Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 2040

Chapter 2040: Weak

The number of people kept steadily growing to the point that even Alex was in shock.

He was sure that these people were decoys, but the fact that there were so many of them was a true shock. The First Race truly went all out even with their decoys. It was impressive that they had created so very many of them.

It was to the point that it almost created him second-guess himself. Was this really the decoy?

Despite his doubts, Sylas was sure that he was correct. He had already deduced before that the First Race had slowly recreated the existence of Humans on Earth, starting from the Great Apes and working their way back up to them.

By that logic, it would seem that maybe these weren't the decoys. But Sylas was sure that the purpose of the First Race was to allow a new Race to bloom, not necessarily to perfectly copy the versions of themselves they had once been so very long ago.

In the midst of this ever-growing group of people, there were women and children, there were burly and frail men, there was the elderly, the injured, and the very clearly confused.

Some of them were even in compromising positions and had to hurry to cover themselves, one man borrowing a sweater from someone beside him as shampoo dripped down his hair and stung his eyes. Clearly, he had been mid-shower.

Regardless of the positions of these people, Sylas was sure about one thing. They were definitely all just like Professor Fembroise, every single one of the nearly 10,000 of them.

What was interesting about the sheer number, though, was the fact that it would have been far higher if not for all the deaths pre-summoning. These people were definitely the contingency plan of the contingency plan.

If not for how much of Earth's population had been wiped out, there would have probably been millions of them, each one with an ability to grow exponentially more powerful under a single lucky event.

And yet, not a single one of them was speaking right now.

There was no rowdiness, no questioning, it was like they had all just fallen into complete silence.

At first Alex thought that this was because they had a great deal of respect and fear for Sylas and simply didn't dare.

But the more he stared at them, the less human-like their reactions became, and the more... whole they felt.

Even Professor Fembroise fell into a trance, all of her previous fear being washed away by something far more hidden and looming.

Sylas' eyes narrowed and he looked into the skies.

There was absolutely nothing there, and yet it felt like everything was there.

The more he stared into the emptiness, the more it slowly formed until it solidified in his mind's eye as a looming black mountain.

'I triggered something unexpected.'

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