Foolish Brother Odin

Chapter 391 The Hittite World Collapsed
"Hmm?" Gilgamesh straightened up from his previous chin-resting and head-tilted posture, and his expression became serious.

The stark difference in public reaction to the same situation between mainland Greece and its surrounding world surprised the six great gods and other deities.

Let alone humans, even the gods that mortals sing praises to day and night find it difficult to understand situations beyond their common sense.

You should know that among all the divine lineages, whether it is the so-called main lineage of Aesir gods and giants, or the pantheons that were conquered and incorporated, every mortal kingdom under their jurisdiction is eager to be a pioneer in the world of Lilanka.
Everything was so natural that these god-kings, who had transcended the mortal realm, even felt that this was the normal thing to do.

Not to mention the Sumerians and Egyptians who had "landed," even the Maya and Indians, who had no gods, were vying for a spot on the front lines.

There was even a voice among the Maya saying: 'I am willing to die the last Maya for His Majesty the God-Emperor!'
There is no harm without comparison.

Looking at the people of the various vassal worlds who had begun to passively resist the Greeks' conscription, the Aesir gods felt as if they had encountered a fake opponent.

Gilgamesh was slightly taken aback. He looked at Enki, only to find that Enki didn't dare to look at him at all, staring at the floor as if counting a group of non-existent ants.

The core deities, renowned for their wisdom, were also questioned by the six God-Kings, but they all avoided their gazes.

Downs clapped his hands lightly: "My lords, you have all worked hard today. You may now step down. Thor and the God-King, please stay."

"Yes--"

Soon, only the Downs family remained in the vast Silver Hall; even the Valkyrie withdrew from the hall.

Towns dropped the pretense and revealed the answer directly:

"To put it bluntly, this is because the Greek gods blocked all the paths to advancement. Although in essence, Zeus, the god-king on the other side, is the same as me, only distributing the authority of the divine realm to his children, the biggest difference between me and Zeus is that I eat meat, but at least I give some minced meat to the subordinate gods below me."

The simple and straightforward description made Thor and the gods understand immediately.

Grab the meat!

Let's grab more meat!
One shouldn't eat in a bad manner, eating all the meat and leaving the younger brother without even a drop of soup.

In that case, even if the subordinates don't rebel, they will lack motivation and simply give up. To squeeze out their war potential, there are only two options: offer them substantial rewards again, or use coercion.

Regardless of which pantheon the Greek pantheon chooses, it will inevitably trigger a crisis of trust in its subordinate pantheons.

It's very simple. Normally they're not starving, but during wartime they're given scraps of meat. The subordinate gods would definitely think, "Are we being sent to our deaths?" or "Is this our last meal before execution?" Throughout their conquests, the Greek pantheon was invincible, and its subordinate gods didn't dare utter a single word.

Once the invincible aura of the Greek pantheon is shattered, that's another story.

Especially after the Argonauts incident was exposed recently, it was another blow to the subordinate gods—you Zeus, you can't even protect your own son, how can you protect us?
The complete annihilation of the Hittite and Polynesian pantheons, and the devastation of the world being used as a battlefield, had a profound impact on the subordinate gods!

Here, after Towns taught the children, they were able to apply what they learned to other situations.

Thor asked, "What if there's only this much meat left in the future?"

Downs' eyes lit up. Who the hell said Thor was an idiot? He's incredibly smart. It's just that this guy relied too much on his divine body when he was young, using it to bully his enemies and solve problems with violence.

Sure enough, my offspring are at least not too bad in terms of intelligence.

Downs smiled slightly: "The universe is vast. And have you forgotten that the entire Jinlunga gradually expanded by relying on the World Tree's transformation of chaotic energy and its purification and containment of floating meteorites?"

As I said before, once the pie gets bigger, internal conflicts will decrease significantly.

As for when things really reach a point where there's no growth and only existing resources, Towns still has a trick up his sleeve: the "Dragon-Slaying Technique"... Of course, Towns won't unleash this trick right now.

This method, which only increases internal friction, may ensure the power of the supreme ruler, but as a double-edged sword, it leads to the stagnation of the entire world's development.

Towns just needs to keep a mysterious face now.

The days that followed proved Towns's 'prophecy' true.

Unsurprisingly, the average quality of the Greek heroes sent to the Hittite world deteriorated.

Moreover, the identities of the great heroes and the relative strengths of the warriors were quickly revealed by both sides during the successive battles.

This feeling is like the preliminary rounds leading up to the main tournament. As the number of spatial cavities on both sides decreases, there will always be opportunities for ordinary strongmen to face off.

A month later, Athena frowned.

"The gods of Ashanti report that they no longer have any mortals who can be called heroes."

"Marseille and Cuenculo are also included."

This news caused Athena to clench her fists, a rare occurrence for her.

In the name of Zeus, the God-Emperor, she ordered the subordinate worlds to send troops and heroes, but they all perished.

She really couldn't be too harsh on those subordinate gods about this.

This has nothing to do with attitude or loyalty; it's purely a lack of ability.

Honestly, if the mortal heroes of the subordinate world were strong, they wouldn't have lost to the Greek heroes, and then even the gods would have become slave gods to the Olympian gods.

The problem is that this continuous warfare at the mortal level cost the Greek pantheon a heavy price.

Initially, the casualty ratio for mortal heroes was 1 to 9, while for the Aesir gods it was 1.

Even disregarding factors such as combat skills and divine blessings, the sheer superiority of equipment alone led to the mass deaths of Greek heroes.

It wasn't until Achilles and other great heroes killed many of the opposing heroes and seized a batch of steel armor that the opponent's equipment advantage was barely erased.

The reason it was "barely" is because the truly top-tier armor on the other side was imbued with divine power spells, which the Greeks couldn't use.

Only the divine rune armor of second-rate heroes can erase the original divine power array and be used by Greek heroes.

Hephaestus, the Greek god of fire, had long been worried sick about this.

It was incredibly ironic that he claimed it was impossible to replicate this exceptionally hard forged steel armor. If he insisted on making it, he would have to search the world for the corresponding minerals, then spend decades researching it, and finally obtain the corresponding divine authority.

This situation is so bad that Athena has no one to scold her!
With her equipment completely outmatched and her hero pool beginning to dry up, Athena found herself in an unprecedentedly difficult situation.

"Sigh, let's deal with them with ordinary elite soldiers for now." Athena didn't care about the lives of these mortals from the subordinate world.

Just then, news arrived that surprised the Greek gods—the Hittite world had collapsed!
The battles within the spatial cavities were too numerous and too intense. The Greeks lost more, and as a result, the four elements of the Hittite world were also plundered in large quantities. Ultimately, the spatial barrier of the entire world, along with the continents, began to collapse simultaneously.

(End of this chapter)