You have obtained the book containing the skill : Construction techniques: Roman
Would you like to learn?
YES/NO?
Percy smiled as he pressed yes. The book vanished into thin air as the knowledge went directly into his head. He suddenly knew everything about roman architecture, the way arches distributed weight. The way the walls were to be stacked so that it would be time efficient and hard to push down.
Ping!
You have obtained a new skill!
Architecture, Lv— 1 (0%)
The ability to build building and other man made structure meant for housing.
All buildings you build have a 80% chance of falling over
All buildings you build have a 15% chance of looking good
30% of product wastage.
You know;
Roman construction— Lv MAX Can understand and skillfully create roman buildings
Percy blinked as he started to process the information in his head. It told him how to create buildings, Roman buildings. And not only that but also how to destroy them. 'Damn, Jason wasn't kidding when he said every roman camp could be broken down a rebuilt in a few days. With this knowledge I could destroy every building here piece by piece. It would be child's play.'
Percy then went to the second book of war strategies. This one ended up the same as the first;
War strategies, Lv— 1 (0%)
The way you command your troops or team mates.
Effectiveness— (½ Int)%
Bonus — +(½ Wis)%
And when Percy read the book on basic Roman leadin skills he got a sub skill for the same skill;
Different war strategies you know;
Roman, Lv— 1— 20% chance of properly executing a battle tactic.
And the last book was kind of an add on for the first skill he got;
Construction of settlements— Lv— MAX
Percy searched the room for more books but found nothing useful. Just to be sure he checked the barracks again and came up empty. Percy then went to the bath house, but sure enough there was nothing there.
As he was looting the place Percy realised just how many dead bodies there were in this place. Some still had meat on their bones, the cold must have kept it preserved. Percy honestly couldn't' stand the sight of it, he didn't really have the stomach for corpses. After all every time he killed something it just disappeared into golden dust, no blood no gore. But he pushed through using Gamer's mind.
They deserved a properly funeral, even if they were Romans and would probably hate the idea of a Greek performing their last rights. So Percy swallowed his disgust and started to moves all the corps and skeletons he found and gathered them all in the center of the Roman camp.
He broke off several pieces of wood from the camp's wooden walls and built a small pyre. He didn't really know how the Romans treated their dead, but he assumed they did the same thing the Greeks did and burn them in a shroud.
Percy didn't have a shroud, so he simply took one of the hanging banners and wrapped it around the crops. It was big enough for them all, and somehow it seemed appropriate. Percy then used his water powers and drew all the moisture from the banner and the wood making it very dry.
The demigod snapped his fingers and summoned a fireball. He threw it into the makeshift pyre and watched the flames slowly rise up burning the corpse. Percy knew it didn't really make sense, but he still felt they the Roman who died here would finally find peace because of his actions. And who knows maybe this might get him some good karma points when it came to dealing with Camp Jupiter again.
Percy was just about to leave the cleared out camp when suddenly a thought came to him. 'Where did Alcyoneus live?'
This place was freezing, and yes Alcyoneus was a giant, he might have been immune. But that didn't meant he wanted to stay up here in the cold. Hell, Percy was also immune but he would rather be inside the boat snuggled up against Thalia in that warm bed of thiers.
Percy looked around for a secret passageway or something that would lead to Alcyoneus's lair. Percy searched everywhere but couldn't find a thing.
'Hmm, if Alcyoneus created a lair for himself then he must have used his powers to do it. Maybe if I use my mana scene I can detect it.'
So Percy closed his eyes and did just that. He sent wave after wave of his mana out and felt for Alcyoneus's presence. Suddenly he picked up on a faint signal. It was somewhere below him, below all the ice and the snow.
Percy walked to where the signal was the strongest and then used his ice control to create a hole in the ground. Percy jumped into the hole, it was seven feet deep, but he needed to go deeper.
Percy pushed the ice below him to the side as he lowered himself deeper and deeper into the ground. He had perfect control over the ice around him, he didn't fear it collapsing on him.
Soon the signal felt like it was right below his feet, Percy reached out and felt around and discovered a huge cave like cavity inside the ice.
Percy pulled away the last layer of ice and dropped down. It was a 50 foot drop, but Percy managed to land on his feet. He crouched down and looked around. It was pitch black in here. Percy clicked his fingers and formed a fireball in his hands lighting up the room.
This place was more like Alcyoneus's man cave than his lair. There was bear skins laid out in the corner to serve as a bed with a work station on the side. Percy saw several weapons that Alcyoneus likely created for himself.
There was a sword made out of iron, a spear made out of lead, which was very heavy. Percy even found a small diamond dagger, probably the giant's first attempt to create a weapon like this.
Percy took the dagger and turned to try and find more things to loot in this room.
The walls of the room felt like they had been carved into. Percy could see several words etched into the wall. 'Hades', 'Revenge', 'Hercules' and 'Mother'. All the words were written in ancient greek, Percy figured this was Alcyoneus's way of remembering who he was meant to be.
Percy eventually moved on and found a couple of gold and silver ingots to loot off. After doing a final sweep of the cave Percy noticed something, the mana he was sensing, it was still there, but not around him, below him.
Ping!
A skill of yours has leveled up!
Scencesing mana, Lv— 2 (90%)
Allow you to sense mana around you giving you a brief description of the type.
Range— 30 Feet
Percy looked down and found something buried deep within the ice. Percy pulled the object out by using the ice surrounding it. The object came up on a pedestal of ice, it was a ring, well it was meant to be anyway. For Percy it looked more like a bracelet than anything else. Percy focused on it;
Ring of Alcyoneus,
Allows the wearer to manipulate precious stones, metals and minerals. Also can be used to detect said precious materials and give the exact location to the user.
Special power: Once the wearer says the term, 'Mother I call to you' the wearer will be able to directly talk of Gaea.
Percy was surprised to say the least. He honestly didn't know what to think. Right now he was looking at a device that would allow him to talk to a Primordial being. A PRIMORDIAL BEING!
That's like having a hot line to the Fates! And Gaea isn't just some goddess, she's the fucking Earth itself!
For a moment Percy wanted to call her. He wanted to talk to the Goddess, after all how many times do you get the chance to speak to planet Earth itself? But Percy refrained himself, it wouldn't be right, after all if there was one thing Percy could understand it was the bound between a mother and a son.
Percy took the 'ring' and put it on his right hand. He wasn't going to use it to call Gaea, but that didn't mean he wouldn't use it to search for treasure! This thing basically a treasure detector!
Percy eventually spent the next hour or so looking around in the deep depths of the cold ocean next to the glacier. He was searching for that diamond sword that Alcyoneus used to cut him with. After searching everywhere, the ring of Alcyoneus found it beneath the huge chunk of mountain Percy threw into the sea.
Percy then used his Body Form and also released his seals. Percy grabbed the base of the rock and manipulated the water around it to slowly help him lift it up. Percy managed to grabbed the sword using a mixture of telekinesis and water control and soon found himself back on the boat.
Percy sat down on the living room couch and took out a note and a pen. He began to take an item entry of everything he grabbed;
300 Drachma (For myself)
41 Spears (Camp?)
32 Gladius (Camp?)
1 boomerang (Camp?)
48 shields (Camp?)
1 princess tiara (For Thalia)
1 golden chariot (For camp Jupiter)
24 suits of armour (Camp?)
1 diamond dagger (For myself)
4 gold ingots (For myself)
8 silver ingots (For myself)
1 diamond sword (For myself)
Percy looked over everything he got. He had taken a few items for himself straight off the bat. Things like the sword or the ingots. But things like the chariot Percy knew he had to give back to Camp Jupiter.
Percy was also debating with himself about what to do regarding the armours he found and the weapons. Technically they belong with Camp Jupiter, but they had lost it, they had no right to it. It technically belonged to Thalia and Percy as a spoils of war.
Percy could use these items to create an imperial gold armoury for the greeks, but at the same time if the Romans found out they were doing that....well it obviously wouldn't end well.
"What are you doing?" Thalia asked as she came into the living room. Her hair was all messed up due to bed head and she wore an over large purple t-shirt that she bought in camp Jupiter with words 'My daddy is a God, so he can kick your daddy's ass' written in bright gold.
"Had a good rest?" Percy asked as Thalia snuggled against him on the couch. Percy put his arm around her as Thalia put her head on his chest closing her eyes.
"Yeah," Thalia mumbled, "did you find anything else up there?"
Percy nodded, "yeah. Some imperial gold weapons, and even Alcyoneus's man cave."
"I see," Thalia hummed, "so what are you stressing about now?"
Percy chuckled as he kissed her head, "what makes you think I'm stressed?"
"Your heart is racing like crazy," Thalia replied back.
Percy lowered his voice to a whisper, "well that's because I currently have the most beautiful girl in the world snuggled under my arm."
"Hm, 'the most beautiful girl in the world,' I like the sound of that," Thalia rubbed her head on Percy's chest, "god damn your voice is so much deeper now, it's like it's made out of honey. And chocolate. Like a mix of them both.....like.....hocolate."
Percy chuckled, "you know I really can't tell."
Thalia shrugged, "doesn't matter. But seriously, why so glum?"
Percy sighed, "it's just...I'm wondering what we should do with all the imperial gold weapons."
"What do you mean? Just give it to the Romans, they need it."
"Yeah, but so do we," Percy said.
Thalia lifted her head off of Percy's chest and looked at him. Percy looked at her, the way that shirt hanged off her body allowed Percy to look under her shirt at her bra. Percy blushed and immediately looked away as Thalia chuckled realizing what had happened.
"You do realise as my boyfriend it's basically your job to look at my boobs right?" Thalia asked.
Percy coughed, "r-right. Anyway we were talking about weapons?"
Thalia chuckled, "right. Well yes, what you're saying is true. Compared to the Romans the Greek camp has basically no proper armour. If we use the weapons we got here it could mean the difference between life and death for a lot of Greek demigods. But at the same time, it's not the right thing to do."
Percy sighed, "yeah. I know... I just needed someone else to say it. Guess sometimes my greed can take the best of me."
Thalia nodded, "well at least you're only greedy about certain things," she kissed him on the cheek and just then noticed the ring of Alcyoneus on Percy's hand, "and apparently some of those things are braclets."
Percy smiled, "it's actually supposed to be Alcyoneus's ring. But considering his size it ended up being a bracelet."
"And you didn't get anything for me," Thalia huffed, "tisk tisk Mr, your on the track to becoming the worst boyfriend ever."
Percy smiled, "well we can't have that." He opened his inventory and pulled out the golden tiara and got on one knee.
"For you my lady," Percy said presenting the tiara to Thalia.
The demigoddess blinked, "P-Percy, that's a crown!"
Percy smiled as he stood up, "yup. And I think I know just the head it belongs to," Percy pulled Thalia up as he carefully placed the crown on top of Thalia's head.
The sapphire was a few shades darker than her eyes, but other than that it suited Thalia. Simple, yet unique and beautiful.
Thalia turned to left where there was a small profile size mirror hanging on the wall. She looked at crown on her head as she slowly started to cry.
"Ah, Thalia are you okay? I didn't do anything stupid did I?" Percy asked as he was nervous. He wanted to think that Thalia was crying tears of joy, but he really didn't want to be that optimistic when it came to his girlfriend.
"No," Thalia said as she smiled, "you didn't do anything wrong fish head."
Percy smiled, 'great, tears of joy. I knew it all along.'
"Well I'm glad that you liked it," Percy said with a smile, "I figured the jewel matched your eyes and-"
That was as far as Percy got as Thalia jumped on him, pushing him back onto the couch and pressing her lips on top of his.
"Hmm," Percy hummed as he wrapped his arms around Thalia and her massive shirt. Percy pulled her close, he felt her breasts pressed up against his chest as Thalia wrapped her arms around Percy's head.
Ping!
Percy didn't even bother looking at the box, he already knew it was an notification tell him his kissing skill had leveled up. Percy swiped the box away as he slowly traced Thalia's back.
Percy felt the perky molds of Thalia's ass just below his hand's reach. Acting on instinct and desire, Percy grabbed an ass check in each hand and pulled Thalia's body up deepening the kiss and getting a good feel of her perky behind.
Ping!
Thalia's tongue licked Percy's lips for entrance and the demigod gladly gave it. Percy felt Thalia's tongue in his mouth as it tried to dominate his own, but Percy quickly managed to get the upper hand as he squeezed Thalia's ass again surprising her long enough to send his tongue into her mouth.
The two demigods started to feel hotter and hotter. They wanted each other right now, Thalia's hands were under Percy's shirt as she traced her fingers slowly upwards.
