Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 1019

Chapter 1019 Hear

The woman was rendered speechless; even the Inspector paused for a moment, looking at Sylas as though he couldn't believe his boldness. He had already felt that there was something odd about Sylas when he first picked him up, but he had already warned Sylas that whatever cache he thought he had in his galaxy wasn't really worth much at all here.

What the Inspector didn't expect was for the woman behind the desk to take interest in Sylas almost immediately. But he expected even less for Sylas to take such an… unconventional approach.

While it was the case that the woman seemed to be just a receptionist, this was far from the case. There was a very good reason why there was only one person here, manning so many formations and even having the details to a mission that an Inspector was on.

Inspectors were one half of the Golden Grove, but that half was divided into two more halves. Or more accurately, it was more of a 95/5 situation, where 95% of the Inspectors were boots on the ground and brutes, while the other 5% were exactly like this woman.

Inspectors like the man were known as Enforcers, while Inspectors like the woman were known as Guardians.

Guardians had large segments of Inspectors that they looked over, and they were all Rune Masters with exceptionally powerful Wills capable of not only processing a large amount of information, but also disseminating that information in a quick and effective manner.

The other half of the Golden Grove Guild, the half that focused on money making and things of the like, didn't have such clear dividing lines. But they often had their own Guardians overseeing things as well.

Merchants weren't necessarily good at processing large amounts of information. Usually, they were more like the Memory Merchant that Sylas had found in the Guiz System City. They had special abilities that helped them to find or produce valuable products, but they couldn't necessarily maximize those profits without a support system of their own.

In this case, it could be said that Guardians often played important roles on both sides of the aisle, and if the Inspectors were the backbone of the guild, then Guardians were the backbone of said backbone, the very chemical structure that made up the bones themselves and not only gave them rigidity, but also flexibility.

So when the woman laid eyes on Sylas, she saw further than the Inspector did. And after one interaction, she saw through many oddities in a single instant of time.

Oddities that made Sylas an obvious candidate for Guardian training.

From Sylas' response, it was clear that he not only had the demeanor of a Guardian, but the flexible thinking of one too. It took quite the madman to purposely break the law of the guild enough to have him sent here.

By this point, Lorien seemed to have finally regained her bearings. It wasn't easy to be teleported such large distances.

Often, there was a time dilation to make it feel shorter than the travel was. And then there was the constant ebb and flow of space and the changes to it that one had to consider as well. It truly made everything feel like a nightmare.

For those that hadn't had at least several hundred travels under their belt, it was a very tall task to come out in peak condition.

And this was the second reason the woman was so shocked by Sylas. Why was he fine?

There was only one possible explanation for this.

Time and Space affinity. Not just any time and space affinity, but one that was rooted in his Will itself. Likely even a Will Ability.

Sylas had no idea that just reacting as though he was fine after a mere teleportation would put him into this state. He had been teleported to various places several times before—even long before he got his hands on his Progenitor Flame Abilities—and he had never experienced this at all.