Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 2026

Chapter 2026: Fools of us All

'Gluttony?'

Sylas met his little sister's eyes, his pupils flickering continuously as though he was trying to understand something.

A Will that could devour flesh to revive itself... it was a fascinating concept and once again vastly different from his own. It wasn't even something that Sylas could replicate because his path wasn't his sister's path, neither was it Cassarae's.

"... You are fine?" Sylas eventually said.

Elara nodded rapidly like a pecking chicken. It almost looked for a moment that her hair itself would fall out as though it was a wig.

Cassarae found herself laughing. She pinched Elara's cheeks, still hugging her from behind.

"She might look adorable and soft, but she's evil. I guarantee it."

Sylas didn't say anything for a long while, trying to see through his sister and yet not quite managing to.

His judgment just felt... off.

Sylas did find himself to be smarter than basically everyone he came across or interacted with, but it wasn't usually for the reasons that many might guess.

Being able to figure something out was only one aspect of intelligence. The second part, and arguably the most important, was understanding what was actually viable and what wasn't.

In theory, a lot of the things Sylas did were exactly that. Theories.

Theoretically, they made sense, but that didn't mean that they would work in action.

Someone back on Earth before the summoning, for example, could think to daisy chain a bunch of extension cords together to power a device that was too far away. In theory, that made sense. And in function, it might end up working as well.

But what if one of the extension cords was overloaded, or had a severed cord, or what if the power was split too many times for the voltage to meet the requirements of the device?

Having a working theory, even one that made logical sense on the surface, didn't always mean that all your ducks were in a row. There might very well be small or large hurdles that left your theory in the land of, well... theory.

When Sylas out-schemed the Hydra, or used the stomach acid of the World Serpent in his Glassvolt, or even when he forged a formation to protect the entire Sanctum, these were working theories that formed sense on paper, but what many didn't see were the hundreds of other theories he had had at the same time that he ended up dismissing outright because he saw those small or large barriers coming before others did.

Deciding what not to do was just as important as deciding what to do.

The problem was that when it came to his little sister, Sylas wasn't able to do this. He second guessed everything because he knew a single mistake in deduction on his part would mean losing someone he couldn't afford to lose.

Sylas hadn't been forced to face this issue before. Maybe he hadn't even realized that the place he had his sister in his heart was slightly different from even everyone else he cared about.

She was a small flower he ironically wanted to shield from even the sun itself. But this small flower was tired of being in the shade... so much so that she broke free far earlier than she should have ever.

And now he had to decide whether to deal with that outcome, or to face a situation where he might very well never see his little sister again.

The fact he had only just now lost Nosphaleen made the possibility hurt even worse.

If losing Nosphaleen felt like that... what would it feel like to lose his little sister?

Sylas knew that even if he went to the Demi-God Plane right now the amount of resources it would take to find exactly where Elara was would be astronomical. It would be even worse since he wasn't prepared.

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