Foolish Brother Odin

Chapter 218 [Trinity Tax]

The decoration outside the Palace of Joy has remained in the same style for decades, and the Aesir gods and giants all like that style.

Music, wine, delicious food, and some heroic and generous beauties are all they have.

Entering the inner hall, it is another style.

Sister Ailei was surprised to find that there was a magical mural hanging every few steps in the corridor of the inner hall.

The statues in the painting are active, wearing light gauze, dancing or showing off their graceful figures. Some have blurred eyes, a smile on their lips, and a crystal green grape; some have ten fingers like willow branches, gently brushing their bodies...

The always serious Elle blushed. On the contrary, the lewd Ishtar was very interested, and she was surprised to find that in a moving painting, there was Gulveg leading the way.

This goddess from the Vanir tribe is doing something in the painting that is quite unusual even for a professional goddess like Ishtar.

"Gulveig, this is..."

Gulveig blushed slightly: "The favor of the God King is very rare."

Ailei's focus was on another painting. She was surprised to find Scathach in it. In the dynamic painting, Scathach, wearing a large backless sweater, had her back to the outside of the painting, looking lazy, but the coldness on her face and her nonchalant movements, coupled with her beautiful back curve, made people feel the urge to run over and harass her.

Ai Lei couldn't help but said, "Wait! Your Majesty is so tall, how can a mortal body bear it?"

The Aesir are generally three times taller than mortals and the Anunnaki, not to mention the Downs who also looks tall among the Aesir. That painting style... is a bit too brutal.

Gulveig smiled mysteriously: "Transfiguration is the gift of the Aesir and the Vanir. Those who are ignorant will suffer a lot."

Soon, Ishtar and Ailei knew what suffering was.

……

Tang Si was quite surprised that the goddess Ishtar was seriously inconsistent with her divine duties. After asking, he found out that Ishtar had not been forced to marry off by her eldest brother, the sun god Utu.

According to mythology, Ishtar became promiscuous after being forced to marry the shepherd god Dumuzi, whom she hated.

In fact, Dumuzid was not a good person either. The couple in the gods just played their own games. Later, Ishtar arrogantly challenged Ellei and failed and died, but Dumuzid still had fun all day. As a result, when Ishtar returned from the underworld and had to find a scapegoat to die in her place, she found that Dumuzid was still having fun every day. Ishtar simply acquiesced to the evil spirit to take away Dumuzid's soul.

Ishtar now is actually a rookie with perfect theory but zero practice.

This is hilarious.

Towns even deliberately used a bit more force.

As for Ai Lei, she is at the other extreme, cold on the outside but warm on the inside, and very sultry. She is the traditional goddess who will accept her fate once the rice is cooked.

Towns had a rare chance to enjoy himself.

...The Sumerian world is a bit big. Even though it was once harmed by Tiamat and the stone world barrier of Anu, the god of the sky, was dismantled, the size of Sumer is still not much different from the previous Jinlunga world.

If Jinlunga had not eaten up Celtic in advance, this would have been tantamount to annexing a world of almost the same size.

Even now, it is not an easy task.

The best news is that the first three generations of gods who were the cornerstones of the Sumerian world have all lost their self-awareness because the world was severely damaged by chaos. With such a powerful god king like Tang Si, the Jinlunga world will can be said to have picked up a treasure, which is equivalent to eating six meals a day. It is difficult not to gain weight.

Dealing with it on the world level is a minor problem, but as for the remaining mortals in the Sumerian city-states, it is a piece of cake.

Towns never thought that things would be so simple.

In Uruk, a city-state that worships Ishtar, hundreds of thousands of people came from all directions and bowed down to the hundreds-meter-high virtual image of Tangs. Every mortal had an expression of extreme panic on his face.

For them, the sky really fell. Enlil, the supreme god who ruled them, was also killed by this new god.

Who knows how terrifying this new God-King is, to be able to torture Enlil, who destroyed the world three times, into losing his temper and eventually killing him.

Downs's magnificent voice spread throughout the Sumerian world:
"All the faults lie with the arrogant former Anunnaki king Enlil! He paid the price for his ambition. And his sins will not affect you mortals. Get up, mortals! Since you have joined the Aesir and become my people, I will treat you equally."

Downes quickly issued a series of decrees.

When the mortals heard this, they all cheered and praised Tang Si for his wisdom.

Article 1: If you make contributions to the Aesir or serve them for twenty years, you can regain your freedom and enjoy the same status as other mortals in the Kinlunga world. You only need to pay the "Trinity Tax" to Asgard, that is, one third of your income will be given to the Aesir.

Article 2: Mortal kings and local officials are prohibited from raising the total tax revenue to more than 50% in any form, taking into account the [Triple Tax]. Mortals can report any officials who break the rules directly to the temple, and even pray in their hearts to report to higher authorities.

Once Asgard confirms it, the corrupt officials will be exterminated along with their entire clan!

Article 3: You can only believe in the true gods of the Aesir. Anyone who believes in other religions or entities will be killed without mercy!

……

In fact, Downs felt that it was outrageous to make these laws. If it were before the time travel, he would have thought he should have sat in a private room under a street lamp.

This horrific life of getting up at 4 a.m. and working until 9 p.m., six days a week, 496 hours a day, was heard by Sumerian mortals as "the greatest saint of all time"!
Are humans born with an 'iron will'?
Thinking about it, it makes sense. The medical level in the Sumerian world was extremely low. Once a human gets sick, they have to rely on themselves to bear the consequences. If they can't bear the consequences, they will die.

Don't forget that the poor Sumerians were destroyed three times and almost exterminated because they disturbed Enlil's sleep. In the end, the wise water god Enki had to give in and agreed to weaken mortals, allowing them to grow old, get sick and die, and their physiques would weaken with age. This was the end of the matter.

So much so that the Sumerians refused to serve the gods because they were afraid of being exterminated again, and they were so scared that their legs shivered like chickens seeing a fox. It was not until they received a guarantee from Ishtar that they would not kill mortals at will that they ran out to become slaves happily.

(End of this chapter)