Atticus's Odyssey: Reincarnated Into A Playground novel Chapter 1586

Chapter 1586: Invite

’What is this...?’

Atticus swept his gaze around him as he fell from an endless sky. The horizon stretched as far as his eyes could see before giving way to a vast sprawl of green land below.

He felt a wave of relief as he checked himself. His attire had changed into a simple white and black kimono and his katana rested silently at his waist. More importantly...

’My powers aren’t being restricted.’

He narrowed his eyes as the ground rushed up to meet him, and instinctively prepared to manipulate the air, only for his momentum to slow on its own as he descended gently and landed on solid earth.

’What’s going on? Is this a trial?’

Keeping a hand near his katana, he scanned his surroundings again, searching for anything that might explain the situation. But he gaze froze on a lone figure standing some distance away.

’The avatar...’

The man stood completely still, staring back at him with an empty, expressionless face.

’I didn’t see him from the sky.’

Atticus raised his guard instantly. He had no way of knowing whether this was the patient instructor, or the version of the avatar that existed only to kill.

He watched as the avatar mirrored him, gripping its blade in silence.

Several seconds passed, and Atticus frowned.

’Are we fighting or not?’

He relaxed his grip and let his blade lower slightly, watching as the avatar did the same. Then he drew it again, and the avatar followed his movement without delay.

’Is this...?’

A thought struck him, and he tested it immediately.

Atticus shot forward, bringing his katana down in an arc. The avatar parried cleanly to the side, but Atticus followed through with a brutal kick aimed at its head.

It barely managed to block with its arm, the impact forcing it off balance. Though it recovered quickly and moved to thrust its blade, only to halt when Atticus leapt back, widening the distance between them.

He studied the avatar with intrigue.

It wasn’t speaking. No instructions, no cryptic phrases, no guidance of any kind. This wasn’t a trial.

It was a training session.

’So that’s why it feels different.’

The earlier call must have been informing him of this. Did this mean he could spar with the avatar whenever he wished?

Atticus felt a surge of excitement as he realized the implications. He couldn’t imagine a better partner.

’As soon as I stop attacking, it stops. The katana arts are expected... but what about my other powers?’

Curious to see the limits of this arrangement, he began performing different tests.

As it turned out, the avatar couldn’t use any of his other abilities, especially not his bloodline. Aside from the katana arts and a refined, near perfect fighting style, there was nothing else.

Still, Atticus was excited regardless. What better way was there to learn the use of the katana arts than directly from the source itself?

’Wait... what happens to my real body?’

The thought stayed with him just long enough to make him stop his experiments, and eventually he willed himself out of the katana world.

He opened his eyes in the training room the next moment, still standing exactly where he’d been before, with nothing around him appearing to have changed.

’What about time.’

Atticus immediately took note of the current time down to the nanoseconds, then re entered the katana world, remained there for several minutes, and finally returned to his body once more.

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