Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 1199

Chapter 1199: Cutting Steak

Sylas let his thoughts settle in for a moment before he looked back toward Jala and Alex.

"What do you two know about Demons?"

Alex blinked, then looked at Jala. Jala still didn’t seem to know how to interact with Sylas at all, but he also had no idea how to answer that question.

Sylas just waited. He had never been the sort to ask questions even of those he thought were far weaker than himself. Plus, Jala and Alex both had perspectives on things he didn’t.

Alex had the Legacy and had somehow managed to reach the very same place Sylas had.

It had to be remembered that the underwater legacy was something that Sylas was only able to decipher based on his own puzzle. The region he had entered also flooded and would have killed him had he not made the right choice. Then he had to trust the currents of the ocean itself to lead him where he needed to go.

How Alex had managed to figure all of this out as well, Sylas didn’t know.

Sylas didn’t think himself the only intelligent person in the world, but he had a pretty good understanding of how impressive his feats were in relation to others—even if he didn’t find them impressive himself.

What he had done was very difficult for a normal person, but Alex was supposedly only a Bronze Legacy member in the eyes of the organization. frёeweɓηovel_coɱ

Either Alex had more secrets Sylas didn’t know of, or Alex had somehow been sharp enough to trick Legacy into misjudging him—something even Sylas hadn’t been able to do.

And then there was Jala... supposedly a person of Earth as well. His family had completed a Summoning on a completely different planet and had gone through things Sylas was still waiting for Earth to experience.

The wealth of knowledge a new Summoned World might have would be limited, but before their integration, they might very well have had random tidbits of very valuable information—just like they had random powerful treasures the rest of the universe would drool over—at least in the F-Grade.

"I don’t know much about Demons, man. All I know is that Legacy doesn’t have taboos over much—they only seek knowledge. But I couldn’t find anything on Demons, as though even Legacy didn’t dare to touch them.

"I thought it was a ridiculous boogeyman—so cliché. The big, bad demons are coming to ruin everything. So I was curious and dug into it. I couldn’t understand what made Demons so different from any other Race.

"But... I still found nothing. There really was nothing to find—just more things to speculate on."

"Like?" Sylas asked.

"I don’t know. My best guess is that Demons are fundamentally different from every other Race. No, saying that makes it sound like Demons are a singular Race. They’re just as variable as we are. They have their own Humans, their own Unitaurs—though I’m not speaking literally—."

Sylas nodded slowly. He only meant to say that Demons had as many widely variable Races within them as non-Demons did.

"—You know how back in third-grade biology they taught you about Life, Domains, down to Family, Genus, and Species? The taxonomic ranks? And how Domains were separated by what amoeba or some shit we came from?

"I’m thinking that Demons have even more fundamental differences from us than that. Usually, the Life umbrella encompasses everything, and the true divisions start at Domain.