Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 868

[Vorthyx Coralspire (FFF+)]

[Level: 21]

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[Physical: 3344]

[Mental: 3287]

[Will: 2001]

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Sylas didn’t act immediately. The first thing he noticed was Vorthyx’s Will stat.

This was the first time he had come across a person of Earth with a Will stat beyond 999. Everyone else had been stuck beneath that threshold.

This hardly seemed like a big deal when every other BOSS creature he came across had long since left this threshold behind. But Sylas’ intuition was blaring warning signs in his mind. Despite how high the other stats were, he couldn’t take his eyes off of it.

Then a second arrow came.

Vorthyx seemed to realize that he had been exposed, likely sensing the scan. After a brief shock that Sylas could scan him from such a long range to begin with, he acted quickly, leaping out of the foliage he had hidden behind and unleashing a rain.

’… He’s not an archer…’

Sylas reached this conclusion immediately.

He had fought a true archer before and knew what it felt like. That Dogon woman made the bow an extension of herself, and every arrow felt like it could take his life.

Vorthyx, by comparison, was just painting the skies with arrows and hoping one stuck. The invisibility of the first arrow was a nice trick, but Sylas had still picked it out immediately.

’The Class…’

Bits and pieces of deductions clawed their way through Sylas’ mind until he understood most of the picture.

Then he moved.

He weaved through the rain of arrows with ease. There was no hesitation in getting closer and closer to an archer—he simply didn’t respect Vorthyx’s marksmanship the same way he had Vaekra’s.

To Vorthyx’s credit, he realized the issue immediately as well, and the bow vanished from his palm. His aura changed, and he raised his fists.

A vortex seemed to form around him, rippling lines of water cutting into the earth.

BANG!

Sylas landed on the ground a distance away.

In the same instant, the vortex of water lines suddenly burst out of the ground, forming a sphere that shattered the Glassvolt blade that suddenly appeared behind Vorthyx.

The two reacted the same way.

The instant the blade shattered, they shot forward, their forearms slamming into one another, their knees following up in the same fluid motion.