A/N: Good god I can't stop writing.

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Chapter 6

That night, Percy stood at the entrance of the town's football stadium along with the other players who were joining the raid. It had been booked for this PvE event by one of the players. The Hydra is one of the most popular World Bosses thanks to its immense difficulty and rare item drops.

Everyone kept glancing at Percy, probably wondering what someone who was in the Rookie Showcase is doing here. Despite that, they welcomed Percy. They just figured that he's here to have fun just like everyone else.

Aside from the twenty players that were on this raid, there were several other people who are most likely spectators or streamers, people who broadcast these kinds of things so that other people could watch them at home.

As Percy introduced himself to some of them who're going to be his teammates for the night, he heard a number of gasps and whispers behind him.

He turned around to find himself face to face with Artemis.

As usual, she looked gorgeous under the night sky. Percy might be crazy, but he'd always figured that night time was made specifically for Artemis. It was like the night complimented her beauty.

"Hey," Artemis greeted him with a smile.

"Hey," Percy smiled back. "You're in this as well?"

"Just figured this was a good way of clearing my head," Artemis said.

Then, a voice behind them spoke out. "Alright. Is everyone ready?" He looked like someone who would play the 'old wise man' character in any film. He was a middle-aged man with thinning hair, bushy eyebrows, intense brown eyes, and a scruffy beard. He wouldn't have though a man like this would play Olympia actively, and yet here he was.

Percy put on his Glasses. The name projected above his head.

Chiron.

It was an odd name but hey, who was Percy to judge?

Everyone nodded as Chiron led them inside the football stadium. The stadium lights sat at the four corners of the place, shining intense white light towards the field surrounded by bleachers. It was an open stadium, so they were going to fight under an open sky.

The spectators and streamers took their seats on the bleachers. There weren't many of them. Probably around fifty or so, scattered around. The rest of them crowd stood at one end of the field.

At the other end of the field, the Hydra was resting.

Up close, the Hydra looked terrifying. The body reminded Percy of a scaly lizard he always sees in pet cages. But at the neck part, they split up and extended into nine different heads. Each one of them was diamond shaped and had a mouth that was lined up with razor-sharp teeth. From what Percy had read in the Olympia forums, each one of the head can spit acid and some of them can breathe fire.

As if the 'spit acid' part wasn't terrifying enough.

While some of the players looked a bit nervous, some had wide grins across their faces, like they're eager to get into action.

"Alright," Chiron said up front. "Who's going to be the captain?"

Everyone looked at each other. "How about you?" One person asked Chiron.

"No. I'm terrible at leading." Chiron said. "Anybody else?"

They all looked at Artemis, who was standing next to Percy. Since Artemis was the captain of her team, the Hunt, they were hoping she would be their captain as well.

To their surprise, Artemis shook her head. "I'm not here to captain," She said simply. Percy raised an eyebrow at her while Artemis just shrugged.

"I'll do it." A man said. Percy turned to look at who it was. He had the face of an Asian with military style hair cut. He was built like a soldier as well, standing at maybe six feet tall and was buff enough to be a linebacker. "Frank Zhang, at your service."

"Very well, Zhang," Chiron nodded. "You'll lead the party."

Frank nodded. He turned towards the group. "I need the tanks to step in front." He said imposingly, as if he was born to do this.

The way he'd just issued his command made Percy want to obey him. Without hesitation, five guys stepped froward, all dressed in heavy armour and shield that looked thick enough to withstand a moving truck.

"You guys will be at the front lines. Protect your team at all costs. Understood?"

The five tanks straightened themselves. "Yes sir!"

Percy leaned towards Artemis. "Why do I feel like obeying his commands?"

Artemis chuckled. "He's the captain of the Flamers. An international team. His parents are in the military, so he gets it from them."

Percy nodded. Then, Frank announced again. "I want all Magic classes and Archers at the back of the group."

This time, Artemis snapped up. "Yes sir!" Before going at the back of the group. Percy noticed that Chiron was also at the back. Through his Glasses, a bow was slung across his back.

This left Percy with three other people. Frank walked towards them.

"The four are going to be our damage dealers," Frank said. "Stay focused and don't do anything reckless, understood? We don't have enough healers for you."

"Yes sir!" The other three said while Percy just nodded. Frank seemed to notice that as he kept his gaze on Percy for a while before going at the back group, where he took his bow out. Everyone was wearing different sets of armour. Some, like the Archers and Assassins, wore light armour while the tanks wore heavy armour.

The crowds of spectator and streamers were getting bigger and they were cheering for them. Probably they've heard the news about Artemis and Frank – two captains from well known teams – being here.

"Forward!" Frank shouted as all of us moved forward. With every step, Percy's heart seems to beat slower and slower in anticipation.

When they were about fifteen meters away from the Hydra, all nine of its head perked up, noticing us. It got up on its four legs and without hesitation, spat acid at us.

"Break formation!" Frank shouted out as everyone dove out of the way. One unlucky guy got caught in the acid spray as his health bar diminished to zero in just a second.

He whined as he walked out of the way, careful not to disturb the rest of the raid.

Percy noticed that he was one of their damage dealers. Which left Percy and only two more guys.

"Tanks!" Frank ordered. "Do your job!"

The five tanks moved forward and spread out into a semi circle, surrounding the Hydra. As the Hydra heads attacked them rapidly, thanks to it having nine heads, the tanks never moved. The sound of the Hydra's fangs clanging with the tanks' shield filled the night.

"Archers!" Frank drew his own bow. "Fire!"

Streams of arrows flew across the night sky, most of them hitting the Hydra. Some missed, but none of them had hit any of their allies.

Percy watched as the Hydra's health bar dropped just a bit. The Hydra roared as it continued its barrage of attacks at their tanks.

"Heal the front line!" Frank ordered. "Archers, keep up your damage!"

Percy and the other damage dealers waited by the sidelines. They were waiting for an order to be given to them. Above the Hydra's health bar, but below the name, Percy saw a series of symbols lined up.

Status effects and debuffs, Percy figured. They showed what kind of status effects were inflicted at the Hydra. Some, Percy could recognize like Poison and Bleeding. Poison deals damage to the target's health bar for a set amount per second, while Bleeding makes the target take damage the more it moves.

By now, the Hydra's health bar is rapidly going down. Percy could hear the crowd around them cheering for their success.

As soon as the Hydra's health bar reached its halfway point and it turned yellow, the situation changed. The Hydra roared loudly as its head started to multiple. The current head splits into two and growing from it, making it eighteen heads in total.

"What the hell . . ." Percy muttered.

"Now!" Frank shouted. "Cripple the monster!"

Percy could hear a variation of spells being cast at the Hydra. The amount of symbols that were lined up across the Hydra's health bar was insane. Then, the Hydra had stopped moving for some reason.

Percy caught one symbol that explained why: Paralysis.

"Attack with all you've got!" Frank shouted.

Everything broke into chaos. Percy and the other damage dealers sprang into action as they sliced and diced at the monster, attacking as fast as he could. Thanks to the Bull's Ring from Jason, his body felt a lot lighter.

Due to the Magic classes at the back lines, the Hydra was bombarded with explosions, lightning strikes, tornadoes, blizzards, and many more spells.

The cheering around Percy got wilder as they screamed for the Hydra's death.

Thanks to the Paralysis inflicted on it, the Hydra had no way of attacking. He watched as the Hydra's health bar was rapidly decreasing. Some of the Hydra heads were cut off from this onslaught.

A grin flashed across his face. They were going to win this, easily.

Then, the Hydra's health bar dropped to below ten percent and it turned red.

Percy could feel the chill down his spine, like something bad was supposed to happen.

The Hydra broke free of the Paralysis and started to snap its teeth and the front liners, including Percy. For everyone at the back, the Hydra heads spat out fireballs and acid.

The Tanks tried to keep the Hydra's attention towards them, but the back lines have built up way too much aggro. Percy noticed something else.

All the debuffs and status effects that were previously inflicted on the Hydra were all gone. It was now replaced with two buffs. One of them was Increased Regeneration. As the name said, it increases the rate of which one's HP replenishes. Percy looked back at the Hydra's health bar and sure enough, it was rapidly increasing. The Hydra heads even grew back, but only to their original state and not split into two.

But that's not the worst part. The worst part was the second buff the monster got.

Immunity.

It means that the Hydra is now unaffected by any sort of debuffs and status effects.

They were in deep shit.

The Hydra marched towards the back lines, ignoring Percy and the other front line players. Frank was trying to give orders, but he was too busy dodging acid and fire. While they tried to set up their defences as best as they could, all eighteen Hydra heads were too much to handle.

The raid party was crumbling as more people got their health bar reaching zero. As the Hydra continued its rampage, they were left with seven people left including him. From the list of people in his party, he saw that Frank, Chiron, and Artemis was still alive.

He found one of the tanks left in this fight. A Shieldbearer. He huffed next to Percy. "They weren't kidding when they say it's not for average people."

Percy was panting. He was getting tired. Percy saw that most of his allies have dangerously low health bars. Percy turned on the team communication so everyone could hear him.

"Are there any healers left?" Percy asked. Even though out of the seven of them, Percy had the highest amount of health left.

"I'm here," A guy answered. "But I don't have that much heal. I'm an Enchanter."

"Keep your healing on me," Percy said. "I'll draw its aggro." The Hydra was still on red health, which means it has at least ten percent of its HP left. "You guys just deal as much damage as you can."

"Percy, you're insane." He heard Artemis said in the team communication. "You can't out damage us all."

Percy didn't wait for an answer as he rushed forward towards the Hydra. Since he's going to go all out without defending anyway, he took both of his swords out.

The Hydra was about to take out one of his teammates when he appeared out of nowhere and sliced the head off of the Hydra. His body and sword felt surprisingly light.

Luckily, the Hydra that Olympia had made doesn't include the 'grow-two-more-heads' function that the Hydra from the myths had. They figured eighteen heads was overpowered enough.

All seventeen Hydra heads snapped at him. Percy stepped back fast enough to avoid being bitten like a chew toy. As the Hydra fired and spat a fascinating mix of fire and acid, Percy weaved through them almost effortlessly. His mind went into overdrive as the Bull's Ring was put to work.

He was going to beat this monster.

Percy made a baseball slide as one of the heads snapped at the space where his body has been before digging his foot on the ground and pounced the other way, his swords slicing at the neck.

Sixteen to go.

Percy could see a few arrows streaming across the sky, landing on the Hydra and dealing some bits of damage, but they weren't enough to draw the aggro away from Percy.

Which was nice.

Percy was too late to see one of the Hydra spat out a fireball at him from the left. It hit him perfectly, but he didn't feel anything.

He looked at his health bar to see a buff applied to him. Immunity.

"It's not gonna last long," The Enchanter said.

"Thanks," Percy grinned as he moved away. The sixteen Hydra heads went towards him relentlessly, hitting him several times as he dodged the other attacks.

Percy could see his health bar being brought down low by the Hydra, but it was countered coming from the heals from his teammates as his health bar refilled again.

The crowd cheered wildly at Percy's performance. The Hydra still had a chunk of HP left and Percy was running out of strategy.

One of the Hydra heads was going for the kill on Percy, but he was in the middle of the air. There was no way he was going to dodge this.

But then, the Hydra head was bombarded with explosions, making it disintegrate into nothing. Fifteen heads to go.

Percy looked up to see a female Sorcerer, still in the game and had saved Percy's backside. "You owe me for that," The Sorcerer said as she lifted her staff again.

"Keep it up, but don't do too much damage." Percy told her. She nodded. Behind her was Artemis, Chiron, and Frank Zhang, all firing arrows at ridiculous pace.

"Mind if I join the party?" The Shieldbearer from before said as he ran towards the front of the Hydra. Percy didn't notice this before but both of his hands held two gigantic pieces of thick metal that looked like half of a shield. When he put them together, it formed a shield so massive that it was enough to cover his full body. The Shieldbearer let out a War Cry. A skill for tanks to draw a monster's aggro.

It worked as the Hydra turned its attention towards the Shieldbearer.

"Focus your heals and buffs on him!" Percy said.

"Got it." The Enchanter responded.

"Artemis, increase your damage output!" Percy ordered. She stayed quiet but he knew he heard her when the arrows started to come at a faster rate. The Hydra ignored it as he went for the Shieldbearer. Every attack the Hydra does, be it with its fangs, flames, or acid was rendered ineffective thanks to the Shieldbearer's defensive capabilities and the Enchanter's buffs.

Shieldbearers have no real offensive power. Their real value comes defensively. They can withstand almost any kind of attacks, which makes them the absolute definition of a Tank.

Percy ran towards the Shieldbearer and slid under him. Just as the Hydra had swooped its head in for an attack. Percy cut that one off as well, leaving him with fourteen more heads to go.

"Yo, Sorcerer!" Percy shouted as he dodged the fireball of one of the Hydra heads. "Did you stop casting?"

"Thought you'd never ask," Percy could almost feel her smirking. The Sorcerer – or Sorceress – casts a lightning bolt straight from the heavens that struck right next to Percy. The lightning bolt had disintegrated four of the Hydra heads. "Booyah!" She cheered.

Ten more to go.

"You almost killed," Percy grumbled as he got out of the way of an acid spray. He dodged the swipe of the Hydra's legs and then sliced it off. The Hydra crumpled to one side. "Root him!"

"Ten seconds!" The Enchanter said.

Chiron then started to speak up. "Don't let up now! Keep attacking!"

Percy could hear the crowd screaming and cheering for them to win. Percy could hear his heartbeat thumping against his chest. The adrenaline was starting to kick in as his ears felt hot.

"Keep its attention!" Percy told the Shieldbearer.

"What do you think I'm doing?!" He said as he grunted at the Hydra's attack. The Hydra was sensing defeat as well. It starts to attack wildly again, but it's kind of hard when you're missing a leg.

All the Hydra heads started to thrash around wildly, making Percy think he's looking at a swirl of spaghetti noodles. The Shieldbearer was at his limits. His health bar was critically low and the Enchanter can't keep up.

Percy had to act.

"I need that Root now!" Percy said as he rushed towards the Hydra heads, weaving and ducking under all the thrashing. He found an opening and sliced one of its heads.

Nine.

"Five seconds!" The Enchanter said.

Percy saw a single arrow fired with such force that it penetrates a Hydra head and it immediately went limp. Percy saw Artemis, who had her bow steaming.

Eight.

The Shieldbearer's health was an inch away from zero. "Retreat!" Percy said. He obliged as he stepped out of the way. A Hydra head was going for him, but the Sorceress was faster as it was quickly encased in a block of ice before shattering into pieces.

Seven.

Percy ducked under a swooping Hydra head before spinning himself around horizontally, parallel to the ground and sliced the head clean off. He fell to the ground on his back where he rolled out of the way as all the Hydra's aggro is now on him.

Six.

Has it been five seconds? Percy didn't count. The adrenaline made it feel like time was moving through lead. One of the Hydra head almost got to Percy when the Shieldbearer came in with the clutch save, punching the incoming head with his shield, causing it to stumble back in a daze. Percy used this moment to cut it off.

Five.

Then, from the ground, earthen tendrils crawled out and wrapped themselves around the Hydra's legs and around five of its head. Percy grinned as he made his way towards it and sliced each one of with ease. Four . . . Three . . . Two . . . One . . .

By that time, Percy was on the ground panting. The Hydra looked helpless with just one head left on his body. The six other members of his party gathered around him, all with looks of tired and happiness mixed together. Percy hadn't noticed it before, but the stadium was at full capacity. It was overloaded in fact as there were people who stood by the sidelines and not on the bleachers. Helicopters were hovering above the field with spotlights and cameras directed at them. How had Percy missed that?

"Do the honours," Frank said with a proud look on his face. Percy turned around and looked at the Hydra one last time before delivering the last blow.

Congratulations!

You have defeated the World Boss : The Hydra!

The crowd erupted into a massive cheer. As the adrenaline left Percy's body, he felt himself passing out of exhaustion. The last thing he remembered was Artemis rushing in trying to catch him.

A/N: Ta-daa! Man, that was fun to write. I was hyping myself as I was writing this story. I hope you guys have as much fun reading it as I had writing it.

Now, for the pairing. It seems you guys are still on the fence on whether it's going to be a Pertemis or Percabeth. Welp, only one way to solve it.

The Poll.

On my profile will be a poll on what pairing should I give Percy. I'm going to give you two chapters to decide. And since I'm updating like a rabid dog, that's not a lot of time. Get to voting fellas!