Foolish Brother Odin

Chapter 396 Stability Overrids Everything

It's normal for the main race's gods to be more powerful.

Athena thought to herself: If the enemy's vassal is stronger than ours, then it's not a matter of losing face. Perhaps, maybe, possibly, the enemy is indeed stronger than us.

She was reluctant to admit the possibility, but her wisdom told her that it was very likely true.

The Aesir are easily identifiable; they are also the 'Titans'.

During battle, the Aesir gods will even enlarge their divine bodies as needed, and will never shrink them.

Therefore, the giant Aesir gods are mostly of their own race, while the enemy gods who are the size of mortals are basically vassal gods.

As a deity who had fought against the true Aesir gods, Athena had an incredibly deep impression of Odin, the king of the gods.

A true Titan!

A massive, multi-talented deity whose versatile fighting style is fluid and seamless.

It took three Olympian gods to defeat Odin.

This is understandable, given that Odin is the younger brother of the contemporary god-king, Downs. Similarly, on the Olympian side, while Hades, the god of the underworld, was powerful, he wasn't among the twelve Olympian gods before the Greek world expanded. Even after the twelve Olympian gods were later made gods-kings, Hades wasn't included.

Odin was mostly considered an outsider in the Aesir's calculations.

It was unexpected that the slave gods of the Aesir were so powerful.

For once, Athena's dignified and beautiful face furrowed her brows.

Not long after, she summoned Niame to inquire about the situation.

"Tell me, what's the situation with the deity's avatar on the other side?"

“Strong, incredibly strong! Each avatar of an Aesir god is as powerful as a main god with millions of followers. Their superior weapons were already better than ours. Their faith power is ten times greater than ours. We simply cannot win.”

Athena raised an eyebrow: "Can you describe the difference?"

Niamey glanced at Athena, seemingly wanting to say something but then stopping herself.

“Speak, and I will not blame you. You should know that I always keep my promises.”

Yes, unlike your unreliable father.

Niamey was inwardly fretting, but outwardly he appeared fearful and apprehensive. When he met Athena's questioning gaze again, he stammered, "Just like the punishment the Olympian gods bestowed upon us. The difference is exactly the same."

hiss--

Athena gasped inwardly, but remained outwardly calm: "Oh, I see. Is there anything else you'd like to add?"

"No, that's all," Niamei said, bowing and scraping.

"Stay back!"

Niamey knelt and kowtowed three times, then respectfully crawled backward out of the temple gate.

The moment the door closed, Athena's slender hand suddenly gripped the armrest of the throne.

"Give the slave gods the divine office of the Lord of the World? How dare that Downs do such a thing? Isn't he afraid that those damned slave gods will rebel?"

Athena was completely baffled.

In fact, this was discovered by all the gods who had merged into the Aesir after the first round of battle.

"Hey! Did you notice? The subordinate pantheon on the other side is in a terrible state. They're not even qualified to have divine positions in the main Greek world."

"Exactly, when I beat that guy up, he cried on the spot. He said, 'Why are we all slave gods, but I can do so well?'"

"Hahaha!" "Sigh! The other side is really in a bad situation."

As the old saying goes, comparison is the thief of joy.

Rumors are just the surface; the truth is the real killer.

The drastically different systems of the Aesir and Olympus destined for worldly disparities in the treatment of deities.

Zeus was a very insecure guy. Each of his three generations of god-kings overthrew their fathers from the throne and succeeded by acting as a textbook example of "fatherly benevolence and son's wrath," becoming a great disobedient son.

Zeus had a natural insecurity about power. Rather than saying he only trusted his brothers and children, it would be more accurate to say that, unable to assume all the divine duties, he could only trust them.

There were too many cases of patricide in the Olympian pantheon. Even Zeus himself did not fully trust his own brothers and children, let alone the gods who had been defeated and brought back to the world.

that power?

No!

All of you, go and be my slaves!

This influence extended to the entire Greek mortal world, where slavery was exceptionally harsh.

In Downs' view, it seems that someone like Aphrodite should absolutely not be given the title of goddess queen.

Zeus did it anyway.

He relied on sucking the blood from the conquered worlds, absorbing the divine power of the entire small world, and forcibly raising the twelve Olympian gods into god-kings.

This situation, where only mid-to-upper-level deities can thrive while lower-level deities suffer a fate worse than death, means that the lower-level deities who ascend to godhood will inevitably have little combat power. These deities are likely even less capable than 'second-generation gods' like Achilles, who is half-human and half-god.

On Jinlunga's side, all the major pantheons that were previously integrated into the main world have official divine positions. For example, back then, Hela was the sole ruler of the Underworld, but later Ereshkigal and Scáthach joined, which diluted the Underworld's divine authority.

Considering that the cake has been made dozens of times larger, for the old god, the base has still expanded a lot.

It was only recently, with the allegiance of the sub-deities of India and Japan, that Kinlunga acquired the status of a local deity.

Even a local god under a certain god-king controls a population and land area that is incomparable to their previous small worlds.

This makes even a god or local god possess divine power several times greater than the opposing slave god.

Simply put, the Aesir are all about 'numbers', no 'skills' are needed.

After the Valkyries compiled the first day's battle reports, Downs, who was in the Silver Palace, chuckled, a rare occurrence.

Seeing Downs so happy, Freya asked, "Your Majesty, is it all good news?"

"It's not entirely true, but it's more accurate to say that things are 'stable and improving'."

Towns has always been very cautious; the bigger his business, the less he tends to take risks.

When both worlds are of equal size, any talk of quick victory is futile. It requires taking it one world at a time, slowly weakening the foundation of the other's world. It is precisely in such situations that the saying is proven true: stability can override everything!
Not only Freya, but Downs could also see the longing in the eyes of all the god-kings under his command.

He chuckled softly: "What's the rush? You've got plenty of time to fight. As someone in a position of authority, the worst thing you can do is steal credit from your subordinates. Besides, if we're not in a hurry, the other side will be."

Downs was right. The Aesir were in no hurry. On Mount Olympus, a dispute broke out.

Athena's appearance caused an uproar among the gods from the very beginning.

“Even though the Ashanti world is known for its vastness and desolation, at this rate, the Ashanti world will probably be finished once this round of spatial passage opening ends. We must reduce the divine power supply by the amount of a God-King.”

You don't feel pain until the knife falls on your own body.

Previously, the worlds of those subordinate pantheons were destroyed, and the god-kings could ignore it. But now that their "family allowance" is being cut, how can they tolerate this?

(End of this chapter)