Survival to Godhood Chapter 1

On the 200 year anniversary of WWIII, a man with winged sandals was floating above what is left of Europe . He was wearing a white toga and a golden helm with wings on it . The man had pure white skin as if he was never in the sun .

Looking down he could see the crater where what's left of Zeus remains . The cavity mostly filled in with water and a never-ending thunderstorm at the epicenter .

A few years after Zeus died, Hermes damaged his own body to lower his cultivation level to that of a Construct Evolution to sneak into Earth's Universe Dimension to visit Zeus' resting place and protect it from Adam and other powerhouses from invading .

Shaking his head . "Zeus I'm sorry, I was away during your final battle . "

"In the end, you still succeeded, and your death stopped Adam from draining Earth and its solar system's mana . "

"With this being the only place with mana in this universe, Adam's clones and others are sure to target this domain . Brother… . I will protect this place with my life . "

Beep Beep Boop . "Sir, I sense a sea creature just reached Beast Avatar level and is on a rampage in the Pacific Ocean . "

"Alright Sprite . I have mourned my brother long enough . Let's check out the first creature to reach Avatar phase since the earth received mana again . "

When Hermes was flying over North America, he spotted something unusual .

In what is now destroyed Washington D . C, there laid a woman clawed to death on top of a beat-up refrigerator . Dried tears on the woman's cheeks and the deep wounds on her back told the God that she died an excruciating death while protecting whatever was in the refrigerator .

"Sir, that woman is deceased . She seems to have died of blood loss . I have also detected a life source in that refrigerator . "

"Poor mortal woman, the humans in this realm face so many tragedies . "

Hermes picked up the woman and moved her to the side and then he looked inside the refrigerator to find a boy no more than five years old . The little black-haired and tan-skinned boy was peacefully asleep . The God was touched at the mother's sacrifice for the boy .

"Sir, the chances of this kid surviving on his own is 3 . 725% . "

Hermes pondered for a minute and then asked Sprite, "Sprite if you were with the child guiding him in cultivation . What would be his chance of survival?"

"His chances would increase to at least 64 . 567% . "

"Alright then . Sprite this was we will part ways . Execute process 1992 from now till when you were created . "

"Confirmation to delete my memory, Sir . "

"Confirmed . Goodbye Sprite . Treat your new master well . "

"Goodbye, Sir . " *Booooooopp… . . *

"Hello, Are you my master?"

"No, this boy is . " Hermes bent down and attached a silver watch to the boy's wrist . "Wait till he wakes up and guides him carefully . " Hermes got up and flew away .

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The boy awoke, in the refrigerator, with the door open and looked up upon a dark morning sky . The boy realized the last thing that happened was a wild beast attacking him and his mother .

"Mommy?!"

He sits up and spots her lying dead next to the refrigerator covered in wounds and dried blood . Grief fills his eyes and sadness overcomes him .

A robotic voice jolts him out of his crying fit .

"Sir, I am glad to see you have awoken . New Master, please state your name . "

Looking down at this shiny silver watch on his wrist and half sniffling, "Who…*sniff*… . are you . . ?"

"My name is S . P . R . I . T . E . It stands for Specialized Portable Remote Intelligence Technology Entity .

"Hello, Sprite . My name . . *sniff* . . is Leonardo . My mommy calls me Leo . "

"Registering new master Leonardo . . . Registration complete . Sir . I was given to you to protect you since you have lost your guardian . I recommend we leave before any beast arrive . "

"No…I don't want to leave mommy . "

"Sir, I suggest we bury your mother and vacant this area for shelter . "

"Bury… . "

"You will need to dig a hole, 2x1x2 meter wide approximately, but calculating master's strength, I think you will only be able to dig it 1 meter deep before exhaustion takes over . "

Leo looked at his mother and walked a few feet . He grabbed a scrap piece of metal and began digging the hole . With Sprite's directions, the grave was finished in about 3 hours . Leo grabbed his mother shirt collar and dragged her into the grave .

Leo started crying again .

"Sir, this is common . Death is natural . Where there is life, there is death . "

Leo, still crying, covered his mother with dirt and patted it down . Sprite then suggested moving the refrigerator over her grave to keep the beast from digging her up .

With night approaching, "Sir, we need to get to shelter immediately . "

Exhausted emotionally and physically, they boy finally makes his way back to a mostly destroyed building him and his mother were living in .

Sprite read a sign on the ground, "National Gallery of Art . " Leo stumbled through the rubble to get where he and his mom had set up a sleeping area . Leo passes out without even grabbing some food stored in the corner .

"Sir, wake up a beast is approaching from the entrance to our location . "

"Huh…", still groggy and tired Leo barely moved .

"Sir, you have 9 seconds to get into the adjacent room, before you die . "

The word "die," jolted him awake, and he crawls into the next room .

The beast finally makes it into the room that Leo was just sleeping in and destroys his bedding and the supplies his mother had gathered .

"Howl…"

Hearing all the howl in the other room, Leo urinates on himself . Goosebumps crawls up his skin .

"Sir, crawl as fast as you can, between those walls . "

He crawls over between two pieces of the wall barely holding the roof up . As Leo was crawling over, he kicks a rock .

The wolf-like creature howls and rushes into the room towards Leo . The beast leaps at him .

"Get away from me . "

Leo back up as far as he can, and the wolf crashes into wall pieces . A loud cracking sound is heard and right when the beast jaws were feet from the boy the roof collapses .

Blood splatters forward onto Leo . "Aghh!" Dust goes everywhere .

The dust settles, and moonlight was shining down on Leo through the collapsed roof . Finally relaxing his nerves, Leo slumps down the wall into a sitting position .

"Sir, we must leave this building and find new shelter immediately . "

Leo shuffles onto the collapsed roof and heads to a building close by . The rest of the night Leo couldn't sleep from the fear and the howls close by . The next morning Sprite locates some old canned food, and Leo scarfs it down .

"Sir, after scanning your body I have realized you do not absorb any mana, and you're missing a dantian gland . "

"What is mana and dawn-tee gland?"

"Well Sir, mana is the essence that is all around you that controls the universe and its laws . Here on Earth, there is a sufficient level of mana . The dantian gland not important right now . Sir should start trying to absorb mana to be able to survive better . "

"How do I do that Sprite?"

"I will have to find you a cultivation manual to teach you how . Till then we need to set up a shelter and gather food and water . "

"Oh, I can do that" Leo responded proudly .

Chapter end