Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 1155

Chapter 1155: Wafting Evil

Sylas stood over the vessel he was trying to use, tilting his head, thinking, frowning, and then bending down to do more work.

He was quickly deciphering how it worked, but it was taking much longer than he expected, mostly because, from what he was seeing, there actually seemed to be some sort of protections over it. These protections locked it into a bloodline sort of safeguard.

He could bypass this easily enough. Not only did he have Taboo Bond, but although he hadn’t checked his rewards, he knew that Vipermancy had progressed to E-Grade.

The main issue was obvious, whether it was locked away from him or not. But curiously enough… he found that the protections left on F-Grades were actually quite loose in the face of an E-Grade Extricate Ability.

Sylas actually had the feeling that if he progressed it any further, he would actually be able to ignore protections on F-Grade Genes completely, at least.

But even going that far wasn’t necessary. From what it looked like, protections on Genes were common. Protections on Blood Essence, however… and Bone Essence, even deeper than that…

Were not.

And Blood Essence was actually what you needed to get the vessel going.

This made sense, of course. A person could benefit from a Gene directly assuming they had the capacity to absorb it. Otherwise, you would need a special method of absorption, like the technique that helped Sylas use Level 10 Mature Aether for the first time.

Since then, he had mostly forgotten about that method because it was both inferior to what he would need right now, and because he hadn’t run into beasts powerful enough to be worth using it on in the first place. But the point still stood.

‘Got it.’

Sylas pulled out a drop of Blood Essence from Israeal’s body, hardly coming up against any resistance at all. From what he could tell, the protections against Genes actually shielded Blood Essence and the deeper layers as well. But Extricate was able to bypass them quite well.

Sylas stepped into the vessel and felt a rush almost instantly.

Fast.

It had taken him days to go across the galaxy before, even with the express highways. At this point, he felt that a few hours would be enough.

It wasn’t just the raw speed of the vessel. When it came out of hyperways, it seemed to have a slingshot technology that took advantage of the shrinkage in space to accelerate you even further.

This seemed simple enough, but Sylas didn’t think so at all. The hyperways didn’t accelerate you—they shrank space. Taking advantage of a shrinkage in space to accelerate you required expert comprehension of the Mesh of Reality and spatial manipulation that was actually beyond what you might find in a teleportation channel.

It was the most advanced vessel Sylas had ever seen, and it gave him insights into space that he didn’t think were even possible. He was so fascinated with it all that he didn’t even realize he had already arrived at his destination until the vessel came to an abrupt stop.

Sylas looked out and frowned.

There was a dense scent of something familiar in the air.

Demerits.

No, that wasn’t it. It reminded him of Demerits, but in reality, it was deeper than that. It was the ire of the system itself, a violence that came from its depths of dislike.