While walking away from the hellish camp, I took to looking through the options menu. If I were, to be honest, my progress was going faster than I would have expected and liked.
I know, it was years and all, but it wasn't fun. I could become a god by just mindlessly grinding on my physicality. I was a true gamer, I had beaten Ornstein and Smough when I was a six-year-old!
With that in mind, I searched for a difficulty setting. Surprisingly, when I gave thought to that, the difficulty settings opened right up. I looked through them and was quite frankly f*cking excited.
{Settings:
Difficulty: Easy - gain a 50% increase in training, but gain a 50% decrease in end-game points as a penalty.
BMG: OFF
Subtitles: OFF}
First, I turned the BMG and Subtitles on. Again, I was a true gamer, and if you didn't have either or with those, you weren't playing the game properly. The next step on the agenda was to add some fun to the mind-numbing grinding.
I clicked through the DS(Difficulty Settings) and came to the Impossible game mode. Now, I wasn't one to go in guns-a-blazing with the difficulty of a game, but I've been playing the Souls series since Demon Souls on the PS3. I was a TRUE gamer.
Enough about that though, on the penalties with the Impossible mode.
{Difficulty: IMPOSSIBLE - lose access to leveling up base stats through grinding; lose the option to save and quit; gain Special Quests; gain a 50% bonus with end-game points. [Warning] can't change the difficulty once selected.}
At first, I gawked at the benefits. Who wouldn't? But then, I circled back around to the penalties. Sure, I didn't need the grinding. it would save me time, but losing the save and quit function would mean I had to die to quit to the title screen.
I was okay with the forced imposition of having to finish a save before going to the next, but that also meant, as far as I knew, I would have to die to finish. I didn't want to die. Sure, I was okay with dying, but it didn't mean I wanted to.
I sat in a park for what felt like an hour, trying to conclude. Eventually, I sighed and threw caution to the wind. I wasn't a wimp!
{[System Warning] If IMPOSSIBLE is selected, you are stuck with it for all other games}
The warning gave me some more food for thought, but in the end, I did choose to carry through with my decision.
{System Restarting!}
With that, my conciseness faded to black.
I awoke to a bleeding headache. It had felt like I had gotten black-out drunk. The feeling was sickening.
I stood up and opened the menu.
{System Update! You have gained access to Special Quests and an updated Status Sheet.}
I was taken aback by the subsequent text. If I were, to be honest, I didn't expect to get an updated status sheet. My mind, with everything that happened in the past 24 hours, was rattled.
{Special Quests: Special Quests, or SQ for short, are meant to give things like system or bloodline upgrades. For example, if you were a son of a minor god of water, your bloodline power could be upgraded to the level of a son of Poseidon.}
My mind was blown. How could it not have been? Theoretically, I could have become a God if I were to complete all of the SQs. I put the overwhelming sense of possible power to the side and took a look at the new status page.
[Name: Luke
Age: 6
Level:1
Godly Cells: 35% {Godly Cells indicate how much progress you've made to Godhood. More are only obtainable through SQs}
VIG: 20
END: 20
VIT: 20
STR: 20
DEX: 20
INT: 20
Faith:2 {Can only be leveled up by growing faith of other people, towards you, or SQs}
LUK: 4 {Can only be leveled up through SQs}
SP:13]
My eye twitched at what the status page indicated. I had just had all of my status rounded down/up dependent on which stat you looked at. While it was mainly adding more points, I, still, couldn't help but be saddened at the 2 lost endurance.
I also found LUK and Faith locked to being non-upgradable. I was okay with that, though. I wasn't going for a faithy build, anyways. As for luck, I had never been the luckiest individual.
I was pulled out of my thoughts when a small finger tapped me on the shoulder. I jumped in surprise and took a defensive stance. My inventory was open with me about to take out my scythe. As I saw my supposed opponent, I let down my guard, inventory still open.
It was a boy around my age. He had black hair and sea-green eyes. He wore a blue t-shirt with waves on the front and blue jeans. On his feet were black sneakers.
Noticing my defensive posture, he jumped back in surprise. "I didn't mean to startle you. I noticed you sleeping on the bench a bit ago, and wanted to see if you were okay."
I sighed and closed my inventory. I had noticed who the boy was. He was the supposed prophecy child who would save Olympus and the world from Kronos and Gia. Percy Jackson.
The now-named boy put out his hand. "Hi, I'm Percy!"
My eyebrows scrunched together while I took his hand. He was surprisingly strong for a six-year-old. "The name's Luke."
He smiled even brighter, and it made my eyebrows scrunch even further. "What's with you sleeping on that bench?"
I closed my eyes for a second before thinking of a believable story. "I was tired."
The boy looked taken aback. "Oh, well, you wanna play?"
I shook my head. "Sorry, my mom wanted me to go get something from the store."
The boy's smile lessened a bit, before coming back full force. "That's okay. We can go to the store together!"
I was slowly becoming more annoyed with the boy. why'd he have to be so TK happy? "Sorry, I'm in a hurry. Maybe next time?"
I gave a three-fingered wave as I walked away. I didn't like conversing with kids much, sue me.
A/N: Yo, I know it has been awhile and all, but I have a reason! I am a lazy bum and Summer School. The reason is less so on the latter. I will not be dropping this, even if it takes me 50 years!
