Stupid Odin

The giants with limited intelligence were one thing, but the Aesir gods truly couldn't comprehend how Odin's remnant soul could be so terrifying. A sense of raising a tiger only to be bitten plagued the minds of every Aesir god.

The gods' discussions, relayed through the Valkyries, eventually reached Thanes, eliciting a rare, intriguing expression from him.

Odin was severely underestimated in this life.

Admittedly, Odin in the epic "Edda" made many wrong choices—starting from the time Odin killed Ymir but inadvertently released a pair of frost giants in the great flood, leaving future troubles and establishing the Frost Giant Kingdom. Odin's governance and military actions were constantly constrained.

The Aesir couldn't destroy the Frost Giant Kingdom, coupled with their inability to defeat the Vanir, which laid the groundwork for multi-front battles for the Aesir.

Even so, Odin's abilities cannot be denied. The story of building a city wall but having Loki help cheat on the payment, from another perspective, is a prime example of Odin's 'getting more done with less money,' a desperate measure under the Aesir's limited resources.

On one hand, he balanced the conflicts and interests between the pure-blooded Aesir and the giants. On the other hand, amidst the chaos of the Nine Realms, he still managed to subdue the sea god Aegir through diplomacy. At the very least, Aegir remained neutral during "Ragnarok."

His internal and external affairs capabilities were severely underestimated.

In this life, Odin had no chance to display these qualities.

It wasn't until his remnant soul slipped away to the neighboring Celtic world that Odin's heroic traits were fully unleashed.

This is a typical case of information asymmetry.

What the transmigrator knows too much of becomes, in the eyes of others, the universally applicable 'God of Destiny'.

Thanes couldn't possibly admit to this, nor would he deny it.

Maintaining mystery and letting them guess is the quality a superior should possess.

The Aesir and giants were eagerly preparing for war, having long been driven mad by the weak enemies in this new world. Just imagine, the opponent is Odin, a defeated foe, leading a group of small Chaos Giants who are clearly inferior to the original Frost Giant army.

Isn't this just walking military merit?

Now that the Nine Realms are stable, no one has enough merit to be crowned king. What about conquering a new world? At least one deity should be promoted, right?

Honestly, if Thanes hadn't been suppressing them, telling them the time wasn't right, they would have already found a way to kill their way over there.

Here, Thanes was still waiting.

Whether it's humans or gods, whoever teaches the world what to do, the world's will mostly won't listen.

The Celtic world knew what Thanes wanted more than anyone. Unwilling to accept it, even knowing that what it was about to do was likely in vain, it had to take a gamble.

Therefore, just as Odin sent a surrender letter filled with pressure to the four kingdoms, the Celtic world's will quickly discovered that the Tuatha Dé Danann were almost completely useless.

It had to strengthen those heroes who were already naturally talented in its own way.

Around the Emerald Isle in the mouths of the Tuatha Dé Danann, the kingdoms on several islands were at war.

Among them, 'Ireland' in the north was composed of several kingdoms. The current so-called 'High King of Ireland' named Eochaid, was the nominal supreme ruler above the kings of each kingdom.

King Eochaid had 6 princesses. To maintain the unity of Ireland, he married his daughters to those kings with ulterior motives.

However, Maeve, who had been unruly since childhood, was not satisfied with the political marriage arranged by her father. This life, Maeve did something that shocked the world. She kicked her fiancé in the balls and ran back to her mother's house.

To appease the enraged king, King Eochaid had to marry another daughter to the unfortunate man as compensation.

As for Maeve, King Eochaid figured that marrying this precious daughter to another place would yield the same result, so he simply granted her a territory—the Kingdom of Connacht—allowing her to go there as queen and choose her own husband.

Most likely because the Celtic world was being invaded by the power of Chaos, fate had severely shifted at this node.

Queen Maeve, who should have been extremely amorous, did not choose an ideal husband. Instead, she was attracted to various magical treasures.

That was the brown divine bull Donn Cúailnge owned by the neighboring kingdom of Ulster!

Legend has it that this bull could give birth to 50 calves in a day, 50 children could sit on its body, and 100 warriors could hide behind its back.

So Maeve sent an envoy to borrow the bull, hoping to borrow it for a year and promising a generous reward.

The envoy found the person and explained his intentions, and they were happy to accept. That night, they hosted a banquet to entertain the envoy. After drinking a few cups of wine, the envoy began to spout nonsense, claiming that if the bull was not lent, Maeve would send a large army to conquer.

The person was quite angry after hearing this, and the matter of borrowing the bull was called off.

After listening to the envoy's report, Maeve did not blame the envoy. Instead, she joined forces with two other countries to form a three-nation allied army and marched towards Ulster, thus kicking off this war for a divine bull.

Honestly, this was a war started by superiors for their own selfish desires, without any justice to speak of.

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If this war was one-sided, in the current situation where the world was being invaded by Chaos, quickly ending the war would actually be acceptable to the world.

The problem was that Ulster had a young hero, Cú Chulainn, participating in this lopsided blocking war.

When Cú Chulainn was seven years old, he killed the ferocious hound raised by the blacksmith Culann with his bare hands. Afterwards, he declared that he would protect Culann, who had lost his beloved dog, in place of the hound, so he was called Cú Chulainn (meaning "Culann's Hound").

Having just returned from learning skills in the mysterious Land of Shadows, he was at his youngest and most volatile.

Wielding a scarlet magic spear, he moved unpredictably through the dense forest, always attacking the weak points of the marching army, taking the lives of dozens, even hundreds, of soldiers each time, and then retreating like the wind before Queen Maeve's army arrived.

Originally, this would have become a super protracted war, comparable to a bladder game, as in the epic.

However, the destruction of the Tuatha Dé Danann changed everything.

Almost the moment Odin killed the god of light, Lugh, Cú Chulainn felt a terrifying palpitation.

Because he, who was called the "Son of Light", was precisely the child born to the god of light, Lugh, and Deichtine, the sister of the mortal king Conchobar mac Nessa.

Having just killed a large number of Connacht warriors, he seemingly burst out without warning.

He inexplicably shed tears, and no trace of any expression other than sorrow could be found on his resolute face. Scarlet lines of law surrounded the crimson magic spear in his hand, the Gáe Bolg.

Originally, this magic spear was terrifying enough. After this spear pierced the opponent, the 30 barbs on the spear would disembowel the opponent. Being cut by its sharp blade would leave saw-like wounds, and no matter how deep it pierced, it could be easily pulled out.

Obviously, Lugh's fall, coupled with the blessing of the world's will, greatly increased Cú Chulainn's power.