Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 845

Sylas didn’t say anything as Professor Fembroise cried, just standing there in silence.

Humans, even the smart ones, weren’t always perfectly rational creatures. Well, that might not be how he put it.

In his opinion, even when Humans were acting irrationally, there was probably some underlying reason for it. Vesta, obviously, had a lot of pent-up anger toward the Terranova Government for hiding the matter of the Summoning from its citizens.

If they had been more honest, more upfront, then she could have warned her son ahead of time. Then she wouldn’t have lost him to that damned Trial.

It was all their fault, and Sylas didn’t blame her for blaming them.

However, to go as far as to help the alien Races… this was too much. It was too short-sighted, and even if it dealt the Terranova Government a blow, Vesta would probably suffer much more for it in the future.

Maybe she knew this, maybe she didn’t care, or maybe she was naïve enough to believe that she would find a way out later.

But no matter what it was… it was unacceptable to Sylas.

And luckily, the woman herself seemed to have finally realized as much. Now, Sylas could get down to what he really wanted to address.

Sylas was many things… but a fool was not one of them.

If he thought that there was even an inkling of a possibility that what happened with Professor Fembroise would occur, he would have taken extra precautions.

Though, to be fair, at the time, even if he had had some doubts, there was little he could have done anyway.

Because of the system’s 30-day ban on him killing her, he couldn’t just leave her out in the lava, and he obviously couldn’t let her flee into the Ruby Territory on her own, or else all of that would have been in vain.

But this aside, what was important here was that given everything Sylas knew… this should have been impossible. Especially considering his Legendary Profession.

If this was something that would have happened had just anyone entered the Basilisk King’s mouth, then Insight would have warned Sylas.

The fact he got no warning at all meant that the trigger wasn’t the Basilisk King, but instead something about Vesta herself.

And this was only natural.

The system placed so much emphasis on Vesta, going as far as to punish him so harshly and reward him so thoroughly just for sparing her life.

This all pointed in a single direction.

Something… was very, very special about Vesta.

As the last of Vesta’s tears were wiped away, and she took her final deep breaths, the Professor before Sylas now was much more like the woman he had known for all these years.

Maybe their relationship would never go back to the way it was before, and Sylas was just fine with that. To be honest, it wasn’t as though they were ever the closest of friends. At best, they were colleagues in adjacent fields.

Instead, this might open up a path for them to actually get closer. But whether that happened or not would depend on Vesta.

And true to her intelligence, Sylas was very satisfied with her next move.

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[Name: Vesta Fembroise]

[Species: Shedding Human (E)]

[Affiliation: —]

[Class: —]

[Profession: —]

[Level: 0]

[Coins: 123,355 (F)]