Before we begin: I do not recommend the use of any drugs please don't do mushrooms if you are a minor, they will probably fuck your brain up bad.
ALSO this work is heavily inspired by Percy Jackson and the game by imjusttryingtofindmyway. Enjoy
The moment classes had ended the first thing Percy did was head to the library to look up whatever a stasis field was, because for the life of him he could not figure it out. After grabbing a dictionary and a huge stack of other books he eventually found a table to sit at and sat down to start reading.
stasis:
a. : a state of static balance or equilibrium : stagnation. b. : a state or period of stability during which little or no evolutionary change in a lineage occurs.
'Huh so it means like being frozen in time? That's pretty cool! Wait just a moment' Percy thought before opening his inventory and pulling out his still hot Sloppy Joe.
'This is literally a game changer for me. I can have hot food whenever I want, as long as I store it. Oh I'm craving pizza boom instant pizza' Percy thought before putting his Joe back into his inventory.
PING
FOR THINKING SO WISELY +1 TO WISDOM AND INTELLIGENCE
"Alright I can work with this!" Percy exclaimed after swiping away the notification box and began to crack down and read.
PING
YOU HAVE CREATED A NEW SKILL
READING - ENGLISH - LEVEL 3
Reading - English: This skill is based on how well you can read and comprehend the english language - current reading level 2nd grader
After hours of grinding nothing but staring at books with words often jumping around the page and having to take a few breaks to walk around, Percy finally managed to get his reading level to the average level for his age.
PING PING PING PING PING PING
YOU HAVE LEVELED UP A SKILL
READING - ENGLISH - LEVEL 7
Reading - English: This skill is based on how well you can read and comprehend the English language - current reading level 6th grader.
FOR READING NONSTOP FOR HOURS +4 TO INTELLIGENCE AND +2 WISDOM
Percy began to gather the books and put them all back where he found them, while looking for something to read before bed, because it turns out that Percy had been reading for about four and a half hours and had gone through the stack he had initially brought. After putting away the final book he had brought he realized he probably could have put them in his inventory to make his life heaps easier, while pondering this he accidentally knocked over a book and it flipped open to a random page, what was surprising was the fact that he could read it with perfect comprehension, without a single word jumping out.
'So spake he in prayer, and Pallas Athene heard him, and made his limbs light, his feet and his hands above; and she drew near to his side and spake to him winged words: "Be of good courage now, Diomedes, to fight against the Trojans, for in thy breast have I put the might of thy father, the dauntless might, such as the horseman Tydeus, wielder of the shield, was wont to have. And the mist moreover have I taken from thine eyes that afore was upon them, to the end that thou mayest well discern both god and man. Wherefore now if any god come hither to make trial of thee, do not thou in any wise fight face to face with any other immortal gods, save only if Aphrodite, daughter of Zeus, shall enter the battle, her do thou smite with a thrust of the sharp bronze."'
Percy used his Observe skill on the book.
THE ILIAD (ORIGINAL ANCIENT GREEK TEXT)
The story of the Iliad follows the great Greek warrior Achilles, as well as his rage and the destruction it causes. Parallel to this, the story also follows the Trojan warrior Hector and his efforts to fight to protect his family and his people.
PING
YOU HAVE CREATED TWO NEW SKILLS
LANGUAGE ANCIENT GREEK - LEVEL MAX
Language Ancient Greek - The ability to speak and understand ancient Greek. Due to your heritage, you are able to fluently speak ancient Greek.
READING/WRITING ANCIENT GREEK - LEVEL MAX
The ability to read and write ancient Greek. Due to your heritage, you are able to fluently read and write in ancient Greek.
"Ok first off, I'm pretty sure that's not how heritage works, it's more of a cultural thing right? And secondly what the hell is going on!?" Percy all but yells to the almost empty library, to which he gets the passive aggressive librarian telling him to quiet down.
Percy decides to put that train of thought aside for later and get some food. After a few minutes of walking to the cafeteria he realized that it's buffet night, meaning he can just fill his inventory with food. With that realization Percy picked up speed a bit so as not to miss out on dinner. Nearing his destination Percy ran into Grover.
"Hey Percy, where have you been all afternoon? I tried looking for you everywhere" Grover asked.
"Oh man, I'm sorry it completely slipped my mind to tell you where I was, I spent all afternoon studying in the library." Percy replied guilt fulling his voice.
"What no way, good on you man! It's no wonder I didn't find you. I try to avoid that place like the plague when I can, it just gives me bad vibes you know?" Grover said with a laugh.
"Dude tell me about it, it's not somewhere I normally want to be, but I feel like I kinda owe it to my Mum to do the best I can so the least I can do is try." Percy said partially honestly and partially to not wanting to seem stupid for not knowing what stasis ment.
PING
YOU HAVE LEVELED UP A SKILL
LYING - LEVEL 2
Lying: This is how well you can lie to other people, the higher the level, the higher chance to succeed and the less chance of discovery.
5% Chance of lie succeeding, more if the person trusts you, less based on how extreme the lie is.
Percy felt bad for lying to Grover
Percy and Grover had finally made it to the cafeteria, and Grover immediately headed off to grab some enchiladas before they were gone, while Percy decided to focus on what really mattered; Pizza, truly the food of the gods.
"Let's have a look at this bad boy, what type of pizza we got here?" Percy said to himself, using observe on the slice of pizza.
Slice of Margherita Pizza
Food of champions - 15 HP recovered apon consumption.
PING
OBSERVE - LEVEL 2
Observe: This is the ability to see a person's or object's name, level and a brief description of who/what they are when used. You can now see someone's name and title above their heads.
'Ok there is no chance that I'm not going to be abusing this if I get into a fight.' Percy thought to himself with a mad grin forming on his face. Looking apon the other food there they all had similar bonuses, some restoring mana, others doing a percentage of either his health or mana. The one that stood out was, the mushrooms from last night, which read;
Cafeteria Magic Mushrooms
You gotta be a little mad to eat this stuff - 5% to trip absolute balls - 5% to HP and MP - 1/10¹⁰ ⁰⁰⁰ ⁰⁰⁰ ⁰⁰⁰ ⁰⁰⁰ ⁰⁰⁰ ⁰⁰⁰ ⁰⁰⁰ ⁰⁰⁰ ⁰⁰⁰ ⁰⁰⁰ ⁰⁰⁰ ⁰⁰⁰ ⁰⁰⁰ ⁰⁰⁰ ⁰⁰⁰ ⁰⁰⁰ ⁰⁰⁰ ⁰⁰⁰ ⁰⁰⁰ ⁰⁰⁰ ⁰⁰⁰ ⁰⁰⁰ ⁰⁰⁰ ⁰⁰⁰ ⁰⁰⁰ ⁰⁰⁰ ⁰⁰⁰ ⁰⁰⁰ ⁰⁰⁰ ⁰⁰⁰ ⁰⁰⁰ ⁰⁰⁰ ⁰⁰⁰ chance to develop gaming powers.
'Yeah either I'm still tripping or I got hella lucky or maybe both?' Percy thought to himself with a grin, before grabbing a bunch of food and chucking it in his inventory, after filling his inventory as subtly as he could he managed which thankfully no one seemed to notice. Percy checked his inventory and almost laughed with what he had in there;
1 x Sloppy Joe
1 x Bottle of Water
4 x Margherita Pizza
1 x Hawaiian Pizza
6 x Spring rolls
1 x Roasted chicken
6 x white rolls
1 x Coke 250ml
'I have a whole ass chicken just chilling somewhere only I can get, I love this so much!' Percy thought with a grin.
"Hey Perc, what did you grab for dinner?" G-Man asked curiously, which was when Percy hadn't grabbed anything for dinner, in a sporadic move he picked up the closest thing to him, because it'd look pretty weird if Percy spent 10 minutes just looking at the food; unfortunately for him he just so happened to grab his old enemy, the Cafeteria Magic Mushrooms.
"Oh nice, good choice Percy, I told you, you would like them if you tried them!" Grover said with pride filling his eyes.
"Ahaha, Yeah I guess I just can't resist." Percy said with a forced laugh
"Well good to hear!" As Grover said this Percy noticed something that made him stop and stare at the words above his head. There was his name and a weird title.
Grover Underwood - Junior Satyr Protector
'Satyr, isn't that some kind of goat thing from Mr Brunner's class?' Percy thought before using observe once more.
Grover Underwood - Junior Satyr Protector
Grover is a Satyr who was assigned to protect Percy Jackson, who he believes to be a demigod. His duty is to make sure Percy gets to Camp Half Blood safely and if he succeeds he will get the chance to look for the God Pan, which is his one goal in life. He loves Juniper, his girlfriend and nature. He hates Pollution and deforestation.
Percy wasn't really sure how to react, on one hand his friend was some sort of greek goat thing but he couldn't really let Grover know that he knew, but he was also looking out for him but also not letting him know that he was looking out for him. But also he was a demigod apparently?
PING
DEMIGOD - LEVEL MAX
Demigod: This perk gives the user a + 1 to Vit and Str every level. You smell like fish and chips to monsters.
"Percy you alright man? you look a bit pale." Grover asked with genuine worry filling his voice
"Y-yeah I don't feel super hot right now man, I think i need to lie down or go to bed or something." Percy said not feeling the best about figuring out that he was a demigod. Percy said goodnight to Grover and decided to go on a little walk to clear his head and think things through.
After walking for about 20 minutes Percy found a nice little alley in between the indoor pool and the main building. There was some graffiti on the wall, nothing too interesting other than a weird blue glowing triangle thing. And since blue is objectively the best colour, he decided to trace it with his finger.
Suddenly the wall started to shift and a PING was heard.
YOU HAVE DISCOVERED AN ENTRANCE TO THE MYTHICAL LABYRINTH
WOULD YOU LIKE TO ENTER?
[YES/NO]
Because he really didn't have a whole lot else to do right now Percy decided fuck it why not and pressed yes. The bricks parted to make an arch that led down to somewhere dark.
As he made his way through the winding stone tunnels, Percy realized that maybe going down into a dark scary place unarmed wasn't the greatest idea in the world, especially if his memory serves him correctly there was some sort of monster down here that killed a bunch of people.
'Is that a sword?" Was Percy's first thought when he saw a giant crucifix made of bones with a really old skeleton hanging off it, a sword piercing the skeletons chest.
"Sweet free sword, ever since Mr Brunner brought one of these bad boys out I've wanted one!" Percy exclaimed, gripping the sword and yanking it out of the chest of the skeleton. What it's not like he was using it anymore!
Well apparently, he was, because after a few seconds of checking out his new sword Percy noticed the skeleton wasn't so dead and kinda wanted his sword back after the skeleton knocked him in the face with a mean haymaker. To which Percy fell to the floor dropping his new sword in the process.
YOU HAVE TAKEN FIVE DAMAGE!
"Hey what the hell man!" Percy yelled, scrambling to grab the dropped sword, on instinct swinging it upward to meet the skeleton's fist. CRACK! The skeleton's fist broke apart and Percy got a chance to pull back and briefly collect his thoughts.
YOU HAVE DEALT 30 DAMAGE!
PING
SWORD MASTERY - LEVEL 1
Sword mastery: This is how good you are with a sword. The better you are the higher the modifier.
Damage modifier 5% to all sword related attacks.
'Observe' Percy really didn't have time to waste on reading his sword skill so he immediately swiped it away
Vengeful Undead Skeleton
This skeleton was in life a roman soldier who betrayed his legion for the love of his life who was a Gaul man, before they could flee together they were found out and for betraying the legion he was crucified in front of his lover and then as he lay slowly dying they set the love of his life on fire. Through his anger and grief before death and him being the son of Letum his soul never left his body and he lay unable to move due to the sword that went through his chest that was enchanted to keep him immobile. He Hates Everything.
Ok Percy could see why he would be so angry, after going through that anyone would be angry for a really long time. But that didn't mean Percy was just going to lie down and take his abuse, he was going to fight back the only way he knew how…
Swing wildly and hope for the best!
The skeleton went in for another haymaker and got his hit in but in response let Percy cut off his left leg.
YOU HAVE TAKEN FIVE DAMAGE!
YOU HAVE DEALT 31.5 DAMAGE!
The skeleton apparently didn't see this as a problem and decided to go all black knight on Percy. Lunging with his one good leg and biting Percy in the ribs
YOU HAVE TAKEN 25 DAMAGE!
"AHHHHGHHH!" Percy screamed never having been in such pain in his life, before after a second it went away.
"Ok enoughs, enough I'm sorry about what happened to you but I'm not going to die here I still have so much to do!" Percy yelled passionately
YOU HAVE DEALT 31.5 DAMAGE!
YOU HAVE SLAYED AN ENEMY!
REWARDS:
25 EXP
PINKY TOE BONE
$20
"WOAH what a RUSH! Huh cool I get stuff for killing stuff, good to know, Status" Percy said after chucking the rewards in his inventory and going to check his health.
Perseus 'Percy' Jackson
Title: N/A
Level 2
Experience (25/100)
HP: 25/60
MP: 90/90
Money: $25
Strength: 6
Dexterity: 3
Vitality: 6
Intelligence: 9
Wisdom: 9
Charisma: 2
Luck: 3
Points: 5
"Oh shit" Percy said after realizing just how close to death he got and deciding to head back because frankly he barely made it out of a single fight against a pretty weak enemy.
Percy began to head back the way he came, following the winding stone path that he came from, making a silent vow to come back when he became stronger. Until finally he saw the moonlight covered arch, taking a deep breath enjoying the fresh air Percy began to make his way back to his room.
'Shit how long have I been gone?'
PING
NEW QUEST AVAILABLE
Snake? Snake? Snaaaakkkkkeeeeeee?
Sneak into your dorm room without being identified and caught.
Rewards:
25 EXP
1 stat point
$50
Failure:
Detention
Death
[YES/NO]
'Huh since I got a quest I gotta assume it's after curfew, I better hurry back.' Percy thought before putting his sword in his inventory and dropping into a crouch and clinging to the walls.
PING
YOU HAVE CREATED A NEW SKILL
STEALTH - LEVEL 1
Stealth: This skill is how good you are at being stealthy.
3% Chance to be undetected.
Percy quickly swept away the notification.
As Percy made his way back he heard something when passing by the water fountain. It sounded like wings beating against the wind. Percy's stomach dropped and turned to ice, a part of his brain that he didn't know he had just kicked into overdrive. He knew that he had to move, he had to get out of the open. To his left there was a tree and a window was right across from one of the branches, if he could get up to it and jump he might not be murdered.
Percy scrambled his way over and pulled himself up the branches when he felt something like a burning tree branch being beaten against his arm and heard a crack.
YOU HAVE TAKEN 20 DAMAGE!
'Crap this is not good, not good at all!' Percy wasn't sure what hit him but he wasn't waiting to find out. Finally he pushed himself to the branch just across from the open window, he bolted as soon as he could and jumped into the open window, slamming it closed behind him and bolting back to his room, not caring about stealth, it was the last thing on his mind.
'FOOD HEALS!' Percy remembered, grabbing out a whole pizza and shoveling it down his throat while running down seemingly endless hallways until finally he saw his room and burst in, not caring if he woke Grover, who wasn't there for some reason. Percy took a moment to breathe now that he was safe.
QUEST COMPLETE
REWARDS WILL NOW BE ISSUED!
Percy swiped the box away and decided that was more than enough for today and hopped in bed and closed his eyes.
PING
YOU HAVE SLEPT IN YOU OWN BED.
HP AND MP HAVE BOTH BEEN RESTORED TO FULL.
ALL AILMENTS AND NEGATIVE STATUS CONDITIONS HAVE NOW BEEN RESTORED!
Percy awoke at 6am, refreshed and surprisingly not sore in the slightest, despite yesterday being punched a bunch and then hit by some sort of, well Percy wasn't sure what hit him but it certainly was not fun and definitely not something he wanted to try again.
Then he remembered his weird gamer skills which were definitely the reason he wasn't in pain and freaking out, which to be honest he was really grateful for.
GAMERS BODY - LEVEL MAX
Gamer's Body: This perk grants a body that allows for the user to live the real life like a video game. (they receive no physical damage from attacks, only pain for a few seconds and a loss of HP).
GAMERS MIND - LEVEL MAX
Gamer's Mind: This perk allows the user to calmly and logically think things through, has control over their emotions to some extent though they will not be able to stop their emotions. Users' minds cannot be infiltrated by mind altering things, unless they allow it.
Percy got up and out of his bed, doing his best to be quiet to not wake Grover up, after slipping on a clean hoodie and pair of trackies, and chucking some clean clothes in his inventory. Percy thought maybe he should work on some of his other stats then just intelligence and wisdom, as useful as they are they didnt do much when he was being punched and whatever happened on the tree.
PING
YOU HAVE LEVELED UP A SKILL
SNEAKING - LEVEL 2
Stealth: This skill is how good you are at being stealthy.
5% Chance to be undetected. When attacking from stealth you will do bonus stealth damage.
'Cool, that actually helps a lot.' Percy thought as he made his way to the gym which hopefully will be open. 'Chazz did say to level up a stat to do stuff relating to what stat I want to level up'
When Percy finally made it to the gym he when he went to open the door he noticed it was locked, that just won't do. Percy went around to look for something, anything to do that could help him juice up his stats. Then he saw it, the pool, he knew it was open, it always was at this time because some of the teachers like to wake up and go for a swim.
Percy pushed on the door and success, the door was unlocked. Percy was never more thankful for bringing a spare set of clothes with him. After changing into some pool appropriate clothes (a pair of old shorts) and checking that no one else was using the pool and then jumping in.
PING
YOU HAVE ENTERED A BODY OF WATER
+1500 bonus HP and MP
+20 to Str
+20 to Vit
+20 to Dex
"Wait what? Why do I get a bonus in water?" Percy thought about it for a second before remembering the skill he unlocked earlier today, Demigod.
"Now which god controls water, come on latin class, if this is your whole thing, Neptune, no that's not right or maybe it is, but I dont think I'm roman, coz I can read ancient greek I gotta assume I'm greek, and the greek version of Neptune is Poseidon right?" Percy mumbled out loud.
PING
QUEST COMPLETE:
WHO'S YOUR DADDY?
REWARDS WILL BE ISSUED
Perk: Son of poseidon
You are the son of Poseidon, with this perk gives you the potential to control and breath under water, create earthquakes, bring forth storms and talk to sea life and horses.
When in a body of water: or surrounded by water
1500 bonus HP and MP
20 to Str
20 to Vit
20 to Dex
450 EXP
PING PING
YOU HAVE LEVELED UP TWICE.
Perseus 'Percy' Jackson
Title: Son of Poseidon
Level 4
Experience (200/400)
HP: 80/80 (+ 1500 = 1580/1580)
MP: 90/90 (+ 1500 = 1590/1590)
Money: $75
Strength: 8 (+ 20 = 28)
Dexterity: 3 (+ 20 = 23)
Vitality: 8 (+ 20 = 28)
Intelligence: 9
Wisdom: 9
Charisma: 2
Luck: 3
Points: 16
"HOLY SHIT I CAN CONTROL WATER NOW?!"
Authors notes
Hey, how's it going? Good? Great. Now that that's out of the way I completely forgot to describe Chazz last chapter, so I'll do it now coz I'm lazy and I can't figure out how to update. The only reason I remembered that I didn't describe how he looked was because I was writing chapter 3 and realized I didn't tell y'all what he looked like so… So he has black spikey hair and pale skin and wears a lot of black and blue spikey leather jackets. And yes, if you watched YuGiOh GX its The Chazzman himself. I copied him sue me, wait actually don't I probably can't afford it. Anyway, I just wanted to say I have some really fun stuff planned for the future I can't wait to get to it, but it's gonna be a while off unfortunately because it'll take place a while away like a sea of monsters far away.