Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 1936

Chapter 1936: Wasting Time (6)

Gogo realized at that moment he didn't want as much as Sylas did.

When he looked at Sylas, he saw a figure that was larger than life, a person who claimed all he wanted to do was control his life, when in reality he wanted to control everything else.

The reason Sylas had hated being controlled by the Grimblades so much wasn't actually because their control was the problem, it was the fact they were controlling him without his expressed consent.

Sylas never felt a need to prove himself to others. The only time looking down on him bothered him was when he knew they were right to do so, when he knew that he couldn't easily prove them wrong if he so felt like it.

When he did have that power, when he was sure he could prove it with just a little bit of effort, that was when he didn't care what anyone said.

Sylas' real Pride was layered beneath all of that, a man of contradiction who wanted to both sit atop the world and yet wanted to avoid doing so at the same time so that he wouldn't be without purpose or discipline.

A man who didn't want to live a life without at least some sort of pushback, some sort of strife.

But Gogo didn't want any of that. He simply wanted to be free... that was the true kernel of his Pride.

To do as he pleased without being struck down from the skies, to have freedom even if he chose not to exercise it himself.

That was what he wanted more than anything else.

There was a flash in Gogo's eyes and his blood sparked with fire. Grey flames danced around him and he suddenly sensed like his eyelids were becoming exceptionally heavy.

Slowly, he fell forward, collapsing to the ground with a boom that shook the earth.

And then he began to sleep, his crown of golden horns sparkling to the rhythm of his breath.

"That's what I want..." Gogo grumbled in a voice that came out like roaring dragons and crashing waves. They weren't syllables and words in the normal sense.

An ancient language not spoken in years shattered the space around him, forming a cocoon of grey flames and crackling space.

Sylas was in too much of a daze to feel what was happening to Gogo right now. All he could feel were the emotions of the Ruby Finger Serpent as its Will grew.

The lightning seemed to realize that it was up against something with seemingly endless regeneration, and it reacted in kind because of it.

It was too bad that it didn't seem to matter, and with every strike, Sylas was gaining a boon he hadn't accounted for.

The lightning was more effective in refining the Ruby Finger Serpent's Will than he could have ever hoped for. Every time the Serpentes' Pride was shattered, it reformed even stronger, and then even stronger than that.

In response, the call of Gluttony around it became purer, sturdier, and there was even a moment where Sylas wondered if it just might be possible for it to reach the level of a Virtue.

It didn't. But Sylas' grasp of Gluttony became sharper than ever before.

So as the last of the bolts descended from the skies above, he was already primed and ready, so very prepared.

BOOM.

The finger-sized serpent launched itself into the skies and Sylas was practically a passenger in its Will as it charged upward without the slightest fear, striking right through the waves of lightning.

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