After the enlightening conversation Alexander had with Chiron, he decided to go out and look around the camp. It was already morning, so things should start getting lively soon.
"I think I'll look around the camp now. There should be many fun activities your campers do right?"
"Yes, well, the activities are more a fun training regimen. Since demi-gods encounter lot's of monsters outside the barrier, they need to be strong enough to defend themselves if they survive past their teens and become adults. Things should calm down a bit after that."
"Cool. Let's go then." Alexander was looking forward to seeing what Chiron puts the kids through to train them.
He has seen and invented many training methods for his past disciples, but he still enjoys seeing how others train. Although the training itself may not be as effective as his, they can provide inspiration to create new ways of training.
"Alright, but before we go to the children, can you answer one question?" Chiron asked cautiously.
Usually, asking gods about personnel things when you are not directly descended from them is a surefire way to get punished, but he realized that Alexander doesn't really care for such things.
"Go ahead."
"You don't seem to be from any Greek story or any pantheon's myths I have ever heard, so where did you come from?" Chiron asked slowly, checking Alexander's body language in case he overstepped his bounds and Alexander went Zeus level paranoia about questioning his position.
"It is obvious you didn't hear anything about me, I'm not even from anywhere near your star system. It would have required a miracle and a half for anything regarding me to have found its way to Earth." Alexander was amused.
This planet was so small compared to those of the other civilizations he had encountered that even the ones who tried doing something childish like conquering the universe would not place it in their eyes.
The natural resources didn't have a drop of mana or any type of energy to be valuable. The planet itself is slowly dying due to it's inhabitants that it would require more resources to restore it than what they would have gotten from it in return.
It is basically the countryside of the universe.
While Chiron was lost in thought about finding out aliens were apparently a thing nowadays, Alexander opened the door and left the Big House. He walked as the sun began to rise and the campers started going to their activities, a few of which stopped and stared at his figure as he passed by.
He walked for a while before he heard a gruff female voice calling to him from behind.
"Hey snowball! Haven't seen you before are you new?" A girl with pale brown hair and dark eyes called out to Alexander.
"…I guess you could ay that." Alexander didn't mind her being rude. He stopped caring about about other people's mannerism towards him a LONG time ago.
"Great! Before you officially become part of camp, you'll need to go through my initiation!" She said with a sneer.
She walked over to Alexander and tried to grab his arm to drag him towards the initiation ground aka the toilets. The only problem was she felt that she was pulling on an immovable mountain.
If anyone who knew of Alexander's true strength were watching this, immortal or not, they would laugh themselves to an early grave.
A demi-god trying to drag a being older than her whole civilization to the 'initiation ground'. Laughable!
Alexander just stood there, unmoving and amused at the barely over a decade old child trying to force him to do something. He found it especially funny when her face turned red from exertion, yet no matter how hard she tried, he didn't move a nanometer.
They stood there for quite a while and the other campers were watching with wide eyes at the 'confrontation' between the new 'camper' and one of the leaders of a cabin.
"Why don't you start with introducing yourself, alright?" Alexander said with a smirk.
The girl just huffed as she gave one last hard tug before letting go of his arm.
"The name's Clarisse La Rue, Stick-man. And you just made your life in camp a living hell." Clarisse said as she turned around and left.
She called him Stick-man because although Alexander is quite literally the strongest in this solar system, he doesn't really like to look buff, so he made his muscles more stream like
She had never been so humiliated in her life. She, the strongest of the Ares cabin, the daughter of the god of war, couldn't move a new camper even an inch.
At that moment, Alexander became the 'rival' she would use to become stronger to wipe that smirk right off his face.
The other campers stared at Alexander harder than when they visited Olympus. The man became a legend of camp on this very day as well. The beginning of…
The Immovable Snowman!
Alexander just laughed slightly and resumed his tour of the camp. He noted the dining area, the arena, armory, lava wall…lava wall?
"Huh, a wall of lava used to trained kids. I wonder if using plasma instead would make them more motivated to climb faster?" He muttered to himself.
For some reason, campers all over felt a shiver go up their spines, whoch was wierd because the barrier regulates the weather, so it shouldn't be too cold.
He went to the nearby forest to meat the tree spirits he sensed living there. He always like nature spirit. Alexander met quite a few of them over his travels and most of them were a very peaceful races from dryads to fairies, although when members of their race fall, they fall hard.
Straight out of the trees, green skinned girls in humanoid bodies of all ages emerged from the bark. Most had smooth green skin and beautiful green eyes. Most of them wore dresses made from vines, leaves and a few used sticks. However, some of them seemed to prefer to expose more skin and covered only the breasts and lower body.
"Are you a human?" One of the dryads asked.
Usually, most dryads only help out the camp when it is requested in return for the protection of the barrier.Some of the younger more playfull dryads tease the satyrs and some of the young demigods in their free time, but the older more mature spirits spend most of their time in their trees enjoying the light of the sun and the wind blowing through their leaves.
And yet, due to a single presense, most of the dryads, young and old alike left their homes to see a young man wearing a black blindfold and black decorated with ferocious looking white dragons. But his clothes weren't what got their attention.
It was his presence.
Spirits are more sensitive to the aura of living beings…and Alexander's aura doesn't make sense to them at all.
It was as if an evil dragon with enormous power is protecting a small pure baby. His aura was both evil and good, ferocious and calm. It is like 2 people with apposite personalities merged.
"Nope! I was a human a long time ago but not anymore." Alexander replied.
Alexander didn't actively try to hide his aura, he just covered it up enough to not affect the people he interacts with. But spirits can see through the weak cover he put on himself because ab their nature.
Alexander spent some time in the forest, gething to know some of the locals. They showed him the plants in the area while explaining their properties. They didn't know why, but they felt it was worth it to get on the strange former human's goodside.
And it was the best hunch they ever followed.
" Why didn't any of you girls form your life core yet?" Alexander voiced out his question.
Some of the dryads are over a hundred years old, yet they hadn't even formed a life core get.
"What's a life care?" One of the younger dryads asked to no one in particular the same question on most of their minds.
" It's a core formed from condensed life force. For spirits who require a part nature to stay alive, it acts as a storage for life energy which allow them to move around more freely and even perform life magic. None of you have heard of this?" Alexander explained then asked his own question as he looked at the bewildered expressions of the older dryads.
These dryads fully expected to live and die in the same place, and now they find out they could move around and perform magic…to say they were shocked was an understatment.
Before the dryads could snap out of their daydreams, Alexander decided to call ever the oldest at the dryads.
" Miss Tryeni, could you come over here for a bit." Alexander told her to came towards here tree.
"Now, sit down cross-legged and close your eyes with your hands and your tree."
Tryeni couldn't go against his instructions. It felt natural to listen to what he teaches you something. His demeanor changes and makes everyone present feel like he is a teacher together with his students. And the way the rest of the dryads were staring at them fortified that image.
" Focus on your hands. The texture of the wood. The life force flowing from the ground all they way up to the leaves of the highest branch. Can you feel it?"
After a few minutes, she answered.
" Yes..." Tryeni's voice was filled with astonishment.
For a dryad, feeling the flow of lifeforce in her own tree is like a human feeling the blood flowing through their entire body. It was something that could not be imagined, but you can understand how fascinating the feeling would be.
"Good. Now, take a flow and direct it through your left arm. Make it pass by your heart and flow back into the tree from your right hand." Alexander spoke slowly as he gestured towards the other dryads to stay quiet.
If the flow was distrupted, it can cause damage to Tryeni, who's body is still not accustomed to handling life force.
Luckily, nothing happened as Tryeni took 15 minutes to direct the flow, her face scrunched up in concentration with beads of sweat falling down her forehead.
Once Alexander sensed that the flow has stabilised enough, he continued.
"Focus on creating a whirlpool in your chest. Start slow. Just pull a string of energy from the river and make it spin slowly. Anywhere in your chest area is fine. Find the place you can focus on the most. After stabilizing the whirlpool, pull on one string at a time until the whirlpool can spin on it's own." Alexander made sure to spea k slowly and quietly to not startle her into injuring herself.
She did as he said, her face scrunching up even more as she had to focus on (keeping the flow in her arms stable as well. Her already green face flushed even greener at the effort she was putting in.
1 hour later, she succeeded with the first strand of energy, but she couldn't relax yet. The flow in her arms began to destabilize as her concentration stretched thin. She took another half an hour to stabilize before she began working on the next strand.
A few hours later, after 10 strands of life force, the whirlpool suddenly began spinning on it's own which almost surprised Tryeni enough to lose control.
Luckily, she felt Alexander's hand on her shoulders at that moment.
"You did well." Three simple words caused Tryeni's tired, flushed face bloom into a smile, her blush deepening a bit more, but he didn't notice as he focused on keeping the flow stable.
The whirlpool began pulling in strands of energy on it's own from that point on. Because Tryeni was a dryad, her body adapted far quicker to life force than if any other race would have.
Half an hour later, the whirlpool absorbed 40 strands of energy before Alexander spoke again.
"That's enough for today. Give your body a chance to adapt to containing the whirlpool. If it explodes, the plant life will go haywire and grow uncontrollably in a 3 kilometer radius." Alexander said calmly while Tryeni and the rest of the dryads paled slightly.
They were going to try and form their own whirlpool, but decided to let Alexander finish with Tryeni first so he can supervise them later.
Why not now? Because he laid down under Tryeni's tree with his arms spread an ether side, his head using a root as a pillow.
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MC: WHERE THE FUCK WERE YOU?!? DO YOU KNOW HOW BORING IT IS FOR ME TO JUST SIT IN FRONT OF AN OLD MAN-HORSE WHILE TIME IS STOPPED?!?
Author: Wait... time stops when I'm not writing?
MC: That's not the point, motherfucker!!!
Author: Alright alright, I'm sorry ok?
MC: ....Sigh, whatever. BTW, why is this chapter so long?
Author: I'm probably not going to be able to do daily updates, so I decided to make longer chapters for when I DO update! I'm so smart. *Puffing chest in pride*
MC: *Stare* My author... My future is bleak isn't it? Sigh, I'll go write my will.
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Yeah I updated finally!!! Praise me😎😎!!!