Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 2447

Chapter 2447: Unchanged (1)

The Scorpion heart was far too large to fit above Sylas’ palm in any ordinary sense, its enormous mass suspended several meters over him while telekinesis held it in place. Each beat sent a dull pressure through the room, vessels thicker than Sylas’ body contracting around blood that should have stopped flowing long ago, yet the more important movement came from within him as his Greed Seed stirred in response.

Sylas allowed only the faintest thread of the Seed’s influence to reach upward, and crimson light spread through the heart almost at once. The resonance was powerful enough that anyone else might have mistaken the two Wills for the same thing, but once Sylas began comparing them directly, the differences became more useful than the similarities.

Keyesen hadn’t carried the original Scorpion’s Will. Several Beast Wills within his Spirit Beast body had converged closely enough upon that ancient existence that the universe accepted the result and allowed the Virtue of Greed to bloom, which meant Sylas now possessed both sides of a problem no Spirit Beast had ever been able to consciously solve.

The heart above him contained the source, while the Greed Seed within him contained the successful approximation. Once Sylas’ Runeweaver Eyes brightened, he overlaid the two structures within his perception and removed everything that matched, leaving only the discrepancies suspended before him like errors in an otherwise perfect equation.

It was an inverse problem, and one Sylas understood well enough from the sciences of Earth. If the original signal and a reconstructed output were both known, the exact machinery between them didn’t necessarily need to be observed directly. Enough differences between input and result could reveal what transformations must have occurred along the way.

That was the thread Keyesen had unknowingly left behind.

His several Beast Wills hadn’t simply piled together until they resembled a Scorpion, because if accumulation alone were sufficient, any collection of Wills could eventually reproduce any ancient Beast with enough brute force.

Something within the Spirit Beast Race had filtered, separated, and recombined them into a structure stable enough to mimic one cohesive existence rather than collapse beneath competing identities.

This was how Keyesen, a God Beast of their Race, had managed to use the combination of his Scorpion Wills to mimic enough of the original Scorpion and trigger the formation of a Virtue of Greed he couldn’t even begin to deserve.

Sylas pushed deeper into the comparison, following the original Scorpion’s Will as it moved through the heart’s foundational Runes. There was no meaningful division between its Greed, violence, stubbornness, survival instinct, or physical nature; all of those things emerged from one complete existence and therefore moved through the heart as parts of the same whole.

His Greed Seed looked different.

Tiny discontinuities appeared throughout its structure, each one so subtle Sylas doubted he would have found them without the original heart as a reference. One section reproduced the Scorpion’s refusal to release what it considered its own, another reflected its willingness to destroy in order to take, while still others carried persistence, self-preservation, aggression, and smaller traits that bridged the spaces between them.

Keyesen’s Beast Wills had supplied different portions of the same answer, but possession of the pieces alone still couldn’t explain the result. The more Sylas studied the intersections, the clearer it became that the Spirit Beast Race itself had acted as the machinery that allowed those fragments to cooperate.

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