Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 729

Chapter 729: Fluid

Sylas could hear the sound of his breathing in his ears, the hollow beat of his heart echoing from time to time.

He could feel the hairs on his body tingling, a far greater pressure coming from Vaekra now than ever before.

Somehow, she had recovered, but he...

Something stirred within Sylas. It was a feeling like self-preservation, but far deeper than that.

This battle, no matter what, he couldn't run, and he couldn't lose.

Sylas' Mixed Martial Arts Comprehension seemed to activate on its own, lines of fog coming from his eyes as his focus seemed to haze over.

BANG!

Sylas vanished, the location he had been standing on erupting with piles of loose soil and shards of ice that came from his movement skill.

Vaekra nimble feet tapped at the ground. It looked as though her toes alone carried more strength than an entire system of quad and hamstring might. Every shift caused her to glide several meters as though she was riding the wind.

The movement of her arms were no less graceful. She pulled toward the quiver on her back in a single fluid motion, not wasting the slightest hitch between the pluck of her arrows and that of her bowstring.

Sylas' telekinesis wrapped around his body. Even without <Cryobane Elevation> and his Scorpion Warlord armor, his Effective Speed was over 3000 when his legs and mind worked as one. In fact, with how powerful his telekinesis was now, it was a waste of his time to use Aether on a movement skill at all in normal circumstances.

He left a blur of jagged, zig zagging lines through the smog-filled forest of red foliage, but the distance between himself and Vaekra wasn't closing. As fast as he was, he had to cover too much distance between running toward her and dodging her arrows. At the same time, her Speed and Dexterity were both approaching 2000, and that didn't include the boosts her Flesh Runes were giving her.

However, Sylas didn't seem to notice the problem in the slightest.

He dodged behind a tree, his tail suddenly wrapping around its body.

An arrow whizzed by the location Vaekra thought he would exit from, only for his tail to flex and send him back toward the direction he had just come from.

'100.'

The number flashed in Sylas' head just as Vaekra's toes tapped the ground again.

He reached out a hand and violently ripped it back.

Vaekra felt a powerful telekinesis suddenly envelop her, violently tugging her toward Sylas.

Her reaction was fast, a burst of Will shattering Sylas' attempt. But despite that, her backward momentum had been stalled.

Knowing the situation had just changed, Vaekra stomped a heavy foot toward the ground, Runes lighting up her leg.

BANG!

A curtain of soil blocked out both of their direct lines of sights.

SHU! SHU! SHU!

Three arrows ripped through the curtain, leaving large, gaping holes in the rain of black and brown.

They curved through the air, converging onto Sylas' position.

There was a deep resolve that flashed in the depths of Sylas' mind.

He cast <Glassveil Shift> once again just as the arrows were about to rip through him.