Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 2188

The Monkey King wanted to have his cake and eat it too. He wanted to use Sylas' intelligence to figure out the last pieces of the puzzle for himself, then kill Sylas and take the solution for himself at the same time.

But even by his estimations of Sylas, Sylas returned to the past far earlier than he expected.

Yet, the Monkey King didn't panic. If he didn't get what he wanted out of the battlefield, that was fine. He would just set that matter aside and focus on killing Sylas. That was his top priority.

Unfortunately, he had just shown Sylas far too much.

It confirmed one very important thing for Sylas. The Monkey King feared those flames as well.

The only question was… why?

The Madness System shouldn't be what was targeting the Monkey King, right? It didn't quite make sense. The Madness System almost seemed built specifically for the Madness Sovereigns.

That was when the Monkey King was so kind to present to him the final piece of the puzzle.

Champion Will.

An impossibly long time ago—at least that was what it experienced like—Sylas asked the Madness Key a question and it answered with… —

[During the Fragmented Era, the life of the common man was harsh and brutal. It was under the power of the Madness Emperor that an era of prosperity was ushered in, and it was thanks to the Madness Emperor that the first system was introduced.

[Many years passed and the Fragmented Era gave way to the Common, Bronze, Silver, Gold, and the greatest of them all, the Legendary Era—where experts were abound and greatness pillaged from the jaws of destruction and chaos.

[No Era is destined to exist through time immemorial, no one is promised forever.

[The Legendary Era fell and a new Fragmented Era was ushered in—]

—

This Era now… it should be the Legendary Era. But what was interesting about this retelling of events was that the Madness Emperor introduced the first Era, and thus should have been the one to usher in the Common Era, not the Legendary Era that they were in right now.

But this was confusing. How could these two things be the same?

Who was the Madness Emperor? Was the Monkey King and the others like Slithering Madness and the like not the original creators of Madness?

Usually, the simplest answer was the solution. But Sylas felt that this was a rare instance where it wasn't.

An organization, without good probable cause, would never waste the time to raise up others over themselves, not when you were effectively asking your disciples to die in the name of your cause. That cause being birthing a Sin within yourself.

And that was the other interesting point. Sylas had to stumble into Virtues himself. It didn't seem like the Madness Key he originally had wanted him to learn a Virtue at all, so much so that when he did learn his first Virtue, he manifested a completely separate Madness Key altogether.

It wasn't until Sylas saw the Champion Will that everything made sense to him.

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