chapter 2: A LONG TRAINING AHEAD:

Marletius Marhara somewhat embarrassed: Uncle Hades, it is an honor to be your son and to belong to this family.

Hades eating some worms on his throne: Yes, aha.

Marletius Marhara in his mind: why did I get so nervous? I'm back on my knees, now that I see the Underworld, it's not as terrible as I imagined.

Marlecio moves his head to the left and right side to see the Underworld.

Marlecio Marhara: yes, it is less scary than I imagined, well now that I remember in one of the many books I read, the Underworld is supposedly a quieter place where less bad people go and Hell is the worst possible place they say ...

At that moment Marlecio's thoughts are interrupted by a woman who enters with a beautiful gala dress...

Persephone walking cheerfully: Holaa welcome to the Underworld, Sons my....

Persephone was surprised when she saw Marlecio.

Persephone: What? only one, I thought you were bringing more, well it doesn't matter, our family has many children.

Persephone sitting on Hades' throne next to him: Well welcome to the Underworld, I am Persephone, Goddess of plants and Queen of the Underworld, it is a pleasure to meet you young mortal, tell me about yourself.

Marlecio Marhara: ehh well, I am 22 years old, I have the command of not aging, in my previous life I was a famous lawyer, head of a company and president of a country.

Persephone: wow you were someone very important in the other world.

Marlecio Marhara putting his hand on his head while smiling slightly: yes well something like that, since I was young I was very intelligent and I read many books.

Hades finishing eating and getting up: yes all right, but tell me apart from that what did you do? Didn't you have fun? Didn't you play video games or watch series or movies?

Marlecio Marhara smiling while talking in his mind: I knew it was too serious to be real

Marlecio Marhara: well yes, I watched movies, series, played games and watched anime quite a bit.

Hades: Ah well I was worried that you didn't have fun in your previous life, being that human life is so short.

Marlecio Marhara: Yeah well, you're right, there is so much darkness and evil in the world that at least there are ways to forget the harsh reality.

Marlecio Marhara continued speaking but a strange being interrupted him.

Mysterious Being: Is this the new one?

Hades: Yes, he is the new recruit, Marlecio I present to you Melinoe, Goddess of ghosts and my daughter.

Melione: Hello, it will be a pleasure to train you

Marletius Marhara confused: Hello uh how about training me?

Persephone: Melione, who trains our children, will train you for as long as it takes for you to reach your full potential.

Hades: According to the rules...

Hades takes out a scroll with the rules of the training that each God must follow...

Hades: according to it says here you must last 1 or 2 weeks training but nah, here we will take enough time, I am a God of the elite because of how powerful I am so I can do whatever I want.

Marlecio Marhara: ya, although it seems an abuse of power ..., there is something I do not understand, if only 1 God can adopt a person and that your child dominate something like that power then ..... Your Persephone Goddess of the plants able to turn people and beings into plants or destroy them and your Melione Goddess of the ghosts able to revive the dead and talk to them, can I inherit that power?

In that when I finished asking the question a guy jumped from a high part of the underworld landing in front of Marlecio, he raises his head shaking his hair and placing his big scythe on his back.

Mysterious Person: I introduce myself Marlecio I am Traidan son of Hades just like you and I respect your question... yes, but that depends on the training.

Melione: Exactly, the training done by a married God with children takes longer because his adopted son can inherit the power of the other two apart...

Traidan: Even if you are a prodigy or very powerful it won't help, a lot of power equals a lot of training to master it, nobody masters a new powerful power just like that, the great ones like me take years to train, so if you take too long to train cheer up because it means that you have a great power that has not been exploited yet and you should try to use it to the maximum.

Hades: Yes, all very well, but stop, this is not a jail or a burial..... If you make progress in your training I will allow you to play video games, watch movies and series but only if you progress well.

Marlecio Marhara speaking in his mind: as I expected Uncle Hades is a bit of a jerk but charismatic.

Marletius Marhara: well I understand, I must train to become stronger and survive in this horrible world.

Marlecio Marhara speaking in his mind: Also if I get stronger, I can advance and get information to decipher what happened to the son of Jesus but before that I must put effort into my training.

Marlecio Marhara: Well I accept, I will train whatever I do.

Persephone smiling and clapping: that's good, it's not like you have any other options.

Melione grabbing Marlecio: well let's go to the training room.

Traidan in his mind: Good luck Marletius, I hope you can survive in this world and achieve your goals, which I don't understand at all.

Hades: Well, good luck to you, I'm going bowling.

Hades and the rest go to do their things, while Melione takes Marlecio to the training room, when he enters Marlecio is surprised by how big he is.

Marlecio Marhara: Wow it's huge, how many things in there wow, well what are we going to do.

Melinoe walking to stand in one place: Well let's start with the basics, a fireball.

Marlecio Marhara: a what!!!?

Melinoe: the basic attack of the sons of Hades and Elios is a fireball, I'll explain...

Melinoe explaining: raise your hands and concentrate, feel the heat and the fire that burns inside you, let it flow and once concentrated with the heat flowing you can create it.

Melione talks to his backpack and takes out a strange tunic and throws it to Marlecio.

Marlecio Marhara: What the heck is this weird dark thing with skulls on it?

Melione: This is the costume of the sons of Hades, I imagine that you saw it on Traidan.

Marlecio Marhara: Yes, but I never thought it would be our family's uniform, although it's kind of sad and gloomy.

Melione laughing a little: hahahahaha that's what Hades said when he created it.

Melione: although it represents the Underworld, there is also a hooded cloak but I will teach you how to use it later, first things first, the robe as you may have noticed is somewhat warm which will make it easier for you to create the fireball and other skills that you will learn, unlike the children of Helios, they need sunlight to use their skills and you only need the warmth of your robe.

Marletius Marhara putting on his robe: that's amazing and it's quite comfortable...

Marlecio Marhara: but what am I going to do with my normal clothes?

Melione: you just leave them lying there and we'll burn them for dinner.

Marlecio Marhara speaking in his mind: I would have preferred a less aggressive method but I guess that's the price for this uniform.

Melione: enough talk, now that you have the robe you should be able to create the fireball.

Marlecio concentrates and succeeds in creating the fireball.

Melione: Excellent you did it, although don't get excited your brothers managed to make it without the robe, so follow Traidan's advice and be glad you are a basket case because you can be powerful.

Marlecio Marhara speaking his mind: Excellent I'm a basket case is the best thing I've ever heard in my life.

Melione: well enough with the chatter and throw it to me, how about it?

Marlecio Marhara throws the fireball with all his strength and hits Melione.

Confused Melione: That's all? I just felt tickled, how is it possible that you are so weak?

Marlecio Marhara: I did the best I could, it's not my fault.

Melione: we have a long way to go..... well get ready because this is just the beginning.

Melione tells Marlecio to do 300 push-ups in 3 days and then 500 laps of the underworld to improve his stamina.

Melione: You have to do it, by doing this you will improve your physical resistance so that it will be easier for you to do more damage with your attacks.

The days went by and the training became heavier and more tiring for Marlecio, every 2 days he had to face body to body against Melione and then do another 500 laps and 300 push-ups, besides that Melione constantly took him to Persephone to meditate so he could concentrate his mind and imagine what he wanted to do.

When Marlecio managed to progress in something, Melione quickly showed him a new technique to learn, this was very tiring because the only time Marlecio had to rest was 15 minutes and then he had to do it all over again, besides being subjected to high temperatures to better control the temperature of his robe.

Melione: he learned that he was very intelligent and strategic so he was put in many situations where he had to use his head a lot, which gave him severe headaches due to the overexertion he made to think faster in order to adapt better to his environment.

This training lasted 1 year and 5 months until he could finally master his techniques and strengthen them and not only that, the meditation he took helped him to understand the power of Persephone and Melione because he would have a little chance to master a little of the powers of these 2 Goddesses.

The hooded cloak that Marletius spent another 2 years mastering was black with a flaming shapes at the end of a green color, in the center it had the symbol of the ghosts, green fire representing the underworld and a flower blooming while a sword pierced them.

Apart from hand skills there were also other skills with the sword which to say a few were, throw a beam of fire and turn the ground into boiling lava but the bearer of this weapon could choose who would be immune to the lava.

Important data...

Cloak: It gives its wearer a superhuman dexterity, improving his reaction capacity, besides giving the wearer a great speed and could be used as teleportation and finally it carries a skull which is connected to the robe making it go connected.

Sword: This weapon was forged by the Hephaestus Family which makes special weapons for each Family, in fact only the Hephaestus Family can create the weapons and other things.

Necklace of Persephone: It is a necklace in the shape of a flower which represents the link of its wearer with her, the wearer can ask advice to this Goddess in case of needing help and allows him to use some of her powers, this necklace can only be used by the person chosen by Persephone.

Scythe: This is a great weapon which only exists one and is given by Melione to the strongest person and that she considers worthy of using it, this allows the user to remove the souls of their opponents when they have lethal wounds, talk to the dead, travel to heaven and revive slain companions.

Apolo family: it is unknown what happened to this family, it is only known that they were killed by an unknown and very dangerous God.