Percy Jackson and the Art of Gacha

System, show me my inventory.

[Inventory :

1. Celestial Bronze Hammer

2. Grimoire: Archives of the Shapeshifter

3. Grimoire: Book of Rituals, Curses and Black Magic

4. Battle Mask

5. Battle Glasses

6. Battle Headphones

7. A car

8. Anti-Tank-Rifle

9. Nightmares Chains

10. A Thermos

11. Set: Black Mechanic

12. Black Crest

13. Harvest Gauntlets

14. Inscription Pen]

System, what would happen if I were to activate ID Creat now?

[Host would be placed in the "Empty Space". It is the place of preparation for the host before actually entering the first Dungeon of the skill.]

Activate it please.

Suddenly I stood in an empty world. The floor was made entirely out of black tiles and the sky was a light grey color.

I decided to test the weapons first. So I took out the Black Crest and slung it over my back with its black and bronze surface.

Then I put on the Harvest Gauntlets. They looked like they were made out of black steel and were bronzen where the joints were.

Now came the Nightmares Chains. They were entirely black with no sign of bronze. As I attempted to put them around my arm they detached themselves and flew into my shadow.

"Huh, they are semi-sentient. That's new and unexpected." Was what I said. I couldn't wait to see them in action.

Finally I put on the last pieces of equipment. The Battle-Set. Once I had placed everything where it was supposed to be, black plates began to reach over my face and extended under my shirt to cover my neck. My hair, the snakes had decided to use the skill: Dislodge already, was uncovered. Atleast it seemed that way. After trying to knock on it there was resistance.

My eyes were covered by the glasses with a red glow behind them.

And finally the rebreather had its filters placed over my cheeks. The filters had the form of coffins, with the narrowed part at the mouth part and the wide part closer to my ears.

My ears were covered as well. They weren't even visible from any angle. But I knew I could hear just fine.

After doing everything I could to prepare myself it was time to enter the first dungeon.

[Entering Zombie Dungeon]

The sky here was dark. Clouds covered it and the moon rarely got to peek at the ground below. The sun, as I had been informed by the system, didn't exist in this dungeon.

Zombies were walking and stumbling around. They all had greyish blue skin and some had visible wounds.

I was positioned on the high ground and looked over what once must have been a beautiful and bustling city. The trees leaves were grey or yellow but otherwise looked like they were healthy and had always been that way.

I observed as a singular zombie stumbled away from its group and took aim with the bow.

An arrow, black in color with a cold air around it, clearly the influence of the harvest gauntlets freezing touch, was put in and the string was drawn back. I took aim at the zombies chest area and relaxed my fingers which caused the string to snap forward and launch the arrow straight to the target.

It first pierced the zombies chest and then got stuck, before frost started to spread over the zombies body only for it to shatter into tiny snow crystals.

The entire thing took less that 5 seconds.

[New Skill: Archery added to your skill list.]

[10 Exp received. Next Level up 10/100 Exp]

This was something new. It was the first Exp I ever gained. "System, can you explain to me how the leveling works?" Sure I mostly knew from video games how it worked but it might be different with the system.

[Up until Level 10, host will remain classless.

The next class will be unlocked if the class reaches level 10. Skills can develop until the level 100. Upon reaching this level they will change into Core-Domains. Core-Domains will be maxed at level 10 upon which they become divine domains. Leveling depends on what is being leveled.

To level up your class you will have to master the abilities related to them.

To level up your skills you have to use them.

To level up your Core-Abilities you have to connect to the domain related to them. Once they are maxed new abilities will be unlocked.]

[Congratulations on having activated the skill: Feast for the first time. Your venom has developed the effect of: Necrotic Damage. You are now able to enlarge your teeth into fangs to apply the venom and effect onto your target after biting them.

Over time their bodies will rot from the inside out if they aren't cured fast enough.]

System, I want to test the skill Mana Arrow, is there a way to know if I have any affinities?

[Host does have affinities tied to Wind, Rot, Death, Fire, Cold, Darkness, Disease , Necromancy and Sleep. To use them in the skill, host just has to think about it.]

I decided to try this on a new target.

Another black arrow flew out. The cold of the gauntlets had once again attached itself to it. But this time the arrow had a feeling of finality.

It struck a Zombie in the chest. Black cracks started to spread trough its body while the frost once again covered it. But this time it ended differently.

When the zombie, like the one from before, exploded, the shards flying in every direction, were bigger than before with black edges. Some Zombies standing a bit closer got hit by them and soon the scene repeated. This caused the other Zombies to notice the disturbance and all of them moved closer.

It took less than a minute for the street to be cleared of the Zombies. But I wasn't done yet. There was one last thing to test.

I wanted to test out the Abilities of Strengthen and Hunt. Both of them would do well if used with the bow and so I started to feel for my domains. Finally after some time I felt myself connect to something. And then the leaves on the trees started to gain color and fall to the ground. Only to be picked up by the wind and blown through the streets.

I felt a small itch in my eyes and my ears seemed to twitch for a moment.

[Congratulations host on causing the first incursion. The Domain of Fall/Autumn has been activated.]

And suddenly I could feel every Zombie in a 4 Kilometer radius. There weren't that many. I had already annihilated a third of them with the Death Arrow.

I readied the bow again. But this time, instead of feeling for my affinities they were already there, waiting for me to reach out.

The affinities I felt were Fire, from the candles you light your house with to keep the darkness away, Wind, from the playful but overwhelming force it unleashed in Autumn and Cold, from the shiver you got when it managed to crawl into your house and under your clothes.

I pulled back the string and followed my instincts. The wind whispered that it would guide my arrow where it needed to go, the fire demanded to strike the enemies fast and leave only charged corpses behind and the cold, oh how it was whispering, promising to be everywhere and nowhere at once, hitting everything and leave nothing standing.

The name felt right. This was not a strike meant to be playful. It was punishment for thinking they could ignore the fall, for daring to be outside of their homes when they should have known. Known to hide from it.

I let the arrow fly from a changed Black Crest. The Bow had now depictions of fall on it with small colorful leafes hanging on the tips while the grips of it where now covered in maple leafes with the beautiful color they get during autumn and depictions of my domain all over it.

The arrow I let loose was only slightly different from before. The tips seemed to be made from maple leafes with a slight glow to them, the main body of it from charcoal and the ending with its feathers, was bathed in small ice crystals.

Suddenly the arrow jerked to the right.

How could I have forgotten that there were no zombies in front of me left, was something I wondered even as I saw the arrow hit a lamp post only to ricochet of it and suddenly multiply.

That must have been what the cold had promised. How could you possibly hit all your enemies at the same time without a fitting amount of arrows.

And the wind, it had to have helped keep the arrow flying and ricochet of objects to readjust the arrows flight path. But there was something of about this. The arrows should have lost some of its kinetic energy but they seemed to accelerate instead.

Then I remembered what the fire had demanded. It was speeding up the arrows to allow for faster and more devastating strikes.

Finally the arrows had found their targets.

Inside the city, covered and protected by the concrete jungle, were several zombies. They were just trotting around when suddenly, out of several allys and even from over the buildings, black arrows rained down. Their numbers were overwhelming and they darkened the sky.

Every zombie was hit by several arrows. The zombies were launched backwards from the impacts. Chared flesh flew from their bodies, caused by minor explosions from the arrows flames as frost spread through their insides, stopping them from moving.

Only for the most vicious to deal the finishing blow, as their bodies were torn to shreds from the violent winds following the arrows.

4 entire city blocks were suddenly, in the matter of seconds, freed from the presence of zombies.

Then the leafes were blown in and with them came the distant echo of laughter. Not the kind that shivers your bones. But the kind that warns you from danger, the kind that let's you know that someone is looking out for you and the kind that promises safety to you, only to promise harm to those trying to take you from it. From whatever it was that had laughed and cause this incursion to appear.