Foolish Brother Odin

Chapter 401 Cheating? Who can't?!
Not resisting, and being killed at will, is sometimes the greatest form of resistance.

With these divine interventions all bound by divine spells, this act of giving up actually made Athena, who was not the God-Emperor, hesitate to act.

Seeing the temple doors closed by Athena's attendants, the former god-kings naturally didn't start making connections on the spot. After they dispersed, they immediately sent out messengers of low rank to begin frantically communicating.

On the other side, Nike, the goddess of victory, said to Athena with great concern, "Your Majesty, this is not a good situation!"

"If it's not easy to handle, then don't handle it!" Athena raised an eyebrow, and her face returned to its calm and wise expression.

Before long, Mount Olympus was in an uproar.

Ares retorted angrily, "No, Athena, why should my fiefdom be placed in the top position?"

Athena sneered: "When Father God entrusted me with overseeing the world, it was agreed that I would allocate all the resources of the subordinate worlds. Now, your subordinate god Engandi has refused to obey orders, so I'm executing him according to the authorization you gave me. What's wrong with that?"

Ares was a little confused and speechless for a moment.

To oppose Athena would mean that Ares disregarded Zeus's orders.

Agree with Athena; that means he's going to give away his fiefdom.

Ares has truly entered a state of being stubborn and caught between two blocked ends.

Athena routinely teases Ares. This has been the case since the era when the Twelve Kings of the Gods were still the Twelve Olympian Gods.

This time is different.

The powerful and intelligent gods like Poseidon and Apollo immediately realized that the pressure exerted on Olympus by the Aesir was too great, and the subordinate gods, based on their own interests, began to resist desperately.

When a small world is destroyed, they can remain silent.

Two small worlds, their hearts bleeding.

The problem with the three smaller worlds was no longer theirs, but rather that the Olympian pantheon, as the slave owner, had not demonstrated enough authority to control them.

If the Olympian gods were still powerful, these slave gods, even knowing they would die, would still cry and shout as they charged forward.

At this point, Athena disdained to continue arguing with Ares, the dim-witted primal god, without any objection. She sneered, "Gentlemen, either grant me complete power to destroy all the remaining nine subordinate worlds without hesitation, or vote on whether to call upon the Father God."

The collapse of the three worlds greatly affected the divine powers of Hestia, Aphrodite, and Hermes.

If this fighting continues, it will eventually affect the divine power income of the remaining war gods.

Without a sufficiently large opening in the mutated star sector, it is impossible to launch a large-scale divine war at the level of a chief god.

The Olympian gods were in agony.

Finally, Poseidon emerged, slamming the end of his famous trident against the stone bricks of the hall, the resounding clang silencing all the arguing.

"Vote!"

As Zeus's brother, Poseidon wielded considerable influence. Had he not also preferred societal expansion and disliked administrative duties, the responsibility of overseeing the Greek world would undoubtedly have fallen to him, not Athena.

Poseidon had spoken, so the other god-kings naturally had no objections.

Unsurprisingly, the majority of the gods agreed to recall Zeus.

Since the Aesir have not yet launched a large-scale invasion of the Greek world, the current task is to send out Hermes, the swift-footed god, to search the world for Zeus...

On the other hand, on the side of the Aesir gods...

A grand ceremony for bestowing titles upon the gods is underway.

Everything has a window of opportunity; once that window is closed, it becomes very difficult to accomplish anything.

The three mortals who were promised by Towns to be deified have now been officially decided.

After a meticulous tallying of the battle results, examination of the slain enemy corpses, and calculation of the reclaimed space and elements, Downs finally announced from his throne in Valhalla: "The remaining two spots for ascension to godhood belong to—Gawain and Arjuna!"

On Gawain's side, with the Knight God Arthur leading the applause, a group of knights clapped and cheered wildly, creating an astonishing scene.

Arjuna's side was much quieter, with only a small number of Indian heroes, led by Karna, trying their best to cheer him on.

This is not the point.

The key point is that Emperor Downs truly kept his promise.

Gawain, by a mere half-move, successfully killed Hector, the great Trojan hero who was on par with Achilles in the Greek world in this lifetime.

Arjuna's achievement was capturing Hippolyta, the Amazon queen, for Towns!
As everyone knows, capturing a beautiful, capable, and skilled female hero for His Majesty the Emperor is a bonus.

Arjuna possessed both luck and skill to win over Hippolyta.

His ascension signifies that the Hindu gods, who had been wiped out, have once again ushered in new hope.

"I hereby solemnly declare that Gawain is the God of Swords, and Arjuna is the God of Bows!"

The Sword God and the Bow God are, to put it simply, subordinate gods under the God of War. They are not important core divine positions.

Based on the principle of avoidance that one cannot take office in the same lineage.

Ultimately, the newly appointed Sword God Gawain went to serve under Enkidu and became a follower god.

Arjuna swore allegiance to Catherine, the ruling goddess. Originally, the archer god of the Aesir was the pure-blooded Aesir god Yul. Unfortunately, Yul's strength remained mediocre, and more importantly, he was old, having reached the point where he needed to consume the Apple of Gold to maintain his youth. Just then, Baldr recently took in the powerful follower Ramses II, and to nurture him, Frigg chose to trade some earth element with Peren.

In exchange, the bow god Yul was allowed to retire and relinquish his divine office.

Thus, Ah Zhou was able to manipulate the bow god's magical actions.

Arjuna was a skilled fighter, but lacked a powerful background.

Catherine desperately needed henchmen, but despite having the support of Slavic deities behind her, she couldn't directly take action.

The two sides hit it off immediately.

Towns ignored this level of exchange of benefits.

All the gods are his sons, and it's perfectly normal for gods of different origins to compete with each other.

Want to expand your territory?

Great! Go grab it yourself!

If you don't unleash your violent nature when facing the Olympian gods, how can you possibly fight them?
Towns would love for all his children to be as good a fighter as Thor!
The God-Emperor's tacit approval 'legalized' this exchange, turning it into a customary rule among the Aesir gods.

Regardless, even disregarding Siegfried and Beowulf, who were both favored, Towns still managed to elevate three mortals to godhood, which greatly inspired mortal heroes.

The atmosphere at Valhalla reached its peak when Towns announced that there was a second phase of the Godhood plan.

[In the ensuing battle, any mortal who manages to kill any avatar of an opposing deity will be considered to have successfully slain a god and will gain a divine position within the Aesir.]

Brunhilde stepped forward and added, "The top thirty mortal heroes in terms of battle merits can come here to register and borrow a low-grade artifact."

Anyone with eyes can see that this is a direct retaliation for the incident where Achilles used his mother's connections to kill a weak god on the Aesir side!

Cheating?

Who wouldn't? !

(End of this chapter)