Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 904

Sylas exhaled a breath, his fist passing through the chest of yet another opponent.

Their Physicals had already climbed to over 3,000, and now he was having quite a hard time suppressing himself to face them. There was just something about their skill in combat that was on another level.

They were primal in a hard-to-describe way, and yet sharp at the most unexpected of times. It was like they had perfectly fused what it meant to be a beast and what it meant to be a human into one, forging something completely new.

At the start, Sylas found that he was learning from them quite quickly and seamlessly. But as their strength and skill increased, what he could glean slowed considerably, and he found himself…

Confused.

It was a feeling that he rarely got.

This time, he had been forced to kill his opponent with overwhelming power because he couldn’t grasp what he needed to do. If he pushed it too far, he would have ended up getting injured, and that wouldn’t have been good.

He had no idea what challenges lay ahead, so getting injured just for the sake of training, when he could have otherwise defeated the opponent already, didn’t make much sense.

But by the same token, if he wasn’t taking those risks with weaker opponents, as the skills of the later Great Apes became more complex and harder to read, and as their Physical stats caught up to his, and maybe even surpassed his own, it would border on the impossible.

What should have been an easy trial, one that he had high compatibility with, ended up placing a roadblock right ahead of him.

The worst part was that, though Sylas was confused, he knew what the roadblock was.

He couldn’t be as fluid as them because he was unwilling to… let go in the same way.

By now, he understood that the statues that lined this road weren’t necessarily all of the strongest Great Apes that had ever been. Instead, they were Great Apes that were true to this unique form of close combat. This was the real reason their stats had started off so weak.

If anything, their stats starting so low was giving him a chance.

But by the same token, as he approached the true elites, it was going to become hard—much harder.

Sylas, though, was too used to battling with his mind in overdrive. He was always thinking about every little variable, considering every single little angle.

He had won many fights due to his intelligence alone.

Of course, it didn’t seem like the Great Apes had turned off their minds entirely. But they had seamlessly managed to blend an instinctual form of battle with an intelligent one.

He could feel it. They knew how to be wild, releasing the limits of their body when they needed to. But they were also capable of suddenly pulling back, using subtlety or precision as well.

The first Great Ape he battled was more wild than anything else. But as he progressed, the style became more refined.

Oddly enough, his Mixed Martial Arts was unable to capture the essence of this style.

It was one thing to not understand what was going on. It was a completely different level of frustration to understand exactly what the problem was, and yet feel like you were unable to do anything about it.

Sylas had known that taking this route would be a risk, mostly because he already had the two clashing auras of beasts within him. Adding a third would certainly be a problem. But he didn’t expect that the sorts of roadblocks he would be facing would be so unforgiving.

’Next…’

There was nothing coming to mind, so Sylas could only enter the next battle.