Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 988

Chapter 988 Backup

Alex stared at the message on his screen.

'Psycho Syl sure is something else. Grade 10 Silver, huh? How'd he manage that?'

For a long while, Alex seemed to have disappeared off of the face of the planet. As for where he was, probably only he knew.

Well… he wasn't confident enough to say that, not with a monster like Sylas lurking around everything.

'I don't know how you managed to screw Legacy over as well, but betting on you really is the only way the cards don't go belly up.'

Alex grinned. Thanks to Sylas, he really had flown under the radar all this time. Now, he could get exactly what he wanted.

Before Alex, there were five statues… The Great Ape, the Clypsian, the Dogon, the Dinos, and finally…

Alex's eyes landed on the statue masked in shadows.

'You'll probably try to kill me for this one day, but hey… a man's gotta have dreams of his own. I'll have to use you as a shield for a little longer.'

Reaching forward, Alex selected the shadow statue.

Almost at the same instant, the smiling, playful look on his expression vanished. His face was covered by a shadowy mask, and all that was left were a pair of stone-cold eyes.

He had no intention of failing.

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In an irony of ironies, Sylas had once again left Earth before he could see the message. He had no tangible measuring stick for how much he had helped Earth at all.

But there was another question to be asked. If the longevity of the Ancestors was related to the plummeting of Earth's potential…

Just how much higher was Earth's potential in the past?

Unfortunately, that question was the furthest thing from Sylas' mind right now because he was in his own bind.

The Beast Master Garden was only meant to open at certain times. Activating it beforehand wasn't supposed to be allowed.

Sylas had forced its hand.

At first, he thought he would have to use his Rune Spark Mastery to force the ticket's hand. That was his original plan.

What he didn't expect was for Earth to make it so much easier on him. Not only did it help him to force the ticket to activate, but it had even provided the energy itself.

Luckily, Earth had the wealth of energy a powerful, budding world should now. This energy didn't even remotely harm it. It was akin to a drop in the ocean that was taken out, only to be replaced by a torrential storm of rain.

It would be very difficult to drain Earth's energy like Sylas before again.

All that seemed to work out well, even to the point Earth had even helped him take Lorien along as well. Everything was working well…