Ping!
The sound rang out but Percy ignored it fully, the only thing on his mind was living. Percy drew back his fist high into the air, he looked at the Goblin underneath him as slowly everything else simply faded away. He swung his fist downwards with everything he had;
Crack!
The black metal of the chest piece bent inwards in the form of a fist. The ground underneath the Goblin King broke into spider webs as peice of the ground flew all over the place. The ground itself roared as it slowly began to shake. Percy panted as he lifted his hands up. Blood flowed freely from his knuckles drenched the broken metal armour.
"What are you?" the Goblin King choked out through the blood in his throat.
"I am Perseus Jackson, the son of Poseidon."
"A demigod, no wonder," Timmy said with his eye slowly losing focus, "you are half a god. I never really stood a chance did I." It wasn't a question.
Percy nodded looking at the one eyed monster, "no, you didn't."
The goblin King looked at Percy with sadness in his eye but a smile on his face, "well at least I finally got that match I always wanted."
Percy nodded and slowly the Goblin King disintegrated away into golden dust.
Ping!
Congratulations! You have leveled up!
Percy Jackson
Health-4,650/4,650 (+1000) = 5,650
Mana-2,300/2,300(+1000) = 3,300
The Gamer
Title— Son of Poseidon
(+20 Str,+20 Vit, +20 Dex, while in water)
Level-25 Exp— 46,710/ 81,000
Race-Demigod
STR-50(+20)=70
VIT-52(+7+20)=79
DEX-35(+7+20)=62
INT-43
WIS-32
LUC-50
POINTS-70
MONEY— 142,637$/1,088D
Percy then looked at the other notification he got during his battle;
Earthquake control, Lv-11 (20%)
You can cause an Earthquake thought any part of your body.
Attack— 900
Cost 100 MP
Magnitude-2.6
And underneath that;
Congratulations! You have obtained a new technique for Earthquake control!
Earth mover— by pushing your earthquake mana into the ground you may cause tremors by becoming the focal point of the own earthquake. Effects whole areas resulting in varying levels of damage, Max— 2000 Attack
Just as Percy finished reading and dismissing those two boxes;
Ping!
Perk— Chimera's blood has activated! Which trait of the Goblin King do you wish for?
Immunity to fire
Goblin's growth
Wind's blessing
Percy blinked, this hadn't happened in a long time. Maybe it was just specific monster's that activated the Chimera's blood perk? Percy pushed the question aside and looked at his options. The first one was obvious, and kind of basic. Percy pressed the second option;
Goblin's growth,
When paired up with 'Puberty' status will allow for user to grow to their nature prime faster and will help in obtaining muscle mass quicker.
Positive results— Quicker growth rate and bigger body size
Negative results— Increase in all hormones resulting in an increased sex drive that will cloud your thoughts.
Percy blinked, the negative results were.....surprising to say the least. It would be useful though... Percy shook his head and turned to the next option;
Wind's Blessing;
Will allow you to receive + 1000 HP and +1000 MP when you are surrounded by wind.
The demigod shrugged, it wasn't really all that special, though if he paired this up with his water's domain blessing he would gain an additional of +3000 HP/MP. Which was impressive but at the same time....kind of lame.
Percy closed the box and looked at the Goblin's growth again. From the three options that seems like the best to chose, but if he did then he would have to deal with the extra.....sex drive. Maybe Gamer's mind would take care of it, or maybe not.
"One problem at a time," Percy told himself as he pressed Goblin's growth twice;
Are you sure you want to learn Goblin's growth for your Chimera's blood perk?
YES/NO?
Percy pressed yes and suddenly his body flashed gold as he felt his body tighten up before relaxing. Percy moved an arm around trying to see whether he felt any different, 'maybe I need to wait till I gain the 'Puberty ' status?'
Percy shrugged and closed the boxes in front of him. He turned to his side and saw Marchosias walk up to him. "Thanks," he told the demon wolf.
The wolf nodded, "it's okay master. It is my job after all."
Percy nodded, "but either way, thanks." Percy then turned to the loot left behind and saw 4 things left behind for him.
The first was 80,000$, which was a lot more than he got from fighting off Cerberus. Then came an amulet. It was a dark blue stone shaped like an egg as big as a raisin and around it were golden lines that surrounded and caged the stone.
Amulet of Hasis,
Gives + 20% for all wind based attacks
+3% to health regeneration.
Percy shrugged his shoulders, it wasn't really something suited for him but at the same time the +3% HP regeneration would be very useful. He put the chain around his neck and looked to the other two loot items.
The first one looked like a pin in the form of a dragon. It was black and red with silver lining it;
Pin of protections;
Gives a boost of + 50 durability to any object it is attached to.
"Huh, this is useful," Percy said before putting the pin on his jacket's collar.
"What does it do?"
"It gives a boot to my defense Marchosias......you" target="_blank">...you know what we need a nickname for you, something shorter than Marchosias."
The wolf looked amused, "any suggestions?"
Percy scratched his chin, "how about....Mary?"
"After the stupid virgin? Fuck no!"
"Marelin?"
"No way."
"Madelin?"
"Shove it up your ass if you like it so much."
"Then what about.... Marcia?"
The blue eyed wolf blinked, "that's actually pretty good."
"You sound surprised," Percy said with a grin "I'm great at making nicknames you know."
The wolf sighed, "I'm not going to even address that," she then turned to the last loo item, "now what is that?"
Percy looked at the last loot item which was a big black chest piece, the exact one that Timmy wore. It had an impression of Percy's fist right in the center and looked bigger than his entire upper body;
Galvron chest piece;
A piece of armour that is made out of Galvron and is considered nearly indestructible.
+20% to MP
+10% to HP
+ 70% to elvish magic
Durability— 720/800
Note: this is a one time loot given for the first ever clearing of the Goblin camp ID
Percy picked up the chest plate and instead of it being heavy it was light, incredibly light. It was lighter than leather armour the campers wore during a capture the flag game!
"Is that Galvron?" Marcia asked sniffing the metal, "that's incredibly rare!"
Percy nodded, "yeah, but it doesn't exactly fit me now does it."
The wolf nodded, "indeed, especially with that hand print there. You need to have it re forged."
"Know any good forgers?"
"Don't you literally have a cabin filled with children of the forge god?"
Percy blinked, "huh, that could work." Percy put the chest peice away in his inventory and put Marcia back into the gauntlet, which luckily still worked. Percy walked to the goblin main camp sight and quickly took all the loot there;
2,000 $
120 D
32 low grade potions
13 swords
12 shields
Along the way he also grabbed the broken piece of the Goblin King's weapon. The spear was broken but the blade still looked like it functioned;
Spear of Defire (Broken),
A spear enchanted with the ability to create flames hot enough to melt steel. The blade can expand in size and increase in the flames intensity.
Cost of fire— 300 MP
Damage— 5 X Vit attack
After putting the broken weapon away Percy looked to his gauntlet and poured mana into it. Once again he found himself in a well of grey souls with all those he had defeated looking at him. Percy turned to his latest victim and pulled his soul out.
The gauntlet glowed as it expelled a big cloud of smoke outwards. The cloud then condensed into the form of the Goblin King who stood with nothing on but a pair of pants and his red cape. His eye was now fixed and he used both to look at Percy. The 14 foot tall being looked at Percy before bowing, "master."
Percy smiled and desummoned Timmy. He then put his hand up, "ID Escape!" The three mooned sky cracked open and gave way to a sky with a single moon. Percy sighed as he found himself back home, he felt safe again. For a moment there it seemed he might actually die, that his life was forfeit to the Goblin King's power. The demigod looked to the moon and smiled as he wondered, 'why did I hear Artemis's voice back then?'
The next day found Percy inside his cabin sitting on his bed with Annabeth, Nina, Michael and Clarissa standing in front of him. He just finished telling them what the Gods wanted them to do.
"I'm just glad I don't have to do this alone," Clarisse said smiling.
"Come on Clarisse you really think we would let you sail into the Sea of Monsters alone?" Asked Michael with a check smile, "well I might but the other might not."
"Shut it flute boy!"
"Now now no need to fight," Percy said calming them down, "you guys will have plenty of time to do that later."
"What do you mean 'you guys?'" Annabeth asked catching the words used.
Nina blinked, "yeah Percy aren't you coming with?"
Percy sighed and shook his head, "no, I'm not."
"What?!" They all screamed together.
Percy sighed, "I have another quest assigned to me."
"What is it?" Nina asked curiously.
"It involved Argo and Gergosas."
Clarisse;s face turned into that of rage while Annabeth looked indifferent, but Percy could see fear and cold fury there just below the surface.
"What about them?" Clarisse asked through gritted teeth.
"There is apparently some kind of Gergosa factory near the Sea of Monsters.....it's run by Argo."
"So the Gods want you to find and destroy it?" Nina asked to which Percy nodded.
"Well shit," Michael cursed, "this is bad."
"Why so?" Percy asked.
"You are probably the best shot we had at finding the fleece and coming back home alive," Michael explained, "without you...."
"Relax Micheal you'll do fine."
"Yeah easy for you to say Mr. I-can-kill-giant-metal-robotic-bulls-with-one-punch."
Percy smiled. He got off his bed and placed both hands on Michael, he looked at the son of Apollo right in the eye and said, "Michael you're a son of Apollo, so you know I mean it when I say that I believe in you, all of you. If anyone is qualified to get the fleece back it's you guys."
The black haired and brown eyed boy looked at his friend and smiled, "damn straight!"
Clarisse smirked, "didn't know you needed Percy to hold you hand flute boy."
"Hey Clarisse why don't you shove your spear up your ass and go fuck yourself."
"Why you little!" The two began to fight as the rest simply looked on.
"I'm going to have to make them stop from now on don't I?" Annabeth asked sighing.
"Yup," Percy said smiling.
After the fight was done Percy pulled out three yellow bags, that Hermes supplied, and gave them to the others. They then took off to go to their respective cabins to prepare for tonight which was when Clarisse was expected to leave.
Percy wanted to ask Nina's help in fixing the Galvron armour but seeing as they didn't have enough time Percy decided to skip it for a later date, after all something like reforging armour would take a long time to do.
Percy spent the rest of the day preparing for the quest ahead. He stocked up on food from the Mess Hall storing up to a month's worth of food, needless to say the harpy's and nature spirits there did not like him stealing food. Luckily Percy managed to zip away before they could even get to him.
Inside the black bag Hermes had given him was 300 $ in cash, something which is insignificant compared to the amount of money he now had. He also got several sets of clothes with even a pirate costume packed in there for someone goddamn reason.
There was also a bottle of spray on glue;
Can of glue!;
Spray this on anything and watch as anything that comes to contact with its surface be attached for the next 24 hours.
A map of Nassau and a bottle of what looked like pills, blue oval shaped pills...
Bottle of multivitamins;
Vitamins which provide bring the user to their normal status giving them a shot of adrenaline in the process.
+100% restoration of bodily functions.
Warning!: Do not take more than five pills a day, doing so may result to heart attacks, strokes, liver failure or even death.
Percy shrugged, at least it wasn't viagra. Percy put all the materials he got into his inventory and put the bag away, no need to carry extra weight.
Percy turned to his window sill and saw his enchanted sapling growing there. It was the prize he got when he won against Craig well over a year ago. The plant had silver leaves and three red berries growing on it. Percy had watered it every day and when he was away from camp he asked Nina or Clarisse to take care of it for him and now it was ready.
Percy plucked one red berry and Observed it;
Berry from the Enchanted bush;
Consumption will give a permanent +200 MP boost.
Percy smiled and bit into the red round berry. The berry flavour exploded in Percy's mouth as the demigod tasted a mixture of strawberry and blueberry, something very unique. It was slightly bitter but soon the taste was overpowered by a large amount of energy flowing into Percy from the fruit.
Percy's eyes glowed green as he quickly swallowed the whole thing in one go as it's juices flowed down his throat.
Ping!
You have gained +200 MP permanently!
Percy closed the box and quickly picked the second berry and ate it as well. The taste of the second berry overwhelmed the first as a fresh burst of energy took over Percy's body.
Ping!
You have gained +200 MP permanently!
Percy then put the last berry inside his inventory saving it for an emergency.
The son of Poseidon then walked out of his cabin towards the edge of the forest. He passed by the Big House and waved to Mr. D who was sitting on the porch. The god of wine nodded to Percy before returning to his magazine which was titled, 'Olympus daily'.
Percy walked out of the camp and passed Thalia's tree. The tree was looking worse now, the poison had spread throughout the middle of the trunk and now most of the wood there was grey. The green venom of the Elder snake hadn't moved much, partly to the continuous use of the staff of healing on the tree by Michael. The staff didn't help much but at least the poison was now contained.
