Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 2420

Chapter 2420: Priming

Sylas had already noticed that the rat knights weren’t truly growing stronger every time he attacked them. Their Wills continuously leaked into the surrounding world, spreading across the distorted space like a sensory net, and whatever information returned through that contact was immediately reflected through their bodies with something strangely similar to Telekinetic Martial Arts.

That was why every attack met exactly enough resistance to survive it. The rats weren’t adapting after Sylas struck, they were sensing what was coming before the attack properly formed, then using the feedback of the world itself to drag out the level of strength they needed. They were using the attacks they faced as a blueprint for how their bodies should interact with the modern day system and world, as though they had lost the thought processes on how to do that themselves.

If Sylas had to guess, every one of them was already a Legend. Not the sort of Legend Fanelei had been on the Mortal Plane either, but something that had reached that standard on the God Plane and stood at the very peak of it. Their current bodies simply couldn’t express all of that power under ordinary circumstances, so every time their Will touched the world and sensed a greater threat, more of what they already possessed returned.

Trying to overwhelm them with raw strength was pointless.

Oddly enough, Sylas was doing something similar himself. The Void wrapped around his existence and blurred the boundary separating him from Fanelei and Cheri, allowing the three of them to temporarily function more like overlapping layers of a single existence than separate people.

Through that connection, Sylas could draw on Fanelei’s raw A-tier power while reaching even deeper into Cheri, touching the God Aura buried within her and pulling pieces of its weight into himself.

Anywhere else, the process would have ripped them apart. Hell made it possible precisely through what made it so strange, existing between states while somehow resting upon a foundation of absolute stability.

The contradiction gave Sylas room to blur boundaries that normally couldn’t be touched, while the Genesis Forge Ore in his palm anchored those changes through the principles of Hell Rune Creation.

That was the real reason he had brought the two women with him.

Sylas wasn’t a fool, nor had he suddenly become convinced that nothing in existence could threaten him. His brief loss of interest in the world hadn’t come from believing he possessed more raw power than everyone else, but from the much simpler conclusion that he knew enough, understood enough, and had gathered enough resources to deal with whatever situation might come next.

Sylas Grimblade was probably the furthest thing in existence from anyone’s village idiot, and he certainly wasn’t so hungry for women that he needed a few members of the fairer sex following him wherever he went.

He had spent months travelling alongside an old man and a child trapped in the body of a grown man, so he was fairly certain his self-control had survived greater tests than this.

His eyes flashed as the next attack came, but this time his attention wasn’t focused on stopping it.

The rat knight’s Will reached outward first.

Sylas felt the exact moment it touched the world, and rather than blocking that connection, his Will slipped into the same space ahead of it. Lines of emerald light spread across the air, thin at first before curving into complex glyphs that locked together one after another, their edges developing teeth until several enormous Rune formations rotated like interlocked gears.

Will Priming.

Sylas didn’t need to stop the rat from reading the world, he only needed to change what the world told it.

The incoming spear registered as far weaker than it truly was, and the rat knight reacted accordingly, drawing out just enough of its buried strength to deal with what it believed was coming.

A second layer of Runes remained folded beneath the first, hidden behind a false interaction and void so complete that even the surrounding laws seemed convinced the attack carried no greater weight.

Creating something like this should have been absurd.

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