Foolish Brother Odin

Chapter 439 Digging Up the Roots of the Opposite Side

There can be a huge difference between two god-kings.

As a war-type deity, Artemis was originally assigned a relatively large subordinate world by Zeus. Including her hunting duties in the main Greek world, plus a bunch of other miscellaneous divine duties such as "nature" and "guardian of newborns," she was able to build up a war-type god-king with a sufficiently large divine power base.

Now that Zeus has first reduced her subordinate worlds, it's foreseeable that he will also find a way to reduce her non-core divine positions in the coming days.

Without a source of divine power, she is nothing more than a beautiful, decorative goddess, just like Amaterasu.

She had already prepared herself for this, but she never expected that Downs would give her the hunting priesthood of such a vast continent.

When she first arrived, she spent most of her time in bed. The farthest she had ever traveled in Asgard was the Palace of Pleasure and a few other palaces. She had no idea what the South American continent was like.

She initially thought Downs would at most offer her some minor side world to appease her, but when she felt the envious glances around her, she realized something was wrong.

Immediately afterwards, the sounds of the world resounded in her ears.

[In accordance with the will of the God-Emperor Downs Paulson, you are hereby appointed as the Hunting Goddess of the South American Continent!]

The next second, Artemis, who had been granted a new divine office, felt her long-closed interdimensional perception suddenly open after arriving in Kinlunga. In her divine vision, it was an incredibly vast continent full of greenery.

This continent is so large that, without exaggeration, it is definitely larger than the Greek world.

Artemis was startled.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, just how big is this continent...?"

Downs casually remarked, "Nearly 1800 million square kilometers. That's about a quarter the size of Atlantis."

The goddess of the hunt had no concept of square kilometers, but when she heard that it was a quarter of Poseidon's divine domain, she understood immediately.

Shocking! Absolutely stunning! Such a beautiful goddess, and she looks like a complete newbie who just joined the Shock Department.

She knew that Downs' words were not unfounded. As the new goddess of the hunt in South America, she could truly feel how fertile this continent was and how abundant its vegetation was. The land shapes its beasts.

On this vast continent, less than a tenth of which has been developed by humans, the divine power provided by the [Hunting] divine office alone is almost comparable to the sum of all her previous divine offices. It is no exaggeration to say that Downs preserved her status as the Goddess Queen.

In the harem of Downs, only Freya, the goddess of love and beauty, Ereshkigal, the goddess of death, and Scáthach, the goddess of sleep, could rival Artemis in terms of divine power.

Towns sensed the envy of the goddesses in his harem and glanced back at them, saying, "I'm just trying to 'buy a horse's bones for a thousand pieces of gold'."

A simple explanation would be the greatest respect one could show them. Moreover, among the Aesir, martial prowess has always been paramount.

Beauty is just the foundation; Towns has at least five goddesses of love and beauty on his side.

Only those goddesses who were both powerful and capable were most favored by the Asgardians.

If you can't fight, then step aside.

Several beautiful girls could only lower their heads in embarrassment.

Artemis was intelligent enough to understand that Downs had more to do with her than just his feelings. She lowered her head and said obediently, "That wicked Hera is jealous and hateful towards my brother and me. Given the opportunity, I will do my best to persuade Apollo to join His Majesty's side."

"Very good. Anyway, there are still many empty divine realms in the Jinlunga world." This makes one have to praise Downs's brilliance.

From the defeat of the three Mayan tribes to India and Japan, Downs did not simply divide up these vast territories.

Even Gilgamesh, the god-king who ruled the South American continent, was merely a technocrat at the god-king level. Within his territory, the god of war was still Tyr, the god of thunder was Thor, and it wouldn't be a problem for Downs to send Artemis down as the goddess of the hunt.

Towns's military merit-based philosophy effectively shut down all those who only know how to flatter. Even if a goddess has 72 transformations, each one a top-tier beautiful appearance, and even if a male god has 81 different ways to kneel in worship, it's all useless.

Because he had so much leeway, Towns was able to select new gods and fulfill his divine duties with remarkable ease, and was also able to quickly build up his fighting strength.

Seeing this, Artemis could only sigh inwardly: the Olympian gods did not lose unjustly.

During the brief truce, Downs took the opportunity to reorganize the mortal army.

He had a premonition that what followed would be a massive, all-out war, from mortals to demigods, then to gods, and finally to god-kings and even god-emperors!
Time flies, and two months later...

"Your Majesty, a massive, complex spatial rift has been discovered ahead," Ishtar reported after using a clone to explore the area.

"Oh?" Following the pathfinder made of the released Kraken soul shell, Downs clearly saw the series of winding, continuous spatial rifts.

The cracks, large and small, will form a series of relatively long-lasting spatial channels in the two parallel world clusters, serving as battlefields for both sides.

Among them are spacious but low-energy conventional passages that can accommodate mortal armies and demigods, as well as medium-intensity battlefields for fierce battles between demigods and true gods. There is only one small problem: this time there are only three god-king level passages.

As expected, there was still no passage to the God-Emperor level. That disgusting mutated star sector remained so vast that the massive Jinlunga world couldn't get close enough to extend the roots of the once invincible World Tree.

Towns glanced at the list and then issued a series of orders.

"Issue the order—form three god-king-level battle groups, led by Thor, Hela, and Gilgamesh, to deal with the attack from the Greek god-kings. The remaining god-kings will serve as reserve battle groups to deal with any unforeseen circumstances."

"Issue the order—form a battle group of gods and their followers, led by Frey and Arthur."

"Issue the order—form an allied army of mortal kings from South America, South Asia, and India, and allow only the use of iron weapons, and prepare for a large-scale invasion of the Greek world."

The order was given, and the entire Golden Palace was in turmoil. Soon, the turmoil spread throughout Asgard and even the entirety of Kinlungar.

The war machine, which had been dormant for a time, has begun to turn again.

Soon, Thor, dressed in military uniform, came to find Towns.

"Father God, why do you attach so much importance to the great battles of mortal armies? They are merely supporting forces."

"No, they are the main force. This time, if possible, I hope that the other world will not be able to find a single pure-blooded Greek."

Thor narrowed his eyes slightly: "If the mortal army makes too much of a fuss, it will attract the wrath of the gods, which they cannot withstand."

Downs said calmly, "At least they won't become the most devout Olympians."

Thor knew his father's plan—if the mortals caused too much trouble, the Olympian gods would certainly not stand idly by. However, Downs intended for the South American slave soldiers to overwhelm the Greeks with sheer numbers. Once the Greeks were nearly wiped out, the Olympian gods who relied on faith would be the first to suffer.

This is an attempt to use overwhelming numbers to uproot the Olympian gods!
(End of this chapter)