Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 990

Chapter 990 Chaos

Sylas stumbled forward, catching Lorien before she fell to the ground completely. His gaze was sharp and he seemed prepared for battle already. But…

The surroundings were eerily quiet.

He found himself in a familiar room of white. This was the very same room he had entered on his way to the Beast Master Tower the first time. But this time, there weren't the pedestals around, nor was there anyone manning the podium ahead.

It was completely empty.

'Something is wrong.'

Lorien groggily shook awake, her body shuddering with pain. She couldn't help but wince when she felt Sylas' hand tighten on her, but she understood why immediately.

They were no longer in the Quest realm, which meant that her stats had returned to normal. Sylas knew that the person he had fought in the Quest realm wasn't the same woman at all. She was exponentially more powerful right now.

That said… she also didn't have control over the world in this place either. However, if Lorien had to choose… she would much rather control over her own body.

Quite quickly though, she too realized the problem with this place.

'Leave.'

Sylas made a decision. Standing here wasn't going to fix anything.

He exited, moving not toward the Beast Master Tower, but instead in the opposite direction. The hope was to return to the dust roads of the bazaar.

The city was nice, but it was also the place with the highest concentration of powerhouses. Going back to where the common people were would hopefully help him out rather than harm him. Then he could find a way to do what he needed to do.

…

The commotion reached Sylas' ears first. Now that he was off of Earth and the Quest world, he didn't dare to use the full range of his visualization. So rather than his usual two-kilometer radius, he had instead restricted things to about five meters or so around him.

He exited the elevator, looking for a path out of the city, only to hear screams and the rushing noise of Aether.

Sylas took a strong, sudden step back, causing Lorien to wince in silent pain.

An arrow whizzed right by him.

He had only just taken the step back when he took one forward. He might not be able to see stats, but he could read the stats of the flying arrow just by judging its speed alone. Judging by Earth's standards, whoever fired it barely had stats above 5000 or so.

The fact that he had run into such a person at random was its own story, especially since no one on Earth he knew of, other than some King Beasts, had stats like that.

But it hardly mattered.

The instant he stepped out, without even gazing at it, he turned a palm toward the wall the arrow had embedded itself into. An illusory hand gripped around it, ripping it out of the wall.

Sylas brought his hand back around and across his body in a sharp whipping motion. The arrow whizzed back in the direction it came even faster than it had come, whistling through the air.

There was no sound when it collided, ripping right through the forehead of the archer. Any sound it would have made was drowned out by the distance it crossed the commotion of the rest of the battlefield.

Lorien's eyes twitched.