Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-1515612-20170321231024/@comment-24914756-20170328171602

Coolguypro777 wrote: Nico can use shadows as a way of transportation; however, great distances tend to wear him out. The first time he shadow traveled, he passed out for a week. He has said that while learning to use it, he ran into walls and made accidental trips to China. He seems to have gotten better control over it because in  The House of Hades, he implied he could use shadow travel to send the  Argo II  across a mountain range, but was too weak because of his time in Tartarus. When he recovers his strength by the end of the  The House of Hades, he decides to transport the  Athena Parthenos  across the ocean by shadow-traveling about three hundred miles at a time. However, as revealed in  The Blood of Olympus, overexertion of shadow travel can cause the user's molecular structure to begin to fall apart, gradually turning them into shadows and lose themselves. Due to Nico pushing himself to bring the  Athena Parthenos  to Camp Half-Blood, he began to lose himself, even entering a "shadow coma".In nowhere has Nico travelled short distances in the books.He only traveled hundreds to thousands of miles.Has it not occured to him?I don't think so.Anyway,you have no reference on Nico shadow travelling short distances and you can't assume that he can just do it.It's not how it works.LOL!Anyways,he can destroy skeleton warriors because he has control over them. Nico can reanimate skeletons, summon  Skeleton Warriors, put them to sleep, and destroy them. In  The Battle of the Labyrinth, Nico was able to permanently banish  Minos  to the Underworld. In  The Last Olympian, he was able to summon a large army of undead soldiers all by himself. It is unknown how much he has increased in power since then. This is an extremely powerful ability as it literately allows him to have an army anytime he wants. However, summoning too many undead warriors at one time can cause him fatigue. As shown in  The Blood of Olympus, when he is angered enough, Nico can destroy even undead warriors that aren't under his control, which he does with Bryce Lawrence's zombie troops. Whenever he needs a personal chauffeur, Nico summons Jules-Albert, a loyal French zombie.That proves he can destroy skeleton warriors.It might drain him but he has the power to do that being a son of Hades.And Nico's powers affect a certain radius?That won't do much as that power is just sending waves around telling others that one is dead. And it only affects a short radius.Nico can sense death as it happens or when it is coming; when a person close to him dies, it comes as a ringing in the ears. In addition to that, he has a deep knowledge of the Underworld and knows when a person's life is being judged in the Underworld. Nico can also sense when an immortal is fading, as in the case of Pan in The Battle of the Labyrinth. And in the battle with Bryce,he was energised because he and his friends were about to die.He was also angry with Bryce Lawrence and Octavian.That won't happen in this fight.Also,Nico ghostifying people takes a lot of energy and Nico nearly died after ghostifying Bryce.Nico could possibly ghostify Jason but it is unlikely as he needs to get close to people to ghostify them and Jason can fly into the air or use wind blasts and bye.Source:http://riordan.wikia.com/wiki/Nico_di_Angelo Nico uses shadow travel to travel a wide variety of distances. From hundreds of miles with the Athena Parthenos to traveling 100-200 metres up from the underground Necromanteion. This does not prove that Nico can't travel short distances. Also when you say 'has it not occurred to him', why would he do it? Percy stated that shadow travel was a really unpleasant experience, so why use it for short distances when it is much easier/more practical to travel normally? When he summons/destroys the dead it causes him fatigue (e.g the battle of the Labyrinth)  as do all the powers of demigods. He can't destroy skeletons easily. When you say that 'he was energised because he and his friends were about to die'  and that 'this won't happen in this fight' are you implying that Nico will have already beaten Jason without the need to turn him into a ghost? Because I'm pretty sure this will be a life/death situation. He will also be angry at the betrayal of one of his friends. You also say 'Nico nearly died'. What does it matter? He will have more strength than he did then and he won't have to fight anyone afterward. Also, those powers do affect a wide radius as he sent Bryce and his army to the underworld at once. The powers caused Bryce to 'stumble, clutching his head'. The force knocked him to the ground and he wasn't able to get back up. The same will happen to Jason and he wouldn't be able to use his powers.