Thinking back to the despairing bald Kratos jumping from the mountain peak, trying to end his own life, Zhang Yi was filled with emotion.
In the end, he had suffered from a lack of education. A brute could never outplay a scholar.
Kratos wanted the gods to make him forget those memories, yet the gods merely said that they had already forgiven him. As for whether he could forgive himself, that was his own business.
Combined with how Kratos had been toyed with by the gods in the past, Zhang Yi could be said to have completely lost any favorable impression of them.
As the protagonist of the game, if one truly examined Kratos closely, he was actually a complete scumbag.
As a Spartan commander, Kratos believed in the iron law of survival of the fittest. He held human lives in contempt, and no one knew how many innocent people had died by his hand.
Even so, Kratos had qualities worth admiring. Namely, the importance he placed on his wife and daughter. That was why there had once been the story of his search for the Ambrosia.
And precisely because he cared so deeply, this seemingly tough man had always chosen to flee from the past of killing his wife and daughter rather than face it bravely.
Compared with him, the renowned gods of Greek Mythology revealed an entirely different face.
After becoming the God of War, Kratos uncovered even more secrets. In Atlantis, he found his mother and younger brother, but his mother became a monster due to a curse and could only be killed by Kratos himself. Later, his brother also died fighting in the depths of Hell. The seeds of hatred had already been planted in Kratos's heart.
After returning from Atlantis, Kratos, having lost all his