Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-1515612-20170526162707/@comment-32159399-20170601052706

Dude, the Romans were alert and ready for a fight because they were on the edge of war. And actually, Romans are trained to always be ready for a fight and to be constantly alert about an attack on every direction. Look, for example, Reyna was on the Argo 2 and at that time, she wasn't on the edge of any war with any crew members of the Argo 2 but she was still constantly alert and ready for an attack even though the crew of the Argo 2 treated her like an ally.

"Reyna looked constantly alert, as if ready for an attack in any direction."

The romans are trained to be constantly alert no matter what time it is and no matter how friendly somebody may be. And those six romans were legit in war so they were obviously even more alert than usual. And dude, Percy took out at least half the entire first and second cohorts without having a one up with them. I am not saying that Nico is as skilled as Percy because he obviously isn't near as skilled as him but if you put it that way, Nico defeating six romans does make sense. And if we go to other examples of Nico swordfighting, he held his own against Keres which is an extremely impressive feat and was also able to hold his own in a fight with Iapetus which is definitely very impressive even when he had Percy and Thalia on his side. And Nico also defeated a whole squad of Earthborn with only one hand as he was using the other to hold the sceptre.