Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 2306

Sylas stared past the message and into the distance. For a moment, there was a flicker in his eyes.

He didn't fail to understand what Rhykan wanted, that part was simple enough. Even though, even by Sylas' standards, it was ridiculous. But impossible tasks had stopped meaning much to him a long time ago.

What bothered Sylas was something else entirely.

Why had Rhykan told him?

Sylas' gaze lowered back to the hovering message.

There was no world in which Rhykan Purvon handed him something like this for free.

Maybe Rhykan truly did need his help, Sylas could accept that much. It certainly wouldn't be the first time. Bringing an entire galaxy up clearly wasn't something Rhykan could casually accomplish himself, otherwise this conversation would never have happened.

More importantly, it wasn't something he had the opportunity to do.

Still, somewhere inside this plan, buried beneath the obvious benefits, there was another layer--maybe ten. Sylas could feel the shape of it without seeing the details.

Rhykan was too clever for this to be the end of it.

The last time Sylas had crossed paths with him, Rhykan had already shown a willingness to let other people create chaos while he positioned himself to benefit from the outcome. Now he had appeared again at exactly the right moment, with exactly the right information, offering exactly enough to make refusing him foolish.

The perfect plan was always the one where a person would have no choice but to jump in both feet bare, and Rhykan expected Sylas to follow his suggestions despite their history because it was too good an opportunity.

Sylas' eyes narrowed.

If he tried to beat Rhykan by thinking further ahead, he would only be accepting the battlefield Rhykan had chosen.

That was stupid.

If someone was capable of calculating ten moves ahead, the answer wasn't necessarily to calculate eleven, especially not when said person had more information at their fingertips than you did.

The answer was to overturn the board and force Rhykan onto a battlefield he didn't quite understand fully either.

Sylas slowly closed the Nexis window.

The void became still around him once more, distant stars hanging in the darkness like dust scattered across black nothingness.

There were three things in Sylas' possession that he didn't believe Rhykan could properly account for.

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