Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 2071

Chapter 2071: Saboteur (1) [Bonus]

[Bonus chapter thanks to chronotitan <3]

There hadn't been any obvious issues with Benny's actions back then. He had, indeed, stopped the woman from making the wrong decision, and the fact he wanted to cooperate and vote on their choices was probably the correct one if all things were equal.

The trouble was mainly twofold.

First, Benny had reacted far too quickly, more quickly than even Sylas. Was that partially because Sylas hadn't expected space to be so restricted? Benny was still far too fast. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

He would have had to not only register the fact the woman was making the wrong choice, but already decide that it was best to stop her even if it might cost him an ally and make him come off as aggressive to the other parties.

The reason why this wasn't enough to conclude anything, though, was because maybe Benny hadn't deduced anything and he just felt it was foolish to leave his life up to someone else's unilateral decision.

But then there was the second glaring issue.

They were clearly in a time crunch and Benny's words all seemed to point to wanting to slow things down even as one of their teammates was suffocating.

If not for Sylas' quick solve, the woman might have actually died.

Of course, while this was enough for Sylas to be suspicious, the reason he didn't care to kill the man was because even if the man was being genuine, Sylas had no interest in a "vote".

Teamwork wasn't exactly something that got his blood going.

Still, everything was pretty much confirmed for Sylas when he got to the second round. That was because the Sachi also made a quick and wrong decision.

Therein lied the problem, though.

The Golmara thought that Sylas was the entire reason the Sachi died and had become extremely wary of him. But in reality, Sylas was at most 30% of the reason the Sachi died.

The last puzzle they solved was basically just pattern recognition. The clues were etched right into how the cubes were stacked.

The only way for the cubes to reach a state of equilibrium was by matching the pattern of the cube stacks.

The trouble was that you couldn't spin the cubes. As such, you had to guess what the other four sides of the cubes were based on the two you could see and then arrange them as such.

Since no cube could be spun and twisted, you were actually looking for and accounting for two patterns at the same time, not just one.

When the wrong cube was put in place, there was a strong repulsion that could lead to a dangerous backlash.

The more cubes were involved, the more violent the backlash.

And there was the key. When the Sachi went, only Sylas had gone up to that point, so only two cubes would have been involved. There would have been some backlash, but not enough to kill her.

Sylas managed to take advantage of the disruption and distortion in the air to regain some of his spatial control, resulting in the woman being pushed into the abyss and likely to her death.

To this point, everything made perfect sense. So why was Sylas hesitating about how to approach things?

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