Stupid Odin

The "Sibylline Prophecies" describe the war between the Aesir and Vanir gods in this way:

This was the first large-scale and brutal war since the beginning of the world's chaos. Warriors of both divine races fought bravely on the battlefield, and the gods' spears were stained with the blood of their enemies. Because both sides were evenly matched, the war lasted for many years, and both divine races suffered enormous sacrifices.

According to Downs, Odin should still be blamed for failing to conquer the Vanir.

The Aesir had the advantage of home court, but they were forced into a stalemate by a group of newcomers whose strength was not particularly strong. This in itself was the greatest failure.

In the end, when Odin and his brothers reshaped the world, they had enough of the cold and eternal night, so they simply and violently piled all the elements they didn't want into other worlds. As a result, the Aesir, who enjoy sunbathing all year round, feel out of their element no matter which world they fight in, giving their opponents a home-field advantage.

Why did Njord send 'Legendary Unkillable King' Gullveig to provoke the Aesir?

Firstly, the Vanir are truly confident and like to court death.

Secondly, it cannot be ruled out that Njord deliberately lured the Aesir into his territory for annihilation.

Think about it, with the Aesir able to use the Rainbow Bridge, what would Odin find when he angrily led a group of his subordinates to descend upon someone's island to question them?

Njord is the Sea God!

He can easily summon a giant wave to strike the Aesir 'airborne troops' from all directions!

However, Odin and Thor failed to kill Gullveig three times in a row, losing all face. It was a time when the gods were in a panic, and they had to bite the bullet and attack, otherwise, they would not be able to suppress the internal conflicts and dissenting voices within the Aesir.

This is the most fatal!

Downs suspects that Odin in the epic was gradually brought to a standstill by Njord in this way.

This life is of course different.

Downs's transformation of the world is more thorough and balanced. Moreover, he brought the Aesir out of their primitive barbarian state. After capturing Gullveig, his position is stable, and he doesn't need to prove himself by falling for a trick.

So…

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Meteor shower!

Not long after, Vanaheim.

The arrival of the Vanir gods easily attracted the mortals who lived in this world. They were excited that this world finally had a deity of the sea. At the same time, the second batch of Vanir gods awakened and rushed to Njord's side.

Now, Njord was even more confident.

Looking at the almost floating continent in the sky, Njord felt a sense of disgust for the Aesir who lived in the higher realm.

"Woo—"

Suddenly, a strange sound came from the sky.

"What's that sound?"

Not to mention the mortals who were helping to build the temple, even the Vanir gods looked around blankly, trying to find the source of the sound.

The sound quickly turned into a deafening explosion. This time, almost everyone on the island and the surrounding fishing boats saw a huge rock tearing through the atmosphere and falling straight into the ocean east of the island.

"Careful!" Freyr, a Vanir god near the coast, subconsciously issued a warning. The huge rock, accompanied by the terrifying sound of air being torn apart, crashed headfirst near a passenger ship carrying believers to the island.

"Thump—"

This was a giant rock that missed its target, but not completely. Its landing point was less than 20 meters away from the ship.

Before the sailors on the passenger ship could realize what was happening, a wave mixed with countless sharp stone fragments swept over them.

The roaring sound, the exaggerated sound of the waves, and the screams of the crowd lasted for an unknown amount of time. When the poor sailor crawled up from the deck, he only felt a burning pain on his face. He subconsciously touched it, and through what should have been his cheek, he felt his teeth.

"Ahhh!" The sailor joined the ranks of the screaming.

He was relatively unlucky. Most of the passengers on this simple, open-topped wooden boat were cut with a few small wounds by the flying gravel. They bled a lot, but it probably wasn't a serious injury.

What really frightened people was the several cracked boulders that were stuck upside down on the beach near the sea. Their existence seemed so out of place compared to this calm and almost endless beach.

"Careful! There's more!" Someone shouted.

Everyone suddenly looked up and were horrified to find that more hundred-ton boulders were falling from the sky unreasonably, as if God was punishing them and sending them a meteor shower representing [Destruction].

Njord was shocked and hurriedly reached out and pushed.

With the release of divine power, the sea, which had been calm just a moment ago, immediately set off huge waves. A huge wave, fully thirty meters high, blocked the believers on the pier at the most appropriate time.

The surging waves made a front flip-like action, and thousands of tons of water roared over the heads of the believers, just hitting the falling boulder.

Through the huge waves, people only heard a muffled thumping sound. It was the sound of the boulder hitting the water, slowing down instantly and cracking, passing through the water and then passing over, sounding not so real.

The huge wave carried the splashing gravel in this way and rolled it into the seabed.

"Praise Lord Njord!" The ignorant believers shouted miracles and knelt down to Njord.

Only the leader of the Vanir gods had a livid face, staring intently at the direction above his head.

As the second boulder crashed down, the clouds above his head had long been torn to shreds, and it could be clearly seen that more and more magnificent 'meteorites' were dragging long trails from east to west across the sky, plummeting towards the island.

Even if Njord was a fool like Vili, he would probably understand that this was not an ordinary meteorite at all. This was the Aesir's revenge.

Njord already vaguely knew through his perception, which had spread to the extreme, that these boulders, each weighing ten tons or more, were thrown over from Asgard.

The amazing momentum generated by the falling of these stones naturally caused panic among the mortals.

Njord no longer used the more energy-consuming giant waves. After he uttered a soft murmur, dozens of 'sea snakes' resembling water tornadoes protruded from the sea surface with a "whoosh" sound.

They are not real sea snakes, but just aggregates of water elements with the shape of sea snakes.

They faced the sky, constantly spraying water bullets, accurately shooting into the sky and colliding with the falling boulders.

More stones fell, but their fate was no better than those earlier stones. One by one, they were hit by water bullets like interceptor missiles, turning into gravel, and then falling densely into the sea, forming a terrifying rain of stones.

The believers praised the greatness of the main god, but no one saw Njord's face as black as the bottom of a pot.

These stones seemed to fall endlessly like rain. Later, both the mortal believers and the Vanir gods felt a little numb, as if what was being intercepted were not stones, but some snowflakes that did not need to worry about safety.

Is that really the case?

Downs, high above, watched all this with a smile.

"Is there anything more cost-effective in the world than exchanging the giants' stamina for Njord's divine power?"