Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 2097

[Bonus chapter thanks to Killerquaker and BobTheEngineer :)]

The aura around Sylas calmed. He looked down at his hands to see the same bony protrusions in place of his fingers. He felt entirely different, but it was impossible to benefit from it entirely when his body wasn't whole right now.

While it seemed like using the abilities of the Ruby Ouroboros came with an infinite escape-death glitch, it still had its limits.

When Sylas created the Ruby Ouroboros, he didn't have the same understanding of Will Manifestation that he did now, his ability to craft and transfer what understanding his Vipermancy Profession gave him into a viable path for his new contract was limited.

Simply put, if there was a universal Arcane Madness-like Will for evolution, then there existed one for infinity as well, and he hadn't truly grasped or incorporated that into the Ruby Ouroboros.

Meaning, it wasn't using true infinity right now, it was using an approximation. Which also meant that it was only a matter of time before Sylas actually dropped dead if he stayed like this for too long.

By extension, that meant if he did this without a real method of healing, he would be finished.

Luckily for him, he had left himself just the smallest sliver of evolution energy.

It wasn't much… but everything was a matter of relativity when you were talking about energy coming from an A-tier Demi-God Dungeon.

It had managed to elevate his family to the Demi-God Realms, it had managed to elevate his Classes to the D-tier, and now… WHOOSH.

Energy rolled around Sylas and his Hibernation Halo manifested. His flesh began to wrap itself around him again, weaving into reality as though by the hands of a Goddess of Fate until it snipped to a close with finality as the last of his skin formed.

Sylas' once bony hands clenched, his flesh roaring with pulsing veins of blood.

The world calmed and he breathed out.

He looked up into the skies to find the tortoise unconscious, its body—or rather its consciousness—drifting.

Sylas felt that he could probably get a bit more Evolutionary Energy by killing it right now. He wouldn't accumulate as much as he would from clearing a Dungeon like this one, but killing an A-tier—even if it was a mortal—would come with a great deal nonetheless.

'I should.'

Keeping a creature that could swallow and mutate Dungeons for him was actually quite useful on paper, but it had taken millennia for it to reach this point, and it only managed to take the last step because Sylas had appeared.

If not for Sylas' Demi-God Aura, it might have taken it another several millennia to succeed.

Plus, it wasn't a Serpentes. It had descended from one, however, it was too far removed from the World Serpent by now, so much so that the only thing they had in common was a vague world swallowing ability and the fact they were both reptilian.

'However…'

Sylas thought of something and then waved a hand.

The tortoise's consciousness was severed and then pulled into his Hibernation Realm, effectively killing its real body.

Its real body wasn't of much use anyway. It couldn't even display any true combat prowess.

What Sylas needed was in its memories. He would deal with that later.

He looked back toward the trio standing in the chaos of the collapsing world and all three of them stiffened.

Even standing there, stark naked, Sylas was somehow the most dangerous creature they had ever laid eyes on.

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