Foolish Brother Odin

Chapter 466 Conquering the Holy Mountain
On the main battlefield of Mount Olympus, Hades was frantic. He shouted to Zeus, who was in a similarly sorry state, "The Wailing Wall of the Underworld has been breached by those damned Aesir gods. Persephone is in danger, I must go back, and if the Underworld falls, my divine power will be wiped out."

Zeus was dumbfounded on the spot.

No, bro, the battle's raging, and you're trying to run away?

After Zeus narrowly dodged his father's deadly scythe, he retaliated with a lightning strike, leaving him in a dilemma.

Hades was the most rigid and serious of the three brothers. The most outrageous thing he did in his entire divine life was kidnapping Persephone.

Persephone lived with her mother Demeter from a young age and never considered marriage.

Once, Persephone was picking flowers in Enna with the nymphs in the forest. With Zeus's permission, Gaia, the goddess of the earth, caused a daffodil to bloom. While picking flowers, Persephone unknowingly strayed from her friends. Just as she was about to pick the seemingly harmless daffodil, the earth split open, and four black horses appeared, pulling Hades' golden chariot. Having been struck by Cupid's golden arrow, Hades forcibly carried Persephone onto the chariot and took the young girl for himself.

Hades did not have a formal wife, so Persephone naturally became Hades' wife.

Demeter, the goddess of fertility and agriculture, was overcome with grief and searched frantically for her daughter, causing everything on earth to stop growing.

Later, through Zeus's mediation, a compromise was reached: Persephone had to spend four months of each year in the underworld, which was the harsh winter on earth.

Hades may not care about many things, but the Queen of the Underworld is his lifeblood.

Zeus was now faced with two poisoned options: one was to force Hades to stay, but keeping him would likely turn Hades into a useless god; the other was to let Hades go back to the underworld, but in return, the battlefield situation on Mount Olympus would deteriorate further.

After thinking it over for a while, Zeus said with a bitter face, "Brother, you go back and guard the Underworld first. Come back immediately after you have repelled the enemy."

"Good!" Hades glanced gratefully at Zeus.

As one of the most powerful of the twelve Olympian gods, Hades' departure immediately triggered panic among the third and fourth generations of Greek gods. Even Zeus's shouts for everyone to calm down failed to quell the unrest.

The loss of core combat capabilities cannot be replaced overnight.

With the Earth immobilized, the three divine offices of Sky, Ocean, and Underworld are far superior to those of War, Wisdom, Light, and Hunting.

The gap between the fighting power of Zeus's three brothers and that of the fourth generation of gods was so huge that it was almost a complete disparity.

With Hades gone, the vacant position of "Soaring Sun God"—the Titan Hyperion—was virtually unchallenged. As the father of Helios, the sun god, Hyperion faced a difficult situation where Helios, loyal to Zeus, could hardly surpass his father in any similar attribute.

Apart from the few god-kings who were the main force in the battle, none of the other third and fourth generation Olympian gods were confident that they could fight against a mad Titan.

With Poseidon's divine power waning, Olympus was truly at a disadvantage.

Meanwhile, as Hades was rushing back, Hela received an urgent message from Downs' son, Helmod.

In this enemy territory where divine communication is impossible, this kind of errand running is actually more efficient.

"Oh? Hades has returned?" Hela muttered to herself as she looked at the battlefield ahead.

There, Ereshkigal and Scáthach are battling Hecate, the Titan and bodyguard of Hades.

Hecate, an important Titan goddess in the pre-Olympian era of Greek mythology, is a Titan goddess representing magic, witchcraft, night, the moon, and ghosts.

Note that she is not one of the twelve Titans who fought Zeus in the war.

In the history of this world, she is the daughter of Nyx, the goddess of night, and she was involved in helping Demeter to retrieve her daughter from the underworld. Because of her power, Hades forced Hades to agree that the Queen of the Underworld would only need to spend four months of the year in the underworld. Later, she became the Queen of the Underworld's guard.

At this very moment, this Titan goddess, who possesses both a powerful divine body and complex and powerful magic, is battling Ereshkigal and Scáthach with exaggerated divine power.

It wasn't that Hecate was inherently stronger than Ereshkigal and Scáthach, but rather that this was Hecate's home turf. Two goddesses of Helheim fighting here would inevitably suffer a significant loss in terms of divine power expenditure. At this point, Hela had no reason to hesitate.

"Send the order! Withdraw! If we don't leave now, Hades will block our way in the Underworld. I'm not going to do something so thankless." Hela glanced at Makaria, who was on the verge of tears beside her.

Perhaps this daughter of Hades was hoping she could hold on a little longer.

She had no chance to regret it.

If she hadn't surrendered then, she might have been killed instantly.

There aren't that many 'what ifs' in the world.
With a thought from Hela, tens of thousands of Helheim Guardians immediately retreated like a tide.

Persephone, the Queen of the Underworld, looked terrible and instinctively asked Hecate, "Is Hades coming back?"

The female Titan wasn't too sure: "I don't know, probably, otherwise the enemy would have no reason to retreat."

The Queen of the Underworld was startled: "Wait! Is there any news of Macaria?"

The Titaness's silence made Hades' heart sink: "This is bad."

Not long after, the Queen of the Underworld saw the Underworld crack open, and Hades returned in his black horse and golden chariot.

Clearly, Hela had a backup plan when she left, which seriously disrupted the laws of the Underworld; otherwise, Hades could have returned much faster.

When the couple saw each other, they immediately knew that the underworld was safe... for the time being.

At the same time, Mount Olympus fell.

With Hades' departure, Poseidon also began to falter.

This aquaman is quite tough; even though he knew his home had been raided, he stubbornly refused to go back.

Or rather, Poseidon knew that rushing back would be of no use.

Hades only needs to guard one underworld, but Poseidon has to guard the seven seas!

Yes, the cunning (wise) Enki made the other five seas work together with God to divert the waters of the remaining six seas to other worlds.

For example, the Slavic water god Veles was a later arrival and of too low a status to be qualified to control the seas of Kinlunga. This doesn't mean he was incapable of handling the divine duties of the water system. In the past, when the Aesir were promoted based on merit, he hadn't received any military credit, so naturally he had no say.

This time, he caused trouble with several other sea gods, and Poseidon couldn't handle it all. Ordinary sea goddesses couldn't defeat Veles, and if Poseidon came alone, the other sea goddesses would be released.

In this situation where he was only concerned with the immediate problem and neglected the aftermath, Poseidon simply gave up.

It was under these dire circumstances that the rebellious Titans achieved a partial victory.
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P.S.: It's that time of year again for the National College Entrance Examination (Gaokao). Wishing all the candidates the best of luck on their exams.

Thinking back to last year, I, Lao Yu, had just taken the college entrance exam and even became the top scorer... Wow! Time really flies, how amazing!
Don't ask how old Lao Yu is.

The answer is eighteen!

If asked again, the answer would be eighteen years and two hundred months.

When asked, no one said a word.

(End of this chapter)