had reached camp it was already lunch. He went to the Mess Hall and spotted Thalia sitting alone in her bench. Percy smiled as he came up behind her and threw his arms around her neck.
"What the fuc-Percy?! Gods man don't scare me like that! I could have choked on something!" Thalia shouted at her boyfriend who chuckled.
"I love you too sweetie," Percy kissed her on the check sitting down next to her, "sorry about that, did I scare you?"
Thalia grumbled, "no....yes. Look that's not the point..."
Percy chuckled, "it kind of is."
Thalia rubbed her temples, "sigh, so what did you do today? If I remember correctly it was one of the few days off you get, please tell me you did something fun."
Percy smiled, "I went to talk to the Collector," Thalia looked surprised, "yes, I do mean that Collector."
"Why would you want to talk to that albino freak? Ergh," Thalia shivered, "those eyes are so freaking creepy!"
Percy chuckled, "believe me I know. But I needed to find a place to sell the gold, so he and I had a little chat."
Thalia raised an eyebrow, "couldn't you have just sold it to the HNI?"
Percy shook his head, "no, the HNI deals only with drachma, not mortal money. Plus I also would like to deal with people face to face, especially when it comes to the large amounts of money like we are dealing with."
"So how much did you get?" Thalia asked curiously. Percy leaned into her ear and whispered. Thalia's eyes widened like saucer cups, "WHAT?!"
"Keep it down!" Percy hissed as he looked around everyone was looking at them, but seeing Percy and Thalia argue or flirt was normal. Even the shouting was some time part of their little cat and mouse dance.
"Sorry," Thalia's voice went back into a whisper, "but seriously?! You got 21 million for just one bone of Alcyoneus?"
Percy nodded, "yeah, I know. This is more than enough to buy some land for the Haven project."
Thalia nodded blankly, "yeah..shit with this much money we could but a whole fucking country!"
Percy smiled, "yeah. I talked to the Collector about it, he said he might have some lands we could buy."
Thalia nodded, "sweet. Heck we might even have enough leftover to buy a boat or something"
Percy smiled, "already itching to visit Alaska again? Or maybe it was the company you liked more than the sights."
Thalia blushed, "I have to admit I do kind of miss that time. So much easier, no Romans to deal with, no campers to train. Just us."
Percy chuckled, "you know we could actually do that," He leaned into Thalia, "after this is all over I mean. Just buy a boat and set sail. Travel the world, meet new exciting people, probably one or two monsters. It would pretty fun."
Thalia smiled, "that would be nice," she put her head on his shoulder, "just the two of us." Percy nodded as he kissed her forehead.
Ping!
Quest Alert!
Go on a cruise with Thalia after the Titan war!
Rewards,
70% chance of Marriage!
4,000,000 Exp
?
?
Failure,
Depression
End of relationship
Do you accept?
YES/NO?
Percy's eyes widened at the sight of the quest. He stiffened for a moment and that caught Thalia's attention, "what happened Percy? You look like you just saw a ghost....there isn't one right? Like you have to tell me if there is a ghost here."
Percy shook his head, "not a ghost, it's just....well I just got a quest."
Thalia looked surprised, "really? What does it say?"
"It's says that we need to go on a cruise trip around the world," Percy gulped, "and it ah...it's ah..."
"Well spit it out," Thalia prompted him, "I don't have all day. Well I do, but that's not the point."
"One of the rewards is a...is a 70% chance of you-you-ah, well you see the thing is this quest system really is vague and different so I wouldn't expect-"
"-Percy," Thalia cut off his rambling, "what's the reward?"
Percy gulped, "a 70% chance of us getting married."
Thalia blinked, "that thing is saying me might get married?!"
Percy nodded, "well only a 70% chance that we might married...but ah, yeah."
"Seriously? How would it even know that?"
"Well my powers do come from the Fates, and they basically know everything so...I would guess that our future may not be too out of reach for them."
Thalia looked at Percy, "so...we might be married?"
Percy rubbed his neck, "well we only have a 70% chance of it happening."
Thalia blinked, "well.....that's ah.....wow, I don't know what to say."
"I could reject it if you want," Percy said as he moved to press the 'no' button.
"No, don't," Thalia stopped him, "I ah...well it's not like we are going to be married this second right?"
Percy blinked, "well, no. This just means that we might get married."
"Well...then don't decline it," Thalia said with a smile, "besides, it's not like it might happen right? Like you said, only a 70% chance of it happening....."
An awkward silence fell between the two. Percy didn't know what to say or do and Thalia was in the same boat. Percy pressed the 'yes' button and dismissed the quest. An awkward silence fell between them as they ate their food in silence.
"Wait...." Thalia began breaking the silence, "you said the Fates would know our future...right?" A look of hope came into Thalia's eyes, "like they know what's going to happen and your powers are their powers. So that means that anything they might think is going to happen, will happen!"
Percy's eyes widened as he quickly caught on to what Thalia was implying, "so you think that because they gave a quest like this that.....we might end up surviving this war?"
Thalia nodded, "yeah....so that means I won't die," she smiled, "it means that we both might actually survive this!"
Percy smiled as he kissed Thalia deeply. He pulled back and wrapped one hand around her neck, "Gods you are brilliant. I wouldn't have figured that out even if it had taken me a million years."
"You would have been lost without me," Thalia said with a smile as she kissed him and the couple smiled at each other like to people who had everything in the world to live for.
Because for the first time their future didn't look bleak, they wouldn't die, there was still a chance for them to live on, together.
A lot of you believe that I am running the story or what not, well that is certainly hard to hear for me. I'm just progressing how this story is naturally supposed to progress, Percy's in the romantic part of his life right now, hence the romance, if you expected action all the time you are going to be disappointed.
You all have stuck with me for at least 400k+ words, nearly 500k+, I haven't let you down yet. I fully intend to complete another 500k and this story will continue. Yes this part of Percy's like is slow, but's what life is.
So please stick around, the only reason I have been able to write so much is because you all motivate me to do so. So please stay, I truly cannot do this without you all.
I have decided on a pairing, it will involve Artemis and Thalia, but I will not share of the details on how that will happen. This is going to be a long story, that I can promise you, the romance is not going to be straight forward. So please do not try and assume what I plan to do and critique the story based on that assessment that you have made up on your own.
This is my story, and I don't plan to fuck it up.
Next Update: Sunday
Chapter 46
Chapter 46:
Beep! Beep!
Beep! Beep!
Beep! Beep!
You have slept in you own bed; HP and MP have been restored 100% each. All ailments and negative status effects have been cured.
Percy opened his eyes as he felt a familiar weight on his right. The demigod turned, stretching his body awake as a yawn escaped his mouth. The son of Poseidon looked down at the mass of black hair on his shoulder as he bent down planting a kiss on Thalia's exposed forehead.
"Morning," Percy said as Thalia tried to pull herself closer, but they were already as close as possible.
"Turn that thing off before I destroy it," Thalia grumbled out as she swung her leg off of Percy moving away.
"Sorry," Percy whispered as his switched off his digital alarm. He looked down to see a notification alert;
Feed the Horses
Percy sighed, it was early in the morning, the sun was barely up. But it was his turn. "I need to go," Percy told Thalia as he kissed her forehead again before lifting her arm off of him.
"Horses?" Thalia asked as she pulled up the sheet over her nude chest.
"Horses," Percy told her as he put on his clothes, "think you can manage getting up before anyone notices you in my bed?"
"Yeah," Thalia grumbled out, "I'll do it. Don't worry."
Percy rolled his eyes, "we don't want an incident like last time. Mera almost caught you sneaking back."
"Mera's a vindictive bitch," Thalia muttered as she swiftly fell asleep again. Percy chuckled but said nothing. He placed another kiss on her forehead before walking out of the cabin.
As Percy walked out he saw Leo sleeping on the porch. Percy smiled as he carefully walked away into the camp, taking care not to wake Leo up.
