Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 440

Chapter 440: Communication [Bonus]

Lucius gave Sylas a deep look. He was already aware that he had been out-maneuvered. There was no getting out of this. The Quest was too important to him. So...

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"I'm glad that we have been able to come to an understanding, and equally as glad that you managed to make it back from such a difficult Dungeon. We can iron out the details later."

Lucius looked over the wall and toward those manning the gates.

"Open up the gates. Be prepared for battle."

The subtle words seemed to be a signal to everyone else. This, of course, wasn't a green light to attack Sylas, but rather implied that he was letting things go because they were in a precarious situation and needed to be a single unit without internal strife.

It wasn't long before Sylas was escorted into Lucius' city, and though he wasn't given any official positions just yet, judging by his accommodations, it was less because Lucius wouldn't and more that it just wasn't the right time.

His new living abode was simple, but it had the first instance of running water that Sylas had seen outside of System Cities on the Aether Plane, and it was almost too big for just a single person, being over 500 square feet.

Sylas had many things he wanted to do, but he chose to wait. And as expected, it wasn't long before he was escorted to see Lucius once more. This time... in a much more private setting.

The meeting was too surface-level to bother to recount. Lucius spent much of the time hedging and beating around the bush, but Sylas gave nothing away at all.

However, the two of them weren't naive men. They realized that this situation hardly made them allies, and it was likely that the both of them would be watching their backs from now

on.

Right now, Sylas seemed to have Lucius by the balls, but any intelligent person would see that it was far more even than it seemed... that was because Lucius' pull in the real Grimblade family was much greater than anything Sylas could manage. In fact, Sylas had no presence in the real Grimblade family at all.

Because of this, Sylas had no idea how much Lucius' word could impact his family. While he held Lucius' future in his hands, Lucius likewise had cards that were difficult for him to see through.

Who knew what kind of improvement Lucius had made in this time?

Sylas had to find a way to get in touch with a Nexus soon, because that was the only way he could both claim his accumulated rewards and check to see the current state of the world.

He would just have to hope for now that Cassarae could hold out on her own.

That said... the meeting wasn't entirely fruitless.

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