Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-1515612-20150930233157/@comment-24055022-20160405204833

Erick.baez.773 wrote: 8th Hero of Olympus wrote: ^^Maybe not, but while possessed, Jason and Percy still retained all of their respective combat skills.

I find it incredible to see the fact that people concentrate completely on this quote/section of MoA and leave out the other facts. It has been told already in The Mark of Athena the possibility why they were equal:

''Many of Percy's powers had gotten stronger over the years, but now, too late, Percy realized that swordplay was not one of them. He was rusty-at least against an adversary like Chrysaor." (pg. 368).'' I don't understand how he was out of shape. He trained with Lupa before being sent to Camp Jupiter, then went on the quest with Frank and Hazel the next, then the next quest the day after the previous quest was completed. How was he out of shape in that short period of time?