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Chapter 874 Stealing a Home
The black dragon, which blotted out the sky, let out a long roar and lowered its body, but did not fall as it had in the past.

Instead, He hovered in mid-air, and the black and red flames around Him began to flicker incessantly.

The spreading flames stained the sky a dark red, and a few "meteorites" carrying the glow of a rainbow bridge were falling, but they were turned to ashes the moment they hit the flames that had once covered the sky.

Soon, the reinforcements sent by the Rainbow Bridge ceased to arrive high above the sky.

These were merely the casual actions of the Immortal Dragon. At this moment, with its roar, the flames scattered in all directions, as if igniting the flames in the sky, and then transformed into a dense rain of fire that fell down!

The entire world was instantly shrouded in this black and red rain of fire. Most of the heroic warriors below would have their bodies and souls incinerated if they were drenched by this fire rain even a few more times.

A very small number of powerful heroic warriors or captains were able to put up a fight, but their resistance was futile against the endless rain of fire.

The remaining captains acted decisively, immediately issuing orders for all the remaining soldiers to detonate their magic in order to return to Valhalla.

But clearly, Li You had no intention of giving them a chance.

As Li You snapped his fingers on the back of the pomelo, the black dragon roared again, and the fire rain falling from the sky turned into black and red spikes, increasing in speed and suddenly exploding outwards!
The spikes formed from the flames of destined death are similar in nature to the previous rain of fire, possessing the ability to kill the undead.

The sudden attack disrupted the heroic spirit captains' plans. At most, only 20-30% of the heroic spirit warriors managed to detonate their bodies and allow their souls to escape in this wave of attacks. The rest of the army was annihilated by Li You's attacks.

From the appearance of the Mortal Blade Dragon to the end of the battle, only a few moments passed, yet Odin's losses were unprecedented.

Even Freya, who was also standing on Yuzu's back and beside Li You, couldn't help but be amazed by her friend's strength once again.

What is the upper limit of his current strength?

Li You's expression remained unchanged, but in reality, he was quite exhausted.

Even for him now, unleashing the power of destiny on such a large scale is somewhat of a burden.

Even if one achieves divine power, the fact that external divine power will be rejected by the Nine Realms remains unchanged. Li You became a god through the Hall of Heroes and the special space provided by the system, so his divine power was not bound to this land. In other words, he was naturally not protected by it.

Therefore, that wave of fire rain just now had already consumed a small portion of Li You's current divine power, and if he continued to release it, he wouldn't be able to maintain it for much longer.

Otherwise, if such a wide-range killing move could be continuously unleashed, Li You alone could wipe out Odin's army of heroic spirits.

Of course, his divine power is now recovering much faster than before, so he can quickly make up for this loss. However, the souls of the heroic warriors that Odin lost are permanent.

"ha--!!"

A furious roar came from below. Kratos cleaved the bodies of the few remaining heroic warriors with his axe, while Atreus fired several arrows, killing the few heroic warriors who tried to escape in the chaos.

Li You waved his hand, and the Immortal Blade Dragon suddenly shrank and returned to his side. Then, Yuzu carried the group down.

"Kratos, Atreus! Are you alright?"

Freya stepped forward with some concern and asked about the condition of the father and son. Kratos nodded to her and then looked at Atreus.

Atreus touched his empty quiver, still somewhat shaken: "If you had come any later, I really wouldn't have been able to do it... Thank you, Freya, Li You, and everyone else."

Freya was relieved to see that the father and son were alright, and patted Atreus on the shoulder.

Then, she lifted Mimir's head, which was hanging from her waist, so that he could also see Kratos and his son, before asking, "What exactly happened?"

Kratos succinctly stated: "Odin came to us."

This one sentence caused Freya and Mimir's expressions to change drastically: "What!?"

Atreus then explained what had happened to everyone. When they heard that Odin had proposed peace to Kratos, Freya and Mimir's faces darkened.

Mimir cursed, "That old bastard! Brother, don't believe a word he says. Even if Odin tells you snow is white, he's lying!"

Freya wholeheartedly agreed with Mimir's assessment: "Odin understands people's hearts. He knows very well that if you want to deceive other intelligent people, the lie must be nine parts truth and one part falsehood, inserting a lie at the crucial point. And that little bit of falsehood will lead you to your utter ruin."

“I can assert that Odin does not want peace at all; he just wants to stall you while using Atreus to decipher the mask, and in reality, he still sees you as a threat.”

"Otherwise, he wouldn't have sent so many heroic soldiers to besiege you immediately after you refused."

Kratos nodded and said, "I know he has no good intentions, and we did not agree to his conditions."

As for Atreus, now that he has had close contact with Odin, he has come to understand the true nature of this self-proclaimed father of the gods. He will no longer be as foolish as in the game storyline, being fooled by Odin's words and then believing them to go and work for him.

Freya and Mimir breathed a sigh of relief; they had been worried that Kratos and his son might have been deceived because they didn't know much about Odin.

However, Kratos had seen countless gods, and he couldn't hide Odin's true nature from him. He could never have agreed to Odin's conditions in the first place.

So at this moment, he had no lingering fear, but simply turned to look at the little wooden house he had built with his own hands.

When Li You unleashed the fire rain, he deliberately avoided the wooden house and the surrounding vegetation. As long as he and Xiao Long controlled it carefully, the flames of destined death would not harm inanimate objects.

Li You would be careful not to damage the environment, but the heroic warriors under Odin were not so particular.

When the first wave of the Heroic Spirits landed, several large holes were smashed through the roof of Kratos's wooden house. In the ensuing battle, the house's structure was further damaged beyond repair.

At this moment, Kratos looked at the wooden house that he and his wife had built together, and remained silent. Atreus also showed a sad expression.

This wooden house held so many memories of their family's past, but it was destroyed by the heroic warriors under Odin's command.

If Kratos had his old temper, he might have picked up Leviathan's Axe on the spot and gone to Asgard to twist Odin's head off.

But now, his ability to control his temper is unparalleled. Although his expression changed several times, he managed to suppress his anger in the end.

He looked at Freya and Mimir: "...I refused Odin's conditions because the mask could not be handed over to him, but I also have no intention of participating in the war against the Aesir."

Not to mention Freya and Mimir, even Atreus, who was standing to the side, had a slight change in expression: "Father! Odin said before he left that he would deal with us on the battlefield. It's no use for us to run away!"

But Kratos insisted: "It is precisely because he wants to fight us that we cannot participate in the war. Atreus, my greatest concern is your safety."

Atreus was speechless for a moment.

He, Freya, and Mimir were all pondering the same question: how to persuade Kratos. It wasn't a matter of needing him to lead the Nine Realms as general; rather, Odin had already threatened the father and son, yet Kratos remained unwilling to attack first, intending only to retaliate when Odin made his move.

Those familiar with his temperament and past experiences were somewhat puzzled. How could the God of War, who possessed the power of rage and once slaughtered the entire Mount Olympus, make such a choice now?

Li You, standing to the side, was not surprised. In the game, Kratos's reluctance to participate in the war, and even more so Atreus's reluctance to participate, led to the conflict between father and son.

Ultimately, Kratos has long since let go of everything he had as the God of War. He only hopes to follow his wife's dying wish to protect their son Atreus until he grows up healthy—perhaps until the day he himself dies.

In the game, the fundamental reason that Kratos was finally willing to join the fight was Odin killing Brock, which made Kratos decide to take revenge.

Li You had anticipated Kratos's attitude. And as he said, if Kratos was unwilling, he wouldn't force him.

So at this moment, Li You pretended not to see Atreus's pleading look.

He came to the side, where Edge and V were talking, and even the Mortal Blade dragon was flying next to them.

Li You asked them to examine the traces of the battlefield and sense the number of dissipated souls in order to count how many of Odin's heroic soldiers had been eliminated in this wave.

The two have now reached a conclusion. However, when Li You inquired about it, he received a figure far lower than he had expected.

"How come there are so few?"

Li You's face showed a hint of surprise. He knew that Odin had already taught the current heroic soldiers the ultimate skill, Akra Ahuba, but even so, he had targeted measures, and the damage to the enemy should not be so little.

According to their final statistics, almost all of the effective kills were inflicted after Li You and his group arrived; Kratos and his son had barely taken down any before.

It's likely that even those they thought they had killed actually escaped in secret.

But clearly, the father and son also possess the ability to kill gods and souls; they just might not be able to detect the traces of the departing souls of the heroic warriors.

Judging from their fighting style, in a normal confrontation, even if the heroic warriors intended to preserve themselves, the number of enemies they killed should not have been so few.

In this way, there are not many reasonable explanations, but Li You just happened to think of one.

After exchanging ideas in their mental link, Edge and V reached the same conclusion: "I'm afraid Odin's orders to these heroic warriors were not to kill the enemy, but to delay the battle as much as possible—they didn't want to fight to the death in the first place."

Li You then responded, "Then why did Odin have his subordinates pretend to besiege us, but in reality, to delay the attack?"

This wasn't hard to guess given that something was amiss, so the two immediately realized: "It's for that mask!"

Li You nodded, no longer hesitating, and beckoned: "Little Dragon!"

The Immortal Blade Dragon immediately let out a clear roar. Being in sync with Li You's mind, it transformed into a ball of black and red flames and dissipated in mid-air without any further instructions.

……

Between the cracks in the World Tree.

A mysterious door was pried open with some difficulty. Compared to the doors that Li You and his group had used in the past, this one was more appropriately called a rift.

It was extremely slender, and after it was barely opened, an old and thin hand reached in, fumbled around for a bit, and then the tattoo on the arm lit up, and a jet-black raven flew out and entered this space.

The hand then withdrew, and the ravens that had flown into the area called to their companions, summoning a vortex of ravens from which Odin's figure stepped out.

Odin raised his hand, and the remaining Fokin, after the flock of crows dispersed, merged back into the tattoo on his arm. He then looked ahead, his gaze locking onto the small house built in the space within the rift of the World Tree, a house that should have been impossible to find by conventional means.

“…I’ve got it, it’s right there, my mask.”

Odin's single eye shone brightly, and he murmured to himself.

Atreus underestimated him. Although he couldn't decipher the inscriptions, Odin had studied the mask fragments for so many years and naturally had some unique insights.

For example, as long as he is in the vicinity, he can roughly determine the location of the mask through some kind of secret technique.

Therefore, when Odin saw Kratos and his son in the cabin, he already knew that the mask was not in their possession.

The subsequent conversation and falling out were actually part of Odin's plan.

He did indeed order the heroic warriors to stall for time as much as possible, rather than kill the father and son. Of course, his orders also mentioned that if given the opportunity, the heroic warriors could certainly kill them.

However, it was clear that these soldiers could not possibly kill Kratos and his son.

Odin didn't care about this; he just wanted Kratos and his son to call for reinforcements.

He used his own power to seal the mysterious gates near the highland forests, while also releasing all his raven watchers to keep an eye on all the nearby mysterious gates in the surrounding land.

When Li You and his group passed through the mysterious portal to support Kratos in the highlands, even Li You and Edge didn't realize that Odin's raven watchers were hiding nearby and had identified the portal through which they had been teleported.

After that, Odin arrived in person and, through his understanding of space, deduced the group's location before they were teleported, thus finding Sindri's hut.

Looking at the small house ahead, Odin let out a breath before walking towards it.

"Even without that brat helping me decipher it, as long as I get that mask, I can choose to put it on myself and explore the mysteries within the rift, though it will be a little risky."

"The truth of the world, all the answers, will ultimately be recognized and mastered by me!"

With this thought in mind, Odin arrived at the door of the hut and was about to push it open and enter!

But then, another deep, weathered voice suddenly echoed in his ears:

"...Oh? There really are rats that have sneaked in here."

Odin was taken aback; he hadn't noticed anyone nearby at all!
The next moment, a blade of light formed from condensed energy, dragging the whistling air currents, flew over!

"call out--!!"

(End of this chapter)