"Watch your words, Mr. Hodgson. We are neutral. Whoever wins in the end has nothing to do with us. All we need to do is offer our faith."
"As for whom we originally worshipped, whom we worship now, and what happened in between—that is not for us to worry about."
President of Greece Archimedes poured cold water on Hodgson's proposal the moment he finished speaking.
Help which side? President Hodgson had some nerve. Did he think a change of God King was like a presidential election back home, where everyone cast a vote and hoped their candidate took office? Gods died when a God King was replaced. Not one or two, either. Entire generations of gods could be wiped out.
If they got mixed up in that, who knew whether the next moment a bolt of lightning would strike them dead or a flood would drown them?
Greece had one position on this war: lie low. No, that wasn't right. Remain neutral.
Two robbers fighting over a bag of gold might clear out the people nearby so no one could profit from their struggle.
But they would never bother clearing out ants.
Ants were beneath their notice.
To the gods, humans were no different from ants.
"Don't you want immortality?"
Hodgson pressed on. "This is immortality we're talking about! Life offers so much joy, yet we get only a hundred years to enjoy it. Don't you think that's far too short?"
"Of course, I'm not saying this for my own sake. I'm saying it for all humanity."
"Think about it. If Isaac Newton were alive today, how far might our technology have advanced? If Albert Einstein were alive today, might we have achieved a unified field theory by now?"
"Those brilliant scientists and inventors, those people who shone throughout human