[ A ten thousand-year-old God just said yeet - not even Nico does that, and he's a teen in the 21st century. ] Not exactly. More like turning his whole being into nothing but a shadow, body and all.

[ There was no body left for any kind of possession or puppetry. Everything was transformed and sent to the Underworld.

They play by different rules, though John's own abilities seem more in line with his own in comparison to Palamedes'. ] Got it. From what I know so far, you seem to be on the same level as my dad, just without all of the others deities to get in your way.

Mostly just confirming what I felt, he was kind of like a drifting thing - not quite all there and unable to grasp everything happening around him in the cave.