Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 1915

Chapter 1915: Big

Was he really inside a creature's body?

Sylas touched the walls again. They didn't feel like flesh in the slightest. If anything, on a second attempt-even while specifically looking for a fleshly feel-it felt even more inorganic than before.

Unless this was something beyond his understanding, these walls were real rock and stone.

Another oddity was that what kind of digestive system worked like this? Why were there pockets of acid instead of a whole stomach?

'Just how large is this creature?'

Sylas knew the answer already. On a small enough scale, if you shrank down enough, even the human body might have pockets like this.

The stomach lining, and the intestines especially, were designed to maximize surface area. Many things in the body were like that. The lungs, for example, had veins designed to branch and shrink until you could finally get to a point where oxygen and CO2 could be exchanged with blood.

These things were matters that Sylas already understood back on Earth thanks to his studies. He had taken more biology classes than he cared to recall by now. At this point, though, his understanding of his own body was far beyond what anyone on Earth could have taught him.

The intestines especially were a lot like the lungs in this regard. They were where the nutrients broken down by the stomach were actually absorbed by the body.

As such, there were countless wrinkles, and wrinkles within wrinkles within them. If you shrank down to a compact enough scale, you might get to the point where you were looking at minerals you might very well confuse for rock or stone.

While it certainly wouldn't be as exaggerated as what Sylas was experiencing here, it was enough of an explanation that you could imagine how a creature of a different species could very well be on another level entirely, thus explaining everything.

However, if Sylas was really inside of a creature's body...

He had wasted this trip.

There was no way there would be anything inside of this creature's body that was alive and available to be Contracted in the first place. He was only alive out of sheer coincidence, and he just might be lucky that this creature wasn't in a state of real digestion right now.

From the looks of it, it had been a while since the last time this creature fed on anything. But that was beside the point.

The real problem was that there was no way this beast was an E-tier. Those E-tier Runes he had seen were the product of Runes, Genes, and other things of the like that had been broken down by the creature's stomach acid until that was all that was left. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

A creature this large-so large that Sylas was lost in the folds of its intestines-God or not, was well beyond the E- tier. They were certainly well beyond the D-tier, the C-tier, even the B-tier didn't do a creature like this any sort of justice.

This creature was, at the weakest, an A-tier. And even that was Sylas being hopeful.

A creature this impossibly large?

'... S-tier.'

There was no doubt in Sylas' mind. He couldn't confirm, and even if he could it would be the pinnacle of foolishness to even try. But he knew.

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