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I finally got the information on Medea's location out of Circe. The famous sorceress was in Budapest, doing whatever an evil witch does these days. So I left the exhausted Circe before using my labyrinth to quickly arrive at her location.

I was wearing heavy armour that I used my magic to look like normal clothes, one can't be too safe when dealing with people. I knocked on Medea's mansion and an enthralled maid opened the door and let me in.

From what I remembered Medea could see into the future so she knew I would arrive. I knew enough about Divination to block her attempts, she wasn't a god so it would be possible to stop but I didn't want to deal with the hassle of her being unwelcoming because she had no idea I was going to come to her base.

"The princess is waiting for you in her study," The maid said as she led you to where you wanted to go. As I walked I began sensing the place with my magic. It seemed like Medea recently moved in so the wards she had in place were minimal, just the basic detection wards and a few other minor ones.

I quickly arrived at the door before I was allowed in. I saw Medea sit there calmly with her two sun dragons looking through the window from outside.

"To what do we owe this visit," She asked as she admired me for a few moments before going neutral. I had no interest in fucking this woman however, she was like my previous girlfriend but far worse. It is one thing to want to kill your lover but another to kill your own children in spite.

There were a number of ways that I could get her to give me the spell. If I was desperate enough I could use my connection to Kronos to coerce her, I could try charmspeaking her but being an excellent one herself that would be extremely difficult in most situations. I'll try bargaining for it for now if that doesn't work I could try more malicious actions.

"Nothing much just wondering if you are willing to trade for spells, it isn't every day that you can meet such a sorceress in high esteem," I said.

"I'm interested, though if I am disappointed, I will have to punish you for wasting my time," She said and I saw the sadistic glint in her eyes.

"You'll find out that I am not so easy to deal with," I replied. "What is it that you want for this, money, rare potion ingredients or artefacts?"

"What spell do you desire and depending on the worth I will choose the payment," She asked curiously. I knew a bit about her personality and I doubted she would

"My benefactor told me you were working on a spell on creating a method to rob a god or titan of their divinities," I said and enjoyed her reaction. She suddenly turned far more cautious and because of that I could see her dragons tense outside the window.

"And who is this benefactor," She asked and I easily detected the charmspeak.

"It doesn't work like that dear, I named the magic I wanted and for the payment. What do you desire?"

"You wouldn't afford the payment," She nearly growled.

"Maybe. Though I could always save up for the prize. We both know the difficulties of defeating a god much less extracting their powers. Unlike you, I have someone who is willing to help me with this task," I said trying to see if she were to budge. "After I ascend I am even willing to help you in turn,"

She helped those three roman wannabe gods in Apollo stories, but that was after getting her ass killed by some kids so her pride could still be high. She sighed before looking at me. "If you can defeat me and my pets in a battle I will consider it. If we win, you will give up a good amount of your magic knowledge and pledge your service to me. Do we have a deal,"

I wasn't worried about her defeating me. The deal was shit though and I wasn't going to agree to it. I would be a slave if I lost and if I win she would only consider it, which is likely just her waiting 5 minutes to say no, "No if I win, I want the magic or your allegiance. You are thousands of years old, do you doubt your chances against someone who is barely in his twenties,"

Magic appeared in her hands and I knew she was considering whether she could kill me. "No, I won't be goated by a boy. You're just like Jason, thinking the world owes you everything,"

"It was worth a try," I said and took out an artefact that would stop any teleportation for a good duration. Before she knew it I had my mace in hand and was using it to shoot her with lightning. She flew through the brick wall and before I could knock her out the witch, her dragons defended.

I easily dodged the fire it sent towards me and I turned into lightning to quickly run up its body and with a mighty hit I bashed one's head in.

"You filthy demigod, kill him," She growled and sent wind attacks at me. The flora became alive too aggressively fighting me, but unfortunately for Medea I trained myself to be able to fight gods and she wasn't one. The other dragon with Medea on its back tried to escape but I had the ability to change into lightning and with it I flew directly into its mouth and towards its brain.

The brain-fried dragon collapsed before it did the normal death animation of monsters. I switched to my bident and threw it at the retreating Medea. She was using her wind manipulation to speed herself up and I saw her swallow a potion that increased her speed even further.

Unfortunately my aim was good enough to give most marksmen wet dreams and I never skipped arm day. Medea screamed as she was impaled in the chest by my bident. I muttered, shoved my hand forward and the bident returned to me with Medea still impaled.

Even as delirious as she was she still muttered some spells trying to kill me. "You could have accepted my offer and this would have been far more pleasant. I am not a sadist, but believe me this is for the greater good,"

I said as I muttered a spell that I designed after one of the unforgivables from Harry Potter, it increased her pain even further to a ludicrous degree. While usually charmspeaking wouldn't work, now that she was in extreme pain her mental faculties weren't the best and her willpower suffered because of it.

"Now you will be a good witch and help me with whatever I desire and you will be happy to do so," I said using charmspeak. I will implant more commands when I get to my base but for now that will do. "Time to clean up the evidence,"

I dropped Medea off at the labyrinth with more commands and a quick healing. With my commands I gave myself an in into a mind, which I will have to periodically reinforce but it is better than having to impale her every now and then.

She was already helping my clones, slowly giving them her spells and most importantly the divinity stealing ritual. While I was using divination I found out we had two visitors at our home, fortunately nothing serious.

I arrived at home and stepped out of the shadow behind Iliana who was looking over two siblings who were fighting against an enchanted dummy with wooden weapons.

"Who are the brats," I asked as she turned to me.

She took my hand in her own. "The first members of our budding army,"

"Here I was wondering if you would turn into a real life superhero with you trying to end wars," I said before I looked at them.

"Children of Nike, they have a minor divination ability that would help them to victory in whatever they are doing, of course superior powers will beat them most of the time." Iliana said. "They were living with foster parents who recently died because of monsters and I found the two hiding in their home,"

"Good enough, you can get an automaton to help teach them more, maybe I'll even help if I'm in the mood," I said. Life was looking nice even if the Fates were looking to ruin the mood.

A/N: You can read ahead on patre,on/ DickMcJones.