Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 2426

Chapter 2426: Rewind

Caelum didn’t say anything when the two groups finally came within striking distance of one another, only lifting two fingers and making a small motion toward Sylas. The Silver woman in dark plate armor reacted immediately, while Fanelei took half a step forward before Sylas shook his head.

"Stay."

Fanelei raised an eyebrow, though she didn’t argue. She was still slowly growing into what it meant to be a Demi-God, while the woman approaching them was clearly a God, but there was another detail that made Sylas’ caution seem strange.

She was only a C-tier.

In fact, all four of them were.

Fanelei had enough experience to understand that Tier alone didn’t mean very much once the quality of the person standing in front of you grew high enough, but Sylas wasn’t usually the type to care about such a thing either. If he didn’t think she or Cheri could handle this woman, there was probably something else he had noticed.

The Silver crossed the remaining distance in an instant.

The blue lines beneath her armor brightened as she thrust a thin sword toward Sylas’ heart, and the space around her seemed to skip. It wasn’t quite teleportation, since Sylas could still feel every part of her movement, but the time between one step and the next had been compressed until the distance might as well not have existed.

Sylas flicked a finger.

The woman’s sword was suddenly back at her side.

Her feet stood exactly where they had before she attacked, the blue light beneath her armor still flowing through the same channels as though nothing had happened. Only the slight widening of her eyes suggested that she remembered crossing the distance at all.

She moved again.

This time, the mechanisms beneath her armor activated before her first step, thin plates shifting over her shoulders and waist while the blue lines pulsed in a sequence that Sylas could clearly read. Her personal time accelerated, the outside world slowed around her, and her sword approached Sylas from an angle meant to take his heart before he could react.

Sylas raised a hand.

The attack disappeared.

The Silver found herself standing several hundred meters away again, except this time she was already halfway through her follow-up motion, forcing her to stop herself before she lost balance. She frowned, finally looking at Sylas properly.

He hadn’t rewound time.

At least, not in the way she understood it.

She attacked a third time, then a fourth, and each attempt became more aggressive as the result remained the same. Time folded around her body, stretched beneath her feet, and compressed around her sword, yet no matter how she changed the application, Sylas continued returning her to an earlier position with movements so small they barely looked related to what was happening.

Cheri watched in silence, her previous panic slowly being replaced by confusion.

The woman was a God.

Even a Silver Acolyte of Legacy was someone Cheri wouldn’t have dared provoke casually, and this one was now attacking with enough power that the pressure leaking from her movements alone should have flattened large regions of the Demi-God Plane. Yet Sylas hadn’t taken a single proper step since the battle began.

The Silver’s expression hardened.

The blue beneath her armor changed to gold.

A heavy aura descended around her, and the failed Madness Candidates nearby were crushed into the ground before they could even react. Her sword hummed in her hand as she finally stopped testing Sylas and pulled directly on the power of the God Plane.

Then something went wrong.

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