What was the Heavenly Realm?
The Heavenly Realm was the higher world that ruled over countless lives, even the entire myriad worlds and the vast universe itself.
Within the Heavenly Realm, even the weakest ants possessed divine power far beyond that of humans on earth. Even a Gold Saint could not fight one of the Heavenly Realm's ants.
If even ants were like this, then the gods of the Heavenly Realm were naturally all the more extraordinary. When gods of the Heavenly Realm descended, becoming tainted by the dust of the mortal world naturally caused their strength to decline rapidly. Touma, for instance, possessed only one percent of his usual combat power on earth and in the Underworld. But in this war of the gods, the final battlefield was the Heavenly Realm. Thus, the gods of the Heavenly Realm would enjoy a hundredfold advantage!
Of course, Athena and Pallas were also gods of the Heavenly Realm. The two of them had originally lived above in the Heavenly Realm, enjoying all its splendor. However, ever since Athena had taken on the duty of protecting the earth and defending humanity, she had voluntarily descended to the mortal world, reducing her divine power by ninety-nine percent and retaining only one-tenth of it to resist the gods' covetous designs upon the earth.
Athena's father was Zeus, while her elder brother was the Sun God Apollo...
Her elder sister was Artemis, and her younger sister was Pallas...
In truth, many of the gods in the Heavenly Realm were related to one another. No matter how hard the humans of earth worked, they could never attain the heights of the gods of the Heavenly Realm. The Heavenly Realm was like a tower—a colossal Tower of Heaven with deep outer walls. Those walls barred everyone who sought