Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 1988

Chapter 1988: It's Coming

Keyesen was so immersed in his own world that he didn't notice what was happening in the skies. He didn't see Sylas, he didn't see his Scorpion Lineage's Spirit chained and restricted, and he barely registered that there was a battle.

Maybe to be fair to him, his strength wasn't great enough to see what was happening so far above him, and he likely didn't even bother to remember Sylas' face all that much.

He had heard of Sylas, of course, much like many of the others of the Sanctum had after the fact. But the memories of that day were exceptionally blurry to him because he, quite frankly, hadn't bothered to pay much attention.

All of the other stuff was irrelevant to him. The only thing he cared about was waiting for his own evolution to trigger, for his own time to shine to come.

By his side, Deacon's sister beamed. She, too, was waiting for the time to come. There was a great discomfort in her heart when she saw and felt the momentum of her cousin's breakthrough. However, when she thought about how Keyesen would surely be better than them all, and that she was the woman by his side right now, she couldn't help but feel excitement.

Just any moment now. The instant Keyesen's breakthrough began, everything that had happened before would be meaningless. She was so focused on this that she hardly paid attention to the Dove Spirit within her stirring as well, and the less attention she paid to it... the less it seemed to respond to her.

Almost as though the purity her Spirit chased after was being turned away, it fell into deeper and deeper waters, vanishing into denser and denser shadows until all that was left was the pride that she had not in herself, but instead in Keyesen.

A pride that was only becoming more and more impatient as the anticipation built up within her.

But even as one breakthrough after another happened, even as the momentum of them began to slow down and the last few trickled in with Kalem being the only one to awaken three Spirits, nothing at all happened for Keyesen.

As time ticked by, he began to feel like something was wrong, and then his heart launched to sink.

If it had been someone else, maybe they would have realized there was an issue long ago. But the self-confidence of Keyesen was built over the course of years.

If he had been born into one of the four main Lineages, he would have been a mainstay no weaker than the strongest of their disciples. The trouble was that he was a Scorpion and not a Lion, Serpent, Whale, or Ape.

Even so, Keyesen's reputation had spread far and wide.

In his youth, because he was too overeager and confident, he had absorbed his Scorpion Emperor Gene too early. He had thought that it didn't matter all that much, that he could just make up for it in the future.

But at the time, many thought that he had completely ruined himself, that he would not once amount to anything.

And yet, when the time came for him to ascend to the E-tier, while he was a bit weaker than his counterparts, he quickly made up lost ground.

Learning from his own mistakes, he changed things around until he stood near the pinnacle of the disciples. In fact, there was speculation that had he not made the mistake he had in his youth due to his own sheer arrogance, it would be he that was the strongest disciple of The Sanctum rather than a quiet woman by the side.

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