Foolish Brother Odin

Chapter 397 "The Divine Sea Assault Doctrine"

"Athena, you're insane! How dare you do this?" Ares, the god of war, immediately retorted.

“Because His Majesty the Emperor is not here, he entrusted me with the temporary supervision of Mount Olympus before he left.” Athena stood firm.

Apollo, the god of light, played the peacemaker: "Let's all keep quiet. The situation on the front lines is really not ideal right now. The Aesir gods on the other side are indeed very fierce."

As the saying goes, you don't know the pain until you're cut yourself.

This reduction in the divine power supply to the God-King is not a simple subtraction. It could very well be a disguised way of stripping the God-King of his crown. Such a matter involving divine authority would absolutely offend the gods, so Ares's outburst on the spot is understandable.

Athena was also clever; she didn't reduce the divine power supply of all the gods at the same time—this is a very simple principle. If the war-loving gods were also reduced, it would be like cutting off their own arms and dying even faster. Moreover, she only asked for the reduction of one, which actually reduced the scope of attack and did not push all the non-combat gods to the opposite side.

After a lot of arguing, Hestia, the most radiant goddess of the hearth, stepped forward: "Everyone, stop arguing. Compared to those of you who are going to the battlefield, my importance is slightly lower. Let's start by reducing my divine power supply."

The dispute in the Temple of Olympus vanished instantly.

"I'm sorry, Your Majesty Hestia." Having achieved her goal, Athena immediately softened her stance.

The gentle goddess shook her head: "Athena, you should think about whether to ring the divine bell to call Zeus back, and... if the war continues to go badly, who will be next?"

Who's next?

These words truly strike at the heart.

If Hestia hadn't been the one to concede, her words would have definitely been seen as divisive. But because she was the one who conceded, it made her appear selfless.

Athena lowered her head in embarrassment.

She definitely has a list in mind, but she can't reveal it now!
Besides, Zeus roamed the world because he had the resources. Before he went out, he gave a warning—unless enemy gods invaded the Greek homeland, don't call him.

This is precisely where Athena is struggling.

The current situation doesn't seem that bad, but the trend is worse than it could get.

She's just a patch-up artist now, fixing whatever's leaking, but in reality, she doesn't hold real power. All attacks by god-kings have to be discussed with other god-kings.

This is what makes Athena helpless.

"I will mobilize some of the Olympian gods' avatars to stabilize the front lines."

As before, she lacked sufficient authority and could only consult with the next level of deities.

On the other hand, in the Golden Palace of Asgard in Kinlunga.

Downs showed the core gods the latest mental projection, a giant map of the Greek world.

"This world is truly enormous!" exclaimed Frey, the sun god.

It’s really not small!

Greece in its entirety is actually quite small.

Key point—this is the Greater Greek world!
This territory, when converted to Earth before Downs' time travel, included the entirety of Greece and Macedonia, with its sphere of influence stretching north to the Black Sea, east to western Turkey (Asia Minor), south to Alexandria, Egypt, and west to not only Italy but also the Marseille region of France. Frankly, at its peak, Greater Greece's territory was somewhat similar to that of the Roman Empire at its zenith. However, Greater Greece wasn't quite as large, roughly encompassing from central to eastern Greece, covering almost half of the Mediterranean Sea, rather than turning the entire Mediterranean into a Greek inland sea.

This is just the land area!
The real key is that in addition to the more than 250 million square kilometers of the Mediterranean Sea, Greater Greece also included Atlantis, which was ruled by Poseidon. The English translation of this is the Atlantic Ocean.

Fun fact: the Atlantic Ocean alone covers nearly 7700 million square kilometers.

The vast sky, the territory of most of the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, and Tartarus, the hell beneath the land and sea—this is the complete version of Greater Greece!
It was on the basis of Greater Greece that the Greek world, with its enormous global size, easily crushed a host of pantheons from West Asia and Africa, and even the Pacific pantheon that it somehow encountered.

Despite having now encompassed the Celtic (British Isles), Sumer, Egypt, South America, Slavic, Indian, and Fusang continents and their surrounding seas, the combined world of Kinlunga still cannot compare to the Great Greek world.

Here, Downs has to complain about the Indian world. It's a continental world. Perhaps Shiva and his people thought about conquering the Indian Ocean, but because the Hindu pantheon abhors the ocean, the sea in the Indian world is only a small place 20 kilometers from the coastline.

All these factors combined mean that, now, across the mutated star sector and with Downs constantly sending out Heroic Spirit spies, he has roughly confirmed that the current size of the Great Golden Lunga world is about 60% of that of Great Greece.

This is just a rough estimate.

There may never be a precise answer, since the divine power that earth element can provide per unit volume is far greater than that of water element, and this is not a fixed number.

In any case, Downs could only accept that Zeus and the others controlled more natural elements than he did.

This is just a rough estimate. In reality, the amount of divine power that a large pantheon can control depends not only on the content of the four elements in the world, but also on the population and the level of faith. This is very complex and cannot be judged simply by visual estimation or quantification.

As for population, let alone a Outer God like Downs, even Zeus himself probably didn't know how many people ruled his world.

However, considering that Greece practiced slavery and had low productivity, it certainly couldn't compare to Towns, who had a natural talent for farming.

Towns' greatest advantage, after more than a century of struggle, is his population.

The current total population of the world, Jinlunga, is a solid 100 million.

This is like when Tang Si catches Geb, the god of the earth, Enki, the god of the sea and irrigation, and a bunch of other gods related to agriculture and plays "divine seed selection with divine power," then applies a "divine version of fertilizer" rich in nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, boosting farmland yields to hundreds of kilograms at a time.

Then, with the fertile South American continent of 17 million square kilometers as its core, the population exploded out of nowhere.

This is Towns' greatest source of confidence!

Even based on calculations from Herodotus's Histories and Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, the population of ancient Greece was over 1300 million.

That means Towns has an overwhelming advantage.

Moreover, Towns is willing to bet a copper coin, but Greece doesn't have that many people.

After all, before he transmigrated, Greece, with its modern agriculture, had a population of just over ten million. Based on the agricultural level of slave-owning Greece, the yield per acre was less than one-eighth of modern yields. Even considering the developed marine fisheries, it was impossible to support ten million people.

Three million at most, no more than that.

If we calculate it this way, the current Greater Greece, including the slave population of its subordinate worlds, would at most be twenty or thirty million.

After carefully comparing the advantages and disadvantages of both worlds, Towns can finalize his strategy.

That is the "Human Sea Assault Theory," no, it is the "Divine Sea Assault Theory"!
(End of this chapter)