Chapter 275: Kratos and the Child
When Gungniel's light faded, Loki looked at Dante as he drifted away in the wind, and swallowed hard.
He glanced at Odin carefully, and then quickly turned his head away, he had always had hatred for Odin in his heart, both hatred for Odin's prejudice against him for many years, hatred for Odin snatching him from his father, and finally hatred for Odin who almost wiped out his mother, the Frost Giants!
Speaking of which, I have to mention Loki's story!
Eighteen hundred years ago, Loki was born on an ice sheet in the North Pole of Midgard, the year when nine realms were parallel, and the North Pole of Midgard was the closest to Jotunheim, the home of giants!
Loki grew up with his mother since he was a child, his mother was a sturdy, the Nordic woman he thought was strong, although strong, but his mother was definitely the most beautiful woman Loki had ever seen, which even Sif at this time could not compare with Loki's mother!
His mother, named Laufey!
He had been living here for twelve years, and during those twelve years he had a second impression of his mother, and he knew what his mother himself thought to be a mortal, because he felt that his mother was a wizard!
Laufi taught Loki all the languages of the Nine Realms she could master, and engraved a myriad of powerful magic on Loki, who was strong from a young age, not infinitely powerful, but never injured in a battle with a normal beast!
They live in seclusion in the heart of the Arctic Circle, where there are no more people, so Loki has never had friends of the right age, but when the child grows up, even if he doesn't need the help of others, the child will start to think about why he came into this world!
"Mom, how did I show up!"
Loki asks Laufey this question in the winter of twelve, and at that moment, Laufey laughs!
"You are the fruit of my love with your father, child!"
"What is Father?"
"It's your father, I'm your mother, and he's your father!"
"But why have I never seen him, and doesn't he like me?"
"He loves you, Atreus, it's the name he chose for you!"
"But he loves me, why doesn't he live with us?"
"It's not time yet, it's not yet, but it's coming soon,"
Laufey stroked Loki's head, she smiled and said the last sentence, Oh, by the way, Loki's name wasn't Loki at that time, his name was Atreus!
At that time, Atreus didn't know the meaning of his mother's words, he didn't know how long it was, his mother taught him knowledge including the story between the sexes, Atreus understood what his father meant in his life, he always imagined what his father looked like, he had never seen it, but he felt that it would be a man as gentle as his mother, and he believed that his father would caress his head and praise his wisdom after seeing him!
But he finally saw his father!
It wasn't until his father came up to him that he knew what his mother's mouth meant by that phrase that was about to happen!
Laufey is dead!
The beautiful woman wrapped herself in the shroud she had prepared for herself, and she slept silently in it until the end of her life, and when Atreus, who had returned from the hunt, found this, his father knocked on the door of Atreus's house!
Atreus put aside the pain of losing his mother and walked to the door, he silently picked up his bow and arrows, he opened his bow and arrows, and then aimed at the door of their house, he didn't think that there would be strangers around here, but he only thought that it was the bear of the wasteland who knocked on his door!
But the moment he aimed, the wooden door in front of him suddenly opened, and Atreus instantly saw a man with extremely vicious eyes, this man was bareheaded, his face and skin were horribly pale, he was wearing shoulder armor that exposed his chest and abdomen, and his two forearms were wrapped with blood-stained gauze, and the man's face and body had huge inexplicable red tattoos!
Even with Atreus's knowledge, he didn't know what the meaning of the tattoo was, he saw this bald beard rushing in front of him in two steps, this bearded man had an incomparably powerful momentum and brutal will, Atreus was frightened, and he was snatched of the bow and arrow in his hand by the bearded man in a blink of an eye!
After the bow and arrow were taken away, the bearded man stood in front of Atreus, who looked down at the thin Atreus, who could feel the dissatisfaction in his eyes!
"Kid!"
The big man said a word violently, his voice low and powerful, and his name for Atreus made the frightened Atreus stunned!
"Follow me, and together we will prepare wood for the cremation of Fei!"
The big man thought to himself, Atrestone knew the identity of the big man, he called his mother Fei, then he was his father!
"You...... Is it my father?"
Atreus asked softly, and at the same time he carefully followed behind the big man, and he looked at the big man's back, which was extremely strong!
"Yes, kid!"
The big man responded, and at the same time, he walked up to Laufey's shrouded body, he caressed Laufey's shrouded face, he leaned down and kissed the face, and then, he took Laufey's axe in his hand!
Atreus saw that the big man picked up his mother's axe, he was immediately relieved, Laufey's axe is a powerful magic weapon, called Leviathan's axe, with the power of frost, this axe can only be used by Laufey and Atreus, when Atreus asked his mother if there was a third person in the world who could use it, Laufey said the name of the last user of Leviathan's axe!
"What, you ask me who else can use this axe, ha, Kratos, and Kratos can use him, by the way, Kratos is your father!"
"Kratos!"
Atreus remembered the name, and he couldn't help but look at the big man in front of him, this is his father, this is Kratos!
However, the big man did not look at him at all, he carried his mother's Leviathan axe, and then found the shoulder strap from the house to hang the axe, and he hung his mother's shoulder strap on his body, and then hung the axe behind his back.
"Come with me, we're going to find the tree that Faye chose!"
Kratos let out a low roar, well, in fact, he was just talking very seriously and seriously, but his voice was so loud that Atreus was startled by the loud sound, and then, Atreus hurriedly followed behind Kratos!
They stepped out of the ice field where they were, and got into a boat made by his mother, whose father rowed him across the Arctic Ocean and finally came to a snow-covered forest!
Kratos rowed extremely fast, and the boat was protected by his mother's magic, which allowed them to reach their destination in half a day!
Kratos silently shuttles through the forest, he seems to feel something, Atreus doesn't like this forest, he hasn't been here, he wants to go back to his house with his mother!
"Are you choosing, I think every tree here is tall enough!"
Atreus cleverly reminded Kratos, but then he heard Kratos reprimand!
"They're tall or not, but they're not the one Fei chose, kid!"
"Well, listen to you!"
Atreus closed his mouth with a bitter face, if the person in front of him was his mother, then she would definitely explain to him gently the reason behind everything, but his father Kratos didn't seem to like him at all!
"Bang!"
Atreus bumped Kratos' back, and he noticed his father stop, and he saw him reach out to the tall tree in front of him, which had a clear golden palm print on its trunk!
"Stay away from me!"
Kratos carefully stroked the palm print left by Fei on this tree, and he yelled at Atreus without looking back, Atreus was startled by him, and then he quickly dodged!
In this way, Atreus watched his father lift the Leviathan Axe, Kratos gently touched the blade of the axe, and then he carried the axe in both hands, and he raised his arms high, and Atreus could see every muscle of him begin to swell!
"Bang!"
The Leviathan Axe left a shallow mark on the trunk of the tree, which made Atreus, who was watching from afar, glance at his mouth, and he thought that his father was probably a kind of thing, a kind of thing that could cut down trees so hard!
But what he didn't know was that this tree had the magic that Laufey had on it, and even a cyclops couldn't damage the tree in the slightest!
However, Kratos was still not satisfied with the traces he left behind, even though he knew about Laufey's magic, and he raised his axe high, and when the axe fell, he roared loudly!
"Ahh
"Bang!"
The Leviathan's axe will instantly cut off the magically protected tree, this tree is fifty meters high, more than three meters in diameter and suddenly smashed to the ground, Atreus looked at this scene blankly, his father, what kind of power is hidden in his body!
"Keep up with me, kid!"
Kratos yelled from afar, and Atreus quickly ran out, looking at the fallen tree trunk and asking with a wry smile.
"Do you want my help?"
"No, kid!"
Kratos replied coldly, and then he carried the axe behind him, he bent down, put his hands into the trunk of the tree and easily carried the whole tree on his shoulders, he carried the trunk of the tree fifty meters long in this way and moved in the forest, all the trees in front of him were pushed down by the trunk on his shoulder and continued to walk!
After a constant collision, they returned to the side of the boat, and after so many collisions that its branches and canopy had long since disappeared, only a bare trunk remained, and Kratos tied the giant tree to a rope and tied it to the back of the boat, and then he rowed the boat and brought them back to Laufey's place in the same amount of time!
"Go and bring her!"
Kratos commanded, and then, he began to cut down the trees, and with the terrible axe in his hand, Kratos cut the huge trees into countless small pieces, and he piled them up, but until the end, he didn't see Atreus come out!
Kratos silently glanced at the house where Atreus lived, it was not a house at all, it was a dilapidated log cabin, which made him smile, he knew that Faye was a smart woman, but the smarter the person, the more stupid the man!
Looking at the house built by Fei, he couldn't help but think of the story of Fei and his encounter, when he had just killed his father, he had just ended the rule of the Olympian god in the world, he had just learned that most of his hatred for his father came from his sister's deception of him, he knew that he had become a pawn in his sister's conspiracy, he knew that he had lived in deception all his life, he killed his wife and daughter after being blinded, he killed his brother, that is, the former god of war Ares, he killed his father, that is, Zeus, the king of the gods, and he even killed his sister, the woman, called Athena!
He lost everything, and then he wandered in the world, and he met that beautiful and understanding woman, Laufey, they fell in love, they had children, but at that time, the Nine Realms were ruled by the Aesir gods, and Kratos ended the authority of the Olympian chaos gods, which gave the Aesir gods led by Odin the status of overlord!
Kratos is the remnant of Olympus, he can't live in Midgard all the time, he knows that Athena's Heroic Spirit has established the New Olympus between the universes, if there is no accident, he should finally live there, Athena is the goddess of wisdom, even if the consequences of her being killed by Kratos are part of her big plan, this is what makes Kratos the most painful!
So, Kratos, who had been in love with Lafey for a short time, finally left them, until Kratos left, Laudie hugged Kratos tightly, she cried and said to Kratos that she had a premonition of her death, which was an unending fate, but she hoped that after she died, Kratos would take care of their children!
"I will!"
Kratos assures Laufey, who smiles with tears in her eyes as she gently strokes her belly.
"My son will be the strongest man in the Nine Realms, and his name will be Loki!"
"No!"
Kratos refused!
"His name is Atreus!"
"My love, I don't agree with that, his name must be Loki!"
"Atreus!"
"Loki!"
"If he was called Loki, I would never call him by his name, I would just call him boy!"
Kratos left like this, with the only willfulness in his life, he was the warrior of Sparta, the son of Zeus, he was the god of war who killed from Sparta to hell and Olympus, no woman has ever rejected him like this to Laufey, and no other woman has made Kratos understand love!
Until now, Kratos silently walked to the door, and when he pushed it open, he saw Atreus lying on Laufey's corpse crying!
"You should be ready, kid!"
Kratos roared, and then he gently pushed Atreus away, he took Laufey's body in his arms, he carried Laufey to the pile of trees, he placed Laufey's body, and then he took out the Leviathan axe and flint, and the moment the two rubbed, the sparks staggered, and the trees suddenly burned!
As the snow fell, Laufey's body was gradually surrounded by firelight, and Atreus stood by in pain, looking at the last traces of his mother, and then he saw that there was a small but delicate dagger pinned to her body!
He rushed forward and took the dagger from his mother, it was so hot that it made Atreus's hand hold the dagger extremely painful, Atreus first held the dagger tightly, and then he let go of his hand in pain, and the dagger suddenly slipped into the snow!
Kratos looked at all this indifferently, and then Atreus looked at Kratos carefully, he saw his father come to him with a cold face, he saw his father stretching out his hand towards him, he saw his father's eyes as cold and serious as Fang Cai!
"I'm afraid I'm going to be beaten, I didn't take my mother's things, I ......!"
Atreus thought to himself, and he lowered his head and said carefully.
"I'm sorry!"
"Catch the snow!"
Kratos didn't hit him as he thought, but the majestic man was half-kneeling on the ground, and he scooped up a handful of snow with his huge palm and put it in the palm of Atreus's burned hand!
"Hold on, kid!"
Kratos reminded Atreus to clench his fist, and he tightened the snow tighter, and then he saw his father tear off one of the bandages on his forearm, and Kratos carefully bandaged it.
After bandaging, Kratos reached for Laufey's dagger.
"This is the dagger I made for you Fei, and now, he's yours!"
Atreus took the dagger, and he suddenly found a little love in his seemingly dangerous father, but the next second he turned his head in disappointment, because he felt that Kratos's love might be for his mother!