Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-1515612-20160902235812/@comment-31636400-20170411001404

Let's get some things straight. First of all @Jason grace is op: Iapestus is NOT weaker than Krios. You have no reference in that whatsoever except for Tartarus's word. But protengei like Tartarus have a way of bending the truth to fit their own benefits so you can't trust Tartarus's word. He was able to hold his own against Kronos+Luke with the curse of achilles on the boat by himself, with no aid at all. Here's an example of how Percy could've injured Kronos if it weren't for the curse of achilles: I stumbled backward, switched my sword to my left hand, and lunged desperately. My blade should've run him through, but it deflected off his stomach like I was hitting solid marble. There was no way he should've survived that.

And yet Kronos did survive it, because he had the curse of Achilles. Also, Percy himself was able to overcome the curse, something that not even Jason would've been able to do: Suddenly there was a wrenching pain in my gut. The entire boat lurched sideways, throwing monsters off their feet. Four thousand gallons of salt water surged out of the swimming pool, dousing me and Kronos and everyone on the deck. The water revitalized me, breaking the time spell, and I lunged forward. And did you forget that Percy had to fight several hundred monsters before he fought Kronos? I sliced through armor like it was made of paper. Snake woman exploded. Hellhounds melted into shadow. I slashed and stabbed and whirled, and I might have even laughed once or twice-a crazy laugh that scared me as much as it did my enemies. I was aware of the Apollo campers behind me shooting arrows, disrupting any attempt by the enemy to rally. Finally, the monsters turned and fled-about twenty out of two hundred. And how about the fact that The Curse of achilles make Percy tire a lot faster than usual? "You may be invulnerable in combat," Chiron said. "But that will only make your body tire faster. I remember Achilles. Whenever that lad was not fighting, he was sleeping. He must've taken twenty naps a day." As for Hyperion, Percy probably could have beat Hyperion without the curse of Achilles too as it was literally a fire vs water fight and the curse only helps with swordplay. The only time he might have needed it was when: Hyperion waved his hand and a wall of force slammed into me. I went sailing 300 feet backwards across the park. However, Percy has been able to take even stronger blows than that without the curse of Achilles and later fight deities similar in power to Hyperion. For instance, Porphyrion backhanded Percy like a pesky fly. The son of Poseidon went flying and crashed into one of the columns with a sickening crunch. And later, Percy was able to hold his own against Thoon. Percy was back on his feet, Riptide in his hand. He looked dazed and had a nosebleed but he seemed to be holding his own against the old giant Thoon who had somehow reattached his hand and found his meat cleaver. Percy was also flicked across the room by Kronos and later, was able to still fight Kronos himself. Kronos looked at me with an amused smile. Then he flicked his finger and I went flying across the room, slamming into a wall. I struggled to regain my footing but Kronos was already on his feet, his scythe in his hands. Percy defeating Iapetus is also underrated to a point in which I think people don't think it's a good feat anymore. Let's not forget that Percy was critically injured in that fight and was tired from allowing Thalia and Nico to cross the Lethe. I raised my arms like I was lifting something over my head. My bad shoulder burned like lava, but I tried to ignore it. The river rose. It surged out of its banks, flowing up and then down again in a great arc-a raging black rainbow of water twenty feet high. The riverbed in front of us turned to drying mud, a tunnel under the river just wide enough for two people to walk side by side. And yet, Percy was able to dodge a lot of Iapetus's attacks and injure him while Nico and Thalia who are arguably stronger demigods than Jason were literally defeated in like one second. Iapestus swung his spear like a tornado and I was just able to dodge his strikes. Even weakened and just out of the pit, that guy was fast. I barely to managed to dodge his spear as it impaled on the rock I was just standing on. Iapestus was weakened but that only deters him from releasing his divine form.And if his divine form is released, then no demigod will stand a chance against him as the divine form will just rip them into pieces. Now for the Ares feat. How many times do I have to say this feat is not flawed? People think it is flawed because Percy beat Ares but Percy was beaten by Luke who was beaten by Ares. First of all, Percy was out of practiced when he fought Luke and his sword was also unbalanced in his hand. As for Chrysoar, people think that the Ares feat is flawed as Percy lost to Chrysoar who was considered in a similar power level as Ares. Percy was also rusty against Chrysoar. Many of Percy's powers have grown stronger since then but too late, Percy realized that swordplay wasn't one of them. He was rusty, at least against an adversary like Chrysoar. That was from MOA in Percy's fight with Chrysoar. So Percy was also out of practiced when he fought Chrysoar. In conclusion, the Ares feat is NOT flawed. Yes Percy needed to push Ares into water to eventually defeat him but before that,