Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 2375

Chapter 2375: Can I Really? [Bonus]

[Bonus thanks to TheHonoredOne69 <3]

Nosphaleen couldn’t slow her heartbeat no matter how hard she tried, and the strange freedom spreading through her mind only made controlling herself more difficult.

The endless pulses of anger and Envy that had once sat behind every thought had faded into the distance, no longer crowding against her consciousness or coloring every emotion before she could even decide what she felt.

She couldn’t understand what Sylas had changed, but for the first time in longer than she cared to remember, her own thoughts felt like they belonged entirely to her.

Her eyes burned before she realized what was happening, and then the first tears slipped free.

Nosphaleen buried her face against Sylas’ chest as the restraint she had maintained collapsed all at once, her shoulders trembling while sobs escaped faster than she could suppress them.

She tried to stop more than once, embarrassed by how completely she had lost control of herself, but every attempt only seemed to loosen something else inside her until her fingers tightened around Sylas and she cried harder.

Sylas didn’t tell her to stop, nor did he offer some empty reassurance that everything was fine now when both of them knew that wasn’t true. He simply held her there while the storm worked its way through her, allowing Nosphaleen to cling to him until the shaking gradually weakened and her breathing finally began to settle.

By the time she managed to lift her face again, her eyes were red and wet, but the oppressive haze that had once sat behind them was nowhere near as strong.

Nosphaleen hugged him tighter.

She had always believed in Sylas, or at least she had thought she did, yet what he had just done felt like something she should have expected from the man he would become at the end of his journey rather than the one standing before her now.

He had reached into something that had controlled her across Karma, Faith, Will, and even time itself, then shifted it just enough to return a piece of herself that Nosphaleen had begun to think was gone forever.

The realization left her strangely hollow. Had she still underestimated him?

When she challenged his wife to battle, had some part of that choice come from the same failure to believe? She had told herself that she only needed an answer, that she couldn’t endure another day without knowing whether there was truly a place for her beside Sylas, but now she couldn’t stop wondering whether patience should have been enough.

Maybe she should have simply trusted that Sylas would eventually reach her. Maybe she should have trusted that when he did, whatever stood between them wouldn’t matter.

Nosphaleen lowered her gaze, the thought leaving her more broken than the pressure of Envy had in some ways, until Sylas finally spoke.

"Let’s go."

Her head snapped up.

"I can... really go with you?"

Sylas looked back at her with the same calm expression he seemed to wear for almost everything, but he didn’t answer.

He didn’t need to.

A beautiful smile slowly spread across Nosphaleen’s face, so bright that the lingering redness around her eyes only made it stand out more. Maybe that really had been her problem all along, and if so, she would never make the same mistake again.

From today onward, no one would believe in Sylas more than she did.

The extension of Nosphaleen’s spine began retracting as soon as the thought settled, drawing back from the waters beneath the lotus while the cocoon at the bottom of the oasis trembled.

The second body rose through the clear water under an invisible pull, and at the same time, the tether stretching all the way toward the Mortal Plane snapped apart.

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