Chapter 837: Chapter 27: The Father’s Defeat

After cleansing his body and changing clothes, following a thorough erasure of any traces, Luo En took Hela by the hand and came before the Fertility Temple.

At this moment, Odin was pacing back and forth in the hall, his brow furrowed with worries unknown.

And the Heavenly Destiny Divine King of the Asa seemed to have aged quite a bit since their last meeting a few years ago.

Overworking oneself indeed leads to rapid aging.

Luo En shook his head silently and led Hela inside.

“You’ve arrived!”

Upon seeing the figures of the tall and the small, Odin immediately approached them with a face full of joy.

He first warmly embraced his Blood Alliance brother out of habit, in gratitude for his years of service guarding the Midgard World, and then stretched out his callused right hand, wanting to pat his daughter Hela on the head.

However, facing the closeness of her biological father, Hela subconsciously avoided it, shrinking behind her teacher Luo En.

Odin’s hand froze in midair, his expression becoming somewhat awkward.

Seeing this, Luo En quickly stepped forward to smooth things over:

“Hela, this is your father, the Asa Divine King. You met him six months ago.”

“Hello, Father.”

Hela responded dryly, like a mechanical repeater.

Then, she habitually lowered her head, devoid of much eye contact or verbal interaction with her biological father.

Even though she was well aware that the old man in front of her was her biological father and had met with the Asa Divine King several times during her upbringing,

Each encounter was always hurried, and after making routine inquiries about her growth in Divinity and Divine Power, he would immediately return to the Immortal Palace, busy waging war with the Warner Divine Race or suppressing rebellions in other realms.

Consequently, after all these years, the number of times she had met with her biological father was very few, the conversations they had numbered no more than a hundred words, and her impression of him was extremely vague, like a familiar stranger.

Odin also understood that he had not fulfilled his duties as a father over the years, so he did not take too much to heart Hela’s coldness towards him, only let out a dry laugh, and once again asked the question he cared about:

“How did the assessment go?”

“I lost…”

Hela answered in a muffled voice.

Upon hearing this, Odin’s brows furrowed, his friendly expression overshadowed by dark clouds:

“Up to now, you still can’t beat Freya?”

“Just temporarily, next time I will definitely win!”

Hela proudly answered as she touched the two Night Sky Swords hanging at her waist.

However, Odin impatiently waved his hand, his voice turning chilly:

“Next time, next time! How many ‘next times’ has it been? How much longer do you expect me to wait?”

Hela opened her mouth but couldn’t speak, her once-raised head drooping down.

Seeing this, Luo En quickly stepped forward to defend his student,

“Don’t rush, she’s already on par with Freya at such a young age, it won’t be long before she surpasses that Warner Valkyrie. Just wait a bit more…”

“I can wait, but can Asa afford to?!”

Odin retorted with a cold snort, then, with a gloomy face, looked at his daughter in whom he placed great expectations,

“Do you know that the peace and ease you are enjoying now are bought with the blood and flesh of Asa people? Every moment you delay, there might be an Asa warrior dying on the battlefields of Valhalla! All this is because of your incompetence!”

Such heart-piercing words made Hela clench her fists, her fingernails digging deep into the palm, her teeth biting down, and unknowingly, her lips began to bleed.

Intense feelings of humiliation and self-doubt boiled over in her young heart.

Am I really that bad?

Then, unable to bear it any longer, Luo En charged forward and pushed the raging Odin aside:

“Enough, she’s just a child! How could you speak like this as a father?”

“But she is also the Princess of Asa!” Odin coldly rebutted, then added with a somber face, “From the moment she was born, she was destined to carry the mission of fighting for Asa! I’ve given her so much time to grow, yet she can’t even overcome her first opponent! How will she shoulder the Divine Business of Asa in the future?”

“Then, at her age, had you accomplished it?”

“…”

Faced with this sharp counter-question, Odin opened his mouth but found no words to reply.

After a moment’s hesitation, he squeezed out a twisted smile towards his daughter Hela and softly instructed:

“Go out and play for a bit, your teacher and I have some things to discuss.”

Upon hearing this, Hela instinctively looked towards Luo En.

After seeing her teacher nod, she finally felt at ease and turned to leave the Fertility Temple.

Noticing his daughter’s gesture, Odin couldn’t help feeling a bit jealous:

“She seems even closer to you than to me…”

“Of course, she may be born of you, but it was I who raised her. No wonder you, her father, are busier than I am and can’t even spare the time to see her.”

Luo En huffed without reservation, then his expression slowly turned serious, as he looked at Odin,

“What, is the war with the Warner Divine Race not going well?”

“More than that!”

With no outsiders around, Odin sat down dejectedly on a chair, a pained look on his face as he confided in his Blood Alliance brother,

“The Warner Divine Race has always been skilled at sustained warfare, and for many years they haven’t stopped harassing our borders for a moment, forcing the Immortal Palace to be in a constant state of war, depleting our military strength and morale, and now we can barely hold on.”

“So soon? That shouldn’t be.”

Luo En frowned, puzzled,

“Isn’t the Life Authority of the Warner Divine Race only effective over Valhalla? Just station a small contingent of forces at the border, guard the Rainbow Bridge, rotate posts to avoid relentless combat, how can Asa not hold out?”

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