Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 1088

Sylas' body was practically quaking under the strain, an odd tug coming at him from all sides. He didn't know what to focus on.

"Pick one!"

The voice echoed in his head, a familiar light and giggling voice, the very one he had heard many times before. But he had never heard it so clearly before.

"Not that one!"

Sylas suddenly frowned. He hadn't hesitated to listen to the voice because it had never done wrong by him. Although he didn't quite know what its motives were, or maybe her motives, what he did know was that there was an opportunity to kill him not long ago and she hadn't taken it.

During the period where the Madness Key was waiting for him to feed it Gold Genes daily, it was because of this voice that he hadn't been swallowed whole.

The more he innately understood about the Madness Key, and the higher his disciplehood became, the more he understood about its inner workings as well.

The Madness Key had a daily quota to meet, and at the end of a seven-day period, there would normally be an increase to that Hunger. Sylas had given himself a one-week time limit when he initially made the mistake of asking a Taboo question he shouldn't have because he knew that any backlash from the Madness Key would be manageable at least for that period.

However, if he failed to feed the Madness Key on the day its Hunger increased, he knew that it would all be over. At that point, the Madness Key would almost certainly swallow up his Will and ultimately kill him.

The backlash he should have received, though, never came. At the very least, it was so minimal he didn't notice it.

After becoming a Level 3 Madness Disciple, he was almost certain that it was because of this voice.

But these words just now… not the first set of them, but the second… he didn't like at all.

The feeling he immediately gravitated toward was Pride. Between the emotions he could feel clearly, there was only really Pride, Envy, and Lust. Of those three, Envy was undoubtedly the strongest.

Oddly enough, he couldn't feel Greed very well at all, but the answer for why came naturally to him as well.

Greed was already occupied.

The moment he had this thought, he wondered if that meant that Gluttony was already occupied by him as well, but the thought was immediately struck down.

Innately, he understood that his Gluttony Seed hadn't evolved. Ultimately… he was lagging too far behind the Rat. The Rat was a true Madness Disciple. As for him, he had no right to call himself the Snake yet.

But none of that explained why the voice didn't want him to take Pride.

"Trust me, Lust is better for you. Just listen to me, you stubborn brute."

It really sounded like a little girl, and honestly, it quite reminded Sylas of his little sister.

At that moment, Sylas began to miss home. He wished he could just return to his family, have dinner with them, listen to them banter back and forth with one another as they talked about their days.

The lazy sort of monotony of those days, those times when the world was boring… he missed them. He wished he could go back…