Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 760

Chapter 760: Mandate

Silence fell over the arena.

It didn't feel like a City Lord had been just killed at all. It felt like they had just witnessed the true execution of the day.

So simple, so direct, so unfeelingly careless that it didn't feel real at all.

Until, that is, Sylas raised his hand and the stones revealed the headless corpse of the former City Lord.

His blood spilled out into the arena, pooling into the cracks and crevices.

Plinli never got to display any of his abilities. Even his City Lord Title had been completely useless. What good was that boost of strength if he couldn't even hit his opponent?

But from the very beginning, he had lost the battle.

CRACKLE.

In the silence, the sound was quite audible. There wasn't a single person who didn't hear it, but their gazes were already trained on precisely where the sound had come from.

Plinli's corpse.

The skies shuddered and a familiar oppressive aura descended from above, forming an eye that looked down.

Sylas' gaze narrowed. Why did the System Eye appear? Plinli was already dead. Unless, it was something else going on?

Could Plinli still be alive, maybe?

The eye pulsed and then suddenly pivoted, looking to Sylas.

Sylas' blood ran cold. It almost felt as though liquid nitrogen had been poured into his very veins, his heart beat entering a state of tug of war where it wanted to beat harder, faster. And yet, it was constrained by this chilling wind that forced it to slow.

The power gap was simply too enormous. Standing beneath the eye, even Sylas couldn't help but feel so very small and insignificant.

[You have pleased the system, System Rebel]

[System Reward]

[System Reward Activated]

Plinli's corpse convulsed and then a large number of Runes began to be pulled out from his body.

Sylas' eyes widened. Others might not recognize what was happening here, but he certainly did.

Those were Genes.

Silver Genes.

Plinli's body was sucked dry and he was left with nothing more than a husk.

Then, all of the Genes condensed. By the end of it, there weren't just Silver Genes there, but also an even larger number of Bronze Genes, Common Genes, and even Fragmented Genes.

Soon, though, what was left of them was a crystal ball of swimming Runes.

The ball floated up and then landed in Sylas' hands before the system vanished.

[Gene Storage Crystal (Silver) (Treasure)]

[Capacity: 10 000 E-Grade Genes]

Sylas hardly paid attention to this at all. Gene Storage wasn't a problem for him.

If corpses were left alone, their Genes would decay. But with the Madness Key, this wasn't an issue as they would be preserved. He had a lot of excess space in his spatial device others wouldn't have, so this crystal wasn't appealing to him.

The best ability of the Gene Storage Crystal in Sylas' estimation was that it could also extract Genes with the system as a conduit. Meaning, if he came across any E-Grade Genes he couldn't use Extricate on, he could use the system to take them into the Gene Storage Crystal and store them.

But again, this was uninteresting to him for the same reason. If he came across such a thing, he could just store the E-Grade corpse much the same way.

The real use of this Gene Storage Crystal was the fact that it could access the Gene buried deep after their evolution into the E-Grade.

Sylas wasn't exactly sure what happened after evolving to the E-Grade, but it seemed that the body took the F-Grade Genes one used to build their way to Level 50, and then converted into a deeper layer of the body's foundation, one even deeper than the Comprehensions Layer Sylas currently had access to.

Because of that, Sylas couldn't even Extricate F-Grade Genes from these E-Grade corpses.

But now, with the Gene Storage Crystal... he could.

And maybe just as shockingly as that...