Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 2038

Chapter 2038: Decoy [Bonus]

[Bonus thanks to BobTheEngineer <3 I'm assuming BobTheEngineer and BobTheTechie are the same person. If not, correct me in the comments]

Alex knocked on a door ahead in Sylas' stead. Even now, Sylas seemed distracted by something, almost like he was in a continuous state of endless, looping thought.

This time, though, those thoughts didn't seem weighed down by self-doubt. It instead felt like he was seeing the world with a fresh pair of eyes. His brain was moving faster, his thoughts were smoother, the things that he could connect and then reconnect through differing channels and with vastly differing schools of thought just felt endless.

Sylas just felt... smarter, somehow.

And he wasn't sure how that was possible.

Honestly, he had already felt like he had reached the absolute limit of intelligence. He couldn't fathom someone being smarter than he was. He had come across people that impressed him, but only insofar as it took him a few extra minutes to understand their thought processes, not in the he couldn't even begin to understand them sort of way.

Sylas was someone who had somehow grasped Fathomless Rune Creation on his own without a single mentor anywhere near that strength and comprehension. It could be said that he had every right to be so arrogant about his own thoughts.

For some reason, though, shedding the issues he had had with the volcano unlocked that part of himself once more. He almost felt like the child he had once been, the toddler that had solved the mystery of the Mountains of Giza when the entirety of Legacy could not.

Well... at least the people of Legacy that had been on Earth at that given moment.

But it was still a feat that spoke for itself.

Even now, Sylas could recall the scribbles on that white page, he could remember the feeling of the threaded lines as he recreated those scribbles on a pin-up board.

And then there was the satisfaction he had felt from taking the image in two dimensions and expanding it forward to three.

He had forgotten just how proud he had felt in that moment. Maybe it was because he was a child back then, but he wondered when the last time he had been truly impressed by a feat of his own. Not someone else's, but his

own.

Now that he thought about it, Sylas had been far more accommodating with his praise of others in recent memory. That wasn't because he thought they were better than he was, but because he had far less expectations of them.

But now he suddenly wanted to feel that feeling again. No, it wasn't quite that, but instead like he felt like he could just barely reach out and do something that impressed himself-something that he could be truly proud of.

Runes swirled around him and he felt that his D-Grade Rune Mastery was continuously accelerating toward Spark Mastery. It wasn't quite there yet, and maybe it would never get there if he didn't give it true, focused attention.

But the fact it was so close already spoke for itself.

The door slowly creaked open and a boy peeked his head out from behind it.

Sylas almost thought of a certain other boy he had met over a year ago, the very same boy that had almost died back in the Mountain of Giza opening trials. His parents had been of some interest to Sylas back then, so he had signed the boy's father to a contract.

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