Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 2241

Old Man Tera and Oura stood over Old Man Shah's corpse.

They had been just standing there for a long while. Every part of the sequence was something they had seen. They had watched Shah go from confident, to determined, to serious, to horrified, and then to death.

It was a matter that took several, long grueling hours, but the ending was still the same. They couldn't even start an attempt to help.

The moment Shah started, they had all known that it was too late to go back. The only way forward was either he succeeded or he died.

But there was such a rolling quagmire around Sylas that it detected like he was falling into quicksand and being spun in a whirlpool all at once. Maybe even that wasn't apt enough of a description.

He had been stuck on the horizon of a black hole, unable to extricate himself until he was sucked dry of everything he was.

All that was left of him now was a husk and his robes.

But neither of the two of them knew how to explain this. As untrustful as they were of Shah, forcing him to do this, Shah's family was equally distrustful of them.

For the most powerful Rune Master of their family to just up and die while the two of them were present?

There was no way they could explain this.

Ironically enough, this was certainly Karma biting them.

They hadn't believed Shah when he spoke of what happened, so they forced him to rewind time so that they could see.

And now they wouldn't have any way of describing what happened.

Anyone who tried to scry what happened here would likely end up the same as Shah.

But worst of all, rather than that helping them to prove their point, that would only make things even worse.

What would they think if that happened? Wouldn't they think that the two of them had used special methods to hide what happened so that it couldn't be scried?

How would they even explain that?

Now, they were just standing here in silence, neither willing to say a word as though that would just confirm what was happening here. But the longer they stood here, the more they also realized there was no changing anything.

"This is your fault." Tera said.

"And how do you figure that?" Oura said with a sneer.

"I'm still trying to come up with a reason."

Oura scoffed. "We can only display a united front. If we break, Shah's Clan will make this matter a living hell for us."

"They're in another Heaven, what can they do?" Tera said with a sneer.

"If you believed that, you wouldn't have been staring out at empty space like a gaping idiot this entire time."

For some reason, the two avoided saying Shah's Clan's name. But by the same token, neither mentioned one another's Clan's either. It was like they had a tacit agreement about this.

But what they were exactly hiding from… it was challenging to say.

Was it the system? Or was it the tower?

"A top legacy has been triggered." Oura said slowly.

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