Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 1110

[Bonus thanks to Chronotitan <3]

Nosphaleen waved her tail and they shot forward like the crack of a whip, slithering with such pace through the air that one would have thought they'd spark a fire of friction between their body and the raging winds.

In an instant of time, they had crossed the distance to the winding river and dove in, vanishing from sight.

Sylas realized that there was a very clear deduction to be made. The ocean was very still, so much so that it was hardly kicking up any waves. By comparison, the rivers were truly raging.

This much was odd, especially since they were connected, but not enough to raise eyebrows.

The ocean was too vast in comparison to the river. Why would the speed of one be dictated by the other? The river followed a much narrower path, so it wouldn't be too much of a surprise.

However, there were several more factors to take into consideration.

This was the wider world, not Earth. That wasn't an ocean, it was a lake.

Great, so lakes in the wider universe could be much larger than the lakes Sylas was used to on Earth. Why did that matter?

Well, lakes weren't supposed to be salty, for one, and the river was oddly black. No matter where in the universe you were, that was odd, and something interesting had to have happened to cause it.

Regardless, the most important thing to notice was that the green forest was a trap. Any forest that could flourish so well while near such a density of salt was to be questioned. It was almost like a honey trap in the depths of the abyss.

But by comparison, even though the lake was safer, it was also the center of power causing this change. It would be easier to make it through the lake, but not easy enough that it would save one of all hardship.

In the end, the river that looked the most menacing was the safest. That was because while it looked black on the surface, it was actually flushing out everything that was good from this region. The black was nothing more than illusion to make it look more menacing than it was.

This trial was a test to see the resourcefulness of the participants, their abilities to pick up on context clues from their environment and act accordingly. _{ƒгeewebnovёl.com}

After understanding this, Sylas felt that he had no need to waste his time on these meaningless puzzles anymore. These sorts of things he could do in his sleep, especially with his new Rolodex of information.

If he could see through all of the tricks with his Rune Mastery, why wouldn't he, instead of standing around trying to decipher these brain teasers?

And that was exactly what he did.

The Petals of the Seeing Thorn watched as Nosphaleen tore through one puzzle after another at a pace that had taken the other girls days to complete.

No… most of the girls weren't even placed this far back in the race because they had joined much earlier.

By the time Sylas began to catch up to the most common starting regions, his greatest limiting factor wasn't even the danger anymore, it was instead the distances he had to fly.

Soon, the challenges became so easy that Sylas didn't even have to kill to deal with them; he just flew by too fast for them to even react.