Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 2110

Sylas could feel every level clearly. Not just what they represented, but the emotions tied to them. He understood now why it was Fanelei had such a hard time taking the final step.

The truth of the matter was that Fanelei had the best set up for forging a Virtue Seed that Sylas had ever seen. Granted, it wasn't as though he had ever seen something similar. If he had to guess, the S-tiers that he had sensed through Leia's Madness Key probably had far better set ups. After all, they had succeeded in reaching the S-tier while Fanelei had not. Though it could also be the case that their mentalities were just better suited to Gluttony.

Still, he found that Fanelei's ability to build out her path was perfect. It was almost like she had sliced the meaning of Gluttony into pieces and mastered them one by one before hoping to piece them all together.

The problem with this approach, of course, was that Fanelei had made a mistake that many had. For one, she blurred the lines between Gluttony and Greed far too much. Those lines were more obvious to Sylas now that he had the Greed Seed himself. But even then, the Greed Seed wasn't truly his own. Instead, it was guided by his Pride Seed, so while he could feel out those layers, he would have to focus a lot more in order to truly divide them out properly.

However, the dividing lines between Greed and Gluttony was only one problem that Fanelei faced. The other part was this clear weight that she had been holding onto.

She had lost a lot in her life.

Sylas only saw Fanelei as a useful tool for him to use, but the reality was that she was someone who had lived a life herself. Several lives. She had experienced millennia, she had fallen in love, she had had children, she had once had parents and grandparents of her own.

Yet, the only true member of Fanelei's family that Sylas had ever met was Leia, and there was likely very good reason for that.

That reason being that there was no one else left in the first place.

When she was forced to carry around that weight so much, it was impossible for her to focus on Gluttony alone. And the more she tried to force it, the more it seeped out into Greed.

Because Fanelei didn't just want to consume and take, she wanted to have what she had lost as well. That was an emotion only Greed would have, and Gluttony was so close that it marred what success she had once had.

In the end, she ended up in a quagmire of her own success. On the one hand, Sylas had no real flaws to pick at in terms of her choice of paths and the ways she had lived her lives. On the other, he could spot a nigh infinite number of problems when it came to just how she went about those paths.

She would never even become a True Disciple of Gluttony like this, let alone form a Virtue Seed. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

Not until she could place down the burdens she carried everywhere.

But would that even be possible? Sylas certainly wouldn't forget if something like this happened to him. He had spent what felt like a lifetime lamenting a single memory—the volcano. Only recently had he gotten over it, but even then that was by making a promise to himself that was practically impossible to keep.

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