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Upon hearing this, Kratos could no longer remain calm. He strode up to Rhodes and glared at him fiercely, his eyes filled with resentment.

Had the person in front of him not saved him, Kratos would have already swung his sword at that moment.

"I know they are completely dead, beyond resurrection. I killed my mother with my own hands, and I killed my wife and daughter with my own hands," Kratos said.

Upon hearing this, Sylvanas, who was standing to the side, frowned. Killing her own wife and daughter, and then killing her own mother—what kind of heinous person could do such a thing!

Why would Rod recruit this bald guy who doesn't seem very obedient?

"I'm not kidding you, I'm serious. I have the ability to resurrect the dead, but only if their souls still exist," Rhodes said.

Of course, if he becomes more powerful in the future, and can even reverse time, then even if his soul is destroyed, Rhode will have a way to revive it.

"Hmph! My brother was killed by Thanatos, the god of death, even in the land of the dead! I went to the underworld to look for him long ago, but his soul was not there, nor was my mother's soul."

"My daughter's soul resides in the Pure Land of Bliss. As for my wife's soul, it has long since perished in the world of the living, like countless other spirits," Kratos said.

Once a soul enters the underworld, it will be judged by the three judges. If it cannot enter the Pure Land of Bliss, then a very cruel fate awaits it.

Alright! It seems that if Kratos wants to resurrect his mother and brother, he can't do it now. One was killed by Zeus's scheme, and the other was killed by Death himself.

This is somewhat awkward, but Kratos' wife and daughter, as well as himself, should be able to be resurrected.

Moreover, Kratos had readily available materials on him: the ashes of his wife and daughter had adhered to his body after their deaths, making his skin appear deathly pale. These ashes were the perfect medium for psychic communication.

"Let me out now, I need to deal with Zeus," Kratos said.

"Are you now a match for Zeus? You can't even beat my wife now," Rhodes said, pointing to Sylvanas beside him.

"You can let her try, and see if my twin blades can cut off his head," Kratos said with a sneer.

However, just as the man in front of him said, he had been stripped of all his divine power, and his combat strength was only about the same as that of an ordinary demigod. He really had no way to defeat Zeus.

"To defeat Zeus, you must find the three Fates, break free from the shackles of fate, and take control of your own destiny," Rhodes said.

"Why would you help me? I won't work for anyone, don't waste your time," Kratos said.

A few years ago, he might have agreed, but now, he only has a burning rage to vent on the gods.

"I can let you go, but have you considered that if you kill all the Olympian gods, your daughter will also die?"

"Without Hades, the Underworld will disappear, and Elysium, which is connected to the Underworld, will also disappear," Rhodes said.

As expected, Kratos's eyes immediately turned ferocious upon hearing this, and he turned to look at Rhodes.

"What do you mean by that?"

"Literally, you don't think Elysium will still exist after Hades dies, do you? Or are you thinking only about revenge right now? You don't care at all about your daughter's life or death," Rhodes said.

Compared to his wife, Kratos's youngest daughter is his eternal weakness, and he shows his only fatherly love to her.

The incredibly fierce man gave all his love to his daughter.

"You resurrect them! But I can't work for you. Let's find another way. For example, you can ask me to do something, and I'll do it for you, whether it's killing someone or a god." Kratos gave an answer after thinking for a moment.

He couldn't bear to watch his daughter die, to disappear completely from this world.

In order to prevent his daughter from disappearing, he even gave up the chance to stay with her forever in this blissful land, picked up his weapon, and killed Persephone, the Queen of the Underworld.

"Then how about you serve me for ten years?"

Upon hearing this, Silvanas rolled her eyes. Those words sounded familiar!

When Rhodes said he was resurrecting me, he asked me to serve him for a hundred years. But this bald guy only asked for ten years. Am I, Sylvanas, so worthless?

"I hate this number. I served the Olympian gods for ten years, and all I wanted was for them to erase the nightmares from my mind, but they broke their promise." Clearly, Rhodes's words stirred up some unpleasant memories for Kratos.

"Hahaha! Are you sure you want me to erase those memories for you? To be honest, I could erase those memories from your mind right now, but do you think forgetting means you never did it?" Rhodes said with a sneer.

With the power of the Rinne Sharingan, Rhode can now use genjutsu to erase Kratos's memories, but is he really willing to do so?

Kratos truly understood this matter after living with his youngest son, Atreus, for a long time during Ragnarok V.

Kratos now is a fanatic!

"Hmph! Before I became the God of War, Athena tried to eliminate the nightmares in my mind, but I refused!"

So you're right, those painful memories are the driving force behind my revenge, and I won't let anyone erase them.

"I agree to your conditions! But you must resurrect my daughter and wife now, or I won't believe you," Kratos said. (As an aside, there's a game called Ghost of Sparta between God of War 1 and God of War 2. At the end of this game, Kratos kills Thanatos, the god of death, but his brother also dies. Before becoming the God of War, Athena came to try and erase Kratos's memories, but Kratos refused.)

The price offered was indeed hard for Kratos to refuse, and for his revenge, to avenge his dead mother and brother, Kratos had to do something—to kill the gods.

Therefore, if the other side can really revive my wife and daughter, I will fight this war without any hesitation.

Rhodes smiled, then had Kratos scrape some skin flakes off his body.

There's no other way; the skin, ashes, and debris of the other man's wife and daughters are all attached to this guy, so the bits of skin on your body are the best offering.

Kratos readily agreed and removed some items, and then Rhodey took out two White Zetsu bodies.

Then, together with Kratos, they left the private space and appeared on a cliff. Immediately afterwards, Rhodes began to use a summoning circle to summon the souls of the mother and daughter.

By using the Impure World Reincarnation technique, as long as this world exists in the underworld, it should be possible to summon the other party's soul.

However, this time when he tried to summon the spirits, Rhodes felt a great deal of resistance. Logically speaking, summoning the souls of two mortals should be effortless for him with his current chakra reserves.

But this time, Rhodes sensed a force that was actually trying to stop his summoning and even began to fight him for his soul.

Left with no other option, Rhodes had to unleash his trump card: the power of the Soul-Soul Fruit, combined with his powerful life force and chakra.

They began a tug-of-war with this mysterious force, and after a great deal of effort, they finally managed to pull the souls of the mother and daughter over and infuse them into their bodies.

A large amount of shredded paper wrapped around the mother and daughter's bodies, and after a short while, the mother and daughter were revived, except that some cracks appeared in their eyes.

"Cassandra! And my daughter! Is it really you? Is it really you?" Kratos rushed forward excitedly and hugged the mother and daughter.

At this moment, Rhodes was standing aside, panting heavily, and didn't even have the extra strength to use another technique, Reincarnation, to officially revive the mother and daughter.

The tug-of-war he just fought had taken a huge toll on him, and if nothing unexpected happened, he was probably being targeted by some being from the underworld.

Even a fool could guess who the other party was: Hades, the god of the underworld.

"Kratos, stop talking nonsense. I'll take you to my private space first. Summoning your wife and daughter's souls has taken a toll on me, and I need to rest," Rhodes said.

"By stealing a soul from the underworld, you will offend Hades, the god of the underworld. From now on, you will face Hades alone! The unknown god." Kratos gave Rhodes a cold smile.

Then he picked up his wife and daughter, and suddenly a white Pegasus with a pair of golden wings appeared behind him.

Kratos climbed onto Pegasus without hesitation, leaving a bewildered Rhodes behind as he wandered off!

"Damn! Are you planning to freeload off me?" Rhodes said, somewhat speechless.

The soul-searching battle just now had severely depleted Rhodes' energy, so he hadn't recovered yet and could only watch helplessly as Kratos took the mother and child away.

However, the Impure World Technique hasn't been lifted yet!

And I haven't even used the Outer Path Reincarnation Technique on them yet! Strictly speaking, this mother and child have only been half resurrected by themselves.

That Pegasus must have belonged to Gaia, so Kratos is probably going to find Gaia now!

This is clearly a joke! Kratos, you have no sportsmanship! But that seems to be Kratos's personality; this guy has no sense of gratitude or repaying kindness.

To save his daughter, he betrayed a squad of soldiers, and abandoning those he had helped was commonplace for him.

Even if you help him, he won't thank you. The only time his attitude improved slightly was after he had his own son in the new God of War, when he immediately asked the other party to serve him for ten years.

Since you're so heartless, don't blame me for being ruthless in return! I made this deal with you with the utmost sincerity, yet you dared to play me for a fool.

Just then, a black light suddenly appeared beneath Rhode's feet and sucked him in before he could react.

In a world filled with the dead and the spirits of the dead, in a vast palace, a man five or six meters tall, engulfed in flames, with purplish-red skin and wearing a steel helmet, stares at Rhodes.

This person is none other than Hades, the god of the underworld in this world. Before transmigrating, he was jokingly called the ugliest Hades by netizens from his previous life.

How to describe Hades' appearance? After taking off his helmet, he looks almost exactly like Deadpool, with his head covered in avocados.

At this moment, Rhodes became secretly on guard, seizing the time to recover his strength, preparing to open a spatial passage and then escape.

This is a god-king level being; even if I were to regain my full power, I might not be his match.

"What a pleasant surprise! I just sensed two souls trying to escape the underworld, so I started fighting against that force, and that's when I found you."

"Then I loosened my grip a little, letting you take those two souls away, so I could pinpoint your location clearly." Hades, the god of the underworld, grinned sinisterly at Rhodes.

What a pleasant surprise! I was doing just fine in the underworld when suddenly someone tried to steal my soul from there, and then I discovered a foreign deity.

"Mr. Hades, the King of the Underworld, this is a small misunderstanding," Rhodes said.

"Your appearance doesn't seem to be from the Egyptian or Norse pantheon, does it? Could you be from the Eastern pantheon? We don't have much interaction with your Eastern pantheon, so what is your purpose in coming to our world?" Hades, the god of the underworld, asked.

If it were just a mortal, Hades wouldn't waste words with the other party; he would simply kill them and be done with it.

But the other party is, after all, a god. Although it's impossible to discern what his divine status and divine power are, he is indeed a true god.

Therefore, it must be handled with care to avoid triggering a battle between the two pantheons.

Egypt? Northern Europe? The East! Okay! Looks like the world of God of War is quite complex. Seriously, I actually got tricked by that bald bastard Kratos!

"I have taken a liking to a very powerful warrior and want to recruit him to serve me. I promise to resurrect his wife and daughters."

"But to my surprise, as soon as I summoned his soul back, he couldn't wait to leave with his wife and daughter," Rhodes said.

"Hmph! You actually intend to recruit the Spartan Ghost? That guy is a complete madman. No matter how much favor you do for him, he will never thank you."

"I can tell you with absolute certainty that you've chosen the wrong god," Hades, the god of the underworld, said with a cold smile.

This Spartan had no idea what gratitude was. (End of Chapter)