Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 1185

Chapter 1185: Pounce

Sylas activated Semi-Reversal.

He could use the Scorned Wraps to undo things related to the system. But something like a permanent change to his own body or that of a Contract didn’t fall into that category.

He could do it with the Frostbane Feather specifically because it was an item that permanently linked a target with the system by making it a Mount or Combat Mount.

However, Semi-Reversal was an ability of his Vipermancy Profession—one that he rarely used because he didn’t often make mistakes, but an ability nonetheless.

It allowed him to backtrack on evolutions he had triggered in his Serpentes, allowing them to reverse to a previous state.

Of course, by now, he had a full Reversal ability as well on top of Semi-Reversal. But he hadn’t yet allowed the evolution to go far enough to need it.

The beauty of full Reversal, though—and the irony for that matter—was that Sylas had the ability to revert all of his Contracts back to Level 0 if he so chose.

It was an ability he wanted for himself, but one he ironically wouldn’t have access to. But that was a problem for another matter.

Just now, Sylas had taken advantage of Total Merge and his Insight ability to see through things he didn’t understand before.

With Total Merge, he was able to use his own Will to suppress the Frostbane Feather and the Violet Rose Symbiote so that their fusion didn’t happen too fast.

Then, with his Insight Path Talent that allowed him keen understanding of his own Contracts and Serpentes in general—especially with Intuition—he was able to grasp subtleties and intricacies that would have otherwise been hidden from him.

So, when he ended Total Merge and gave the infant dinosaur its mind back, he immediately knew what to do.

Sylas had all the main ingredients here, just like he had expected. The question was how to allow the fusion of all of them in the optimal way, and now he knew.

When Sylas spoke, all F-Grade Serpentes listened. There was no room for quarter, no hope of resistance. But there was an extension of this ability as well.

He had already been able to do this at Level 41 of One Kind For Me. But now, he had Level 51 One Kind For Me. F-Grade Serpentes didn’t just listen and fully obey him now, but even their bodies did.

There was such a deeply ingrained sense of obedience to them that they didn’t question anything, they didn’t resist anything, they couldn’t even lift a finger of thought to consider anything opposed to him in the first place.

He was their rock, the core of their being, and they reacted as such without the slightest hesitation.

So even while alive, neither the Glasirith nor the Bone-Tailed Lizard had any ability to stop Sylas from taking the Race Quintessence or Potential out of their bodies.

Normally, even Genes couldn’t be taken out of the bodies of the living, let alone something so deep.