Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 1096

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Sylas could feel his mind expanding in ways that he couldn't quite describe, but rather than feeling overwhelmed, it only felt natural.

This was what he had been most worried about. While the theory was sound, he had no way of knowing what would actually happen when he executed it. But now that things had reached this stage, there was no need for him to consider anything else.

He pressed on, his mind spiraling through the galaxy until he felt it. His Luck was like a moth to the flame, naturally and magnetically pulled toward the one location where he felt the most at home.

Earth.

If the state of his mind was what he worried about the most, this was without a doubt the riskiest part. That wasn't to say he wasn't worried. It made no sense to not be worried about something that was so inherently risky.

It was just that even if what would ultimately come came… he would be more than prepared for it.

This risk—he would take it, because he knew exactly how the system would react to it.

Within these next years, Earth would be protected. It didn't matter who saw it or who knew where it was while it completed its evolution. In fact, if this worked, the time it would take to evolve would only increase, giving Sylas more time to do what he needed to do…

Be strong.

Sylas didn't hesitate. All at once, Earth and the Sylph Planets were connected in a network, a bridge between them taking shape.

The plan of the Sylphs had long been clear to Sylas. By using Nosphaleen or the Clypsians as a bridge, they could make Earth more pliable, bending its rules and making it so that the system didn't recognize them as the threats they truly were.

The system was strong and almost omnipresent and all-powerful, but it was still fallible. It wasn't omnipotent in the truest extent of the word. As such, with the right circumstances, the wool could be pulled over its eyes.

If the Sylphs managed to fool the system into thinking that they were natural parts of Earth—or worse yet, if the backers of the Sylphs managed the same—the end result would only be devastating.

But if you did the reverse, and suddenly it was Earth applying its influence onto these other worlds, the reverse would happen.

Rather than the backers being accepted into Earth, it would instead be the system raising an eyebrow, wondering why there were so many people not of Earth who were suddenly being given Earth's grace.

And in the case that this happened, there would certainly be hell to pay.

This, though… wasn't Sylas' goal.

As cathartic as it would feel to wipe the Sylphs from existence in exchange for what they had done, it would be a waste of his time. The Sylphs were no longer a threat, and their strongest had already been wiped out by the system.

In fact, even if it sounded arrogant, Sylas was half sure that he could wipe out the Sylphs all on his own right now if he had some time to prepare.

Their strongest might be D-Grades, but he didn't believe that there would be many things to take advantage of.