Julian turned to one of the Legionnaires that was following them, "call Hannibal and get it to bring two large marble blocks to the field of Mars, we are going to have a competition between the Greeks and Rob."
The legionnaire saluted and took off while the rest of the following members talked in hushed tones about what they were about to see.
In the back of the military encampment was another door that opened up to a road. The road went forward and forked into two paths, on towards that hill with all the temples and the other towards the city that Percy saw before.
But instead of going on the road Julia and Rob lead them off the trail and into the grassy plains surrounding them.
The fields of grass soon lead towards a large stretch of land that was rocky and rough. Percy could tell that the terrain had been stepped on repeatedly over and over, this was probably where the Roman demigods trained.
"This," Julia said, "is the field of Mars,. This is where we train, where we fight and this is where you two will settle this little argument of yours."
Percy nodded and turned to Rob, "before we begin I would like to change our wager a little bit."
Rob smirked, "why? Scared you'll lose the shield? I don't blame you, hell any Roman here would kill for a weapon of Mars."
The Romans suddenly broke out into talk.
"The Greek has a shield of Mars?"
"How did he get it?"
"This is no fair! He is a Greek! He shouldn't be allowed to even look at it!"
"How dare he!"
Percy rolled his eyes, "I don't want to change my wager, the offer still stands. And besides I never use this shield anyway, useless thing."
"How dare you!" Rob roared, "that is the shield my father gave to you! You should treat it with the respect it deserves!"
Percy yawned, "yeah yeah, look let's get down to buisness, I don't want your spear, okay? It's kind of useless, it won't serve me well. I'll just do to it what I did to the shield, put it away in my storage space and let it collect dust."
Rob growled, "fucking Greek."
"What I want from you though is an apology," Percy said with narrowed eyes, "you insulted my dad and that I something I can't forgive. I want you to apologize over and over again, whenever I ask you will say, 'Neptune is the greatest, and I am a stupid dumb son of Mars'."
Rob snorted, "fine. I'll say that, I have no problem saying that. If you win that is, son of Neptune."
The declaration of Percy's parentage instantly set off a chain reaction inside camp. Everyone started to speak out about him bringing bad luck and how he wanted to destroy camp.
"Get rid of him!"
"Throw him out!"
"Take his shield and then throw him out!"
Percy rolled his eyes again as Julia went into overdrive trying to control the people and assure them that everything was taken care of. After she told them that Percy promised to never use his powers over the Earth inside camp most calmned down. Some were still furious about what Percy said about Mars, but they kept quite.
Just then a giant elephant came out of the military encampment and into the field of Mars. Percy watched the giant thing move slowly as it dragged forward two 15 foot tall blocks of marble.
"I'm assuming that's Hannibal?" Percy asked.
Julia nodded, "yes."
"You didn't mention he was an elephant."
Julia shrugged and soon the blocks were unloaded. Percy and Rob stood in front of their respective blocks of marble. Percy gave the shield to Thalia to hold and Rob gave his spear to Julia.
Behind them the Romans were all cheering, for Rob. They booed Percy and cried out insults. It continued like that for some time before Thalia got angry and summoned a bolt of lighting threw it in front of the crowd shutting them up.
Rob smirked, "if you truly are the leader of the Greeks then that means your loss will prove that Romans are better."
Percy smirked, "then I'm going to enjoy proving you wrong. And besides what do you mean Romans are better? You guys basically plagiarized everything from our cultural and called it your own. You guys are like the Dane Cooks of cultures. You steal things which aren't yours and then claim you are better for it somehow."
Rob and the other Romans growled in anger as Thalia face palmed herself, 'this just turned super bad super fast,' she told herself.
"We will fucking kill you Greek!" someone shouted, but was promptly ignored by all.
"I'm going to make you eat those words," Rob turned to his block of marble and drew back his right arm. He stayed perfectly still for a few seconds before he launched his fist forwards and into the marble cracking it and forming spider webs that were growing along the stone block.
Rob took his arm out and shock it, Percy could see blood around his knuckles. Rob had completely shattered the stone around the area of impact. Pieces of rocks were knocked loose and were on the ground. The cracks on the marble reached the edges, but Percy could tell they weren't really deep.
"Damn," Percy said whistling, "that is impressive."
Rob smirked as he held his throbbing arm, "your god damn right Greek. You might as well hand that shield over right now."
Percy nodded as he walked around his own marble block, "tempting, but no." Percy then released all of his six seals causing his strength to increase exponentially;
Seal Release: Layer 6, Time: 26 hours.
STR- 69,120 (+20)= 69,140
Percy stood to the side facing away from Rob's block of marble and pressed his hand up on the surface of his marble block. He used as little force as he could he pushed it forward pressing bother stone together.
Percy took his hand off the stone and saw his hand print imbedded into the stone. Percy smirked, he drew back his hand and launched it forward.
The moment his hand touched the stone the block shattered into pieces. The force of the punch didn't stop there however as it hit the stone block next to it destroying that as well.
Pieces of stone flew everywhere as the force of the punch sent them flying forward like leaves in a hurricane. The marble blocks were grounded into nothing as a large amount of the marble turned into dust, only a few pieces remained as a solid, and even then they only were in the form of small stones.
Percy patted himself, the marble dust was everywhere. He walked towards the crowd and reactivated his seals.
"So," Percy began looking at the stunned crowd of Romans, "which one of you wanted to kill me?"
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