As stated before, humans split off into their own groups, which lead to them building a society, and one of these interesting societies had people called the Aztecs who were very zen, the type of humans who said they were connected to the earth. Not a wrong conclusion by any means, and certainly closer than the Matrix suggested.

“A simulation !?!” Hector roared in anger.

“Well can you blame them, there’s been a lot of theories about life,” Athena replied with a shrug.

“Plus this is by far one of the more unique interpretations we’ve had in the last few centuries,” Nuwa added.

“I did not spend thousands of years painstakingly making parts for the system in order for it to be called a mere simulation!!”

“It’s not as if they are particularly wrong, after all a lot of the system is just software, so in a sense they really do live in a simulation,” Athena reasoned out.

“Don’t even go there Athena, I am not in the mood for such reasonings” Hector groused out, face drawn down into a deep scowl.

You see the Aztecs although interesting people, were also incredibly frightening due to the simple fact they killed their people as sacrifice to the ‘gods’. I mean,for example, in the re-consecration of the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan in 1487, they did essentially kill about 80,000 prisoners over the course of four days sooooo…...not exactly what many of the immortals would call merciful. And considering the immortals history with killing that says a lot because at least they spaced out off-ing people unless it was a war, in which case you can’t hold anything against them.

The mortals also had an incredibly strange belief that human sacrifice leant itself to winning the gods' favour in warfare.

Let’s take Homer’s account of what happened during the Trojan War as one of the many cases where the deities had a ‘miscommunication’ with human beings. So Homer says that Agamemnon offended Artemis on his way to the Trojan War by accidentally killing one of Artemis' sacred stags. Therefore, she retaliated by preventing the Greek troops from reaching Troy unless Agamemnon killed his eldest daughter, Iphigenia, at Aulis as a human sacrifice. In some versions, Iphigenia dies at Aulis, but in others, Artemis rescues her.

This is the version of the story that humans passed down or understand from the blind bards writings but of course one never really understands what happens in the upper realms of the gods. Now let’s pretend you’re playing a video game, it's open worlds but you have a few goals you need to meet in order to get a certain piece of treasure. As some may or may not know by now, immortals mess around in different ways with the earth’s system partly for entertainment …….actually no, they use it mainly for entertainment.

So Artemis and Athena share one love and that is war games. Does that mean the Trojan War was part of their war games? Not particularly but maybe. Now Agamemnon was someone that was, in a very simple sense, like a chess piece for Athena but he fucked up and killed Artemis’s steed, which usually won’t have been a big deal if it was a normal stag. However, it just HAD to be the sacred stag.

The sacred stag took the form of an enormous female deer, which was larger than a bull with golden antlers like a stag. The hooves of the animal was made of bronze or brass, and if that wasn’t dope as hell it also snorted fire. Yes, SNORTED FIRE.You’ve heard about dragons breathing fire, this large ass deer snorted it as if it ate coal for breakfast and was an animal version of a fucking train. So you can see why, this incredibly rare animal that Artemis had to beg John to allow her to make and code into the earth’s software in order to materialise a body for it, was important to her.

“The fuck was that Athena?!” Artemis screeched as she pulled off her headphones and put down her controller.

“I didn’t know he was gonna do that, I was concentrating on Odysseus” Athena replied quickly, eyeing the other immortal warily.

“We said NO KILLING SACRED ANIMALS!! You a liar now, huh is that it sister dear” the goddess of the hunt continued snidely.

“Ok listen, I let the system take over Agamemnon for me so I could deal with other matters, so take it up with John or AL.”

“You are an immortal deity and you are telling me you can’t keep track of mortals you are using.What are you a brainless mortal or something.Huh are you a Gary huh?!”

“You take that back!! How dare you say i’m a weird fish like Gary!!”

The scuffle ended when the duo were banned from using the system for war games for a while and the system’s actions of trying to appease Artemis by killing Iphigenia. But again !!! Such situations are few and far between as undying beings have no use for dead mortals, I mean seriously their code just gets recycled to make a different mortal so what did it matter if they get sacrificed. Of course, having a penchant for such war games did cause a lot of human sacrifices but what can be done for those immortals who had such vices.

“Oh get off your high horses, it's not like you and AL haven’t had your fair share of sacrifices because of the humans,” Artemis said in a scathing manner.

The two immortals pretended to ignore the goddess as certain folks in the mortal realm continued to wage ‘certain’ wars in their name.

“For *****” a mortal screamed in a desert somewhere.

“May *** bring us justice” another mortal shouted elsewhere in a nondescript flatland area.

But they don’t like to acknowledge such actions so we won’t mention it for now.

Anyway, as flattered as the undying beings were that the Aztecs thought they needed to be appeased, they weren’t actually that bloodthirsty, it’s just that shit happens and people die. It can’t be helped, it’s not their fault that their idea to create a nice seaside village led to it being destroyed by a tsunami. They didn’t know we had to schedule repairs for the tectonic plates or else they created earthquakes.

Like we are working blind right now, there’s no book that’s titled “How to create a world for dummies.”

“AH-CHOO!!” all the immortals sneezed in perfect unison.

“What the hell?!” Brahma stated, looking around at the group confused.

“Is someone talking about us?” Thoth said, rubbing his nose.

“The humans are always talking about the gods,” Nuwa pointed out simply.

“At the same time though,” Athena argued, using a hanky to wipe her nose to clear it of any possible discharge.

“It doesn’t matter if they are or they aren’t, we have to fix up this line of code and send it in for a second review.”

The immortals nodded and murmured in agreement, all turning their attention back to whatever they were doing. You see, I’m sure some other outwardly deity has tried to possibly make such a book but with no mass printing out here, the updates can take a couple millenia to reach us.