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Chapter 757 Li You: I fight Kratos?

Kratos, or as he is more commonly known, Kratos, is known as Lord Kratos.

Almost everyone in the gaming community knows him. He is a man who once slaughtered his way through the Greek pantheon in his own series of games, and has near-top strength in many gaming worldviews.

At the end of the old series, Kratos completed his revenge, pierced his chest with the sword of Olympus, released the power of hope to all parts of Greece, and disappeared.

In the new God of War series, he has drifted to Northern Europe and started a new life.

——Not long ago.

Outside a small hut in a corner of the forest, Kratos had just returned from logging in the forest with a young boy with a childish face.

Kuiye used a big axe to chop the big tree into even sizes and piled them neatly. The little boy went into the house, holding a candle, and performed a simple farewell ceremony in the local style beside a corpse wrapped in cloth.

The corpse is Kratos' wife in this land, Fei, and the little boy is their son. However, Fei has passed away at the beginning of the plot.

After setting up the crematorium, Kratos returned to the house and placed the body of his wife in Northern Europe on it. He then used an axe to light the wood. The father and son watched the flames engulf the body of their loved one.

Perhaps in order to avoid being reminded of his son by the sight of the object, Kratos did not just wait in front of the fire, but looked at his son.

"Boy." This is how Kratos addressed his own son. "Go hunting."

Of course, what Kratos originally said was to ask Fei how many hunting skills he had taught him and to let him show them to him. But the boy was still very surprised: "Now?"

"Now." Kratos is a ruthless man who doesn't talk much.

So the father and son put down the crematorium for the time being and went out hunting.

Kratos wanted to see how good his son was, so he asked him to look for deer and hunt. When the boy clearly identified the footprints of various animals, Kratos would express his approval, but when the boy disturbed the deer in his eagerness, Kratos would scold him.

The two followed the deer's trail, passing through the wild forest and the old temple. On the way, they also cleared out a lot of undead warriors that appeared in large numbers for unknown reasons. Finally, they caught up with the beautiful beast with white fur and antlers that glowed blue.

Under Kratos' instructions, the boy shot the arrow beautifully this time and knocked down the white deer.

Then, facing the deer that was still breathing, the boy was a little reluctant to kill it. It was Kratos who grabbed his hand, let him hold the knife left by Fei, and sent the deer away.

Looking at his son who was a little lost and had mixed emotions, Kratos wanted to pat his shoulder to comfort him, but when he stretched out his hand, it stopped in mid-air.

Obviously, although this Greek god of war has experienced a lot and has spent quite a long time in Northern Europe, he still doesn't know how to get along with his children.

Just when the father and son were each preoccupied with their own thoughts, a big hand suddenly stretched out from the low cliff in front of them where the white deer had fallen, and grabbed the father and son's prey!
Even Kratos was surprised at this moment, but his son beside him was particularly brave out of surprise. He took his small dagger and stabbed the mountain monster's big hand, and then was slapped away by the mountain monster in pain!

"Atreus!"

Seeing his son being knocked away, Kratos could no longer hold back. He shouted the name he had given his son, stepped forward and kicked the tall mountain monster, making him retreat repeatedly. Then he found Atreus - this kid actually inherited his father's physique, and this time he was completely fine.

Kratos gave him the bow and asked him to assist from a distance, while he picked up the battle axe left by Fei and went forward.

Of course, even though Kratos seems to be much older now and has lost his original divine power, a mere mountain monster cannot possibly pose a hindrance to him.

Even though the mountain monster was several meters tall and had picked up a broken stone pillar as a weapon, it only resisted Kratos for a short while before being knocked to its knees by Kratos, unable to resist any more. Kratos roared, jumped onto his shoulders, grabbed the mountain monster's fangs with both hands, twisted them hard, and broke the monster's neck.

The battle should have ended here, but at this moment, Atreus, who had been knocked away by the mountain monster before, rushed up with a roar, stabbed the mountain monster's body repeatedly with a knife, and while whipping the corpse he shouted "You deserve it", "Do you think I'm afraid of you" and so on. Kratos immediately grabbed his arm and stopped him.

Although Atreus stopped, he seemed to be overly excited. While celebrating the victory of the battle, he started coughing.

Although he was very happy that he and Kratos defeated the mountain monster together, Kratos's face darkened slightly after confirming that he was fine.

"You're not ready yet."

Atreus couldn't believe what he heard, thinking he was ready, but Kratos was persistent and gave the next order: "Let's go home."

Originally, everything up to this point was still the plot of the game, but on the way back between the father and son, as they were clearing out the undead warriors together, Kratos raised his axe and chopped off the body of the last enemy, but suddenly stopped.

"Father?" Atreus pulled his arrow out of the corpse and looked at him with some confusion.

Kratos stared at a corner of the forest, was silent for a moment, and then said, "Home is just ahead, go back first and don't go out. I'll be back soon."

Although Atreus was puzzled, he still followed Kratos' instructions and returned home to wait. When Kratos saw him return home, he turned in the direction where he had just sensed some power fluctuations. After hesitating for a moment, he still walked in that direction.

……

now.

In a corner of the forest, Li You and Balder, who were fighting passionately, noticed Kratos approaching at the same time and stopped fighting. Kratos also looked at them.

"……who are you?"

His tone clearly did not sound like he was welcoming the two guests.

This is normal. After all, Kratos, who was about to go home to educate his son, noticed the collision of divine power here halfway. Because the place where Li You and Balder had a conflict was very close to Fei's garden when he was alive, for safety reasons, he chose to come over to take a look.

Kratos has never had a good impression of gods and is very wary of them.

When Balder saw Kratos appear, his eyes lit up. He ignored Li You and walked towards Kratos.

"You... I thought you would be taller. But it must be you." Balder looked Kratos up and down. "You really came all the way here."

As soon as he said this, he naturally attracted all of Kui Ye's attention: "...What do you want?"

Balder smiled. "You know exactly what I want. I know who you are and your identity."

Kratos's eyes suddenly became dangerous.

Li You, who was standing aside, held a gun and remained alert, but listening to the conversation between the two, he also felt like laughing.

From Kratos' perspective, Balder is clearly talking about his Greek past, a secret he doesn't want his son to know.

But in fact, Balder recognized the wrong person. He mistook Kratos for Fei, and the person he was really looking for was Fei.

These two, one has only a superficial understanding but pretends to be profound, while the other is very secretive about his past. As a result, it becomes a situation where two riddlers play riddles with each other, and it eventually turns into a battle between gods.

This is what happened to the Riddler.

So in this situation, Li You was thinking about what he should do.

Anyway, if nothing else, at least the first stage of the main quest will be easier. Originally, even if Li You turned into a dragon, he was not sure that he could defeat Balder - he didn't know how much of the power of the Sakura Dragon in his body could be used in this world, and Balder was the real final boss of God of War 4, the immortal god of light.

But now that Kratos has shown up, it looks like he and Balder are bound to fight, so it shouldn't be a big problem if I just stand aside and watch.

To put it bluntly, in the new God of War series, there are not many people in the Nordic land who can be Kratos' opponent. As long as he can make Kratos believe that he has no ill intentions and acts with them as much as possible, he can almost lie flat during the process of clearing the main storyline.

There is just one small problem. Li You still doesn't know what the final goal of the main mission of this world is...

【Ding! 】

[The specific target has been contacted, and the main mission of the first phase has been updated. 】

[Main Mission 1-1: Defeat the stranger (unfinished).]

[Main Mission 1-2: Provoke a battle with Kratos without harming the lives of both parties (unfinished).]

[Note: Do not proactively tell others about Kratos, Atreus, and Fei's life stories, otherwise the mission will fail. ]

Li You: "???"

Just wait a minute? What the hell is this mission?
Li You lived in Bengbu.

Has this damn system finally stopped acting? It just said it wanted to lie down and now it's targeting me?
Li You was really confused by this sudden task.

Although this main mission is different from the past, this is the first time that he is so bluntly not allowed to rely on the power of the game protagonist. The system even wants them to conflict?

I'm fighting Kratos, is that true?

Li You didn't know where to start complaining.

Let’s not talk about whether he can beat Kratos or not, but will he be killed?

You banned all the Undead Slash for me, how can I do it?
Oh, this one must be a reminder for him to be careful and not get killed by Kratos' axe.

Li You has encountered protagonists with similar strength to Kratos before. For example, Dante from Devil May Cry is also a protagonist whose combat power is almost capped in his own world view. When comparing combat power across world views, he is often compared with Kratos.

When Li You was in the Devil May Cry world, he also fought with Dante several times, and he didn't suffer too much. But the problem is that Dante himself is a bohemian person, and he was just playing around when fighting with Li You, and he didn't use his full strength. Only when he found out that Li You seemed to know about Virgil, did he vaguely show his true ability.

And Kratos? Li You even doubted whether this god of war knew what it meant to let up in a fight. He probably only had two states: wanting to fight and not wanting to fight.

What's more, what puzzled Li You the most was that in the past, the system issued tasks with a purpose, so why did he have to fight Kratos?
Is the system bored and wants to watch cricket fights? Or is it just bored and wants to increase its strength?

Li You was still confused by the new task of the system, when suddenly a muffled sound was heard over there.

"Snapped!"

Balder suddenly attacked and punched Kratos in the face!

Just now, facing Balder's repeated provocations, although there was a dangerous light flashing in Kratos' eyes, he finally refrained from taking action.

This is Kratos, the new God of War. If it were in the past, he would have probably pinned Balder to the ground and beat him.

No matter whether he can be killed or not, just beat him first.

But Balder refused to give up. Seeing that Kratos was not going to answer his question, he actually punched him!
In the game, Balder did not use much power when he threw the greeting punch, just like when he faced Li You before. But this time, perhaps because he had just been fighting passionately with Li You, Balder did not hold back, and a bright magical light condensed on the punch he threw, which was obviously a heavy punch!
This was not just a tentative slap, but Kratos had come here because he sensed the suspected fluctuation of divine power, so he was naturally not unprepared. Facing Balder's sudden attack, he raised his hand at the critical moment and caught the punch!
The muffled sound was caused by the collision between the two people at this moment. The collision of their power caused waves of echoes.

Realizing the power of Balder's punch and the strength in his body, Kratos' eyes turned completely cold.

"You...I warned you, but you wouldn't listen."

Having said this, Kratos retaliated against Balder in his own way, punching him hard in the face!
Balder seemed to have been knocked unconscious as well, half-kneeling on the ground and not getting up for a while. Kratos then approached him, intending to give this ungrateful guy two more punches.

But from an angle that Kratos couldn't see, Balder wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and was actually smiling. His other fist hidden at his side was already slightly gathering strength, waiting to give Kratos another heavy punch!
The right distance is almost there.

…Just then.

"call out--"

A flaming spear came shooting out with a sound of breaking wind and flew right between the two of them!

The sudden attack separated the two men, and the flames burning on the gun just happened to illuminate Balder's fist swung from below. Kratos also noticed this attack he had been planning for a long time.

Kratos and Balder looked at Li You at the same time, with different eyes.

Balder's brows were filled with anger: "You bastard!"

Kratos's eyes were more of scrutiny, but his tone didn't change: "You want to take action too?"

Li You stood up straight, raised his hand, and the flying spiral gun flew back to his hand. He held it tightly and said:

"I'm sorry, sir, but I'm not done fighting this guy yet."

Hearing this, Kratos and Balder looked different again.

Li You appeared calm on the surface, but he was actually a little nervous.

Considering the character that Kratos had shown in the fourth and fifth generations, the shot he fired just now did not have any killing intent, so it should not have angered Kratos.

It would be fun if the situation turned into two opponents beating one of you, but it shouldn't be that serious.

As for why he took action at this time, the reason was very simple.

Although the system asked him to repel Balder and fight Kratos, it did not specify the order in which these two tasks should be completed, right?

In that case, can't I do two tasks at the same time?
Anyway, it should be fine as long as he has fought with Kratos. While Balder is still here, he can be pulled in to turn the situation into a three-way melee, thus avoiding the risk of fighting these two great gods one-on-one.

And the most important thing is that this should also avoid irreconcilable conflicts with Kratos.

Sure enough, under Li You's gaze, Mr. Kui was silent for a moment and said, "...He claimed that he came to see me."

This meant that he was not going to give in, which was exactly what Li You wanted.

He raised his spear: "Then I will be the only one in this battle."

(End of this chapter)