168 Who Is the Villain?

The god WAAAGH who watered the Nether with the waters of war!

Let us offer you war!

Fight! Fight! Fight!

WAAAGH! WAAAGH! WAAAGH!!!

Hades had read countless passionate youth manga in his previous life.

Most of those comics aimed at hot-blooded teenage boys and girls had repetitive plots, fixed personalities for protagonists and supporting characters, and even remarkably similar endings to their major story arcs.

Before the finale, when faced with an invincible villainous BOSS in everyone's eyes, when the protagonist group's ultimate move had been crushed, and when all the other supporting characters had fallen into despair—

The protagonist would often suddenly plunge into a flashback—then achieve enlightenment, break through the greatest inner demon that had restrained them, and abruptly experience a massive surge in power!

After that, the protagonist would usually charge forward shouting something about "friendship" and "bonds."

Whether a passionate manga was good or endlessly discussed often depended on whether that final explosive power-up made sense.

A bad manga had the protagonist suddenly gain immense power for no reason, defeat the villain, and win the beauty.

A good manga, on the other hand, planted subtle clues from the very beginning as to why the protagonist would break through.

Hades had complained countless times that the passionate manga he read made no sense. Why did protagonists always erupt the moment they shouted?

But now—

Hades stared into the distance in disbelief.

He saw a Greenskin that had grown to an unimaginable size, facing the setting sun. Crimson sunset light spilled across its emerald skin, the two colors starkly divided.

Everything you said was right, but this was Warhammer 40K: a brand-new Warp DLC. For a warlike Greenskin clan, as long as it thought it could erupt, it could erupt.

This was Greenskin.

Hades was drenched in