Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-1515612-20170321231024/@comment-31388134-20170327223630

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 in the battle with Bryce,he was energised because he and his friends were about to die.He was also angry with Bryce Lawrence.That won't happen in this fight.Also,Nico ghostifying people takes a lot of energy and Nico nearly died after ghostifying Bryce.Also,he needs to get close to people to ghostify them and Jason can fly into the air or use wind blasts and bye.