Greek Mythology: Starting with Becoming the God of the Breeze

With the armistice concluded, the lingering heat of war slowly dissipated.

The Egyptian gods retreated swiftly, almost fleeing en masse into the spacetime rift, leaving their backs to the enemy.

Ra, the sun god, was the last to leave.

As the most powerful deterrent force among the Egyptian gods, Ra had to ensure that the gods under his command could retreat safely.

Only after all the gods under his command had retreated did Ra turn his attention to Pontus, Tartarus, and Kanas beside him.

This time, He was too arrogant, thinking that the other side of the crack was the wild world He had visited before.

As a result, as soon as they landed, they were ambushed by a god whose strength was on par with their own.

If it weren't for his own attribute countering the opponent's, Tartarus alone could probably have caused heavy losses to the gods under his command.

"...Until we meet again, powerful otherworldly god."

Before stepping into the spacetime rift, Ra turned around and said goodbye to Tartarus's location.

This deity's temperament and power far surpassed that of the god who controlled the ocean, and Ra held this level of being in high regard.

".....Um"

Tartarus withdrew his gaze upon hearing this and responded with a sound.

As a "veteran" among the primordial gods, He was also shocked by Ra's power.

In particular, He vaguely sensed that the other party's state seemed incomplete, and this intuition brought His fear of this otherworldly deity to its peak.

"The battle is over... Go back to your posts, and don't forget what you were supposed to do."

"Kanas, come with me."

As his deep, indifferent voice fell silent, Tartarus moved slightly, directly leading Kanas away from the battlefield and arriving at a hilltop.

This place is far from the battlefield.

Tartarus didn't say much, only asking Kanas to stop worrying about the trivial matters of world repair and to focus all his energy on himself.

Even looking at the entire Chaos world, Kanas's support abilities are second only to a few primordial gods.

However, both Tartarus and Pontos believed that Kanas's primary task was to increase his strength.

The task of repairing the world is left to those lower-level gods.

Their ten thousand years are not as precious as a hundred years in Kanas.

The original battlefield is now just a devastated land, a shattered and cracked space, and scattered divine blood, severed limbs, and fragments of rules.

In battles of god-like stature, bloodshed and severed limbs are commonplace; even minor injuries are avoided.

Those fragments of rules were not dropped by the gods themselves, but rather were wounds left behind after the Chaos world was damaged.

The war was essentially one of restraint, and did not cause too much damage.

Although the number of Egyptian gods was small, their combat power and experience were all elite, so not many Egyptian gods fell in this battle, at most a dozen or so.

The same was true for Chaos's side; several unfortunate gods died on the battlefield.

Most of those guys were gods, unlucky souls and cannon fodder sent out by their respective gods to scout ahead.

But their causes of death were all quite similar.

They were all pushed to the front by their own gods, becoming stepping stones and cannon fodder for exploration.

However, their sacrifice was also meaningful. Among the dozen or so fallen gods in the Egyptian pantheon, their contributions were more or less significant.

To put it simply, the ancient Egyptian pantheon lost more than a dozen gods, and morale was severely impacted.

While Chaos's side did not lose many gods, part of their homeland was destroyed.

Therefore, from this point on, both worlds officially entered a long period of rest and recuperation.

The Chaos gods returned to their respective positions, mending the rules as needed and healing their wounds as required.

Kanas, on the other hand, returned to Karst Island and began a period of seclusion and slumber.

He must digest the [Desert] divine essence within his body and transform it into a state that conforms to the underlying rules of Kanas.

To achieve this goal, Kanas needs to spend a lot of time and effort.

Therefore, a period of slumber is most suitable for Him.

And so, the days passed slowly in peaceful rest and quiet slumber.

As the war came to a complete end and the world gradually recovered, the gods slowly withdrew from their post-war exhaustion. However, a hidden danger was becoming increasingly clear to all of them as time went on.

That is, in the world of Chaos today, there is no God-King!

Cronus was the second generation of god-king, but he was absent from the last war, and at this time he was still in another world. They didn't even know whether Cronus was alive or dead.

The human heart is unpredictable, and so is the divine.

Therefore, they assumed that the era of Cronus was a thing of the past.

The gods now need a powerful, valiant, and charismatic ruler.

So, it is unclear who started the call, but the calls for the election of a third-generation god-king began to grow louder and louder.

Before this war, the gods of the Chaos world generally performed their own duties and were very independent. The God-King was merely a figurehead who tacitly acknowledged his higher status.

Normally, the world is at peace, and although the gods have their disagreements, there are never any major battles. This relaxed situation can be maintained, and they even thrive in it.

However, after this cross-border invasion by the ancient Egyptian pantheon, all the gods realized the drawbacks of this loose structure.

In emergencies, without a unified leader to coordinate and issue commands, all the gods fight independently, resulting in disorderly advances and retreats, scattered coordination, and a significant loss of combat power and opportunities.

Moreover, the lack of a leader presents another disadvantage.

When faced with foreign invasion, no one makes the final decision or coordinates the overall situation; all that can be done is to respond passively and launch hasty counterattacks.

Even if victory is achieved by chance, no one restores order, repairs the world, reviews the battle, or establishes a system of rewards and punishments after the war.

The world is rife with chaos and inefficiency.

Loose-knit means extremely low efficiency.

Being without a master means having no backbone.

These two factors combined mean that the Chaos world has an extremely low margin for error.

If there is even one defeat, the entire world's fighting force will be shattered, and it will be impossible to organize an effective resistance.

This time, they were simply lucky. The Egyptian gods were not as strong individually as them, and there were fewer of them, so they managed to end the ordeal without any real danger.

However, luck is by no means permanent, and they cannot pin their hopes for the future of the Chaos world on luck.

Although the ancient Egyptian pantheon was defeated in this battle, the Chaos gods learned something from them.

Was the Egyptian pantheon powerful?

powerful!

But what is the fundamental reason for its strength?

Ra!

That "King of Gods" in the ancient Egyptian pantheon!

It was thanks to the presence of the sun god Ra, who, with his immense power and unwavering command in the face of battle, managed to ensure the successful retreat of the ancient Egyptian gods, who were weaker in both number and strength than them.

Therefore, the gods of the Chaos world also wanted such a powerful god-king to rule them.

Hmm... This fits the character and personality of the gods in ancient Greek mythology.