Chapter 359

Upon hearing this, Qutuosi could no longer stay calm; he quickly stepped up to Luode's face and stared at him with a fierce expression, his eyes filled with anger.

If it weren't for the person in front of him saving him, Qutuosi would have already swung his blade and attacked.

"I know they are completely dead, unable to be revived; I killed my mother with my own hands, and I killed my wife and daughter with my own hands." Qutuosi said.

Hearing this, Xierwanasi standing aside furrowed her brows; killing one's own wife and daughter, then killing one's own mother—what kind of utterly wicked person could do such a thing! Why would Luode recruit this bald-headed guy who looks like he won't obey?

"I'm not joking with you; I'm serious. I have the ability to revive the dead, but only if their souls still exist." Luode said.

Of course, if I become even stronger in the future, even capable of reversing time and space, then even if the soul is destroyed, Luode would have a way to revive it.

"Hmph! My brother was killed by the Death God Danadusi in the land of the dead! I've already gone to the Underworld to look; there is no trace of his soul, and likewise my mother's soul is absent."

My daughter's soul resides in the Blissful Pure Land; as for my wife's soul, it has sunk like countless other souls in the world of Mingtu." Qutuosi said.

Any soul that enters the Underworld will be judged by the Three Great Judges; if they cannot enter the Blissful Pure Land, their fate will be extremely cruel.

All right! It seems if I want to revive Qutuosi's mother and brother, I currently can't manage both—one was killed by Zeus's scheming, the other was personally slain by the death god.

This is a bit awkward, but Qutuosi's wife and daughter, I should be able to revive them.

Moreover, the ready-made materials Qutuosi has on him include his wife's and daughter's ashes attached to his body after their deaths, making his skin look deathly pale, and these ashes happen to be an excellent medium for spirit communication.

"Let me out now, I'm going to deal with Zeus." Qutuosi said.

"Are you even a match for Zeus now? You can't even beat my wife." Luode pointed to Xierwanasi beside him and said.

"You can let her try and see if my dual blades can chop off his head." Qutuosi snorted coldly and said.

But indeed, as the man before him said, he has been stripped of all divine power, his combat strength is now roughly that of an ordinary demigod, and he truly cannot defeat Zeus.

"If you want to defeat Zeus, you must seek the Three Fates, break the bonds of fate, and control your own destiny." Luode said.

"Why are you helping me? I won't serve anyone, don't waste your scheming." Qutuosi said.

If it were a few years ago, he might have agreed, but now he only has a heart full of rage to vent against the gods.

"I can let you go, but have you considered that if you kill all the Olympian gods, your daughter will also die."

"After losing the Underworld King, the underworld will vanish, and the Blissful Pure Land linked to it will also disappear." Luode said.

Sure enough, as soon as those words were spoken, Qutuosi's eyes instantly turned ferocious, and he turned his head to look at Luode.

"What do you mean by saying that?"

"Literally speaking, you wouldn't think the Blissful Pure Land would still exist after the Underworld King died, would you? Or are you thinking only of revenge, completely uncaring about your daughter's fate?" Luode said.

Compared to his own wife, his little daughter is Qutuosi's eternal weak point; for this little daughter, Qutuosi will show only paternal love.

A ferocious man, he gave all his love to his daughter.

"Revive them! But I can't possibly serve you; let's change the approach—for example, tell me what you want me to do, and I'll help you do it, whether it's killing a person or a god." After thinking for a moment, Qutuosi gave an answer.

Watching his daughter fade away helplessly, completely vanishing from this world, he couldn't bear it.

Back then, to prevent his daughter from disappearing, he even gave up the chance to stay forever with her in the Blissful Pure Land, picked up his weapon, and killed the Underworld Queen Persephone.

"So! How about serving me for ten years?"

Hearing this, Xierwanasi beside him rolled her eyes—this sounded a bit familiar! Back when Luode said he'd revive himself, he had demanded a hundred years of loyalty from me, but now this bald guy only wants ten years; am I really worth so little, Xierwanasi?

"I hate this number; I once served the Olympian gods for ten years, I only wanted them to erase those nightmares from my mind, but they went back on their word." Obviously, Luode's words stirred some unpleasant memories in Qutuosi.

"Hahaha! Are you sure you want me to erase those memories for you? Frankly, I can wipe those memories from your mind right now, but do you think forgetting means you never did it?" Luode snorted coldly and said.

With the power of the Samsara Blood Wheel Eye, Luode can now activate illusion ability to remove Qutuosi's memories from his mind, but is he really willing?

Kuiye truly came to understand this matter during the Twilight of the Gods of the War God Five, after living a long time with his little son Atreus.

Present-day Kuiye is a paranoid! "Hmph! Before I even became the War God, Yatianna tried to erase those nightmares from my mind, but I refused! So you're right, those painful memories are the fuel for my revenge, I won't let anyone clear them."

"I accept your terms! But you must now revive my wife and daughter, otherwise I won't believe you." Qutuosi said. (Note: Between God of War 1 and 2 there is also God of War: Spartan Soul; at the end of that work, Qutuosi killed the death god Thanatos, but his brother also died. Before becoming the War God, Yatianna came to try to clear Qutuosi's memories, but Qutuosi refused.) The opponent's offer indeed made Qutuosi somewhat hard to refuse, and moreover, to avenge himself, to avenge his dead mother and brother, and to avenge himself, Qutuosi must do some things, kill the gods.

So if the other party can truly revive my wife and daughter, I will go into this battle without any hesitation.

Luode chuckled, then had Qutuosi scrape off a bit of skin flakes from his own body.

There's no way around it—the wife's and daughter's skin, ashes, and debris are all stuck on this guy's body; some of the skin flakes on your body make the best offering.

Qutuosi was also quite cooperative in taking some items, and then Luode produced two bodies of the White Absolute.

Then, leaving the private space together with Qutuosi, they appeared on a mountain cliff; immediately, Luode began using a summoning formation to summon the souls of the mother and daughter. Performing the Impure World Reincarnation technique, as long as this world exists in the underworld, their souls should be able to be summoned.

However, this time the summoning encountered great resistance for Luode; logically, summoning the souls of two ordinary people should be effortless given his current chakra amount.

But this time the summoning, Luode felt a force that actually began to block his summoning, even starting to compete for the souls.

There was no way around it; Luode could only unleash the power of his Killer Iron Soul-Soul Fruit, adding strong life force and chakra assistance.

He began a tug-of-war with this mysterious force, expending the strength of nine oxen and two tigers, and only then managed to pull the mother and daughter's souls over and infuse them into the body.

A large amount of paper scraps wrapped the mother and daughter's bodies; after a moment, they came back to life, though cracks appeared on their eyes.

"Cassandra! And my daughter! Is it really you? Is it really you?" Qutuosi excitedly rushed forward and embraced the mother and daughter.

At this moment, Luode stood aside panting, even lacking the extra strength to perform another Samsara Reincarnation Technique to fully revive the mother and daughter.

That tug-of-war just now caused his consumption to be enormous; if nothing unexpected happens, he should have been targeted by some underworld entity.

Luode could tell with his ass who it was—the Underworld King Hades.

"Qutuosi, cut the chatter first; I'll first bring you to hide in my private space—I just summoned your wife and daughter's souls, which took a big toll on me, I need to rest." Luode said.

"Snatching souls from the underworld will offend Underworld King Hades; next, you'll be facing Hades alone! Unknown god." Qutuosi gave Luode a faint cold smile.

Then he directly hoisted his wife and daughter, and suddenly a white pegasus with a pair of golden wings appeared behind him.

Qutuosi without hesitation climbed onto the pegasus, then left a bewildered Luode behind as he galloped away! "Damn! Are you planning to freeload off me?" Luode said somewhat speechlessly.

That soul tug-of-war just now left Luode severely drained; he hasn't recovered and can only watch as Qutuosi takes away the mother and son.

However the Impure World Reincarnation hasn't been lifted yet! And I haven't yet released the Outer Path Samsara Reincarnation Technique on them! Strictly speaking, this mother and son have only been half-revived by me.

That pegasus just now should be Gaia's, so Qutuosi should now go find Gaia!

This is clearly playing with me! Kuiye, you damn lack of martial virtue, but this seems to be Qutuosi's own character; this guy has no gratitude or sense of repaying kindness.

To save his daughter, he screwed over a squad of soldiers; burning bridges after crossing the river is just routine for him.

Even if you help him, he won't thank you; the only slight improvement in his attitude comes after he has his own son in the New War God, at which point he immediately demands ten years of service from you.

Since you're unkind, don't blame me for being unjust! I was completely sincere in dealing with you, yet you dare to play me.

Just then, a strand of black light suddenly sprang from beneath Luode's feet, and before he could react it sucked him in.

In a world filled everywhere with the dead and wandering spirits, inside a huge palace, a man five to six meters tall, his whole body ablaze with fierce fire, his skin purplish-red, wearing an iron helmet, was staring at Luode.

This person is precisely the Underworld King Hades of this world; before crossing over, he was teasingly called the ugliest Hades by netizens from his previous life.

What can be said of Hades's appearance? After taking off his helmet, he looks much like Deadpool, except his head is entirely covered in avocados.

At this moment, Luode secretly went on guard, buying time to recover his strength, preparing to open a spatial passage soon and then escape.

He is a being of God King level; even if I restored my power to its peak, I might not be his match.

What an unexpected delight! I just sensed two souls trying to escape the Underworld, so I began contending with that force, and in the end I found you.

Then I eased up a bit, letting you take those two souls away, so I could clearly pinpoint your location." Underworld King Hades gave a sinister smile and looked at Luode.

What an unexpected joy! I was doing fine in the Underworld, when suddenly someone tried to snatch souls from there, and then I discovered a foreign deity.

"Underworld King Hades, sir, this is just a small misunderstanding." Luode spoke.

"Your appearance shouldn't be from the Egyptian Divine Realm or the Norse Divine Realm, right? Could you be from the Eastern Divine Realm? We haven't had much interaction with your Eastern Divine Realm; what brings you to our world?" Underworld King Hades asked.

If you were merely a mortal, Hades wouldn't waste words on you; he'd just kill you outright.

But the other party is at least a god; although I can't tell what his divine nature and power are, he is indeed a true god.

Therefore we must handle this carefully, lest we provoke a war between the two divine systems.

Egypt? Norse? Eastern! Fine! Looks like the waters of the War God World run deep, jeez, I actually got played by Qutuosi that dead bald donkey! "I've taken a liking to a tremendously strong warrior, wanting to recruit him to serve me, and I promised to resurrect his wife and daughter."

But I never expected that, as soon as I summoned his soul back, he couldn't wait to take his wife and daughter and leave." Luode spoke.

"Hmph! You actually intend to recruit the Ghost of Sparta? That guy is a complete lunatic; no matter how much favor you show him, he won't thank you.

"I can responsibly tell you, you've mistaken the foreign god." Underworld King Hades gave a cold smile and spoke.

This Spartan simply doesn't know what gratitude is. (End of chapter)