It was not long before the three of them found trouble in their adventure. They came across a sea of frozen draugrs, waiting to be awoken by any type of movement. Atreus, seeing this, suddenly stepped backwards, not noticing there was a branch of a tree, which made a crackling sound that echoed into the quiet place of the room. Suddenly, more than thousands of draugrs came to life, started walking, and launched their attack at them.
[Mission Generated: KILL EVERY SINGLE CREATURE IN THIS VICINITY (0/4,000)
Mission Rewards: +5% for Character Integration
Deimos seeing this grinned, then started to materialize a weapon he wanted to use for a long time, a BOW, he did not have yet the experience of using a bow from his training, considering with his strength, his father trained him to use close quarter combat, this would be his first, but the complete mastery of skills he got and also the strength he already have, he pulled the string from his bow to its maximum capacity, he holds it for a few seconds before firing it, the arrow that came out made a loud sound that decimated the draugrs it would hit, he then saw the arrow he fired touch the ground, the moment it came contact with the ground, a loud explosion was heard, it so loud that it reverberated in the entire cave, which attracted more enemies,
"What is that?" Kratos said after hearing the sound, turning his head to Deimos,
"I was just testing my new weapon, I never expected it to be this strong, as expected from the master blacksmith that created the Mjolnir" Deimos said to Kratos while Kratos just grunted.
"DAMN RIGHT! RESPECT THE MASTER," Brok said, shocking Kratos, since the dwarf just appeared out of nowhere, and the horde just arrived, then Deimos and Kratos fought against them while Atreus just stayed behind protecting Brok.
Deimos transformed his bow into an axe. If someone were to see it from our world, they would recognize it as the DIVINE AXE RHITTA.
He then started using it like how Kratos uses his axe, he started swinging it against one of the draugrs, then used the momentum of his swing to kick another draugr that was close to them, then he transformed the weapon into a shield to block against the draugr that using fire magic, he then transformed the shield into a spear and throw it to the fire draugr.
Kratos was doing the same thing as he started swinging his axe towards the enemies, one fire draugr with his Leviathan Axe where he charge it with the ice, he then started mercilessly cutting each draugrs one after another, it took him only 20 minutes to kill about 200 draugrs, but there are still more than three thousand draugrs left with the horde.
Atreus, on the other hand, just panicked; in his head, the image of killing that man kept replaying, making his body freeze, and he was just watching his brother and father face the massive horde of draugrs, while Brok was just on his side watching the fight.
"Are you not gonna join yer pa?" Brok asked Atreus.
"Leave me alone," Atreus answered while feeling guilty for not fighting.
"If that fight goes tits-up and this's the last time you see your kin, you'll be kickin' yourself in the ass for not standin' with 'em," Brok said in a very serious manner, as he said this Atreus just suddenly have this massive choice to make, then both Deimos and Kratos arrived at their front, turns out that in the few minutes that they are talking, Deimos who was getting bored at the fight, change the weapon into a bow, he then just started firing rapidly as if he was a machine gun in the war, all of the draugr that were hit was killed in a single hit without, It just took him a few seconds to cleanup the whole horde, when he finished Kratos looked at him with a serious expression but Deimos could see the proud expression in Kratos' face.
"What? How did you finish so early?" Atreus said to both of them.
"I just use my weapon to change it into a bow then target them at the same time, where were you in that fight? I did not see your arrows" Deimos said while asking where was Atreus.
"Well, I just-"Atreus started saying before he was interrupted by Kratos.
"You abandoned us in the fight," Kratos said while looking sternly at Atreus.
Atreus: I did.
Kratos: People are one thing. Everything else, you fight… until I say stop or we are dead. Understand? Pull your weight, or we go home.
Deimos: Don't worry about the ones that don't breathe anymore or beasts,
Atreus: I understand.
Kratos: Good, then.
Deimos: Great!
Atreus: Oh, wait… we're back here again.
Kratos: Come.
Kratos then turned to Brok, who came out of nowhere.
Kratos: How did you arrive here so fast?
Brok: Sorry, trade secret, can't tell you that.
Atreus: Come on, we promise we won't tell anyone.
Deimos: Atreus, if it's a trade secret, you must also have something to trade.
Atreus: That's not how trade secret works
Deimos: I know, just forget it, doesn't he father?
Kratos: If the dwarf doesn't want to tell the secret, he shouldn't have to.
Brok: Listen to your pa now.
They then continued on their adventure, where Deimos was instructing Atreus about how to tune out the murder.
Atreus: I just froze earlier, I cannot even move my arms, then the memories of my murder, I did not have this problem when we fought against those horses.
Deimos: It's different, it doesn't have a shape like a human, unlike the draugrs, but if you experience anything similar to it, just close your eyes, then slowly breathe, think of the most important reason you fight, then use it as a motivation, think about mother if you want, we are doing this journey due to her last wishes.
"Thank you, brother," Atreus said to Deimos, who just smiled at him, then they just continued walking until they came out of the cave and saw the mountain, closer than ever, and its beautiful nature of the mountain. The three of them just marveled at the beauty of it.
"Wow… Never been this close to the mountain before. It looks so big. I wish Mom were here to see it." Atreus said while looking at nature.
"Yes, I think Mom would love to see this with us, we should've come here when she still had strength," Deimos said, Kratos seeing both of his sons wanted to hug them both, he would not admit it but he missed his wife very much, and he thinks that no matter how strong Deimos is, he still needed to protect him, as per his duty as his father, this just stay for a little while until Kratos interrupted,
"Come, let's continue this journey," Kratos said, sighing out loud, looking at the view for the last time, before continuing their ascent.