All Chapters of My Alpha is a Lunatic: Chapter 61 - Chapter 64

Waiter Three’s eyes, wide with a terror that hadn’t been there a second ago, were fixed on me. The fear tasted sweet. Then, a blade erupted from his chest in a spray of black ichor.Liam landed silently behind the collapsing form, wrenching his sword free. He’d finished the manager and moved like a ghost. The waiter was dead before the fear could even settle, his body dissolving into motes of corrupted data.Two waves. We’d cleared more than half the horde. The pressure on the others visibly eased. I turned, scanning the crater for the statue.It was gone.My blood went cold. Did it run? Impossible. After absorbing Jenna, it was stronger than all of us combined. It had no reason to flee.A mournful melody drifted into my ears, twisting from a dirge into something seductively beautiful. “Not again,” I muttered, my hands flying to my ears.Too late.The world shimmered. The crater, Liam, Spark, Marcus—all vanished. I stood alone in a featureless gray void. The air was still and dead.I

The irony wasn’t lost on me. I’d been dumped back into the Game with a rookie account, stripped of everything. A perfect, fucked-up accident.It aligned perfectly with my original, buried goal. To burn it all down from the inside.I thought of the Vances—Caleb, Anya. My so-called family. In their cowardly betrayal, they’d accidentally done me the biggest favor of my life. A bitter laugh coiled in my throat. Once this Instance was over, I’d have to think of a suitably… expressive way to thank them.A shiver ran through Jenna’s spectral form. She hugged her arms, her translucent figure flickering. “What is it?” she asked, her voice a whisper of static. “What ‘accident’?”I shook my head, the manic glee fading into something colder. “Later.” I studied her. The friend, the teammate, now a ghost bound to this cursed rock. “It’s been almost three years,” she said, a sad smile touching her lips. “How have you been, Kiera?”How had I been? I’d lived in ignorant, gilded comfort while she’d been