Atticus's Odyssey: Reincarnated Into A Playground novel Chapter 960

The pressure was intense.

As the paragons of all the other races arrived, a suffocating weight gripped the area like an iron vice.

If not for the fact that the platform had been created by Oberon, who had accounted for the pressure from people of their strength gathering together, it would have long since crumbled.

Regardless, it still shook with intensity as the tension skyrocketed.

’Just as expected.’

Atticus calmly scanned the area.

He had already anticipated this.

The other races hadn’t just sent representatives to this meeting.

No.

Each of their respective leaders had come personally.

It wasn’t every day one would hear that a seventeen-year-old had become a paragon.

It was a matter too serious to leave for representatives.

They had come to bear witness themselves and see if the news was true or not. But Atticus knew that this wasn’t the only reason they had come.

Their gazes were fixed on him like predators watching prey.

They were shocked.

They were baffled.

And lastly—

They were threatened.

He was strong at such a young age.

His potential was unimaginable.

He would surpass them.

For most of the gathered leaders, upon seeing Atticus, these had been the thoughts that formed in their heads.

And undoubtedly, because of this, the pressure radiating from most of them turned oppressive.

This had been the second reason they attended the meeting themselves: a show of dominance.

From the reports, Atticus had fought seven Vampyros paragons and won.

His power had been that insane.

It was a situation too serious to send mere normal paragons.

They had to force Atticus to sign the alliance mana contract, and only through dominance could that be achieved.

They descended slowly, unhurriedly landing on the platform and taking their seats on the thrones.

The number of thrones exceeded their numbers, allowing them to avoid sitting close to one another.

’Looks like they figured it out, huh.’

Aside from the tension directed towards him, Atticus could sense a weird tension between the other races, especially the superior races.

Something was going on.

Something he had anticipated when he revealed the imposters to the human paragons.

As Atticus and the human paragons landed and took their seats, an intense bloodlust engulfed the entire platform.

"You have no right to sit with us, boy."

The paragons didn’t turn towards the Blood Queen Jezeneth, who had just spoken.

Instead, they turned to the one she had been referring to—

Atticus.

He was sitting on one of the thrones, a seat that was at the same level as them.

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Naturally, the seating arrangement would be divided between the superior, mid, and lower races, with the former at a higher position.

But the shock of seeing a paragon-rank child had made them brush it off, at least momentarily.

The implications couldn’t have been clearer.

It meant that the child was of the same status as them.

Their gazes narrowed in unison.

She was right.