Taking Atreus through the realm of death was the first time for the naughty boy.
But for Kratos, he has long been used to it. After all, when he was in Greece, when was he not going to visit the underworld
In Helheim, people who come here can see some hallucinations of the past, and neither humans nor gods can avoid it.
These hallucinations are the past they least want to face.
On the way forward, Atreus saw the scene where he killed Mody before.
This is the past that he doesn't want to face. After Kuiye's harsh lecture, Atreus is obviously more awake now.
He was also shocked that he killed Modi because he also felt that it was not him at all.
In addition, on the way forward, Kuiye and the others also saw the past of Badr.
Freya, the forest witch who saved Atreus before, is her mother.
Unlike Kratos, as a mother, Freya has a paranoid doting on her children.
In Norse mythology, there is a prophecy called Ragnarok.
This prophecy is something that will definitely happen, and the world will fall into winter before the arrival of Ragnarok.
Faced with the prophecy of Ragnarok, Odin formed the Valkyrie Legion just to face this crisis.
At the same time, in the prophecy, Baldr is destined to die in this catastrophe among the Nordic gods.
For this reason, Freya gave Baldr immortality. As a mother, she did not want her son to die, but this maternal love brought cruel side effects.
This curse made Balder a living dead. The price of immortality was that he lost all sense. His tongue could not taste the taste of food, his skin could not feel warmth and cold, and his heart could not feel the joy of love.
This also made Balder hate Freya and the sick maternal love, so much so that he never wanted to kill his mother with his own hands.
Similarly, the past that Kuiye didn't want to face in the past also appeared again, that is, the scene where he killed Zeus in Olympus.
In this journey to Helheim, it was Kui Ye who taught Atreus a lesson at the beginning, but as the journey progressed, even at the end when Kui Ye was in a daze looking at the phantoms of the past, it was Atreus who took Kui Ye with him. I escaped.
The journey along the way is not so much Kratos helping Atreus grow, but rather the growth of father and son together.
Kratos used his own experience to tell Atreus how to become a god.
And Atreus is also infecting Kratos with what he does, allowing Kratos to gradually face himself.
Zhang Yi took a deep breath after escaping from Helheim, feeling a little excited in his heart.
During this journey in Helheim, I did not encounter any powerful BOSS.
Most of them are mixed soldiers fighting against elites.
But the shock it brought was no less than before.
This is due to the shock of seeing the inner evolution of Kui Ye and Atreus.
In addition, Zhang Yi also has a lot of expectations and tensions about the subsequent development.
There are actually many metaphors in previous games. Players who are familiar with Norse mythology will basically have a rough guess about the game after playing here.
But Zhang Yi doesn't know much about Nordic mythology, and sometimes he even confuses the gods in Greek mythology with the gods in Nordic mythology, and he can't figure out who is right.
However, as the game progresses, he, who does not understand these allusions, is even more surprised as the truth is revealed.
For example, Baldr, the god of light, was killed by mistletoe in mythology.
This can also explain why Freya's expression changed drastically when she saw the mistletoe arrows on Atreus, and she became so nervous.
It's just that although Freya burned all the mistletoe arrows at that time, before going to Freya's house.
Kuye also broke off a small section of a mistletoe arrow and used it to tie Atreus's backpack.
And it was this section that led to the breaking of Baldr's curse.
The final BOSS battle is undoubtedly the battle with Baldur, who has three different forms: normal, ice and fire. During this process, Freya will also use magic and manipulate the corpse of the dead giant to hinder him.
After three consecutive scenes of battle, and finally accompanied by the father-son double battle between Kuiye and Atreus, Baldr was still defeated.
At this time, Atreus had really grown up and was not out of control like when he faced Modi.
Like Freya, who begged Kui Ye to let his son go, Atreus also took the initiative to persuade Kui Ye, saying that Baldr was a defeated general and could not pose a threat.
Instead of killing everything that stood in his way like he did when he was young, Kratos let go of Baldur this time and warned him not to mess with them again, and also warned him not to hurt Freya.
After all, for Kratos, Freya once saved Atreus' life, and also provided many key help to the father and son on their journey.
But Balder obviously won't listen to Kratos's warning.
Even compared to Kratos, the target of his hatred is his mother, the woman who intervened in his life to make him immortal, but cannot experience any feeling of being alive.
Freya, who also had a morbid maternal love, was willing to die at the hands of her son.
Looking at Freya who was about to be killed, knowing that this was someone else's family matter and knowing that it was a matter of mutual consent, Kratos still intervened.
'Why... why, why did you interfere! You can just... leave like this. 'Badr struggled and asked as Kratos strangled his neck from behind.
'The grudge is settled here, we must grow. '
With a click, Badr's neck was broken.
Following Baldr's death, snow suddenly fell in the sky.
'I will bring upon you all pain, all imaginable disaster. '
'I will drag your cold corpse through every corner of the Nine Realms. '
'Feed your soul to Helheim's foulest being. '
'I swear! '
Freya's trembling hands touched Balder's body and cursed Kratos.
'He saved your life! ' Atreus said beside him.
'He took everything from me! Freya cried: "You are a monster... you only know cruelty and anger, you will never change!"
'Then you don't know me at all. 'Kratos looked into the distance.
'I know enough... what about him? Freya looked up at Kratos and pointed at Atreus behind her.
Facing Freya's words, Kratos was very calm. He was already ready to face everything.
He used to be so crazy that he destroyed everything, but in fact he was always escaping.
Do things for the gods and pray to the gods to make you forget the fact that you killed your wife and children.
After becoming the God of War, helping his people fight everywhere is also an escape.
Even after coming to this land in Northern Europe, he was still escaping from his past.
And now he no longer knows how to escape.
'boy! '
Kratos turned around slowly.
'Listen carefully...'
'I come from a land called Sparta. '
'I made a deal with a god, and the price was my soul. '
'I have killed many people who deserved their crimes, and I have also killed many innocent people. '
'I killed my father. '
Atreus once wanted to know about Kratos' past, but Kratos never responded.
Now Atreus was obviously shocked after hearing this, and he thought of the phantom he saw when he left Helheim.
'Is that your father in Helheim? '
'Is this what being a god is like? Atreus was a little confused, looking at his father in front of him, and then at the grieving Freya and the dead Balder.
'Will God definitely lead to such an ending? '
'A son kills his mother...and father?' '
Atreus, who looked confused, was no longer as excited and proud as when he knew he was a god.
'No, we will become the gods we choose to be, not follow in the footsteps of the old gods. '
'My past is not your future. '