Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 1888

Chapter 1888: Poked and Prodded

Sylas' pupils constricted into pinholes. He couldn't understand how this construct was talking, at least not right away.

Ultimately, the answer could only really be one thing...

Will.

When he used Champion Will, that gaze had sensed him—a gaze he still didn't understand to this day.

But when he had formed his Lineage as it currently was, the Monkey King had also appeared. He had seen its smile, its grin.

This time, however, Sylas wasn't just learning from it; he was actively taking from it.

The Emperor Sanctum had a representation of the Monkey King in their halls now because of Sylas. Now, Sylas wasn't just learning from the Monkey King-he was taking from its lineage, its dynasty, to strengthen something else for his own goals.

That wasn't something you could just gloss over as easily as before.

And now, this Mirror Dungeon was doing so again. Taking from the Monkey King to strengthen itself.

If a fly kept buzzing at your face, wouldn't you come and smash it to nothingness?

There was just one thing that Sylas didn't understand...

How was the Monkey King alive at all?

The Monkey King wasn't just some random thing Sylas had conjured up. It was a creature that once represented the Sin of Pride. Or... was it the Virtue of Pride?

However, due to some unknown history, the original creatures had become distorted.

Still, as far as Sylas knew, the representation of Pride was still the Monkey to this day. It had just lost a lot of its original meaning.

The ones that had changed were the Rat, which had taken the place of the Scorpion as Greed, and the Boar, which had taken the place of the Hippo as Wrath.

It most definitely wasn't a coincidence to Sylas that these two creatures also happened to be the only two Official Madness Disciples.

Though Sylas had met a Sloth and a Serpent, they had only been one of many. While it was possible they were frontrunners, there could very well be much more powerful versions of them.

Even so, as Fanelei had told him in the past, the only True Madness Disciples were the Rat and the Boar. Greed and Wrath.

Now, somehow, the manifestation of a creature that should have not only been dead long ago, but had been distorted beyond measure, had actually appeared here. What sense did that make?

'This level of Will... it transcends time... it transcends space... it transcends both life and death...'

Sylas slowly realized what he was looking at here.

This was no normal existence.

To the Monkey King's Will, there was no separation of life and death. In fact, this Will here might very well be being projected from a version of the Monkey King that was still alive. Maybe in the past, maybe in a completely different timeline.

VERIFYCAPTCHA_LABELVerify