Foolish Brother Odin

Chapter 434 A Lesson We Must Face

Cronus, of course, did not know who Artemis was. After Odin explained it to him briefly, he immediately understood that she was the daughter of Zeus and was now known as the king of the gods, along with Poseidon, Hades, and Hestia.

"Hahaha! Those bastards, they deserved it!"

Cronus was incredibly cold-hearted when it came to family ties. After he slaughtered his father Uranus's chicken, he was cursed by his father, who said that he would be overthrown by his own children. For the sake of his rule, Cronus, as a Titan, would swallow each child he gave birth to into his enormous stomach, forcing them to live a terrifying life without seeing the light of day.

Later, Zeus was switched at birth and grew up outside. He not only rescued Poseidon and his siblings, but also joined forces with them to launch the Titanomachy and overthrow Cronus's rule.

For Cronus, the cold and cruel former Titan god-king, this was certainly good news to celebrate.

"Hahaha! Does my great-son like this granddaughter? She's been captured, is he heartbroken? Tell me what she looks like."

Odin had never seen Artemis, but that didn't stop him from imagining what she looked like through Athena's eyes. He described her vividly and then concluded, "He doted on this precious daughter. You know, that scoundrel Zeus didn't even spare his own sisters and daughters, and he preferred other men's wives. Yet he spared Artemis, making her one of the 'three virgin goddesses'."

Odin, of course, knew none of this; he learned it from Ixion, who was roasted alive by the fire wheels every day. As for the veracity of this story, Odin had no interest in investigating. After all, it was always safest to vilify one's enemy.

Cronus became happier and happier as he listened; the more miserable Zeus was, the more pleased he became.

Whether it's reincarnation or retribution, just enjoy it.

After his celebration, Cronus began to discuss with Odin how to unite the other imprisoned Titans, and then, together with the divine army of the Downs, break out of Tartarus and seek revenge against Zeus.

Odin agreed verbally, but in his heart he looked down on Cronus even more.

The former king of the gods' resentment towards his eldest son Zeus was absolutely genuine.

He wouldn't have the guts to fight his way out of hell on his own.

Not only that, he also talked a lot about Titans, claiming that once he escaped, he would defeat Zeus and then share the universe with Downs.

Honestly, Odin has already exhausted this little trick.

Unbeknownst to Cronus, while he was entrusting Odin to connect the various Titan prisoners, Odin had already learned the full story of the War of the Titans through subtle questioning.

The Titans' weakness to elemental magic like lightning had long been exposed to Odin.

Odin chuckled inwardly: "Cronus, if you were truly so capable, you wouldn't be here as a prisoner. Even as a prisoner, wouldn't you seize the opportunity to fight your way out? You couldn't even defeat Zeus when his power was still unstable; how could you possibly win now? If you could really win, would you have waited for my elder brother Downs' army to arrive?"
Odin questioned the wisdom of this former Titan king, whose body was as large as a mountain, and then judged him to be an extremely selfish and shameless person.

To reiterate, while Cronus may be a piece of trash, he is a huge troublemaker in the divine realm, perfectly capable of stirring up Zeus's mess.

As long as Cronus and Zeus, father and son, can fight each other, Odin doesn't care who wins or loses. To take it to an extreme, as long as he can avenge his imprisonment, Odin even feels that his own demise is not unacceptable.

Odin was ruthless to other gods, and he was ruthless to himself as well.

……

Just as Odin was plotting a grand rebellion, the battle in the six spatial portals outside was gradually coming to an end.

The gradually orderly cosmic current propelled the two world clusters forward, gradually moving away from the six enormous passages that could accommodate a god-king.

In recent days, Zeus, in order to lull the gods into a false sense of security, deliberately sent his two most reliable brothers, Poseidon and Hades, to launch successive invasions. They led a host of subordinate gods and slave gods of the world, in launching several large-scale offensives. While the Greek army was formidable, the Ginnunga were not to be outdone.

Hades, accompanied by Hypnos, Cerberus, and the army of the underworld, actually lost the battle.

Actually, Hades wasn't to blame for this.

The amount of divine power in the underworld depends on the number of dead.

The number of dead is absolutely related to the number of living people in a world.

The world of Kinlunga has a population of over 100 million, and most of them are highly intelligent species like humans. Where there is birth, there is death. The absolute power of Helheim surpasses that of Hades's Underworld.

Moreover, in the Greek world, Tartarus and Hades were separate entities. The part where Cronus was imprisoned was not under Hades' jurisdiction.

This natural disparity in divine power was enough to make Hades suffer.

Compared to other classes, Hela not only has Garm the Cerberus and her second brother Jormungandr the World Serpent, but also ridiculously powerful subordinate gods like Ereshkigal and Scáthach who are capable of becoming chief gods.

After a while, Hades was forced to retreat, and the fact that he could barely maintain the situation only shows how powerful Hades was.

Poseidon's side was equally unappealing.

Because Poseidon, accompanied by a group of sea goddesses and sea monsters, was facing off against the three brothers Thor, Vidal, and Tyr.

Poseidon tried several times to control the elements of the spatial passage and turn it into a deadly sea that would drown the enemy. First, Vidal used the roots of the World Tree to fight against it, but found that it was not effective. Thor, that unreasonable guy, would smash through the spatial passage every time, releasing all the seawater and splashing it into the mutated star sector.

What kind of seawater is being sprayed?
This is the lifeblood of Poseidon!

He absolutely doesn't want to experience something like this again.

Without the so-called home advantage, Poseidon was no match for these three Aesir gods with giant blood in a duel that tended towards hand-to-hand combat.

With everyone capable of using Giants, Poseidon would be at a significant disadvantage fighting three opponents at once.

The two veteran Greek gods were indeed formidable; they lost by a small margin, but at least they weren't completely crushed.

Then, with Athena, Apollo, and Ares absent from the battle, the six Aesir gods collectively sought martial arts lessons from their elder brothers.

Gilgamesh was the first to seek out Heimdall, hoping to learn martial arts from him.

When Heimdall handed over control of the Rainbow Bridge to the gods and began to shrink, Gilgamesh refused.

"Brother! Just stay in this size. I've heard that the Greek gods have Titan blood. They can also grow to enormous sizes. I have to adapt to that."

"Oh, okay then!" Heimdall's big gold teeth gleamed, and then he started beating up his little brother.

Honestly, this was not a pleasant experience, but a lesson that these mortal gods had to learn!
(End of this chapter)