Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 1017

Chapter 1017 Honored Inspector

The Inspector was wreathed in white and gold, a pair of gold pauldrons embroidered with white marble hanging from his shoulders as thick, white leather robes fell in a stream down his body. There were a pair of wings of white at his back, looped with chains of gold and carrying thick golden ring piercings along their length.

It looked far more like an angel was descending from above than the guard of a mere merchant guild—especially when he had a golden tome in one hand and a heavy chain in the other.

Sylas' eyes, though seemingly having finally regained focus from what he was doing, were focused on the wings.

'… Interesting.'

The thought was fleeting before Sylas felt the gaze of the Inspector land on him. Then, the gaze of the man shifted to just above Sylas' head as though he were reading something.

The Inspector raised an eyebrow, tilting his head to the side.

Until now, Sylas was still unable to see the true face of the man. He looked vaguely human, but the lights coming from him were so bright that it was honestly hard to tell if there was anything but the shape that they shared.

But focusing on the eyes, Sylas knew that what he was looking at was certainly not a human, not with the way the man's pupils were pill-shaped, laying out horizontally across his irises.

There was also another aura hanging in the air, one that Sylas felt like he was getting more sensitive toward as time went on. The aura of beasts.

A toad.

"You are the Czar of this guild branch, correct?" the Inspector asked as though he wasn't sure.

"Yes."

"Mm…" The Inspector fell into another round of silence before his gaze turned a bit dull. Sylas felt something latch onto his Will and start to pull on it.

He frowned.

Crack.

The Inspector blinked awake as though he had just startled himself out of a nap because he tilted too far in his chair.

His head tilted to the other side, looking at Sylas from another angle. There was more confusion in his eyes.

Right now, he was facing the same suppressions as everyone else. Or, more accurately, anyone that came to this galaxy as an outsider.

Because they had a guild here, the Inspector had certain leeway to punish and deal with those under his faction's umbrella, but he couldn't act with impunity.

Just now, he had tried to use an Inspector Skill known as [Profound Recall]. Using the Will of a target as a proxy, it could reconstruct the lingering movements of the Will in the past few minutes up to several days or even weeks depending on the relative strength of the two parties involved.

Granted, the Will of the Inspector was heavily suppressed upon being here. But it should have been more than enough to deal with a little F-Grade from a remote corner.

However, his Skill had actually collapsed from a little push from Sylas.

The only way that would be possible would be if Sylas had Shaped Will. Was there an F-Grade with Shaped Will here?

"I'll have to ask you to stop resisting, otherwise this will be added to your list of offenses." _{freewebnσvel.cѳm}