Evil God of Demonic Castles.

Long ago when Kronos had just been tricked by Zeus into spitting out the children he had eaten, a young Evil God had watched the war that followed. Whenever new gods were born it was always followed by chaos as they went around killing, getting killed, raping, marrying and reproducing with the older gods.

Sometimes the gods peacefully united like the time Zeus dated an Egyptian goddess in his youth. Evil Gods like her, always fed on the Chaos that followed so she was ready. However, when she laid eyes on the firstborn son of Kronos her intentions died out.

She was smitten with him the moment she saw him. She wanted to be with him, but Evil Gods were very different from normal gods. Many were grotesque in appearance or too alien to be comprehended even by gods. However, Hades was different. He befriended her as his close friend and even had her make his castle.

They remained close friends since the Greek gods joined the many gods in existence. She hoped that one day her love would allow Hades to see her as more than a friend, but it had all been stolen by that bitch Persephone. The moment her love laid eyes on her everything was different.

He choose a young goddess that he had seen only once over her who had been with him since he was a young god. Unacceptable. She tried everything to get Hades back, but their long friendship eventually was ruined because of Persephone.

At least that was how she saw it, but Hades had simply not noticed her feelings. As an Evil God, her efforts to flirt were more like violent outbursts that ended in him getting hurt so he simply never noticed as her mind was alien even to him who had known her for so long.

He thought she hated him, but Persephone was the one to inform him that she loved him. When he heard that he was going to take her as his second wife, Persephone would not allow it. He hoped she would allow him in time, but even so, his friend still hated Persephone for that reason.

When she found out that Persephone got a new Champion, she set out to acquire her own to kill him. She choose her Champion from a world that had broken down into a World War. He agreed to her request in exchange for her to help his home country win the war.

Once he agreed she granted him his wish and her Divine Protection. All Champions were High humans with differences between them considering what god made them. When Persephone made Vander, she used her power over Destruction, Death, and War to grant him power.

Gupyaresla, The Evil God of Demonic Castle's best ability was to make Demonic Castle. It might seem weak, but she had used this very power to kill other gods in the past. Not to mention her champion had chosen battle-related abilities to get ready to kill Vander.

She and Persephone were actually rather similar in power so she had a lot of hope for this champion of hers. She sent him down to the world in America to give him time to adapt to the world.

'Kill him and make that bitch pay for taking him from me.'

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The Champion opened his eyes as he glanced around at his surroundings. He clenched his fist as he tested out his body.

'I am really alive.'

He glanced around and found that he was in a city somewhere.

'Why do these cities look so old? This style of building has not been used in centuries. Is this world in the past?'

He suddenly heard the voice of Gupyaresla in his head. He could barely comprehend what she was saying because of how alien her mind was, but he got the message.

'Japan. Kill. Fast.'

She wanted him to kill Vander as soon as he could as she knew Hades would probably give him his Divine Protection. As a Great God, the power he would receive would be magnitudes stronger. If she was lucky Persephone would want their champions to fight to earn that so she wanted it done quick.

He popped his neck and found his body was similar to the one he had in his first life. Gupyaresla, had granted him her ability to make Demonic Castles, but it was not so simple. He needed material, but once completed each castle acted as a base weapon and a link that supplied him with energy.

He started to walk into the city as he was not going to rush in blindly drawing attention to himself. The best material for Demonic Castle was souls so he was going to start collecting some.

'The faster I make my Demonic Castle the better I will be when I kill him.'

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Persephone and Hades glanced down at Gupyaresla's champion with interest. Hades rubbed his chin with a pondering look on his face.

"She picked a good one. Who do you think will win?"

Persephone thought about it and gave her honest opinion.

"As things are now, 55/45. 55 in Vander's favor and 45 in his favor. Vander is growing in power rapidly, but very soon her champion will also begin to even the playing field. Vander will have to speed up the speed at which he tames his pets and trains them.

Each one of those creatures was made from my divine power so they will be much stronger the stronger he gets. Same way in reverse."

Hades smiled as he had not been this interested in mortals in a long time.

"I have an idea."

"What is it?"

She looked at her husband with curiosity.

"I will give my Divine Protection to the winner."

Persephone frowned as she looked at him.

"Are you saying my champion will lose?"

He shook his head.

"Not what I said. However, underestimating Gupyaresla's champion will be foolish. High Humans are the best work of the gods. Her champion will begin construction of his Demon Castle with human souls. Once compete his power will increase rapidly."

She squinted her eyes as she looked at Vander in his room. He was multitasking as he was both working out and trying to tame his next familiar. He split his mind in two, which he had thought about as a way to speed up his progress.

One did his pushups and the other was in his mind with the Erliphosausous. A creature that was given the Earth and Venom attributes. He was not doing very well as this once was very tricky. Its venom even worked on the soul so he had to be careful.

"I think he will do just fine. I should remind him just to be safe."

"Good idea."

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Just as they said, Vander was in his soul scape dealing with his next familiar. The large hybrid was massive as it was the hybrid of a large herbivore and large carnivore. The Erliphososurous is a colorful and angry creature.

The DNA used for this one was a mix of both the Jurrasic Park venom spitting variant and the real bear-sized Dilophosausous. The end result was a larger, meaner, venom-spitting monster that he was dealing with. Vander covered his arms in ice fire as it was better to freeze the venom than to burn it. The hybrid spread its colorful frill while venom flowed around it like water magic.

The ground in the familiar space shook and quaked as it did not intend to go down easy. Vander slammed his hands on the ground as a massive wave of ice fire exploded in all directions.

In return massive wall of earth rose to stop them, but Vander did not just use one element. His black Shadow Armor appeared around him while he used the wind to once again boost his power.

"MAXIMUS!"

He brought in his Yudon that was better at ice fire than he was. He gave her Demonic Mana in droves to boost the power of her attack. She opened her huge mouth and breathed a massive stream of ice fire toward the Erliphosausous.

It opened its mouth as a giant stream of Venom clashed with the stream of Ice Fire. It very quickly began to turn solid and destroyed as the Yudon was the perfect counter for him. When he saw his venom would not work he jumped out the way, but his tail was still hit.

He roared as he swung his tail at the ground to get rid of the ice over the tip. The exposure was rather small, but its tail was still cracked. Maximus roared at the top of her lungs to intimidate the rebellious creature.

Vander juped on the back of her head as he looked into the Erliphosausours' eyes.

"I would give up friend. I only send Maximus after you instead of Daisy. Don't make me get Daisy."

It recoiled as much as it was angry, it did not want to deal with Daisy. Vander for a second felt he was saying something along the lines of 'Don't make me get dad.' He shook his head as he jumped off of Maximus and walked forward.

The Erliphosausours was bigger than Ripper but he felt Ripper was more dangerous. In a one-on-one, he felt that Ripper would win because of just how many abilities he had. He had been training to copy Daisy's ability to use the power of its DNA as it was made from the Indominous Rex.

Everything that Daisy could do, why could he not do it as well. When he stood in front of the creature he could tell just how powerful of a body he had. It was smaller than the Yudon, but Maximus was a little bigger than a T-rex.

As such, the hybrid was built for fighting up close. Even so, he extends his hand toward the hybrid. At the same time, he was not falling for the same trick Daisy pulled on him the first time he met her.

He watched as the hybrid sniffed his hand and placed his face on his hand. He had tamed his 5th familiar and he felt the soul connection solidity.

"I got just the name for you, Toxin."

He stopped blocking access to his Demonic Mana which flowed like a flood. Once the creature began to grow stronger, so did Vander as he unlocked its abilities for himself. He awoke after he succeeded.

He exhaled as his body was covered in sweat. Strength training on its own was not the cause, but the power of his High Human body. By putting it under stress he could stimulate its talent. He was doing pushups on his thumbs and he was already on number 2,000.

"Next set."

He did a handstand on one hand and began to do one-handed armstand pushups. While he was doing that he felt a connection to Persephone that made him freeze.

'Vander, he arrived?'

'Who?'

She cursed as her husband was right that he forgot.

'The Evil God's Champion. He is in America and I want you to hurry up so you can kill him.'

'That does not narrow it down you know. Got a name, location, or appearance? Mabe gives me a magic compass so I can find him.'

'I can't exactly tell you as it is against the rules. Once two champions are going to fight, we the gods have to let them. We can just inform you of their arrival so I want you to keep an eye out. Remember. His patron is the Evil God of Demonic Castles and if you kill him my husband will have a reward for you. His Divine Protection.'

Once the connection was broken Vander committed this to memory by informing each of his familiars.

'In the off chance I forget, tell me. I guess I cannot relax in the least. Ostoposausorous is next on the list. I have to get that Divine Protection as Hades is one of the Big Three of Greek Mythology so he must be powerful.'

His progress was speeding up, but taming them was just the first step. Training them was the most important as right now they were still young and so was he. If he wanted to be even stronger he had to train as his life depended on it.

He sent his consciousness into the swamp he had prepared for it as he did not have time to relax. His fight to the death with another champion would soon start.