Atticus's Odyssey: Reincarnated Into A Playground novel Chapter 579

?Every single person watching Atticus felt their hearts freeze. He had actually done it. He had passed the test of the second summit within hours of reaching it.

The people of the second summit didn't react like those at the first summit. At the first, they had each been shocked beyond words but, in the end, believed it was possible and felt the need to bow.

But at the second summit, it was as though they were each watching a miracle happen before their eyes, something that shouldn't be possible, something that shouldn't happen in reality! There was just utter silence, none of them reacting. _{ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm}

Atticus didn't say a word and met Dekai's stare. The old man had barely been able to regain his composure, but his hands clenched his staff so tightly the whites of his knuckles were showing.

His voice boomed:

"Atticus Ravenstein, you have passed the test of the second summit."

Atticus felt something warm appear on his back. It was insanely subtle and appeared like a tiny lit flame behind his back.

'There are two?'

Atticus hadn't noticed it before, but there was another hot spot on his back. It was just as subtle as what he had just felt, and Atticus was surprisingly sure that it had been there for a long while.

'Looks like it's an indication that I passed the first and second summits.'

The people of the second summit, especially the students, fixed their gazes on the second lit flame on Atticus's back, a wave of different feelings enveloping them.

Most felt jealousy, while others were still beyond shocked at what was happening.

But neither Atticus nor Dekai cared about their thoughts.

"You can descend and rest if you want to. The third summit will be more challenging than the second."

Atticus could feel that Dekai's tone had become softer than before. In fact, before it felt as though the old man was trying hard to be firm but had faltered because of Atticus's actions.

"I will meet you at the third summit."

Dekai waited for no response before bursting into motes of light and disappearing from the scene.

Atticus stared at where Dekai had been standing, his gaze narrowed. Before, when he had first seen it, Atticus had absolutely no idea how Dekai had done it.

But now that he had gained a bit more knowledge about the basics of the fire element, he finally had a bit of an inkling.

As he had been saying from the very beginning, it was all in the molecules.

'He had connected with them and given them instructions, but that's really vague. I'm not sure, but it looks like there's some kind of levels or stages to this.'

Atticus, of course, had no idea what exactly Dekai had asked the molecules to do for him, but he knew for sure it hadn't been something as simple as igniting.

It had been something sophisticated, he was sure of this. Something that he couldn't achieve currently as he could only give the molecules simple instructions.

Atticus cleared his thoughts. 'Should I continue?' he pondered.