Foolish Brother Odin

Chapter 505 Zeus's True Trump Card

At almost the same time, in the Greek world.

Gaia, the Earth Mother, grumbled: "Pah! Hasn't that little bastard Zeus dealt with yet?"

Case solved!
Zeus's divine authority over all things can be very strong or very weak. The key point is that this divine authority only has the authority to borrow divine power. Whether or not it is borrowed depends on whether the god who controls that particular category of divine authority will allow it.

The Emperor can lend it, but the person in actual charge can refuse to give it.

Gaia hesitated when Zeus first invoked the earth elemental power of the many mountains.

Honestly, with the forest god Vidar manipulating the roots of the World Tree to launch a fierce attack on the Greek world, Gaia's divine power was insufficient. She was like a poor soul trying to cover ten boiling pots with five lids; she was already struggling to deal with the roots of the World Tree, let alone having Zeus come to borrow her divine power at this critical juncture.

She gave it to her in the end.

This is for the sake of the bigger picture.

Even if Gaia disliked Zeus, she at least understood that she and Zeus were in the same boat.

If Zeus dies, she will die with him.

But who would have thought that the divine power that Zeus had borrowed with all his might would be negated by the world that was once his vassal?
This is the most infuriating thing.

Faced with Gaia's angry rebuke, Uranus, the sky god whose temperament had become gentle after slaughtering the chicken, advised: "Everything is for the sake of our world."

Shut up! None of you three generations are easy to deal with!

The situation of Gaia and Uranus was a microcosm of the Greek world at that time.

Everywhere we need to borrow divine power, but there isn't enough anywhere.

They had to prevent the destruction of the World Tree, and at the same time, they had to draw upon divine power.

The feeling of wishing he could split even a fraction of his divine power in two perfectly encapsulates Zeus's awkward situation.

Seeing the five divine swords from the smaller worlds hurtling towards him, Zeus grew anxious: "There's more!"

The next second, what Zeus summoned across space was none other than the entire Aegean Sea.

The map of the Aegean Sea that appeared behind Zeus materialized in a matter of seconds, and a massive amount of water, measured in billions of tons, was compressed into the purest water elemental power, transforming into a raging torrent that rushed toward Downs.

What appears to be just a nautical chart is actually incredibly heavy, with every single piece weighing a ton.

Such an exaggerated amount of water gives the specially constructed spatial passages of the universe a subtle sense of fragility.

Downs knew very well that Zeus had borrowed Poseidon's water, so Thor's pressure was naturally greatly reduced.

Poseidon's willingness to borrow the power of the water elementals was also a sign that he wasn't confident he could defeat Thor.
In Poseidon's eyes, this barbarian was ridiculously strong. Each bolt of lightning from his short-handled warhammer was enough to destroy the city of Athens. And Thor could unleash these terrifying lightning strikes, estimated to be nearly a kilometer in diameter, in rapid succession.

Perhaps Thor's divine power is ultimately no match for Zeus, the king of the gods, though visually they are not much different.

Billions of tons of seawater condensed into the grotesque face of Poseidon, but the fierce and lifelike giant wave was blasted into countless sprays of dazzling lightning of varying thickness, and the purple-blue arcs of electricity became the sole ruler of this world.

No matter how much Poseidon mobilizes the remaining power of the five seas of Atlantis to attack Thor, his giant waves will inevitably be shattered by the continuous purple-black lightning.

Every tsunami is destined to be replaced by a deafening thunderclap.

After dozens of rounds of arduous attacks, they made no progress.

How do I type Poseidon?
Actually, Poseidon had a good plan, but Hades was in a real disadvantageous situation.

The god of sleep, Schnauzer, was unable to withstand the combined attack of Ereshkigal and Scáthach and had already perished ten minutes earlier. Schnauzer, a mere junior god with strength only at the level of a true god, bore pressure he should not have had to endure. He was ganged up on by two goddesses of the main god level and was instantly cut in half at the waist. His entire body shattered, and even the fragments of his divine soul could not escape and were directly captured by Helheim.

In such a decisive moment, there aren't many fair one-on-one duels.

Having dealt with Schnauzer, Ereshkigal and Scáthach immediately joined the siege of Hades.

Hades, the god of the underworld, is in a precarious situation.

Even so, he pursed his lips and refused to ask Zeus or Poseidon for help.

Throughout the entire lower battlefield of Jinlunga, there was not a single place where the Olympian gods could gain the upper hand.

The difference is just a minor disadvantage versus a major headwind.

However, like Gaia and Uranus, they all agreed when Zeus drew upon their divine power, but they remained silent as he did so.

……

On Towns' side, countless enormous phantoms from Greece bombarded his location, to which Towns responded with simple and brutal attacks, each wielding a World Sword.

From Marseille, the westernmost part of Greater Greece, to Troy, the easternmost city, from Dacia in the north to Egypt in the south, and back to the Peloponnese in the center, Zeus drew out all the elements of earth, water, fire, and wind in the Greek world and poured them down on Downs, only to have them destroyed by Downs with the sword of the world in a simple and brutal manner.

Every time a World Sword shattered the Greek phantom on the other side, the scene of the elemental torrent collapsing and the phantom shattering inexplicably reminded Downs of the Soul-Summoning Banner that was destroyed by a righteous artifact in the novel he read before his transmigration.

Downs has plenty of patience with Zeus, after all, it's Zeus who can't afford to waste time, not him.

From the moment the Greek world had some of its earth, water, fire, and wind elements plundered and the power of chaos introduced, the balance of power between the two worlds shifted. When the Greek world's most prized elemental realm lost its edge, the advantage of the more populous Kinlunga world, which provided more divine power in the realm of faith, became apparent.

耗？
This will only slowly crush Zeus.

Since Zeus isn't playing any other cards, Towns isn't in a hurry.

The lower Zeus's divine power, the fewer cards he can play.

Clearly, Zeus was starting to panic.

"Hmph! Towns Paulson! You truly deserve the name of the God Emperor..."

Recognition from a worthy opponent can also be a form of honor.

"Zeus, do you have any other tricks up your sleeve? If you don't use them now, you'll never have another chance." The faint smile on Downs' lips was the most provocative thing for Zeus.

“It’s already been used.” Zeus smiled mysteriously.

"Oh? You mean...them?"

Less than a hundred meters to the left front of Downs's statue, a seemingly harmless Greek man was giving a speech, a Greek man was throwing grains of rice onto the ground directly in front of him, and another Greek man was taking a leisurely bath to the right front of him...

One after another, a series of illusory figures, appearing bizarre and even absurd.

Even 99.99% of the gods in this universe would think—what's the point of sending these mortal phantoms to the ultimate war of gods?

Honestly, Zeus's move was so cunning that Towns failed to recognize Zeus's trick immediately.

Until that Greek man taking a bath appeared...

(End of this chapter)