Foolish Brother Odin

Chapter 478 Athena's Decision
Uranus, the Greek god of the sky, has intervened as always.

As a sky deity in a colossal world, his techniques are effective against gods, but the problem is that he lacks powerful enough divine magic to fight against a small world that crashes into him.

No, his limited thinking couldn't even begin to comprehend why a small world would willingly be kidnapped by Odin, risking its life to collide with the much larger Greek world.

This is a lose-lose situation for the world's will, as it harms both sides.

Unfortunately, Uranus could not understand that some smaller worlds did not actually possess a clear world will.

When Odin coerced the former god-king of that small world into making a self-destructive tactic by crashing into it, the will of that unfortunate small world was unaware that it had been sent away.

As Athena and other Greek deities watched with rapt attention, the small world, whose barrier was a bluish-gray, ignited into a crimson blaze amidst the intense friction with the Greek sky. Even as Uranus unleashed a terrifying storm, desperately trying to annihilate this horrible intruder, it was to no avail—the hurricane, like a gaping maw full of serrated teeth, chewed up the small world, yet the destruction of the small world still unleashed a torrential downpour of earth fragments.

Small stones entering the atmosphere of the Greek world would be burned up by Uranus's divine magic and high-speed friction, but those megaliths weighing tens of thousands of tons were beyond Uranus's ability to stop.

Despite the efforts of this first god-king, Athena could still see nearly a three-digit number of boulders falling into the Greek world. In the silent light and shadow, she could clearly see more than a three-digit number of intense light bursting into ring-shaped waves that spread in all directions, enough to burn the retina of mortals.

The ocean, thousands of meters deep, was instantly pierced, and the meteorite crashed into the seabed, even creating lava fountains.

Some fragments of smaller worlds struck the mountains, spreading along the canyon's texture under the immense impact, causing massive boulders to peel off piece by piece, and the fine cracks instantly swallowed up the Alps.

Looking at the mushroom clouds of smoke and dust that rose thousands of meters high from the land and sea, even though Athena wasn't in the Greek world, she could imagine the world-ending buzzing sound that would make her eardrums explode.

Odin's voice, filled with cruelty and mockery, reached the ears of Athena, Uranus, and even Zeus.

[You damned Zeus! Do you think I'd be captured again, then kneel before you like a broken-legged old dog, begging for your mercy? You can forget about it—if you dare send any more of your minions, I'll blow up all these little worlds I have!]

It sounds like Odin has gone completely mad.

He threatened Zeus with the threat of mutual destruction.

You know what, it actually works!

Those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes.

Zeus, as the king of the gods (though it's unknown how many gods still acknowledge him as king), certainly didn't want to die alongside Odin, that worthless god-king.

Before today, Odin possessed his own Rilanka, the Dogon world he had seized, and five smaller worlds that the five Aesir kings had helped him seize. He had a total of seven smaller worlds that he could use to launch devastating attacks.

Now he's using one to trick and kill Hercules, and another to crash into, and he still has five small worlds in his hands.

If all five of them were to crash into the Greek world at once, the Greek world would really be in a tough spot!

Faced with Odin, a super villain from the realm of gods who had been captured, instigated a rebellion by the former king of the gods in hell, and escaped along the way, Zeus and Athena were at a loss for what to do.

This evil god was merely a remnant soul; its death is not a pity.

Unfortunately, he also possesses a game-changing, game-changing weapon. You really can't push him to the brink.

The problem is that the Olympian gods couldn't defeat Odin and the five smaller worlds he controlled, which meant Athena and the others couldn't maintain their god-king-level power. With most of the mortals in the Greek world killed or captured, their divine power was severely weakened.

Athena could foresee that her divine power would plummet from the level of a god-king, eventually reaching the level of an ordinary god.

Correct!
In a world in ruins and with mortals nearly extinct, her faith in a god that gains divine power through faith might not even be able to preserve her status as a supreme god.

At that moment, she was utterly despairing of the future of the Olympian pantheon.

Despite Zeus's victory in the last Titan War with his brothers and sisters, it was partly due to the fact that he borrowed the power of the Hundred-Handed Giants and the Cyclopes, and partly because it took him several years to defeat Cronus.

Given the current situation, how many years is there to give Zeus to quell the chaos?
Even if Zeus and Cronus immediately reconciled, would these second- and third-generation gods be able to completely set aside their past grievances, cooperate fully, and unite against a common enemy?

To be honest, Athena had also fantasized about that slim possibility. But now, seeing Odin's insane methods, she knew it was all over.

If they couldn't even handle Odin, let alone the God Emperor Downs Paulson, whose strength, vision, courage, and wisdom were all superior to Odin's.

The Aesir's military prowess and strategic acumen left Athena with absolutely no chance of victory.

In the vastness of space, Athena and Apollo met, gazed at each other, and remained silent for a long time.

Athena spoke first: "If I go back, I will become the scapegoat for the failed campaign. Hera will not let me go, and that old lecher Zeus will strip me of my divine power and then take me to bed like a toy. I can't stand that, I don't plan to go back."

"I see..." Apollo's tone was full of sighs. He could certainly sense Hera's extreme targeting. But his character and personality wouldn't allow him to do anything rebellious.

Now that things have come to this, Athena's words, spoken in despair, could be modified and applied to Apollo without seeming out of place.

How could Hera have forgotten the life-and-death feud that she sent the serpent serpent to hunt him down, Artemis, and Leto?
It was precisely because Zeus was the king of the gods and Hera the queen that Artemis and Apollo, knowing there was no way to take revenge, chose to make a superficial reconciliation with Hera. Even after becoming the king of the twelve gods, how many obstacles did Hera still create for them?

Artemis's defection to the Downs further provoked Zeus and Hera, making Apollo's position even more awkward.

Apollo sighed deeply: "Athena, I can pretend I didn't hear what you said, and I won't stop you..."

Things are unpredictable.

Unexpectedly, before Apollo could finish speaking, a dazzling rainbow of light suddenly flashed across the sky around them.

That's the glow of the Rainbow Bridge!

Amidst the dazzling rainbow light, Thor and several other Aesir god-kings led their armies and charged out with great momentum.

Athena remained calm and composed, saying to Thor, "I—Athena, the Olympian Goddess of War and Wisdom—unconditionally surrender to His Majesty Downs Paulson!"

(End of this chapter)