Chapter 18

[Divine Lightning Bolt] (Lvl 3)

-16000 Divine Energy

I wondered for a second why I wasn't in the same condition as Thalia after pulling that stunt.

Right on clue, a wave of vertigo hit for an instant before I straightened up again. I'd spent an enormous amount of power to wipe the entire monster army just now.

A wave of messages suddenly interrupted my muse.

[You Leveled Up] 270

[You Leveled Up] 271

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...

[You Leveled Up] 275

[Skill Leveled Up: Divine Lightning Bolt] (Lvl 4)

Well, that's great. Atleast something good happened on this accursed night.

Sighing, I started moving Thalia with me as we limped towards the car, whose windows were cracked I noticed. Probably from the force of my Bolt.

It was our luck that the car wasn't closer to the point of impact, or even Luke wouldn't have survived the damage. He didn't have the natural resistance to lightning that Thalia and I had.

"C'mon, Thals. We are here." I whispered tiredly in my half-sibling's ears as I pushed her inside the car.

"...M'kael?" My sister mumbled against me.

"Yep, I'm here."

Annabeth scrambled away before helping me put Thalia on the car seat.

"Grover, go sit on the front and guide luke to the camp." I said, before entering the car myself. "Luke, let's go, we are all set in."

"You got it, boss." Luke chuckled as we sped off on the road.

I had no idea what got him in such a good mood, but I was too tired to talk.

"...Kael?" Thalia whispered weakly. "You...did you really save me or was that a dream?".

"Of course I did, who else would it be? You are safe now, go to sleep." I replied, patting her lightly on the head.

I absently checked Thalia's status to know why she was so much more affected by a single bolt than me.

Thalia Grace

Age: 12

Race: Demigod (Blood of Zeus)

Tier: 5

Level: 101

Divine Power: 23/100,000

Stamina: 2090/109,000

Health: 13,400/104,000

Stats

Strength: 96

Speed: 89

Dexterity: 116

Endurance: 109

Constitution: 104

Mental: 24

Spirit: 100

Well that explains it. She wasn't fully rested when I insisted we leave soon, so she must've pushed herself over her limit.

Stupid brave fool.

I checked my own status to compare.

Mikael

Age: 8

Race: God/Angel/Devil Hybrid

Tier: 3

Level: 275

Divine Power: 13,200/33,200

Holy Power: 27,300/33,200

Demonic Power: 29,500/33,200

Stamina: 23,401/26,600

Health: 28,600/28,600

Stats

Strength: 276

Speed: 306

Dexterity: 296

Endurance: 266

Constitution: 286

Mental: 36

Spirit: 332

Points: 20

Skills:

Combat Skills–

Expert Spear-wielding (3/10)

Godly Skills–

Divine Lightning Bolt (Lvl 4)

Lightning Manipulation (Lvl 4)

Air Manipulation (Lvl 6)

Wind Manipulation (Lvl 6)

Electric Discharge (Lvl 5)

Flying (Lvl 6)

Demonic Skills–

[Power of Creation] Passive

[Power of Imagination Passive

Object Creation (Lvl 4)

Demonic Power Manipulation (Lvl 5)

Defensive Magic: Barrier (Lvl 3)

Hypnosis Magic (Lvl 3)

Concealment Magic (Lvl 3)

Lightning Manipulation (Lvl 2)

Holy Skills–

[Angelic Form]– Two-Winged Angel

Holy Power Manipulation (Lvl 5)

Holy Weapon Creation (Lvl 4)

Other Skills–

Advanced Hunter (5/10)

Advanced Tracker (6/10)

Resistance:

Lightning Resistance (Lvl 7)

Pain Resistance (Lvl 3)

Magical Affinities:

Divine Lightning: 70/100

Holy Light: 70/100

Lightning: 90/100

Light: 90/100

Nice.

I've grown quite a bit in the past one year. Especially my skills; demonic and holy power manipulation, as well as electric discharge, had finally hit lvl 5, undergoing a transformative increase in control. I could now manipulate demonic energy to transform into other forms of energy.

Though I'd only managed to create the Lightning element till now, cause that was what I was the most familiar with, and could imagine perfectly. Still, there were some really solid advantages of this skill.

The holy power manipulation enabled me to pump my holy weapons full of energy. As in, I now simply had to supply holy power and I'd be able to keep increasing the energy of my weapons, making them bigger and bigger. Till now, the biggest weapon I created was a 6 foot long circular disk to shear through a line of monsters. Though I was sure I could keep making it even bigger if I wanted.

Electric Discharge Lvl 5 on the other hand, now enabled me to actually suck up electricity from any source to fill up my well of divine energy. I'd done this even in public places; just sit back and stick my fingers into any electric socket, and I end up sucking so much electricity that I bet those shops were mightily bewildered by their electric bill that month.

All were good abilities, but really what I needed right now was to level up and enter 4th Tier. When that happens, I would already be stronger than Luke.

It wasn't that far really, especially considering now I'll get many opportunities to level up. It was simply a matter of time.

Sighing I let my head lean on the car seat, relaxing myself a little. Maybe a little sleep will be go–

"Mikael!" The voice snapped my eyes open, all the thoughts of relaxation vanishing.

"We've got a new problem." Luke said, looking in the cracked mirror of the car. "Or problems, to be exact."

I turned around in my seat, squinting to look through the tinted glass. And there, in the sky, were 3 pairs of wings flapping in perfect synchronisation, rapidly gaining on the car.

"The furies!" Annabeth hissed from beside Thalia. "Hades' personal servants."

Damn.

"More Hellhounds too." She whispered, sounding troubled.

Double damn.

"Grover, how long till we reach the camp?" I asked, trying to come up with a plan.

"I d-dont...ah..five minutes, maybe?" The young half goat stuttered out.

"We should stand our ground." Luke said strongly. "Show them who they are dealing with."

"Thalia's sleeping though. Think we can guard three people and defeat the furies at the same time?" I asked back.

"I don't need saving! I can help." Annabeth interrupted angrily, before looking at luke with her puppy eyes. "Please, let me help."

Luke's face instantly changed colour as he took in Annabeth's words.

"Let's just go to the camp, i guess." He finally replied after a moment of hesitation, increasing our speed drastically.

Annabeth's betrayed face got a chuckle out of me.

I looked back again to see the furies surpassing our speed, quickly gaining on the car.

But we were close to the camp, so there was no point in fighting them. Instead, I decided to try and snipe them off of the air with my light weapons.

"Mikael, we've got a bigger problem!" Luke called out from the front. I could also hear a nervous bleating sound from grover. I turned around to take a look but the car suddenly took a sharp turn, throwing me off to the side, with my head banging on the window.

"Hold on!" Luke screamed.

"Luke, wha–?"

"Gods damn it!" He screamed again.

I finally got myself back in control enough to see what the hell was happening.

The first thing I noticed was the completely broken windshield of the car, and then my eyes fell upon the huge hulking bull that Luke was so worried about, rapidly running towards the car.

It's body was that of a massive bodybuilder, with some dark fuzzy fur on it's chest that grew more and more, covering everything till the neck, which was attached to the head of a bull with two huge horns.

"The Minotaur." Annabeth whispered with wide eyes.

Triple damn it. I was starting to hate this day more and more.

"Hold on tight!" I screamed to everyone as the bull approached us.

There was no time to run, the bull was running faster than even Thalia, and our car had picked up too much speed to dodge the thing. The only thing we could do was to hope that we survived the crash.

"Kael–?" A voice broke me out of my mind as the shape beside me shifted.

But I had no time to talk right now. I had no time to think much either as the bull rammed itself...wait, no.

It wasn't crashing into us or pushing us off, instead the mad Bull stopped the car's momentum with a single punch, flipping us up in the air, before picking the whole car with two hands.

I had to hold onto Thalia, and Annabeth took this chance to scream our ears off.

I unfurled my wings instantly, letting their length stretch inside the whole backside of the car.

[Angelic Form]– Two-Winged Angel (Adds 30 to Str, Spd, and Dex)

"Mikael, what the hell!?" Thalia's asked drowsily, her voice rising as she took in my form, a hand resting on her spear.

"Another thing from my mother's side." I replied, before curling my wings around the three of us. "Please don't do anything stupid right now."

"They're beautiful." She whispered.

"Luke, protect grover! I got these two!" I yelled out, ignoring my sister for now, before ducking my head inside the cage made of my wings as we were yeeted off by the Minotaur, car and all.

"Hold on!" I yelled over the sound of whipping wind as we were thrown in the air, my hands pressing down on both the girls shoulders.

The car flipped over multiple times before we finally crashed on the ground, the impact sending both the girls bouncing against my wing's soft cushiony inside.

I could also feel pieces of glasses from broken windows impacting against my wings, but they might as well have been cotton for all the damage they did.

Fortunately, when the car finally stopped, it managed to land on its wheel, not complicating things further.

"I'll take the Minotaur, Luke handle the furies." I rattled off my simple plan as soon as we stopped moving, and kicked the car door off of its hinges to get out.

"No!" I heard Thalia yell. "It's the Minotaur, kael! Let me face it! You can't just..kael, come back! Please! We'll fight it together!"

The desperation in her voice made me hesitate for a short second. Since when did she start caring about me so much anyway? And kael? Already shortening my name? Well, I did call her Thals so..But still, she was in no condition to fight off the freaking Minotaur right now.

I was our best shot.

"Don't worry, sis. I'll handle it, trust me." I replied with a wink, before flapping my wings and taking off to the sky with a jump, ignoring her further protests.

It was time to face the father of all minotaurs, and the Greek's most infamous monster; The Minotaur.