"Yeah, but I hit you this time," Thalia said with a smile, "hows that nose?"
"Barely felt it," Percy put the spear into the ground and helped Thalia up.
"I'm sure you didn't fish head," Thalia said as she took back her spear and returned it into the form of a can of mace.
"What's the score again?" Percy asked, "14 to nothing?"
"Don't get cocky sunshine," Thalia said as she returned Aegis back to it's braclet form.
Percy smiled at his fighting partner and turned to the rest of the recovering demigods, "alright everyone postions! We are going into the zombie ID now! I want good kills and if I have to save anyone today that person will have to deal with Clarisse!"
The shudder went through everyone, as demanding as Percy was, Clarisse was worse. The quickly fell into line, including Thalia, this was one of the few activities she wanted to participate in.
The demigods quickly came into 4 columns. They then extended on arm and touched the shoulder of the person in front of them. The demigods at the head of the columns extended their arms and touched Percy forming a big connection of demigods.
Percy put his hands up, "ID create: Zombies!"
The sky turned red as the sound of waves went away. The water was still, nothing moved other than Percy and then demigods he brought in with him. After a quick roll call Percy paired the demigods up. Each squad had one level 3, three level 2s and 2 level 1s. If there was a shortage of level 3 then that squad will have extra level 2s or fewer level 1, after all safety was the most important thing here. Percy wanted each squad to be able to handle themselves out there, this system of having people in squads helped with that.
"Allright, move out! And remember to call for help!" Percy yelled out as each squad quickly entered the Forest.
Percy had purposefully chosen to begin the ID training from the beach. The Forest was filled with normal zombies, which were pretty easy to defeat. Then came the Greek zombies which were further inside camp until finally the legion zombie near the heart of camp. It was very progressive in difficulty, ensuring that those who didn't feel strong enough could just stay in the Forest and deal with the low level zombies.
Percy activated his super speed and quickly went all over the Forest. He mostly spent this time sneaking around and making sure the demigods didn't bite off more than they can chew. Eventually due to all the sneaking around Percy leveled up that skill as well;
Sneaking, Lv-10 (50%)
Allows you to sneak up on someone.
55% chance of not getting caught.
55% chance of critical strike.
Percy hence spent the next two hours mostly just observing them all. During this period of observation Percy liked to read because things got boring super fast. He took out a book called 'Game of Thrones,' it was serious that Annabeth recommended to him, it seemed boring at first but the more he read through it the more he realized it was just his type of book.
His favorite character was Jon Snow, boy was that guy cool. And his father, Ned Stark, was just so awesome! Kind of reminded Percy of himself and his dad, after all technically Percy was a bastard, so he could relate with Jon Snow. Percy knew he could confidently say without a doubt that Ned Stark was the hero of the book and he along with Jon would be the ones to save the world from the evil ice zombie. Yup, Ned Stark and Jon Snow are going to live forever.
Percy hopped from place to place keeping tabs on everyone while reading his book. The squads already had a plan in place for this ID. They would first all split up inside the forest only to meet up in the middle of camp. They would then fight together to defeat enough zombies for the big Legion zombie to show up. It was difficult but they managed to combine their efforts and defeat the giant enemy.
They would attack it's feet, bring it down to the ground and then began attacking it's neck. Several people would get hurt, but Percy made sure none of them got maimed or injured.
Usually this was where Percy would end the training session, but today he wanted them to face off against the second method was used to deal with the second wave of zombies along with the second Legion zombie.
"Yo Percy!" Thalia yelled out, "we finished the second wave! Get us out!"
Percy remained hidden in the shadows smiling, 'time for my little suprise.'
"Guys look!" A demigod of Ares shouted as he pointed towards hearth in the center of camp. There was a huge black ball present above it, it slowly descended downwards and it cracked open. A Knight of the Damned slowly stepped out and readied his huge blade.
"What is that thing?!" Someone asked in surprise.
"Something not good," Thalia said as she readied her spear and charged the monster.
The Knight of the Damned looked at Thalia and simply waved his huge sword around forming a gust of wind blowing her back.
"This things too powerful!" Someone yelled out as John helped Thalia to her feet.
"Where the hell is Percy?!"
"Forget Percy!" Thalia shouted, "he won't alway be there to help! We need to deal with this thing ourselves!"
The others looked nervous, but before anyone could do or say anything the Damned Knight attacked. He swung at them and just as he was about to slice of the arm of one of the demigods Percy came in in a flash and pulled the demigod from harm.
Percy reappeared far away from the battlefield and put the demigod to the side, "stay here."
The battle raged on. Demigods were being pushed back and whenever it looked like they were about to be killed or even injured Percy came in and saved them.
Soon the number of active fighters became less and less. The level 1s were taken out first, and then the level 2's. Thalia had a squad around her as they tried to attack back.
John jumped into the fight and began fighting the knight with all his might. He swung his blade with careful aim as he managed to get a few strikes in. However the knight was to powerful as with one swing of it's blade John was sent flying back.
Percy managed to extract his brother in time and put him along with the others. Nico and Bianca were still fighting as the two siblings attacked the monster with all they had. Bianca distracted it while Nico somehow managed to cut into the Knight's arm. The mobster then tried to kill both only for Percy to again save the demigods in the last moment.
Soon the number of active fighter reduced to only one, Thalia. The Knight cornered her in front of the Zeus cabin, she had nowhere to run. In a last ditch attempt to win Thalia used her divine side and summoned forth all her mana in the form of a lightning bolt that went through the night blowing a hole right through him.
Percy smiled 'at least she can handle herself.'
Thalia panted as the smoke finally cleared. She smiled, 'I did it!' But as the fog further cleared up it revealed the form of the still standing knight. It had a hole through it's chest revealing that it was hollow inside.
Thalia fell to her knees from exhaustion as the knight stepped up to her. It raised it's blade high up and then brought it down swiftly.
Body Form activated: Right arm
Percy zoomed in at the last moment and knocked the blade off course causing it to land to Thalia's side. Percy then drew back his fist and launched it with the power of his Earthquake and his advanced speed.
"Impact drive!" Percy yelled out as the new skill fused attack shattered the knight into pieces leaving behind 5,000$, a sword skill book and a medium health potion. Percy quickly gathered these things before Thalia even saw them using his super speed and quickly helped the girl up.
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