Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 2013

Chapter 2013: Ribbons [Bonus]

[Bonus thanks to Chronotitan <3]

Cassarae's wrist twisted, her hips torquing as her arms snapped out in a slash.

Nosphaleen's arms went flying above her head, the guard of her trident ripping up. She tried to pull them back down as quickly as she could, but she knew that she wouldn't make it.

One of her wings snapped in from the side and Cassarae's blade cut it like it was a thin piece of paper.

Blood flew and splattered against both women, but their eyes hardly wavered.

With a leap back, Nosphaleen landed on her feet, slamming her trident into the earth with a rolling mass of Aether. She slammed her palms together as Cassarae rapidly closed the distance once again and Runes bloomed around her.

But they weren't the Runes of the Whale Armor. Instead, rolling waves of Water filled the air, spilling over and crashing down.

Earth reacted in kind. As though water had made it feel the most at home, it descended and fell in waves, large amounts of Aether fueling it until the two women were trapped in a sphere of it.

Cassarae's blade slowed, but only the slightest bit. And then it was like a cascade of them erupted.

The sphere was spliced into countless pieces, the cuts so clean it almost looked like geometric shards of glass floating in the air for the briefest of instants before they exploded into a rain of liquid.

The very Runes themselves were split into a fine mesh, cut down to their Foundations, and then to their Strokes, and it even felt like the Strokes themselves might be split as though they weren't the fundamental unit of all of existence.

Sylas' eyes narrowed, but Nosphaleen didn't flinch. The slow was enough for her.

Her wings spread out as though one wasn't cut to ribbons and she accelerated forward, her palm landing on Cassarae's chest as though it had always been there.

Space compressed between them and it erupted, a pulsing wave that almost looked like the heat exhaust of a revving car erupting out from Cassarae's back.

Nosphaleen waved a hand toward her trident as Cassarae flew back, coughing up a mouthful of blood. The former's telekinesis took root and the trident was pulled out from the ground.

She took another step and instantly surfaced above Cassarae, raising her trident high above her head and slamming down. Rippling waves of space followed her, her wings flapping hard in a cascade of falling blood and flailing winds.

For a moment, it looked quite beautiful. Sparkling motes of dotted crimson filled the skies like the most shimmering blood in existence. They scattered amongst the falling rain of water, and the pulling ripples of space.

And then it all coalesced into a single blow and the echo of a low roar that came from the very depths of her heart.

Right when it would land, Cassarae seemed to snap out of a daze, her mind focusing.

Sword blades manifested from thin air, ripping the space trailing Nosphaleen's trident apart and turning her blade to face it.

The heft of the trident lessened considerably and Cassarae managed to block it with a single arm while she was sent plowing toward the ground.

BOOM.

She landed heavily on her feet, Nosphaleen hovering high in the air for a moment.

There was a lull in time and then the two erupted toward one another again, a violent upswell of clashing winds, splitting space, and churning clouds falling in their wake.

"Helplessness is a cute emotion on you. Have you ever thought of modelling? The brooding look would kill." Yamero said.

He didn't understand how he could figure out how to defeat a literal God and yet was truly helpless right now. It was starting to agitate him. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

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