Disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson
Beta: Caracac
Warning: Contains blood, gore, sex, possible rape, sword fights, dark shit you will never unsee, demons, angels, witches, wizards, medieval crap, and pure unadulterated badassery.
Special thanks: Gorchanstruck (keep those weapons and abilities classy my friend)
LAST TIME:
'Awe I wanted a kiss from her to.' Gaia said as I ignored the goddess who was whispering in my head. But I was still stunned from the kiss as I could still feel the smooth texture of hers on mine.
'But I guess I can wait. For now I will let you claim this little soul mate sweetheart first.' Gaia said in my mind as I blushed even more. I totally forgot that Viola would start to love Gaia just as much as she did me later in our relationship. Just then an image of Gaia and an older Viola kissing and making out entered my head. Even the water nymph Zoe popped up and started kissing them as well.
'Oh seems like someone is just as excited as I am.' Said Gaia as she must have seen the scene that was floating in my head. Okay maybe having a love who was as open as Gaia with my other soulmates wasn't such a bad thing.
"Yeah. Happy deity's day Viola." I said as that little scene brought the night to a close.
With that the seasons changed and life went on. Days turned into months and months slowly went by. Days spent in the mansion doing my job helping Vanessa making potions to poisons for the unusual customers. Practicing with Cly every over day forcing my skills to level up as I battled against the ever so overprotective Cly. My body slowly got used to my missing arm as I practiced and practiced.
Weeks were spent down in the dungeon fighting off hordes of monsters as I once again had to get used to fighting with one arm. But instead of practice this was a real life battle with my life on the line. Still grief and sorrow filled my mind each time I looked at my nub as I found a break in my busy schedule. Between basically swimming in monster bodies, consuming dead monsters, alchemy with Vanessa, occasional dates with Viola and Gaia, and sword training with Cly I had little time to myself.
Still a year passed by as all 24 months slowly went by and my age went from 13 to 14 to 15. My body remaining the same as everyone around me seemed to grow at a quicker rate. Viola grew and her body seemed to fill out perfectly as she now stood almost 6 feet tall due to her elf blood. Angel however was about to reach his 16 birthday but nothing had changed as he only seemed to grow in height but his features stayed the same. Never male never female, it was like he couldn't make up his mind.
Still as my life went on when I turned 15 I was given a surprising gift from Viola and her family. In the box was a prosthetic arm. Turns out in this world prosthetics weren't that common since healing magi could make normal limb regrow. But with my curse even my ability [consumption absorption] couldn't do anything to make it regrow. So they must have really gone out of their way to get this made.
Still as I stared at the shiny metal arm I couldn't help but smile. Unfortunately it was not made to be a weapon or anything so it had no functions. But I still put it on as the metal arm fit snug on my nub. In truth it looked exactly like any normal arm and was very well made but there was only one flaw with it. That was that there were two metal pieces that had to connect to the top of my forearm so it wouldn't fall off.
It almost made it look like I had a splint on my arm from the elbow up but I didn't mind as I found that I could move it up and down. But the fingers were motionless and always took the shape of a fist as I sighed slightly, however I didn't care as the prosthetic was still better than anything. At first it was difficult to get used to but it only took a matter of weeks to somewhat get back to normal.
But turns out there was a magnet of a sort in the palm so if I pushed a sword into the palm the fingers would slide around it and grip the handle. This made me happy as I was finally able to use a two handed sword strike again. That was 5 weeks ago and right now I sat on a pile of monster corpses and silently chewed on a piece of bone from a monster.
But by my side was a wok which was sitting on a stone pillar with a pit of magma in the middle. The liquid rock seemed to barely heat the wok as it seemed to only simmer lightly. The bottom of the wok, not even red from the heat as a golden demon face was clearly seen on the bottom. But in the wok was a mess of monster meat sizzling quietly as it seemed to grow clearer with time.
With my meal by my side I was relaxing as I finished up with my fight moment's ago. The fight I had just finished was the level 80 boss monster and I guess you could say I was currently snacking on the leftovers from the monster. Sitting not too far from me was a tiny Gaia who was munching on a piece of dried meat as she savagely ate the piece of jerky.
My body was covered in blood and my arm was covered in blood, dents, and scratches from me basically using it as a shield and blunt weapon. But I had to give the prosthetic arm a 'hand' for being so well made. Let's just say after hearing Cly saying 'Oh looks like you have been disarmed' about 400 times each time he knocked the blade out of my prosthetic arm I sort of developed a cruel sense of humor about my fake arm.
Still as I sat there quietly and munched on a bone I finally ate the rest of the one piece, but as I did an Alert popped up in front of me.
Alert!
I was used to this alert at this point as I didn't even look at it as I continued on reading my info.
Ding!
< These points will be added to main stats! 80 STR, 41 END, 80 DEX, 40 VIT, 30 INT, 30 WIS, 40 FAI, 25 LUC!>
Name: Perseus Jackson
Age: 15
Title: The Dark Gamer (All stats increased by number of main lv of player.)
Title: Tens Ambassador (75% chance demons won't attack you.)
Title: Lone wander (25% more damage if you are in a group alone.)
Title: One armed menace (15% chance to fear everyone who sees your missing arm.)
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Race- Divine soul human
Height- 5 foot 6
Jobs/Class: (9/10) (Max)
Warrior lv-60 (STR+60, VIT+70)
Barbarian lv-55 (STR+65, END+55, DEX+55)
Medic lv-35 (INT+45, WIS+45, FAI+35)
Spirit user lv-40 (INT+40, WIS+40, FAI+50)
Archer lv-28 (DEX+38, VIT+28)
Blacksmith lv-20 (STR+30, END+20)
Puppet user lv-15 (FAI+15, LUC+25)
Alchemist lv-25 (INT+35, WIS+25, LUC+25)
Martial Artist lv-25 (DEX+35, VIT+25, FAI+25)
Level: 725 Xp: 3,450 / 6,298,944,800 (1/40) = 157,473,620
Health 362,500/362,500 (500 each level)
Mana 725,000/725,000 (1000 each level)
STR-1280(+725+60+65+30) =2,160
END-895(+725+55+20+350) =2,045
DEX-1175(+725+55+38+35+350) =2,278
VIT-1205(+725+70+28+25) =2,053
INT-925(+725+45+40+15) =1,750
WIS-950(+725+45+40+5) =1,765
FAI-780(+725+35+50+15+25) =1,630
LUC-1150 (+725+25+25) =1,925
POINTS- 0
BONUS POINTS-32
"Is your cooking done?" Asked Gaia as I glanced at the fairy to see her taking a huge bite of the dried meat. The piece alone was almost as big as her so it made the scene funny as she chewed on it.
"Almost let me check." I said as I glanced at the wok to see all the items in the wok slowly turning clear like water. It might sound weird but this wok had another effect besides making some kickass food. This wok was a gift from Tens after several quests for him as his ambassador. But it could absorb all the impure essence from anything put inside it and in doing so purify it.
???? item: Devil gods cooking wok
It may appear to be like any other wok but this one has served the devils gods themselves and cooked mountains of food for their limitless appetites. Not only does it cook the finest meals it can also make anything into a meal.
Natural effects:
10,000,000% taste to all meals
100% cooking success rate
100% of anything can be used to cook
Optional effects:
100% purification of anything
Capacity: 100 quadrillion pounds of anything
Costs: 1 MP every min for every 10 pounds while cooking.
But I found an interesting loophole with this when I decided to purify a whole monster corpse, the corpse even shrank to fit in the wok. First the body melted down to a thick red liquid then it began to slowly grow clearer and eventually that clear liquid would solidify into a tiny crystal the size of a grain of sand. Confused after my first time I did another monster and eventually added more and more monsters all the way up until I hit 10,000.
Each monster fitting in the wok as it never overfilled as each corpse shrunk to accommodate to the size of the wok. It was like there was it's own little world in the wok pan. But as all 10,000 monster corpses were purified I was left with a complete crystal. But not only any crystal but a blank soul crystal. After a quick glance at the info I found that the soul crystal had the ability to perfectly copy any soul crystal that I had.
Because my fusion ability destroyed any items I used to try and duplicate a single soul crystal it was extremely wasteful. I only succeeded 3 out of 100 times and each time I only managed one or two duplicate crystals. One time I managed to get 5 duplicates but that was only once. So instead of being incredibly wasteful with monster materials while leveling the skill. I used my own skills to level the fusion skill since they weren't destroyed if it failed.
Though each blank soul crystal cost me 10,000 monsters it felt much better getting something out of it that still worked. Currently I only had 4 of the blank soul crystals and was currently working on my 5th one right now. But due me wanting to make sure I didn't fuck up with making it was using a new ability to make sure I didn't.
Active skill: Spirit Eyes lv-Max
Your eyes can now see the invisible and the illusionary. Mana itself cannot hide as you gaze upon the word. Even spirits that do not wish to be seen by others cannot hide. Now see the world for yourself.
100% eyesight
You can see past illusions
You can see anything invisible
You can see people's auras and emotions
You can see telepathy links and instant messages and words used in them.
Cost: 1 MP a minute
In a second everything before me was clear as I glanced at the wok of clear liquid. I then could see that it only had only a few hours left as I quickly deactivated the ability as Gaia snickered a little.
"Checking it with your spirit eyes? Isn't that a grievous misuse of that ability?" She asked me with a snicker as I rolled my eyes.
"I would ask the same about your multiple of your abilities but I feel that making fun of you is beneath me." I said as she puffed up her cheeks and pouted clearly unhappy at my last comment. She knew I was more than simply right in this case as she constantly misused her abilities for her own benefit. I don't need to mention how many times Gaia used her fairy body to look all cute and bathe with Viola.
"What are you two talking about?" Asked a new voice as me and Gaia turned to Viola.
Currently in one of her hands were a couple of tendons and muscles taken from some monster's corpses. Blood covered both her arms and some was splattered on her face but she was currently giving a giddy smile at her harvest of items. All in all it looked kind of freaky to see a smiling blood covered dark elf.
"Nothing...you're awfully dirty." Said Gaia as Viola raised an eyebrow and looked down at herself as a look of surprise filled her eyes. As it did she just laughed lightly as she held her arms out from her.
"So you got more tendons?" I asked her as her eyes lit up and a smile covered her face.
"Yep I got about 30 in my inventory as well. If you can fuse these into my current bow string I will love you forever." She said with a smile on her face.
"You would love him forever even if he didn't fuse them Bianca." She said as a deep blush covered her face. It was only 2 years ago that I found out that Viola was Bianca's reincarnate and with time came her memories of her past life.
At first she was greatly confused and hid the fact from me that her memories were slowly coming back to her. Living one life in the real world while reliving another in her sleep as time continued and eventually she finally came to me crying one night. Her confusion was evident as was honestly scared at what was happening. She told her dreams and the feelings they gave her, the surreal events that happened.
Finally I began to explain things to her and what was happening at first she didn't believe me and told me I was lying. Fortunately her dreams were reaching the parts when she was first meeting me. So I told her what her next dreams were going to be and in turn those parts came true. At first she seemed to believe that I had done something to her but then Gaia stepped in to help. She quickly expunged all thoughts as she talked to her.
She even went as far as showing Bianca what had happened past her death and the events that followed all the way up to the end of the earth itself. With that came lots of information that she slowly went over for a week or two. In that time she eventually came to the conclusion that her past life was real and that I was the same as her. At first she was excited but that lasted only a second before she began to ask about others.
I could only smile as Bianca began to worry about her friends and family as well as the others she knew. But the only thing that I could tell her was that I had only met a few others including her but she seemed happy when I said I already met Artemis and Zoe already. The next topic was her little brother and the answer that I had for her made her freeze.
That was the fact that I knew Angel was Nico, Cly was Hades, and Vanessa was Maria. I took a while but with some help from Gaia, my intuition, and my [spirit eyes] ability I was able to finally figure it all out. Instantly she wanted to help me awake her family's memories but then Gaia explained that I couldn't. The reason being that the only reason hers awoke was because of our soulmate connection.
Embarrassed but still strong headed Bianca understood but still asked Gaia if I could ever unlock their memories. Her answer being once my strength grew to a certain level I could but unlocking memories of people's past lives without special conditions. Such as being a soulmate was one, but it was incredibly difficult and something I did not have the power to do. So she conceded and accepted this fact for now.
"Gaia don't tease her too much." I said as Viola blushed however I took the tendons from her as I began to fuse them into her bow string. At this point the bowstring alone was an epic level item thanks to fusing thousands of tendons into it.
"Yeah...and don't call me Bianca I like Viola better." She said with a light hmph as we both rolled our eyes. I guess going by your old name after living two lives is a little difficult so the name Bianca was only being used in private time. But it turns out that she liked the name Viola better so she stuck with that name in this life. Yet I still found myself calling her Bianca and she responded but in childish ways like just now.
"Whatever you say Bianca." I said offhandedly as she gave me another pouty face. I then finished fusing all the monster tendons into her bow string. Currently I think she was about 2000 to 3000 high level monster tendons away from it advancing to a legendary bow string.
"Hey I thought you just said no teasing." Bianca said with a pouting face.
"I didn't say I couldn't tease you, I just said for Gaia to stop." I said as both women just glared at me.
"Hey I am the one that suggested you not come along. Your mother was 7 months pregnant and needs all the help she can get. Yet you decided to come along and help me clear dungeon floors even though you are little to no help at all. But it was all because you don't like being around your mother when she is emotional." I said glancing at Bianca as she tried to retort but my logic was sound.
"She just gets so moody! You try having a pregnant mother!" She said angrily while stomping her feet. Her 18 year old body reacting like that of a child.
"Besides didn't you escape into the dungeon to get away as well?" She questioned me as I snorted.
"I did not come here to escape from here. I actually came here to get an item for her and your father." I said as she had a look of surprise on her face.
"What item?" She asked me.
"Just a little something to help your mother in her current situation that you escaped from." I said as her eyebrow twitched as she gave a broken smile as I kept poking her buttons.
"A craving crusher if you will." I added with a gleam in my eye as Bianca showed a happy face.
"Really something like that exists as a dungeon drop?" She asked me as I nodded.
"Gaia gave me the info on it. I just gathered the last of my ingredients for the recipe and I will make it when I get back. Hopefully you will then stay by your mother's side." I said throwing Bianca another glance as I slowly pulled a pure see-through crystal from a now empty wok. The crystal looked like a diamond in the light as I gave it a nod.
Unique item: Blank soul crystal
This is not your average soul crystal as it can only be formed by purifying thousands of monsters soul crystals to their cores and then fusing the cores into one crystal. This in turn creates a freak of nature soul crystal that can truly copy any other crystal. This in turn can make a full set of 9 to achieve bloodline bestowment.
Can make a true copy of any soul crystal it touches
"Why do I have a feeling she is the one that put you up to this?" Bianca said with a nervous laugh as I shrugged lightly.
"Who knows." I said as I put away the crystal and turned back to Bianca.
"So are we all done?" She asked me as I nodded.
"Yeah I have all the items I need and now we are all good. So all we have to do now is teleport back. But first, XP party distribution needs to be fixed." I said as I pulled up a menu in front of me. Thanks to one of my new special skills [Party XP or HP or MP Share] I could adjust the percentage of XP that each party member got from each kill. Currently Bianca was the precipitant of 90% of all XP we got together as we tried to get her to level faster.
But that also included the XP bonus I got for killing each one but not the level amount reduction that was me personally. But along with allowing me to form a party of 20 people when the normal limit was 4 I could also form a HP and MP pool. Basically it was an invisible pool of HP or MP that was given to anyone whose numbers went below 50%. So instant recovery for anyone but the pool could only give so much before being depleted.
"That still sounds so weird." Said Bianca as I set the XP setting to normal and put the menu away as I laughed lightly.
"Well to you I guess." I said as Bianca pouted.
"So when are you leaving to go home again?" Asked Bianca in a slightly saddened tone. Reason was because I had finally reached a suitable level to go home and rid it of the pest known as Gabe. Unfortunately I had talked to Bianca and I was against her coming with me. The main reason being she needed to be with her family above her soulmate. Sure it felt like stabbing myself in the heart doing such a thing but I knew it was the right thing to do.
I couldn't take Bianca from her family and she understood that yet she still wanted to come with me but I constantly refused. I told her to stay with her family until I could make my way back here. But mentioning that I could see her HP and MP including vitals thanks to my party system helped her feel at ease. Well more me than her but she also could see mine so she was happy, at least for now.
"In a few days." I said taking out two dungeon stones and tossing one to Bianca as she gave me a sad face.
"Still against taking me with you?" She asked me as I nodded as she pouted.
"You're no fun." She said as she with a sigh.
"I know but you know that you can't just go leaving your family with some random kid." I said.
"Ha! Random kid my ass! Plus I would be fine with you and Gaia by my side." She said in a surprisingly snarky tone. One that Bianca wouldn't be suspected to have.
"That might be true but you wouldn't want to miss your little sister growing up?" I asked her as her face gave an awkward smile. She was actually very excited to have another sister now. Thanks to some magic we had determined she would be a dark elf like Bianca as well so she was even more pumped up. However I could only guess that a certain dark skin female with curly brown hair and golden eyes was going to be born into this world with her.
"W-Well no...but..." She couldn't think of anything as I smiled at her tone.
"I even bet your step sister Hazel will be her reincarnation as well." I said as she seemed slightly excited about that. Nothing like meeting a sister you never knew about before now.
"Well...that would be nice." She admitted in a quiet voice as I smirked. Babies were Bianca's weakness and we both knew it. Be it her own blood like her new sister or a random person's baby she loved them all.
"Well I am going up." I said holding the stone as she nodded and squeezed hers as light began to gather around her in a flood. In the next instant a massive ball of light shot up into the air as fast as light as I watched Bianca be transported to the surface. After that I grinned and activated my own dungeon stone as I was also teleported to the surface.
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"So how goes the dungeon mapping?" Asked Cly as I finished putting the ingredients for the craving crusher in an alchemy pot. But as I tossed in the items and the liquid in the pot brewed slowly I pulled up a magical map in front of me. The map itself looked like a massive cone and each level was greatly detailed in its 3D format.
This was thanks to another special skill I had managed to get: it was [internal dungeon mapping] but with this I could create magical 3D maps of any dungeon I went into. Plus it mapped anything I saw so it even made it easier. But the best feature was that it showed all monster and adventure locations on the map in real time. So if you had mapped a level all the way you could see everything happening in that level real time.
"It goes well I think, I got the first 80 levels mapped out already." I said as Cly looked over the real time images of the dungeon.
"Hmmm." Said Cly as he continued to look over the map.
"What?" I asked him.
"Just thinking of a way I could sell this." He said as my smile broke as the greedy Cly made its appearance.
"Well you could if you replicated the ability but it is one of a kind." I said as he frowned.
"Which leads me to ask how you got this ability in the first place." He said as I smiled but didn't say anything as I finished up the potion. After it was all done I was left with a small amount of blue liquid that I like to call the craving crusher drink.
"Still not going to crack eh?" He asked me as I rolled my eyes.
"I won't crack in a million years. But if you want I set up a public station for the map in your home so it works for you like it does me. All you have to do is load your memories of the dungeon in it every time you come back." I said as he seemed surprised.
"It can work like that?" He asked.
"Yeah but other than adding to it nothing else can be done." I said as he raised an eyebrow.
"Isn't it just a map?" He asked me as I glanced up at him from the new potion in hand.
"It is to you but to me it is a way to instantly travel to any part of the dungeon. It is extremely compatible with a certain ability that I have." I said.
"Oh another ability?" He asked me.
"Yeah it is called [Dungeon gate] it allows me to summon a gateway that leads to any level of any dungeon that I have explored before. That means I can summon a gateway on the surface and have a flood of monsters come through. Or I can use it to save a group of adventures. The only issue is that I have to know what part of the dungeon I am summoning from."
"With [internal dungeon mapping] I can see where I am placing this gateway so it makes it even more efficient. Given the right circumstances I can even summon a boss monster. The only issue is that I can only activate it on the surface. But that also means I can go from the surface to any dungeon level I have been to before." I said as Cly was astonished.
"That sounds like a very deadly ability." He said as I nodded.
"Yep, so watch out." I said with a laugh as Cly didn't seem to think it was as funny as I did.
"Does that mean you can instantly transfer yourself to your home dungeon? Wouldn't that take all the time out of traveling?" He asked as I shook my head.
"I have never been in my home dungeon or any dungeon before this one so I cannot. But one I do make it there I can instantly transfer myself to and from both dungeons. I could even haul cargo to and from both countries if I want to." I said as he slowly nodded but then stopped as he seemed to be thinking.
"What about armies?" He asked me as I stared at him for a second but then caught on to what he was talking about. The very tactic of hiding an army in a dungeon was used against my old family when they captured a castle. Thinking of the old mercenary group poked some sensitive nerves but I ignored it as I nodded.
"Yep as long I have visited that particular dungeon beforehand." I said as he let out a slow whistle.
"I have a feeling that if you wanted to conquer the world it would be a lot simpler than one would imagine." He said as I shrugged. Not to say the thought hadn't crossed my mind I didn't have the power to consider it but I guess Cly was right. If I did gain the power to lead an army I could conquer nations in a night with that ability.
"So..." But he stopped talking as the sound of footsteps coming towards us and two female voices along with them. In the next second both Viola and Vanessa came into the room. Vanessa was now close to 9 months pregnant and with her stomach bulging like a large balloon. Still a smile was filling her face as she talked to a reluctant Viola as her mother teased her about her and me.
"Moommm!" Viola complained as Vanessa just smiled and walked over to Cly as he gave her a smile.
"So what is this about a craving crusher?" The pregnant women asked me as I handed over the potion as I prepped the other bottles.
"This will help with the outrageous cravings that you are still having and help keep your body in good condition for before the birth and after. It was taught to me by my old alchemy teacher, he said that it was pretty useful for successful births." I said as she smiled and looked over the bottle as I finished prepping the other 30 bottles.
"That seems extremely useful, I wonder why I have never learned of it before now?" She quested herself, which seemed reasonable since she was a master alchemist.
"It was a personal recipe that he discovered on his own when he made a mistake in brewing." I said as she nodded, normally that was how most recipes were made.
"So all you have to do is take one a day and eat regularly and you will be fine before and after the birth." I said as she put away all the bottles and then gave me a hug as thanks. I tried to be careful but her full stomach pushed up against me as I felt small kicks against my stomach as a smile grew on my face. It reminded me of when Sally was pregnant with my little sister.
"Thank you Percy...so I hear you are leaving soon." She said slightly saddened as I could only give her a sad grin.
"Yes I plan to leave in a day or so." I said as she could only frown.
"As much as it saddens me I can understand that you have a mission that you must complete so you must leave. Still for your relationship with Viola only to progress to simple dating in 3 years saddens me." She said with a motherly sigh as a deep blush crossed Viola's face and a light blush crossed mine. Cly only shook his head as Vanessa teased the children around her.
"Vanessa you should be happy Percy and her are taking it slow. Otherwise you would have two babies to take care of." He said as Viola glared at her dad as Vanessa smiled a little.
"What are you talking about? I already have a big baby I have to take care of." She said pinching his cheek as I didn't move from his spot as his cheek was pinched.
"So any news on Angel?" I asked as both shook their heads as I sighed. As of last year Angel had gone into a slight coma as his body made its change to either a male or woman. This change was expected to take a few months but he was not on the edge of 7 months so it was a little worrying. All in all there was nothing we could do other than let him sleep in his bed and wait for the arrival of a female or male angel.
"I guess that means that he won't be able to say goodbye." Viola said slightly saddened. After that a silence permitted the air as everyone looked at one another and soon all eyes landed on me.
"What?" I asked as all their eyes slowly went down to my battered up fake arm. The cuts and dents are very present on its surface but at the same time giving it a very menacing look as it hung there lifelessly.
"Looks like you need a little maintenance before you leave." Cly said as he motioned me over as I complied as I took off the arm and handed it with him. Feeling the weight on my stub be lifted felt weird after getting accustomed to it.
"I will have it ready before tomorrow." Cly said taking the arm as I nodded and glanced at Viola who was staring at the nub.
"Gonna poke you." I said, raising up the nub as she shivered a little and backed up as Vanessa got a curious look on her face.
"Don't please." Viola complained as I walked closer as she backed up. However with a quick activation of my phase walker boots I teleported right in front of her and touched her arm with the awkward scar skin on my nub. She just gagged and quickly ran away as Vanessa laughed as her daughter retreated.
"She still can't handle the feeling of it." She said as I shrugged. It was kind of gross I guess.
"Well it does feel like a hairless cat." I said stroking the skin as I shivered a little. It was weird in all its right.
"Indeed." Said Vanessa as we shared a glance and then began to laugh. After that the days went by and soon 2 days went by.
"Farewell child." Said Cly as I glanced at him. Currently it was the middle of the night and everyone else was asleep leaving only me and him. I thought it would be better this way since I knew Bianca would follow me if I didn't.
"Keep Viola safe will you." I said as a light of playfulness flashed in his eyes.
"A boyfriend asking the father to keep his daughter safe? Seems like you don't trust me." He said with a chuckle.
"I know you all too well to completely trust you." I said as he smirked.
"You're smarter than you make yourself out to be." He said as I nodded. At that I gave one last check to my inventory of foods, items, money, and weapons. One last check went to my newly refurbished arm as it shined in the moonlight.
"Cly I can't thank you enough for the time we spent together. So again thanks." I said as he smiled.
"I could say the same. Now get going Viola likes to wake up early. Also if you reach another dungeon on your way towards your home use that gate ability of yours to come and say hello sometimes." He said as I nodded.
"I will try to remember, maybe I will even bring some souvenirs." I said as he laughed.
"That would be nice. Now get going." He said as he patted my shoulder as I gave the Hades reincarnate one last glance as I made my way to a merchant caravan. Cly had hooked me up with a guard job with them and they would take me as far west as they could. You could say this was the first step in my long journey home.
If my calculations were right I would reach my home in 1 to 2 years. This even took in calculations if I got a flight ability which I still hadn't managed to obtain. Still I was willing to take the time to get home and see the people I cared for once again.
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"Percy I am hungry." Said a grumpy Gaia as I sighed and split off a piece of my jerky and handed it to the 16 year old Gaia sitting beside me. Her attire that of a simple female adventure and no longer her green dress. This served to divert attention from her beautiful face and absolutely stunning body served to reach for it at the same time.
I was also in darker leather armor as well as the heat from the sun cascaded down upon us like a waterfall of fire. Due to my magic of fire manipulation that I got from a consumed monster I was slightly okay in the burning rays of sun. Gaia however was laying on her back chewing on the dried meat as sweat poured down her face. I could only glance at her and sigh as I slowly turned my head to look at a merchant caravan that was currently trekking through a massive desert.
Today marked the 2 month we were in this hellhole and the 5 month of our journey. Apparently this desert stretched on for another 3 months of travel so I was currently not enjoying my time here. All my metal armor that I got was in my inventory and was replaced by the lightest leather armor I had. All of which was simple Rare rarity and provided little to no status effects.
"Shouldn't you be immune to this heat?" I asked her as she glanced up at me.
"Normally yes but we are in a mana dead zone. I can risk spending all your naturally produced mana to brush away the heat." She said as I sighed. Apparently there were areas called dead zones in which no mana could flow into or was temporarily subjugated from. As a spirit she got her mana from the environment and me. To conserve my mana she was doing what she was doing right now.
"Actually I am considering it just to get you to quit complaining." I said as she glared at me and sighed.
"Got any water?" She asked me as I tossed her a limitless canteen that I bought for a hefty price. Fucking 3 white gold, but it was worth it at this point.
"Thanks." She said as she brought the canteen up to her lips and tilted her head back and took a few long gulps. Each gulp stretching her throat as I could see it go down, I could only feel Percy Jr grow slightly as I ignored the seductive scene before me as I focused on the caravan before us.
Currently we were on a sand hill as we watched the caravan taking a break by a watering hole. The many tamed monsters were all drinking their fill as the merchants chatted with each other. I only watched as soon I felt a cool metal on my cheek causing me to jump slightly as I turned to see a smiling Gaia with the canteen in hand. I took the item and took a couple swings myself as I put it away in my inventory for later use.
"Maybe I should practice a little?" I said as I stood up and brushed off the sand as Gaia shrugged.
"Just keep it down I am going to take a nap." Gaia said as I rolled my eyes. All she did was eat, drink, and sleep.
"Alright." I said as I pulled out my fire spear from my inventory. As you might suspect after a long time with my fusion ability I finally managed to completely fuse 8 different fighting styles with each of the 8 elements. This in turn created 8 different abilities that were not of this world.
[Divine Cthulhu water arts] (Light swords only)
[Divine Three legged Crow fire arts] (Spears only)
[Divine Leviathan earth arts] (Heavy swords only)
[Divine Peng Kun wind arts] (Bows only)
[Divine Raiju lighting arts] (Hand to hand only)
[Divine Mountain metal arts] (Shields only)
[Divine Wraith shadow arts] (Scythe only)
[Divine Nova Paladin light arts] (Hammer only)
Each one was a combination to certain weapon arts and their respective elements creating 8 divine skills. They even functioned as the skills put into them so I could still use water or earth manipulation or swing a sword randomly but if I used these then it was like the world was under my control. Still as I pulled out my spear a light image of a golden three legged crow appeared behind me. It seemed barely visible but you could still make out all it's glory.
At the same time the heat of the desert gathered around me and seemed to create a funnel into my spear. The spear tip grew even hotter as I thrust the spear multiple times created heat blasts with my most simple moves as the area around me began to increase in heat. Gaia could only get up and walk away as she could only do that to get away from the heat I was generating. But the heat was nonexistent to me as the sand around me began to melt.
The every few inches of sand in front of the fire spear were turned to glass under the intense heat as I continued to funnel the most minimal amount of mana into my strikes. Still the effect was powerful as I continued, but due to me being not so good with a spear I was still learning simple strikes. Still I practiced these basic strikes again and again until they were perfect and I could flow the moves together.
This went on for a couple hours until my forehead was drenched in sweat and the area around me was littered with thousands of small patches of glass. I just took in my surroundings as I grinned and put away the spear. I was glad I didn't use my last secret skill [Evolution/Rank Up] which allowed me to sacrifice my own level and stats to upgrade any skill by a level. I was planning on actually using it after I murdered Gabe.
"Looking good over there." Said a familiar voice as I turned to see the caravan leader with a bowl of stew in his hands. I then noticed the sun was already setting as I gratefully took the bowl from him.
"Thanks." I said as I glanced back at the camp to see Gaia laughing with the other guards as I felt a pang of jealousy in my heart but I let it go. Instead I sat down with the caravan leader who happened to be a demi sand lizard race. So this environment was basically his home.
"No astral souls tonight." The man said as I nodded. Mana dead zones could not contain these creatures since they needed mana to live so my mark was not going to attract anything tonight.
"Yeah...kind of calm." I said as I chowed down on the stew and provided little to any conversation topics for the leader as he laughed a little.
"Anything on your mind?" I asked him as I noticed him staring at me.
"Nothing in particular..." He said as we both remained quiet as we enjoyed the cool night air as I stared off into the horizon as the moon finally began to shine in the sky. A full moon as well as I looked up at the glowing giant. However as I stared up at it I noticed a shadow shoot across the moon. I had to blink a few times to see if I was imagining things before another 4 or 5 shadows shot across the glowing moon.
"What was that?" I asked as I stood up as the leader seemed to have noticed it as well. Don't let his job fool you this man was a trained killer with a level of 1500. Turns out people with this level were a lot more common than I first thought.
"Hmm." The man said as he stood up and stared at the horizon as if looking for something. With his level his vision was vastly superior to mine even with my stat bonuses.
"Seems like...a chase of a sort." He said as he blinked a few more times.
"It is?" I asked him as he nodded.
"4 demons are chasing one angel. Looks like the angel is slowing down as well." He said as my forehead grew black lines of thought.
"Well it is not of my concern, my job is to simply protect the caravan." I said as he glanced at me as I sat down on the sand.
"Well the angel seemed to notice our caravan and is coming this way now. Oh! It is a female angel as well." He said as my ear twitched lightly. Female angels...were rare. With a male dominated species females only made up 10% of their species. With these types of numbers it was not uncommon to find female angels with multiple husbands.
"Female?" I asked as I thought to myself and rubbed my chin.
"Indeed and she is a looker." He said as I slapped my knee and stood up as he glanced at me with a grin.
"Oh? Going to play hero are we?" He asked me as I smirked.
"No way. You have any idea how much a pretty female angel can go for? I am simply going to capture her then sell her to get some profit on the side of this job." I said as his smile seemed to break as he gave me a 'I knew it' face.
"You know you seem nice and all but your heart is cold as ice." He said as I shrugged.
"You have to do what you have to do." I said as I noticed that a speck of light was heading our way as the angel was coming closer.
'Gaia we got incoming, secure the angel and leave the rest to me.' I mentally shot at Gaia as she stopped laughing in the guard group as her face grew serious. After that she stood up and faced the direction of the angel as the others began to turn the same direction.
"Hidden bloodline!" I yelled as my body surged as it began to transform. In a second I took my demon form as the leader shook his head.
Health 362,500/362,500 (Bonus x 100) = 36,250,000
Mana 725,000/725,000 (Bonus x 100) = 72,500,000
STR-1280(+725+60+65+30) =2,160 (Bonus x 10) = 21,600
END-895(+725+55+20+350) =2,045 (Bonus x 8) = 16,360
DEX-1175(+725+55+38+35+350) =2,278 (Bonus x 4) = 9112
VIT-1205(+725+70+28+25) =2,053 (Bonus x 9) = 18,477
INT-925(+725+45+40+15) =1,750 (Bonus x 2) = 3,500
WIS-950(+725+45+40+5) =1,765 (Bonus x 4) = 7,060 FAI-780(+725+35+50+15+25) =1,630 (Bonus x 3) = 4,890
LUC-1150 (+725+25+25) =1,925 (Bonus x 4) = 7,700
"Such a powerful heritage! No matter how many times I see your form it amazes me." He said as I grinned. Turns out divine blood or monster blood was flowing through a lot of plain demi humans who didn't know how to activate it. I just simply used this excuse to cover for my divine transformation. Nothing like lying in front of people.
With that I shot forward in my tens demon form as my vision locked on the angel whose face was hidden as she stared back at her pursuers. My eyes locked on the demons as their levels popped in my head 1115, 1234, 1299, and 1344. My heart thumped with vigor as I instantly covered the whole caravan as all the guards saw me shoot paste them.
"Damn I wish I had a hidden bloodline." I heard one murmur and didn't care as I focused on the 4 winged demons. Damn I wish I had wings but I didn't pay it any attention as I landed on a sand dune and shot off it. The poor sand dune was blown to bits as I shot through the air like a bullet as I did. The angel didn't even have time to see me as my speed was much higher than the ones in the air.
"Duck!" One of the demons screamed as they saw me coming however the one I was aiming at didn't have time to move as I slammed into him. Two of my arms rammed into his face and the other two blocked a counter punch. Due to their high levels the one I punched managed to withstand the blow but I wasn't done as I gripped onto his fist and began to drag him down with me.
Seconds later we both crashed and two other demons turned back while the highest level one gave chase to the wounded angel. But as I pulled myself out of the ground the other demon did the same as his half broken face glared at me. I could only grin as my demon instincts took over and I charged his way. One punch met his as his fist suddenly bent inwards and my punch broke it.
He let out a cry of pain as his demon body was broken with a simple punch. But he didn't have time to blink as a double cupped fist shot at his head at the speed of sound. Still he raised up both his hands to block but the block had no effect. One second his torso was there, the next the torso was gone in an explosion of blood and guts as I frowned as the decimated corpse.
"He had a touch body but he was still too low a level." I said with a sigh as I rarely got to fight an enemy that was of my own level. But even if my stats were that of at least a really good fairly decent level 2200 it was little to no fun to bully low levels like these guys.
Still I didn't pay attention to it as I spun around and caught a sword of one of the demons that were charging at me. He appeared astonished as I suddenly pulled down on the sword and slammed the winged demon into the ground. I only shook my head once again as I wished these guys were at least strength based demons not dexterity. But as the demon pulled himself off the ground I flipped the sword in my hand and casually swung it.
"Why are you doing this?" He asked me as I looked up at the demon as he looked at me his body trembled in fear as I sighed for the millionth time tonight. My thrill was no longer there, it just felt like I was picking on people now.
"Money of course." I said as he grimaced.
"But your honor as a demon!" He roared at me as I rolled my eyes. Honor of a demon basically means that them and angels would never like one another.
"I don't care about your honor." I said as I spun around and slashed down as hard as I could as the third demon had tried to sneak up on me and strike me. The sort of decent sword slashed down with an incredible force and sliced right through the other weapon and demon like nothing. His mouth just gaped as his body slowly fell in two pieces as I returned my attention back to the now shivering demon.
"Remove yourself from my sights you are no longer worth me killing." I said as I looked at the now bent sword in my hands. The sword itself couldn't withstand my strength and pent in turn of me swinging it.
"O-Okay." He stuttered as he quickly turned and fled as someone slowly sprouted from the sand beside me as Gaia appeared in her human sized female form. Well to be precise this was an earth clone the real Gaia was still back at camp.
"Why did you let him leave?" The sand clone asked me.
"Demons don't simply kill or chase angels regardless of their hatred for one another. Although that hatred does exist there is an unspoken rule to not needlessly kill unless they want to start a war. That means that angel must be very special or must have done something to tick them off. But I doubt that 4 demons of that level would chase an angel with a simple level of 780." I said as the clone just stared at me.
"Wow you're clever." She said as I wrapped the head of the clone.
"Don't sound so surprised." I said as I turned and walked back to camp.
"You still didn't answer why you let him go." She said.
"Simple when a wounded warrior comes back from a mission that he had just failed then the king will normally send more able bodied warriors to finish the job. If I am right then there must be someone much higher up on the food chain observing this event. That means more powerful foes for me." I said as Gaia rolled her eyes you could say my demon form was very power hungry.
"Besides that, you deal with you?" I asked as she nodded.
"You want the drop items?" She asked me.
"Just the money and if they have anything above epic rarity, burn everything else." I said as I didn't even need to collect their bodies.
"Alright." Said the clone as it sunk into the ground as I slowly transformed back into my human form and slowly gave a few stretches as I made my way back to camp. Due to my hyper jump I was quite a distance away as it took me a few minutes to return back to camp. As I did make it back I was caught with the sight of something interesting. The angel was currently being healed by Gaia as she leaned up against the carriage. However as I looked up at the angel's face something in my mind flickered as an image flashed in my mind. An image of a little girl hovering above me, her face dirty with much and grim and two tiny little wings on her back. As the vision flashed past my eyes they only widened as a term slowly entered my mind.
'My dirty little angel.' That term made me blink a few times as I bet I looked awkward just standing there and staring but as I stared at the angel I knew it meant something. Just then she looked up from Gaia and at me as her face was finally visible.
Her face was covered with muck and grime yet it could do nothing to hide her beautiful features and skinny face. Though around her eyes it showed she hadn't slept for probably a few days her pupils struck me thoughtless as their commanding stormy grey color just stared at me. Even her hair which was put back in a ponytail was a beautiful shade of gold and seemed to flow like a river. Small strands of it remained stranded on her face but it only excelled her looks.
Her body was covered in what looked like pure silver armor lined with gold that seemed much lighter than normal metal armor. The pieces of it covered her main joints and body while revealing white under clothes on her. But those grey eyes struck me speechless but at the same time she seemed stricken back as we stared at one another.
"Ummm..." Gaia said, noticing we were just staring at one another as the angel suddenly spoke.
"Are you..." But she couldn't finish her sentence as her eyes widened further as she connected some dots.
"Holy crap." She said as everyone including me was confused as she suddenly forced herself to stand as Gaia helped her up. As she did she stumbled towards me and suddenly hugged me as I was at a loss.
"My theory was correct after all." She said as tears suddenly slid down her eyes as I couldn't help but glance at Gaia for an answer as she looked just as confused as I did. I could only wrap my arms around the exhausted angel as she cried in my chest.
"10 years and my theory was finally confirmed." She cried in my arms as I held her tighter as this invisible bond seemed to form between us. But then she slowly pulled herself back as she looked up at my eyes with hers.
"10 years and it was all worth it in the end." She said, wiping her eyes clear.
"10 years?" I asked her in a confused tone as she suddenly smiled. At this time Gaia had shooed off all the other guards giving us some privacy and even went as far as setting up a barrier.
"10 years ago I met a small boy on a slave cart who was beaten half to death. I cleaned his wounds and saved his life. His sea green eyes were so vibrant though that they seemed to stir emotions in me that I never felt before. After that the dreams came and another life played out before me. Thousands of years played before me and eventually a young man with the same features as the little body appeared before me." She said as Gaia suddenly seemed to get it but before she could say anything the girl continued.
"Your name is Perseus Jackson correct?" She asked me as I slowly nodded as she stood in front of me with a smile on her face.
"So you were him!" She said with a smile as her face suddenly changed to one of a contemplation then a grin but then back to a slight frown but then ended with a smile. But then her gaze shifted to Gaia as she just stared at her as a frown was placed on her face.
"Let me guess...Gaia? Mother earth?" She asked as Gaia was struck silent as she nodded.
"Ugh why is she here?" She asked herself but then stopped as her thoughts were processing as I slowly looked at Gaia as we bother were shocked senseless.
"Wait don't tell me..." She mumbled as her face contorted then looked over at me.
"Does that mean I have to share you? With Gaia of all people?" She asked in a slightly concerned voice as I finally managed to speak.
"Who are you?" I asked her.
"Well who are you?" She asked me.
"Perseus Jackson son of Poseidon. Reincarnated from earth." I said as she nodded.
"Then you can call me Athena, goddess of wisdom. Also apparently your soulmate." She said without a hint of discomfort.
"Oh gods." I said as I slowly sat down as the so called Athena nodded,
"I gave it some major thought as well and came up with that conclusion and as of why I regained my memory. I have seen similar things like this before on earth between soulmates and it would also explain my constant attraction to you." She said unworried.
"But you're nothing like Athena." I said as I was used to the cold calculating Athena, not the happy to see me Athena. "Yes I also came to the conclusion that I am simply too young. This teenaged body has a lot of emotions that are mixing with my memories so it became very teenage-like. Against my own will of course." She said with a snort.
"..." I remained silent for a second as I calculated the whole scenario playing before me. After a few seconds I let out a deep breath.
"Who would have thought." I said as I stood up and faced Athena. As she nodded.
"So you unintentionally activated your memories back when we met once in our home and since then you have already regained all your memories and concluded the whole situation." I said as she nodded.
"Yeah the first time I concluded it I was not happy. But as time passed I grew accustomed to the thought of being in a relationship with you." She said as I let out a breath.
"Well damn." I said rubbing the back of my head as Athena looked confused. To imagine I was going to sell her.
"What?" She asked me.
"Oh just-." But I was cut off by Gaia suddenly rushing Athena and kissing her out of the blue. Athena was caught off guard completely as Gaia daughter her arms and roughly frenched her as a blushed spread across my face as I watched the two women kiss. Athena tried to fight back but Gaia was too strong and she was too tired. After a few seconds Athena slumped to a chair as her chest heaved up and down. Her face full of anger and embarrassment as she glared at Gaia as she licked her lips as if tasting a product.
"You beast!" Cried Athena in her normal tone Athena tone as Gaia smirked.
"Yeah Gaia is a little aggressive with the other girls. She likes to be the top girl." I said as Athena shot me a glare as if for not warning her earlier.
"Well don't do that again you primordial dirt." She said to Gaia as said goddess rolled her eyes.
"Sorry about that." I apologized again as the angel Athena gained a very noble air and ignored Gaia.
"Now I feel violated." Athena said.
"Well if you want Percy can kiss you to make you feel better." But at this moment the noble air was gone as a blush spread on her face. She gave me a very teenage like glance and blushed again and began to twiddle her fingers. I somehow started to like this teenage Athena.
"M-Maybe later." She said as she cleared her throat and looked at both of us.
"Maybe we should call it a night." I said as Gaia nodded along with Athena. We all still had to process this information and a good night's sleep would help.
"That would help." Athena said as if a wave of tiredness swept over her.
"Maybe we can even fit in your story." I said as she smiled at me.
"I would like that." She said with a genuine smile as she gave a large yawn.
"And like that another soulmate found." Said Gaia with a laugh as me and Athena rolled our eyes.
"Wait another? Just how many are there? Because one is enough." She said as a nervous sweat broke out on my face.
"W-Well night everyone!" I said quickly and began to leave the two girls alone.
"Oh no you don't!" Complained Gaia as I was already gone.