Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 1144

Chapter 1144: Murderous Intent

Israeal’s eyes were opened wide as his head rolled to the ground, his body convulsing once before he collapsed.

Runes swarmed, finally smashing past the cocoon of Scorned Wraps, only to find that the deed had long been done.

A roaring rage came from the Dungeon once again, but Sylas stood there in silence, coughing up blood before wiping his mouth. He retracted his Scorned Wraps, taking a deep breath as the heart-rending pain in his back threatened to bring him to his knees.

The wound was so bad that that entire side of his body had turned black with bruising, pooling strands of blood engorging the region in an attempt to quickly fix it.

The good news was that Sylas’ Healing Factor had grown again after he became a D-Grade Human Simioid.

The bad news was that his healing seemed particularly slow right now.

For once, this wasn’t because of the Dungeon—it couldn’t impact something like that; that would be too far. Instead, it was because of the rod Jala had attacked him with.

Back then, Sylas had planned to take the blow mostly to his arm, trying to take advantage of the Scorned Wraps to mitigate much of the damage as well. But in an odd twist, his hand ended up entirely uninjured, while his back and shoulder blade ended up in this state.

That had most definitely been an ability of the rod—the perfect control of momentum, shifting its focus from where Sylas could block to a point where he had no choice but to take on the full brunt of the attack.

The good news was that Sylas had still been able to execute his plan to take Jala off balance and snatch the rod away from his control to destroy it.

But the bad news was that the unique energies of the rod had entered Sylas’ body, and as a Legendary Path Treasure, clearly leveled to the extremes of the F Grade, it wasn’t something that Sylas could easily dismiss from his body.

It was quite frustrating. On the one hand, he could ignore the suppression of D-Grades, but on the other, he couldn’t pull F-Grade Aether out of himself?

’A Gold Grade Treasure is quite powerful indeed...’

Sylas hacked up another mouthful of blood as the sphere wrapped around him again, raising him up.

He ignored Jala and Voryx, his mind swirling around the events just now and wondering if he could get away with it again.

Compelling Gaze was one of Nosphaleen’s two Gene Talents. After observing it work before, Sylas had an understanding of how to maximize it.

Nosphaleen claimed that the more cognitive dissonance you could make a person experience, the worse it would be for them and the more difficult it would be for them to pull out of the suggestion.

If he directly took control of Israeal—assuming the latter could just counter it with his Skai Eye—the Dungeon would recognize that Israeal was helpless and then save him. _{frёeweɓηovel.coɱ}