Hey, before you guys read chapter 1, make sure to double check chapter 0. I edited a few things to make the story flow a little better, and fixed a few grammatical issues along with wordings and confusing statements.
"BZZT, BZZT, BZZT"A loud alarm blared throughout a small dorm room, "Ugh, it's too early for this!" A voice groaned as they toss and turned in their bed before rolling onto their side and slamming their hand on top of the alarm, turning it off. "Grover!" The voice muttered out, "Why did you set the alarm this early, man?"
"It's enchilada day, Perce; don't want to lose out! Gotta get to the cafeteria before they're all out." Grover answered. "C'mon, we're already late!" Grover laughed mirthfully as he grabbed a nearby pillow on his bed and tossing it over to Percy.
"I forget how much you love enchiladas, Grover." Percy sighed, rubbing the sleepiness away before opening his eyes; immediately, Percy was greeted with a strange sight, a large box levitating in front of his face.
[Welcome, Perseus Jackson! It seems that you are new here, would you like a quick introduction?] The box questioned follow by a [Yes] and [No] prompt. "Uhm… Grover, what's this all about?" Percy questioned, gesturing to the floating blue box. Grover whipped his head over to Percy's bunk, and raising an eyebrow, "What's what about, Perce?" Grover asked back.
"You're telling me you don't see this?" Percy asked, exaggeratingly gesturing towards the blue floating prompt text block above of him; "This large block of text."
"Uhm… Percy, are you okay? There's nothing there." Grover responded, slightly confused. Grover had finished getting dressed as he picked up his crutches, "You okay, man? Do you need to go to the nurse?" Grover asked as he got up and limped over to Percy. "I don't think I'm fully awake… You go ahead, man. I'll take a moment." Percy reassured his friend with a slight smile. Grover, thinking nothing of it, gave Percy a nod before heading out of the dorm room, limping along the way.
Once Grover had left, Percy turned back towards the floating text box, [Welcome, Perseus Jackson! It seems that you are new here, would you like a quick introduction?] The box questioned follow by a [Yes] and [No] prompt. Hesitantly, the boy lifted his arms, and tapped on the floating [Yes].
[Fantastic! In the realms of Gods, Monsters, and Mortals. A hero must stand tall, taller than the immortal deities; you, Perseus Jackson, have been chosen by the administrator to be that hero!]
As of update 1.074 a few new changes have been implemented]
[Level restrictions on abilities have been slightly altered]
[Ability integration restricted to level 13]
[Mental and Physical stats have been given a slight revamp]
[Mental stats have been given a slight buff, from a 1.2x to 1.5x to compensate for Physical stats]
[Training in a specific field no longer grant stat increases]
[Dungeons and Monsters have been rebalanced]
["Hellish Dungeons" now grant an 8.3x EXP multiplier instead of the initial 6.7x EXP multiplier]
[Patched a few game-breaking abilities and bugs]
[Dragons have been added to specialized Dungeons]
[Acrobatics has been moved into the Dexterity category from the Strength category]
[Two new variables have been added: Piety and Luck]
Not making any sense of what the textbox was saying, Percy quickly scrolled to the end of the weird textbox where he was greeted with another set of questions.
[Welcome, Perseus Jackson, would you like to set your stat distribution now?]
Again, the question was accompanied by a [Yes] and [No] option. Feeling even more weirded out, Percy wanted to ignore the floating wall of text, but he somehow knew, deep in his guts, that it wouldn't go away on its own. Sighing, Percy sat up from his bed, noticing that the wall of text had moved along with him, "I guess I have no other options, huh?" Percy asked rhetorically to himself as he tapped on the [Yes] option. Like before, the wall of text transitioned to new screen.
[Points Available: 10]
[Race: Demigod]
[Racial Bonus: Gain an additional 6 points to stat distribution]
[Strength: 14]
[Strength Bonus: 2]
[Dexterity: 10]
[Dexterity Bonus: 0]
[Constitution: 15]
[Constitution Bonus: 2]
[Intelligence: 8]
[Intelligence Bonus: -1]
[Wisdom: 8]
[Wisdom Bonus: -1]
[Charisma: 10]
[Charisma Bonus: 0]
[Points Available: 0]
[Total Points Available: 16]
"Wait, why does it say my race is 'Demigod'?" Percy wondered. Taking a bit to think things through, he remembered Mr. Brunner and the lessons in Greek mythology. Slowly connecting the dots, Percy realized there might be Gods in this world, actually existing if this weird block of text was right, and he was a child of some God? Percy couldn't really believe ancient deities existing in this world, and him; a Demigod.
Pushing aside that thought, Percy focused back onto the screen. "Are these really my stats?" Percy questioned, "Why are some of them so bad?" immediately without thinking Percy had allocated four points into intelligence and wisdom, each; bumping each of the stats to 12. He then spent another two points on charisma. Not quite sure what to put the last four points Percy wanted to throw the rest into strength, but deciding better, Percy used the remaining points to raise his dexterity and strength to 16.
[Strength: 16]
[Strength Bonus: 3]
[Dexterity: 16]
[Dexterity Bonus: 3]
[Constitution: 15]
[Constitution Bonus: 2]
[Intelligence: 12]
[Intelligence Bonus: 1]
[Wisdom: 12]
[Wisdom Bonus: 1]
[Charisma: 12]
[Charisma Bonus: 1]
[Points Available: 0]
"Okay, this might be a little better." Percy muttered to himself as he clicked on the confirmation button to lock in his new stats. Immediately as he did so, his head was assaulted with odd visions of what looked like distant stars and galaxies contracting and expanding simultaneously to form an eye. As Percy stared deeply into this cluster of stars, he felt a piercing; searing pain, like someone or something had stabbed him in his abdomen. The pain was excruciating, but rather than bleeding out, he felt as if his very essence was escaping from him.
"The child of the seas has awoken. Daring to step foot into the Nuclear God's domain." A discordant melody of disembodied voices sang aloud. As it did the eye seemingly smiled at him, almost as if grinning sadistically. "Your existence and soul shall be snuffed and consumed to appease the Dreamer." Percy had never felt pain this awful in his life before, it felt as though every single nerve ending in his body was being ripped out.
He noticed that the longer he stared at this thing, the worst things got for him. His fingertips had begun to necrotize, turning black; it didn't take long for it to creep down his fingers and towards his hands. Percy could feel the muscles in his hands and arms dying, as the necrotized flesh continued past his shoulders and towards his chest, making its way towards his heart. The pain was unimaginable to him. Not being able to think straight from the sheer pain, Percy almost gave up to the vast void. But in a brief instant, the pain subsided as Percy was enveloped in a bright cerulean blue glow and his vision faded to black.
[Emergency Acquisition Completed: Emergency Level Restriction Bypass Granted]
[Mythic Ability Obtained: Queen of Knowledge, Seraphine]
[Mythic Ability Obtained: Master of Probability, Graxian]
[Ability Unlock Parameters Changed: Level Restrictions Removed]
[Common Ability Unlocked: Water Manipulation]
[Common Ability Unlocked: Earth Manipulation]
[Common Ability Unlocked: Atmospheric Manipulation]
[Integration Parameters Changed: Level Restrictions Removed]
[Mythic Ability Sacrificed: Herald of Probability, Graxian]
[Integrated Herald of Probability, Graxian into Queen of Knowledge, Seraphine]
[Mythic Ability Evolved. Transcended Ability Unlocked: Fortunate Queen of Knowledge, Seraphine]
[Common Ability Sacrificed: Water Manipulation]
[Common Ability Sacrificed: Earth Manipulation]
[Common Ability Sacrificed: Atmospheric Manipulation]
[Uncommon Ability Created: World-Shaper, Sythaeryn]
As Percy regained his vision, he found himself standing in a white marble room, filled with extravagant furniture, most of which were lined with gold. Looking around, he spotted a woman lying on a couch, reading a book. "Well, this is quite interesting." The woman acknowledging Percy's presence. Lowering her book and setting it aside. As the mysterious woman got up from the couch, Percy noticed her appearance. She had a regal face, with long red hair that reached down to her lower back. Percy also noticed that the woman was quite slender, and very tall with a pale complexion. The last thing he noticed were her eyes, they were a deep golden brown, but as he looked deeper, he noticed gear-like shapes continuously turning in them.
"Who… who are you? And where am I?" Percy asked meekly; confused as to how he got here, and who the lady was. The woman chuckled as she made her way to the young demigod, "It's a little hard to explain at the moment, but my name is Seraphine. And it seems due to some series of unfortunate events—well fortunate for you, anyways—I'm going to be your partner. And to answer your second question, we're inside of your head. Well actually this is your head after I've done some renovations."
"I uhm… huh?" Percy stammered, "My head? We're inside of my head?" Percy asked, not believing this strange woman, "And what do you mean by 'my partner'?" he asked, not quite sure what was happening. Percy took a few steps back, intending to run away from this mysterious person. But with every step he took away from the strange lady, Seraphine took a step towards the young boy. Seraphine couldn't help but stifle a laugh as Percy had accidentally backed himself into a corner. "That is what I said, yes." Seraphine approached the young boy, "Like I said, it's complicated and I don't have nearly enough time to explain everything to you." Just as Seraphine finished her sentence, Percy noticed the room growing darker as the furniture started to dissolve into dust.
"But before you wake up again, I have a few things I need to do." Seraphine leaned towards the young boy, getting to eye level with Percy, as she did, her eyes flashed gold for a brief moment accompanied by the sound of mechanical clocks ticking away. And just like before, Percy's vision faded away.
"BZZT, BZZT, BZZT!" An all too familiar sound of the alarm clock blared throughout a small room. "Percy!" A voice shouted, "Hurry up! We don't want to miss enchilada day!" Immediately, Percy shot up from his bed, looking around frantically.
"Whoa, you okay, man?" Grover asked, a little surprised from Percy's sudden action, "Huh? Yeah… yeah." Percy responded, not necessarily paying attention to his best friend. "I… I uhm, had the weirdest dream… I think." Percy now having slightly calmed himself, turned to Grover and was shocked to find that Grover had grown goat legs. As Percy was about to ask Grover why he had a shagged carpet wrapped around his legs, a voice appeared in his head, "Oi! Don't ask him anything. Don't say anything; you'll just raise alarms you aren't capable of dealing with the consequences yet. To answer your question: your best friend is a satyr."
Percy had recognized the intruding voice that now resides in his head, the voice of Seraphine. "Remember how I told you it was going to be a long explanation? Well, I wasn't lying. I'll explain everything later, but for now, you're just staring into space and drooling on yourself."
And sure enough, like Seraphine had said so, Percy was staring at Grover absentmindedly; Grover, worried that his friend had just suddenly blanked out, decided to shake him out of his stupor. "Percy, you alright? You kinda just died on me there."
"Huh? Oh, yeah, yeah, I'm fine. I think I didn't eat enough last night…" Percy lied.
[Deception: (7) 1]
[Deception Total: 8]
Grover narrowed his eyes for a microsecond, seeing right through Percy's half attempt at a lie. "Oh, for fuck's sake," Seraphine thought to herself, "how are you this bad at lying?" Muttering to herself, Seraphine's eyes started to glow gold as the sound of clock ticking emanated through the room.
[Deception: (17) 1]
[Deception Total: 18]
"Fuck yeah!" Seraphine celebrated as she wiped the sweat from her forehead, "Alright, that should keep the satyr from asking any more question." Blinking a few times, Grover seemingly had a change of heart as he just nodded his head in acceptance, "Well then, you should get dressed fast, don't want to miss out on breakfast." And like a bolt of lightning, Grover grabbed his crutches, and immediately rushed out of the dorm room and towards the cafeteria.
Percy had waited for Grover to leave before confronting his new internal roommate. "Alright, I'm about to really lose it, what in the mighty fuck is going on? And why am I reliving earlier today?" Without having to see Seraphine, Percy could tell that she had given an exaggerated sigh, "Alright, okay, fine. So, starting from the basics, you're a child of a god, making you a demigod. Now normally, that would be weird enough had it not been for the fact that you've acquired a power that does not fall into line with this reality. Of course, I'm referring to your floating box of text, and also myself as well." An image of Seraphine flashing a cheeky smile popped into Percy's head.
"Uh… huh…" was all Percy could muster out.
[Intelligence: (8) 1]
"By the Gods, you cannot be this slow!" Seraphine noticed Percy's confusion, could not help but groan in frustration. And just like before, Seraphine's eyes started glowing bright gold like previously.
[Intelligence: (20) 1]
Sensing a weird effect wash over him, Percy, for a brief moment felt like his understanding of reality changed ever so slightly; it was as if he now fully comprehended Seraphine's explanation. Seraphine continued her explanation, "So anyways, I'm not supposed to exist. But somehow that's not the case; I've been trying to comb through your memories leading up to my creation, but something is preventing me from actually doing so."
Percy could only nod along, "Okay so what I'm getting from your explanation is that I'm a demigod." Seraphine nodded, "Speaking of which, you wouldn't happen to know who my godly pare—" "Poseidon; you're a child of the sea god, Poseidon." Seraphine interrupted. "Right… and I have powers similar to my dad, right?" Again, Seraphine nodded, "But that's not all, I also have powers from an unknown source. And you're also a part of my powers from the unknown source." "Yep. That's practically it." Seraphine confirmed "But you're—" "Sentient?" Seraphine had interrupted Percy once again, "Yep."
"Cool…" Percy collapsed back onto his bed, trying to process the information given to him. "Oh, and I know this is bad timing, but you might want to head to class, it's already forty passed nine." Percy, for the second time that morning, shot up like a bullet, "Oh no; gah, I forgot! " Getting changed as quickly as possible; Percy ran out of his dorm towards his first class of the day: math.
As Percy rushed through the hallways, he continued with his questioning, "Okay, so that's neat and all, but how am I reliving the morning."
"Due to probability magic and time magic." Seraphine answered, "I have a slight control over time, and I used it to give you some extra time to process everything that happened. And it gave me time to explain some things for you too."
"Wait, so since you're a part of me, does that also mean I have some powers over time too?" "Well, yes and no. At the moment, you're too inexperienced with… well any powers really. Once you've mastered your primary abilities, I will teach you to manipulate time and probability."
As Percy rounded a corner, he saw his classroom. Running the final stretch, Percy made it into the just as the school bell rang, "Well Mr. Jackson, you seemed to have narrowly dodged a tardiness." A shrill voice rang out behind him. "I'm so sorry, Mr. Greys, I had some…" Still on autopilot Percy had not realized that this person he was talking to was not his math teacher, but instead some older lady he'd never seen before.
Percy quickly examined the person standing in front of him, "You're not Mr. Greys." Percy stated bluntly. "No, Mr. Greys was arrested earlier today, he will no longer be teaching here." The elderly lady answered back, just as blunt. Her voice was sickly sweet, but Percy had noticed a slight venomous undertone. "As for you, Mr. Jackson, I would like to ask you to take your seat." Percy felt a little on edge as he wasn't quite sure how this lady already knows of him.
"As you all might have heard, Mr. Greys no longer works in Yancy academy. I am Mrs. Dodds, and I will be replacing him as your math teacher." The elderly lady introduced herself, "Oh cool, Alecto found us." Seraphine stated nonchalantly. "Alecto?" Was Percy's only reply.
"Yeah, one of the Furies of Hades," knowing Percy was going to ask, Seraphine followed up with her previous explanation. "Furies are these bats like humanoid. They were born from Nyx, the primordial darkness, and Ouranos, the primordial skies. Here, let me show you." Seraphine snapped her fingers, and Percy watched as Mrs. Dodds slowly transform from this elderly woman, into a large bat-like creature with distended black fingernails. "… I… I don't know how to respond to that…" Percy trailed off. "Well try not to react or else she'll know that you know… and would just kill you outright." Seraphine warned. Gulping, Percy took Seraphine's warning to heart.
The rest of the class went by in a blur; during the time, Percy had many conversations with Seraphine and learned more about the world around him. By the time lunch came around, Percy had snuck his way into the swimming pool under the direction of Seraphine. "Why are we here?" Percy asked his partner, "Well, we're here because I'm going to train you in your basic abilities." True to her words, Seraphine spent the hour training Percy in his demigod powers.
To Percy's amazement, he found it natural as he manipulated the pool water. By the end of the hour, Percy had a decent grasp over water manipulation. Realizing that he still had other classes to attend, Seraphine decided it would be best to pause the training to let Percy clean himself up before resuming the rest of his day.
Once Percy had done so, he started making his way towards his history class. Along the way, Percy noticed he had passed by a few people with goat legs, Satyrs. Not wanting to raise any alarms, Percy chose to ignore them and continued on his way. "Whoa, whoa! Hold on for a second." Seraphine started, "What? What is it?" Percy asked, not sure what caught Seraphine's attention. "To your left, I think you might have spotted something. We should check it out, could be worth our while…" Seraphine sung melodically.
Shrugging, Percy rounded the hallway and made his way towards the thing that had interested Seraphine. As Percy made it to the end of the corridor, he noticed a strange symbol etched on the wall, it had sort of looked like a triangle. "Oh fuck!" Seraphine exclaimed in excitement, "That's an entrance to the labyrinth. Percy! We have to go; it'll be great for your training."
Percy sensing Seraphine's excitement had also grown excited, "Alright yeah, we can definitely go once the school day is over." Percy told Seraphine, "Awesome!" Seraphine cheered.
The day passed by without anything too interesting happening. Percy had caught up with Grover in their Latin class; taught by Mr. Brunner—whom Seraphine had explained was actually Chiron, a centaur that has taught numerous heroes throughout the ages.
By the end of the day, Percy was burnt out, and tired. He really just wanted to take a nap, but he had promised Seraphine they'd go dungeon diving. So, letting out an exhaustive sigh, Percy trudged towards the labyrinth's entrance. As he approached, the infamous text box popped up.
[The labyrinth dungeon is suggested for levels 5. Would you like to enter the labyrinth?]
"Uh Seraphine, I'm still only level one. And this dungeon is for levels five and up." Percy grew slightly anxious at the thought of going through the dungeon. "Don't worry, you have me to assist you. You'll be fine." Seraphine reassured her partner. "If we die, I'm going to haunt you for the rest of your existence." Seraphine snorted at Percy's remark. Percy was still unsure of Seraphine, but mustering up the courage, he tapped on the 'Yes' option.
[Warning, once you've entered the dungeon, there is no exiting until you have completed said dungeon]
A warning screen popped up. Percy immediately regretted his decisions, but it was already too late to back out now. The wall started to rumble as it slowly rose up to reveal a dimly lit tunnel. "Wait! Before we go in, do you have a bottle of water?" Percy was slightly confused at the question, "Why?"
"Because it'll come in handy. Go get a few bottles, and then we can go." Seraphine commanded. With a groan, Percy jogged towards his dorm room to empty his backpack before making his way towards the cafeteria to grab a few bottles of water under the direction of his sentient ability. Reaching the cafeteria, he ran into a person he had least wanted to see, Nancy Bobofit.
Nancy had fiery red curly hair, with orange freckles dotting her face. She stood somewhere between five three, and five four. Noticing that Percy just ran through the cafeteria without acknowledging her; Nancy couldn't help but ask, "Where are you off to in such a hurry, Jackson?"
Not really wanting to start anything with Nancy, Percy decided to dodge the question, "Don't you have anything better to do than hanging out in the cafeteria all by yourself, Nancy?" As Percy was stuffing his backpack with a few water bottles, Nancy could only narrow her eyes, she had always suspected that Percy would run away from Yancy academy someday, but not this early. Without saying much to each other, Percy made his way back towards the labyrinth entrance, completely unaware that Nancy had been following him from a distance.
[Nancy's stealth: 18]
[Percy's Passive Perception: 11]
[Seraphine's Passive Perception: 17]
"You know, I'm fairly certain that she has a crush on you." Seraphine chimed, "What? She's been bullying me for months now, I don't think she has a crush on me." Percy retorted. "I mean she doesn't know how to express her feelings, so that's probably why she's bullying you." Seraphine by this time had a shit-eating grin on her face as she noticed Percy feeling very uncomfortable. "Alright anyways, there's a perfectly good dungeon waiting for us."
Taking a deep breath to calm his anxieties, Percy took a step through the tunnel entrance. Stepping through, the dimly lit area immediately brightened up as torches magically ignited themselves. "Okay, that was pretty cool…"
"Right, before we go further in," Seraphine started, "take out one of the water bottles and pour it out." Percy complied with Seraphine's request, though with some confusion. "Like we practiced earlier, draw the water from the ground towards you." The task was easy enough, Percy did so without any frustration. "Now this is where it gets slightly difficult; since you don't have any weapons on you, we're gonna have make our own."
"What do you mean make our own?" Percy questioned, not really knowing what Seraphine had in mind. "I mean we're going to make a weapon using your water manipulation powers. Focus on the water, imagine it taking the shape of a sword." Percy concentrated hard; it didn't take long until the water had molded itself into a longsword. "Great!" Seraphine applauded, "Now I want you to imagine the water making up the blade rotating really fast back and forth." Again, Percy did as he was told.
[World-Shaper, Sythaeryn: Water Manipulation]
[Common Subskill Created: Aqua Blade]
"Fantastic! [Aqua Blade] should be capable of cutting through anything standing in our way. Now we can go kick some ass and clear out the—" Seraphine was cut off as a familiar shrill voice announcing its presence, "What the fuck is going on, Jackson?" Percy whipped around and was shocked to see Nancy Bobofit standing where the tunnel entrance was, "Where are we? And is that a sword!"
"Shit, I didn't know she was able see through the mist."
"Nancy, how did you get here?" Percy tried to act calmly. "I followed you here, you freak. I knew you were acting weird, so I followed you to see what you were planning." To say Nancy was freaked out would be an understatement. "Nancy, you're uhh… you're dreaming, yeah!" Percy had hoped his lie worked, and Nancy believed him.
[Deception: (2) 1]
[Deception Total: 3]
"Cut the shit, Jackson. What's going on here? And why do you have a freaking sword?" Nancy demanded answers, and she was going to get them one way or another. "Why should I tell you anything, and even if I were to tell you, you wouldn't believe me anyways." Percy snapped.
"Try me." Nancy snapped back as she crossed her arms in front of her chest. "Monsters are real. We're in a dungeon beneath the school. And I have magical powers," "Godly powers." Seraphine corrected within Percy's head, causing Percy to roll his eyes, "And that's all you need to know."
[Persuasion: (14) 1]
[Persuasion Total: 15]
[Special Bonus: 5 From Half Truth]
[Persuasion Total: 20]
Nancy softened slightly, still finding it hard to believe. "I knew you were a freak, but having magical powers, that's a whole new level of freak-ness." This had caused Percy's eye to twitch, "You know Nancy, if you have a crush on me, just say so. You don't have to bully me to get my attention." Percy quipped; Seraphine fell into a laughing fit as she saw Nancy's face grow bright red.
[New Objective: Keep Nancy Bobofit Alive]
An all too familiar text box appeared. Percy couldn't help but groan, "Nancy, we're going to clear this dungeon and get back to Yancy." Percy stated, "Just stay near me, and we'll get through this safely." Nancy, still recovering from her earlier embarrassment could only nod at Percy.
"Finally, we can kick some ass!"
The duo, along with Seraphine carefully navigated the series of corridors, trying to stay as silent as possible though with the occasional questioning from Nancy. About half an hour of walking, the duo encountered their first monster; a literal walking corpse with most of the flesh sagging off of the bone. Nancy could not help but let out a scream at the sight.
Unfortunately for the duo, the scream had alerted that zombie, and a few others behind it. Percy's muscle immediately tensed, preparing to rush in and start hacking. "Wait, don't run in. Those zombies will inflict a rot curse if it touches you."
"Then what do you suggest I do, Seraphine?" Percy yelled, "Concentrate on the ground, I want you to stomp on the ground. I'll take care of the rest." Completely trusting his partner, Percy stomped the ground as hard as he could. Percy could not have imagined what would happen next. The second his foot contacted ground; several javelin-like rocks shot up towards the zombies.
[World-Shaper, Sythaeryn: Earth Manipulation]
[Common Subskill Created: Earthen Javelin]
"Well… that was effective…" Percy stated a little bewildered at the deadliness of his new skill. "That was amazing!" Nancy exclaimed like a child, "You just took them out with one stomp!"
"Haha, yeah that was pretty cool." Percy rubbed the back of his neck, "Come on, let's get out of here as fast as we can." Percy grabbed ahold of Nancy's hand before making his way deeper into labyrinth.
As the two of them traveled deeper into the labyrinth, they came across a wide variety of monsters, undead biting zombies, skeletal archers, sentient gelatinous cubes. With every new monster Percy had encountered, Seraphine was always there to create new abilities to assist him.
[World-Shaper, Sythaeryn: Earth Manipulation]
[Common Subskill Created: Earthen Grasp]
[World-Shaper, Sythaeryn: Water Manipulation]
[Common Subskill Created: Water Shield]
[Common Subskill Created: Ice Armor]
"We should take a break; you're not looking well." Nancy suggested, "Yeah, yeah." Percy gasped out, "I think I should catch my breath before we continue." Percy latched onto the nearest wall in an attempt to catch himself from collapsing onto the ground due to the sheer exhaustion. Nancy stood by awkwardly, not sure if she should help her longtime nemesis or not. But swallowing her awkwardness, she grabbed ahold of Percy's arm and slowly helped him get situated onto the floor.
"So, are you going to tell me the whole truth?" Nancy had accepted that Percy had magical powers, but she knew he was holding back information. "What do you mean? I've already told you everything, and you also saw my powers for yourself."
"Percy, you're still holding out on me, how did you get these powers? And why does Yancy academy have a maze with monsters underneath it?" Nancy's voice no longer held any hostility towards Percy. Percy couldn't help but let a slight chuckle directed towards Nancy, "You called me Percy." Nancy had immediately slapped him across the head, "Oww, ow ow. Alright, alright. Do you remember Mr. Brunner's lessons?" Percy asked his companion, "What does that have to do with anything?" Nancy questioned back. "Everything actually. The Greek gods are real." Percy started; as he was about to continue, Seraphine interrupted him. "Percy, if she knows the truth about the Greek pantheon, she will be targeted by those monsters." Seraphine warned.
"You're lying." Was all that came from Nancy. "They can't be real." She had tried to rationalize. "Believe it or not, that's up to you. I don't want to tell you anymore because it'll just put you in more danger." Nancy rose an eyebrow at Percy, "How will it put me in danger?"
"The more you know about the Greek pantheon, the more monsters will become alerted to you." Percy answered. The two sat in silence for a while; Nancy during the time was debating with herself if she wanted to learn more, or if she should just leave the topic altogether. In the end, Nancy found herself wanting to know more. "Tell me." Nancy ordered.
Percy sighed, "Fine, the Greek gods and goddesses are real, I don't know why they're here. I do know that I'm a demigod—a child of some god and my mortal mother—and that my godly parent is Poseidon or so I was told by Seraphine."
"And Seraphine is…" Nancy started, "I don't really know. She says that she's a power of mine, but not a demigod power…" Percy answered. Again, Nancy rose a questioning eyebrow, "Anyways, I don't really know why the actual labyrinth is below Yancy academy, and to be honest, I kinda don't care."
Once he had essentially answered all of Nancy's question, Percy grabbed his backpack and opened a water bottle before chugging the entire thing. Finishing his drink, Percy grabbed another water bottle and offered it to Nancy, who took it graciously.
"I still think you're full of shit, but let's just say I trust you for a second. Why are you doing all of this then?" Percy was slightly taken aback from Nancy's question, "I… I don't really know why I'm doing this. Seraphine had begged me to enter this dungeon…" Percy trailed off.
"Wait, so you're just doing this because your magical power told you to?" Nancy clarified, "… Yeah…" Percy confirmed. "So, this is just a game to you?"
Percy did not respond, part of him wondered why he was risking his life listening to a voice in his head, the other part of him understood that Seraphine had his best intention at heart. Thinking it would best to continue pushing through the dungeon, Percy got to his feet, "We've been resting for too long, let's finish this." After helping Nancy up, Percy reformed his [Aqua Blade] and coated himself and Nancy in his [Ice Armor]. "I'm never going to get used to this." Nancy muttered. Once Percy was finished with his preparations, the pair continued their exploration.
Current Abilities:
[Transcended Ability: Fortunate Queen of Knowledge, Seraphine]
[Uncommon Ability: World-Shaper, Sythaeryn]
[Common Subskill: Aqua Blade]
[Common Subskill: Ice Armor]
[Common Subskill: Water Shield]
[Common Subskill: Earthen Grasp]
[Common Subskill: Earthen Javelin]