Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 1116

Matriarch Valeria rushed into the hall to find it in complete and utter chaos. It could be said that in the history of this Petals of the Seeing Thorn branch, this was the worst event to ever happen.

Honestly, the Matriarch was floored. Just what had been protecting that little girl that it could cause this much carnage?

She wanted to blame Soryntha for giving her poor information, but there wasn't an ounce of the Matriarch that believed her daughter would make such a rudimentary mistake. There was no way she would mistake an F-Grade for something else. It was well within Soryntha's capabilities to see through at least that tier.

Unless there was a treasure to hide Tier that Matriarch Valeria wasn't aware of or familiar with, that snake was most definitely an F-Grade existence.

But it was also quick and efficient and had somehow skated by all of her most powerful warriors.

No, that wasn't true. There was one who had died.

Lise.

Lise had died so quickly that there was no report that could be given. That made Matriarch Valeria believe that this snake was even stronger than what it had already displayed.

But… where was it?

Matriarch Valeria spread her senses out and turned silent when she felt nothing at all.

Gone? That was impossible. There was…

Matriarch Valeria's head snapped back to the maze as she thought of the one and only way that could have happened. But that was impossible too. That snake didn't have their Unique Gene. How—?

Her eyes opened wide.

Somehow, Nosphaleen had made it in here with the snake. Who was to say that she couldn't make it out?

Soryntha claimed that Nosphaleen was almost certainly dead, but the Matriarch knew how tricky it was to nail down such things.

This was trouble. A lot of trouble.

Had Nosphaleen just been a normal woman, it would be fine. But the rules of the Petals of the Seeing Thorn…

'Dammit.'

The Matriarch's greatest regret was that she hadn't been able to raise an heiress with her talent. Soryntha seemed like a shocking genius, but she was just one Titan of one generation—and not even at the top of the list either.

With how long the Matriarch had lived, how many iterations of the Titans Leaderboard had she seen? How many Sorynthas were there? There was at least one a decade.

But while Soryntha had decent enough talent, she was too ambitious.

Ambition wasn't a problem normally. It became one when that ambition was overblown in comparison to one's actual abilities. She was constantly chasing levels she couldn't reach, and that made her miss opportunities that were right in front of her.

Now all of that had boiled over into her finally taking a chance on something—but it was a chance that would put everything the Valeria Clan had ever built in great jeopardy.

And then there was her younger daughter. Nyssa was smarter than Soryntha, in the Matriarch's opinion. She was sharper, better at taking small advantages, and as disdainful as Soryntha was of her little sister, there were hundreds—if not thousands—of Nyssas in their Clan, but only Nyssa herself had managed to reach her current standing.

Personality-wise, if not for the inferiority complex that came from being constantly suppressed beneath her sister, Nyssa was actually far more like the Matriarch than Soryntha was.

If only she could fuse her two daughters together.

If only.

And now, this mess had been placed at her feet.

'What to do. What direction to take?'

"Show me." _{fгee𝑤ebɳoveɭ.cøm}