Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 2194

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Cassarae sniffled. Usually by now she would have cleared her throat and pretended nothing ever happened. But this time, she just kept holding onto Sylas. She didn't want him to let go.

She honestly couldn't remember the last time she felt so vulnerable around everyone. Half of her wanted to blame pregnancy hormones, but while she wasn't exactly a biology whizz like her mom was, she knew it couldn't have possibly settled in that speedy.

The only reason she even knew she was pregnant right now was because of her sharp senses. If anything, her pregnancy might last longer than the usual nine months, so it would probably be another couple weeks before she could really start blaming anything but herself.

But at this point, she didn't know if she was ready to deal with whatever hormones would come with that considering how she was acting now.

"… What happened?" she eventually asked in a soft voice.

"I just took a trip to the past."

"You didn't know, right?" there seemed to be a hint of threat in her voice.

Sylas shook his head. "No. I didn't expect it."

Cassarae exhaled a breath. "… Okay."

She didn't even seem to care that Sylas went back in time. At this point, so many weird things happened that she didn't even have the energy to ask what happened. Instead, she asked something else.

"And the Duchess? What happened to her?"

"Nothing."

"Then why'd she disappear?"

"I'm assuming that's because the loop closed and the S-tier version of herself trapped in here has finally woken up. So, right about now, all of her clones have fused into one."

Cassarae blinked, somewhat confused. She didn't really understand what was happening, but in the end, she just shrugged.

Sylas hadn't killed the Duchess and the Prince in the normal sense. He had deconstructed their bodies into their fundamental Runes, sealing them away using the Death Seal.

What was interesting about Split Realms was that they were originally designed to recreate the same circumstances over and over again, separating out those that entered their worlds and forcing them to face the same challenge at the same time.

The Monkey King had manipulated and changed things about how the Split Realm worked, which was why Sylas had ended up in the same realm as the Duchess, and then eventually ran into the others as well at the end, but a Split Realm was still a Split Realm.

So, Sylas just took advantage of it.

He mixed the essence that was the Duchess and the Prince into the soup of Runes the Split Realm was meant to multiply and recreate. So long as their Wills were preserved by the Split Realm, they wouldn't be considered to have died true deaths.

What was great about Split Realms was that they could be entered again and again, and they wouldn't have to be entered during the same eras either.

Back on Earth, Sylas had entered the Mountains of Giza and spotted Archibald's name on the list. But as far as he knew, Archibald was from the Seventh Summoning. That meant that an entire two eras and several generations passed, and yet they still took part in the same Split Realm.