Chapter 1178
Do We Really Have a Future?
Chapter 1178 Do We Really Have a Future?
At the subsequent meeting, Xia Xiu began to deploy his troops.
He knew very well that Josephine would never send only a small force this time.
Since Odin has set his sights on Blackrock Fortress, a strategic asset of civilizational caliber, it means that he is very likely to bring the entire army of the Joseph pantheon.
Within the system of Joseph's Garden, there are quite a few units of crown-level power.
The configuration of the great gods in all the heavens and myriad realms is basically: 1 great spiritual unit + N crowned power units (N>1).
Take the Olympian pantheon for example. While Zeus might be a bit weak as a great spiritual being, he had quite a few crowned beings under his command... although these powerful beings were also rather weak.
One thing that had to be admitted at the time was that if the Edis Federation hadn't decided to sabotage Olympus, the Courtyard might not have been able to take down Olympus in such a short time.
In the case of the Joseph pantheon, there are relatively few crown-level powerful units, but they are quite powerful. For example, Thor is quite powerful among crown-level powerful units, and his own artifact is also vaguely approaching the strength of the [Miracle Wedge].
According to the intelligence gathered by the Kingdom of Heaven, the crown-level deities currently revived in Joseph Garden are: Thor, the god of thunder; Heimdall, the guardian of the divine realm; Frigg, the queen of the gods; Baldr, the god of light; Freya, the goddess of magic and war; and Frey, the god of fertility and peace.
At the same time, Odin, as the master of the pantheon, is also very powerful, possessing strength at the [Master] level. His [World Bubble] is a lower-level alternative to the Crisis Sequence, and cannot be compared with the self-destructing [World Bubble] of Olympus.
The problem with the courtyard is also obvious – there are too few Crown-level units.
Currently, the only truly top-tier combatant in the courtyard is Xia Xiu. As a being of great spirituality, he is already at the very top of the entire extraordinary ladder.
However, at the level of Crown-class power units, the courtyard appears quite tense.
There are only two true crown-level combatants. The situation is only slightly better if you include the four fourth-generation Titan fighters.
Each one possesses near-crown-level combat capabilities. They are essentially super weapons in the realm of warfare, with individual combat capabilities sufficient to suppress most gods. However, when facing a slightly stronger crown-level unit, multiple Titans need to cooperate to suppress it.
Currently, the six perfect embryos are still at the Dominator level. If they grow at a normal rate, it will take some time before they can truly reach the Crown level.
But Xia Xiu recently awakened something—the [Master Creator].
Since this authority awakened, his connection with the perfect embryo has become closer than ever before.
The Four Monarchs once said that perfect embryos possess a special ability: they can share in one's glory.
When Xia Xiu awakened the [Master Creator] ability, the threshold for this sharing ability was greatly increased.
Add to that almost cheating ability—loans.
If he actively activates the sharing threshold and then uses the authority of the Great Creator to conduct short-term energy level lending—the six perfect embryos can be temporarily promoted to the Crown level.
It only lasts half an hour, but in a real war, half an hour of experiencing the crown-level combat power is enough to change the outcome of the entire battlefield.
Thus, the troop deployment was quickly determined, and this time, the courtyard would launch a truly comprehensive attack.
Three God-given Colossi + four fourth-generation Titans + six perfect embryos + six Courtyard Legions.
The fleet is organized as follows: the flagship of the Lord of the Courtyard, the Glorious Sword, plus five Legion flagship-class light cruisers, plus twenty-five Sword-class Courtyard frigates, plus ten destroyers of various types.
The last item on the agenda quickly fell to the little chubby bird.
Once the troop deployment was confirmed, Xia Xiu reached out and lightly tapped the spectrum screen on the table. A series of complex spatial coordinates that were enough to make one's scalp tingle were immediately extracted. The runes, dimensional markers, and spatial folding parameters floated in the air like a thin ribbon of light.
He gave it a casual push.
The coordinates were then sent to Emperor Penguin Soros.
The chubby bird stared blankly at the string of dimensional parameters in front of it.
Xia Xiu then said to him:
"We're counting on you now, so please don't make any mistakes. If you misjudge the location and we miss Blackrock Fortress..."
He gestured with his hand in the air.
"I'll turn you into canned food."
Emperor penguins: (ó﹏ò)
"I—I will complete the mission!"
Soros jumped up almost immediately, flapping his wings rapidly, the bird looking like a burning ball of fluff.
"However... however, this kind of cross-dimensional positioning takes time!"
He quickly added.
"The spatial structure of Blackrock Fortress is very strange. I have to unfold the multiverse map and calibrate the coordinates layer by layer, otherwise it will be easy for it to shift!"
Xia Xiu nodded.
"Row."
"I'll give you time."
He stood up after he finished speaking.
The meeting is now over.
With his order given, the entire city of Abelio quickly entered a state of war preparedness.
The fleet took off.
Legion assembled.
Three divinely inspired colossi were recalled from various locations, and four fifty-meter-tall fourth-generation Titan fighters were put into a state of combat readiness.
The six Court Legions have completed their preparations, and the fleet formation in the sky is gradually expanding. Thirty-six warships are reorganized among the clouds, and all warp engines are in standby mode.
As long as the emperor penguins complete their location.
The Rainbow Bridge will then open.
The Courtyard Legion will complete its interdimensional war jump within minutes.
Target – Blackrock Fortress.
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at the same time.
In the Garden of Joseph, the entire divine realm has entered a state of war preparation.
Odin clearly wasted no time; after confirming the information about Blackrock Fortress, he immediately summoned the core forces within the pantheon.
The six great powers stood like six towering mountains in the realm of the gods, their divine power flowing slowly through the sky, giving the entire Garden of Joseph a faint divine glow.
And above the sea of clouds in the center of the divine realm.
A massive divine warship hovered silently.
It was a divine ethereal psionic flagship comparable to a heavy cruiser, with a hull length of nearly three kilometers.
The entire warship resembled a golden temple floating in the air, with its hull surface covered by complex runic armor and lightning circuits. At the bow was a huge statue of a god-king, while at the stern extended a multi-layered energy sail structure.
Its name is—Asgard.
The core area of this flagship.
It was directly transformed into a special structure.
Valhalla.
That was not an ordinary ship's cabin, but a huge soul storage hall, where tens of thousands of heroic spirits were sealed. As soon as the war began, these heroic spirits would be quickly released and transformed into the most ferocious fighting force in the divine realm.
And around the flagship.
The Joseph Garden fleet has been fully assembled.
Twelve destroyers.
Twenty frigates.
These warships are distinctly different in design from the courtyard ships; they resemble temples or longships floating in the sky, with their hulls decorated with numerous runes and statues, and their propulsion systems being a hybrid of thunder and divine power.
The entire fleet was now silently suspended in the sky above the divine realm.
Everyone was waiting, waiting for the pterodactyl. In the distant clouds, Rhodes had once again transformed into his enormous pterodactyl form.
His body blotted out the sky, and when his wings were spread, they covered almost half the sky. On his chest, a [multiverse map] was positioned.
Dimensions...
coordinate……
position……
Countless spatial lines were constantly recombining within it, and Rhodes was beginning to locate himself according to the coordinates given by Odin.
However, it was in this quiet place that...
Odin suddenly frowned slightly.
That wasn't just ordinary anxiety.
As a great spiritual being, his will is almost intertwined with the laws of the entire Garden of Joseph. When such a being suddenly experiences emotional fluctuations, it often signifies that some deeper change is approaching.
He didn't speak.
He simply stood quietly on the observation deck of the Throne of Gods, gazing into the distant void.
Standing beside him was the goddess Frigg.
She noticed her husband's unusual behavior almost immediately.
Frigga reached out and gently took Odin's hand.
The movement was natural, just like many, many years ago. She slightly raised her head, looked at Odin's profile, and said in a gentle voice:
What are you worried about?
Her gaze swept over the distant fleet.
"This time, Joseph Garden has almost mobilized its entire force, including six crowned deities and the entire divine fleet. If it's just a matter of fighting for Blackrock Fortress, we shouldn't have any problems."
Odin was silent for a moment, then slowly tightened his grip on her hand.
He whispered:
"Frigga."
His voice was low, yet carried a heavy tone.
"You also have the ability to foresee the future."
"This time."
"What kind of future do you see?" Frigga did not answer immediately.
Her gaze drifted to the distant void.
The sea of clouds churned slowly in the wind, and the fleet's divine radiance flowed across the sky. The scene was grand and solemn, yet her eyes remained remarkably calm.
After a long time, she sighed softly.
“Odin.” Her voice was low. “We all know that the current pantheon is not the same as the one of the past. We are now called the Josephine pantheon, while the name of the past pantheon, along with the Rainbow Bridge and Surtur’s Levadin, has been taken away by the Kingdom of Heaven.”
The Rainbow Bridge and Levadin are Odin's eternal pain.
The former became the war leap weapon of the Kingdom of Heaven, while the latter became one of the weapons in the hands of that man... Aaron Siegel, who had not yet become the 0-01 of the Resolution Assembly.
Aaron Siegel, along with other nations of Terra, rode the [Jormungandr] to fight against the gods dwelling in the World Tree.
The man was the "Hugh Abraham" of that era, holding a longsword engulfed in flames, a sword similar in nature to [Levadin].
When Odin saw the sword in the other's hand, he knew that the man named Aaron Siegel was forging the "One (Quasi-Taiyi)".
In the present world of Terra, various genealogies and pantheons have legends of sun gods, who are multifaceted manifestations of the sun.
[Leivadin] is also a multifaceted entity, possessing the potential to destroy the world. At that time, there were many other world-destroying weapons similar to [Leivadin].
And Aaron Siegel is gathering these elements of world destruction.
According to the Kingdom of Heaven, that man was forging a... Crisis Sequence weapon.
Odin's original pantheon was destroyed by that Crisis Sequence weapon.
Frigga noticed that Odin was reminiscing about the past, so she put on a sad expression and said to him:
"Although I am still called Frigga, I am no longer the Frigga I used to be."
She looked at Odin.
"Just like you now, you are not the Odin of the past. We all died under Ragnarok created by Aaron Siegel."
They all understood the meaning of those words. The pantheon had been shattered in that war, and Ragnarok had already occurred once.
Frigg continued:
"Back then, you and I both had the ability to foresee the future. We saw the future then, we saw Ragnarok, we saw the destruction of the pantheon."
"So we tried to change it, because we also saw that in which era the Kingdom of Heaven would no longer have a new sword-bearer, so we began to prepare... Because we did not see a new sword-bearer, we naively thought that the law that the Kingdom of Heaven would produce an angel who would dominate the present in every era had disappeared."
She paused for a moment, her gaze becoming somewhat distant.
"But in the end, the angel who led the era still descended. That man was terrifying... He led the nations in launching a war to expel the existing gods. He was practically the second defender of heaven... And he was very strange. I could tell that he wasn't from any particular era... No, he existed in every era. Everything about him was contradictory. He seemed to be omnipresent..."
The wind blew across the sky, and the flags of the distant fleet fluttered gently. Frigga trembled as he recalled the day the pantheon was destroyed.
"The paradoxical man who exists in any era comes from the south, carrying the flames of destruction;
His sword shone brightly, like the sun of the gods.
The sun turned black, the earth sank into the ocean, and fiery stars fell from the sky.
Scorching steam and life-devouring flames rose, leaping high into the sky.
He hurled flames at the earth, burning the entire world.
"Now, I can still glimpse the future, but those futures..."
Frigga gently closed her eyes.
“Things are completely different now. The future may have been cruel in the past, but at least it was clear.”
“But now…” she opened her eyes again. “The future I see is just a fog, I can’t see anything clearly.”
Frigga asked the question she had always wanted to ask.
"Odin, do we really have a future?"
What does the future look like through your eyes?
Odin didn't speak; he simply gripped Frigga's hand even tighter. In truth, like Frigga, he too saw a future shrouded in mist.
But not seeing the future is also a kind of seeing the future.
After a moment of silence, Odin finally gave his answer.
“I am not the Odin of the past, and you are not the Frigga of the past.”
He paused for a moment when he said this.
Then he continued slowly:
"But one thing has never changed."
He turned to look at her, and the will of the God-King still burned in his single eye.
"The only thing that remains unchanged is our love for each other, and my responsibility to the pantheon."
His gaze returned to the distant fleet.
“I am the King of the Garden of Joseph. As long as I live, I must protect these gods and our pantheon from destruction by the Kingdom of Heaven.”
Just as the two were speaking.
The sky in the distance suddenly changed.
A very thin crack suddenly appeared in the originally stable sea of clouds in the divine realm. The crack was initially just a black line deep in the sky, as if someone had lightly scratched the surface of the void with a knife.
next moment.
The entire space suddenly shook.
"boom--"
Blackrock Fortress.
Location complete.
Lot's deep voice echoed in the heavens above the realm of the gods.
"Coordinates locked".
"The jump channel is stable."
No sooner had Odin spoken than he released Frigga's hand.
In an instant, the God-King's expression returned to its battlefield form, that fleeting moment of human tenderness quickly suppressed deep within his heart. He turned to look at the neatly arranged fleet in the sky, his voice not loud, yet clearly resounding throughout the entire divine realm.
"The gods—"
The rune arrays on all ships lit up simultaneously.
The circuits of Valhalla began to operate.
The power of the gods gathered in the sky.
The [Endless Heavenly Stairs] in Joseph's Garden also started up.
Odin raised [Gungnir] and pointed it at the rift in the void that had been torn open.
"Attack."
next moment.
The Joseph Garden fleet has moved.
The flagship Asgard took the lead, its massive hull piercing through the sea of clouds. The statue of the god-king on its prow appeared exceptionally majestic in the thunderous light. Around it, twelve destroyers and twenty escort ships quickly deployed into formation, the entire fleet resembling a giant spear, charging towards the void rift.
Subsequently, the fleet from Joseph's Garden entered the warp portal one after another.
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at the same time.
Another world.
Abelio.
The sky over the Golden Tree Royal City also changed.
Above the sea of clouds outside the Governor's Mansion, Emperor Penguin Soros hovered in mid-air, sweating profusely. The little fat bird... he's not fat anymore.
This positioning attack completely exhausted the Emperor Penguin, causing him to shrink by half. If Eden hadn't been holding him up, he would be meeting his bird ancestors right now.
Xia Xiu looked at the Emperor Penguin, whose face was completely burned out, and felt a little disappointed.
"It seems we can't treat him like an infinite bird-shaped synaptic locator. We need to give him a break and let him cool down after each location."
Harm~
The newly acquired bird-shaped tracking device for overtime workers can't be used indefinitely, which is really disappointing.
While thinking, Xia Xiu's hands were not idle; he started activating the [Rainbow Bridge].
next moment.
The entire sky suddenly lit up; it wasn't ordinary light, but a huge arc that stretched across the heavens and the earth.
The Ethernet network of Abelio's sky was opened, and a seven-colored bridge of light, traversing the world, extended from the depths of the void. The end of the bridge disappeared beyond the unobservable dimensions, while countless runes on the bridge surface slowly rotated like stars.
This is the most terrifying war mobility system in Heaven, a trans-world jump channel—[Rainbow Bridge].
Above the Golden Tree Royal City.
The fleet was in perfect formation, and all forces were waiting for the same words.
Xia Xiu stood on the flagship's deck, gazing at the rainbow bridge that stretched across the sky, his expression as calm as if he were looking at an ordinary road.
Then, he gave the same command as Odin.
"Attack!"
next moment.
The courtyard fleet started its engines simultaneously.
The flagship was the first to sail onto the Rainbow Bridge, and then the entire fleet rushed into the seven-colored bridge of light like a torrent.
Two fleets, two jump tunnels, almost one after the other, were targeting the same destination—Blackrock Fortress.