Stupid Odin

“World? War?” The ignorant Sumerians were stunned.

“That’s the message from my ancestor, a god attendant in the Divine Realm.” The man, who looked very robust, revealed a mysterious smile: “God-King Enlil has gone mad again. This time, after the Chaos attack, to make up for the world's losses, he chose to wage war on the passing Jötunheimr. But this time, he ran into a brick wall. The opposing God-King is clearly stronger…”

The one spreading this news was naturally an Einherjar sent by Downs.

In fact, calling them Einherjar isn't accurate. These guys are, at best, slightly stronger mortal souls.

Let alone a mere Jötunheimr, even within the myriad of mythological stories in the world's nations, there are only a pitiful few heroes qualified to become Einherjar; their number is even less than the number of gods.

In such a large Jötunheimr, there are only two proper hero-level Einherjar: Beowulf and Siegfried.

In Downs's view, even if he tried to promote the remaining guys, they couldn't possibly compare to the knights under King Arthur.

Rather than spending massive resources, or even disrupting the cycle of life and death, to cultivate so many so-called Einherjar, it would be better to leave the resources to truly useful existences, such as these spy-type powerful souls.

So many souls unwilling to die; Downs only used a 【Second Life】 as a bargaining chip, and coaxed them to serve him wholeheartedly.

For the outstanding ones among them, Downs even promised them the position of god attendant.

Of course, the premise was that these guys, who were being used as cannon fodder and scattered to the opposite world, could successfully possess a body and come up with various tricks to achieve the strategic goals Downs wanted.

Downs wasn't even worried about these guys selling out Jötunheimr's information in reverse. Firstly, they didn't know much, and secondly, with Siegfried and Beowulf, two successful predecessors, as examples, who wouldn't be howling and boldly rushing forward?

This time, they successfully disrupted the rule of the Sumerian gods.

A spy, possessing the body of a nobleman who had been frightened to death, was advising his king like this.

“Your Majesty, the gods in the sky can't even protect themselves; who cares about the life and death of us mortals? Don't forget, Enlil once initiated three great extinctions against humanity because we humans were too noisy. Now, not only will they not save us, but they will also snatch food from our hands.”

The king was terrified, looked around, but saw his own important ministers casting approving glances and nodding slightly: “Then… what should I do?”

“Your Majesty, immediately open the granaries and release the grain, and even let the people escape on their own. We will send troops to hide the grain separately. Even if the gods descend and demand grain, we will only give them a portion, and the rest we will not give. Also, Your Majesty, you should immediately take the Queen and the princes and princesses and hide.”

“Ah! What if an envoy comes from the sky…”

“Your Majesty, let me speak on your behalf!”

Such a loyal and courageous minister moved the city-state king to tears, and he really did as he was told.

This is the classic case of everyone flying away when disaster strikes.

In peacetime, due to the absolute divine power of God-King Enlil, no mortal dared to disobey the Sumerian gods.

In times of war, who the hell cares about you killable gods?!

The rulers of the mortal kingdoms selfishly held onto their own grain, not knowing that this precisely hit the Sumerian gods' weak spot.

Within the entire Sumerian pantheon, the gods of the fifth generation and earlier are mostly elemental gods; they do not need to eat. The new gods after the fifth generation have basically the same physiological structure as mortals, except that their divine bodies are stronger and possess a certain amount of divine power.

The most numerous of these gods, if they don't eat for three days, will become as dizzy with hunger as humans.

The Sumerian gods, who have regarded humans as slaves and squeezed them dry for years, generally do not have the habit of storing grain. When they have nothing to eat, they just go to the lower realm and take it from the mortals.

The mortal granaries are our gods' granaries.

They never expected that at this critical moment, the humans would actually rebel.

After finally waiting for the two worlds to distance themselves, the 【Luludanitu】 rock layer of the world barrier was no longer under attack, and the heavenly realm was slightly calmer, the gods suddenly realized they were hungry.

After sweeping away the food in the heavenly realm, they realized they had to go to the lower realm to urge the delivery of grain.

Now it's good; not to mention grain, even the people have run away.

Countless mortals were scattered across the land like ants, and the grain carried by each person was pitifully small; how could it be enough for those big-bellied Sumerian gods and their god attendants to eat?

No food!

This term, carrying the meaning of death, deeply stimulated the Sumerian gods.

Some gods hurriedly sent more god attendants to urge and collect grain, while others, with no other way to go, agreed to join the cross-border invasion army organized by God-King Enlil.

The entire Sumerian world was in chaos.

But the Sumerian world, using all its strength, still couldn't catch up with Jötunheimr. Whenever it approached to a certain extent, it was immediately whipped hard by the opponent's roots and flew out spinning like a top.

Each time it was whipped, the entire world would hear Anu's wails. Not only was the world damaged, but the violent shaking and rotation of the earth couldn't fool even a mortal.

The feeling of being kited was terrible.

The movement of the world is very slow. Relatively speaking, the speed at which the gods cross space is much faster.

In Downs's eyes, these are all slow, but slow is also divided into grades. If the movement of the world is the standard snail's pace, then when these gods fly over to invade, they are at least at the level of a turtle.

The roots of the World Tree are too slow to intercept these agile gods. If the Aesir gods were sent out to deal with them one by one, it would be the Aesir gods who would suffer.

The Aesir gods have undergone multiple expansions and are no longer just Downs and his family's family-style pantheon.

The core gods of the Aesir who have left their names in history add up to about thirty. Counting the eight Vanir goddesses who came later, plus the pure-blooded Aesir gods, as well as the Danu gods, Arthur, the God of Knights, and other newbies in the divine realm, the total number is only about eighty.

In reality, the gods beyond the thirtieth rank are not very good at fighting.

Although the difference in strength among the gods in the opposing Sumerian pantheon is also very disparate, as the source of the so-called pantheons in Western mythology, the total number of the more core gods in Sumer exceeds one hundred. If you have to count those weak sixth and seventh generation gods, the total number is close to a thousand!

Such a huge pantheon, if it really started a full-scale war, Jötunheimr would definitely be overwhelmed.

To this, Downs adopted a very clever method—one hundred free draws upon logging in!

For those Sumerian gods who bypassed the World Tree roots controlled by Downs and successfully broke through the world barrier, what awaited them was a second round of whipping.

The Forest God, Víðarr, is the leader in controlling plants.

Due to insufficient divine power and mental power, Víðarr cannot control the giant roots of the world level. For small-scale battles, this is Víðarr's specialty.