Stupid Odin

“How ugly.” Thanes commented on these Sumerian gods.

At the same time, he directed the Jormungandr world to begin shifting to the right and rear.

The world moved slowly; the opposing gods could certainly catch up if they wanted to.

However, the world's movement further scattered the opposing gods, allowing them to be eliminated one by one as much as possible.

After completing all of this, Thanes exited the state of synchronized spirit with the world's will.

Back in the Silver Palace, after roughly outlining the four enemy gods who required the most attention, Thanes left the on-site judgment to the gods below.

Since the enemy god-king Enlil remained hidden in the Sumerian Celestial Realm, Thanes would not easily leave Asgard.

This meant that the opposing side's four strongest celestial gods could only be dealt with by his sons and subordinates.

The first powerful Sumerian god to enter Jormungandr was not Ishtar, but the moon god Nanna, who plunged headfirst into Vanaheim. This surprised Thanes somewhat.

“Frey.”

“Yes!”

Using the sun god against the enemy's moon god might not be a perfect match, but it would at least be better than any other god dealing with him.

The second was Marduk, who, as the next god-king of Sumer in the epic, was destined to be confronted by Thor. Their decisive battle would take place in the northern lands of Midgard, where Ragnarok had once erupted.

The third, the goddess of the underworld, Ereshkigal, very consciously went to Helheim, proactively facing her professional nemesis, Hela.

In Thanes's expectations, Ishtar, the Venus goddess, who should have been the first to invade, ended up entering last.

Initially, Thanes was a bit puzzled, but when he saw the direction she was attacking from, Thanes suddenly understood.

“Hahaha! Is the Jormungandr god-king actually a rat hiding in the gutter? You deliberately hid your divine kingdom so far back; you really are a coward!”

The clear yet incredibly grating laughter of the Venus goddess echoed in the sky.

This golden-haired goddess's proclamation immediately stiffened the muscles of the Aesir gods and giants who were waiting in the Silver Palace and on the Rainbow Bridge!

Fists clenched!

“Crack!” Many giants abruptly stood up, either smashing the things at hand or snapping the armrests of their seats.

Honestly, if Ishtar had mocked any other being within the Aesir, it probably wouldn't have had such a widespread effect.

Thanes, as the god-king, had fought alongside the Aesir gods and giants through many world wars, always on the front lines. His prestige was not comparable to those who had risen through lineage.

The prestige of this god-king, who had fought his way out of the most adverse environment, far exceeded Ishtar's imagination.

Indeed, with Jormungandr's current form, the lower four realms faced the direction of Sumer, so the shortest route for the Sumerian gods to invade would naturally be through the lower four realms.

Thanes did indeed have the idea of protecting Asgard somewhat.

But for Ishtar to say that Thanes was a coward was truly excessive.

Her provocation immediately aroused the indignation of the Asgardian gods.

In an instant, countless brilliant divine lights soared into the sky.

“Bitch! Get down here!”

“I'll be your opponent!”

“No—let me tear this bitch's mouth apart!”

Not only the Aesir gods and giants, who had long been core members, but even new gods like Arthur expressed their anger towards Ishtar with surging divine light.

Ishtar was oblivious, not realizing that she had stirred up a divine hornet's nest.

She covered half of her mouth and giggled, “Oh oh! Did I hit a sore spot? You poor things.”

Unbeknownst to her, in the Silver Palace, an old Vanir goddess sighed.

Gullveig: “Is it just me, or do I see a bit of my former self?”

Freyja agreed: “It's not just you.”

Outside the Silver Palace, some Aesir gods had already engaged Ishtar.

A bowstring vibrated with a sound like thunder!

The next moment, half of Asgard saw a huge crimson arrow fly into the sky, painting the outer walls of the Silver Palace blood-red. Then, the arrow seemed to hit the world barrier before violently rebounding, transforming into hundreds of thousands of small, mortal-sized arrows that rained down on Ishtar in mid-air.

The bow god Ullr's attack was undeniably forceful.

However, all of his arrows encountered a phantom of a planet in mid-air.

The arrows seemed to be ground down in an extremely short time, quickly shattering into tiny fragments, even so pulverized that they could be called dust.

Such a grand offensive was reduced to nothing.

The bow god Ullr's face turned pale.

“Hehehe! Who else?” Ishtar's mocking voice echoed throughout Asgard.

She never imagined that the next instant, a grand voice would spread throughout the sky.

【I declare—No-Fly Zone!】

The effect was immediate!

The goddess Ishtar instantly felt an incredibly violent change in the laws of the sky throughout the world.

Wind?

No, even the air was fearfully moving away from her, and a heavy feeling was descending. It transformed into an invisible, intangible, yet incomparably tyrannical hand that ruthlessly yanked her down from mid-air.

“Ah—”

All of Asgard heard the Venus goddess's panicked scream.

A second later.

“Thud!” With a loud crash, the beautiful goddess plummeted from hundreds of meters in the air, landing in a perfect 'splat' on the plaza across from the Rainbow Bridge.

Just as the Valkyries were leading the Asgardian guards to surround her, sand and gravel suddenly scattered from the large pit. A graceful figure transformed into a sharp arrow, bursting out of the billowing dust and heading straight for the Silver Palace.

“You, you, you actually did this to me?!” Ishtar unleashed her divine wrath, actually charging straight towards the Silver Palace with a set of hovering, carved giant bows.

No one noticed that her pair of gorgeous leather boots had disappeared.

“Stop her!” Valkyrie Koth screamed.

The god of light, Baldur, rushed forward but underestimated the speed of this Sumerian war goddess. The beautiful figure flashed past him, but in Baldur's vision, his target suddenly disappeared, and at the same time, a beautiful leg kicked him in the abdominal armor.

“Ah!” Baldur cried out miserably as he was kicked away.

The second unlucky one was the strongest giant on the surface, Hrungnir, who wanted to rush over, but at almost point-blank range, he took a heavy arrow and was blasted hundreds of meters away.

Ishtar was like a gust of wind, forcibly breaking through half a street and rushing into the main entrance of the Silver Palace.

Just then, the grand voice sounded again.

【I declare—False stars do not exist!】

The next second, the Venus phantom hovering in mid-air behind Ishtar was popped like a soap bubble and disappeared abruptly. Also disappearing was the divine great bow that flew behind her.

A normal god might have already felt a pang of fear in their heart.

But Ishtar was just too stubborn, and she continued to charge.

【I declare—Your war is nothing more than child's play.】

This time, all the armor on Ishtar instantly shattered, and even her clothes turned into dust…