It was unexpected, yet somehow not surprising.
Since running into the zombie version of Sara Lance, Atreus had stopped expecting to easily claim any heads, even from "ordinary" villains.
According to the storyline of *Extraordinary Spider*, Norman Osborn should've been dead by now.
But who said a real-deal Green Goblin from the zombie universe couldn't show up?
This Green Goblin was a prime example of the saying, "If I run fast enough, I won't need to dodge."
He flew erratically in circles, occasionally seizing the opportunity to fire a burst of bullets at Atreus or launch something akin to a laser cannon.
Atreus could help Gwen block the bullets, but there was nothing he could do about the laser cannon.
For such highly mobile opponents, the best solution would be to call in equally high-mobility heroes, like Iron Man, Falcon, or even Bruce Wayne with his Batplane.
Too bad none of them were around.
Atreus had no choice. "Gwen, have you ever heard of the 'Big Swing'?"
Gwen instinctively raised her elbows, revealing her slender waist and abs wrapped in her tight suit. She froze for a second and spat in frustration, "You jerk! What are you thinking about at a time like this?"
"Not that kind of swing! This kind..." Atreus muttered a few quick words. Gwen finally understood. Luckily, her Ghost Spider mask hid her face, or Atreus would've seen it turn bright red.
In next round!
Atreus couldn't hold back anymore and lunged out.
His speed was nothing short of terrifying.
With an initial speed of nearly 100 meters per second, it was quite intimidating.
When Atreus launched himself with all his might, the Green Goblin was indeed startled—but just startled.
In mid-air, Atreus's bulky frame was nothing more than a large target.
Green Goblin shifted his weight, and his glider performed a nimble left turn. If everything went as expected, Atreus, having lost momentum after leaping into the air, would land in the glider's crosshairs in two seconds.
But just then, a well-timed web shot changed everything.
Gwen's web hit Atreus squarely in the lower back.
"Get that bastard!" Gwen growled, using all her strength to yank the web sideways, abruptly altering Atreus's trajectory.
From a distance, Atreus now looked like a pendulum, with him as the hammerhead and the web as the handle.
"Ah!" This time, the Green Goblin was genuinely scared.
This inhuman mid-air maneuver wasn't something he had accounted for.
As luck would have it, he saw the guy who called himself Kratos snap his fingers.
*Snap!*
The sound of death and destruction.
In the next moment, the Green Goblin's glider erupted in sparks.
The glider was damaged, though not completely wrecked. Clearly, this model was a cut above the one Harry used. Atreus's full-force electrical interference failed to take out a single engine, only causing the glider to lose its steering.
"Hmph!" The Green Goblin snorted and stomped hard with his right foot, physically forcing the glider to turn, narrowly evading Atreus's pursuit again.
At the critical moment, yet another web shot appeared.
This volley was impressively precise—not thick webs, but a dense mesh that blocked nearly all of the Green Goblin's escape routes.
*Predictive positioning!*
Atreus never expected that a top-tier move from *League of Legends* would work in real life.
"Nice!" Atreus glanced back, only to see a confused Gwen. She had already used all her strength to pull Atreus, so how could she have had the energy to fire a second web?
Wait, what?
Atreus finally realized that the finishing move wasn't Gwen's doing but rather Peter's, who had just woken from unconsciousness and rushed back into the fight.
Even though the webs were thin, the Green Goblin couldn't ignore them.
At that moment, the Green Goblin's heart nearly leaped out of his chest in fear.
In a desperate move, he did something no one expected—his green body leapt high into the air, aiming for the one gap in the web, attempting to pass through while leaving his glider behind.
If Atreus hadn't saved his last move, the Green Goblin would've succeeded.
At the very last second, Atreus abruptly flipped his wrists, revealing two small air jets in his palms. They resembled Iron Man's repulsor beams, which also double as auxiliary propulsion for flight.
Using his *Elemental Mastery*, Atreus compressed the air and blasted it out.
Though this wasn't enough to let him fly freely, it allowed him to make a critical burst movement in this key moment.
The scene looked just like the famous *Rocket Jump* from video games: shooting a single rocket at the ground to propel oneself upward, landing on the enemy's head to fire a second rocket.
*Shhhzz!*
Green Goblin, now without any leverage in the air, was truly desperate. As Atreus's bald head zoomed in at high speed, the Goblin screamed, "Get away from me!"
He hurled several pumpkin bombs.
Unexpectedly, Atreus didn't dodge a single one. He bulldozed through the explosions and finally tackled the Green Goblin.
"Arrghh—"
It was a close-quarter fight now!
To be fair, the Green Goblin was no slouch in battle. He was absolutely in the same league as Spider-Man.
But his opponent was someone who had killed zombie Peter and Rhino, absorbing some of their powers in the process.
Green Goblin's blade swing was sliced in half by Atreus.
And it wasn't just the blade—the Goblin's decayed arm and half his chest went with it.
But the Green Goblin was one of the most ruthless villains out there. In what would've been death moment for any regular boss, he triggered every bomb on his body.
*Boom!*
The violent explosion once again blew Atreus away from the Green Goblin.
Normally, this would give the Goblin a moment to catch his breath.
But Atreus wasn't done.
Even as he was blown backward, he hurled his *Chaos Blade* at the glider.
The still-flying glider was pulled by the chain attached to the Chaos Blade. glider swung in a 180-degree arc in mid-air, smashing hard into the Green Goblin's stomach.
*Wham!*
The powerful impact flung the Green Goblin's body straight into a support pillar atop the Empire State Building.
glider had two sharp, curved blades at its front. And the last foe those blades would ever face turned out to be the Green Goblin himself.
"Aaargh!"
With a desperate scream, the Green Goblin was almost sliced in half, hanging on by just a sliver of abdominal muscle connecting his upper and lower halves.
As history would have it, almost every Green Goblin was killed by their own glider.
Perhaps this, too, was a kind of cursed fate.
Gwen supported Peter as they approached. Right in front of them, Atreus ignored the remaining half of the Green Goblin's futile resistance and quickly ripped off his mask.
Sure enough, the rotten, dried-up face underneath was terrifying, but unmistakably, it was Norman Osborn.
(End of chapter)