Atticus's Odyssey: Reincarnated Into A Playground novel Chapter 1058

BAM!

Ozeroth’s radiant figure landed beside Atticus with a loud crash, dust billowing around him.

"Who pissed in your breakfast?" he said casually, glancing at Atticus, who wore an icy expression.

Atticus’s mouth twitched slightly, barely restraining a smile. It was typical Ozeroth, he hadn’t even lowered his voice. His words rumbled through the area, echoing in the ears of every stunned spectator who was still frozen in dread.

Atticus finally spoke. "The Vampyros Queen?"

Ozeroth’s face contorted briefly before he cleared his throat. "That sneaky bitch ran with her tail tucked between her legs."

Atticus’s brow furrowed. He didn’t like that. He had hoped this battle would take care of most, if not all, of his enemies. But one of the worst had just slipped away.

Still, it wasn’t Jezeneth herself he was worried about.

’The one controlling her…’

She’d report back, and another clash was inevitable.

’If he’s controlling the Blood Queen, then he’s more powerful than her. I have to be careful.’

Atticus turned to Ozeroth and sneered.

"After all your boasting, she still slipped away. Maybe you’re not as great as you always claim."

Ozeroth’s face flushed red. "Take that back, bond! She ran away from my magnificence! It’s not my fault the leaders of your alliance are spineless!"

Atticus chuckled. "Of course, you’d find someone else to blame. I thought you were a man of results and action."

"I am!" Ozeroth snapped, jabbing a finger toward him. "I crushed the skull of that lizard! Wasn’t that action enough for you?"

"Considering all your boasting," Atticus said dryly, "I expected more. Also… have you always been this tall?"

His eyes scanned Ozeroth from head to toe. "Why does it feel like you did this intentionally? Are you trying to be taller than me?"

Ozeroth reeled back. "That is preposterous! The great Ozeroth has always been this tall!"

"Sure," Atticus said, staring at him with a deadpan expression.

Ozeroth pointed at him, face flushed, mouth open, but no words came out. Finally, he growled, "I hate you!"

Then, with a huff, he shrank down and zipped into Atticus’s chest.

The expressions on the onlookers’ faces were impossible to describe.

After all the battles, the deaths, the carnage, the brutal torture, they were… joking? Laughing? Teasing each other like old friends?

It was absurd.

And somehow, it was even more terrifying. It meant something like this was just another day for Atticus Ravenstein.

Suddenly, space ruptured around Eletantron, cracks spidering across the air like shattered glass. His face was contorted with rage, his eyes burning with nothing but hate.

He locked eyes with Atticus and growled, "I will make you pay for this. No matter what."

Then, with a violent implosion, space shattered, and he vanished.

High above, the Dimensari airships swiftly took off, each disappearing into warp speed one after the other.

Atticus watched it all unfold in silence. He made no move to follow.

’I still can’t kill him.’

He had tried everything, but Eletantron still escaped. The trick he had used with Azrakan wouldn’t work again.

Atticus doubted the man even had anything left he cared about enough to sacrifice himself. Nothing to use. Nothing to hold against him.

His gaze slowly shifted to the remaining alliance leaders and apexes.

’How should I deal with them?’

He had already retrieved and stored Carius and Drakthanion’s cores, and, to his surprise, had found Karn Voss’s body hidden inside Carius’s space storage.