As the group arrives at the castle, it has a lush garden in the courtyard with mosaics depicting scenes involving the twelve Olympians.

"Wow, I've never been to Athens castle before" said remus.

"It's very ornate, I've read about how it was inhabited by the generations of Athenian royalty" remarked Plato.

"I've been here before, I was sent here for my first adventure after I completed my training at the halls of heroes" said heracles.

As the group talked about the castle, they continued into the castle but was stopped by the guards "halt! Who goes- ah! Heracles And company! Here to pay respects to princess piazza?" Said the guard. Heracles explained about the group and how they met, the guards understood by what he said and they opened the door. The group entered and found themselves in the halls that have fountains at the wall, maxion was amazed by how the halls have mosaics. The group walked down the hall and entered the throne room, there's a blue haired woman wearing a pink dress sitting on the throne "Ah, princess piazza. Long time no see!" Said heracles. The group were confused "wait, you know her?" Asked timaeus "yes I have, I mean, I only met her when she's a baby and a six year old" said heracles. The princess cleared her throat before saying "It's nice to see you again, heracles, but who are those people?" Heracles first explained her about how he met maxion, nemesis, and general agon. Then maxion tried to explained about the crabs and fishes are popping out of nowhere except in water sources, this shook princess piazza as her eyes widen before returning to her usual calm composure.

"Huh? Why is the princess look surprised? Somethings a bit off here" said Plato as he and nemesis felt even more uneasy due to sensing more water ether coming out from beneath the throne room, the princess looked nervous and said "w-why don't we have a feast? We have the best seafood harvested from the sea!" As she smiled nervously. However, maxion and Timaeus can see in her eyes that she's hiding something, something that is tied to how the fishes and crabs mysteriously appearing from water sources. "This seems suspicious, the princess doesn't act this way before. She's hiding something within the castle, as I felt water ether coming out of this very throne room!" Said Plato, the princess went from smiling nervously to accepting the fact that she's hiding something "yes, it's true. I'm hiding something beneath here, but even though father promised me to not tell anyone. There's a proto taphus beneath this throne room" she explained. The group gasped in shock at the fact that there's a taphus prototype beneath the castle "but that's impossible! There's only six taphoi across the world, how can it be one here!?" Exclaimed remus. The princess sighed as she sees disappointment in heracles eyes "princess piazza, I never noticed you've kept a secret. The princess I've known never kept any secrets" said heracles "I'm very sorry, But father promised me not to tell anyone about the proto taphus and I've kept that promise until now" she explained.

Nemesis walks up to her and asked "how long did the proto taphus exists and what god does it contain?" Princess piazza looked at her and responded "my father told me about the proto taphus 5 years ago, it was built before i was born. It was he who got the taphoi idea from prometheus to pump ether, although the titan himself aided him. In order to pump ether, prometheus told him to build tombs for the gods of eld for the taphoi to pump ether. In turn, father ordered the inventor, daedalus, to design the taphoi but he wanted to be sure if it's safe. He ordered his men to construct the proto taphus as an experimental site right here beneath Athens castle, but for it to produce ether, he even captured the primordial sea god phorcys and imprisoned him. The tests began and after 3 failed attempts of pumping ether, the scholars that father sent finally pumped water ether from phorcys but it caused the ancient sea god to be in excruciating pain, and so they abandoned him."

The group were surprised by what the king of Athens had done and started talking to each other.

"I can't believe the king himself would do such a thing" said heracles in disbelief.

"I know, I never imagined an ancient sea god existing before the titans were to be used as a test subject" responded Plato.

"Who's phorcys?" Asked maxion.

Nemesis sighed and explained "look maxion, phorcys is an ancient sea god who is the son of pontus and thalassa. Before there was marine life and the titans, there existed pontus and thalassa who are personifications of the sea. They created coral but the seas are empty so thalassa gave birth to three children: nereus, phorcys, and ceto. Their children worked together to create marine life by using water ether, nereus is the eldest while phorcys is the middle and ceto is the same age as him. Phorcys is the personification of marine life and the dangers of the sea, so he's able to create sea monsters and sea life just like Poseidon and oceanus". Princess piazza got off her throne, ordered her guards to move the left column as the group watched. One of the guards rolled the carpet while the other pushed the left column towards the one next to it, and suddenly the floor lowered thus becoming stairs and showing the door beneath the floor.

Authors note- that was a turn of events, be sure to vote and stay tuned for the next chapter.