With the encouragement of Will and Bob, Nico fights back against Nyx's manipulations, embracing the fact that he is more than just his darkness while Will accepts his own darkness to tap into Apollo's plague powers to fight Nyx. Nyx reveals that she has created cacodemons out of manifestations of Nico's darkness and she urges him to accept his darkness and stay in Tartarus where the goddess believes that he belongs. By combining their powers, Nico and Will free Bob before Nyx arrives with Nemesis, Hypnos, a reformed Epiales, and an army of monsters to cut off their escape. Locating Bob's pet saber-toothed skeleton cat Small Bob, the demigods discover that Percy and Annabeth's giant friend Damasen is still reforming and can't help them before finally reaching Nyx's home, the Mansion of Night, where Bob is imprisoned in a continuous regeneration cycle. Using Gorgyra's canoe, Nico and Will descend into Tartarus where the power of the river forces them to confront their insecurities and differences of opinion, particularly on the nature of the Underworld. The trogs lead the demigods to the River Acheron where the nymph Gorgyra agrees to help them in exchange for Nico and Will sharing their story with her. Nico reveals that he had encountered Nyx while traveling through Tartarus before getting captured by the giants and she took an interest in him, realizing that Nyx is using Bob as bait to get at Nico. Pleased with their success, Menoetes reveals that Bob, while reforming from dying while helping Percy and Annabeth, was captured by the primordial goddess of night, Nyx, who seeks to force Bob to go back to being Iapetus despite Bob's continuous rejection of his past. Although the heist is successful, Will encounters Persephone herself, who offers him advice on his struggles to understand Nico, suggesting that Will embrace his own inner darkness rather than rejecting it. Nico and Will seek out the help of the troglodytes who agree to lead them to a shortcut to Tartarus, but they first pass the farm of Menoetes, who only agrees not to tell Hades in exchange for some stolen fruit from Persephone's garden. Making their way into the Underworld through the Door of Orpheus, which Nico and Percy had previously used, the two demigods are immediately set upon by the demon of nightmares, Epiales, who reveals that their mother is after Nico before Will manages to kill the demon using his newly-discovered power to emit light. Before departing, the two contact Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase for advice based upon their own experience in Tartarus. Concerned that Bob's situation must be getting more dire, Nico convinces a reluctant Chiron to issue them an official quest. Two months after the defeat of Nero and Python, Rachel Elizabeth Dare provides the prophecy for Nico di Angelo and his boyfriend Will Solace's quest into Tartarus to rescue the Titan Iapetus, better known as Bob, for the twelfth time. A standalone follow-up to the 2020 novel The Tower of Nero, it was released in North America and the United Kingdom on May 2, 2023, and was published by Hachette Books. I will be much kinder and more generous than everyone is being to me-especially that sorceress Calypso.The Sun and the Star is a fantasy novel co-written by authors Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro. or I really just don't feel like doing it myself. And unless I am sure the mortal can handle it. I vow that if I ever regain my godhood, I will never again send a poor mortal on a quest. Shouldn't there be a reward at the end of each completed task? Not just more deadly quests? Oh, the indignities and pain I have already suffered! Untold humiliation, impossible time limits, life-threatening danger. Despite all this, if I have a chance of prying her away from her villainous stepfather, I have to try.īut I'm new at this heroic-quest business, and my father, Zeus, stripped me of all my godly powers. And while I'm mortal, she can order me to do anything. She betrayed me to Nero back at Camp Half-Blood. Meg, my demigod master, is a cantankerous street urchin. But why would an ancient Roman emperor zero in on Indianapolis? And now that I have made it here (still in the embarrassing form of Lester Papadopoulos), where is Meg? Those were the orders my old enemy Nero had given to Meg McCaffrey. If you cannot bring him to me alive, kill him. Capture Apollo before he can find the next oracle.
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