13 Mankind

Humans. Such a flawed species yet it's called GOD's most loved creation, which Lucifer despises the most and caused his and the subsequent fall of the entire species.

On the ravaged planet Earth, where most of the Pantheons that arose from the Godwave held dominion, a sudden inspiration occurred in particular Gods of every Pantheon.

Brahma, Nüwa, Ra, Prometheus, Vili and Ve, Izanami all created humans at the same moment however, what they didn't realise was that this was the work of GOD or The Presence who had just thrown them out of Paradise.

Chaos and Gaia most respectfully welcomed the will of the one true God. The Voice asked Gaia to include them in the evolutionary process of the planet which was just cleared of the Dinosaurs with the Titanomachy.

It made Earth all the more special because even though The Sphere of Gods was accessible to all Gods that emerged from the Godwave, it was only on Earth that all Four major realms crossed namely Heaven and Hell, Skyland and Underworld, as it was Gaia and Chaos who joined Skyland and the Underworld while Heaven and Hell were joined by Michael and the Fallen Lucifer.

These humans were everything that one could think of. Vulgar, disgusting, evil, disease, beautiful, humble, good, or a cure, they were everything and much more because they had one thing that every other God lacked. Potential.

Because those born powerful have no room to grow for they know not of weakness.

For better or for the worst they held inside them the very pinnacle of Potential. To become Gods among Men. Carrying the potential to harness powers not only from the Source Wall, the Speed Force Wall, the Emotional Spectrum but also carried with their psyche both the Life and the Anti-Life Equation. For Adam had eaten the forbidden Apple.

And it was what separated Hades from the rest of the Divine Beings, this is what Gaia sensed from Hades but couldn't figure it out.

A God with the soul of a Human.

And so humans will suffer humiliation, desperation, evil, mistakes and pain throughout their existence until they repay for their sins and are allowed back in heaven.

They'll rise from the filth to the pinnacle, strong enough to raze entire existence to nothingness and their time would soon come beginning with the birth of the Marked Warrior.

But it was still ages ahead. For now, the Gods still reigned Supreme as Darkseid began his search for the Anti-Life equation, Highfather began his search for the Life equation.

When the Gods of different Pantheon found about the creation of Humans within their territories of Earth, everyone had a different approach on how to address their existence.

Odin saw this as positive and created Valhalla by eliminating the Norse territory in the Underworld and combining it with Skyland. He spread the teaching of fighting and only brave entering Valhalla to breed warriors for his ambitions. He also spread bullshit about a possible "Hell" but all he did was reincarnate them after wiping their memories so as not to waste any potential manpower.

The Egyptian God planned on establishing a structure for regulating Human souls for in their belief Ra created humans by his tears. Though they were rather callous in their ruling of Humans.

The Hindu Pantheon was massive, to say the least, and the number of humans created in their territory was second only to the Chinese Pantheon. So the Trimurti divided the work amongst themselves Brahma being the creator, Vishnu being the regulator of life and Shive being the Destroyer. They made many subdivisions with the massive number of gods and goddesses in the Pantheon.

The Chinese and The Japanese Pantheons formed a similar system to the Hindu Pantheon.

The Greeks allowed Hades to make judgements for he held sole dominion over souls as much as Zeus hated giving up such authority to not only a single God but to Hades of all the Gods. He set up the system of Karma and divided the Underworld into different facets, forming the most intricate system out of all Pantheons.

But one thing every Pantheon did was to make sure that the humans knew that they were below them and converted their prayers into energy to increase their power. The Greeks and the Norse were particularly zealous in doing so. But some did not do so namely, Shiva, Hades, Ra and some more.

Hades though put everything on halt. He wanted to find Adam and Eve. He knew something was amiss because after he became the ruler of the Underworld, Nyx informed him that ours wasn't the only Pantheon in existence. And he could also "see" a lot more souls than the ones here.

Which meant he could someday meet Jesus as well. But for now, he left everything and marched to find the REAL progenitor of Humans.

He wanted to know if GOD existed if Heaven existed and what was his purpose for being reborn in this world. A world, of its vastness, still unclear to him for all he knows he is for sure in the God of War verse yet there are things that there's more to it.

He had to sneak through many Pantheons but he was living up to the name of the "Unseen One". And after 3 or maybe 4 Pantheons he finally found them.

"Adam! The first human! I wish to speak to you.", Hades called out to Adam, he removed all the weapons and jewels on him and stood in front of him in plain black Toga.

— " Who are you supposed to be? and why are you standing in the cold?", Adam questioned as he walked away from his hut.

"Just a traveller, just call me Aidoneus.", Hades replied bearing no resemblance to a divine being, not in appearance neither manner.

— " Oh! Ok Aidoneus, ask away."

"Tell me does God, heaven and hell exist?"

— "... Yes, yes they do. Why do you ask?", Adam replied softly with a myriad of emotions swirling in his eyes.

" No reason in particular. Thank you for answering.", Hades was genuinely gracious for his help.

— "Adam! How long are you going to just stand there talking to yourself? And who is Aidoneus?", suddenly Eve's call diverting Adams attention to his wife.

— " Huh? What do you mean 'talking to myself'? Don't you see h—", Adam turned around only to see no one there, "I could swear he was just here... Aidoneus... 'The Unseen One'..."

While Hades just vanished away, what he didn't realize was that this conversation would later be mentioned in the Bible and he would also play a much bigger role in the Bible.

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A/n:- Yo readers, it's the Lethal Drinker here!

Some of you are saying that chapters are short well, I write a minimum of 1k words to a max of 1.5k words and one of my sober days' 2k words.

And as for the slow updates, well do you know how hard and frustrating world-building for DC is. You people think Fate-verse is bad, but it has got nothing on the reboots of DC. It always causes me a migraine.

As for writing multiple fanfics at the same time, well I get constant writer blocks so keep shuffling my focus to lessening it and it works. So you all have to get used to this style of writing, cause that's how a Lethal Drinker do (ze frank reference).

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