Stupid Odin

More than twenty true gods, even setting aside the interior affairs deities who aren't good at fighting, still leaves about ten who can fight.

Perhaps they can't take care of every little detail, but at least a pantheon's structure can be built up, so they don't have to do everything themselves, and there's room for expansion.

If Odin had taken away such a team in the past, Thorns would never have tolerated it.

After all, in the past, the core deities of the Aesir who were related to Thorns by blood were only a little over thirty, and most of them were fighters, with a severe shortage of interior affairs deities. Adding the pure-blooded Aesir, there were only a little over 70.

But times have changed.

The Aesir have expanded several times, using methods such as annexation, conquest, and salvation to obtain four large pantheons—the Vanir, Celtic, Sumerian, and Slavic—as beneficial supplements. Furthermore, through simple clan methods such as having children and promoting demigods, they have closely linked the various pantheons with the Aesir.

With more gods, the territory has also become larger.

In this expanded Aesir pantheon, each god can receive more divine power, so there naturally won't be major conflicts.

In this strong trunk and weak branch structure, if we include the Egyptian gods who might join, Thorns will steadily have over two hundred true gods under his command, covering every aspect of a great world cycle.

Under these circumstances, it's not a problem for Odin to take away a group of South American gods.

“Thor, Freyr, Gilgamesh! Follow me!” Thorns called out three great generals.

Thorns didn't call on Hela because Hela was facing Pachacamac. The Inca God-King's strength is still quite impressive. From another perspective, it's outrageous that Hela can go head-to-head with a God-King of a realm.

Normally, it definitely wouldn't work.

At this moment, a large number of deaths are occurring, and each death is increasing Hela's divine power. Coupled with the invasion of the World Tree, and her second brother, Jörmungandr, willingly serving as her mount, with all these blessings, Thorns is essentially using a main god who hasn't been crowned king to fight the other side's God-King head-on.

This fact itself is even more shocking to the Inca gods.

Over there, Skirnir was blocked by the war god Tyr. Tyr has the advantage in size and physique, and also has the blessing of [War]. It's also not a problem.

As a result, when Thorns suddenly revealed his true form and launched a surprise attack, no one on the opposite side could resist him.

When Thorns' true form descended, the dozens of gods on the opposite side all had a moment of恍惚感—they didn't understand Thorns, and didn't know how glorious the Aesir God-King's past battle record was. They just instinctively felt that this overall commander shouldn't be personally going to the battlefield when he had already gained an overwhelming victory.

When Thorns appeared in a burst of atmospheric explosions and exaggerated hurricanes, leading more than twenty Valkyries riding white pegasi, the Maya and Inca gods didn't react for a moment.

It wasn't until that supreme divine might, enough to suppress the entire battlefield, suddenly erupted that the gods on the opposite side were all greatly shocked.

This one was not on the same level as them at all.

Ignoring the complex laws that caused a dimensionality reduction strike against them, just the vast divine power, like the universe, made them lose all their thoughts.

The divine sword phantom they saw at first only gave them a vague feeling, but when multiple [Swords of the World] really transformed into streaks of light piercing across the sky, they truly felt the terror of this Aesir God-King.

The problem was that Thorns led his subordinates to ignore the battle lines and directly killed their way to the temple where Camazotz was located. Even though many Maya gods knew that Camazotz was finished, the Inca gods didn't know. Skirnir and the others were really afraid that their allies would collapse ahead of time.

But they couldn't just let Thorns swagger over, right?

The Nine Lords of Xibalba looked at each other, and finally, the suicide goddess Ixtab, who had shone brightly recently, stepped up.

“How can you亵渎 the temple of Lord Camazotz?” Shouting a great and righteous slogan, the suicide goddess launched an attack on the Valkyries… beside Thorns.

Ixtab was also afraid of death, and didn't dare to face Thorns head-on.

Just when everyone thought that a fierce duel would unfold, the [Sword of Muspelheim] suddenly pierced towards the suicide goddess's chest like a huge flaming spear.

Ignoring the interference of Ixtab's hidden divine powers, this divine sword, infused with the soul of the fire giant ancestor Surtr, emitted a pure and flawless flame. When its power erupted, the entire sky was illuminated by the blazing flames, and the surrounding atmospheric temperature soared by hundreds of degrees Celsius.

When Ixtab saw this flaming divine sword piercing towards her, an unprecedented fear surged into her heart.

I'm going to fall!

If I don't do something! I'm really going to fall!

Ixtab wanted to interfere with the opponent, but the 'opponent' was Thorns!

Unless she was brain-dead, she would never naively think that she could easily command a God-King to commit suicide.

Besides Thorns, she couldn't find any other target to cast a spell on.

This hesitation cost Ixtab her life.

The most taboo thing in a battle between experts is hesitation. Whether it's advancing or retreating, any idea should be acted upon as soon as it's thought of.

A moment of hesitation cost her the sword.

The moment the [Sword of Muspelheim] pierced into Ixtab's chest, a strong burning pain spread throughout her entire divine soul. The strange feeling, as if a volcano had suddenly erupted inside her body, made her entire divine body tremble.

The high temperature and heat released by this sword was scorching and burning her divine soul in the most thorough way.

She desperately mobilized her divine power, trying to extinguish the flames on her body, but was shocked to find that she was actually using meager divine power to fight against an entire small world of flames.

“How can I fight… limited against infinite…”

These were Ixtab's last words.

The dignified Nine Lords of Xibalba, after being struck by a single sword, her divine body rapidly collapsed, and even her divine body turned into ashes, spreading and dissipating.

The Maya gods were stunned.

Is the difference in strength really that great?

Facing Thorns, even a member of the Nine Lords of Xibalba couldn't withstand a single blow?

While the remaining Nine Lords of Xibalba hesitated, Thorns and his party had already transformed into a meteor shower, cutting through the battlefield and descending in front of Camazotz's former temple.

Silence!

Silence that was unsettling!

The temple, which used to have guards every three steps and sentries every five steps, with extremely strong defenses, now looked like an ancient ruin abandoned for a hundred years.

It was impossible to imagine that this was the lair of a God-King just a moment ago.

Thorns' gaze transcended space and landed on the bloody and bizarre new crystal skull in the center of this secluded temple.

He smiled: “I can not want this thing, but I can't give it to you! My foolish brother!”

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ps: I'm discharged from the hospital. In order to repair the olecranon of my left elbow, a small alloy plate was embedded in it, and a ten-centimeter surgical incision was made in my arm. After the bone grows in a year, the alloy plate will have to be taken out…

Now my arm has a dull pain, and I'm wearing a plaster cast, so I estimate that the update speed won't be very fast in the future. I'll take care of my body first. I'm sorry everyone, there's really no way.