I find the more probable outcome there that Lich King tortures Kratos for longer than Kratos can endure or until his soul belongs to the Lich King. I don't think Kratos can battle the spirit world.
Right, because Lich King has definately shown he can trap a 300 foot tall immortal God who has the powers of the very being who with a thought raised an army into the sky, popping their heads, imploding them, etc.
He has shown no such thing. Much like how Kratos has never battled the spirit world. For as long as Kratos lack spiritual protection, he is exposed to the Lich King. No matter how big or how much Kratos has done. Every slash by the Lich King steals a portion of the victims soul and there is nothing Kratos can do about it. The Lich King has proven capable of teleporting over a thousand miles. Kratos can't fight and he can't run.
Seriously...If you think it would be at all a good idea for the Lich King to enter a physical battle with a being who trumps him physically in his base form...You are just wrong.
Lich King slashes Kratos once. Kratos punts Lich King out of orbit.
Also, Kratos has the Blade of Olympus. Which makes this fight extraordinarly broken. The Blade at a weaker form was able to end the Great Titan War in one blow, defeating every Titan, and now it is in the hands of God Kratos.
What stops Kratos from holding LK with TK, and then destroying him with one attack from the Blade of Olympus?
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Hades job, sure, but the way religion, Greek religion, specificly, works, means that the afterlife isn't far away for a diety to casually reach over and smack a deceased person in the ass for being a jerk during their life.
Also, In Greek myth Aphrodite is the result of [I think] Cronos' severed genitalia being thrown into the sea. Anythign can happen in Greek myth.
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I don't know guys, the two battles with Tirion were physical, so was the battle of Wrathgate. The Lich King pretty much got his ass handed to him in all of these cases.
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