Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 2432

Chapter 2432: Fallen

The doors continued to move as the resonance between the five Fallen Madness Disciples deepened, every pulse of their Wills followed by another low groan from the enormous structure in the distance.

At first, the effect remained limited to the battlefield around them, but it didn’t take long before the surrounding Hell began responding as well, obsidian mountains trembling while rivers of lava crawled backward along slopes they had descended moments earlier.

Sylas’ expression grew more serious as he watched the changes spread, though his hands never stopped moving. Emerald Strokes passed through the golden mechanisms Caelum continued forming around the five Fallen Madness Disciples, Sylas bending Time through Space while Caelum continuously altered when those interactions were allowed to occur.

Caelum had stopped trying to kill him outright several exchanges ago, and Sylas could see why. Whatever he had expected when he released the Fallen Madness Disciples from the black cylinder, it clearly wasn’t this. His attention was increasingly divided between Sylas and the growing resonance he was desperately attempting to suppress.

One of the Fallen Madness Disciples released a roar as its Greed pulled violently at the surrounding Aether, taking so much that its flesh began swelling beneath the pressure. Caelum immediately layered several temporal mechanisms over its body and shifted the excess into another moment, only for Sylas to cut through one of those structures and force him to rebuild it before the unstable Aether tore the creature apart.

Sylas watched the response with a flicker of interest before pressing again. Caelum had protected the two remaining Silvers almost automatically throughout their earlier exchange, but now every attack Sylas directed toward the Fallen Madness Disciples drew his attention first.

Sylas sent three emerald formations through a fold in Space, forcing Caelum to choose between preserving the temporal structures around the Fallen Madness Disciples and maintaining the protections around his companions. Caelum hesitated for less than an instant before abandoning the latter, and that moment was enough for one Silver to be caught between two conflicting stretches of Time until her flesh withered and restored itself so violently that her body tore apart.

The other Silver reacted fast enough to retreat, but not fast enough to escape Sylas. Space folded beneath his feet and deposited him beside one of the Fallen Madness Disciples just as its Will erupted, a warped claw tearing through his torso before Caelum could spare enough concentration to interfere.

Caelum didn’t even look toward them as they died and Sylas’ eyes narrowed.

Whatever these five Fallen represented, Caelum valued them above two Silver Acolytes, and that was difficult to dismiss as simple practicality. Sylas didn’t yet know why Caelum had been collecting Fallen Madness Disciples that should have been little more than failed remnants of dead Paths, but every new reaction made it increasingly obvious there was something unusual about these particular five.

Their Wills layered again, and this time the effect was strong enough that the ground beneath them warped outward in a broad circle. The Greed of one pulled at Aether, another reached for strength it didn’t possess, while a third remained almost entirely focused on Sylas’ Virtue Seed, yet instead of those differences causing conflict, they seemed to reinforce one another.

The phenomenon spread farther with every passing breath. Distant Fallen Madness Disciples began screaming as their own Wills reacted to the five, some collapsing to their knees while others rushed blindly toward the source as though something inside them had suddenly become impossible to ignore. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

Fanelei moved closer to Cheri, her usual amusement completely gone as she stared toward the doors.

"Something is wrong," she spoke, and this time there was enough weight in her voice that Sylas gave the words more consideration than the obvious statement deserved.

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