Percy looked shocked. The fact that his curse so the same used in Hell for touring serial killers kind of rattled him but just then his mind started to work and a question popped up, "but why? Why give the people who enjoy killing the power to kill more? Isn't that like giving meth to a druggy?"
"Yes, it is," the demon said smiling, ", the souls cursed with this will kill everything in their path and soon it will take over their very beings. Blood will be all they know but eventually they will lose the feeling of excitement. After one point the pleasure they get from killing will stop, they will become numb to it, but the won't be able to stop killing. They will lead a hollow existence from then till the end of time, never being able to stop, never being able to feel. A shell of what they are. After all, to much of anything is bad."
Percy looked at the demon under him and only one thought came into his head, 'I am so fucked.'
"How do I get rid of it," Percy asked, "there must be a way to reverse the curse, there always is."
"I don't know that master.All I know is what I have told you, I'm not even sure it can be removed."
Percy gritted his teeth in anger, "how do you not know anything about it?! You are the one who cursed me! And you are supposed to know everything!"
The demon under him chuckled, "I may not know everything, but I can."
"Explain," Percy said through narrowed eyes as he tightened his grip on it's hands.
"Every demon can access unlimited knowledge, stored in hell, for a limited amount of time. They just need the power of a human soul to do so, hence why I said before that the only way to tell you what you wanted to know I would need a soul."
"So you're not the only one who can do so, others can as well?"
She shook her head, "no. The place where we get our knowledge is called the Great Stream, and while others can travel the stream, I have conquered it. I am the librarian while others just visit."
"Then how can you not know?!"
"Because I never had to find out how to remove curses, only put them."
Percy looked into her cobalt blue eyes and could see she was not lying, he could feel it.
Ping!
A new skill has been developed!
Lie detection, Lv— 1 (12%)
You can detect lies said to you, 10% chance of success.
Percy sighed, "okay, I believe you." He then got off her and stood up.
Percy saw her lying on the ground and offered his hand, "such a gentleman," Marchosias said as she took it pulling herself up.
"I try," Percy said as he brought the gauntlet up to send the demon back inside.
"Wait!" she said causing Percy to stop, "can I just stay out here for a little longer? I don't like being it the stupid gauntlet of Kefka."
Percy's eyes winded, "you know about the gauntlet?! How?!"
She shrugged causing her breasts to bounce, but Percy was far too distracted to pay attention, "everyone knows about that gauntlet. After all the guy who made it was half demon and managed to steal one of god's tears."
"What?!"
"Yup, you see Kefka was half demon, and because of that he was teased a lot, well not teased more like abused. Anyway one day he went and complained to god and the big guy hearing his story started to cry. Kefka harvested his tears and made the gauntlet out of it."
Percy looked at his gauntlet and now suddenly the thing felt very heavy. "No wonder it's so powerful. It's literally a godly weapon."
The demon shrugged, "yeah but considering your a demigod that's not really saying much."
"Wait, god can cry?" Percy asked with a strange look, "like he has a body and can cry? Like cry cry?"
The demon nodded, "yup. Don't tell anyone but he's kind of a big softie, always going on and on about love and shit like that."
Percy stared at the demon in front of him with a look of confusion, "you sound like you know him."
She shrugged again, "yeah, we all know him. He always shows up during Sunday's for lunch."
"He shows up in Hell.....for lunch?"
"It's complicated."
Percy looked at the demon for a few seconds before sighing, "okay I'm just going to forget everything you said for the last five minutes and just send you back," he lifted the gauntlet but again Marchosias interrupted him.
"Wait! Can I have a goodbye kiss before I go?" the demon asked throwing Percy off his game.
"W-wai-ait w-what?" Percy asked stammering
"Well it's just I'm been so helpful, I think I deserve a reward don't you? "Before Percy could even respond she jumped on him and grab his lips in hers. She ran her fingers through his hair as she stuck her tongue into his mouth.
"Hmm! Hmm!" was the only thing Percy could say as his mouth was currently being overtaken by the demon's tongue. Percy tried to push her off him but Marchosias grabbed his wrists and put them to the ground. She then grabbed the gauntlet and pulled it of his left and threw the magical armour piece away.
The demon then broke the kiss and stared at Percy with a hungry look, "when you get older master, I'm going to ride you like a train."
Percy looked at her shocked but again before he could speak she kissed him again this time she grabbed his head with both hands and pushed her tongue deeper into his mouth;
Ping!
Skill leveled up!
Kissing, Lv— 9 (5%)
It is what it is. The higher level you are the better kisser you are. And remember practise makes perfect.
Your level is kissing leaved the person feeling happy for the two hours
Percy blinked at that but couldn't get himself to do anything about the beautiful naked woman sitting on top of him. He tried to move but his body just didn't want to. just then the demon broke the kiss and looked at Percy with the same hungry look, "see you later master."
She then disappeared into smoke traveling to the gauntlet leaving PErcy alone in the ID with a red face and a need for a long cold shower.
Alright so nothing to great in this chapter, just a training montage wrapped up in some exposition.
Questions:
Not macking stats for devine being: I didn't make their stats for only one reason, lazyness. You know much of a pain in the ass it is?
Grover is a non comatnat with Lv 20 while Percy gets nothing for his hard work?: Well it's basically this. Grover had lived longer and has had a lot more experiance. Hence even if he is'nt a combatnat he can still be a higher level. It's basically this, Grover doesn't have the Gamer abblity to help him out, hence why Percy can probably already kick his ass right now.
Alright see you all next week. Bye!
Chapter 21
Chapter 21:
Percy spent the extra free day he had mostly studying in the Athena cabin. He needed to know more things, he knew that, so he had asked Annabeth to help him out. During the day he was put through the ringer as he learned more and more stuffing himself with knowledge. By the evening he had leveled up his English language twice and increased his Int level by 4 points.
Language: Modern English, Lv-22 (90%)
Due to you being a demigod you have Dyslexia, but with hard work you have overcome your disabilities and you're reading is now near grade level-College+
+50% reading speed
INT-34
Here's a tip, if you ever want help in your studies do not ask a child of Athena, just don't. Percy swore there was something down right scary about the way the Athena cabin members learnt, something unholy. It was scarier than fighting a demon, which he has actually done before.
After dinner Percy managed to sneak away to the forest and to the Fist of Zeus where he put up an ID: Empty and started to train his other skills.
First was fire ball, where Percy tried to make it more powerful by putting more mana in it but keeping the size small, the result of his flames turning blue and him gaining a variation on his ability;
Fireball, Lv-13 (23%)
Allows user to send balls of fire at enemy.
Cost— 100 MP
Attack— 1000 Damage
Ј Blue flames, Cost 200 MP, 1540 Damage
The extra cost was nothing when compared to the boost of power he got making this one of Percy most reliable attacks, but there was a drawback. The more powerful it got, the bigger it got and the more it grew the slower it became meaning at full strength the fireball was as slow as a tortoise.
Percy had also used his level 2 Skill disk on his Mist control increasing it to Level 3;
Mist Control, Lv-3 (0%)
The user can control the mist to create illusions.
Can be used on— Mortals
Range— 30 meters
Ј Mist Illusions: You can create illusions that take on the form of that which the effected most loves.
Percy then began to train his Earthquake control, increasing it to level 6, his Smoke form, increasing it to level 4, and finally he spawned his ID create and escape skill increasing it to level 11.
Earthquake control, Lv-6 (20%)
You can cause an Earthquake thought any part of your body.
Attack— 700
Cost 100 MP
Magnitude-1.8
Smoke from, Lv— 4 (21%)
Turns the user's body into smoke, colour depends on person.
Cost— 225 MP
Duration— 50 seconds
I'D Create, Lv-11 (15%)
Used to create Instant Dungeons. Higher the level, stronger the dungeon.
Current list—
Empty Dungeon— no monsters.
Monster Dungeon— Zombies
Monster Dungeon— Goblin Camp
ID Escape, Lv-11 (15%)
Used to escape from Instant Dungeons.
After he did all this his use of the weighted bands finally payed off giving Percy +2 is Str, something which he found stanger as it took so long for it to happen. If Percy had to guess it would be because he was already used to the weight he was wearing right now, meaning he would have to increase the weight again if he wanted to level up more strength.
By the time the sun came up Percy was dead tired as he left his training grounds for camp. After a quick bite to eat he was right as rain and now Percy was in his cabin packing his stuff for his quest/reconnaissance mission when a knock came on his door.
"Come in!" Percy called out behind him as the door was pushed open revealing Nina in her working uniform. "Nina?" Percy asked with a polite smile, "what can I do for you?"
The daughter of Hephaestus smiled, "nothing much really. I just came to give you this," she said as she swung the backpack she was carrying down. She opened it revealing a set of Greek armour with silver plates on it which looked vaguely familiar.
Percy scratched his head before realising what it was, "my armour!"
Nina smiled, "yup. I fixed it up and this time I got it ready before your quest. Hopefully this will help you out on your journey," Nina said as Percy inspected the armour closely.
"You sure you don't want it? It did save your life when the monsters attacked," Percy asked.
"No I made my own armour," Nina said with a grin, "I'm never going to let a monster to get the drop on me ever again. So yeah, you keep it, it is yours anyway."
Percy nodded as he took the armour and put it on his bed next to his backpack, "thanks Nina, I'm sure this will help out a lot."
Nina nodded and smiled back at Percy. The two then started at each other as an air of awkwardness fell upon them. Seconds passed as slowly a blush creeped on Nina's face prompting Percy to speak up first, "Nina...ah, can I help you with something?"
"Well it's just-I... well I just," Nina stammered as she gathered her courage and finally spoke up, "I just wanted to thank you, you know for saving my life. I thought I was done for and well.... you saved me. You just came in there with that stupid smile of yours and saved my life."
Percy nodded, "relax Nina it was nothing."
"No it wasn't! You saved my life Percy and I-I just wanted to thank you properly, maybe like after you come back from your quest I could show you around my cabin or something. Show you some cool stuff."
"But Nina it isn't really a big deal. You don't have to do anything like that for me, I would have done the same for any of my friends," Percy mentioned casually as slowly a look of silent anger took over Nina's face.
"Really? Is that what I am to you? Your friend?" Nina asked with her eyes narrowed.
Percy started to sweat a little as he looked at Nina's face;
Warning! Bloodlust in front of you! Origin: NINA!
'Yeah, thanks, I know!' Percy though as he dismissed the box.
He didn't know what was going on, maybe he should tell the truth and hope she forgives him, for whatever he has done. He gulped and spoke, "y-yeah?"
Nina looked at Percy with narrowed eyes before drawing back a hand and slapping him across the face, Percy was so surprised he couldn't move in time to dodge or block the strike.
SLAP!
"You idiot!" Nina cried out as she then charged out of Percy's cabin leaving behind a confused son of poseidon with a red handprint on his cheek.
"What the hell just happened?" Percy asked himself as he watched Nina's retreating form.
Later,
Clarisse and Annabeth stood on top of the hill with travel bags by their side waiting for Percy. Next to them was Chiron who was back in his wheelchair and Grover who had a similar bag on his back.
"He's late," Clarisse said grunting, "it's his quest how can he be late?"
"I am sure Percy has his reasons," Chiron said quieting Clarisse down.
"Yeah, Percy might forget something now and then but he is reliable," Grover said nodding before adding in a low grumble, "though you can't rely on him to remember about you when you're halfway across the country in Los Angeles. No times like that it's best to be on your own."
"Oh stop whining Grover," Annabeth said, "Percy already feels guilty enough as it is. Give him a break."
"Oh I'm not angry at him Annabeth," Grover clarified, "I understand why he did what he did. Finding out Luke...was a traitor must have hit him pretty hard. I don't hate him for that, I just want him to squirm a little before I decide to 'forgive' him, that's all."
Chiron smiled, "and here I was thinking you didn't have a bad bone in your body."
Grover smirked, "oh please. I have been meaning to prank him since the time he embarrassed us back at Yancy academy."
"I see, need some help?" Chiron asked with mischief in his eyes.
"Yes please," Grover said with the same look in his eyes.
"Okay you two do your pranking later," Annabeth replied, "for now we need Percy focused. Do whatever you want to him when we get back, not now."
"But Annabeth," Grover whined.
"No buts."
"It's alright Grover," Chiron replied, "we'll get him soon enough."
"But then I'll only be able to prank him once I get back!"
"If you get," Clarisse clarified but before Grover could rebuttal the figure of Percy could be seen coming up the hill. He stopped in front of the group and put his backpack on the ground, "hey guys, you ready?" Percy asked to Annabeth and Clarisse.
