Atticus's Odyssey: Reincarnated Into A Playground novel Chapter 472

Chapter 472 Sneaking

Atticus and Aurora moved deftly and swiftly from branch to branch. Despite more than 10 minutes having passed since they had fought and killed the bone race warriors, neither of them had uttered a single word to each other, an unusual silence enveloping the scene.

Aurora's expression appeared impassive, as though she was normal, but her gaze couldn't lie. Her eyes were unfocused, as if she was completely lost in thought.

Atticus, of course, noticed all these things, but he still decided not to say anything. Aurora had killed someone, and considering the current situation of the planet, she would do it again.

'I can't be there every time to hold her hand; she has to get through this by herself,' he thought. It was the best situation to train her. Better here than in the battlefield when her life would be at stake.

Atticus clicked on his device, a holographic image of a map appearing in front of him. He glanced at the map without slowing his steps.

'The target's pretty far,' Atticus noted as he looked at the map leading them towards their next target.

Atticus navigated out of the map section and checked his points:

Summit points: 3860 SP

"Just a little more," he thought.

Atticus was very close to having enough summit points to unlock his mana core, which was priced at 4000 SP.

Today was the fourth day since the summit began, and Atticus had hunted a total of three teams and, considering Aurora was with him, three people. He had also noted that killing the bone race warriors only gave him about 50 summit points, which was incredibly low considering the risk.

'They want us to be more focused on hunting each other,' he concluded.

Atticus had wanted to continue his hunt on the bone race warriors, but he had noticed from the map that their next hunt target had abruptly started moving at fast speed towards a certain direction.

He had immediately decided to follow. Atticus had many assumptions about what had happened, and he hoped to the heavens that he was wrong, but that wasn't his priority now. His priority was getting to his target and killing him/her as fast as possible; he had no intention of losing any of his abilities as a penalty.

They both moved fast and quietly, and after a few long moments of silence, Atticus abruptly stopped on one tree branch, his gaze scanning the area.

A bubble of water had immediately enveloped Aurora as he stopped. Atticus had considered the fact that she was too unfocused and wouldn't be able to stop in time and as quietly.

And as it turned out, it had been the right choice.

Scanning the area, Atticus couldn't help but frown. The number of bone race warriors patrolling had tripled, and with his keen perception, Atticus could sight the forms of what was undoubtedly watchtowers far ahead.

Now each of the warriors was mixed between warriors holding guns with helmets and ones with traditional weapons without helmets.

'I really hope I'm wrong,' Atticus thought worriedly.

Atticus turned back and fixed his gaze on Aurora inside the bubble of water. He gave her an intense stare.

Aurora, who saw it, shook her head slightly, her gaze becoming focused. She knew that look; Atticus didn't have to say anything.