Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 2363

Chapter 2363: Command the Skies (1)

The feathered Serpentes’ fury finally broke through the careful politeness he had maintained from the beginning, and as his emerald-gold feathers lifted one after another, a faint pressure leaked from his body that did not belong on the Demi-God Plane at all.

Sylas immediately understood how he had broken free of the command that sent him crashing toward the ground before. Because of Gentrixaul’s interference, the restraints had loosened enough for this God to draw upon a fraction of his true existence. Even that small amount was enough to change the quality of the skies around him, making the atmosphere feel heavier and more obedient with every breath he took.

"To think I would have to go this far against a mortal." Violet facets flashed across his feathers as he looked down at Sylas with undisguised contempt. "I’ll squash you like the ant you are."

Sylas didn’t bother to answer, because there was nothing worth saying.

He stepped into the skies while the world continued changing around him, the clouds twisting and the earth rumbling beneath the weight of his anger, then reached a hand over his shoulder as his scythe ripped free under telekinetic force and slapped into his palm.

The moment his fingers closed around the shaft, the atmosphere churned and Sylas cut outward in a single smooth motion.

Far above them, Yamero watched the slash tear across the sky before clearing his throat. "We should probably make some distance."

He flickered beyond the atmosphere before Vaelith could even respond, carrying her away from the Mesmeryx world in a distortion of space, only to look back once, reconsider, and vanish again toward the broad ring of ice and stone circling the planet.

Yamero still didn’t seem satisfied.

"Too close."

Space folded a second time, and by the time he finally settled his massive Rune-built body onto one of the planet’s many moons, the Mesmeryx world looked like a distant sphere suspended against the darkness. Yamero stared down toward it for several seconds before nodding to himself.

"This should be good... I hope."

Vaelith’s lip twitched, but she didn’t answer because her attention was fixed entirely on Sylas. She had seen him angry before, though it had taken her time afterward to understand that the fury she witnessed then had been connected to his sister, and that memory made what she was seeing now far more unsettling.

Sylas wasn’t someone who lost control over meaningless provocations, which meant whoever waited within that cave carried far more weight to him than she had initially assumed.

Back below, Sylas’ slash crossed the distance toward the feathered Serpentes.

The God roared, and the skies answered him.

Air condensed around the incoming blade of force as though it had received a direct command, gathering in invisible layers that wrapped around Sylas’ attack from every direction. The slash slowed, its structure became rigid, and then the entire thing froze in place before shattering into fragments of emerald Will.

Sylas’ eyes narrowed slightly as he watched the process unfold. Runes had begun blooming across every feather on the Serpentes’ body, but they weren’t being consciously drawn or constructed, because each feather was already a complex Rune Armor unto itself, intricate patterns manifesting spontaneously across emerald-gold surfaces like something written there by the heavens from birth.

When thousands of those individual Runes resonated together, they formed a greater whole that strengthened every aspect of the Serpentes’ physical body while also extending his authority across the surrounding skies.

It was a natural form of Heaven Rune Creation, but it lacked the comprehension and deliberate construction Sylas associated with true Rune Mastery. The feathered Serpentes didn’t need to understand every individual Rune, because they appeared as an instinctive expression of his bloodline and divinity, and the closer an attack came to him, the deeper it entered the region those Runes governed.

Once that happened, structure itself began to weaken beneath his command.

Light gathered around the Serpentes’ mouth, then erupted outward in a concentrated beam.

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