Mark of Athena | By Rick Riordan | Conflict

The conflict is continued without the whole series. Now, in this book there are two main conflicts:
1# Annabeth has to go on a solo quest, following the mark of Athena that her mother gave her. She has to navigate her way through centuries old underground paths that lead to Athena's greatest enemy: Arachne. She is the goddess of spiders and she challenged Athena to a weaving contest. It is said that Athena won, and turned Arachne into a giant spider. The romans took all the greek gods and made equivalents of them, Athena's was Minerva but Minerva wasn't a goddess of war strategy, just a craft goddess. And Both of her forms hated romans for that. The romans took the statue of her, the Athena Parthenos, and put in the underground paths, gave it to Arachne. Athena and Minerva want revenge so, they choose a child of Athena every now and then to follow the mark of Athena (a golden coin of Athena's likeness) that is charmed to show them the way to the Athena Parthenos and help them on their quest to defeat Gaea (mother earth). Annabeth has to make Arachne weave a giant chinese hand cuff, tricking her into thinking that it is art to be displayed on Mount Olympus and try to get her to crawl into it.
2# Get to Nico Di-Angelo before he dies, he is trapped by two giants. Each giant was created to oppose a god. These twin giants, Otis and Ephialtes, where supposed to destroy Dionysus/Bacchus and they capture Nico in a bronze jar without any food water or anything else.
There are much bigger problems that stretch through the whole book, but those are the main issues in just this book.
I think a way for Annabeth to trick arachne into getting in the webbed trap is to crawl in and make Arachne come after, thinking that Annabeth is taking away the documents to get her art into Olympus. A way to beat Otis and Ephialtes is to challenge them and lead them into a trap of some sort or ask for Bacchus/Dionysus's help to defeat them, since he had defeated them before.
I have finished the book.

Thanks for reading!

KF