NOVEL NEXT Chapter 172: Chapter 172
Percy started into the man's purple eyes and for the first time the drunk looked the part of a god. His presence was imposing, Percy knew this argument was his lose. "Isn't there anything you can do?" Percy asked finally.
"No," Mr. D said, taking a swing from his chalice, "if there was we would do it."
"So we can't expect help from the gods then?"
"Yes."
Percy got up and walked to the door. "Where are you going Percy?" Chiron asked, his face filled with concern as was some of the other demigods.
"I'm going to see whether I can help the Apollo cabin members out. I learnt a healing rune over the year, it could be useful for them," and with that Percy left slamming the door behind him. Outside the Big House the cold night air hit him hard. Percy took it all in before walking towards Thalia's tree.
The tree was surrounded by several Apollo campers that were conducting experiment on it. Most collected samples and left to figure out what was causing all of this while some tried a variety of spells to heal it. Percy walked up to Michael who stood next to the tree with Percy's staff of healing.
"Any good news Micheal?" Percy asked Michael who smiled.
"Good to see you man," Michael said giving Percy a hug, "and no, nothing works on this thing, nothing."
Percy nodded to the staff, "not even that?"
"Actually it helps, but after a few seconds the tree is back to it's poisoned state."
Percy nodded as he bent down to get a good look at the infected area in the tree. It was just like Lee described it, green in the center with the wood rotting around it. Percy used Observe;
Elder snake poison;
Poison obtained from an Elder snake found deep inside Taurus itself. It is known to be one of the most deadly poisons in the world with virtually no weakness from it's poison.
Cause -100 HP per minute.
Percy sighed. "You got something?" Michael asked.
"Elder Snake poison," Percy said as he got up, "at least that's what I think it is."
Michael raised an eyebrow, "because of your sensory powers?"
Percy nodded, "yeah. It feels scales, like a snake and very very dark. The kind of darkness that I find stains monsters that have been to Tartarus. Also it's so strong enough it's melting a protection made by the god's themselves, so we have snake+Tartarus + Powerful, answer is..."
"Elder snake poison," Michael concluded looking amazed, "that's amazing."
"Thanks."
"Wait..no, that's not amazing! Elder snake poisons has virtually no cure! There is nothing we can do!"
"Isn't there something in Greek legends that could help us?"
Michael shook his head, "no. The only one that could even possibly help us right now is my dad, and he can't really interfere because-"
"Because of the ancient laws, yeah I got it," Percy sighed. If only he had something in hand that could save the tree. Something powerful, something….wait…..did he?
But before Percy could think further on that subject a voice called out, "monster!" Percy and Michael turned and looked into the forest and sure enough charging towards them were two very big monsters.
Percy blinked, "is that….a robot bull?"
Charging right passed several demigods heading straight into camp was a pair of bronze bulls. They stood at over 20 feet tall with red eyes and smoke coming out of their nostrils. Percy could see gears underneath their surface as a molten hot core roared inside all that metal.
Colchis Bull
Lv-20
HP:15,000/15,000
MP:0/0
Str-42
Vit-32
Dex-21
Int-2
Wis-1
Luc-0
The Colchis Bull was made by Hephaestus and given to King Aeetes as a gift. Jason faced three beats in battle and domesticated them using them to plough a field, needless to say the bulls were very humiliated.
Kill to gain-15,000 Exp
Percy took out Riptide and activated the runes he carved on the palm of his hands summoning a liter of water that he lifted into the air. One of the bulls was almost to the tree when Percy moved. He sent the water in front of the bull and froze it onto the ground. The bull didn't have enough time to stop and so skidded forward where Percy was ready for him.
"Earthquake From!" Percy drew back his left hand and channeled his Earthquake powers and Body form into that arm.
Body Form Activated: Left Arm
Percy then jumped and slammed his fist right between the bull's head destroying the metal plates on top along with the machinery underneath;
Damage- 800 Attack X 4 from Body Form = 3,200 Attack!
Critical strike - 2,500% of 3,200 Attack = 80,000 Attack!
The bull exploded outwards, it's part were being broken from the inside out as a shock wave flew out from Percy's fist breaking the ground underneath his fist. The ground began to sink downwards as Percy jumped away deactivating his powers. He looked up to find the second bull run right past the barrier and Michael, throwing the demigod to the side with its horns.
"Michael!" Percy dashed over to his friend and checked on his health giving the bull enough time to go right into camp. Percy however didn't care about that instead choosing to look at his friend's injuries.
Michael was bleeding profusely from the gut, Percy didn't have time to go get Ambrosia from the Big House, he put his hand on the wound applying pressure on it. He then controlled the blood in his own body to cut itself out forming the healing runes across Michael's body.
'Please work,' Percy told himself as he began charging up the runes. He had only ever used the runes to heal himself as a test subject, even though it is meant to heal others and not oneself. Percy focused and slowly the runes began to shine bright blue as slowly but surely Michael's wounds began to close themselves up.
Percy sighed, he looked at Michael's health bar and saw he had stabilised. Percy's health went down by 500 points but that didn't really matter;
Percy HP: 4,500/5,0000
Percy used the staff of healing to fix Micheal up to a stable condition before he used his Speed Demon perk to dash into camp. He followed the noise and quickly found the bull near the campfire pit. Most of the campers were running away from the thing, but one stood their ground.
Percy watched Clarisse as she fought the Colchis bull with nothing but a spear and shield. The daughter of Ares had gotten better at handling the spear and used this new skill of her's to shove the weapon through the bull's neck before electrocuting it with the spear's special properties.
"ARR!" The bull roared as it shook its head throwing Clarisse to one side.
Percy dashed to the side catching the demigoddess before she hit the ground before putting her to the side, "you've gotten better at using that."
"Yeah I have," Clarisse said eyeing her spear still embedded inside the bull who was now looking at Percy and Clarisse getting ready to rush them.
"Need help?"
"Nope," Clarisse said walking towards the bull who puffed smoke at her.
"You sure?"
"Yup," Clarisse then dashed towards the bull who charged forward. It opened it's mouth and released a blast of fire, Clarisse jumped to the side trying to avoid all the flames but knew there was some that was about to hit her. She closed her eyes waiting for the pain, only it didn't come.
She opened her eyes and saw a wall of shadows appear in front of her, protecting her from the fire. She looked at Percy and nodded. He dropped the wall of shadows and Clarisse ran. The bull looked surprised to see the demigoddess still alive but before it could do anything Clarisse slid under its neck, grabbed her spear handle and pushed it deeper inside cutting off its neck.
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