Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 1764

Chapter 1764: Swallow [Bonus]

Germaine took a breath and closed her eyes. When she opened them, there was a sharpness that hadn't been there before. For the first time since Sylas met her, she looked like an actual C-tier for once.

Not that it made much of a difference.

"There's a reason there's a separation between the normal members of Legacy and the Professors. When you become a Professor, you cross over a line of humanity you can't get back. The change starts here. I will say it one more time. There is no going back. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

"Just seeing it is enough to change everything. This isn't something that you can take a glance at and then just decide you don't want to deal with it anymore. You have to make the choice now."

Sylas didn't reply, but he also didn't seem to be impatient. He listened to Germaine despite the fact she wasn't saying what he had clearly asked to hear.

He knew that she was telling the truth.

He had only seen two Professors in the past, but even if both of them were insane, there was no reason for them to be the same sort of insane. Why would they all seemingly forget their humanity?

Neither seemed to be tied down to a single Race any longer, willing to do whatever it took to become greater.

But while the sentiment itself was noble, there was something particularly sad about forgetting the origin of who you were so completely and wholly.

There was a very clever thought experiment of philosophy that posited a simple question: At what point did a repaired ship become a new ship? Was it when you changed the sail? Maybe the mast? Maybe after you had swapped out 50% of the original wood? 60%? 70%?

Was it a factor of time? If it took you 100 years of slow repairs until none of the original ship remained, could you still call it the original ship? What if you did all the same repairs instantly?

In a lot of ways, being able to play a game of Jenga with your own genes and the layers of your body was exactly this thought experiment.

One might think that so long as your Will remained the same, it was all fine. But in this world... even your Will itself could be changed.

So, the question remained, just the slightest bit tweaked:

At what point did an evolving humanoid become an entirely different person?

Was Germaine the same person she had once been? Did she cross over after the strap-on? Maybe the spider leg? Or was it her hair, or the fake breasts?

Or had she become a different person the moment she made the choice to change in the first place?

Sylas suddenly smiled. It was a sight that made Germaine's pupils constrict into pinholes.

"Show me," Sylas said.

There was only one thing that he could think of that could make Germaine react so solemnly, but just the mere fact that this of all things made Sylas smile collapsed the last shred of resistance Germaine had in her heart.

This wasn't a man she could go against. There would only be one result should she ever decide to do such a thing: Her death.

Germaine's jaw unhinged and her neck snapped back. The sound of something grotesque and somewhat mechanical gurgled, and the slightest arc of something so very familiar to Sylas shot through the air.

Crimson lightning.

Germaine screamed, cracks of red appearing across her skin. She was clearly withstanding a great amount of pain, the mere action of trying to tap into this energy rending apart something deep within her.

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