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Chapter 815 Li You's "Order"

Jotunheim, the summit of the "Giant's Finger".

After passing through the gates of the Temple of Tyr and climbing the stone steps, Kratos and his son arrived at the foot of the mountain.

"Look! It's the giant's finger!" Atreus exclaimed excitedly. "I can see the summit! It's right ahead!"

He looked at Kratos: "We did it."

Kratos nodded. "We did it."

"Let's go then!"

Atreus tried to run forward, but Kratos stopped him: "Wait, Atreus."

"What's wrong, Father?"

"Before we move on, I have something to tell you."

Kratos looked at Atreus seriously.

Their journey has finally come to an end, and it's time to tell him something.

"Do you remember asking me about things before I came to this land?"

Atreus nodded.

“I told you I am a god, but there is much more you don’t know.”

Kratos was very serious, perhaps more serious than he had ever been before.

“I come from a land called Sparta. I made a deal with a god, and the price was my soul.”

"As a god, I have killed many people and gods who deserved their fate, but I have also stained myself with the blood of just as many innocent people."

He stared into Atreus's eyes, watching for the most subtle changes in the child's expression.

"I killed my father for revenge."

Atreus was stunned.

He had thought his father was going to tell him something important, but he never expected it to be so shocking.

He couldn't help but recall what he had seen before about Freya and her child, Badr.

"...So, is this what it means to be a god? Is this the inevitable end? Son killing mother? Or father?"

Perhaps it was at this moment that he realized the pride he felt about being born a god had finally vanished completely.

“No.” Kratos crouched down and placed his hand on Atreus’s shoulder. “What kind of god we become is up to us, not something we have to do in the footsteps of the old gods.”

"My past will not be your future... We need to become better versions of ourselves."

Atreus and his father stared at each other for a long time, both seeing extremely complex emotions in each other's eyes.

After a long pause, Atreus finally nodded: "I think I understand, Father."

“Very good.” Kratos stood up. “Now you know everything I’ve hidden from you in the past. After coming all this way, you are now a man… no, a god.”

Atreus realized something: "So, you're saying my performance satisfied you?"

Kratos patted his shoulder: "Yes, I've seen how much you've grown."

Atreus's eyes welled up with tears as he listened. Throughout his journey, he had never for a moment longed for his father's approval.

In this world, due to various unexpected factors, he finally heard a positive answer from his father at this moment.

Atreus felt his eyes getting a little wet.

Kratos saw what he was thinking, but said nothing, and simply turned towards the cliff.

Looking at the vast and boundless land, he unchained his hands, removed his arm armor, and finally let the old strips of cloth that had been wrapped around his arms to cover the marks left by the chains fly away into the distance.

"What are you doing?" Atreus asked.

"...I have nothing left to hide," Kratos answered truthfully.

As he spoke, he looked at Atreus again, then took the bag he had been carrying all the way from his lower back and handed it to him.

"You take her with you."

Atreus was surprised once again.

But looking at Kratos and thinking about what he had just said, Atreus took a shallow breath and accepted the bag with both hands.

The father and son exchanged another glance. At this moment, no further words were needed, and they walked together toward the mountaintop.

—The story would have ended perfectly here, but neither the father nor the son expected that they would discover something even more unexpected in the cave passage.

Cross the suspension bridge ahead and enter the cave below the giant's finger. This seems to be a memorial site left by the giants. It is very spacious inside, with many giant figures and some engravings carved on the walls on both sides.

Atreus understood the text; it was a record of Odin and Thor's persecution of the giants, and a prophecy of the "Guardians" who would appear in the future.

These are hardly news; they've only added some new mysteries to the father and son. They still don't understand why Faye wanted them to come here.

“We solved one problem, and then more popped up.” Kratos shook his head. “Let’s go, kid.”

There was nothing more to note about this ancient ruin, so they stopped delaying.

However, just as the father and son passed through the only gap in the ruins and headed towards the summit, Atreus instinctively touched the rock wall beside him, and this unintentional touch triggered an unknown chain reaction.

Inside the ruins, large sections of the originally gray walls had vanished, revealing well-preserved murals beneath. The content of these murals, however, sent chills down the spines of the father and son.

"Father, look! There are murals here! And they depict...us?"

Atreus felt there were quite a few shocks today. The murals that ran throughout the entire ruins began with a woman holding a battle axe and detailed the adventures of the father and son.

Their encounters with Jormungandr, their battles with Baldr, the dragons in the mountains… the stories of their adventures were all etched on the walls decades in advance.

“These are…our story? How could this be?” Atreus was utterly bewildered.

Kratos replied, "No, this is your story."

He now understood everything, and Atreus quickly realized what was happening as well.

"So you're not the only one hiding the secret. You also don't know... Mother is a giant."

Clearly, this is the only explanation; the murals have already answered everything.

“She is a giant, so… I am a giant too?” Atreus gradually understood everything, but there was still one crucial point he didn’t understand.

“My mother brought us here, knowing we would find these things. But why didn’t she just tell us?”

Kratos didn't know the reason either, only saying, "Your mother must have her reasons."

He has also figured out many things: "Badr was never looking for me in the first place; the person he was looking for has always been her."

After thinking it over, Atreus said, "If she has any plans for us, then I trust her. Besides, she's never made a mistake before, has she?"

He stood at the end of the mural and nodded. "So it's alright. Let's go, Father, we're very close to the end." He then walked forward.

However, Kratos did not follow immediately, but hesitated for a moment.

"...Has there never been a mistake?"

He recalled the mural he had just seen, which depicted a father and son fighting against Badr together. Next to this mural, there were also images of Reserel and the stonemason Somur, with no clear upper or lower boundary.

Therefore, it's difficult to tell from this alone whether Raiserel and Somur appeared together, or whether they were trying to help or stop them.

But one thing is certain: the resurrected body of Somur did not appear during their adventure.

Has fate been changed?

Kratos wasn't someone who believed in fate, but he was also well aware of its power. What could change it was definitely not ordinary intervention.

At that moment, a gust of wind blew up the red cloth covering the mountain wall at the end of the mural, revealing what Atreus had not seen below.

In that painting, Atreus is kneeling on the ground, holding a person with a "red mark" on their face, and the person in his arms seems to have lost their life.

Looking at the painting, Kratos seemed lost in thought, standing there in contemplation for a long time until Atreus called out from afar, at which point he finally turned around and followed.

Whatever the mural represented, he didn't intend to let Atreus know for the time being.

He followed Atreus and walked out through the gap in the ruins.

On the final stretch of road leading to the summit, at the rock steps that were the only way to get there, the father and son saw a familiar yellow handprint.

—That was the mark that Fei used to mark the trees that would be used at her funeral after her death.

This scene deeply moved the father and son.

Finally, they reached the summit, where in the distance, vast "mountains" were revealed on the ground—the corpses of giants who had struggled and fallen, as large as mountains.

"Father?" Atreus took out his pocket and asked his father's opinion with his eyes.

Kratos said to him, "Together... son."

From the time Atreus could remember until now, this was the first time he had ever heard Kratos call him "son".

At this special moment, both father and son had tears in their eyes.

Together they took out the golden ashes from the bag and, according to her last wishes, scattered them on the mountain winds to the distant land—the land where she was born and raised.

This journey has finally come to an end.

After finishing everything, the father and son returned to the portal by the same route, crossed the gate, and returned to Midgard.

However, they did not find Li You or Mimir here, which puzzled the two of them.

"Where did Mimir and Li You go?" Atreus asked with some concern. "Could they have run into Odin's men? Let's go find Brok and Sindri and ask them!"

They quickly returned to the temple's front hall, only to find Brock grumbling and forging iron there.

“Brock? What about Mimir, Li You, and Sindri?” Atreus stepped forward and asked.

"Don't mention them to me!" Brock waved his hand, his face full of displeasure. "That Sindri guy, he secretly took other people's orders without telling me! He was running around every night without me knowing, and now he's telling me why!"

Kratos and Atreus were completely baffled: "What do you mean?"

"Wasn't I clear enough? That kid Sindri took Li You's order and went on to do a huge project! He didn't tell me anything! I didn't find out what he was doing until it was finished!"

"It's unbelievable! That skinny monkey of his is running around everywhere. Doesn't he worry that one night he'll go out and never come back?"

Atreus understood what he meant: "So, are you angry that Sindri didn't tell you he got a big job, or are you angry that he went on the risk without telling you?"

"Can't I... I'm angry too?" Brock grumbled twice. "I can't accept either of these two things!"

Atreus seemed to understand: "So Li You and the others went to do this? Why did Mimir go with them too?"

"Who knows? Anyway, Li You seemed to have said something to him, and his head immediately followed suit. There's not a single reliable one among them!"

Atreus and Kratos exchanged a glance, both somewhat puzzled, but since Li You and Mimir had left voluntarily, there was no major problem.

……

Around the same time, in another hidden space located among the branches of the world's trees.

Li You, Tyr, and of course Mimir's head, were having a private conversation behind closed doors in a very well-built little house.

And guarding the door was Sindri.

The three people inside the room were having a heated discussion, repeatedly mentioning terms like "Ragnarok".

But at that moment, Li You suddenly paused.

The other person turned to look at him: "What's wrong, Li You?"

Li You paused for a moment, then smiled and said, "No, it's nothing. It's just that Kratos and his son should be back soon."

"Is that so? They achieved their goal."

Tyr stroked his beard, but Mimir asked, puzzled, "How did you know?"

"Don't underestimate my intelligence network." Li You just smiled and didn't say anything more; he couldn't explain it anyway.

Because he found out through a system notification.

【Ding! 】

[Please note that content regarding Kratos, Atreus, and Fia's origins has been unavailable.]

When he first entered this world, the system warned him not to reveal Kratos's family's background, but now that ban has been lifted automatically, which means that the father and son have found the secret of the Giant's Mountain ruins and know everything about Faye.

So Li You stood up and said, "Let's stop the discussion here and go back to greet them."

Tyr and Mimir had no objections, and Mimir even said, "That's right, if I disappear, it will be difficult to explain to them."

"Let's go."

Tyr, of course, wouldn't go with them; he simply sat there quietly: "I'll wait for you to come back."

Li You then picked up Mimir and, together with Sindri outside the door, returned to the front hall of the Temple of Tyr through the mysterious door next to it.

After passing through the mysterious blue door and traversing space, Li You returned to the temple and opened his eyes to see Kratos and his son talking to Brock.

"You're back." Li You looked at the two of them with a smile. "It seems you've achieved your goal. I'm happy for you."

Kratos and his son also looked at them, their eyes flickering slightly.

Of the three who emerged from the mysterious gate, only Li You appeared calm, Sindri looked visibly nervous, and even Mimir's expression seemed somewhat unnatural.

Kratos observed the expressions of the three men for a moment, and finally asked without hesitation, "What happened?"

(End of this chapter)