Foolish Brother Odin

Chapter 449 Vanguard!

Odin didn't care whether Hector lived or died, and he didn't mind having a few more cannon fodder on his side.

With Hector, a native, around, he could better incite the ghosts of those unfortunate souls exiled to Tartarus.

He doesn't need the obedience of these wronged souls; he only needs them to be absorbed by him more effectively.

Soon, Odin was at the point where everything was ready except for the final push.

The influx of numerous vengeful spirits severely disrupted the Hundred-Handed Giants' vision, and Odin noticed that of the three Hundred-Handed Giants who were originally stationed within the triple runic bronze walls, only one remained.

Cronus urged Odin more than once: "Hasn't that 'signal' arrived yet?"

“You’ve been imprisoned for so long, what’s a little longer?” Odin said, glancing at Cronus’s cell.

This enormous prison, as massive as a mountain, had even its thinnest bronze pillar requiring more than a dozen people to encircle it. Previously, these pillars bore runes targeting Titans; if Kronos touched them, he would be struck by lightning, suffering excruciating pain. Now, corroded by the steel pillars of Downs' laws, about 80% of them have become mere decorations.

The base of these bronze pillars has been eroded into a complete cross-section, with only a thin layer of bronze connecting them near the outside of the prison. They appear intact, but in reality, if Cronus were to slap one of them, the entire bronze pillar would instantly break apart.

Once enough pillars have fallen, the former god-king will be able to escape.

How could the cunning Odin possibly destroy all the pillars in one go?

On the surface, Odin said he would wait for the next batch of Law Steel Pillars to arrive, but in reality, Odin secretly hid a batch, which was to keep Cronus hanging.

Even if Cronus had guessed it, there was nothing he could do about it.

Towns' steel pillars can indeed melt the copper pillars of the cage, but the problem is that they are consumables. It takes about two steel pillars to erode and destroy one copper pillar of the cage.

Kronos witnessed these Law Steel Pillars randomly piercing the dome of Tartarus' Hell and falling into the underworld. With him unable to leave and Odin's movement space limited, it's hard to say how many Law Steel Pillars Odin could collect.

Conversely, it could be said that Cronus's patience in not losing his temper was entirely due to Odin, the king of the outer realms, keeping him in check.

Clearly, this hot-tempered guy, Cronus, won't be able to hold out for much longer.

Odin was well aware of this, but unfortunately, his and Cronus's fates were both in Downs' hands...

At the same time, in the Golden Palace of Asgard.

Downs convened a grand assembly of the gods, a super-gathering attended by every single deity of the entire Great Aesir pantheon.

Even though the Golden Palace was originally designed to be the size of a giant, it still felt a bit crowded after cramming in over a thousand gods of all sizes. As a result, only the God-King, the Chief God, and the Righteous God had thrones, while the Lesser Gods were only allowed to stand behind their own Chief God.

That's not important. Everyone's saying that if we defeat the Greek world this time, the Golden Palace will be demolished and rebuilt into a true Pantheon!
Without exception, all the gods became very interested in the Greek world.

The reason for this is not because Jinlunga is not good enough, nor because Jinlunga has no extra territory to reward the gods, but simply because the political resources of this world have become saturated.

In Kinlunga, the ancient Aesir, a race of giants, held the best divine positions.

Those with mortal body types are generally called new gods. Unless they are second-generation new gods with the bloodline of the God Emperor, no one can hope to be promoted to God King.

For new gods to try and climb the ranks, it's a fight that will leave them battered and bruised.

Everything changed after they encountered the Greek world.

What does it mean to be a vast world where the total amount of the four elements in nature is greater than that of the world of Jinlunga?
Every new god of Aesir knows this, which means an increase in the number of gods!
Not every god has the ability of Emperor Downs to handle the expansion of his divine authority with ease.

for example:

In the ancient world of Fusang, Izanami cursed her husband, saying that the Yomotsu Hirasaka would collect a thousand souls every day. For Fusang at that time, with its extremely underdeveloped productive forces, this was already a large number of deaths. How could this have landed in today's Kinrenga, a land with a population of over 100 million?

LOL, even without war, the number of people who die naturally in Kinlunga each year is in the millions.

The direct result of this was that there weren't enough deities associated with death.

In the past, when people died in the world of Kinlunga, their souls would be handed over to Anubis for judgment on the scales of justice.

With tens of thousands of deaths every day, how could Anubis possibly handle all of them alone?
Poor Doghead Bro has tried his best to create thirty clones to judge all the recently deceased unlucky souls at the same time, but he still can't keep up.

The surge in deaths caused by the population boom has benefited the previously neglected deities associated with death the most.

Horus's son, Emsheth, was originally the guardian god of the livers of the dead in Egypt. Now, all those associated with death, such as Horus's four sons, have been transferred to Hela's service, serving as labor gods who distribute the dead.

This is only the realm of death; other realms, too, have had to increase the number of human (or divine) hands as the world expands.

In any case, the expansion of the world means an increase in the number of divine thrones.

This leap in political status is something no Asgardian can refuse.

They gazed intently at the supreme golden figure on the steps, awaiting his pronouncement.

Towns swept across the court with his deep gaze.

Wherever his divine gaze fell, all the gods bowed in reverence. It felt as if his gaze was a 'divine wave,' and wherever he looked, a whole group of people would kneel down in a rush.

Downs spoke slowly, his divine voice echoing throughout the vast golden hall.

"Thanks to Ishtar for the intelligence—next, it will be a full-scale war with the Greek world."

As Downs spoke, a massive, three-story-high mental projection appeared in mid-air in the center of the hall. This was a world cluster movement map created by Downs using Ishtar intelligence in conjunction with his imagination.

Through this three-dimensional, transparent map, the gods could clearly see that two enormous worlds, separated by a passable area resembling a trench, were slowly moving forward side by side.

This passable area looks like a huge straight line.

It's just that this 'straight line' is a bit thick.

Any god with even a little experience in inter-world divine wars would know that this means that, apart from direct close-quarters combat between worlds, the power of a god-king can be used at will.

In other words, apart from the World Tree of Kinlunga being immovable, every deity can participate in the battle.

Yes! Including the God Emperor!

Because the God Emperor can also directly change the course of battle by projecting clones.

If it were before they engaged in battle with the Olympian gods, the Aesir gods might have been apprehensive.

Now?

Haha, didn't you see Artemis sitting on the throne not far from Towns, looking like a demure little wife?
Upon seeing this diagram, a surge of passionate voices urging for battle filled the hall.

"Your Majesty! XXX requests to be the vanguard!"

(End of this chapter)