Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 667

Sylas looked around, his irises reflecting like glass as he paid closer attention to the walls around him.

’These walls are designed to keep Aether very restrained. The winding and twisting tunnels aren’t just here to confuse people, but it almost increases surface area for these Aether suppressing Runes. This entire underground network functions similarly to the disk I risked my life to get for Lucius—it’s capable of restraining even Portals.

’What happens when something inherently volatile is forced to remain steady?’

There was one main difference between the Woodland Spider Queen and the Glass Monkey… the Woodland Spider Queen had been the helm of a Field Dungeon, but the Glass Monkey had been the head of a Dynamic Field Dungeon.

The last Dynamic Field Dungeon Sylas had cleared had also been an anomaly. It was the result of a Dungeon and a Field Dungeon combining into one, resulting in the creation of the Violet Rose Heart.

What if, in this case, it was the clash between the Glass Desert Territory and this maze that triggered all the changes?

However, there were still too many holes in this theory.

For one, the Glass Desert had been several hours’ journey from this location. Sylas and Alex had to travel quite a while to get to Cairith after capturing the monkey in the first place.

But Sylas seemed to have thought of something for that as well…

The Mountains of Giza.

After Sylas cleared it, there was a large change to the surroundings. A strong teleportation force warped him to a region that was likely off-Earth, which was why they faced the time dilation.

Then there was the fact that after Sylas cleared it, the pyramid reset and then allowed Lauren to follow after him, and then the monarchs after that.

All of this was mere speculation on Sylas’ part. He didn’t have nearly enough understanding of spatial dynamics or time dilation to draw a concrete conclusion…

Until that is he factored in one more thing: how late Alex and the others had been.

It was something that he had originally dismissed as being no big deal, but with all of this context added to it, he realized that the reason they were delayed wasn’t because of an odd coincidence, but rather precisely because of this off-setting that occurred between the expected teleportation locations and the actual teleportation locations.

In fact, he was willing to bet that if he asked the four of them if they had appeared at the same time, they would say no. It was more likely that they had coincidentally met up on their way to him. Or, most likely, they had been waiting around for him to show up until the commotion of the battle between himself and the Glass Monkey, and then his subsequent fusion with the Glass Pinecone, was too great to ignore.

If there was this sudden shift in Earth’s spatial coordinate system, then it wasn’t impossible for an already out-of-place Winking Portal to be transposed several kilometers away from its original location.

But that still left the biggest question of them all…

Why the hell was any of this actually important? Was it useful to spend so much time thinking about this seemingly worthless information?

Sylas suddenly did an about-face and ignored the portal, rushing through the underground maze. He was looking for something very particular, and Alex and the others followed him silently because they were very much used to it.

’No… No… Not this…’

Sylas ended up finding several more Portals. The Africor Continent had reeled in control of so many that it seemed that this wasn’t as much of a "coincidence" as it seemed. They were collecting these Portals on purpose.

In fact, in this underground region alone, they probably had easy access to almost all corners of the world. Even Alex found himself being taken aback by the sheer scope of it all.