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That day, when we were in the forges, Beckendorf came up to me, “Have you seen your creations? I was looking for them to see your progress but I can’t find any of them”
“No, I have no idea”, I lied through my teeth, careful not to make eye contact, I just focused on my newest project, a sword made of iron. Looks like I won’t be able to keep up my routine of selling my creations, Beckendorf was getting suspicious. Not long after, I was done with the sword and presented it to him.
“Good work, nice edge, good balance… I think you are ready to start working with celestial bronze”, Beckendorf told me, “I saw you summoned your own iron some times, that is a power some of us have, try summoning some celestial bronze to work with”
I nodded, Raising my arms and concentrating. I saw my MP slowly dwindle into nothingness as I summoned an ingot of celestial bronze, by the end of it, I had 10 MP remaining.
[Ferrokinesis leveled up three times]
“Great work, Ors” Beckendorf complimented me.
He went on to explain to me how to make use of celestial bronze, how to evenly temper it, what temperature to keep it in and so on and so forth. By the end of that session at the forges, I had a small, celestial bronze knife in my hands.
[Craft leveled up 5 times]
[Strength leveled up once]
After that, we went on to have swordfighting training. There, for the first time since I arrived to camp, I beat my sparring partner, an older kid from the Ares cabin. I was surprised, because he had way more experience than me and was a lot bigger than me too.
[You won your first swordfighting spar!]
[Swordfighting leveled up 5 times]
Confused as to how I won, I observed my opponent.
[Ricky]
[Son of Ares Lvl 19]
[Strength: 35
Constitution: 29
Dexterity: 20
Mind: 5
Charm: 5
Ricky is the son of Ares and Lianne.
[...]]
To my surprise, I was almost as strong as him and had more constitution. The system really was a cheat. I was barely a few weeks into camp and I was already approaching Ricky’s level of strength. With this kind of learning curve, I would be a great hero in no time, someone worthy of godhood.
Curious, I looked over to Luke, who was in the arena, sparring against a younger camper and I used observe.
[Luke]
[Son of Hermes, Servant of Kronos Lvl ???]
[Strength: 62
Constitution: 55
Dexterity: 61
Mind: 15
Charm: 51]
[Observe leveled up once]
Wow, no wonder he was the strongest swordsman in camp, his stats were double of mine, except for mind. If I wanted any chance against him in the future, I needed to step up my grind. He wouldn’t stop improving, so I had to improve even more.
That night, instead of studying, I focussed on swordfighting, which leveled up twice that night.
The next day, at breakfast, I sacrificed my food as usual and went to sit down next to Beckendorf, “So, are you ready for capture the flag, this evening?”, he asked me.
“Yeah, I’m so ready, I was looking forward to it all week”, I smiled, “I’ve been improving a lot… what team are we on this time?”
“Athena cabin”, Beckendorf told me, picking a pancake from his plate and eating it. I focused on my own plate, which was waffles, sausages and toast with cheese.
The day progressed further till it was time for capture the flag. This time, I was on the offense, ordered to storm the Ares camp and get the flag back over the creek.
The game started with the conch horn blaring out.
I began running over to where they were most likely to keep the flag but was intercepted by Pollux. He charged at me, sword high in the air. I dodged his overhand strike to the right and let my sword swing from right to left, which he blocked with his own blade. He tried disarming me as we clashed blades but I was stronger than him, so he didn’t manage to rip my sword out of my hand. Instead, I did the same move as him and actually succeeded in forcing his blade out of his hand. It flew ten feet away to his right and he looked at me in fear. I hit his head with the pommel of my sword and he fell like a sack of potatoes but before I could continue on, I was hit by an arrow in the shoulder. Looking up, I found one of the Apollo cabin kids standing not far away with his bow in hand. He went to nick another arrow but I ran at him and swung my sword at him. He blocked with his bow and the weapon broke into two pieces. I hit him with my sword pommel and he too fell unconscious.
With great pain, I took the arrow out of my shoulder. It had been a good shot, sliding right between the cracks in my armor but now wasn’t the time to admire his skill. Instead, I ran further into the forest, running past several people fighting. Pressing further on, I got a glimpse of the flag behind a couple of trees. Clarisse was standing guard over it.
“Observe”
[Clarisse]
[Daughter of Ares Lvl 25]
[Strength: 72
Constitution: 61
Dexterity: 23
Mind: 5
Charm: 6
[...]]
Yeah, no way I could take her on fairly. But I didn’t have to play fair… I threw my newly made dagger behind her, she didn’t even flinch, sure that she had dodged the attack but I used Ferrokinesis to control the dagger, flying it behind her and straight into her back. She winced in pain. I ran past her as she was too distracted by the pain to stop me, I got the flag and ran back towards the creek. I was 50 feet away from it when I saw one of the Ares cabin kids running over the creek with our flag, we had lost.
[Ferrokinesis leveled up twice]
[Swordfighting leveled up four times]
“Gods, f*ck, I was so close”, I cursed, stabbing my sword into the ground.
Later at dinner, I could feel Clarisse glaring at me but I just ignored her. After todays game, I needed some good sleep, the first sleep I had gotten for weeks, so I checked my status one final time before I had some well earned rest.
Name: Ors Smith
Race: Greek Demigod(half-blood)
Class: Gamer; Son of Hephaestus
Age: 10
Lvl:7
HP((Str+Con)*10): 630/630
MP((Mind+Charm+Mind)*5): 200/200
Attributes(Average mortal 10):
-Strength: 33
-Constitution: 31
-Mind: 15
-Dexterity: 17
-Charm: 10
Points: 0
Class skills:
-Gamers body(MAX): Allows the user to live their life as if it were a videogame. The user doesn’t need to sleep, eat or drink to continue existing, sleeping in a bed removes all negative status effects and restores hp and mp
-Gamers mind(MAX): Allows the user to remain calm and collected at all times, immune to mental status effects such as memory alteration and fear
-Observe(16/100): Allows the user to gain information on things, people and monsters by simply thinking ‘Observe’. The higher the level difference, the less information is shown. Higher levels in observe show more info. doesn’t use MP upon use
-Swordfighting(20/100): The ability to swing a sword in combat
-Crafting(34/100): The art of creating something, be that a shield, some armor, a weapon or a clock
-Ferrokinesis(14/100): The ability to control and summon metal/gems with your mind, this can be used to manipulate anything made out of metal. Consumes MP upon use
-Technokinesis(19/100): The ability to manipulate technology. Consumes MP upon use
-Battle instinct(MAX): Your body and mind are wired for battle, also known as ADHD
-Greek mind(MAX): Your mind is wired to read ancient greek. Dyslexia for all non-greek languages
-Bowmanship(6/100): The ability to aim and fire arrows in and out of combat
Other skills:
-English(speaking)(75/100)
-English(reading)(5/100)
-German(speaking)(65/100)
-German(reading)(3/100)
-Math(55/100)
-Running(32/100)
-Art(30/100)
-Science(30/100)
-Greek myths(50/100)
