Foolish Brother Odin

Chapter 408 Spiral Upgrade

Don't be fooled by the fact that European countries around the world are all boasting about the greatness of Greece.

It was precisely because ancient Greece was destroyed that they began to sing its praises.

In fact, many things in ancient Greece could not escape the limitations of their time. For example, the much-hyped Greek roads were actually just relatively neat stone roads paved on the ground to facilitate the travel of horse-drawn carriages.

In a world where railroads and horse-drawn carriages are commonplace, this limited transportation capacity severely hinders the offensive advance of the Jinlunga mortal army.

Let alone a year, even with such god-like power unable to interfere, if Kinlunga were given just three months, he could turn the Greeks into cavemen.

Unfortunately, a mere month is only enough to invade city-states near the spatial passage.

Towns doesn't care much about wars fought by mortals.

At first, many of the Aesir believed this, until they discovered that almost everyone in the ravaged Spartan city-state was a follower of Ares, the god of war.

This immediately caught the attention of not only the wise gods, but even Tyr, who was usually silent and disliked expressing his opinions.

As is generally known, the divine power of deities comes from only two sources: one is the world itself, manifested as elemental gods; the other is the system of deification based on faith.

Ares, as one of the twelve god-kings, is more powerful than those god-kings who are focused on daily life. His main source of divine power is, of course, war itself.

Despite the recent invasion of Greece by the mortal forces of Jinlunga, and the fierce fighting that has engulfed various regions, Ares has also gained a massive amount of divine power from this act of war.

Unfortunately, war doesn't happen all the time.

Even if Ares, that scoundrel, were to plot wars during peacetime, he still had to rely on the prayers of a large number of believers to maintain his daily divine power expenditures.

Sparta was the core of Ares's faith base.

Ares may not care about the Spartans on ordinary days, but when Sparta collapses and its war activities decrease significantly, there will be times when Ares cries.

Destroying the foundation of others' divine power and income—that's the essence of a simple, unadorned divine war.

"7 Mycenae, 8 Spartacus..." Listening to the Valkyrie's report, Downs' lips curled up slightly, a rare occurrence.

This Greek world is slightly different from the ancient Greece that Downs knew.

By exploiting the twelve subsidiary worlds, the number of slaves owned by the Greeks expanded to an unprecedented level, with an average of twenty slaves per Greek.

High total productivity corresponds to an increase in total population.

The self-proclaimed noble Greeks would not intermarry with slaves. Ultimately, the pyramid structure meant that the number of rulers at the top was relatively small. This resulted in a small number of pure-blooded Greeks in a large city-state.

The total population of ancient Greece consisted of three parts: citizens and their families, slaves, and foreigners.

The number of Valkyries specifically refers to Greek citizens.

These people are the core believers needed for the deification of the Olympian gods.

Downs had the mortal army capture these people, which was like digging up the roots of the Olympian gods!

As for the slaves and the people of the dependent world, Ares and his companions didn't care about them.

Sure enough, the gods on Mount Olympus were in an uproar again.

"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! This damned star field law! Why won't I get involved? As soon as I arrive, those insects will be crushed to death in an instant!" Ares continued his impotent rage.

Only Zeus's eyes flickered incessantly. It was unclear whether, after seizing control of this chaotic universe, he intended to completely alter its laws.

At this moment, Hermes, the 'messenger of the gods,' said, 'Good news—a huge gap has been discovered on the path forward for our world. Enough to contain the power of a chief god!'

"Great!" Ares punched and slapped his fists, showing off his impressively muscular physique. Even if the other god-kings weren't exactly excited, at least their faces showed optimism.

Human or god.

People tend to have preconceived notions about things.

They still vividly remember how they destroyed the Neo-Mayan pantheon and captured Odin, the king of the gods.

In their view, it's just a copy.

Observing everyone's behavior, only Athena remained silent, only wearing a polite smile to show that she was fitting in.

Athena clutched her heart and asked herself: Is it really that simple?

Indeed, through this all-out war, the Olympian gods could basically confirm that the world of Kinlunga on the other side was not as large as their Great Greek world, and that the other side only had three subordinate worlds (India, Fusang, and Lilanca), which was not as large as the remaining nine on their side.

Athena always felt that the other world had a larger population and more advanced weaponry than Greece.

After much deliberation, Athena spoke up: "We still need to be careful; the number of gods on the other side seems to be quite large."

This is not false statement.

Based on the number of divine avatars and mortal heroes that appeared recently, it's not difficult to deduce the approximate numbers.

"What are you afraid of? Watch me flood their cities with the sea!" Poseidon declared.

This put Athena in a bit of a predicament.

Given limited resources, Athena wouldn't mind giving her uncle a good thrashing. After all, Athena was the one who snatched the patron god of Athens from Poseidon.

Ultimately, the struggle for resources in the Greek world was still a contest among the gods themselves; the spoils were all kept within their own borders.

Foreign wars are a different story.

Poseidon's radicalization due to the murder of his offspring was not necessarily a good thing.

Unfortunately, Athena was unable to stop them.

Ares, an impulsive and easily angered god, was already troublesome enough. Now, with the addition of Poseidon, who was provoked into making a statement, and Artemis, who was furious about her chosen people being robbed, more than half of the Olympian war gods had entered an irrational state, a situation that secretly worried Athena.

Athena realized that she could only take things one step at a time.

This unpredictable situation is completely different from the many previous battles between gods.

She certainly hoped that the war would be controllable and that she could achieve final victory with limited losses on her side.

Unfortunately, war is never something that can be changed by the will of an individual.

The intensity of war usually escalates in a spiral.

The only thing to fear is that what one side sees as a terrifying weapon capable of unleashing bloodshed and slaughtering all in one fell swoop, is seen by the opponent as nothing more than a worthless piece of junk lying in a corner, ignored and disregarded.

This kind of generational leap in dimensionality is the most terrifying.

"Surely the opposing God Emperor, Downs Paulson, doesn't possess some exaggerated abilities?"

Unbeknownst to Athena, at this very moment, in the armory beneath the Golden Palace, Downs was giving orders to the core deities while facing a pile of metal tubes shaped like missiles.

"The war then escalated. If possible, let the gods hurl these 'divine weapons' at the Greek world."

(End of this chapter)