Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 2121

"I would advise you pay very close attention to what I'm saying, otherwise you might die before you understand what's happening to you and why."

Sylas didn't reply. Instead, his fist erupted like a rocket from his side. His gaze reflected an impassive almost carelessness, every aspect of his being pouring everything down to his very bandwidth for emotion itself into his knuckles.

BOOM.

The world folded at its edges.

One looked down at his rib cage, the location Sylas' strike should have landed, and by all rights, did land. But he didn't even move, or flinch, or even look like a decent attack had landed at all.

Even a toddler's punch to a mortal would have had some sort of reaction. But one might have thought that a gust of wind had passed by instead.

"Was that supposed to be an attack?" One asked, blinking at Sylas' fist as though asking him a genuine question.

Sylas retracted his fist. Oddly enough, even Sylas' expression didn't change all that much at the result. Anyone else would have reacted with panic at this point, but he hadn't. Instead, he seemed to be calculating something.

"This is the problem with you powerful Will users, all arrogant, all self-assured. I smelled the scent of Lust on you earlier, but now that I am close, I can smell Pride, maybe almost too much of it. No, definitely too much of it for someone so very weak."

There was finally the slightest flicker in Sylas' eyes. Even the A-tiers he had been around didn't so easily pick out his Seeds. It was hard to tell if One knew what he was referring to when he said these things, but in the event that he did, that could be more than a little bit troublesome in its own right.

However, once again, Sylas' reaction was quite limited. He didn't even make a move to step back from One's range, but neither did One seem eager to find an opening to attack. He wanted Sylas to know exactly why his life was going to end here first.

"In all your arrogance, you believe everything to start and end with Will, but this couldn't be further from the case. Energy is the center of all things.

"The Great Impetus, the Big Bang, the Sudden Surge, all these names for it across so very many cultures and worlds. What is it if not explaining the start of the universe itself as the impetus of energy itself.

"There is no deciphering between the two. Sure, Will is important, but only insofar as it is the kernel that is life. But without it, without life, the universe would still exist.

"Will and Rune Masters who try to distill everything into a matter of Will, trying to assign Wills to Aether of all things, is simply humanoids doing what humanoids do best—trying to make themselves the center of everything, trying to anthropomorphize everything into the living when 99% of everything in the universe wouldn't know what life was. 99% of what is in the universe simply exists. 99% of what is the universe exists without a so-called Will of its own.

"Only the 1% with a Will of its own somehow thinks that everything else should also have Will. Silly, is it not? Why should my Intelligence be called Willborne Intelligence and not my Will be called Intelligenceborne Will?"

One smiled. "Do you know why I am telling you all this? For one, I want you to understand when you lose, why your little parlor tricks and your Will were meaningless before me.

"I can sense it now. Your Will is quite powerful, having even crossed the Infinite stage, and it doesn't seem like Fragmented Infinity either—impressive.

The result, however, was very much different. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

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