Stupid Odin

Perhaps some bleeding hearts will argue, saying why didn't Thurisaz try diplomacy first?

Please!

Didn't those ships he sank bear Thurisaz's emblems and holy images?

Aegir still sank them!

Not only did he do this, but in just a few months, his wife 【Lán】 also became notorious. This goddess, whose name means 'robber' in the Runic language, usually amuses herself by using a divine fishing net to catch passing ships.

She is as greedy and cruel as Aegir. If she doesn't find gold on board, she simply sinks the ship.

As a result, fishermen and sailors now offer gold sacrifices, large or small, to pray for safety when they go to sea. If they don't have gold, they throw a considerable number of coins into the sea along the route.

If Lán is satisfied, she will spare the ship.

Sailors loudly praise Thurisaz's mighty name, and occasionally Lán will also spare the ship.

When Lán is in a bad mood, nothing the sailors do will help.

The most outrageous thing is that Lán even stole some of the Death God's authority. Anyone who drowns in the seas near Midgard, their soul cannot be guided to Valhalla in Asgard, nor can they go to Hel, Hela's realm in the underworld. Instead, Lán takes them to a newly created sea palace similar to Valhalla.

All drowning victims better bring some gold, or they're on their own.

Handsome men among the dead will be seized by Lán to be male servants, beautiful women as female servants, and the remaining inferior souls that Lán doesn't need will be allowed to traverse space and go to Helheim themselves.

Now that's great.

Aegir is robbing Thurisaz of the 【Ocean】 divine authority, and Lán is robbing Thurisaz and Hela of the shared 【Death】 divine authority.

What can be said about this couple?

This is no longer a matter of precise mine-stepping.

This is completely partying on the Allfather's face!

They're already like this, do you still expect them to talk about peace with you?

The Fake King: After being slapped, immediately runs to find a specialist to write a paper proving you didn't hit me.

The Real King: Before anyone even slaps him, he takes his subordinates to kill the challenger.

Anyway, in this world with an excessive barbaric atmosphere, don't talk about convincing people with reason.

Since the last time he declared war on the Vanir for no reason, Thurisaz understood that this world doesn't have peace just because you want it. To have peace, the other party must understand the consequences of not having peace.

For those guys whose heads are full of muscles, 'peace' means beating him up, pressing his head on the ground, and forcing him to worship you.

Tell him that this is peace!

Inside the Silver Palace's main hall, looking at Thurisaz's livid face, the gods and giants didn't dare to breathe loudly.

Interestingly, Gullveig was the happiest one.

With new challengers appearing, she was finally not the most idiotic challenger in this world.

The consequence of getting out of line back then was that Thurisaz slapped her until her butt was almost rotten.

Which of the other Vanir gods had it better?

Don't think Frey and Freya seem glamorous, their divine authority and status all come from Thurisaz. Their well-being depends entirely on Thurisaz's words. If Thurisaz wants to deal with them, no one in the hall will plead for them.

In the eyes of the gods and giants, the God-King can be tolerant, kind, and even a soft-hearted fool in most matters, but he cannot tolerate the slightest retreat when facing enemy provocations.

Originally, Frey wanted to say that starting a war would cause losses to the fertility of Midgard, but after feeling the strong killing intent in the hall, he decided to shut up.

After listening to the Valkyrie's statement, the fiery Thor was the first to step forward: "Father! I request to be the vanguard of the gods and tear down the temples of those false gods!"

Rarely did Odin agree: "Yes! I also request to be the vanguard and kill all those false gods!"

Although this incident has a considerable relationship with Odin, if he had intercepted these guys on the shore, perhaps it wouldn't have been so troublesome, but he at least regarded this incident as an opportunity and was willing to fight.

He had enough of that extremely cold land.

At least he was thinking of earning military merits at this moment and then transferring to prosperous Midgard.

Thurisaz glanced at these two macho men and raised the corners of his mouth slightly: "If you two have to come forward every time there is a war, wouldn't it seem that our Aesir gods have no new generation of powerhouses?"

When the God-King said this, the attendees were stunned. The reasoning was correct, but what was the God-King up to?

While they were wondering, Thurisaz named someone: "Loki, let your son send a message, tell Aegir to come to Asgard and surrender within three days, otherwise I will kill him and his wife and tear down their broken house at the bottom of the sea. Even if the sea is completely dried up, I will not hesitate."

"Yes!" Loki was overjoyed.

Thurisaz's words made all the demigods from the Vanir recall that not-so-distant memory.

The sky collapsed, and the sea dried up!

Don't think that His Majesty the God-King seems less irritable in recent years. Not long ago, he just killed a North Sea Kraken!

He 'old man' is still strong!

This time, even the former Vanir gods were eager to try.

No matter how big the opposing god clan is, destroying a new god clan means that the former Vanir gods will no longer be the bottom of the Aesir gods.

Of course, Thurisaz would not start a divine war as crudely as Njord back then, directly sending a goddess to jump in their faces.

At least he was still very considerate of mortals.

Actually, at this time, in many sea god temples standing by the sea, mortals reverently bowed to Thurisaz's holy image.

"Great God-King! Please bless my safe voyage this time!"

Believers muttered in their mouths. Although the priests of the temple often took out Thurisaz's oracle to teach and admonish believers, to most believers, the so-called God-King was just a statue.

But on this day, a miracle was born.

In front of every sea god temple's holy image appeared a huge projection of the divine envoy Hermod, five stories high.

【Conveying His Majesty the God-King's decree—the deep-sea monsters Aegir and Lán, disobeying divine grace, recklessly killing and plundering mortals, ignoring the majesty of the God-King. The God-King has decided to attack Aegir and his wife in three days. At that time, the sky and earth will be overturned, and the sea will be dried up! All mortal ships must immediately return to port, stop sailing, and go ashore. Those who do not obey will bear the consequences!】

After saying that, Hermod ignored the reactions of the mortal believers, and in the blink of an eye, his figure disappeared. Only the faint divine light scattered, telling every witness that the miracle just now was not false.

These believers who make a living by the sea immediately exploded.

"Gods above, it turns out that His Majesty the God-King really cares!"

"Yes, I thought he was too busy to care about us mortals."

"Hahaha! Aegir is dead. Do you know? My cousin who lives on the east side of Midgard told me a while ago that His Majesty the God-King recently killed a huge octopus and displayed it on the edge of Ironwood Forest. That thing is as big as a city."

Those who received the oracle were not only the believers in the temples, but also the believers sailing on the sea also dreamed of Hermod.

For a time, thousands of ships sailed back to the shore like crazy, even ignoring the damage to the bottom of the ship, or considering how to get the ship back in the future. Anyway, most captains chose to take advantage of the high tide to play a hand of beaching.