Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 1919

Chapter 1919: Do You?

Sylas fell to a knee. The splotches of black that had colored his vision came back even fiercer than before, but this time, there was no recovering. He couldn't even begin to push back against it. It was like the entire world had been overturned from little more than the push of a Will.

'No. Not just a Will. The Will of a dead Hydra.'

Sylas clenched his teeth.

Despite his situation he could tell with a thought that it was the Hydra speaking to him and not the World Serpent. He had no idea how the Hydra managed to protect a piece of its Will, but there must not be much of it left given the decomposed state of its body.

It was hard to fathom just how much relentless Will one had to have to even be willing to maintain their Will in such a situation. How many people could keep their wits about them while they were quite literally being digested even if it meant a small chance at success.

Given that the Hydra had been something even the World Serpent needed to go into hibernation to finish digesting, one could imagine just how long it had taken. Yet, it was actually still holding on.

But what Sylas couldn't let go of was the fact that it was just a dead, broken sliver of a Will, and yet it had forced him to a knee.

It hardly seemed like the Hydra was trying to do that either. All it had done was spoken.

"So fragile." The Hydra chortled. It seemed to be amused. Who knew, maybe it had been looking out into the world and seeing nothing but its inevitable death on the horizon for so long that even this was entertaining to it.

Surprisingly, though, it had grasped back significantly more this time.

"For a mortal, you are quite bold. You sneak into the belly of a World Serpent, learn from the strongest stomach acid in all of existence, dissect my very own body, and then look to just pat your ass and leave."

Sylas wasn't sure if it was an illusion, but in holding back, it felt like fewer voices were layering atop of one another, as though the Hydra had restrained its other heads considerably.

Given how restrained the Hydra was being, Sylas felt that he just might be able to slip away. But if he messed up, or if that was exactly what the Hydra didn't want to happen, then wouldn't he be killing himself?

This Hydra could kill him whenever it so pleased. It was probably struggling to not do that right now. Who knew what would happen if it was enraged instead of entertained?

Sylas didn't like this feeling. It had been a very long time since he was well and truly helpless to do anything.

There was no plan or secret machination that he could use to get himself out of this outside of just directly gambling his life.

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