Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 2417

Chapter 2417: Hell (1)

Before Sylas left, he found his mother and handed her a tome.

Isolde looked down at the bright white-gold book in her hands, the faint markings of wings and halos across its surface shifting whenever she moved it. She could feel the weight of the Will inside despite not understanding even a fraction of what it contained, and when she looked back up at Sylas, he had already turned his attention toward the Creation Tower.

"It’s a Heaven Creation Path centered around Life."

His mother stared at him for a moment, then tucked the tome against her chest. "And you’re leaving again."

"Not for long."

She narrowed her eyes, clearly remembering their conversation from not long ago, but Sylas had no intention of disappearing for months this time. He was going to Hell, dealing with whatever Slithering Madness wanted, and coming straight back unless something forced his hand. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

That seemed enough for her, though barely.

Not long after, Sylas entered the Creation Tower with Cheri beside him.

He no longer needed to navigate the tower the way he once had. The moment his Will touched the surrounding Runes, the enormous structure reacted, glass floors shifting and distant mechanisms turning as pathways rearranged themselves before him. A road formed directly toward the presence he was looking for, and several minutes later they stepped into a wide study hall lined with more books than most Mortal Plane Rune Guilds possessed in their entirety.

Fanelei was seated in the middle of it all with several open tomes floating around her, but the moment she sensed Sylas, every trace of concentration vanished from her face. Her eyes lit up, her chair scraped backward, and then she crossed the room fast enough that the books behind her were still falling when she wrapped her arms around him.

"Sylas!"

Sylas looked down at her, then toward the books she had abandoned.

Fanelei slowly pulled back when she realized that was all the response she was going to get, her lips pulling downward. "Do you not like me because I’m a grandma? Is that what this is?"

Sylas didn’t answer.

"I’ve only been with one man in my entire life, you know, and he died a very long time ago." Fanelei placed her hands on her hips. "You have a Lust Seed now. You have plenty to go around, so stop being stingy."

Cheri stood off to the side without much of a reaction. Compared to some of the things she had seen within the Genesis Covenant, an older woman openly trying to seduce a younger man hardly registered, but what did catch her attention was who the woman was.

Fanelei’s aura had changed considerably since Cheri first met her. Her status as a Legend had finally begun catching up to the environment of the Demi-God Plane, and standing before her now felt little different from standing before some of the absolute powerhouses of the Genesis Covenant, yet this woman was practically throwing herself at Sylas while he couldn’t even be bothered to respond.

Cheri understood why she herself was wary of Sylas. She had watched him survive the assault on the Genesis Covenant, watched her Guild crumble around him, and seen enough since then to know that offending him was foolish, but even that victory had relied on outside items and circumstances that weren’t entirely his own strength.

But Fanelei was an A-tier Legend whose strength was finally beginning to settle into what it should have always been on the Demi-God Plane, and yet the interest in her eyes whenever she looked at Sylas went beyond simple gratitude. Cheri found herself studying Sylas from the side for a moment, wondering if there was something she still hadn’t understood.

Sylas ignored both women and looked toward the floating tomes instead.

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