"Don't worry, Captain Kratos. Even if I die, I'll spread this news across all of Greece as fast as I can!!!"
Having received Kratos's orders, Marathon's face was filled with resolve as he turned and charged into the distance!
After Marathon left, Kratos turned back toward the warriors whose faces were heavy with pressure.
Meeting the warriors' shocked yet intensely eager and exhilarated expressions, Kratos raised his spear high!
"Everyone, the day to bathe in blood is upon us!
Let them see what true Sparta is!!!"
"For Sparta!!!"
Amid the cries, Kratos took the lead and leaped straight down from the walls of Thermopylae!
At the same time, Sparta's strongest warriors—two hundred men from Leonidas's personal guard—all followed Kratos into the narrow pass of Thermopylae!
By rights, there should have been three hundred of them, but because of Diana's war with Ares—
One hundred warriors had gone to Athens with Leonidas!
So their numbers were somewhat lacking.
But though there were few warriors, not a single person standing here felt any fear!
They were the strongest warriors among Sparta's millions of troops. Every one of them possessed strength enough to barely contend with a demigod hero.
They were the 300 Spartans!
They feared nothing!
What was more, countless reinforcements were still rushing toward them from behind!
Not only ordinary Spartan soldiers, but millions upon millions of slaves!
And the major Greek city-states that Marathon was about to notify!
Even though the enemy numbered tens of billions at a glance, neither the Spartan Warriors nor Kratos felt the slightest fear!
They understood the rules of the battlefield all too well.
No matter how numerous the enemy was, only a few could come into contact with them at once.
All they needed to do was keep killing every enemy around them!!!