Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 1799

Chapter 1799: Necessary Evil

Sylas walked right by him as though he didn't exist, a heavily injured Brama pulling out a metallic shield that unfurled in gears and fans of bronze to block.

Niafon was sent flying backward, and Old Brama coughed up a mouthful of blood, pools of it leaking faster from his wounds than ever before.

The armies of the Golden Grove roared, and at a time unknown to them... the Hollow Wing roared back.

Swaths and layers, tides and currents of corpses fell. It was a deluge of death, an oppressive mask of darkness that hung over the bright shades of gold that once made the Golden Grove look so sparkling and beautiful, but now made it feel so vapid and hollow.

Niafon crashed somewhere in the far-off distance, his arm broken and misshapen. And Yaoyao just stood where she was, her lip trembling as she looked from Zayreus' corpse and then to the sea of corpses around her.

They had no idea how much pressure Sylas had been under for so very long, no idea how much he suffered daily under people so much more powerful than himself, so much more talented, with so much more backing.

To think that he would come back here just to fall to the likes of them...

It was little more than a joke.

Sylas scanned the region, looking for what might be wrong, and then he found it.

It was just like he thought. Any changes that the Golden Grove would have made to their methods here would have to be a recent addition, and any recent additions they made would also have to be done with their current level of expertise... That was to say, particularly little.

The best Rune Master of the Golden Grove was Old Brama by far. If they didn't come so swiftly after he had come and failed to allow Sylas entry, Old Brama would have probably already found the problem and undone it.

The trouble was that as bad as the Golden Grove's Rune Masters were at, well, being Rune Masters, anyone they would have tasked with making this change would still be of the C-tier.

However, Sylas quickly found a flaw to exploit and his eyes flashed.

He targeted a D-tier Rune and used his Unravelling Pupils on it. In a flash, it shattered apart and all that was left was what had originally been here.

By the time Sylas finished, Old Brama had already managed to slowly crawl over on his command. Reaching up a bloody hand, he pressed it down onto the panel, and the golden tree began to sway.

Yaoyao wanted to say something, but she didn't even know what to say. If she didn't know before, she certainly knew now.

None of this was what Old Brama had wanted. But it seemed that none of them had understood that Sylas had just saved them from a very different form of heartache.

The false Greed Seed had managed to stimulate whatever was hidden within the Golden Race, but it would have also made Zayreus a slave to it. Someone with a Will that weak could never deal with Madness.

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