"Percy, wake up…"
PING
YOU HAVE SLEPT IN AN UNCOMFORTABLE PLACE 25% OF HP AND MP RESTORED.
"I'm up" Percy said groggily, wiping the sleep out of his eyes, finally taking notice of his surroundings. He was still in the van from last night, Grover was leaning over him. It was still early and the sun had not risen yet.
"Percy we're here!" Grover said before pulling back and letting Percy move and really observe his surroundings. He first saw a big pine tree just outside the door for whatever reason this tree had a nametag.
THALIA'S PINE
Thalia's pine is all that remains of the daughter of Zues. Thalia was turned into a pine tree by her father after sacrificing herself for her friends and the camp itself from a hoard of monsters called by Hades to kill Thalia for being the result of a broken oath. Thalia's sacrifice has resulted in a magical boundary around camp that keeps both mortals and monsters out. Thalia's consciousness still waits for something to change as she is trapped between life and death.
'Poor girl she didn't deserve something like that, no one does!' Percy thought angrily.
As Percy tore his attention away from Thalia's tree his eyes were initially caught by a cabin that seemed to be glowing with the morning light and about a dozen others all with unique designs.
"Apollo's cabin" Chiron supplied from a little bit down the hill, he had apparently gone back to his true form of a white stallion body with Mr Brunner's torso slapped together.
"Come along now Percy, I shall introduce you to Mr D, our camp director. Try to be respectful."
Percy followed Chiron back to a large four story house in silence. As they walked through the camp, Percy noticed a few early birds getting up and at it. Some had odd nametags like: Gleeson Hedge - Coach, and Ethan Nakamura - Misguided Youth.
"Ah, here we are. Welcome to Camp Half-Blood. This is the big house aptly named for being well big. This is Mr D, our camp director." Chiron says introducing the chubby man wearing a leather print shirt sitting in a rocking chair, that Percy swore wasn't there about a moment ago.
"Another one aye Chiron old friend? Well I suppose if I must I'll say it. Welcome to Camp Half-Blood, but don't expect me to mean it or be glad that you're here especially at this time in the morning it's far too early!"
Percy looked at his name tag not expecting much from an out of shape middle aged dude; perhaps he was just a demigod that managed to live to the ripe old age of 45. Grover did tell Percy that demigods don't have the longest life expectancy as in your lucky if you hit 21. What Percy didn't expect was a God to be sitting in front of him looking like a middle aged alcoholic.
Dionysus - Olympian God of Wine, Madness, Theater and Grape Harvest.
Level: ?
Health: ?
Dionysus, also known as Mr. D, is the Greek god of grape-harvest, wine, orchards, fertility, madness, parties, religious ecstasy, and theater. He also serves as the camp director of Camp Half-Blood, having been placed there by his father Zeus as punishment for chasing after an off-limits nymph.
"Uh, thanks, sir." Percy added, not wanting to piss off the first god he met.
"Finally a demigod who knows their manners." Mr D grumbled. Percy didn't mention that he knew exactly who and what he is, and that if he didn't know he would have treated him with a hell of a lot less respect.
"Thanks Mr D or can I call you Dionysus?"
"Oh isn't this interesting? You're the first demigod I've met that has instantly known that I'm a god, well not the first but the first in a long time. Stick to Mr D and I'll be watching you Percy Jackson do try to be entertaining." Mr D said before turning into a purple hologram outline thing and disappearing with a breeze that smelt of crushed grapes.
"Percy, how did you know who Mr D's was?" Grover asked after a moment
"Well you did tell me that the Greek Gods were real so I just thought of all the figures in Greek mythology that start with the letter D and also have ties to leopards and took a shot I guess." Percy said lying through his teeth.
PING
YOU HAVE LEVELED UP A SKILL
LYING - LEVEL 4
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.
Bullshiting: This is how well you can bullshit to people, a combination of lying and telling the truth. The higher the level, the higher chance to succeed and the less chance of discovery.
8% Chance of lie succeeding, less based on how extreme the lie/bullshit is.
"Right then Percy, since you got the rundown from Grover you wont need to see the orientation film. Grover, why don't you show Percy around the camp and then show him to Cabin 11." Chiron asked after a moment of stunned silence.
"What's Cabin 11?" Percy asked.
"It's the Hermes Cabin, he is the god of travelers so he takes in anyone who isn't claimed yet or is and whose godly parent isn't one of the olympians." Grover explained as he began the tour starting with the strawberry fields.
"Well that doesn't seem fair, like at all!" Percy said a little too loudly as he startled a nymph, who didn't like it when people were being loud at the crack of dawn and as a result got an acorn thrown at his head.
YOU HAVE TAKEN ONE DAMAGE!
"Ow."
"Percy, I know it seems unfair but that's just the way things are." Grover responded kindly after apologizing to the nymph.
Percy mumbled back something in response neither agreeing or disagreeing.
As they continued along listening to the birds and the sounds of camp starting to come alive with the suns rising. They eventually made it to the pegasus stables where Percy saw about half a dozen real pegasi. As they walked past the pegasus stables Percy randomly asked.
"What happens if you know who your godly parent is but haven't been able to, can you just stay in their Cabin?"
"No Percy you can't! Even if you are certain of who your father or mother is, the god or goddess could smite you or worse curse you for all eternity!" Grover responded quickly shutting that conversation down.
"Fuck!" Percy exclaimed in horror. Percy thought that from the way Grover talked about it that he had seen it happen before.
"Look Percy. The best solution is just to leave it and stay in Cabin 11!"
Percy and Grover walked in silence for the rest of the tour apart from Grover informing him about the locations they visited. Percy really liked the look of the climbing wall and the arena but didn't say anything about it. The thought of what happened to those kids, still fresh on his mind.
Suddenly a horn blew in the distance and Percy was knocked out of his thoughts.
"Come on man, time for breakfast!" Grover yelled, apparently having already hoofed it.
By the time Percy caught up to Grover, it seemed like the whole camp was up and about he caught a few odd looks from some of the campers. Percy for once didn't have a clue on where to sit and what to eat because everything looked so good. So he just sat down next to Grover and a bunch of other Satyrs. That was when he noticed Chiron at the head table, discreetly calling over a blonde dude from the table that had all the kids on it. When the blonde guy came over Chiron looked in his direction for about half a second and the blonde guy's eyes followed.
The blondie that Percy had begun calling in his head 'Jeff' made his way over and as he did Percy noticed that there was a wicked scar under over the left side of his face.
Luke Castellan - Rebellious Youth
Percy wasn't sure on how he felt about that title so he decided to peek a little further.
Luke Castellan - Rebellious Youth
Level: 65
Health: 1000
Luke was born in Westport, Connecticut to Hermes, the god of travelers and thieves, and May Castellan. May had a divine accident and became cursed to see shattered glimpses of her son's future giving her uncontrollable bursts of madness. When he was nine years old, Luke ran away from his home because of his mother's unstable mental problems. He traveled for years, lonely and miserable until he met Thalia and Annabeth who then became Lukes new family. Some time later they met Grover who told them of a safe place for demigods and led them to Camp Half-Blood but they were chased by monsters summoned by Hades to kill Thalia. Thalia did not make it but Luke was determined to create a new family in Thalia's memory and loved each new camper with all his heart. When he was about seventeen, Luke was offered a quest by his father Hermes: to seek a Golden Apple at the Garden of Hesperides from the tree. He ended up failing miserably and coming home alone with a new scar to boot. He had already begun to sour on the gods but after seeing the countless years of torture the young demigods had to go though in the Hermes cabin coupled with his failure and the shutdown of quests entirely stopping demigods from getting a chance to know who their parents are broke him.
'Jesus christ and I thought I had it rough dealing with Gabe all those years' Percy thought.
"Hello Percy, I'm Luke and I'll be your new cabin counselor. Come with me and I'll teach you how this whole god's thing works." The now named Luke said with a charming smile.
Percy not knowing what else to do followed him over to the hustling and bustling Hermes table.
"So when we get our food we sacrifice some of it to the gods to honor them." Luke explained handing Percy a plate of pancakes that smelt divine.
Percy, seeing other campers already lining up at the fire, decided why not the worst thing that happens is that he smells some burnt pancakes and looks a bit stupid.
"Oh and when you chuck it in, say a god's name if you know who you want to sacrifice for or just say whichever is your non divine parents opposite." Luke explained to the somewhat confused Percy.
"Just say for dad or something?" Percy asked.
"Maybe sacrifice some to Hermes coz he is hosting you in his cabin." Luke said before going up and sacrificing to Hermes himself.
By the time it was Percy's turn he mustered up all the confidence he had and walked right up to the fire and dropped about a quarter into it and said "Hermes." Which was then followed by whispering "Poseidon." After dropping the rest of the brisket in.
Surprisingly the food didn't smell like shit and actually it smelt quite nice. It smelt a bit like good old greasy maccas when he dropped it in for Hermes, and it smelt like fish and chips when he dropped it in for his dad.
The rest of lunch was a bit awkward as he had to introduce himself to his new cabin mates which went as well as it could have, Percy supposed. Percy had a nice breakfast and snuck a few pieces of toast in his inventory after seeing their description.
Divine wholegrain toast
Restores 100% of hp and mp over the course of the day. Perfect for demigods training to survive the brutal world outside of camp. Made and blessed by Nymphs and children of Demeter to enhance the camper's capabilities.
After breakfast Luke told one of the kids, Conner, to take the cabin to the arena while he showed Percy Cabin 11. As Percy entered Cabin 11 it reminded him of an orphanage from an old british film he watched at school one time, in the sense that even though it was void of any people it looked crowded, there were sleeping bags on almost every inch of the floor. A beaten map was hung on one of the far walls and a caduceus was hung on the doorframe on both sides.
"This spot here is yours," Luke said, pointing to a few feet of open space on the floor. "Now we don't have a sleeping bag available to you though but I do have one left over from my quest, so for now it's all yours."
"Thanks Luke, I appreciate it man!" Percy said with a smile not wanting to linger on the subtle bitter tone in his voice when he brought up his quest. If Percy didn't know any better he would have thought to ask about the quest but didn't want to bring up any unnecessarily bad memories.
"Right then let's get you started out with sword fighting!" Luke said cheerfully.
After getting a brief introduction to how to hold a sword from Luke, Percy and the rest of Cabin 11 began getting run through training exercises. After everyone had warmed up (in Luke's eyes), he began doing what teachers did that everyone hated. Asking the new kid all the answers, or what that translates to when your teacher is teaching you how to use a sword; Being the training if Percy was being completely honest he wasn't too mad about it because he knew the more he trained the stronger his skills got and that's the whole point of him being at this camp was.
After about an hour of Percy learning how to properly handle a sword and demonstrating a few moves, Percy had updated his sword fighting skill and gained a few levels in sword fighting.
PING
SWORD MASTERY - LEVEL 5
Sword mastery: This is how good you are with a sword. The better you are the higher the modifier.
Sword Style: Ancient Greek
Damage modifier 13% to all sword related attacks, + 1% when using Ancient Greek style
Luke decided to have Percy demonstrate Luke's personal favorite disarming technique: The snapping turtle. Don't ask Percy why it's called that, it just is.
"All right, now this one is difficult." Luke stressed. "I've had it used against me a few times. No laughing at the new kid, now. Most swordsmen take years to properly get this technique down."
Luke demonstrated the move, and he kind of hooked the blade under the hilt and yanked it upwards out of Percy's hand, giving him a little cut or what would have been a little cut had Percy had a normal body.
YOU HAVE TAKEN ONE DAMAGE!
Luke then got Percy to demonstrate it on him and once he was sure Percy understood the move he then said:
"All right now we're going to spar until one of us gets it, got it Percy?"
PING
YOU HAVE RECEIVED A NEW QUEST:
I'll MAKE A SWORDSMAN OUTA YOU!
Beat Luke in the spar using the technique he just showed you.
Rewards:
5 Dexterity
1000 Exp
5 Drachma
Luke will think you're cool!
Failure:
Nothing
Would you like to accept this quest?
Y/N
Percy obviously and quickly accepted. Taking a deep breath and calming himself. Percy nodded and fell into the first stance of the style. Luke followed suit.
Then Luke was on Percy swinging like crazy but Percy felt his senses open up and fell into some sort of a flow state, he was able to parry a few blows from Luke: who was clearly trying to take it easy on the new guy while still giving him a challenge.
After a minute of Percy either: keeping on the offensive, dodging, parrying or getting nicked he saw what he was waiting for, an opening. Luke had his arm a bit overextended and Percy knew it was now or never. He hooked his blade under the hilt of Luke's blade and yanked with all his might.
CLANG
PING
QUEST COMPLETE REWARDS ISSUED!
The sound of steel landing on stone was heard all throughout the arena. Percy's blade was inches away from Lukes chest. For a moment silence rung though the arena, until Luke cracked a smile and said:
"By the Gods that was amazing, show that again!"
After about another twenty minutes of sparing; with Percy getting more and more proficient as the session went on. They eventually had to call it quits as it was lunch time. By the end of it Percy had racked up a few points in both dexterity and vitality
FOR VIGOROUSLY TRAINING FOR THE LAST HOUR AND A HALF YOU HAVE GAINED 2 LEVELS IN VITALITY AND 3 IN DEXTERITY.
Percy decided to check how much of an improvement it was to his stats.
Perseus 'Percy' Jackson
Title: Son of Poseidon
Level 7
Experience (2225/3200)
HP: 360/360
MP: 100/100
Money:
Mortal money: $75
Drachma: 5
Strength: 12
Dexterity: 11
Vitality: 16
Intelligence: 11
Wisdom: 10
Charisma: 4
Luck: 3
Points: 31
At lunch Percy was suddenly decided to be the new popular kid and everyone at their table wanted to sit next to him and get to know him. So he sat down in the middle of the table and tried to talk to as many people as possible. He got to know Connor and Travis a bit, Ethan; the kid he had seen wandering before dawn, Chris, one of Hermes' kids and a few others. They chatted a bit about the shock of coming to camp and not knowing who your godly parent was and just generally made small talk before heading off to do the next activity.
FOR BEING A SOCIAL BUTTERFLY AND SOMEHOW NOT STEPPING ON ANYONE'S TOES METAPHORICALLY, YOU HAVE GAINED 1 CHARISMA!
By the end of the afternoon Percy was a bit tired from having to climb the climbing wall, boy howdy dodging boulders and avoiding lava was not what he expected when coming to a summer camp but, he won't complain too much the results speak for themselves.
FOR SUCCESSFULLY CLIMBED THE ROCK WALL YOU HAVE GAINED 1 TO DEXTERITY, VITALITY AND STRENGTH!
By the time free time rocked around Percy decided to go exploring, Travis (or was it Conner?) had mentioned something about monsters being in the woods but they couldn't get into the camp thanks to Thalia's Pine. So Percy had decided to explore said woods and try and get some easy exp. He had a few hours before dinner so it didn't matter how long it took, though he didn't necessarily need to go thanks to his inventory but still it would look kinda strange the new guy disappearing before his first dinner.
So Percy began to wander through the woods to get a bit of a lay of the land, he found Zeus fist which had a few campers nearby making out which he ignored. After about 20 minutes of wandering he found the river that cut across the woods.
"Eh fuck it may as well practice if I have the opportunity." Percy said after looking around to see if anyone was around.
Percy began to manipulate the water, at first he started out just shooting it out at random things like trees and boulders, but after a bit he started to get a bit creative with it. Percy had heard that if you fall from a far enough height that water becomes as hard as concrete and the object will shatter against the water. What if he was able to do that to the water and then put it in as a wall in between himself and an enemy. At first all he was able to do was form the water into a wall, but after imagining that the wall was as hard as concrete, the wall started to solidify, at first the wall could probably take maybe a punch or two but the longer Percy kept pumping mana into the stronger it got until he ran out of juice.
PING
YOU HAVE CREATED A NEW SUB SKILL!
HYDROKINESIS
LEVEL 3
Hydrokinesis: This is the ability to psychically manipulate water.
Cost: 22 MP per minute used.
Subskills:
Water Spikes: 100 Damage - 70 Mp cost per spike.
Giant Water Spikes: 300 Damage - 150 Mp cost per spike.
Water Wall: 500 Defence - 100 Mp per minute.
"Hell yeah this skill is so busted! The only limits are my imagination!" Percy yelled in triumph. That's when he heard it, at first he thought it was just the wind or something but the closer it got the louder the growling got. Percy turned around in an instant and saw it, a massive black Tibetan Mastiff and by massive I mean the size of a car massive. Percy quickly used observe to see if he could actually kill this thing.
Juvenile Hellhound
Level: 15
Health: 200
This is a nameless male hellhound born on the surface about 20 years ago. It never has been to Tartarus, it has decent levels of strength for a hellhound but what sets it apart from other hellhounds is its above average intellect for a hellhound that is.
Slay to gain 250 exp
Percy thought that this fight shouldn't be all that hard, one giant water spike and it was game over for this guy.
"Ah shit" Percy said after trying to form a water spike only to realize that he had just wasted all his mana on making that stupid wall. Percy thought to himself while bringing his sword out 'Oh well at least now I can test out my new sword style on an actual enemy!'
The hound leapt into the air from the clearing, trying to tear Percy's head off in one foul swoop. But Percy just managed to dodge to the left just in time, the hound only managing to tear into his arm instead.
YOU HAVE TAKEN 150 DAMAGE AND HAVE GAINED THE STATUS EFFECT BLEEDING!
Bleeding:
Take 5 damage every 10 seconds,
You have dealt 113 critical damage!
While the hound was gripping onto Percy's arm Percy jabbed his sword into the beast's skull, the hound somehow still alive pulled away, sword still firmly in its skull.
YOU HAVE TAKEN 5 DAMAGE
Percy wasn't sure how he was going to get out of this one, he was bleeding out and weaponless. How was he supposed to kill this thing? If only he had some mana.
"FUCK HOW COULD I BE SO STUPID!" Percy screamed, having completely forgotten the bonus he gets when in water. Percy made a mad dash toward the riverbed, unfortunately his opponent was in the way. Thankfully it was a river and therefore had a pretty decent length and all he had to do was go around it.
PERK ACTIVATED: SON OF POSEIDON
When in a body of water or surrounded by water
1500 bonus hp and mp
20 to Str
20 to Vit
20 to Dex
"You almost had me, you mangy mutt." Percy said before forming a few water spikes and impaling the hellhound.
YOU HAVE DONE 100 DAMAGE
'That was close, I have to remain cautious, if I was literally anywhere else I would have been fucked.' Percy thought before scarfing down a pizza that he had saved in his inventory.
Percy began walking further into the forest after recovering his health and mana, eventually he found a tree with a strange marking on it, it looked like some sort of flute or something. Percy went to inspect it and was greeted with;
PING
YOU HAVE FOUND A DUNGEON!
WOULD YOU LIKE TO ENTER?
YES/NO
Percy obviously hits the yes button, only to be greeted with the notification;
YOU MUST SLAY ALL ENEMIES TO EXIT DUNGEON!
TIME IN DUNGEON WILL RUN ⅕ OF REAL TIME!
Suddenly the world shifts around Percy. He is still in the same spot he was in before and all his surroundings are the same but things were just slightly off. It was like when you dream of a place you have already been, it's the same place but something about it just feels wrong.
So Percy moves on to try and find something to kill. Eventually Percy stumbles upon a clearing that seems to have recently had something living in it going by the firepit and odd looking sleeping bags. Percy went up to investigate the odd looking sleeping bags.
Human skin sleeping bag
This sleeping bag is made of real human skin, stitched together by its maker to show how much they despise humans-
Percy closed the screen quickly to quell the rising bile in his throat. Before he was just going to get some exp and get out now it was personal, whatever was living in this dungeon was killing people and doing it with some kind of sick pleasure.
As Percy was calming himself down he saw some sort of tracks of some kind so he decided to follow them as they were currently his only lead and he certainly wasn't waiting around for the monsters to come back.
PING
YOU HAVE CREATED A NEW SKILL
Tracking
Level 1
Tracking is the ability to understand what tracks you are looking at and understanding where they are leading you and what it is your following.
Current tracking ability: You might know where you're going.
Percy was overall pretty happy with his new skill, even if he had to retrace his steps
every 10 feet because the tracks led off in a slightly different direction. Eventually Percy found himself at the mouth of a cave. Percy could make out some faint sounds coming from inside the cave, so he ventured forward, sword out ready to strike at the faintest sign of movement.
As Percy made his way further into the mouth of the cave, he felt a sense of uneasiness upon him like every step forward was another towards his own grave. The deeper Percy went in the air grew still and stale and eventually he was in complete darkness, Percy was really regretting not having some sort of light source in his inventory. On the bright side Percy discovered that caves were wet, like extremely wet, so he was always not far from a water source when he finally found the monsters he would have a relatively easy time. Hopefully.
Eventually the muffled sounds became more of a rhythmic chanting, as Percy got closer he could make out some of the words and of course they were in ancient Greek because why wouldn't they be?
"We must slaughter the polluters! Rip their guts out! Poison them as they have poisoned the domains of the Great God Pan!"
Percy crept toward the cacophony of sound he saw the large cave room that the monsters were in, and it was kinda gorgeous in a disturbing way. The room was glowing with the bioluminescent mushrooms and plants, but they were growing out of the skeletons of human beings and in the center of the enormous room was an old gallows. Surrounding the gallows were maybe 20 Satyrs all covered in what looked like dried blood.
On the gallows stood a Satyr wearing only a mask that looked like some sort of demon. As Percy drew closer the chanting suddenly stopped, and it was dead silent. That of course is when Percy accidentally knocked over a rock.
"Ah it seems our latest sacrifice has decided to join us, and willingly this time, we did not need to trick it for it to enter our great lord's dominion!" The head honcho satyr spoke to the room. That is when Percy used observe, because he figured if this guy is talking then he is probably their leader, that and he was the one on the execution platform.
Nate - Satyr Cultist Leader
Level: 25
Health: 1300
Satyr Cultists are vermin worshiping monsters which roam the paths under the Temple of Styx. They loathe Hades and desecrate the chambers of the surface temple they reside in. As time passed they moved out of the temple along with Olympus and began to infest the caves of America causing all sorts of problems for Hades and other gods such as Pan.
Slay to gain: 500 Exp
Before Percy could react the entire room was looking at him ready to strike at a moment's notice, and from what he could see all the other cultist Satyrs were around the same level as their leader, maybe a few levels lower.
"Oh shit that's a lot of health!" Percy said before swiping at the nearest Satyr who took the hit right to the chest, unfortunately only nicking the bastard before it leaped back
YOU HAVE DEALT 29 DAMAGE
YOU HAVE TAKEN 5 DAMAGE
'Well that is useful information' Percy thought, 'they seemed to be maxed out in Dexterity and Vitality meaning they can take a beating but not really give one back!'
That was when the Satyrs, just to prove him wrong, decided to jump him, a group of seven Satyrs all lept on Percy, knocking out the sword from his hands and holding down his limbs.
"Bring him to the execution platform!" Came the booming voice of the fearsome Nate.
Percy was dragged up the steps onto the rickety wooden platform and brought before the cult leader. This may have seemed like a bad spot for Percy but he was near the biggest source of water in the roof of the cavern.
"FOR THE HUMANS VILE TREATMENT OF THE EARTH WE SENTENCE YOU DEATH BY POISONING!"
That's when Percy commanded as much water as he could and covered himself and everyone on the platform in water from the torso up, attempting to drown them, Percy used the water to boost him up to a ledge he saw while being dragged up the stairs.
Percy was almost out of mana when he got the notifications telling him that he had killed the Satyrs;
PING
YOU HAVE LEVELED UP
Perseus 'Percy' Jackson
Title: Son of Poseidon
Level 8
Experience (1,525/6400)
HP: 380/380
MP: 110/110
Money:
Mortal money: $75
Drachma: 5
Strength: 14
Dexterity: 12
Vitality: 18
Intelligence: 11
Wisdom: 10
Charisma: 6
Luck: 3
Points: 36
Since Percy was so distracted and happy with him leveling up he didn't notice the one of the Satyrs climbing the rock wall like a mountain goat until it was drop kicking him off his little perch.
"FOR NATE!"
YOU HAVE TAKEN 10 DAMAGE!
YOU HAVE TAKEN 50 DAMAGE!
Thankfully Percy landed on the executioner's platform and not the rocky cliff unlike the Satyr who drop kicked him who didn't look like he was in too good of a state, not that the guy didn't deserve it. Both of the Satyr's legs were bent at angles that they shouldn't have been.
Percy quickly got up and did the only thing he could think of, put his dukes up. He hadn't gotten into many fist fights in his brief time on this earth but now was as good as any time to learn he supposed. What Percy knew about fighting was from watching DBZ after school and they seemed to do alright.
Percy jabbed a Satyr in the chest and followed up with a knee to the gut and a strong double hammer fist to the top of its head. Needless to say, the Satyr was on the ground for a bit while it got its stamina back.
PING
YOU HAVE CREATED A NEW SKILL
UNARMED FIGHTING
Level 1
Unarmed Fighting: This skill represents how good you are at fighting unarmed.
Fighting Style known: Kame Style
Damage = (Strength MOD x number of hits) + 5%
YOU HAVE DEALT A TOTAL OF 42 DAMAGE!
"Woah, that's a lot of damage for just punching!" Percy was pretty sure he knew what to put his points into now. "Let's go tanks all the way!"
As Percy was celebrating he once again forgot he was in combat and took a fist to the face.
YOU HAVE TAKEN 5 DAMAGE!
Percy was just about to attack the Satyr in front of him when he felt something knick the back of his neck.
YOU HAVE TAKEN 1 DAMAGE AND ARE NOW INFLICTED WITH THE POISONED STATUS!
POISONED: WHEN POISONED YOU TAKE 2 DAMAGE EVERY SECOND
Percy didn't have a cure for the poison and pretty much no way to eat enough food and fight off the Satyrs at the same time! If Percy's quick maths was correct he only had about two minutes before the poison killed him. He had better think of a way to get out of here and quick.
"Think Percy think, how can I get out of here? There's too many to kill quickly now that I don't know where my sword is, not that I could kill them even with a sword. Fuck! This wasn't how this was meant to go! He was just meant to kill some monsters and level up a bit, not die!
That's when Percy felt a tugging from his gut, one far stronger than when he uses his hydrokinesis, it felt more like a stomach ache, almost like he was going to throw up. And then Percy heard it. It was quiet at first a distant rumbling then almost immediately a roar filled his ears and the ground around and above him shook.
BOOOOM!
Percy's vision quickly became blurry and he began to see black spots in his vision, then the rocks started falling and Percy could feel one land on his left leg but he couldn't find it in him to scream when all his energy was focused on staying awake and alive.
YOU HAVE TAKEN 50 DAMAGE
Percy looked up only to see a massive baulder come crashing down on him and his vision filling with darkness, and just before it could crush him a screen popped up.
ALL ENEMIES HAVE BEEN SLAIN, EXIT DUNGEON?
YES / NO
Percy had never hit a button quicker than he did in that moment. Suddenly he was outside breathing in fresh moving air instead of the stale still of the cave that nearly killed him. Percy was back where he had entered the dungeon. He took a moment to appreciate the fact he was still alive and just looked at the forest around him, silently vowing to himself to properly prepare before entering a dungeon again. Percy started to cry with relief relishing the fact that he was still alive and stronger for it.
YOU HAVE CREATED 2 NEW SKILLS
POISON RESISTANCE
LEVEL 2
Poison Resistance: Your ability to resist the effects of poisons. With this skill you take less damage from poisons, and depending on the poison completely resisting it.
Immunities: Weak Paralytic
SEISMOKINESIS
LEVEL 1
Seismokinesis: Users can create, shape, move, control, interact and manipulate vibrations. The more mana put into this skill the stronger the effects.
Minimum Cost: 150 MP minimum
PING
YOU HAVE LEVELED UP
Perseus 'Percy' Jackson
Title: Son of Poseidon
Level 9
Experience (125/12,800)
HP: 390/390
MP: 110/110
Money:
Mortal money: $75
Drachma: 5
Strength: 15
Dexterity: 12
Vitality: 19
Intelligence: 11
Wisdom: 10
Charisma: 7
Luck: 3
Points: 41
Percy knew what he wanted to put his points in. His best stats so far were his vitality and his strength and frankly they were what kept him alive, so he decided to put most of his points in them while leaving 5 just in case.
Perseus 'Percy' Jackson
Title: Son of Poseidon
Level 9
Experience (125/12,800)
HP: 500/500
MP: 150/150
Money:
Mortal money: $75
Drachma: 5
Strength: 25
Dexterity: 13
Vitality: 30
Intelligence: 15
Wisdom: 15
Charisma: 7
Luck: 8
Points: 5
Authors notes:
This chapter is a bit of a long one but I hope you all enjoyed it. I took some inspiration from Hades with the Satyr Cultists. I hope they didn't seem too weak or cliched. The next chapter is pretty much done, just needs a bit of tweaking and I still need to properly plan out how I want things to play out. I think I have a rough outline but eh who knows if i'm going to adjust it.
Hopefully I'll be done with chapter 7 by around this time next month or so but who knows with life and all that.