The Substitute for the Heavenly Pillar

How high was the sky, and how thick was the earth?

For Lein, it might have been a fixed value. Before crossing over, he only had to scan it once to know the height of the atmosphere and the average distance from the ground to the planet's core.

But for the beings of the Olympus world, it had never been fixed.

That was because the Olympus plane had not originally been so vast.

In the primordial era, Olympus had probably been less than a quarter of its current size. Its length, width, and height had all been very different from what they were now.

It had been formed from the sky built by Uranus, the First Generation God King, and the earth thickened by Gaea, the Earth Mother Goddess. But what had truly raised the sky was the power of the few Titan Gods known as the Heavenly Pillars. They had forced it higher.

During the Titan Battle, however, the original Titan Gods who served as Heavenly Pillars had been imprisoned in Tartarus Hell. Zeus disliked the way the sky was hanging low, so he set his sights on Atlas.

Atlas was the son of Iapetus, a Titan God, and Clymene, a goddess of the sea. He was the tallest of the Titans, standing over a thousand meters tall, and he possessed boundless strength. But he had also fought alongside the Titan Gods against the Olympian gods led by Zeus. After their defeat, Zeus punished him by making him shoulder the entire sky forever.

That was how Olympus came to look as it did today.

Earthlings might find it inconceivable, but in a world where gods made their presence known, it was perfectly normal.

Why did the sky seem to be falling again?

Artemis immediately looked toward the world's highest