Simulate the universe, starting with speedrunning Greek.

...It's better to guide than to block. Even at night, it's impossible to keep the world mode running 24/7 and monitor the existence of every human and god in all of Norse mythology. Not to mention at night, even Odin, who originally obtained the position of the world's ruler in mythology, couldn't do such a thing.

So—before Loki left, he also gave him a deal that would allow the gods to spread their faith across human territory.

All he needed to do was ensure that humanity during this period would not be deceived by the sweet talk of the Norse gods.

Once humanity develops on its own, it will no longer need divine protection; it will be able to protect itself. As for those with wavering minds who still place their hopes on deities at that time…?

He is humanity's creator, not their caretaker. Moreover, as a human being himself, he understands best how far human malice, like human kindness, can go—so utterly absurd that even the creator would be banished by natural disasters. Only a fool would do something so thankless and arduous.

Of course—to spread faith within a single race requires the invaluable Well of Urd, which is clearly an extremely unreasonable attempt to get something for nothing. But in Odin's eyes—the very term 'human' carries immense significance.

Before Loki could even come up with a plan to trick Odin into becoming the sucker, Odin, displaying remarkable 'negotiation skills,' readily agreed: 'Alright! It's decided!'

Odin was even more eager to facilitate this deal than Loki was.

Loki:? ? ?

Chapter Fifty-Four: We Norse Peoples Must Have Our Own Mythological Confidence! The God-King's Mysterious Confidence

Loki: Is this Odin, the god of wisdom? No, is there no need for further negotiation?

He originally intended to use his status as a subordinate god of the human god as a bargaining chip, persuading Odin to agree to exchange the Well of Urd for Odin's help in implementing the previous plans. He could also secretly cause trouble in the shadows, helping the Aesir while scheming to take some demon gold and stone. That would be perfectly fine, right? It's just that the amount is slightly 'a little bit' too much.

Unexpectedly, before he could even exert any effort, Odin simply—agreed?

What a foolish act! Is Odin really that easy to talk to? This immediately made Loki feel extremely embarrassed and even incredibly anxious. At this moment, it had nothing to do with the task Night had given him, but rather with his own discomfort at not being able to perform what he was best at and enjoyed.

All those elaborate schemes he concocted to trick his best buddy are now useless. Damn it! Odin, show some backbone! You're supposed to be the ruler of the Norse world, the king of the Aesir gods, and this is all you've got?

"Foolish!" This was Loki's assessment of his brother, the god of wisdom. At the same time, Loki began to realize the uniqueness of humanity. Perhaps there were aspects he didn't know; otherwise, why would Odin be so agreeable, just because they could spread faith? If they wanted to spread faith among other beings, couldn't the gods choose the races they created? Why couldn't it be dwarves or elves? Why did it have to be humans?

If Odin had been moved after hearing Loki recount the importance and virtues of humanity, Loki wouldn't have thought much of it. But this guy clearly couldn't sit still the moment he heard the word 'humanity.' What kind of significance could make this usually composed and deep-thinking god-king so lose his composure, unable to control even the most basic emotions, as if he were afraid that some important opportunity would slip through his fingers?

Odin: "But I have one more request..."

Loki immediately perked up. So it really wasn't that easy to achieve?

Loki: "What are your demands!"

Odin: "I wish to meet this human god and, if possible, invite him to join the Aesir. Loki—although you have brought me good news, your unauthorized ascension to another's godhood is undoubtedly a betrayal of the Aesir. I can spare your punishment, but as atonement, I need your help."

Odin looked expressionlessly at his good brother Loki, only now revealing his true thoughts. Regardless of the true nature of that god, if it was true that he was the creator of humanity, then it seemed that the Aesir would need to welcome a new deity to completely control humanity.

Just as every pantheon often tests foreign or wandering gods, it will suppress weak gods and bring powerful gods into its pantheon.

Bahram, the ancient Persian war god, was such a deity...

He was once a wandering god from abroad, possessing the formidable strength to fight against millions of gods. However, after wandering to Persia, he was subdued by the local chief god Mithras and became his subordinate god, thus completely integrating into the Persian mythological system.

Of course, at that time, Mithras and Ahura were generally still supreme gods, and Zoroastrianism had not yet established a dualistic worldview, becoming a worldview of absolute good and absolute evil, with the benevolent god Ahura and the malevolent god Angra Mainyu.

Even the god of war had not yet established a subordinate relationship at that time; although subdued, he was considered equal to Mithras, Ahura, and Angra Mainyu as a supreme being. Odin, though unfamiliar with Persian mythology, considered himself the king of the gods and possessed the audacity and power to conquer other deities. While the power of human gods might be considerable, Odin was the king of gods, with a wealth of capable subordinates. Shouldn't he be qualified to subdue a foreign god?

However, while Odin is not a monster among monsters like Bahram, a wandering god who could fight against millions of gods alone, and later became the most powerful war god in Zoroastrianism, symbolizing an invincible war god, he is not the supreme god Mitra either.

Let alone the supreme god, Odin's current position as the king of gods is somewhat undeserved. Even Odin, who originally gained the approval of the World Tree in mythology, was far inferior to other creator gods who created the world independently, let alone now.

Loki wasn't discouraged by Odin's confidence... Although he was easily subdued by Ash beside Night, Loki himself wasn't a particularly powerful god; his brothers, nephews, and children were the ones who could fight. He wasn't aware of Night's true strength. And in this situation, he was no longer in control.

When Loki sent a message to the Night Queen through a special means...

Night: '…………' Join the Aesir?

Loki, you've chosen a narrow path. What's the point of joining a god race destined for destruction?

Loki had already joined them, and now he was even acting as Odin's envoy. He certainly wouldn't side with the Aesir, but he was determined to get his hands on the Well of Uld. Oh well—Loki was unreliable; he'd better go to the Aesir himself and retrieve the Well of Uld. Once he got there, he'd find a way.

Although he refused Odin's offer that night, he agreed to negotiate with the King of Gods and was invited to visit the realm of the Aesir gods.

Night agreed, and before leaving, he entrusted humanity to Ash's care. Meanwhile, as Odin began to value the gods of humanity, the other gods gradually learned of the birth of the human race and began to pay attention to them.

When they looked down upon the world below, they saw the flourishing human race on the earth, a scene of bustling activity and continuous progress towards civilization; they saw Queen Ash, whose beauty was no less than that of the most beautiful goddess; they saw the passionate and diligent humans who built their own homes with their own hands. They knew how to plant, hunt, and fish, possessed their own writing and etiquette, and had a curiosity and desire for exploration as strong as fire, bringing new vitality to the world.

Is this the life chosen by Lord Odin, the life corresponding to the gods, the life that can sing praises of their achievements—human beings?

Because humans' appearance most closely resembled that of the gods, the gods felt a greater affinity for this new race. At the same time, they became even more curious about the arrival of the human god.

This was during the preparations of the gods for the arrival of the god of man, the Sun King. At Odin's request, they planned to treat Night with the highest honors. Odin suspected Night was a god from another world, and in order to demonstrate the might of the Aesir gods before Night, they hoped to change Night's mind and conquer him.

In order to demonstrate his majesty and grandeur as the king of gods, Odin would not allow any mistakes in this divine feast and would insist on using the most luxurious facilities.

At this moment, Odin was brimming with confidence—whatever god from which world, come forth! Outsider! Let me show you the wealth of my Norse world! (He had a rather smug, self-assured attitude: You little devil, I'll seduce you!)

Chapter Fifty-Five: The Goddess Squandered Her Savings, Only to Receive Betrayal from Her.

At Loki's suggestion, the gods invited Freya, the most beautiful goddess of love, to welcome the god of men and pour him wine. Odin's son, Brach, the god of music and poetry, composed lyrics and music to welcome the god of men.

But Odin felt that this was not enough!

The human god refused without hesitation upon hearing his offer, surely because he had not yet demonstrated the power and resources of a god-king. Odin did not believe there were gods in this world unmoved by profit; if there were—the value of the offer must not be sufficient.

He wanted to broaden the horizons of that human god, to let him see the most precious treasures in the world! To make him understand the magnificence of the Norse world, and how barbaric and backward the world outside was, and that staying in Norse mythology and among the Aesir gods was the best way for him to develop.

Since it was a banquet, it naturally required fine wine and food, but Odin, who had just established the Aesir, was penniless. Neither the legendary candied fruit that could bestow wisdom and poetry, nor the golden apple that could keep the gods forever young, were available to the Aesir—sorry, they had none!

The goddess of youth, Etto, had not yet arrived in the Aesir. Without the pure and flawless hands of that beautiful goddess, no one in the world could pluck the golden fruit from the Tree of Life. The candied fruit that brought poetry and wisdom required the blood of a little elf who had received the combined divine power and essence of the Aesir and Vanir gods.

Since he had nothing of his own, Odin set his sights on the Vanir gods.

The goddess Freya is the youngest daughter of the Vanir god-king, sent as a hostage to maintain stability between the two great god races. As a Vanir princess, perhaps she knows of some priceless treasures?

Meanwhile, on the other side, Freya, the goddess of love who had just been betrayed by Odin, was burning with rage. The god-king Odin actually wanted her to serve a strange, foreign deity? Wait, had he forgotten his identity as a princess of the Vanir gods? How dare he?

As the Norse goddess of love, comparable to the Greek goddess of love, Freya and Aphrodite are, in a sense, parallel entities from another world. Therefore, given the connection between night and the goddess of love, Freya would likely experience a special sense of destiny upon seeing night herself; that serendipitous attraction would prevent Freya from disliking night.

But to this goddess of love, the god of man was now a completely unfamiliar and unseen deity. Odin had forced her to serve him, treating her with such contempt. How could Freya, the daughter of the Vanir king, not feel wronged and humiliated?

The Vanir gods had a god-king named Nild. His son Freyr and daughter Freya were sent to the Aesir as hostages. In return, the Aesir sent their god Hailir to the Vanir. This was a necessary alliance to guard against the frost giants, a common enemy of the gods. The Aesir and Vanir thus entered into a temporary peace treaty.

That's right, so Freya is the daughter of the sea god and the summer god Nilde.

Although she is the goddess of love, she is also an outstanding Valkyrie. She often travels with the Valkyries to select heroic spirits for Odin on Earth. Although her status is not as high as that of Frigga, the queen of the Valkyries, she is so charming that all the gods love her. Out of admiration for her beauty and talent, the gods gave her the most luxurious palace, Slingnil, as her palace.

Freya, possessing a vast celestial palace, would occasionally select couples among the spirits chosen to enter the temples of Valhalla. She would bring back to her palace those heartbroken lovers who could not be together, allowing them to enjoy eternal tenderness and romance. Among them were martyrs like young Werther, tormented by love, and couples who died together. Many Norse women believed that after death, as long as their hearts were sincere, they could ascend to this celestial palace to reunite with their beloved. Thus, legends of suicide after the death of loved ones abound.

In addition, those heroic spirits who never experienced love in their lifetime will be taken to the Celestial Palace after death to enjoy romantic nights with beautiful girls from around the world who share similar experiences.

When talking about Freya, one often mentions other goddesses of love and beauty from different mythological worlds. It seems that love and beauty in the Western world are always inseparable from one factor: the extreme indulgence of desires. As gods, they have no self-control and like to wallow in the sea of ​​carnal desires.

But few people know that Freya was not like this originally.

She didn't begin as a beauty, but as a pure goddess of love, a goddess of romance... Love, romance—she focused not only on love itself, but also on the process of infatuation. Freya was originally a princess of the Vanir gods who deeply yearned for love. Born noble, she wouldn't have so easily degraded herself without special experiences, and there were even rumors that she would sleep with a black dwarf for a beautiful necklace.

She initially came to the Aesir as a hostage, and was cautious in her words and actions. After the Vanir were defeated, she was forced to obey Odin's orders and marry her future husband, the god Odor, in order to appease him.

Even though it was a legitimate marriage, Freya still deeply loved and cherished her husband. However, Odor, the god of travel and exploration, was far more interested in the world than in Freya's beauty. Although Freya's beauty and gentle, affectionate eyes could make even the gods drool and fall in love, she couldn't keep her husband with her forever. He would grow tired of living with her for even a short time and long to travel.

As time went on like this, Odor, who never even said goodbye to Freya when he left, yearned for the allure and beauty of the outside world. No home flower could compare to the fragrance of wildflowers. While Odor was out having fun, Freya would often wake up in a panic, discovering her husband was missing, and searching for her beloved...

She was repeatedly betrayed when she needed care and companionship the most. That loneliness often brought tears to the goddess's eyes, eventually forming a great treasure of the Nordic Seas—amber. This opened up the earliest maritime trade in the Nordic countries. The most beautiful amber known to the Nordic people is called "Aphrodite's Tears" or "Freya's Tears."

She often drove a golden chariot pulled by two divine cats to search for her husband, searching all over the world, crying as she went. In order to find her beloved husband, she even spent all the dowry she brought from the Vanir gods, taking the gold all over the world and asking people to help her find the god of travel, Odor.

Freya could never find anyone, and sometimes her hopes were dashed by nothing but despair. Experiencing this too many times could drive a person mad.

Chapter 56 Why should we take direct action instead of leading humanity away from God?

So one day, Freya, feeling lonely and tearful, mistook a young human for Odor. Although she quickly realized that it was just a hallucination caused by missing her husband, she decided to play along and used illusion magic to lure the young man into a brief experience of having a lover, without actually having anything happen between them.

Because from the beginning to the end, she was very clear that even though there was no shortage of men and gods around her who were willing to indulge in illusions and submit to the goddess's charms, none of them were what she wanted.

This only made her realize something more about herself—the emptiness in her heart could never be filled, and the only person who could give her love was her beloved husband, whom no one else could replace. So Freya continued to relentlessly pursue her husband.

Once again, after finding her husband Odor under the pomegranate tree in Primere Forest, Freya, reunited with him after so long, boldly expressed her love and longing for him. She also told her husband that those admirers were all manipulated by her illusions to deliberately provoke him, and that she had no relationship with them. She hoped that Odor could stay and settle down, and that she was willing to wait for him alone for the rest of her life.

On this day, in this place where love was found, was the moment when Cupid most longed for and yearned for sacred marriage—the tree she stood on was an anthurium tree—and the anthurium flower thus became a symbol of the Nordic bride, and even in the future, brides would wear this flower in their hair when they got married, as a vow of pure love and a belief in sacred marriage.

Odor agreed, and the two enjoyed another wedding night. However—the next day, Freya woke up alone on the lush, flower-filled lawn. This utterly devastated Freya, the goddess of love! The goddess of love could never obtain love.

While in the Greek world, at least the goddess of love wasn't interested in the god of fire, and it was fire who ended up getting hurt, in the Norse world, the goddess of love became the one who lost the most miserably, becoming a complete clown. And it was after this yet another painful blow that Freya, in a daze like a walking corpse, unknowingly wandered into the dungeon, where she experienced a series of events, fell under the influence of magical hypnosis, and, coupled with the immense mental trauma, couldn't fill the void with emotions, so she resorted to material things.

In her quest to obtain the golden necklace from the black dwarf, Freya was embroiled in the greatest scandal of mythology, marking both the beginning and the end of her self-destructive path. She sacrificed everything for the necklace, even allowing Odin to command this former Vanir princess at will when he stole it, ordering her to mortals to perform a task for him before returning it to him: instigating a war between Denmark and Norway.

Freya descended to Earth and encountered two kings. She praised one of the kings in front of each of them and stirred up trouble between them. The two kings went from being good friends to being mortal enemies and started fighting. In the end, she successfully caused a war, which allowed Valhalla to expand its army and earned her Odin's reward.

But this still wasn't what Freya wanted. Even the gold necklace, so precious that it made her willing to descend to the mortal realm and personally instigate a war, she thought it was the most important thing to her. But when she was drawn to the figure of a warrior fighting desperately on the battlefield, she couldn't help but take him to her celestial palace, and once again chose to believe in love, falling in love with this young human...

In the final moments of Ragnarok, facing an immense calamity that even the gods could not withstand, she disregarded the once invaluable gold necklace and sacrificed her life to protect her last lover.

If you read the entire mythology, you'll find that this woman is a goddess who's quite love-struck. And even now, she hasn't succumbed to despair and fallen into despair despite being abandoned countless times; she's still the little princess of the Vanir gods.

Even Odin, the king of the gods, harbored desires for her; or rather, among all the male gods, none disliked Freya. Freya was currently in her purest state, and the pure desire emanating from this goddess of love could attract the gaze of any man.

But even with such captivating charm, Odin did not hesitate to send this mortal god to serve him. Even the other gods were heartbroken when they first learned of this.

At first, Freya thought she had misheard.

...After confirming that she was indeed to serve that human god like a maid, and even sensing from the great god Odin that if the other party had feelings for her, she was to go further and keep him with her.

Freya found it hard to accept...

When Freya tried to reason with Odin as a Vanir princess, Odin coldly refused to see her, saying that if she didn't want to see the Aesir and Vanir start another war, she should recognize her true identity.

What is her status? She's nothing more than a hostage. Does she still think she's a princess of the Vanir gods?

Odin's cold-heartedness completely extinguished the hopes of the male gods who wanted to plead for Freya. After all, who didn't have some feelings for Freya? Naturally, no one wanted to see Freya fall into someone else's arms. But the gods did not expect that Odin, the king of the gods, would be so ruthless this time.

After all, everyone has a heart that cherishes and pities women! Doesn't the great god Odin have any interest in women?! He even had the heart to give away such a beautiful goddess. Thinking about this, the gods couldn't help but feel awe for Odin, but they didn't know at all that Odin had simply become absurd.

Anyway, that thing isn't very useful now. Cupid is something you can only look at but not touch. Why not make use of it and keep it as a decorative vase?

Ultimately, under pressure, Freya had no choice but to admit defeat. Not wanting to implicate her father and brothers, she didn't tell anyone. However, her brother Frey still found out.

So, without embellishing the story at all, he simply wrote down the facts and sent them back to the Vanir, and this news still caused a huge uproar within the Vanir.

Odin, you brat—!—How dare you?! Do you really think the Vanir gods are all dead? Unlike Freya, who later had no one to rely on and could only place all her emotions on her husband, Freya now still has the entire Vanir god race behind her.

Odin's actions provoked the wrath of the Vanir gods. However, a direct war would result in heavy casualties among the gods, and with recent rumors that Odin had successfully conquered the World Tree and become the ruler of the world, the Vanir gods were even more uncertain about going to war with him.

Finally—a goddess from the Vanir gods stepped forward and spoke: "Perhaps we don't need to act directly. Since Odin, the king of the gods, is trying to curry favor with that human god in order to spread faith among humans, why don't we seize all of humanity's faith and completely thwart his plans? Even worse, let's lead humanity to storm the Aesir's realm, causing humanity to completely break away from the Aesir!"

Chapter 57 As the Queen's Blueprint, the Witch High Priest Igor's Pain: I'm Just a Counterfeit

"No, to prevent the Vanir gods from being exposed, we should simply incite humanity to develop a complete aversion to the gods! We'll lure them with benefits; as long as humanity is willing to hate the Aesir gods, we'll try our best to fulfill any of their wishes." When the goddess finished explaining her idea, the Vanir gods all felt a glimmer of hope.

(Second-generation human population: "??!! Is there really such a good thing?")

However, they were completely unaware that, under the unintentional influence of Ye and Chen, every human already possessed the potential to be a god-slaying rebel. The thoughts of hatred and wariness towards gods were deeply ingrained in their very bones; perhaps one day they would even be eager to try god-slaying. Did they really need you to guide them?