Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 1967

Chapter 1967: A Bridge [Bonus]

[Everyone clap and smile, eeshoo is in the room again. Make sure to thank him and the others when you wonder why there are NO CHAPTERS TOMORROW] 'A bridge.'

Sylas could feel it now as though Earth was breathing the secret into him.

The Dino Race he had seen had been a bridge, a fusion of various concepts that he had seen before melded into one.

There was the feathered dinosaur, the one that Sylas felt was scientifically accurate.

There was the scaled dinosaur, one that sounded to have been in a transition toward evolving, and yet one that had been completely wiped from history as though it never existed at all. If you asked a scientist of Earth whether they ever existed in this form, they would certainly say no.

And yet... here it was.

And then there was the caveman. It was odd for it to be there at all. It was too early in Earth's time period, and they couldn't have appeared before the Great Apes.

Yet here it was. Not only was it there, it was an Overlord as well.

'I see...'

Sylas slowly began to understand.

Maybe the most well-recognized extinction event of Earth was a scene of meteors falling from the skies, flaming through the atmosphere and destroying everything in their path.

Soot would rise into the air and cover the clouds until a chill swallowed everything for decades on end.

It was the most involved of the extinctions, the most... hands on. Almost like it was artificial.

All the other Extinctions were far more subtle. Shifts in climate that triggered ice ages that ravaged across the land and things of the like.

Now Sylas wondered if that was truly coincidental or not.

'The Great Apes didn't appear by accident. Earth...'

Sylas' eyes landed on the feathered dinosaur.

'... It was trying to form a bestial Angel Race.'

The feathered dinosaur could only be described as beautiful. The rainbow colored feathers that adorned its body on both its crown and its wings almost forced Sylas to come to that conclusion.

There was something almost holy about the creature.

Almost.

The wild teeth and air of blood radiating from it told a different tale.

Sylas couldn't help but wonder what would have happened if this Race was allowed to reach its full potential instead of what actually happened.

Their evolution was forcefully interrupted and they were forced to become the bridge to bring the humans back.

'Now I understand...' Sylas thought to himself. '... In that case...'

"Bring me every bird race other than the dove and vulture." Sylas said calmly.

He was going to give birth to a Race that had only ever appeared on Earth.

It seemed that with as talented as Earth was, the only broken Race they had formed wasn't just the First Race. They had had another spectacular Race in them that had been forgotten to the annals of history.

Sylas, though... believed there was a deeper reason.

He had assumed that the Dino Race and the Great Ape Race were entirely unrelated, but that wasn't the case. Not after he saw the caveman within the split form.

That made his antennae shoot up. If the First Race could force cavemen to appear so early, why would they fuse them with the Dino Race first and then seemingly backtrack to create the Great Apes?

Unless.... There was something about the Dino Race that laid the foundation of the Great Apes far better, something that would allow the evolution of the Human Race to progress smoothly back toward the First Race they had originally been born from.

'Ancestral reversion.'

The moment Sylas started probing, he could feel it. Dinosaurs weren't the ancestors of lizards, however, both birds and lizards shared a common ancestor before they split down two paths.

Divergent evolution.

Sylas thought a lot about Convergent Evolution these days and just how much the powers he came across were sensitive to it. But Divergent Evolution, a process where a single Race becomes multiple unique ones, was too easily overlooked.

If you wanted to hide something in plain sight... what better way than Divergent Evolution?

And then, when you wanted the power of the original Race...

'You worked backward.'

Suddenly, everything clicked into place and the existence of the caveman made perfect sense to Sylas.

WHOOSH.

The Wills snapped into one beneath his own.