Foolish Brother Odin

Chapter 506 Downs from Earth

What is the God-King?

What is a God-Emperor?

Is the difference of just one word simply because the emperor can rule over the king, has greater power, occupies a wider area of ​​the world, and can control more elements?
Yes and no!
The reason I say "yes" is because these are all hard indicators, and there aren't that many resources available. The so-called God Emperor is just a self-proclaimed gimmick.

The reason it is said to be 'not' is because the emperor has more profound indicators than the king.

For example—the formulation of rules!

Some god-kings, no matter how much divine power they accumulate or how much territory they conquer throughout their lives, can never be called god-emperors.

Downs believes the main reason is that His use of divine power was merely instinctive, rather than defining the laws himself and using those laws to bind or even destroy all beings who were not aligned with him or whose will was different from his.

Just like Enlil, the former Sumerian god-king, although he had the 'great achievement' of destroying humanity in his world three times, Downs did not think that Enlil had a chance to become the god-emperor.

Zeus's actions also caught the attention of the goddesses in the Golden Palace of Asgard.

The vast majority of goddesses felt nothing, especially the goddesses of love and beauty from different worlds, who felt that those mortal phantoms were nothing more than a boring drama.

Only Athena paled in comparison.

Just as Downs thought, Zeus was cunning.

These figures not only appeared harmless, but they also spoke in various dialects of Greece, with heavy regional accents. Even the gods, through their divine ability to understand language, could not decipher their speech. Zeus's insidious act was to plant a large number of sophists among these mortals, a significant distraction.

For example, Eubledes is known for proposing logical paradoxes, and Protagoras proposed the dilemma of "payment according to the contract for a winning case and payment according to the judgment for a losing case".

If ordinary gods heard these sophists, they would only scoff at their convoluted words, thus ignoring Zeus's true killing move.

Amidst those utterly baffling sophistry, there are statements such as, "If a single grain of rice falling to the ground makes no sound, then a bag of rice falling from a great height will also make no sound," and "Heavier objects fall faster than lighter objects; the speed of a falling object is directly proportional to its weight."

Honestly, these whispered sentences are so easy to overlook.

Without sufficient physics knowledge, it would be impossible to refute these erroneous theories immediately.

Downs dares to say that 99.99% of the God-Kings in this chaotic universe will fall victim to this.

Being uncultured is terrible.

The price of falling for this is—the disruption of the laws!

Zeus was extremely intelligent.

He knew very well that, given the size of the Greek world compared to the King Lunga, no matter how much he gathered elements, he could not possibly defeat Downs. Therefore, he used his divine authority over all things to extract conjectures and paradoxes about the laws from a group of wise ancient Greek sages.

Archimedes, Aristotle, Plato, Socrates...

These genius-level mortals actually comprehended laws that even Zeus, the Titan-blooded god-emperor, had never grasped. If they could use divine power, they would at least be beings at the level of true gods.

Unfortunately, Zeus, whose divine authority was maintained through bloodlines, could not possibly deify these mortals.

This didn't stop Zeus from using them to devise a plan to trick Tangs.

If Downs hadn't immediately responded to these interfering factors that infiltrated the laws of the Kinlunga world using his spatial abilities, they would have altered the laws of the Kinlunga world. If Downs hadn't been a time traveler and knew about the story of Galileo's falling body experiments, thus ignoring Aristotle's fallacies, the result would have been an imbalance in Kinlunga's gravity.

Imagine if Downs, the god of water, attacked Zeus with the raging waves of the sea, only to find that the water itself flew into the sky as soon as it surged out. What a sight that would be!
Now imagine if terrifyingly hot lava were poured onto you, only to find that the lava was only ten degrees Celsius or so. Wouldn't that be no different from a mud bath?

The most direct result of the disordered laws is that all existing elemental attacks and damage are out of order.

To muddy the waters and disrupt the battle—that was Zeus's greatest conspiracy.

fortunately……

Zeus, let me tell you a little secret: I am Downs! Downs from Earth!

"Huh?" Downs' words were so nonsensical that Zeus was taken aback.

Huh? Isn't Towns Paulson the God-Emperor from Kinlunga?

While Zeus stared in disbelief, Downs continued to use the Sword of the World to deal with the elemental attacks from the Greek world that Zeus had summoned across space, while simultaneously responding with divine thoughts.

Faced with the rice grain's sophistry.

Downs replied: "The sound of a grain of rice falling to the ground is very faint, not inaudible. Humans can hear sounds ranging from low to high frequencies..."

Faced with the fallacy of gravity,

A: [The acceleration due to gravity is...]

The deductions about the laws of the world and the laws of physics that Zeus collected from a group of Greek saints through his divine authority of "All Things" were all answered by Downs, one by one.

Not only did he answer more accurately than the Greeks, but he even expanded upon their theories, giving Zeus, who had been 'copying questions to stump his opponents,' a sense of sudden enlightenment, prompting him to think, 'Ah! So this is how the laws of the world are?' and so on.

If this weren't a battle between gods, a contest that determined both superiority and death, Zeus might even have felt an urge to ask Tangus how the laws of the world were established and modified.

Unfortunately, it's too late.

Zeus was both clever and not clever enough.

If he weren't a Titan descendant who relied on his talents, and if he weren't always busy fooling around and neglecting his duties, perhaps he would have been better at absorbing knowledge and understanding the laws.

For a true sage, even a small flash of inspiration can stimulate his thinking and allow him to perfect an entire theory.

Clearly, Zeus was not such an exceptionally intelligent being.

His arrogance as a god-emperor caused him to miss the opportunity to grasp the true essence of the world's laws.

His habitual way of thinking was impossible to change, which destined him to miss his last chance to win.

Unable to modify the laws of the Jinlunga world, he has essentially fallen back into the old trap of elemental attrition.

The Greek world was already smaller than Kinlunga. Even if Zeus used the power of space and even borrowed the famous Leviathan monster from Poseidon, allowing its terrifying and hard claws and tentacles to overcome the barriers of space and try to slap Downs in the face, how could Downs possibly give him that chance?
Just a second ago, one of Leviathan's tentacles had traversed thousands of kilometers of space, and now it inexplicably appeared two hundred meters in front of Towns.

The next second, Leviathan let out a scream, because its tentacles didn't pierce Downs's divine shield, but instead stabbed directly into Muspelheim's eternally active volcano, turning into roasted octopus tentacles.

(End of this chapter)