Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 612

Chapter 612: Wall

A sound akin to a hand smashing on the left end of a piano resonated. It was like all the blaring dark notes hidden in one's heart had come out all at once.

Red lines filled the skies like stretched droplets of blood, reality shaking and warping beneath its might.

Sylas coughed up a mouthful of blood and felt like his heart almost exploded. He could faintly feel the Gluttony Seed pulse for a moment to save him from that fate, but the action alone drained a considerable amount of his Will, something that he didn't even think could reach the end of its rope.

Lauren was sent flying off of her platform just as Jake slipped from Sylas' grasp.

Sylas was sitting on his platform and didn't suffer the same fate. But even he had to quickly tighten his core to regain his balance, almost falling as well.

Jake began to fall from the skies once more, this time even faster than before. It was almost as though another hand had forcefully destroyed the projection of Sylas' own, taken his body, and hurled him downward.

It only took a moment for Sylas to regain his bearings, but his first reaction wasn't one of shock; it was instead one of rage. A fury he couldn't quite understand bubbled up within him. He ruthlessly suppressed it, regaining his calm. Somehow, he felt that the rage was both entirely his own, and yet also had the influence of another. Until he could figure out which the true answer was, he had no plans of allowing such a thing to roam freely.

However, none of that stopped his reaction speed.

He pushed himself off his platform with a palm, backflipping off of it and kicking at the air.

That last action was hardly needed. The moment he lost the support of his platform, it was like he too had been hurled down from the skies. But Sylas immediately felt that it wasn't fast enough.

His Will felt like it was running on empty and his telekinesis was no longer working for him. As he soared down, he wasn't exactly sure how he would even come back up. All he knew was that he would save Jake.

It was one thing if the young boy had fallen off on his own and there was nothing he could have done to stop it. It was another matter if it was his fault that he had fallen and that he had even pushed him to such extremes.

If he allowed the boy to die now, it wouldn't just be a matter of saving himself; he would lose that kernel of himself that was still very much human.

A part of him that Sylas cherished more than he knew how to put into words.

When Sylas first met Lauren, they had a conversation about not allowing the changes caused to the world by the Summoning to warp who they were as people. The words Sylas had spoken then were quite profound, and even after he felt he had changed quite a bit, he didn't believe that he had fundamentally changed the kind of person he was. Instead, he only felt that he was becoming more and more of himself.

Now, he didn't feel like he was acting out of character at all.

He was a man who took responsibility for his actions. That's why he was so obsessed with controlling himself and his situation so perfectly. He hated to be put in a situation where he couldn't do that.

And now...