Atticus's Odyssey: Reincarnated Into A Playground novel Chapter 578

?"Don't try to control them, connect and communicate with them"—these words sounded very simple and normal, but they held immense significance.

Atticus immediately entered a deep state of focus upon hearing Dekai's words. His gaze became unfocused as he pondered.

Dekai, who saw this, smiled slightly before silently exploding into flames and disappearing, only to reappear a distance away from Atticus, giving him time and space to think.

'It'll be up to him from now on,' Dekai thought, his hands holding his walking stick trembling with excitement. In all his decades of learning and teaching people about fire, he had never come across someone like Atticus before.

'Not even that fool could compare,' Dekai couldn't help but remember one hot-blooded man who had attended the fire sanctum in the past: Avalon.

Both Avalon and Dekai hadn't had the best of relationships, mostly because of Avalon's hot-blooded personality, but even Dekai had to admit that his talent was the best he had ever seen in his life.The best… until now.

Now, Dekai had found a monster in human skin, one that none of them could even dream of competing against.

'What were the odds that the boy would be his kid, haha,' Dekai thought, focusing his gaze on Atticus, not even minding the rest of the students who had also begun to ponder his words.

'Don't control, connect with them,' Atticus repeated those words in his head multiple times as if trying to uncover their true meaning.

However, it would seem as though Dekai hadn't been trying to be cryptic in the first place. Atticus had directly taken up the literal meaning.

'He means that I shouldn't try to control the molecules but… connect with them? How?'

Atticus didn't waste time pondering. Instead, he instantly closed his eyes and tried to get a feel for the molecules in the air around him.

Atticus felt like if he wanted, he could at any time stimulate each of them with a single command. But Dekai had obviously advised against doing that, so Atticus chose to do as Dekai had said and communicate.

Immediately, Atticus felt a weird reaction envelop him as he observed the reactions of the molecules. He had always felt a deeper connection to the element, and the next situation just proved that fact.

They appeared… happy? Atticus didn't know how to explain it. Before, when he had been commanding them, he would always send an intense wave towards them. But now, it was as though he was caressing them.

It went without saying that they visibly enjoyed it.

'Move right,' Atticus asked, and they instantly followed his instructions and moved. He repeated the same thing with the other directions, trying to get a feel for everything.

After a few minutes, and when Atticus felt he had gotten a good enough grasp, he changed the game. _{frёewebηovel.cѳm}

'Ignite together,'

The air around Atticus ignited into flames, a tempest of fiery storm. The other students, who had each been trying to follow Dekai's advice, all stopped and shot Atticus stares. Had he done it?

They weren't sure if he had achieved this using Dekai's advice or not, but Dekai himself knew the answer to that.

Both hands holding his walking stick clenched hard.

'I-insanity. Absolute insanity. He actually formed a connection. In minutes!'

Dekai couldn't believe his eyes. He had utilized his other senses too, but he ended up receiving the exact same answer: Atticus had actually formed a connection!