Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 1022

Chapter 1022 Back End

"… We do business across hundreds of galaxies and our clients are numbers in the trillions. We probably have millions of different business hubs, but it would be impossible to trust that many different managers. Even if we did manage to do that, and they were trustworthy, just the process of auditing mistakes, or the accumulated mistakes themselves, would be a nightmare to deal with."

"So your solution is… to put it all in the hands of fewer people?"

Sylas' skepticism was well within his tone. Delegating tasks well was something that any decent leader had to learn how to do. But the Golden Grove actually went in the opposite direction, and that was very odd.

It was against every common note of wisdom he had ever seen. It was more than a little bit odd.

"You'll have to use the UniForge before you can understand why that is."

"And what? Die?"

Megean blinked, seemingly not having expected this answer. She had already pegged Sylas as arrogant, so the thought that he would try to use this as leverage for some sort of other power play had already been thrown to the back of her mind.

"What do you mean by that?"

"Right now I'm a prisoner. I'm still in chains. And I've been told to not become too 'cocky' according to you. Now, before my trial, I'm supposed to jump into a death trap… why? Because you say so?"

Megean was speechless. What was happening here, exactly?

"I… this is an opportunity for you."

"You could have fooled me. I didn't hear anything about an opportunity, all you said was that I could die." _{ƒreewebɳovel.com}

Megean didn't even know how to reply to all of this. She was truly struck into silence, and her own mind short-circuited for a bit.

"… What do you want, exactly?"

"Me? I'm not in a position to ask for anything. I'm also not sure of how your rules and regulations work, or if slave labor is something that—."

"We do not use slaves!" Megean immediately refuted.

"Well, if you don't use slaves, then I'll have to reject your offer of entering this death trap."

At that moment, the oddity of the situation seemed to finally set in for her.

Megean didn't even know what to say. She just stood there in silence, half-expecting Sylas to just walk off, until she remembered he was chained and she was holding onto the other end of it.

At that moment, the oddity of the situation seemed to finally set in for her.

"… Alright. Forget it," she waved the chain and pulled. "Enter the UniForge and we can write off your crimes."

"Do you have the authority to do that?"

"Your galaxy is under my jurisdiction. Whether a report gets filed or not is up to me."

"That's not an answer."

Megean's lip twitched. Wasn't this guy supposed to be falling all over himself to please her? Wasn't he supposed to be arrogantly proclaiming that this wouldn't be much of an effect on his life?

Lorien's eyes bounced back and forth between the two of them and then sighed inwardly. This Megean girl might be a genius, but she was just a 20-something-year-old.

Clearly, Lorien had no idea that Sylas had only just had his 27th birthday not long ago. Not that he noticed, given all the time dilations he was constantly suffering under. Keeping track of dates, especially for something so insignificant, wasn't something he had the time or bandwidth to bother with.

Either way, she was starting to feel bad for Megean.