Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 2440

Chapter 2440: Dormant

Sylas looked at Two without changing expression, the same deadpan calm remaining on his face even as Weaving Madness lowered itself toward Slithering. Two had expected anger, calculation, perhaps even the first traces of concern, but what he found in those emerald eyes made his own gaze pause for the first time.

Sylas was looking at him like he was an idiot.

Two had seen disdain before and had certainly inspired more than his fair share of hatred, but this was different. Sylas wasn’t posturing or attempting to provoke him. He genuinely seemed to believe Two had overlooked something so obvious that explaining it would be a waste of time.

The answer came before Two could ask.

Sylas’ Lust Seed pulsed, its Virtue spreading through the technological connection the Omnimous had already helped him understand. Weaving Madness froze before it could attack Slithering, its eight metallic legs digging into Hell as the machinery controlling its body suddenly found itself competing with an authority far more intimately connected to what remained beneath all that metal.

Two’s eyes sharpened.

He had understood how Sylas seized Scurrying quickly enough. The true Virtue of Greed and the heart of the original Scorpion gave him an absurdly convenient bridge into the cyborg’s technology, but Two had already accounted for the possibility that Sylas possessed another Seed.

The chance had been small enough that it barely deserved consideration, but Two considered everything. If Sylas possessed a second, Gluttony had been the obvious possibility, especially when Slithering Madness had gone out of its way to contact him personally.

Lust hadn’t entered the equation.

More importantly, Two hadn’t expected Sylas to possess the genuine Virtue.

The mechanical structures buried inside Weaving Madness resisted as Two’s commands attempted to reassert themselves, but Sylas didn’t need to dominate them for long. Lust rolled through the cyborg spider’s remaining flesh, touched the Will beneath the machinery, and broke the balance Two had created between the two.

Weaving Madness screamed.

The sound carried none of the hatred Scurrying had directed toward Sylas. The moment Two’s control broke, the spider twisted toward the Professor instead, its eight legs blurring as webs of Will spread between them and turned the surrounding Hell into something sticky enough that even Two’s red telekinetic arms slowed.

Sylas immediately released his control over her. There was no reason to waste energy commanding something that already wanted the same person dead.

The burden on Sylas dropped at once, allowing him to focus almost entirely on Scurrying while Slithering and Weaving acted independently. Three Arcane Madnesses crashed against Two from separate directions, Greed stripping strength from the world, Gluttony increasing the weight of every attack, and Lust binding the spaces between his telekinetic defenses until the red arms protecting him began breaking one after another.

Two retreated.

Yet Sylas still didn’t feel as though they were winning.

The Professor still answered every attack with the same infuriating simplicity, red Will condensing into palms and fists wherever necessary before disappearing the instant their purpose was fulfilled. Even when Scurrying’s claws tore through one arm and Slithering crushed three more beneath its body, Two simply replaced them without any obvious strain.

Something about him was changing, though.

The dullness in his eyes began disappearing.

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