Chapter 114: Rise of the villians
(Reviews)
TeanShirt:
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A: Can't solve the code, sorry.
Leofan:
Wow you update a lot. This is the secret message for y'all who couldn't decide it or were too lazy to. I'm assuming the question marks were people talking. I copy pasted and used an at bash decoder. You didn't make it easy with the random spaces and symbols.
(I added the decoded version down)
Welp, you sure know how to make decoding hard.
A: You did a good job!
Moonhorse96:
What was that gibberish at the end? Also, maybe the last line of the prophecy is simply that: THE GREEK SHALL BURN IN HEL Maybe he temporarily loses his fire immunity and gets burned while in Hel's realm.
A: The gibberish in the end was a code.
ThatDamnDam:
The Magnus arc was so long, I had almost forgotten about the Triumvirate stuff... But that's in the past! I am really looking forward to the labyrinth arc. When will you write the crossover for avengers? Is it gonna be after end game is released? The code at the end gave me chills! And it was not due to the cold here, I assure you that much! Thankyou soo much! Your dedication to this book inspires me!
A: You solved the code? Dam.
Anyway, the Avengers crossover will happen when I have the time to write it.
LegoSharkNinja:
I really loved both the chapter and the book. You write so well and I can't wait till the next one comes out! Another crossover idea would be Star Wars or My hero academia. Either way I love the story so far!
A: Starwars sounds cool but I don't know a lot about it.
PerseusTheSpartenBoy:
Im not gonna take the time to decode that ill let somebody else do that :)
A: They did ;-)
Mariam:
That was awesome! I can't wait to read the next part.
A: Here it is!
Guest:
really loved the story. When will Percy fight Kronos
A: Chapter 330
Draconic king:
Are they on a date? XD Nyx is gonna be happy
Alex Focker
Wth that large amount of skills under him, you expect him to get creative and combine some of them and make new offensive or defensive skills or something like that and yet we see a Percy bumbling around for the sake of not being OP, honestly if he seems too OP it's better to make his enemies and his surroundings more tougher then instead of making him seem OP then realising in the late game that his way too OP and to combat that you start making him a fool, yes I know his either exhausted or cursed when something shit happens like triumvirate but still, with the blessing of Athena you'd expect him to make multiple plan with backups and backups for the backups so that he doesn't die or bad shit to happen or have something be done to prevent disaster and yet we see him going to the meeting empty handed without any plan that he should do or try to do. Hopefully you take this more of a criticism than me hating on your story, cause I really do love it, it's just the stupidities of some parts just reaches to me and makes me want to flay Percy for not thinking.: IKR
A: I noted your criticism and try to work on it. BTW, he doesn't have the full blessing.
BlueWafflesFTW:
Bout damn time. *Spoilers as to how I deciphered it, if you guys wanna break it yourself.* Used the atbash cipher, so here it is for you lazy peeps.
Location: unknown
Time: unknown
(?): You know what happens if the mad titans succeeds in his quest.
(¿): I know, but we still have some time.
(?): We don't. Time is fragile, now everything is quite peaceful. But I can foresee a chain of events that may lead to Thanos' victory.
(¿): If your predictions are true then we can only hope they succeed.
(?): I went forward in time to see all the possible outcomes.
(¿): You can do that?
(?): Death is eternal.
(¿): So how many did they succeed.
(?): I saw fourteen million six hundred and five different scenarios. Only in one they won.
(¿): What happens to us after they fail?
(?): Depends if I re(j)ects his love or not.
(¿): What's the outcom(e)?
(?): Either he will kill all of us. Or he will kill (a)ll of us except me.
(¿): You think we (n)eed to interfere?
(?): Already did.
(¿): What did you do?
(?): I found someone who can stop Thanos.
(¿): From what planet is the one you had in mind?
(?): Earth.
(¿): You can't be serious. The Phoenix force is unsubstai-
(?): I was not talking about her. About someone else. Someone from a different world.
(¿): Who?
(?): Someone who is on the other side of the multiverse. So far away not a sin(g)le being in this world can prepare for him. Not even the Beyonder.
(¿): He would become a ta(r)get if you brought him here. People will notice immediately...The Beyonder. He hates world travelers.
(?): He won't notic(e). The person I have in mind is not a powerful being. Just a normal hero. A demigod.
(¿): A demigod? And how could he stop the titan?
(?): That's the beauty of it. The boy I'm talking about appears to be weak. Not stronger than a mutant. So he won't be noticed by other deities.
(¿): That's good. But if he's so weak why bring him here?
(?): Despite his lack in powers he is a real survivor. He faced a lot of impossible odds before. At this point he might look weak but yet he managed to survive almo
the universe throws at him. And his fate...he has the power to destroy an universe.
(¿): I'm curious. How can you be so sure he's the one able to save us.
(?): I'm not. I selected 1369 different beings across the multiverse and saw one hundred eighty-four trillion, six hundred seventy-four billion, five hund
million, three hundred forty-four thousand, three hundred fort(y) different scenarios. The boy I'm talking about has the highest chance of winning.
(¿): By how much?
(?): If the boy interferes the chance of survival would go from one in a fourteen million six hundred and five scenarios to 6 in a fourteen million six hundred
scenarios.
(¿): I'm impressed. So how do you plan on bringing him here? If his universe is so far away from ours.
(?): I can't reach his universe and make a portal. But I can attract his attention. He is a curious person. He will fall for his curiosity and come to this world.
(¿): But what if he doesn't want to help. What if he only wants to go home.
(?): He will help. It's in his nature to help.
(¿): So who is this person?
(?): His name is Percy Jackson.
Anyway, I was gonna give you a cookie, but I ate it while decoding, so sorry \_(ツ)_/
A: Hahah, good job with decoding.
DaughterOfSBWG:
Your gibberish part took me some time to decode with the Atbash Cipher. So I guess the Phoenix force is the mutant Jean Grey, one of the X-Men (you did highlight the letters of her name by putting them in brackets) but they are not asking her for help, they are asking Percy. I thought this person " (?) " is Doctor Strange. But when the person say about rejecting Thanos' love, I thought she was the incarnate of death in the Marvel Universe who is said to be Thanos' crush whom he is trying to impress. So who are the two persons actually?
The Beyonder? Is he going to be important?
Are you going to wait till Avengers: End Game to be released before starting the Avengers crossover arc?
A: You win a cookie for guessing the most stuff right!
Guest:
I swear half your words are from responding to reviews lol. Maybe make like a discord or forum?
A: Don't have the time for that.
Checkingdude:
Really? Code again? *sigh* I'll go grab the code breakers, you all stay here...
A: Solved it yet?
Surya25addanki:
Looking forward to seeing your story wandering Percy like Sasuke after the war sounds badass
A: Didn't catch the refrence. :-(
DaughterOfSBWG:
Another short chapter *sighs*. I would love some long chapters. But anyway, awesome chapter as always.
"In the end the Greek shall burn in Hel", does that prophecy line refer to Percy feeling terrible pain when Hel gave her blessing?
An Atbash Cipher at the end? Really? I thought it was Rot13 and tried to decode it. I got a bunch of gibberish.
So Percy is going to assemble a team and destroy Triumvirate now? I mean before the battle with Kronos and Gaia?
When are you planning to do the crossover? Now? After Battle of the Labyrinth? Or the Last Olympian?
Have another blue cookie. I hope all the cookies that you are eating from us reviewers isn't making you fat or anything.
A: The Crossover happens at a random point. You'll never guess it. (big chance you guess it)
Mcoombes:
Argh, more code gibberish. I noticed you wrote that Percy needs a team to defeat Triumvirate, and you're doing an Avengers crossover... I wonder if they're the team he needs. Also, even though I haven't read Magnus Chase, that book was awesome.
A: The avengers are not the team he needs. Also, Thanks for the compliment.
Ravage200:
This Magnus Chase arc has been going on for so long that I almost forgot CHB existed... Great work, as usual really did not like the purnilla confirmed death tho... gives me the big sad
A: Sorry for making you sad.
Turtle:
Way too lazy to decide that and I like the crossover idea but hate it at the same time .I wanna see the battle of the labyrinth and the last olympian
A: Sorry for the bad ending.
MarethyuQ:
nice wrap up. can't wait for the next, even though percy had a point, how does he meet magnus earlier than normal? power of the author? or will you explain it?
A: It's not Author power.
RPHoeben:
lion king, good choice
A: Thanks!
Paris Jackson:
Good chapter, amazing as always. I'm glad the Magnus Chase crossover is done. As much as I love Magnus Chase, I really want Percy to go back to the event of PJO. Although, I can't wait for the Avengers crossover. Is it happening straight after this, or a little while after Percy is back in the Greek world?
A: It's a secret.
Slowly the cloaked figure moved through the long corridors, the disgusting filled her nostrils but she managed to stay calm and push the disgusting smell out of her mind.
The dark brickstone walls were line with pipes, windings and they all looked very old.
She strode through the murky water that didn't even reach her ankles. She was pretty sure the water hide disgusting things like poop and….whatever mortals dumped in the sewers.
The sewer she was walking through was old, the walls were stained with gravity and the woman actually suspected to run into a corpse that had been rotten away since they started building the sewer system.
New York was a big city, the underground network was even bigger, years and years of building, expanding and eventually abondending of this network led to a variety of uses.
She came to a t-split, she froze for a second. She heard footsteps coming from around the corner. She grinned wildy and jumped around the corner.
As she had expected someone stood in the corridor.
He looked like a regular construction worker, except he had a kind of flat face and bulky belly.
Over his back he carried a large backpack that looked stuffed. He had a handgun hangin on his belt. The construction worker took a small package out of his backpack, it looked like some kind of lunch box wrapped with wires and it had a nice blinking light on it.
The man strapped the strange device against the wall and got ready to move again when the cloaked figure jumped in front of him.
A shotgun gun materialized in the woman's hand, it was a black shotgun made out of pure darkness. She pulled the trigger and blasted of the guy's face.
A loud bang filled the tunnel and for a second everything turned dark, when the dark flash had faded away there was nothing left except some gold dust floating in the murky sewer water.
She grinned, "Eat shit."
She followed the tunnel even furthur, she found some more of these guys and quickly took care of them, though she made sure to stay as silent as possible.
Finally, after hours of moving through boring tunnels and beating up more fake construction worker, she found the center of the network.
It looked like a regular subway station, except it was secret and had been abandoned for years. For some reason the mortals had forgotten about this place, she guessed it must have been the mist working overtime around this place.
There were no trains anymore, no more travelers. Only more construction workers. All over the place they were placing more of these strange devices. Strapping them onto the wall and doing other stuff she had no idea about.
In the middle of the room stood a large metal machine that had a lot of pipes, and looked pretty sci-fi to the woman. Though she had no idea what it did, she guessed it had something to do with air. Since there was a large van inside the construction.
She whistled and all the fake construction workers turned around, it were at least 5 of them.
They turned around in surprise. Dropping whatever they were doing and staring at the cloaked figure.
"Hi!" she said cheerfully. She raised her shotgun and pulled the trigger.
Five individual bullets shot out of the barrel, they were already black but the moment the were shot they dissolve into shadows. A second later they shadow traveled inside the construction workers stomach.
They shot straight through the belly, they exploded into a burst of black flames.
"Bye," the woman smiled as there was nothing left of them except dust.
"Eris," A voice said behind here.
The cloaked figure grinned and turned around, her shotgun dissolved into shadows.
Behind her stood the man she had been looking for.
The thing that stood out the most was his mask, it was a white bag with two eye holes cut in them, black paint surrounded the eye holes so it looked like he had eye sockets.
A red psychotic smile was painted across the hole for the mouth.
The rest of his clothes were just casual, a white shirt with blood stains and ragged jeans. He looked so fragile Eris had the idea this guy would die the moment he tried to jump.
"Ah," Eris grinned, "The one I have been looking for."
"What are you doing here?" The fearman asked, not sounding scared at all. Just amused.
Eris gave the man a disgusted look, "I'm dragging you in chains back to Tartarus."
"Why?" He simply replied, tilting his head so it looked like he was smiling.
Erias waved her left hand, shadows from all over the room pulled towards her. They merged together for a few seconds before fading away, revealing a metal orb.
It was broke and had wires sticking out all over it but you could clearly see it was once a metal ball.
Eris smirked, "It wasn't hard to figure out who was making a fear serum." she rolled her eyes, "I don't know why your terrorizing the mortals but it comes to an end."
The fear man stepped closer, "So you figured it out, you are a smarter than the other gods I see."
Eris growled, her eyes burning red for a moment, "Don't even try flattering me. I'll drag you back to the Mansion of Night so you can enjoy your punishment."
The fear man chuckled, which annoyed Eris.
"Why are you laughing?" Eris snapped.
"Don't you want to know why we are creating a fear gas?" He innocently asked, knowing that Eris couldn't resist her curiosity.
"I don't care," Eris lied through her teeth, then she began to smile. "But I can torture it out of you."
The Fearman instead snapped his fingers, a document appeared in his hands. Written with blood was written on it. Project Skyfall
He tossed it to Eris who caught it with one hand.
"What is this?" Eris asked glaring at him.
"Read it," He said, "Then you'll find out why were are making this."
Eris scowled at him but nonetheless opened the document. As she began skipping through the pages her eyes widened, she began to feel pale and a cold shiver ran up her spine.
She looked up and glared at the man who hadn't bothered to run away or try to attack her.
"This is false," Eris snapped but she knew the man could smell her fear, she recomposed herself and grinned. "The events you describe are not possible."
The man didn't say anything, instead a new document had appeared in his hands.
Written with black ink on the page were four words Dethroned wolf
He tossed it to Eris who quickly opened it, reading through it. As she did she felt her heart stop beating.
Once she had reached the final page, she dropped to the floor.
The man in front of her had changed, two gigantic demon wings were sticking out of his back, his eyes were now burning ash pits, his flesh was torn apart and revealed a bloody rib cage.
She was no longer standing in an abandoned subway station, now she was standing in the burning remains of Olympus. Temples were burning in the distance and she saw gods and goddesses running around in panic., it was like she was on a battlefield. Monsters roamed through the city of the Gods, a giant dragon was in the sky, spitting fire.
Eris stared in horror at her surroundings, "Why are you showing me this?" she murmured in shock.
The man in front of her chuckled, "Fear. I want your fear."
…
With disgust he looked at the goddess in front of him, she was frozen in fear. Literally.
He turned around to face the construction workers he had brought with him.
"What should we do with her?" One of them asked.
He shot a final glance at the goddess of strife, then he turned to his men. "Blow this place up. She might have informed others about this place."
The man in front of him flinched, stepping backwards a bit. "Are you sure? I mean we aren't-"
"I'm sure." The fear man repeated, sounding annoyed. "Blow this place to hell."
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She twisted the spear in her hand, it was a formidable spear. Even she had to admit it.
Of course, the king of the gods wouldn't want anything less, the she twisted Gungnir and plunged it into the ground underneath her.
"For the honest finder," she muttered.
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Percy frowned when the the air in front of him began to shimmer, he stepped backwards and a second later he was met with an Iris message. He briefly wondered who would be calling him until the image of a young woman appeared.
Percy grinned, the moment he recognized her. "Medusa!" Percy cried out, "What's up?"
The moment Percy said that he knew something was wrong, Medusa's eyes were red, like he had been crying.
"What's wrong?" Percy asked concerned.
"Loren," Medusa muttered, "She's gone."
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Randolph had seen the god of lies a dozen times before – when Loki had chosen to send his essence to Midgard – but it was always a shock – those brilliant eyes, the hair like flames, the ruined lips and the scars across his nose.
He was unnaturally handsome and unnaturally terrifying in equal measure.
"You've come to kill me, I expect." Randolph tried to remain calm, but his heartbeat still pulsed in his ears. "Why did you wait this long?" Loki spread his hands magnanimously.
"I didn't want to be hasty. I needed to see how things played out. It's true you failed. I could kill you, but you might still be useful. After all, I still have something you want."
The god rose from the desk and opened his hand. Above his palm, flames flickered, consolidating into the miniature shapes of a woman and two girls. They writhed in the fire, reaching out to Randolph, silently pleading.
Only Randolph's cane kept him from collapsing. "Please. I tried. I didn't – I didn't anticipate the dwarf and the elf, that cursed Valkyrie. Or the damned Greek. You didn't tell me –"
"Randolph, my dear friend …" Loki closed his hand, extinguishing the fire. "I hope you're not making excuses?"
"No, but –"
"I'm the master of excuses. You'd have to try really hard to impress me. Just tell me, do you still want your family returned?"
"Of – of course.' 'Oh, good. How nice. Because I'm not done with you. Nor am I done with that little boy Magnus."
"But he has the sword. He stopped your plan."
Loki grinned, "he stopped a facet of my plan. But in return he gave me something so much more valuable."
"You mean-" Randolph cracked.
Loki's hand lunged forward and pushed themselves onto his face.
Randolph smelled the poison before he felt it. Acrid steam curled into his nostrils.
His face erupted in white-hot pain. He fell to his knees, his throat seizing up in shock.
He tried to pull away, but Loki's hand stayed stuck in place.
"You still failed my friend," Loki whispered softly. Then he pulled his hands away and grinned.
"But not all hope is lost, all the weapons are here."
Randolph gasped for air, the pain hasn't faded away,for a split moment he had experienced the pain Loki felt everyday.
"We have the sharpest sword in the world, the hammer of a thundergod, the unbreakable shield and the reforming sword. All at one place."
"The Greek,"Randolph gasped, "What makes you think the Greek will show up."
Loki's grin spread even wider, "A little bird told me about the right motivation for him to show up."
Randolph's eyes widened as he understood the full extend of Loki's plan.
Loki nodded, "Yes Randolph. I think it's time you invite your cousin Annabeth for a small adventure."
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"What are those?" Sadie asked, she knelt down next to the metal box.
"Quick," Carter said, "The police might show up."
Sadie frowned, "In the middle of the night?"
Carter silently cursed before turning to the box, "So what's inside it?"
Sadie revealed a metal football, it had around the size of a regular football but it was made of a dark metal and had glowing green lines all over it.
The entire box was filled with more of those strange metal things.
"What are those?" Carter wondered.
Sadie shrugged, "I don't know. The real question is why someone is transporting this to Manhattan in the middle of the night. Every single day."
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The squirrel's skin was steaming, smoke came of her skin and Ratatosk let out a shriek of pain.
She was bathing in her own blood, yet there was a grin on her face.
After ten long minutes of agonizing pain it stopped, and she rose to her feet.
No longer she had paws or a tail. No longer she was a squirrel.
Instead there was a naked woman standing in her place.
Ratatosk grinned, finally Odin's curse had been broken. Just as she had hoped; the creators blood had broken the curse Odin had put on her decades ago.
A curse that prevented her from shape shifting, a curse that prevented her from ending the world properly.
It took her over a week to get a good bite out of the Greek, somewhere she felt bad for the poor boy. But the fact she could finally take a human form again made her smile.
She snapped her fingers and a portal opened, she had worlds to destroy.
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The woman stood on a plateau surrounded by lava.
Two celestial bronze chains kept her from leaving this place.
"Come find me, Percy," She muttered, hoping she could reach his dreams.
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"An entire city block has descended into the ground today. A total of 11 victims were wounded, 6 were found dead and 2 are still missing.
According to the police this was due to unstable sewer systems but the terrorist organization known as FEAR has claimed this as an attack.
During a Press release, New York Mayor Caroline Crystal promised to look into it and to update the City's sewer network. Right now the state received over $5 million in funding and in February, the City starts the first step of updating the Sewer Network.
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The Gunter took an arrow out of his quiver and put it on his bow.
He took aim at the hunters below him. the hunt had decided to stay here for the day since Artemis, their goddess, was required on Olympus for war preparations.
Next to the hunter Lycaon growled, he had bared his fangs and a murderous spark was seen in his eyes.
"Ready?" The Hunter asked Lycaon.
Lycaon licked his teeth, "just leave a few for me."
Come play with me Poseidon' Son,
You can't tempt Fate and come undone,
Two new threats you must be faced,
One can't be Beaten, One can't be Slayed
The First unleashed by Hero's breath,
Second unleashed by Chaos' wrath,
With one Kiss destroy it all,
Burn the world with a price so tall,
Play with me your Story ends,
The Son of Poseidon betrays his friends.