Camp Life

The Seraphic System

Chapter: 24

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(Camp Life)

-{Kai}-

I observed as about twelve kids, most of them have the same shiny blond hair and calm blue eyes. Their bows are held up straight and arrows are tightly restrained. They were aiming and shooting at lots of practice targets at the end of the archery range.

Luke stood next to me, grinning.

We had chosen to watch one of the camp's daily archery sessions.

"You want to have a go?" Luke asked with a smirk.

I hadn't really ever played around with a bow, mostly opting to use swords and training my body. Which had slowed down tremendously. My stat gain had certainly taken a hit, but I was still making progress with my gravity bands.

Eh, I should give it a try.

Luke grabbed and bowed an arrow, leading me into the range with a grin. The other Demi-Gods watched us curiously. Especially the children of Apollo. Probably wondering if I'm also a son of Apollo.

"Have you ever shot a bow?" Luke asked, seemingly preparing for a demonstration.

"No." I stared at him with a deadpan expression.

He grinned.

"I guess you'll be able to learn something then. It's pretty simple. Draw the string back until you've got enough tension built but don't go overboard. I'm not sure if these bows could handle your strength," He said in a very relaxed voice.

"Then stare and imagine where you want your arrow to hit." Luke continued, letting go of the arrow he had strung. The arrow shoots through the air and easily hits the Bullseye.

He gave me the bow with a grin. "Let's see what you've got."

I mimicked the position he held the bow in, noticing him nod in my peripheral vision. Drawing an arrow I placed I slotted it in the little indent it had on its end. Next, I drew the string back carefully, aiming for the bullseye.

Breathing out I shot and watched as the arrow completely missed the target, flying far over. A scream could be heard a moment later and I turned to Luke who was trying to hold in his laughter.

Drawing another arrow with a scowl I repeated it again and aimed the bow at him. Aiming for his leg as he backed away. Releasing the string the arrow once again completely missed him and shot into a tree.

This time he couldn't hold in his laughter as he fell on his back.

I saw all the children of Apollo shaking their heads in disappointment.

"You've got the worst shot I have ever seen in my time at camp." Luke snickered.

I prepared myself for another shot.

"Beginners' bad luck." I retorted.

"Isn't it beginner's luck?" Luke asked and I sent him a flat stare.

"No."

Releasing the string this time it hit near the target. You would think that my aim with my light spears would apply to this but apparently not.

"Huh, at least you got it near." Luke idly

Alright, time to science this. Instead of using his bullshit advice to imagine the arrow hitting the target, with some effort I mentally calculated the distance between the target and me, and through that I assessed the angle I would need to shoot from to form a perfect parabolic path to the target.

I then continued to calculate the force I needed to pull the string with in order for the arrow to have sufficient kinetic energy to reach the target. It turned out to be less than what I had been using.

With all the variables calculated, I shot the arrow with absolute certainty in its precision. The arrow predictably hit the bullseye.

Luke whistled. "Perhaps you did have Beginners' bad luck."

"The question is, can you do it again?"

Out of pure stubbornness, I did the same calculations coming to mind, but the speed and direction of the wind had changed slightly in this iteration. Meaning a few minor modifications were needed.

Looking at him I released the string, hitting the Bullseye in the middle.

I hid a wince at the sharp pain that spiked in my head a moment later, there was a reason I didn't do calculations all the time. My brain simply wasn't used to being in that state. It got better as I trained it more of course as my brain adapted but it was a slow process.

He raised his hands. Genuinely looking impressed the children of Apollo now looked at me with respect and excitement. Probably assuming I was in fact one of their new siblings.

Only Luke knew I wasn't a Demi-God.

"I guess we can move on," Luke muttered and gestured for me to follow him.

I put the Bow down and raised an eyebrow as the exceptionally beautiful girls, I knew as daughters of Aphrodite stared at me intensely. There were also some Apolo children staring at me with a bit of admiration in their eyes.

We walked for a while longer, past the stables and the climbing wall, until we reached the edge of the woods. Luke paused and turned to me.

"I should warn you, the woods can be dangerous. We've had multiple run-ins with monsters there, there are monsters capable of seriously harming even me within" Luke said seriously.

I simply nodded absentmindedly at his warning; I was definitely going to check the woods out later. I couldn't help being a curious person which was why I found myself in a lot of chaotic situations.

I also had to wonder if the woods contained a large amount of monsters, why didn't they just form a large coalition to drive them out? I didn't ask Luke since I was an outsider.

But still. Seemed a bit strange and I knew the Gods were dicks but why allow such a thing near their children? I suppose it wasn't my buisness at any rate.

I kept up with Luke as we continued the tour.

-{Percy Jackson}-

Gasping, Percy sat up. Adrenaline coursed through his body as the memories of the large imposing Minotaur flashed through his mind. Sunlight shined through the windows making him briefly cover his eyes.

He scrambled up in a panic a moment later, with his body covered in cold sweat as he realised he didn't recognise the room he awoke in. The small basic room he found himself in contained a bed and side draw.

The scent of pinewood was heavy in the air. It would have been peaceful if he wasn't so panicked with his unfamiliar surroundings.

'It wasn't just a dream.' He panickedly thought.

He peeked out of the windows, spotting a group of kids his age walking together and laughing. Percy recognised the place as some sort of camp. The sunny clear blue sky is a contrast to the dark barely visible storm he had been in when he was last conscious.

'Mom!' He thought.

He opened the door and ran outside looking around panicking.

"Mom?" Percy shouted. Drawing the attention of some kids. Suddenly from around the corner came trotting a strange man with a horse body. Percy fell back in shock.

'What the fuck?' He thought.

"Please calm down child." The horseman said.

Percy looked at him in bewilderment.

"What the hell are you?" He asked, examining the horse legs trotting around.

Chiron chuckled.

"I am a Centaur child, a half man and half horse." He replied kindly.

Percy's thoughts went somewhere else completely.

"Oh, so your mom did it with a…" Percy started.

"No." Chiron stopped him, shutting down that line of thought with his eye twitching just a bit.

"Wait no, that doesn't matter. Where's my mom? Have you seen her? She was with me." Percy asked desperately.

Chiron looked at him sadly.

"I'm afraid we found no sign of your mother, child. I am sorry." Chiron said softly.

Percy choked, falling to his knees. His fist clutching the soil beneath him for some semblance of support.

"Though there is a chance that the boy that protected you knows something about her disappearance." Chiron tried to comfort.

Percy shot up, his eyes widened as he remembered the strange blonde-haired older boy. Who had easily killed the Minotaur he had fought.

"Where is he?" Percy demanded.

Chiron sighed.

'Seems like we've got ourselves another brash one.' He thought with a fond shake of his head.

-{Kai}-

Grey stormy eyes stared into mine. Blonde curly hair framed the cute face, which was currently scrunched up into a frown.

"How?"

I stared down at the chessboard.

When you know all the possible combinations on a chessboard, winning is the only choice. She was good at the game, which was expected from a child of Athena.

I did need to stop processing such a large amount of information for now, I was starting to get a headache with this. Apparently, processing such a huge amount of data without getting a headache, required an anime prodigy brain, which I unfortunately don't have.

Luke snickered, giving me a friendly pat on the shoulder.

"Seems like you've been dethroned Annabeth." He said in a teasing voice and her scowl deepened.

"Again." She demanded.

"Nah, I'm good," I replied, a response which made her growl.

It had started when Annabeth had found the both of us and immediately bombarded me with questions about the Minotaur. Apparently, word of me defeating it without any harm to myself had spread.

This had somehow led to a game of chess. Which I had just won. I wanted to win to increase Luke's impression of me so I could gain more information with ease. It definitely wasn't because I wanted to crush Annabeth's pride. Nope, definitely not.

Luke snickered again and went to speak only to be cut off by a voice.

"It's you!" A voice caught my attention and I found a running Percy Jackson charging my way.

"Oh hey." I waved.

"Where's my mom?" He asked with desperation practically dripping from his words.

"Ask your Uncle," I joked.

Luke's eyes snapped to me, a new emotion burning deep in them. He observed me closely. His body tensed.

Oh right, if the canon is still intact, then his mom had been kidnapped by Hades since he thought Percy held his Helm Of Darkness. Oh, dear, I had meant that as an off-handed joke.

"What?" He replied.

"Just kidding. I don't know where your mom is. When I arrived and saved you, there was no one else in the vicinity." I said in a serious voice this time.

Luke calmed down, a small almost unnoticeable sigh of relief escaping him. Luke's tensed body relaxed.

Seems like canon is still relatively intact and Luke had been the one to steal Zeus's Bolt. He has already joined hands with Kronos.

Percy on the other hand had tears pouring out of his eyes.

"So she's gone?" He asked with a bit of hollowness. I stared at him and something in me reacted to his sadness.

"Hey, I didn't find a body there either. There's a good chance she's still alive." I quickly assured him, feeling oddly moved. He brightened up.

"Think about it. Wouldn't there be a body if she was dead?" I used logic and he seemed to react well to my reasoning.

He nodded, wiping his tears.

"Y-yeah." He said with a bit of a cracked voice.

Luke decided to introduce himself.

"Hey, you must be the new Demi-God I've heard about. Welcome to your new life as a Demi-God. I'm sure Chiron gave you a rundown, have you been shown around yet?" He asked.

Percy shook his head. Looking much calmer now, with determination evident in his green eyes.

"Well, I've finished my camp tour with Kai here. How about I show you around too?" Luke questioned. Percy nodded, sending me a grateful look.

"Kai, are you confident finding your way around? There's a campfire happening tonight so we can catch up then." He asked.

"Yeah, I'm good. I'll catch you later then." I replied.

They both left as Luke started showing him around.

Annabeth was still glaring at me but she just looked like a wronged puppy to me.

"Again."

I laughed. "No thanks, I think I'm going to walk around. Maybe find someone who can actually play chess." I offhandedly remarked.

The bench that the board was sitting on cracked. She bared her pearly white teeth at me in rage. Intelligence meant everything to a child of Athena so that reaction made sense.

A thought suddenly occurred to me, looking up at the sun it was about evening time. The tour had taken much longer since Luke and I decided to mess around quite a bit. I could see why people liked him.

My angels…

They were probably fine actually. Avael is the ever-present calm and logical angel, which was why I had put her in charge. I guess I'll go try out that weird parkour course. That couldn't be actual lava, could it?

-{Avael}-

"AGGGHHHHHHH" Avael roared in rage, punching the blue barrier that led out of the sub-dimensions boundaries.

"I WILL BURN THE WORLD DOWN IF ANYONE HAS LAID A SINGLE FINGER ON FATHER," Avael screamed, sending multiple holy beams of destruction to the barrier. But it has no effect on the barrier.

Seeing this, she huffed. Finding a tree she cut it down and sat on its stump.

Avael sat with her golden hair shadowing her face. Blue glowing eyes were the only thing visible from the unnatural shadows covering her face.

They had quickly discovered that they couldn't leave this realm without their father allowing it. They should have expected this, such was the greatness of their father. But right now, it was proving to be a frustrating thing.

The other four angels cowering. They too were naturally in favour of the idea of war, Avael's words about their father potentially being in danger had made them angry to their core.

As soon as they had discovered they couldn't leave the barrier, Avael had led an attack on the barrier to try to escape. While they had exhausted themselves Avael had slowly grown unhinged.

They would all happily die for their father but Avael had become irrational. Endlessly hitting the barrier with powerful attacks to try to escape.

It seemed she had finally stopped. One of the angels got up and was about to ask Avael how to proceed only for her to let out an enraged scream.

Sending a massive beam of holy light at the barrier and going back to rapidly attacking it.

"I'LL TURN THE WORLD INTO DUST IF SOMEONE HAS EVEN SCRATCHED HIS PERFECT FACE."

-{Kai}-

I walked past the large main house, Dionysus and Chiron sat on the deck playing cards. The sky was darkening as I was making my way towards the campfire.

"Ah, Cai. How's your time at camp so far?" Dionysus asked.

"Eh, pretty good. How about yours, Dinkynus?" I asked and Chiron spat out his water with a cough.

Dionysus merely chuckled at my taunt.

"I am liking you more. You're nothing like those prudent doves."

I merely sent him a smirk.

I found a bunch of the campers surrounding the campfire by the time I arrived. Spotting Percy sitting alone at the back with a frown I sat next to him.

"Yo." I greeted, with a friendly smile on my face. To an unsuspecting dude, I would look like the perfect dude with that

Percy blinked.

"O-oh hi." He hesitantly greeted me back.

"How's it going?" I asked.

Percy frowned.

"Okay, I guess." He replied.

I gave him a nudge. "What's up?"

Percy's shoulder slumped.

"I don't know. It's just a bit much." He replied.

We both watched as Chiron arrived moments later and everyone cheered.

"What do you find 'a bit much'?" I inquired further.

"Everything." He gritted out. "I don't feel like I belong here despite the fact I'm supposedly a child of a God just like them."

"That's fair," I commented and he looked surprised.

I shrugged.

"Yesterday you were just some normal kid and now you are expected to fit in with a bunch of superpowered children of god," I explained my reasoning

"It'll take a while but I'm sure it'll work out in the end," I said and I saw a glimmer of appreciation in his eyes.

"Thanks." He mumbled.

I hummed, we both watched as Chiron finally arrived and got the various kids to sit around the campfire to start singing along to some silly camp song.

If I didn't know all these kids could tear out and throw trees the size of buses without any real effort it would have almost seemed normal.

Everyone sat and enjoyed telling spooky stories further into the night before Chiron declared a curfew.

I decided to walk around for a bit before I headed back to my sub-dimension for some rest.

-Scene Break-

I was walking around the camp with no real destination in mind, it was strange seeing the lively camp so desolate and quiet. The moon looked especially illuminated and large in the sky. Lighting up the camp with its light.

I could see why all the cabins have blinds now.

The parkour course had been pretty cool, it seemed to be some sort of training for the demigods to build reflexes and react quickly. However, I did think the large pit of magma at the bottom was a bit much even if they put a net over it.

Why even bother having it there?

I came around in a full loop and found myself back at the campfire, curiously I noted that the fire was still burning bright, perhaps even brighter than it had been burning before.

Passing the corner I paused as I spotted a small girl sitting down, tending to the fire. She looked to be around my age if not a bit older. There was a soft honest smile on her face as she hummed a beautiful rhythm to herself.

The girl had long dark silky hair that went down to her lower back. She was incredibly pretty for her age which looked to be about sixteen years old. She was tending to the fire.

"Hello," I called out.

She looked around and I was surprised to see two balls of flames in place of her eyes, somehow I could tell by her facial features that she was pretty surprised too. She gave me a warm smile a moment later.

"Well now, you aren't one of my family's children." She mused with a soft giggle.

'Appraisal'

{Name: Hestia}

{Title: Goddess Of The Hearth/Elder God}

{Race: God}

{Current Power level: 15,000}

{Power level: 59,940}

-{Non-Canon Omake: What If}-

[What if Kai didn't kill the goblins? - Part 2]

Kai lazed on his throne as hundreds of goblins kneeled in front of him. He took a sip of the wine he had gotten from the system store, relishing in the sight. After all, this was all the fruit of his hard work. How could he not enjoy the fruits of his labour?

"Are the preparations done?" He asked his General.

Grizella nodded dutifully.

"The potions you gave us have proved invaluable with the increased rate of fertility. Since goblins only take a few months to mature our army has grown into the thousands with the mass breeding law you enforced." Grizella reported with a little blush on her green cheeks.

Kai nodded. A pleased expression on his face. He had been abusing the system shop to grow his army into something worthy. He himself had grown a lot in the last year.

He had delved into the art of necromancy after downloading the spell Undead Army and Create High Tier Undead.

The force kneeling in front of me was the elite force, meaning they had been given more training and fed more enhanced potions. These enhancement potions unfortunately did not work on Kai so he mainly used them for his forces.

Getting up he walked to the large open balcony.

Overlooking the thousands of goblins and skeletons who cheered upon Kai's visage being seen. Kai inwardly laughed at the ridiculous fact he was an angel who was playing around with dark death magic.

He had summoned thousands of basic skeletons to act as foot soldiers since he hadn't had time to get any higher undead spells since they all had a cool-down and required a massive amount of mana.

There was also the fact he mainly wanted a large amount to act as fodder instead of a few strong ones. Since he had only started downloading Momonga about six months ago and it took a month or so to download him.

Which he couldn't do back to back.

"Better get started I guess."

A massive gate opened as Kai used an artefact from the systems store. His undead army marched forward first, acting as a shield for the goblins behind. A large city stood in front of them. To be specific it was the goblin capital.

The tribe Kai had found was merely one of many branches of the Goblin capital where the true Goblin royalty lay.

A horn rang as one of the capital goblin outposts spotted the large portal and the army rapidly marched out of it.

Shields sprung up as the goblin capital noticed the presence of thousands of undead.

"Cute," Kai mumbled.

Inhaling deeply Kai spoke one word that echoed through the sky. A spell he had downloaded from Momonga.

"Reality Slash."

Kai gasped at the sheer amount of magic that left his body only to grin as a massive tear appeared in the barrier a moment later. The barrier soon completely deteriorated.

A giant army of goblins poured out of the gate leading into the goblin capital a few minutes later. They roared as they all charged the massive wall of undead. Kai watched the battle with interest.

Observing the way that for everyone one goblin that died three undead were taken with them. A massive amount of fireballs were launched from behind the wall at Kai's army.

"That won't do." He let out a 'tsk'.

Waving his hands hundreds of light spears collided with them in the sky, causing massive explosions.

"Grizella." He called out. Watching his forces slowly being pushed back.

"Yes, my king?" She answered.

"Take the elite forces, do what you do best and cause some mischief," Kai ordered and Grizella nodded.

"Yes sir." She replied and took command of the elite goblin forces.

Suddenly a force of goblins dressed in gold with red capes bellowing out from behind them descended on the battlefield, all of them following a goblin in shining blue armour with a jagged golden crown.

'The true king of goblins I'm assuming?' Kai mused.

The Goblin King brought out a golden spear that flowed with a fierce light, and the soldiers following him who wore golden armour brought out their own weapons. They carved a path through the line of undead. Easily slaughtering them.

"Shields!" Kai's goblin commanders roared and the army of goblins belonging to Kai raised their shields.

"Spears!" The goblin commander roared and spears were raised.

The King of Goblins made it to the shield wall and raising his golden spear let loose a massive blue explosion that vaporised a good portion of the front line defence.

Kai frowned.

'He's stronger than I expected.' Kai thought.

Kai commanded the army of undead to seal the massive path they had opened behind them. Raising his hand he spoke.

"Reality Slash." The words echoed and Kai cringed a bit as a massive amount of mana was consumed.

The barely visible wave made it down to the King and his elite force in moments. Perfectly aimed to cut them all down, Kai's eyes widened as the Goblin King rolled off his horse suddenly. The elite force suddenly fell into two pieces as they were cut in an impossible clean cut.

Even the impressive-looking armour had stood no chance and was cleanly cut into two pieces. The goblin king who had barely avoided it got up and with a roar a bright blue energy exploded out from him.

Destroying everything around him in a fifty-metre radius.

The goblin king glared up towards Kai.

-END-

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