Foolish Brother Odin

Chapter 426 Artemis's Regret
The remaining three god-kings of the Aesir also failed to win favor.

When Enkidu faced Apollo, his immature attack methods were completely suppressed, and he only managed to hold on by the power of the World Sword.

Bridget bravely confronts Artemis, and the entire scene is fraught with danger.

Catherine faced Hades head-on, and even the Slavic people's life-saving artifact was forced out of her.

It's no exaggeration to say that, given the current situation, it wouldn't be wrong to say that the Asgardians lost 2-4.

Especially the last two goddess queens of the Aesir, if Thor and Hela hadn't come to their rescue, they might have perished on the spot.

This scene terrified the gods of both the Celtic and Slavic peoples.

Thus, the final two pairings became Thor vs. Artemis, and Hela vs. Hades.

If the other two were fighting cautiously, constantly testing each other, then Thor and Artemis went all out from the start.

"Look into my eyes and answer me—what have you done to my Atalanta?" Artemis stepped on the moonlight, violently advancing and retreating more than ten kilometers in one breath. Countless arrows wrapped in starlight shot out from her divine bow. The divine power attached to the arrowheads seemed capable of piercing even mutated star sectors.

In the past, Thor would have definitely chosen to fight head-on.

This time, however, he wielded [Mjolnir], his entire divine body transforming into a bolt of lightning that constantly bent and changed direction, dodging Artemis's arrows as he retreated swiftly.

"Oh, you mean that long-legged mortal girl with a wild air about her, right?" Thor smiled sincerely. "I saw her in the Silver Palace. She's already Father God's handmaiden."

Thor didn't tell a single lie.

Perhaps he himself didn't realize that it was precisely because every word he said was true, coupled with his sunny and cheerful face, that it created the most wonderful irony.

These words were like countless sharp swords, piercing Artemis's heart.

"She's my woman—how dare Downs Paulson do this?" the goddess of the hunt shrieked, the arrow shot from her divine bow tracing an unbelievable trajectory, striking Thor's right neck with pinpoint accuracy from an unexpected angle behind him... Had Thor not reacted at the last moment, jerking his neck to the right so that the edge of his helmet hit the collar of his armor, trapping the arrowhead, he might have been seriously injured.

"Big brother!" Bridget exclaimed in surprise as she retreated to a distance.

"I'm fine!" Thor smiled.

I laughed heartily!

How long has it been since I've experienced... a battle that teeters on the edge of survival and destruction!

Even after the Aesir began their expansion, Thor fought many divine wars. However, this was the first time Thor had ever faced a battle where the forces were so evenly matched.

I vaguely remember that last time, it was back in the Ragnarok era.

Artemis ignited his passion: "Hahaha! Perfect! That's it! This is just right!"

"Hmph!" The goddess of the hunt spat disdainfully.

These magical arrows, guided by divine power, are most effective on the first shot. If they miss, the opponent will be on guard, and subsequent shots will be far less effective.

There's no way around it; deliberately pursuing the right angle of attack means sacrificing speed and power.

The pure-blooded Aesir god was nearly three times her size, and this difference in size forced her to carefully choose the location of her arrows.

Thor's fighting spirit has been completely ignited, which may not necessarily be a good thing for Artemis.

"You'll get a taste of my own medicine too!" Thor raised his hammer high, and in the next second, the sky above the spatial passage split open, revealing a celestial river filled with purple lightning. Countless bolts of lightning, large and small, converged into a cluster and struck Mjolnir. This attack from Thor wasn't just a barrage of lightning; the square-headed divine weapon, the hammer, also carried with it countless stellar fragments from outside the spatial passage, crashing down with a deafening roar.

This is a storm of thunder!
This is a torrential rain of meteorites!
Faced with this exaggerated thunderstone hurricane with a strike range of tens of square kilometers, Artemis remained calm and fearless. When she drew her bowstring, she caused the clouds for hundreds of miles to collapse into a ring, which eventually gathered in her hand.

The Goddess King's eyes were filled with wildness and confidence. With a breath, she let out a soft shout, and the bowstring vibrated, shooting out moonlight that resembled liquid, which instantly condensed into a giant golden-horned deer phantom, its size comparable to a town.

The moment the thunder and meteor storm collided with the golden-horned deer, the entire space passage experienced a massive explosion of what could be described as world-ending magnitude.

Not only were the earth, water, fire, and wind elements that had temporarily gathered inside the passage thrown into chaos, but the asteroid belt surrounding the passage was also affected, with tens of thousands of meteorites of all sizes being instantly blasted into dust.

"Good! Take another hit from my hammer!"

Thor's golden hair stood on end, his eyes crackled with primal lightning, and his boots shattered the void as he charged forward at breakneck speed.

At first, Artemis thought Thor was flying at high speed using his lightning power, but upon closer inspection, she realized that was not the case at all.

A dozen or so World Swords, radiating immense divine power, formed an exaggerated [World Passage], hurtling straight towards them with an earth-shattering momentum.

"What?" Artemis showed surprise for the first time.

She's not blind!

At first, she thought the prince of the Aesir was just a 'simple' thunder god.

Now it seems that this is not the case at all.

He can not only freely command the thunderous power of the entire world, but also freely borrow the world's essence from more than a dozen worlds.

He has the means to squander it!
Compared to Thor, Artemis was at a much greater disadvantage.

Her most important divine duty is hunting.

Hunting is related to the population and the number of hunters.

This divine office alone is absolutely insufficient to support her as the king of gods. Therefore, her true core divine office is actually that of the goddess of nature, in addition to being the goddess of childbirth and newborns, the goddess of fertility and pregnancy, and other divine offices.

Ultimately, the source of her divine power is still nature.

The problem lies here: nature is built upon Mother Earth Gaia. Without Mother Earth, there is no such thing as nature.

This led to a conflict of divine authority, as much of her divine power was, in a sense, stolen from the divine authority that had been scattered by the Earth Mother.

Of course, Zeus does not recognize Gaia's territory.

Zeus was also pleased that his children stole divine authority and power from Gaia's realm, lest Gaia give birth to a Typhon monster to fight him.

Artemis rose to the ranks of the twelve Olympian gods through her own efforts, and finally ascended to the ranks of the gods by conquering the world.

But no matter what, she can only control the power of one realm.

There is an insurmountable gap in resources between them and a prince like Thor, who can readily mobilize the power of more than a dozen small worlds.

This time, Artemis truly regretted it.

(End of this chapter)