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Chapter 12– Prelude of War
I left the Zeus cabin around 4 in the evening, after two hours of being cooped inside.
Instead of walking up to the big house, I just flew towards it this time, not wanting to be late for the meeting.
These meetings were usually restricted to cabin counsellors only, but I was an exception considering that I led one of the most competent group of demigods. Plus my presence always made the meetings proceed in a civil manner without much shouting and fighting, even the Ares cabin didn't try to pick fights.
Nowadays, there was no meeting that went on without me present, something that actually embarrassed me a little at first when someone specially came to invite me. Not anymore.
I whipped past the lake, flying towards the big sky-blue house that stood tall on an elevated ground. As I landed, my eyes saw Dionysus lounging on the deck with his feets dangling in the air, a couple of satyrs obediently serving him.
"Hey, Mr. D." I greeted the baby-faced god with a wave.
"Ah, Michael. Here to babysit the runts again?" Came his unenthusiastic reply. "Or did your sister come up with a new crazy plan to clean up your messes?"
"Both I'm afraid. Another plan to clear the monsters outside the field." I replied, a little exasperated.
Dionysus appreciated my presence almost as much as cabin counselors.
Well, he appreciated the fact that I could lead the demigods without disturbing him, which was all that the god really cared for. The gods expected Dionysus to lead the camp and keep it safe in times like this. The fact that he could put all of his job on my shoulders was enough to get me in his good books.
"Well, get on with it then." He waved me off.
Of course, being in his good books didn't give me any special privileges. He was a dick to everyone, just less so to me. I took a quick look at his status to see if anything changed in the past year.
Dionysus
Race: God
Tier: 8 (True God)
Current Tier: 7 (Minor God)
Level: 740 (Divine Form) [Max]
Current Level: 640 (Mortal Form)
Divine Power: 6,200,000/6,200,000
Stamina: 6,600,000/6,600,000
Health: 6,500,000/6,500,000
Stats
Strength: 630 (730)
Speed: 625 (725)
Dexterity: 645 (745)
Endurance: 660 (760)
Constitution: 650 (750)
Mental: 52
Spirit: 620 (720)
No changes. Of course, I didnt expect anything else considering his maxed status. But I was always curious about this god, due to my potential spirit surpassing his. Cause that meant I had the potential to be a more powerful god than Dionysus even without system's help.
That's just awesome.
Plus, it was always good to confirm that your residential Bully god/camp director hasn't been growing stronger.
I entered the big house, passing by the internet access room, and climbed the stairs to the next floor.
The rec room was quite big in size, there was plenty of room to walk around even with the ping pong table taking a lot of space. Around the table sat the cabin counsellors, arguing about something as they gathered around the map.
Not everyone was present, I realised. The Demeter and Hephaestus counsellors...they must be on the guard duties still. And Aphrodite, Hermes, and Ares counsellors were missing as well, the first of which irritated me personally.
Including me, there were 5 people present in the room.
I entered with a clap of my hands and glanced around the room. "Where's Chiron?"
"Chiron will join us in a bit." Thalia answered me, her eyes still surfing the map of camp half-blood.
"Of course." I nodded, taking my seat at the very front of the table.
"Hey, cutie." The voice came from behind me, and I recognised it immediately.
"Anna, you are late." I replied irritatedly, without turning.
"Ah well yes, I can't possibly present myself in front of you without looking absolutely perfect now can I?" The 16 year old girl giggled as she took a seat besides me.
Anastasia Bisognin was the oldest demigod currently in the camp. She had an Italian accent, wore little to no make up and still looked like an up-and-coming supermodel.
She also made a habit of teasing me as soon as I was selected as one of the four leaders of squad patrol, and I'd have already kicked her off of my squad for less than professional behaviour had she not been one of the few people who learned everything I taught very quickly and without too much complaint.
She also followed orders without any whining which made me... tolerate her. Her beauty had absolutely no hand in my decision, no sir.
I sighed to myself quietly. The sacrifices I do for the camp.
"Oh you seem tired, my dear leader. Perhaps a quick massage before the meeting starts–"
"Leave him alone, Anastasia!" Thalia snapped suddenly, glaring at the older girl with venom in her eyes. The rest of the counsellors quietly hid their snickers at what looked like another episode of bickering between the girls.
I sighed again. While I was generally exasperated by Anastasia, Thalia outright hated her and made her feelings clear in every meeting.
"Oh my, that's very rude of you Thalia. I'm only doing my duty as the right-hand of our young leader."
And of course, Anastasia just egged her on, not behaving like the oldest in our group should.
It didn't help that when we first arrived in the camp, before our father claimed us, the Aphrodite cabin was insisting I was one of them and tried to get me to sleep in their cabin, which understandably didn't go well with Thalia.
Though I could kinda understand their thoughts. Being the son of Zeus and Gabriel, a god and an angel, made me astonishingly beautiful, and even as a nine year old there were teenage boys who burnt with jealousy.
This was before people knew my mother was an angel, and so Aphrodite cabin understandably thought that I had the blessings of their mother. Again something that did not go down well with Thalia especially when they refused to acknowledge my lightning bending abilities.
"Listen here you two bit bint–!"
Before Thalia could go on, the door to the arc room opened again, this time showing a sleepy Luke coming in.
"...M'kael" The boy lazily waved at me as he went to sit on his usual spot, towards the centre of the left side of the table.
"Thalia." He nodded towards my sister absently, stifling a yawn.
"Did you just wake up?" I asked, thankful for his presence as it kept Thalia in control.
"Yeah. Saw you flying past the cabins and remembered about the meeting. Thanks for that, by the way."
I chuckled slowly to cover up the urge to sigh in relief as both the girls settled down.
Our last members soon arrived. Mark, the 14 year old Ares counsellor, followed by Chiron in his wheelchair because his huge horse rump couldn't fit inside the room.
"Everyone is already in attendance? Excellent!" Chiron exclaimed, ever upbeat. "Now Thalia, my dear, if you could please take the lead and explain your plan to us?"
The next few minutes Thalia described her plan. It wasn't really much of a plan, my sister might be a very powerful fighter but a genius strategist she was not. The core of her plan was simply to leave the magical borders and directly attack the monsters. Which was exactly what we did a couple of months before with disastrous effects.
And Michelle, the Athena counsellor, was quick to remind her of that.
"Right, so after analysing our awful attack plan from last time, which you led by the way, you created this new, super effective plan, huh?" She started sarcastically. "But oh my! Why does this plan sound so similar to our previous one? Must be some really secretive plan because I can't find a difference."
"Don't talk down to me, Michelle!" Thalia snapped angrily. "I know what I said but I still think it'll work. This time we have Potens the dragon automaton with us. We also have a new supply of Greek fire, new celestial bronze weapons and armours and we'll be a lot more prepared and ready!"
"I agree." I stated, getting a grateful look from my sister, while others looked startled and surprised.
Expected, considering I was the only one to vehemently protest the attack two months ago, this must have come as a surprise to them.
"Are you serious rig–"
"I am." I cut off Michelle and raised my hand to stop any protests. Standing up from my seat, I looked down at all the ones present. Not very impressive considering I was still below 5 feets in height but I ignored that. I had a speech to give.
"Two months ago I didn't agree with the plan because I still thought that we simply need to stall the monsters until the gods get their shit together."
Thalia and Luke looked amused at that while the others looked worried. Chiron nervously glanced at the sky as thunder rumbled in the distance.
"But it is clear now that we will be getting no help. It has already been more than a year since the monsters started attacking and we've been trapped here forever. I have no idea why they are silent, neither do I particularly care. Yes, yes the ancient laws and restrictions, I know Chiron, you already told, I just don't know what it is." I interrupted Chiron before he can defend the gods again.
"What I do know is this, if we don't do something about these monsters they will just continue to grow in numbers. Right now, only powerful monsters could enter the camp, and they rarely do so, while the weaker ones ride their coattails, which is the only reason we've held them off so far. Even then we've lost almost two dozen demigods in the last year. This year? Who knows, but it'll surely be more than two dozen. Sooner or later we are going to be overwhelmed by sheer number. We need to thin the herd if we want to get out of here alive."
"How though?" Michelle asked with a frown. "Do you have a plan for that? Because I've already stated numerous times, it is not logical for us to go out there looking for monsters to fight."
"Yes, I have quite a few ideas actually. Here are a couple of them just out the top of my head. The monsters are here because of my aura right? I just need to cut a few straggling monsters outside the magical boundry around the strawberry fields, then I could travel all the way over to the half-blood hill and easily lure the monsters away from the camp. After that we cou–"
"No!" Thalia cut me off. "I won't let you go on some suicidal plans alone! Listen, I've already thought about this. If you guys could just give me a little time to explain without putting your noses in..."
She shot a glare towards Michelle, who sheepishly turned away. "Good. Now here."
She turned the map around completely towards me.
"Most of the monsters are around the half-blood hill. Grouped up and collected. We can rain Greek fire down on the monsters now that we have the dragon automaton, which is much more durable than a Pegasus. We don't need to fight the monsters. we don't even need more than a few demigods!" She announced passionately. "Mikael, Luke, me, and a couple Apollo demigods are enough."
"And what will you do when that plan inevitably goes down in the flames?" Michelle asked. "What if the kindly ones manage to crash the machine? Or some other monster was able to board the dragon? Have you thought about that?"
"We'll figure it out." Thalia stubbornly stated, not willing to back down even though she clearly haven't thought of that.
"What do you think, Chiron?" I asked the quiet centaur who was frowning to himself.
"I think, perhaps you all should take some time to think this over. One can make plans to avoid mistakes, but ones the mistakes are made, there is no way to avoid the consequences. Especially in the battlefield. Think, plan, and prepare. Once you are ready, we will discuss this further."
I nodded before addressing the other counselors. "What about you guys?" I asked.
Before they can answer however, the door to the meeting room banged open once again, showing a panicked Athena demigod as he panted slightly, sweat pouring down his head.
"T-the beach..." He tried to get out before starting to cough his lungs out. I saw a worried Chiron and Michelle approach him.
"Slow down, Malcolm." Michelle said, rubbing the boy' back.
"The beach.." He shook her hands off to desperately continue. "The beach is breached. Hydra..."
"Oh."
I was out of my seat before anyone can get another word out.
"Thalia! Luke!" I called out even as I ran directly towards the window. "I'll hold the monster off, gather your squad!"
I could hear Chiron bellowing orders and organising the panicking counselors but I'd already jumped out of the window.
With a tug in my belly, I felt my powers answer to my call as I took off into the air with a burst of wind. I saw the monster as soon as I was in the sky, and felt... surprised. And disappointed.
It wasn't the huge dinosaur sized behemoth I was expecting to see. It wasn't breathing out cyclones of fire either, nor was it rampaging around our camp.
It's main body was just slightly bigger than a rhino, maybe around the size of a small elephant, with 7 long serpentine necks and diamond-shaped head with lizard-like mouths full of razor sharp teeth.
It was a horrifying creature to be sure, something that can massacre a bunch of demigods. But it wasn't the legendary city-destroying hydra that I had been fearing.
Curse those stupid tv shows.
It was still threatening the lives of demigods though, so with another burst of speed I flew towards the creature, taking a single moment to quickly glance at its status as I equipped piercer from the inventory.
Hydra (Baby)
Race: Monster
Level: 68
Tier: 5
Mana: 228,000/250,000
Stamina: 60,209/64,000
Health: 65,000/65,000
Stats
Strength: 66
Speed: 69
Dexterity: 75
Endurance: 64
Constitution: 65
Mental: 9
Spirit: 250
The monster was very agile as it dodged numerous spear throws at its head. The ones that actually hit it were body shots that weren't proving useful at all. It didn't even slow down as it pounced towards the demigods who were barely hanging on with their lives, scrambling backwards to avoid the charging monster.
The Hydra suddenly spat a misty glob of green liquid at one of the Athena girls, who slipped down on her butt in an attempt to avoid it. The monster quickly rounded upon her, opening its mouth as it prepared to melt the girl in a puddle of goo.
Thankfully, I arrived just in time, crashing into it from the side, spear-first.
My spear slid into its neck cleanly, its skin barely resisting the celestial bronze and my momentum pushed us both away from the girl. I removed my spear, leaving behind a massive hole in its neck but failed to decapitate it completely.
As I tumbled down on the ground with the monster below me, I saw from the corner of my eyes it's wound rapidly closing. I was forced to quickly retreat backwards from the screeching and furious hydra as it's other ugly heads tried to take a bite out of me.
"Leave." I commanded the downed Athena girl before focusing back on the hydra.
All of its heads stared straight at me, glaring balefully as it's wound healed completely. It stood still on the ground for a moment, it's dark scales shining beautifully from the evening sun, reflecting the light in multiple waves. Beautiful and dangerous.
For some reason I felt an irresistible urge to take it as a trophy and craft myself some clothes from it.
We charged at each other at the same time, me with my spear spinning, the hydra with its 7 heads roaring. One of its heads snapped at me intimidatingly, and my spear moved on its own accords, slicing through the neck cleanly this time, while I rolled away to avoid any blood or venom. To my surprise, the empty neck started writhing slowly, it's blood boiling as if something wanted to come out.
". ..What." I dumbly stared as two new heads smoothly grew out of a single neck. The hydra was now a 8 headed hydra and it did not look amused.
"It is weak to fire! Cauterize it's wounds!" The Athena girl, who hadn't ran away, screamed at me as I dodged away from the multiple globs of green acid, controlling the air to deflect even the slightest drop.
I absently noted that the acid melted through stone as quickly as wood.
'Cauterize the wounds, huh?' A simple plan formed in my head, and with a tiny smirk I recharge into the fight.
Electricity arced through my spear as I flew up in the air to avoid the charging Hydra. As it passed under me, I sharply turned my flight and went back for the monster. A defensive barrier blocked one of its snapping head, while my spear's glinting blade swiped across its throat, cleanly cutting off another one of its head.
But this time, I burnt it's wound with electricity.
I quickly flew away again as the screeching monster's tail tried to catch me off-guard.
My attention was on the wound, and surprisingly, the hydra was looking at its cut off neck too. For a few seconds the wound stayed fried but then it slowly started writhing again and the hydra turned to shoot me a smug look.
"Oh hell no..." I raised my spear towards the growing neck and put as much divine energy into my electric discharge skill as it could hold.
A bolt of pure crackling electricity leapt out of my spear and stuck the growing neck with such force and power that it not only pushed the hydra back but actually started to melt it's just growing head. I kept up the electric discharge active until the Hydra was displaced 10 meters away.
The monster slowly started to climb to its feets, growling and screeching, both of our attention was toward its decapitated head as we stared at the wound. 10 whole seconds later all of its seven remaining heads turned towards me, pure rage and hatred it them. The neck wasn't growing back
I shot the creature a grin.
It roared it's fury towards me and started a mad charge, all of its head continuously spitting large globs of green acid towards me. Spinning my spear in an arc, I launched a huge wave of wind towards the acid, blowing away every bit back to its owner.
Then, with a leap to the air I threw my Holy spears towards its neck. The raging monster was just as dexterous as before though, even with one head short, and managed to either completely dodge my spears or tank it with its body. But that hadn't been my plan, having already observed it's ridiculous dexterity in action.
Instead, I took cover behind a huge disc of Holy power that I launched towards it, while closing the gap between us again.
The Hydra managed to tank the Holy ball with its chest, resulting in a visibly big hole which was rapidly closing. The monster wasn't ready for me though, and I used this opportunity to slice through another two of its heads in quick successions. I moved faster than 3 times the speed of sound, leaving behind cracks or sonic booms in my wake.
I made sure to cauterize each of the wounds with a quick Holy spear or electrical bolt.
It was an easy fight after that. The monster wasn't weak, hell it was tougher than the Minotaur, but I was simply too fast for it to land a blow without 3 of its head.
Especially cause the thing wasn't a fighter; Its remaining 5 heads didn't fight together, continuously making mistakes and biting each other, its tail wasn't quick or subtle enough to catch me off-guard and it's hands were so tiny that it couldn't use its claws against a flying opponent.
In less than a minute, I cut off each of its head before retreating quickly and pointing my spear to the sky, directly summoning a true divine Lightning bolt down on the monster.
When the dust and wind settled down, the only thing remaining of the monster was a head. I walked towards it and picked it up, noting the still wet teeth that had poison on them.
[You Leveled Up] 361
[You Leveled Up] 362
I waved away the notifs with a satisfied smile. Tier 4 monsters were the bare minimum to gain a full level nowadays. And even then, the monsters needed to be around the peak of Tier 4, above lvl 300 atleast. As for Tier 5s, like this one, the level has to be atleast above 60 for me to gain a full level.
I probably got two levels because I was already close to leveling up before the fight, and maybe some bonus for fighting a monster above my Tier.
I definitely needed to find a new way to level up cause I wasn't anywhere near strong enough for my leveling to slow down like this. I wasn't even peak demigod tier yet for fuck's sake!
My attention was broken by the sound of cheering and metal banging. I turned around and was surprised to note an audience gathered, some cheering and some banging their weapons to their shields.
With a snort, I raised the hydra's head and the cheering increased. Shaking my head I walked towards Thalia and Luke who'd just got there.
"You missed all the fun." I said, shaking the monster's head like a trophy, which it actually was.
"Well you should've waited for us." Luke replied with annoyance as thalia approached me.
"Are you hurt?" She asked neutrally.
I however, knew my sister enough to know by now that she was trying not to sound overly concerned in front of everyone present.
"Not even a little bit." I replied laughingly, putting my free hand around her tense shoulder. "C'mon, this should be enough to convince Chiron and other counselors to hurry up and aprove your plan."
"I hope you're right." She muttered, letting herself be led back to the big house.
"I'm always right."
And I was.
"Don't be a coward!" Mark, the ares counselor, yelled at michelle. "A Hydra almost killed one of yours and you still want to wait!?"
"Hush now, child. Michelle raises a good point." Chiron gentle chided.
They were back at the big house, sitting around the table, bickering and arguing.
Only, the subject had shifted from 'if they should attack' to 'when should they attack.'
"I'm only asking for a week!" Michelle said frustrated. "That's the least amount of time we need, to come up with a better plan than just...flying around and attacking, no offense to Thalia."
Thalia shot her second-in-command a half-hearted glare. Now that she knew we will actually be doing something, she wasn't as much on the edge.
I decided to interrupt before it got too out of hand.
"Maybe a middle ground would be better. Mark, I know you are dying to fight but we won't be attacking tonight itself, it's too risky. Michelle, as much as I'd like to say we have a week, the truth is we are much more desperate than I first thought. A Hydra attacked today."
I nodded towards the centre of the table where I kept the monster's head. "While the more powerful monsters are starting to gather together without attacking. My scouts from apollo say the Minotaur and the furies have reborn again, and are already prowling around the barrier. There is also a Manticore bumbling around somewhere, I hope I don't have to say how dangerous that thing is."
A shudder went through the demigods present. Everyone knew what a Manticore was, and what exactly it could do. The stories about the monster, atleast from those lucky few who managed to survive, were always bone chilling to hear.
"If one of them gets inside the camp and takes us by surprise, we will lose demigods. Lots of demigods. But if all five of them co-ordinate their attacks and enter together with a battalion of lesser monsters?" I spread my hands helplessly. "We're goners. We have to take the initiative, clear out the monsters before they can attack us."
I looked at my self-created wrist watch and decided to end the meeting. "I think we should wrap this up as soon as we can, so what do you all say to two days from now, sharp in the morning?"
After a bit of discussion, we all agreed on the time of attack.
Now, we simply needed to plan, prepare, and train. Easy stuff.
That night was my squads turn to guard the camp. I didn't go around to collect them as I'd already itched into their brains to always arrive on time.
I passed the big house and walked towards the half-blood hill alone. I could see Thalia staring down the hill with a frown, standing just inside the magical barrier. I wondered if I should sneak behind to give her a jump scare but dismissed it quickly when I realised how tense she looked.
I approached her slowly, making sure to make plenty of noise. She looked around with a start before glancing back to me.
"Kael. Something's not right here." She sounded worried.
I stood beside her, cool wind blowing our hairs wildly as we stared down the steep hill. The night had already grown dark, and the shadows from trees made it impossible for anyone to see clearly. Anyone that didn't have my advantages that is. Thanks to my mother's genes, I had no such problems.
"The Manticore." I stated, pointing down.
There, just behind the shade of a large tree, the ugly thing stood, directly looking at us.
It was unnerving. Very very unnerving. And just as exciting. It bought a sense of danger and adventure back to me, reminding me of the wild times with my mother.
"Yeah, the thing is here since the evening. But that's not what I meant." She pointed to the base of the hill, where it connected to the farm road. "The Minotaur is there somewhere. And the kindly ones flying around here. How can these monsters work together so peacefully? Standing here all day, just waiting for the right moment?"
I knew what she meant. I had been wondering the same for an year now, without any explanation.
"Maybe both of our auras are extra tasty?" I jokingly asked.
She snorted but didn't reply for a moment and I simply stared down the hill, reminiscing.
"What are you thinking?" She asked after a few seconds.
I hesitated for a few seconds. We didn't talk about our mothers usually. She, because she didn't want to remember her mother. Me, because I didn't want to remind her of mothers in general.
"I was thinking about my mother." I replied finally, not wanting to lie.
"Really?" She asked, amused. "A manticore reminds you of your mother. Didn't you say she was beautiful or something?"
"My mother is the most beautiful woman to have ever existed on heaven, hell, or earth." I insisted again.
"Of course, little brother." She laughed teasingly.
"Oh, shut up. You'll see when you meet her. Don't say I didn't warn you when you fall unconscious by just looking at her."
"Speaking from experience, my dear leader?" A teasing voice interrupted my and thalia's family moment, and up came Anastasia.
Thalia's face scrunched up like she just tasted a particularly sour lemon.
"Right, I guess my team's time is up. I'll leave you to guard the camp tonight."
I gave her a parting wave as she climbed down the hill.
"Anna, you are early." I stated as unenthusiastically as I could.
"I know you usually arrive early, so I thought maybe I'll give you some company." She replied easily, coming to stand besides me even as she towered over me in height.
"And also ruin my time with my sister?" I asked harshly.
I usually didn't get angry at the girl but I didn't like anyone disturbing me and Thalia. We didn't spend much time together due to conflicting schedules so any free time we had, we usually spent around each other. Generally with luke and Annabeth mixed in, but sometimes alone.
The girl was silent for some time and I wondered if I was being too harsh.
"I'm sorry, I didnt mean to do that." She replied at last. "I didn't see her in the dark until I could hear your voices and by that time I was already eavesdropping so I just announced myself."
Sighing, I waved my hand. "It's fine. Go tell Markus and Castor to gather their cabin and come here too. We'll start early tonight."
"Oh c'mon, you know I don't talk to markus, mikey. Why do you always find ways to send me away from you anyway?" She whined, clutching her chest as if I hurt her.
A very bountiful chest, a part of my mind whispered. Very bountiful indeed.
I looked away with a frown. "Stop giving me weird nicknames then. And will you finally tell me why does markus hate your guts?"
"Ah, that's..ahh awkward. Kinda." She replied, sounding nervous for the first time. "You'll also hate my guts if you knew."
"I promise you I won't." I replied seriously, turning to look at her again. "And I have to know. We'll be launching another attack in two days, and I have to know if I can trust you two together."
She looked uncharacteristically nervous, and very uncomfortable. I've actually never seen her act this way since...ever.
"Well...you see there's this tradition in Aphrodite cabin. A rite of passage." She took a deep breath as if preparing for battle. "Every daughter of Aphrodite has to go through this rite. Basically we make a boy fall in love with us and then break their heart. Or do...worse. Well...let's just say I did something way worse to Markus."
I caught on quickly.
"You cheated on him?" I asked with a frown.
"Y-yeah." She looked down, probably ready to hear my new born hatred for her or whatever. "Cause of mother and H-hephaestus...you know."
Ah yes. Aphrodite cheats on her husband all the time. So they imitated their mother? Damn, that's hardcore.
"That's stupid." I responded. "Cheating on a guy to gain your mother's attention, I mean. But whatever, it's your business. I don't hate or dislike you for that, so stop acting like a delicate flower."
She shot me a surprised but grateful look before nodding.
"Thanks for that, most people don't take it that way. It's not just our fault, you know. Demigods usually inherit the most predominant trait of their parents. You could say it's almost instinctive for us to break our first love's heart."
"Seriously?" I asked with a frown. "Are you telling me I'll go raping women all around the world or something? That's...even more stupid."
"Give it a few years, you'll see." She promised. "I've been in the camp for a long time, kael. More than three years, and it's always the same. The Ares kids are always brutes and bullies, the Athena kids are always smart, nerdy, and prideful. Aphrodite are always airheads who try to follow their mother. I'm not saying you will actually force yourself on someone for sure, but you'll definitely get some urge."
"I see."
That could actually be a problem. Will gamer's mind stop those kind of things? I didn't know and I wasn't willing to think about it right now.
"We'll talk about this later if you have the time." I said to the girl.
"I always have time for our valiant leader." She replied with a smirk, back in her usual self. "Even if you want to do...more than talking."
"Go and invite markus and castor." I ordered again with a snort.
"Oh c'mon! I just told you why I don't talk to markus!" She whined again.
I waved her off with a tsk. "Just ask castor to do it, silly."
"Oh." She looked surprised.
Sometimes this girl really shocked me with her perception and experience...
But never with her intelligence.
Some things just never change.
AN: And that's done! Next up we'll have start of the war.
Now, I got some PMs concerning this subject so I wanted to clear this–Mikael's wings are not dependent on his Tier and level. Mikael is unique in that he will need to unlock his wings one by one, starting from 1 pair and ending on...who knows.
Anyway, how was the fight with the Hydra? I selected the baby Hydra because I wanted it to represent what canon showed us. In the canon, the Hydra that Percy fights is just around the size of a rhino. In this fic though, the original lernaean Hydra that Hercules fought will be much more massive and dangerous. This one was just it's baby.
While we are on the topic of Hydra I also want to announce something. As most of you probably know by now, I've posted a new story yesterday. Its an HP/Avengers fic with Harry starting as a Hydra recruit. Please go and check it out if you haven't already.
Thanks for all the support, and don't forget to review! Your reviews are what's motivating me to write two stories at once and still keep up the update schedule. Even if it's just a simple 'I enjoyed the story', it'll mean much to me.
P.S: I'm also posting this fic on Webnovel under the same name 'Robs511'. Unfortunately the app isn't very good for authors as it lacks most of the functions that ff presents (like changing the font to bold and italics etc), so the pace will definitely be slow there cause I have to put 10 times extra time in editing a chapter over there than here.