Chapter 736 - 736: Did Kratos Really Die?

Right now, in Zack's livestream, he was battling Helios, the Sun God.

"Kratos, I haven't forgotten the favor I owe you, spare me!"

"Just like you saved me from Atlas before, I promise to repay you with all my might."

Finally, the Sun God begged Kratos to let him go, but Kratos, who had crawled out of hell once again, had only one thought.

That was to get revenge on Olympus and kill all the gods who stood in his way.

Before this, during the holy war between the gods and the Titans, Kratos, who had been cooperating with the Titans, met Zeus.

But Zeus struck first, throwing both Gaia and Kratos off Mount Olympus.

In their time of crisis, Gaia, to protect herself, abandoned Kratos, who had once been useful to her.

"Gaia, Gaia!"

As he fell, Kratos let out a chilling roar of rage.

Kratos knew he had been betrayed and used once again.

Ares, Zeus, the gods of Olympus, the ancient Titans…

Kratos's tragic life was all because of those high and mighty deities.

Betrayed once again, Kratos was thrown into the River Styx by Gaia, and his divine power was almost devoured by the monsters in the river.

But Kratos was not completely extinguished. After reaching the shore, he met Athena in her spectral form.

However, what surprised the players was that unlike before, when Athena even sacrificed herself to protect Zeus.

In her spectral form, Athena was like a changed person. Not only did she tell Kratos how to kill Zeus, but she even returned Kratos's Blades of Chaos to him.

But compared to the players' confusion about Athena's 180-degree attitude change, Kratos didn't pay much attention.

Titans, gods, were now all Kratos's enemies. Now he had only one thought: revenge.

And so, Kratos crawled out of hell once again.

The madness of revenge made Kratos display his brutality to the fullest.

And in his executions, he made Zack's jaw drop to the extreme.

It was already violent before, but here, Kratos's savagery reached an incomparable level.

Because here, the player's perspective would transform into the gods being brutally killed by Kratos, experiencing his savagery from a first-person view.

Facing the Sun God's pleas for mercy, Zack watched as Kratos stomped his head onto the ground and then ripped it off.

"Holy crap! It can be done like this! This is too insane!"

Feeling the first-person victim perspective from moments ago, Zack couldn't help but gulp.

It was too brutal. Before this, Kratos had already killed Poseidon, gouged out his eyes, twisted his head, and thrown him into the sea, letting the Sea God perish in the ocean.

Now, he had directly ripped off the Sun God's head to use as a flashlight.

On this journey of the destruction of Olympus, Kratos's madness had reached an extreme peak.

As for the boss fights, they were incredibly satisfying, just pure 'awesome.'

When he first faced Poseidon, Kratos climbed on Gaia to reposition himself and fought alongside the Titan.

Then, he sequentially defeated Poseidon's seahorse, Leviathan, and his divine form to finally expose his true body and kill him.

The scale of the scenes and the power of the actions were simply breathtaking.

The battles with the other bosses later were no less impressive than this one.

The fight with Cronus, Zeus's father, was equally shocking.

As a Titan, Cronus was enormous, while Kratos wasn't even as big as his fingernail.

This was arguably the fight with the most significant size difference yet.

But using the Sun God's head as a flashlight and the Blades of Chaos, Kratos managed to rip Cronus open and finally pierce its skull.

In this bloody massacre of the Greek gods and ancient Titans.

No matter how large the opponent was, no matter how much they begged for mercy, nothing could shake Kratos's vengeful heart.

It all began with the gods, so he would kill all the gods.

Destroy this world completely, that was everything Kratos did.

And everything after the slaughter of gods and Titans in the game foreshadowed the destruction of the Greek world.

But what also left Zack a little shaken was the madness from Kratos's endless rage for revenge at the end.

It made the entire game feel a bit frantic, even oppressive.

After killing Poseidon, floods submerged the world.

He ripped off the Sun God's head, and the world plunged into darkness.

He slew Cronus, and the Titan's body transformed into continuous mountains.

Kratos dealt with all the Greek gods one by one.

He personally killed the ancient Titans, took Hercules's gauntlets and pounded him into a pulp, and used the Claws of Hades to tear out the Underworld King's soul.

With each death of a Greek god, the world moved closer to destruction.

Floods, darkness, wilting plants, storms…

But none of this could stop Kratos. With suffocating pressure and extreme ferocity, the bald warrior bloody massacred Olympus.

Except for the rather amusing Cupid and his two little maids, which brought a smile to the player's face, the entire game was filled with brutality.

As the story progressed, the Olympian gods were taken down one by one by Kratos.

And the game's story was drawing to a close.

On Olympus, Kratos once again faced the King of the Gods: Zeus.

As Gaia's body collapsed, Zeus was pierced through the chest by Kratos with the Olympus Sword.

Looking at Zeus with his chest pierced, Kratos pulled out the Olympus Sword and turned to leave.

But just as Kratos turned to leave, Zeus, who had also transformed into a spirit, used his last bit of divine power, and dazzling lightning struck Kratos.

With the lightning strike, the UI interface before Zack's eyes shattered, and the screen plunged into infinite darkness.

In this darkness, Kratos heard the voices of his wife and daughter, whom he had killed with his own hands. It was an illusion born of dark power.

But Kratos eventually broke through the illusion and awoke from the darkness.

Looking at Zeus before him, according to the system prompt that reappeared, Zack punched Zeus in the face repeatedly.

Blood splattered, and soon Zack's vision was covered by this crimson scene.

"My God, how long will this take? Is there a bug? I need a break, I'm exhausted."

After about five or six minutes, seeing that the subsequent story hadn't triggered, Zack became a little puzzled.

At first, beating up Zeus felt very satisfying, but how many punches had he thrown now?

Why hadn't the subsequent cutscene triggered yet?

Although he didn't have to click like with a controller or keyboard and mouse, maintaining constant concentration was actually more tiring.

Then, the moment Zack stopped, the screen froze.

"So, it only triggers when you stop? If you keep hitting him, you can go on forever?"

Seeing the subsequent triggered scene, Zack was speechless.

Who would have thought of that?

When the prompt told him to hit Zeus, of course he thought of beating him up, and there were no further hints.

He had stupidly been hitting him for several minutes?

After successfully killing Zeus, the world was about to return to chaos, but at this time, Athena reappeared.

Athena, in her spectral form, told Kratos that Zeus had once put all the world's evils into a box, and at that time, Athena had also infused it with the power of hope.

This box was secretly hidden in Pandora's Temple until Kratos opened it for the first time.

At that time, the evil power nurtured in the box infected the Olympian gods, magnifying their inner fears and desires.

But the power of hope was also passed on to Kratos, which was why Kratos was able to kill Ares and many other Olympian gods back then.

Now, all the Greek gods had perished, and the world was on the verge of collapse and return to chaos.

Athena, in her spectral form, asked Kratos for the power of hope, stating that she would become the true ruler and reshape a truly peaceful world.

"Holy crap, you manipulative b*tch!"

Recalling Athena's word games that tricked Kratos back then, and looking at her current spectral state, Zack couldn't help but curse.

He'd been tricked once without being cultured, and now he was going to fall for it a second time?

Just as Zack had expected, facing Athena's calculations, Kratos, with his proud spirit, outright refused Athena.

All the Greek gods had been slaughtered by him, and his loved ones were no more. Although he was still the God of War.

But from birth to death, all his destiny seemed to have been guided by the gods.

Kratos now understood one thing: as long as gods existed, mortals would never truly experience peace and happiness.

He himself was the best example.

So, in the end, Kratos picked up the divine sword and pierced himself.

A white light shot out from Kratos's body, rising into the air and then falling to the world. It was the power of hope within him. Now, Kratos chose to leave the power of hope to humanity.

Looking at Kratos's final choice, Zack couldn't help but sigh.

Although Kratos had done many bad things in the game, he had to admit that he was a standard tough guy protagonist.

The only thing that made Zack grit his teeth was that another protagonist might be added to Nebula Games' list of the deceased.

But before Zack could think further, his eyes suddenly froze at the scene before him.

Looking at Kratos kneeling on the ground after committing suicide, Athena, in her spectral form, angrily pulled the divine sword from Kratos's chest.

Then came a long shot.

But when the camera shifted back again.

Kratos's corpse had disappeared, leaving only a stain of blood on the ground.

And the pattern of the blood was formed into a phoenix icon.

Kratos, did he not die?

(End of Chapter)

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