While walking, Deimos suddenly remembered his mission earlier, and he then summoned the system to generate his current stats
'System, can you generate my current stats?' Deimos said in his mind.
[Updated System Status — 66% Template Integration]
[Name: Deimos]
[Race: Demi-God (Jötunn-God Hybrid)]
[Template: Heracles / Alcides]
[Template Integration: 66%]
[Current Missions: None]
[Unlocked Labors: 3/12]
'WOW, System, are there any appropriate labor I can do now?' Deimos then asked the System since he wanted to know.
[Host is nearing the witch's forest so he can do the Labor 7: The Ceryneian Hind]
'Alright, summon the Labor now,' Deimos said
[Summoning labor in 5....4....3.....2....1...0,
Summoned Completed, I wish the Host good luck.]
After Deimos summoned the would-be labor, he continued his journey with his Father and Atreus until they reached a place with a grand door and a bowl of sand near it.
"There are runes in it. What does it say?" Kratos asked Atreus,
"As we are, we two, we three / As I alone can never be," Atreus answered.
"It's family," Deimos suddenly said.
"What?" Kratos asked.
"It's a riddle, the answer is family," Deimos clarified to both Atreus and Kratos,
"Is that right, Boy?" Kratos asked Atreus, who was thinking.
"Just try writing the runes for family in the sand bowl, so we can make sure if its right" Deimos said, where Kratos just nodded to Atreus who in turn started writing it, after writing it, the door was suddenly lit with light and started moving, only after a few seconds, that the door was completely open.
'Good thing I still remember this part from the game, no more stupid riddles,' Deimos said.
"Good work, now let's continue," Kratos praised uncharacteristically
"How did you know the answer to that riddle?" Atreus asked him with curiosity.
"It's not that hard to solve, just keep your mind open for interpretation and the answer will come naturally," Deimos said, explaining some BS excuse to Atreus.
"I did not see you as an intellect, but I'm glad you also have some wisdom from our mother. I guess we both have something we share from our mother, it made me closer to you," Atreus said with relief and happiness.
"Everyone shows affection in different ways, look at father, he may look like he doesn't care, but he just chose to silence his grief because he knows we need him, same way from me, I chose to honor our mother in her wisdom and way of thinking, best not to judge brother," Deimos said to Atreus, who just looked closely at Kratos.
"Deimos, Atreus, come," Kratos suddenly called them, and both of them hurried to where Kratos was kneeling. Deimos immediately noticed 2 different kinds of tracks, one was for a boar and the other was for a stag. He immediately knew that it was his new labor, both the boar and the stag were going in the same direction.
"It is important for warriors to keep their skills sharp. Atreus, what creatures do you think these tracks come from?" Kratos asked Atreus.
"Uhmmm, boar maybe?" Atreus answered.
"And the other?"
"I don't know."
"It's a track of a stag, a very large one at that," Deimos said as he joined in the conversation.
"Good, both of you, pick your prey," Kratos suddenly said,
"I pick the deer," Deimos suddenly said, making sure that the stag would be his.
"Then I guess I'll have the boar," Atreus said.
"Let's start then," Kratos said while gesturing to both his sons to continue their journey. They see more tracks ahead where they followed it, after following the tracks for a while, suddenly a troll came out, and not just any troll, it was Brenna Dauði, his whole body was on fire with his weapon the same as the other trolls only have a flaming heat that radiated with it, the troll roared loadly, when suddenly another fire trollcame out, it was a much larger one, with heat much hotter than the other, both of them are readying to fight.
Deimos, who sees the other fire troll, can't help but think that this creature was connected to his new labor, considering that it was a stag, he thinks that it was a seasonal stag that was mixed with the Ceryneian Hind.
'I think the fire troll was being enhanced by a stag for all season can control the very weather itself, making the fire troll produce much hotter fire,' Deimos thought while Kratos and Atreus was going to attack the Brenna Dauði where he decided that it would be best if he kill the enhance fire troll.
Deimos then changes his weapon to a copy of Leviathan's axe, but with a much larger blade and have heavier look, sort of like the Divine Axe of Rhitta but with the same powers of Leviathan axe, he then charge it with so much ice powers that it was so freezes the air around him, then he swung against the fire troll, who also swung his pillar to Deimos, they reached a stalemate for a moment until Deimos increased his strength, the Troll did not have the strength to match it so he was injured by the swing, he fell but stands up again, now with a much hotter fire than before and the wounds healed up.
'Does that deer have healing powers and enhancements? Ohhh, I'm getting excited just thinking that would be my familiar' Deimos thought with a grin visible on his face. It was then seen by the Troll, thinking it was a provocation, roared more loudly, and the fire it radiated began to increase again.
Deimos, seeing this, transformed his weapon into a greatsword, the same sword of Aatrox from the League of Legends game he used to play in his past life. It was so huge that its size was almost the same as the troll, with the handle almost as tall as Deimos, but the weight was not a problem for him. He then lifted it up and jumped, targeting troll with a swing, and the momentum he was building by falling with a massive sword accelerating him was enough to annihilate the troll in one hit. The force of his swing was so strong that the ground cracked and formed a sinkhole with nearly 100 feet in depth with Deimos in the middle of the sinkhole. He just jumped once to cover the distance, where he found that Kratos and Atreus had also finished their fight.
Kratos looked at the messy battlefield his firstborn boy created and decided to limit his hunt, he didn't like that Deimos was slowly becoming himself when he killed the gods, not caring about the consequences and damage he would cause.
"Deimos, for this entire journey, you would not use your full strength and would limit your weapons to a bow and staff until I tell you otherwise," Kratos said seriously to Deimos
"Why, Father?" Deimos asked even though he already had the idea why.
"Look around you and tell me why," Kratos answered.
"It's because of the consequences of my actions; it destroyed this beautiful place," Deimos answered.
"Correct, I just hope to teach you restraint, especially when it's needed," Kratos said.
"Do not worry, father, I understand your intentions perfectly, I would admit I became more rash over our journey, I would not let my strength get into my head," Deimos answered, where Kratos just nodded his head
"Are you gonna be okay?" Atreus asked,
"Do not worry, I started this journey without a weapon, I'm confident I can finish it without too," Deimos said confidently.
"But you are allowed to use your full strength, now with that kind of restraint, I don't think you can handle it" Atreus said,
"You underestimate me too much, brother," Deimos said finishing their conversation and looking around to continue their hunt.