Eventually the floor below them collapsed and the two fell into the sewers within Olympus, Hercules dead and disfigured, whose body Kratos left to rot. He then trapped Hercules below the arena ground then proceeded to beat him to death by smashing his face in with the Cestus. Kratos managed to survive and procceded to climb to the lifted arena. Finally, growing tired of the Ghost of Sparta, Hercules attempted to drop his half-brother off the mountain by picking up most of the arena, and lifting it up, in hopes Kratos would fall to his death. Despite Hercules losing both of the Cestuses, he simply fought Kratos unarmed. Hercules without his armor and the Nemean CestusĪs he gloated towards Hera on how much of a weakling Kratos was, Kratos managed to take the Cestus one by one. As the battle waged on, Kratos stripped off both Hercules' armor and helmet. Hercules then told his half-brother that he planned to kill him as his thirteenth, unofficial labor.Īfter watching Kratos defeat his undead soldiers, Hercules put on his Nemean Cestus and leapt down into the arena to fight his half-brother himself.
While he had taken enjoyment out of slaying the Nemean Lion, Kratos had been the one Zeus had made famous all across the world. After appearing within the arena, Hercules revealed that he believed Kratos was Zeus’ favorite, since Zeus had given the Spartan the job of defeating Ares and then crowned him the new God of War while Hercules had been stuck doing his twelve labors. Later on, Kratos arrived at an arena, where he encountered Hera, who had Hercules fight the Ghost of Sparta as her champion. Olympus, Hercules received the command to counterattack from his father and sent their undead warriors into battle. Hercules sending the armies of Olympus into battleĪs Kratos and the Titans attacked Mt. Capture Cerberus, the three-headed dog guardian of the Underworld, alive and bring him back. Steal the golden apple of the Hesperides guarded by the 100 headed dragon, Ladon.ġ2. Steal the cattle of the three-bodied monster, Geryon.ġ1. Get the golden girdle of Hippolyta, the Amazon queen.ġ0. Steal the flesh-eating mares of Diomedes.ĩ. Clean the filthy Augean stables in one day.Ĩ. Slay the 9-headed Hydra in the swamps of Lerna.ĥ. Slay the Nemean Lion and bring back its skin, which was invincible against attacks.Ģ. Like his mythological counterpart, Hercules was apparently a great hero in the God of War series, since he stated that he had completed the twelve seemingly impossible labors that made him famous in mythology.ġ.