"Bu-but that's impossible! If that's true… how powerful is that man?" Elsa asked the frightening question on Percy's mind.
Percy looked around the room and found three kegs each four foot tall with the label for the preservation liquid on top. Percy walked to the kegs and lifted them up putting them into his inventory.
"Where did those things go?" Elsa asked surprised.
Percy sighed, it was time like this when he really wished that people knew about his powers so he didn't have to keep explaining them every six seconds, "I put them in a pocket dimension for storage. Now let's see what's there in the other rooms."
Percy put one bomb on the wall of the room and left. The room directly opposite to this one was arranged like a chemical lab. There were chemical set ups located all over the room with ongoing chemical reactions. The beakers and vials were filled with chemicals that Percy couldn't even begin to pronounce, even with his now stellar English language skills.
"So this must be where he makes all his drugs," Percy said looking at the room.
"No...it's too small," Elsa said as she placed her hands on the walls causing it to slowly freeze over. The ice spread out from the wall to the floor and soon the entire room was frozen over with all the ongoing reactions destroyed, "I hope that at least irritates the bastard a little."
The two then walked out to the tunnel and went further down. After a while they came upon another door and this one lead into a huge library. Percy's eyes widened comically, here was information that Argo himself deemed worthy of attention. The man was mad, but a genius.
"Come on let's go, it's just books," Elsa said moving to leave when suddenly a gust of wind blew across her face.
Percy had gone super speed as he quickly began looting everything in sight. He threw all the books he found into his inventory He kept pulling each one up without even looking at what he picked up. Finally when it was all over Percy had around 58 books stored up inside his inventory and he noticed several boxes open up in front of him;
You have obtained the book containing the skill : Beginners Botanist
Would you like to learn?
YES/NO?
You have obtained the book containing the skill : Advance Zoology
Would you like to learn?
YES/NO?
You have obtained the book containing the skill : Basic physics
Would you like to learn?
YES/NO?
You have obtained a book containing the knowledge of Business administration
Would you like to learn?
YES/NO?
You have obtained a book containing the knowledge of The Universe
Would you like to learn?
YES/NO?
You have obtained a book containing the knowledge of Understanding languages
Would you like to learn?
YES/NO?
You have obtained a book containing the knowledge of creating a Nazism regime.
Would you like to learn?
YES/NO?
Percy bleached at all those notifications, and these weren't the only ones, there were around 30 more notifications behind these ones. He was so going to use these books to bribe the Athena kids. Those book worms always get the best food because they always get up so early! Seriously! Who the fuck gets up at 5 in the morning just to study more books?! Percy appreciated knowledge, but there was a limit!
Elsa blinked, "I didn't realize you were that fast."
Percy closed all the boxes in front of him, "yeah I know, people tend to have the same look whenever they see me do that."
Elsa then asked, "What are you going to do with them?"
Percy shrugged, "study them, maybe learn about what Argo is trying to accomplish by starting a war with the Olympians. You know, the usual."
Elsa nodded and walked up to the desk in front of the book shelf, she bent under the table and began running her hands over the side of the desk.
"Ah, what are you doing?" Percy asked.
"Argo always kept some papers hidden away, if I were to guess…." Click!, "right here." A hidden compartment opened up on the table's surface and in it was a brown leather brown book. Elsa picked it up and threw it to the side.
"That kind of looked important," Percy commented.
"It's a dummy," Elsa said as she began inspecting the bottom of the hidden compartment, "Argo had several like them all over the place. He used to pretend he couldn't see me and would hide them all over the place to give me a false sense of security, to make me think that I knew a secret of his. But he always used to hide his real journal elsewhere," Elsa then formed a thin line of ice and pushed into to the edge of the drawer slowly pulling it out.
Warning! Bomb!
"Elsa wait!" Percy shouted as he sent a blast of ice mana freezing the compartment whole.
"Why did you do that?" Elsa asked removing her hand from the compartment.
"My danger warning system kicked off," Percy explained as he slowly broke the wooden table away using Body From. The whole hidden compartment was then revealed through a block of ice. There was a trigger hidden underneath the hidden compartment with a bomb right below it, so if the false bottom was removed it would have exploded in Elsa's face.
"Thanks," Elsa said, "you have some quick reflexes."
Percy nodded as he carefully removed pieces of the ice to disengage the trigger and pull the real book out. It was identical to the one Elsa threw away but something told Percy this was the real one. Inside was filled with notes about secret projects and other things that Percy couldn't make out for the life of him, maybe Annabeth could help him out later. Percy put the journal inside his inventory and the two walked out of the now empty library. They continued down the tunnel and found a double door at the very end. They pushed the doors aside and stopped when they saw the room.
It was a lab of some kind, Percy saw the wall lined up with surgical instruments, some were clean, others were covered in blood. The room had tables all over, there were 12 in total and each had leather straps on them covered with blood. The demigod didn't need to guess what this room was used for.
"He used these for human experimentation," Elsa said as her arms began coating themselves with ice involuntarily, "fucking bastard."
Percy nodded and looked around finding charts and files lined up near the side. He approached them and read them, and he almost wished that he didn't.
From what he could understand Elsa wasn't the only one Argo had been doing experiments on. There were hundreds of them. The files here spoke of how Argo tried to put traits of different monsters into human beings.
There were several test subjects, with a lot of deaths and few successes. One test subject was a boy, age 11, Argo had put the cells of Hellhounds into the boy's body causing him to become a hybrid of sorts. He could Shadow Travel, something Percy never really got the hang of doing, and could also pass as a Hellhound himself. Something about him smelling like one.
Then there was the case about Argo transforming a woman into a gorgon before trying to transform her back. The experiment failed but the result gave the woman the uncanny ability to transform between her human form and he gorgon form, but anyone who looked at her in either form died instantly.
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