The Rule of Succession

Chapter Nine

A/N. reviews.

"Amazing chapter. Can't wait for the next one." -GokuBlackSSJR14

Thanks bro.

"Given that God typically considers humanity his children, I could imagine God giving Percy a lot of leeway, even as a demigod. He did create free will as a gift for humanity, after all. God is described as loving Lucifer as his son despite the rebellion, and let him live in hopes Lucifer might repent despite knowing he never would." -TheKaiSenpai

That's not the case in this story though. Free Will didn't exist until Percy killed Lucifer, remember?

(Note: These next reviews, I'm gonna post them one after another without break, because I have a response to them as a whole.)

"This is some B's all the others were agreeing zesu was a bad king and he just proved it by attacking his brother for pointing out. Yet they do nothing when they know he's wrong and agree he's the issue and annoyed Percy called it a pissing contest as he should be agreeing that zesu isn't a good leader"

"I don't see why he thinks Percy fighting zesus would be funny given he's fout titans and giants. Honestly Percy shouldn't trust anyone who is helping Zeus or sitting by while he's pulling this B's when they all know it's wrong"

"Hmm if this Percy has already meet Carter and Magnus maybe he should have went to carter and found out how they banished gods"

"Why is he saying his dad picked a fight what he did was defend himself and speak the truth?

Where's Nico and did Percy get anythjng besides the title when he won"

"Trash once again instead of standing up to and doing what's right they try to appease Zeus. So dissappinted that Percy is going to go along with this bull"

"Honestly at this point in the game hestia is annoying" -Guest

Okay, so I know that Rick didn't really do a good job of portraying it, and fanon has made it even worse, but Zeus is THE most powerful God in the pantheon besides maybe Nyx. And it's not even close. You're wondering why they aren't calling Zeus out on his bullshit? Maybe because last time they did, hera was hung over the edge of Chaos itself? Poseidon and Apollo were turned mortal and forced to create the walls of Troy? Remember? So yeah, they aren't exactly keen to repeat that.

On top of that, Percy didn't actually beat any of the gods/titans/giants by himself. He didn't beat Ares (i'll get into this in the actual story, just wait), he didn't beat Hyperion without help from Grover and the nymphs, Kronos kicked Percy's fucking ass, mutiple times, and he didn't kill nay of the giants singlehandedly either, because he needed the help of a god to do that.

My question for you is, at what point do you look at that and realize, 'hmm, maybe the author is trying to convey something here?'

"So how the hell does this work? Did Percy not get any power up on taking that position? If not then he would die in just a couple chapters." -Exodus12345

It's like becoming president of the US. You don't gain any power except political power. Which is why he keeps fighting. Luckily, demons seem to just be low level monsters, so he's fine. For now.

"Why would he still be mortal since he is now the King of Hell? Also why would he have to look away from her true from anymore? If anything he should be way above the Olympians with the amount of followers that religion has." -Exodus12345

Explained in the last point, it's purely political. As for the religion thing, it's a moot point, because no one worships the Devil, in fact, that's very frowned upon in said religion. (IAnd don't bring up Satanism, because that is worshiping the self, not the devil) Even if there were people worshiping the devil, they wouldn't be worshiping Percy. They'd be worshiping a dead corpse. So no, he's still under the Olympians.