Evolution of Humanity

A generic plot happens - A supreme being decides to take Humanity's evolution into their own hands, forcing Mana and Monsters onto the world, hoping to spur the people who survived the first phase into becoming something more than they once were. A generic protagonist was screwed over like any other protagonist but he worked through it. What protagonist had he read about that crumbled under the odds? None. He'd be like them and go against his own fate.