Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 1563

1563 Failed

"You agreed quite quickly." Cassarae said, her eyes rapidly blinking as she tried to look for some disatisfaction on Sylas' face.

"Why wouldn't?"

The Hollow Wing stepped across a full 500 kilometers again, flashing in and out of existence. Harsh winds clapped like thunder around them, threatening to blow them off its back entirely.

But Cassarae and Sylas both dealt with it without much ease.

Cassarae snorted in response. "You think you're slick?"

Sylas raised an eyebrow.

In truth, he didn't want Cassarae to come, but that wasn't for the reasons she was thinking. He agreed readily because if he rejected, then his mother would feel that he was lying about how easy this was all going to be. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

He had a feeling that Cassarae knew this too, so she had taken advantage to make sure he didn't get mesmerized by another Demon's legs.

In the end, he had to be accepting of it, but the words that Kael spoke of kept rotating continuously in his mind.

Long ago, Sylas had deduced that the true purpose of misaligning the continents of Earth with the continents of the Aether Plane was for the purpose of the Progenitor Flame.

Travelling to the center of the world was a grave feet. The core of a world pre- Summoning was already about as hot as the surface of a medium-sized star like the Sun. As a world evolved and gained the ability to have a Progenitor, not only would it grow substantially larger, but reaching the center would only become more difficult.

Sylas had deduced that by aligning the opposite sides of the world with Portals, a path right to the core of Earth had been created.

However, back then, Sylas still hadn't been able to gain a full picture. It was only enough to tell him that he needed to quickly get to the center of Earth so that no one lit the Progenitor Flame before he did.

The mechanisms at work, and the bits and pieces and details that were left scrambled in his mind never fully came together.

In a lot of ways, this was one of the reasons Sylas was so fearsome. He didn't need the full scope of a picture to be able to pick out the important tidbits that were core to him.

Sylas' eyes began to glow.

'I was in a battle with Vorthyx. He began to emit Demonic Aether, his body changing, morphing, shifting... identically to Grin. Grin had been a citizen of the Celestial Republic. I only came across him because I got into trouble with the Celestial Republic's military during a Quicktime Event...'

Vorthyx was a Coralspire, one of the prominent Clans of the Clypsians. The fact that he had the same odd demonic transformation as Grin had lit something in the back of Sylas' mind that allowed him to make the connection.

Sylas had never tried to pursue this matter too much. Ultimately, the Emperor of the Celestial Republic had still been helpful in the end, and just because a few of his citizens were compromised, didn't mean that he was.

Plus, every faction of Earth had compromised members. Even Casstle Main had had Gregory whom had almost become a large problem before Sylas managed to kill him.

It could be said that Earth had almost too many moving pieces, and the idea that Sylas would have to manage all of them was far too much of a headache. There wasn't enough time, and unless the threat was enough to move him, it was little more than a waste of time to try and and stamp out every single one.

But Kael's words this time triggered something.

The Portals and Demons again?

Was it really a coincidence?

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