Issue #10

With his new powers, Jack began testing them out in the Dark Place. And when he finished his test run, even Jack was a little afraid of what he could new.

'Psionic powers I can't control to their fullest? Check. Transcendent powers I can't control to their fullest? Check. Now I just need some scientific powers that I am unable to fully use and then I will have the holy trinity of power types.'

Jack left the Dark Place as he returned back to Mercury. This time, the sensations he felt were even different.

Before, Jack felt that the heat from the sun was comfortable due to the title he acquired from Apollo. But thanks to his new title, he felt indifferent towards such strong heat and even a little uncomfortable.

'So the Sage of Black Frost is not good with heat,' Jack joked to himself

He was standing on the planet closest to the sun and was only 'barely uncomfortable'. Most wouldn't call that weakness at all.

But it wasn't just the feeling of the sun on him that had changed. Jack's entire perception of the universe around him changed from before. He could feel... something in the air. Something he had never felt before.

'Ugh. Need to figure out what this is. But not for now. Can research that at a later date. For now, there is an unstable variable that I need to deal with.'

Jack's main concern was not the psionic entities that he had invited into his mind before. It was instead the person that started this entire situation. Mother of the Night, Nyx.

The goddess/titan was the reason why the Olympians turned out the way they did and she was responsible for the deaths of all the other Olympians. But Jack wasn't going after the titan to punish her for her crimes.

Instead, she had something that he wanted and was evil. That was more than enough of a reason for him to pursue her with a viable excuse.

Before Jack left for Nyx, he had to do a few things. The first thing Jack did was summon Zeus' Thunderbolt, Aegis, and Leviathan.

'Since I am now a god, I need my own godly weapons that suit me.'

Jack's new abilities with Abyssal Magic made him have absolute power with it. And even if he was not as skilled with his new power yet, his knowledge of other magical systems and types made it easy enough for him to learn how to enchant items.

The first item he was planning on enchanting was Zeus' Thunderbolt. Since it was already related to lighting and weather, Jack only had to modify a few aspects of it to turn it into a weapon of winter.

'First, we remove all the necessary enchantments on this. Then we add in a couple for dark ice manipulation, durability increase, sharpness increase, a storage function, and lastly, let's make it adjust its size according to its wielder. Oh, I should also make it impossible for anyone other than someone with abyssal magic to be able to wield it. Let's put a curse of madness on this for that.'

While he was adding the enchantments, Jack was subconsciously creating his own magical runes and glyphs.

When the spear got done with Jack's treatment of it, it had completely changed due to the enchantments that Jack put in it. It was no longer golden in color but had become black white the tip was no longer silver and glowing blue when it was being used but had become red that would glow purple when it was being used. The blade at the top had also straightened out and resembled a more normal spear.

'Perfect. Now onto Aegis.'

Jack pulled the breastplate in front of him while shaking his head. When he fought Zeus, Aegis had gotten damaged the most while also being the reason that he survived the battle.

'First, we need to change it back into a shield. And although it had been distorted and broken in several spots, most of the original body is still there. The enchantment that it already had was not too bad but needs some adjustments. Let's make the world that it creates one of an eternal, black winter so that the opponents will also be harmed even if they do manage to break through it. Let's also add the storage function here. Besides that, I think this will be fine as it is.'

The shield didn't change much in appearance after Jack's upgrade. It was still gold and bronze but would glow with black light when its barrier was activated instead of green light.

Jack finally grabbed Leviathan and placed them in front of himself before he began to work on them. Artemis and Apollo originally only imbued their arrows with power while leaving their bows alone. It was the most basic and therefore needed the most work on it.

Jack decided that he wanted to make a sword now so he shifted the spear he hastily created into a blade. The sword was split down the middle with one half being silver and the other half being gold.

But after giving it several enchantments, the form of the sword began to change. The more JAck added, the more it changed. When it was finally done, Jack noticed that the sword he had originally designed had turned into a gauntlet. The coloring remained the same with silver on the outside while the inner part of the gauntlet was gold but there were also two jewels that Jack couldn't tell where they had come from.

'Isn't that unique? And is this thing... alive?'

Jack decided to try the weapon out and placed the gauntlet on his arm. It reached all the way up to his elbow.

Jack moved it around several times before he felt several blades emerge from the gauntlet and try to rip off his arm. The blades were able to dig in less than a centimeter before they were stopped by his dense body.

{No} Jack heard a voice calling out to his mind

{So you are alive. You are my creations I will determine if I want to use you or not, not yourself.'

Jack took Leviathan off and placed it next to the other items he had created.

'Since I already named that one 'Leviathan', the shield can be 'Behemoth' while the spear is 'Ziz'. I can always rename them another day if I don't like the names.'

Jack then activated the storage function on all the items. They each turned into a ring, necklace, and earing.

With all his preparations done, Jack teleported down to New York to ask his old drinking buddy on how he should try and break into Olympus.