Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-1515612-20160617203709/@comment-28759193-20160619171638

8th Hero of Olympus wrote: ^^^Ares was not under Kronos' control - Kronos was merely subtly manipulating the war god, first by telling Luke what to say to the war god, and then sending the war god some dreams. As for why Ares was holding back - first of all, as I pointed out to you above, that is the logical conclusion that is reached upon some deeper analysis of the characters' respective combat feats [if Ares was able to defeat Luke (who was able to defeat 13-year-old Percy with relative ease), then him losing to a 12-year-old Percy makes no logical sense, unless Ares was holding back], and also, it can be clearly seen in that scene that Ares greatly underestimated Percy as an opponent, initially not even seeing him as worthy to engage in direct combat with (instead ordering one of his boars to kill Percy), and while there are fighting Ares taunts Percy, saying that he is just toying with the demigod. I will disagree. I think 8th is looking at it from the wrong angle. I am looking at it from the angle of ''Percy. ''Throughout the series we have seen that you're state was a great factor in battle. Depending on Percy's mood, I think the likelihood of him winning wavers.

Think about it. That time, Percy had been all over the place looking for something he didn't steal just to realize that Ares was one of the culprits (If I remember correctly), plus Ares naturally angers everyone. Imagine Percy's rage. That would be a pretty good motivation to whoop Ares' sorry ass, don't you think?

So I don't think it matters that Ares beat Luke who beat Percy, blah blah blah, so Ares must have been holding back. Also, apart from the thing that Percy naturally hates Luke, I don't think he had anything major going on to cause rage. Plus Percy was fighting without a shield, while Luke was, if we're talking about the same fight. Besides, who knows? If Percy was angry enough, he may have beaten Chrysaor. But I still think Chrysaor would deck Ares' incredibly sorry ass.