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Now this is my first story. So don't go apeshit on me if its not upto the mark.
I'm time-skipping a bit(only 2 years) ….
Chapter 6: Percy goes batman …
Last episode we found our protagonist having a nightmarish dream about a war(maybe a vision) between Greeks and a mysterious army , each side helped by mysterious entities. Now …
Percy 12 years old….
Well first the good news. I have finally become taller, well not giant tall or anything but definitely taller than my classmates and more importantly gained abs ….. freaking ABS … can you believe a 12 year old kid with muscles and a four pack. Its awesome tell you, AWESOME…well with the side-effect of bringing even more attention on me by Angelo's "guests".
Several of my skills/spells have either upgraded of maxed out in these years. Geomancy has maxed out at level thirty. Evidently I needed to gain the blessing of a major earth deity to advance it. Similarly the stone bullet, current strike and Hyperion's cloak spells have also maxed out at level 25, 20 and 15 respectively. The dehydrating ball spell has evolved into the scorching volley spell and I have finally found a way to increase my cursed blood skill without the penalties. Yay for me.
Oh and I have also created a menagerie of spiders in my back yard.
My ID skills have finally leveled up to 10 giving me access to the spider dungeon. I know spiders might sound weak but trust be I literally have shivers thinking about the spider boss. I mean I had to face …..well no point spoiling it before hand. Let e tell you how I nearly DIED at the hands errr legs of the … dum dum dum ….. "Spider queen".
Flashback*****************-*****************************-
After a certain point, no matter how much I tried, I could not seem to increase my attributes status without investing points in them. You know what happens when a character gains too many points in his attributes without leveling in a video game …. Yes I Percy Jackson seemed to have finally reached the level cap for my current level.
So I decided to try out my awesome dungeon powers to gain valuable XP for leveling. That it would also give me the opportunity to farm for crafting materials as well as pocket change, may or may not have motivated me. Now since it was a spider dungeon it obviously was going to feature spiders as the main villain….. I mean really spiders, 8 legged little creeps. How hard could it be killing a bunch of spiders? Sure they had poison but with my poison resistance it would be a breeze ….. or so I had assumed. Too bad I did not know what horrors awaited me in there.
Any way I stocked up on food (in case I got hungry since the spiders couldn't even hurt me , I was so sure), attached my trusty Vrischika to the hip and set forth to eradicate the spiders from the earth. All will bow before my awesome might… he he he. I reached my scheduled spot and called out
ID CREATE
Immediately sounds dimmed as the world bleed to a layer impenetrable darkness before shattering like broken mirror. Talk about a bad omen … jeez. Anyway as observing my surroundings I immediately noticed that I was no longer at the park rather in a dense jungle. The air was hot and humid. The trees looked tall and sturdy, with branches spreading out in all directions. The forest canopy seemed to stretch for miles forming an unending umbrella of leaves that kept the grounds dark and mysterious even during mid-day. Even the forest floor was covered with dense shrubs and small bushes. Some had berries on them which looked exotic and could not apparently be picked by me … trust me I tried plenty of times.
Suddenly the nearby shrubs rustled as though something as wading through it. As I took out my dagger in anticipation of a fearsome mutant spider man thing, the leaves parted to reveal a ,a,…. A tiny albino spider. I promptly burst out laughing. After getting my laughter under control, I promptly grabbed the spider and started to cuddle it. It was so cute. The hairs were so soft, a bit prickly but its venom was hardly a threat to me.
OBSERVE:
Teeny tiny spiderling: The smallest of all spider types, capable of jumping great distances swiftly, they act as mostly scouts for their bigger cousins. They look very cuddly but are armed with very potent venom capable of paralyzing prey swiftly.
Can be tamed with enough skill or practice.
It is advised to have a poison resistance greater than level 10 before handling them.
HP:50, MP: 50
As I did not have the heart to kill the little thing, I decided to shove it in my inventory and gather a few more for my collections. spiders were after all social creature …. Well some were, others were cannibals.
Anyway I had gathered about 20 teeny spiders, when I got a glimpse of the real threats. My danger sense alerted me that I was being watched. A group of 6 tiger sizes spiders were glaring at me from the canopy cover, preparing to jump me at a seconds notice.
OBSERVE:
Tiger spider: These are the sentry cum hunters of the spider world. Growing as big as a full grown tiger, they are very capable jumpers. Armed with a tough carapace, sharp pincers and corrosive acid they aim to kill rather than disable.
Warning: stay away from the acid as it can dissolve steel easily.
Weakness: Their eyes and fire.
HP:100 MP: 100
Yikes, there goes my poison resistance advantage. Pretty sure it would not protect me from steel dissolving acids. Hmm wonder if I can get an acid resistance as well … have to test it in the real world, preferably with lots of food nearby just in case I've to regenerate something. Reminds me of the movie "ALIEN". Ewe facehuggers….. shudder.
Well I'm not getting close and personal with these creepy crawlies anytime soon, if I can help it and say offence is the best defense. So before they can pounce on me, I decide to bury them alive. Lifting my left foot, I bring it back down on the earth with a vengeance while activating my geomancy.
Just as a pebble creates ripples on a water surface, the earth below my foot rippled outwards in concentric waves, shaking and toppling all the nearby trees in a radius of 20 meters.( Yay for geomancy).
Of course as the trees fell, so did the spiders most getting crushed in the process. Only 2 remained alive but stunned and woozy barely capable of crawling let alone fighting, indicated by a flashing health bar, but two of my dehydrating balls took care of them reliably, leaving behind two charred corpses.
Ping
Quest: Clear the spider dungeon.
Rewards: Kill boss spider - 1000XP,?
Kill big ass spiders – 100XP each(x6)
Kill teeny tiny spiders - -100 XP each(you should be ashamed to kill such cute critters)
Loot.
Failure: death.
Accept Reject
Well free XP is always nice so Accept. Thank god I did not kill those babies. Else I would wave de-leveled by now (is that even possible).Still whatever.
For the next three hours I did nothing but ambush and kill those tiger spiders. Generally I would place myself in one of the clearings surrounded by large trees, as bait. Then when release an earthquake to topple the trees and destabilize the spiders enough so that they were easy kills. Just skive them with the poisoned dagger or put holes in them via drilling water bullets or the earth bullets.
How ever problems stated when the giant spiders arrived. Too big to be crushed by trees an too tough for the elemental bullets to pierce the carapace, and capable of spitting highly volatile acid bombs and sticky poisonous webs, I had to improvise while running through the undergrowth. Add to that they could aggro their enemies and each strike would cost be 60 HP…. I was royally screwed.
Well I could probably pierce the armor with my water javelin but I needed a big enough water source to create a bunch of them without additional mana drain, unlike the bullets. I felt very much screwed when suddenly a light-bulb clicked.
If I could shape the water, maybe I could shape the earth as well. The problem was finding a necessary time and place to create the skill… well if there was nothing else I could always create a landing.
Using 3 consecutive earthquakes, I cleared a section of the forest, giving me some space as well as time to work my magic. Firstly I concentrated on the landing itself, moving and loosening the earth turning it liquid and soft like quicksand, forming a giant pitfall covered with a thin layer of the earth.
Concentrating once again, I raised the earth in the form of thick, sharp, javelin like spikes to cover the pit floor. As I waited for the spiders I prepared a volley of the dehydrating ball spell for my enemies praying fervently that it would be enough to drown them.
Fortunately the spiders fell for my trick and crashed into the pitfall…..curse of the aggro mentality, and impaled themselves on the spikes. Well mostly, but some needed a bit more persuasion … read heat ball spell ….. to ease their way into the next great adventure. Well that and a few stabbings from my dagger for the more resilient ones. Since it would always return back to me in 3 sec exactly when thrown I could practice my aim without any fear of losing my weapon.
After this my journey became much easier… I would either lead them to a pitfall trap and pelt them with my dagger and spell from a distance or I would destabilize them first with en earthquake and then skewer them with earth spikes. Practice makes perfect. Also I did not forget to replenish my reserves using my OP healing skill.
An hour later, just when I was think about quitting, bored out of my mind
Ping
The boss queen approaches. Get ready.
Well there's Murphy's Law.
The earth shook as a hole opened up before me, and a gigantic spider spewed forth from its unknown depths like those face-huggers in the AVP MOVIE. TALK ABOUT CREEPY AND COPYRIGHT ISSUES.
Observe
Jorogomo: level 15: Mother of all spiders, she's the queen bitch you must defeat to win the dungeon. Beware for she can use poison gasses to sizable her enemies before devouring them alive, albeit very slowly over a couple of years.
HP:1600 MP:1600
The spider queen was beautiful, even in her monstrous form. Her lower body was that of an albino spider with intricate markings in Prussian black, while her upper body was that of a supermodel. With her sparkling blue eyes, rosy lips, aristocratic face, silky golden hair, sinful figure and most importantly her perky breasts, I am sure most of her preys would willingly come to her embrace just to have a look at her visage.
I quickly hid in a nearby bush while trying to formulate a plan. I knew I could not fight her fairly … 1600 HP , yeah not in my current dreams. I needed to find a water source. I had noticed a big lake nearby while hunting her broodlings and now I had to lead her there.
Concentrating on my geomancy powers I caused the earth walls to rise up all around her suddenly, to trap her but she was, as expected, too agile for such a simple trick. Like a pro-athlete she leapt up in the air while spitting out concentrated acid blobs towards my general direction, avoiding being boxed.
Fortunately I had already expected such a move and actually double layered my trap.
As she descended on the ground I caused it melt into quicksand trapping her legs while causing the nearby soil to rise up and impale her in form of large stone javelins, draining nearly 3/5th of her health. Leaping from my cover I started pelting her with my heat balls, while simultaneously throwing my dagger and neatly severing three of her 8 legs.
Well that was a mistake apparently. Fueled by her fires of feminine fury… hey I'm the prey here… she suddenly spewed out a veritable torrent of corrosive liquids melting through most of the spike while charging towards me recklessly.
Being wise, I fled. Weaving through the trees, I manipulated the air currents with my storm powers to surround me in a shell and glided through the trees while simultaneously activating my divine heal to restore my strength ….. take that about multitasking.
I had almost reached lake when something solid and sharp slammed into my side causing me to crash headfast into the lake along with a couple of very friendly trees. I have been bombed by a giant log of all things….. talk about shitty luck. At least I fell in the lake, anywhere else I would probably have been a pancake by now. Demigod pancake anyone.
Even as I groaned in pain, I did not forget to repeatedly cast my divine heal while simultaneously preparing my next move. I activated my CURSED BLOOD SKILL, fully intending to drown enemy. I could feel my bloodlust awakening, the boost felt incredible, better than a drug high.
As soon as the spider queen reached the shore, I caused the lake water to rise up like a lasso, encircling and binding her while liquidizing the grounds below her rapidly. As a result she was swept of her feet … not in a romantic way …. and fall into the water.
Entrapping her in a water capsule, I cut off her air supply while pin-cushioning her with the water javelins, repeatedly. Creating dozens of water whips in addition; I commanded them to strike her repeatedly, rending flesh from bones, tainting the lake in spider blood. NOT SATISFIED, I swam in close and released a huge blast of current in the water making her screech in pain. It damaged us both but I would automatically heal in the water unlike her.
It was tiring, but in the end one of the water javelins managed to pierce her heart, barely and ended her life finally. As soon as she died , the world shattered into an infinite fragments before reforming into my real life world( as close as mu life was to reality).
Ping
New skills created.
Skills have leveled up.
Geomancy: level 24.
Earth javelin: level 6: A javelin of earth doing severe damage. With enough skill they can be formed out of energy alone. Damage depends on INT and WIS.
Hyperion's cloak has reached maximum level.
Hyperion's cloak: level 15.
Stone bullet spell has maxed out.
Stone bullet: level 25
Current strike spell has maxed out.
Current strike: level 20.
Water manipulation: level 15
Water whip spell created. 30 MP
Water capsule spell created. 50MP
Cursed blood has leveled up. Due to being in water no negative penalties has occurred.
Cursed blood: level 10
Dehydrating ball has evolved to scorching volley spell due to prolonged use.
Quest: Clear the spider dungeon.
Status: done.
Rewards: Kill boss spider - 1000XP, skill book, random skill upgrade
Kill big ass spiders – 100XP each(x25)
Kill teeny tiny spiders - -100 XP each (you should be ashamed to kill such cute critters)
Loot: 10 spider fangs, 20 spider hearts, 5 HP Potions & 3 MP potions of low grade, 30 spider silk sheets, 10 vials of spider venom.
Failure: death.
You have leveled up 4 times.
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