Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 1581

1581 Not Worth His Time

Elara sat at a windowsill, looking out into the world with a pout on her face.

"Well, that didn't last for long. How boring."

After a while, the childishness on her face seemed to fade away, replaced by a contemplative, mature look that belied her age by what felt like decades.

Staring out into the new constructions of Castle Main going up, she wondered if she should skip school again. It was all so very boring.

Reaching out a finger, she drew with a well-polished and manicured nail on the window. Runes followed the arc of her motion, lining the glass as though she were cutting a hole right through it.

Life fluttered from it, but just as she was about to complete the circle, she stopped, shaking her head.

She really didn't want to compete with her brother, but sometimes she wondered which of them really was better.

As far as she was concerned, though... Sylas was a little soft. He had a fluffier, smoother part of himself that she didn't have.

[A Legend has sensed you]

[Would you like to establish a connection?]

[Yes] [No]

Elara didn't seem to have noticed the notification at all considering how she reacted, her finger hovering in place without completing the circle.

After a moment, her gaze seemed to regain some focus, and she looked at it before waving it away.

"I need food," she said after a while, her bright smile returning.

Now that she thought about it, maybe she should grow stronger if for no other reason than the fact she could eat more.

There were many sweets to try out in this world.

Sylas sat down with his eyes closed as the ship hurtled through space, moving so fast it probably wouldn't take them much more than a few minutes to return to the Sanctum.

He actually hadn't known what Fowler and that woman wanted to do. He didn't even know who the latter was, for that matter-though he had expected that Fowler would be receiving some help from outsiders.

What he did know, though, was that Fowler had made a critical mistake.

The method he was trying to use to steal Sylas' Title from him was one that took advantage of the system's confusion. By forcing a Cross Tier challenge, the system was in a state where it was placing Sylas and everyone around him on the same plane. So, if Sylas lost, it made the system doubly question things.

The reason Sylas hadn't seen this as a potential method in the past was because he didn't have as much backing as the now-dead, once-future Matriarch of the Kaelthar.

She had known how all such Titles were once connected in the past, and how the current system had no choice but to separate them and weaken their potency.

So she knew how to take advantage of the lingering connections that still remained between them.

It had to be remembered that Fowler hadn't had a great feat of intelligence to gain the Dominus Paragon Title—at least not in the same sense Sylas had. He gained his Title after his feats in the Rune Tower.

Logically, for a feat in Runes, he should have gained Primus Luminaria instead. But while he had displayed great skill, he hadn't fully crafted his own Path of Runes yet.

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