Genetic Ascension

Chapter 1185: Pounce

Sylas activated Semi-Reversal.

He could use the Scorned Wraps to undo things related to the system. But something like a permanent change to his own body or that of a Contract didn’t fall into that category.

He could do it with the Frostbane Feather specifically because it was an item that permanently linked a target with the system by making it a Mount or Combat Mount.

However, Semi-Reversal was an ability of his Vipermancy Profession—one that he rarely used because he didn’t often make mistakes, but an ability nonetheless.

It allowed him to backtrack on evolutions he had triggered in his Serpentes, allowing them to reverse to a previous state.

Of course, by now, he had a full Reversal ability as well on top of Semi-Reversal. But he hadn’t yet allowed the evolution to go far enough to need it.

The beauty of full Reversal, though—and the irony for that matter—was that Sylas had the ability to revert all of his Contracts back to Level 0 if he so chose.

It was an ability he wanted for himself, but one he ironically wouldn’t have access to. But that was a problem for another matter.

Just now, Sylas had taken advantage of Total Merge and his Insight ability to see through things he didn’t understand before.

With Total Merge, he was able to use his own Will to suppress the Frostbane Feather and the Violet Rose Symbiote so that their fusion didn’t happen too fast.

Then, with his Insight Path Talent that allowed him keen understanding of his own Contracts and Serpentes in general—especially with Intuition—he was able to grasp subtleties and intricacies that would have otherwise been hidden from him.

So, when he ended Total Merge and gave the infant dinosaur its mind back, he immediately knew what to do.

Sylas had all the main ingredients here, just like he had expected. The question was how to allow the fusion of all of them in the optimal way, and now he knew.

When Sylas spoke, all F-Grade Serpentes listened. There was no room for quarter, no hope of resistance. But there was an extension of this ability as well.

He had already been able to do this at Level 41 of One Kind For Me. But now, he had Level 51 One Kind For Me. F-Grade Serpentes didn’t just listen and fully obey him now, but even their bodies did.

There was such a deeply ingrained sense of obedience to them that they didn’t question anything, they didn’t resist anything, they couldn’t even lift a finger of thought to consider anything opposed to him in the first place.

He was their rock, the core of their being, and they reacted as such without the slightest hesitation.

So even while alive, neither the Glasirith nor the Bone-Tailed Lizard had any ability to stop Sylas from taking the Race Quintessence or Potential out of their bodies.

Normally, even Genes couldn’t be taken out of the bodies of the living, let alone something so deep.

But Sylas was no longer just a normal Vipermancer anymore. His Profession had evolved in ways he hadn’t even been able to take the time to look into just yet. And yet those changes were already benefiting him.

Cyclones of swirling Runes and complicated flashes of gold surrounded Sylas. Normally, controlling so many things at once would be difficult even for him, let alone to arrange them all properly, but his insight into Serpentes was too deep, and his control over them was absolute.

All of these things came so naturally that he didn’t even break a sweat. He hadn’t even recovered from his earlier attempt to use his new Elevated Gene Talent, and yet it hardly mattered at all.

It looked like Sylas was going to infuse these things into the peacock’s body, but he didn’t.

This would work, but it wouldn’t be the perfect evolution that Sylas was going for. If he was going to sacrifice two of his Contracts, then it was going to have to be for not just a good cause, but a perfect cause. He wouldn’t stand for anything less than that.

So when he moved, he did so with purpose.

Sylas’ Beast Totem appeared, and somehow, the already obedient stream of Runes only became more so. There was now an odd… life to them, as though the Beast Totem’s existence was forcing them to act as though they had bodies of their own.

What Sylas had realized when he was in the Bone-Tailed Lizard’s body was that he would always be missing something.

He wanted to make use of both Contracts and the peacock. But the peacock was too weak to take on such an evolution in one go like this, while the Symbiote could only fuse with one at a time.

At the same time, he wanted a Flying Combat Mount, so he didn’t want to make his two Contracts the base of his new Mount either.

Although telekinesis could help you fly, the limitations were obvious and didn’t need to be rehashed. Not to mention the fact there was no telling if any of his Contracts would ever have telekinesis as strong as himself or Gogo if they were tied to the system.

The only way was to use the Frostbane Feather as a Trojan Horse of sorts. He had to force the Mount-creating Treasure into an evolution. But he was no Crafter; he didn’t know how to do that.

But… the more he observed the Frostbane Feather, the more he felt like it was less of a Treasure in the forged-by-metal sort of way, and the more he felt like it was a very close reflection of the Symbiote. It even felt like the Frostbane Feather was a Symbiote by another name.

What Sylas needed was a way to force the Frostbane Feather and the Symbiote to latch onto the amorphous form of the floating layers without the actual essence of life in them.

Clearly, just trying to inject them with Essence wasn’t enough and wasn’t working.

But… after feeling the changes the Bone-Tailed Lizard’s body had almost undergone, Sylas understood the secret to it all.

The Beast Totem.

As expected, the moment those pair of golden eyes appeared, it was as though even those floating Genes and Essences had gained substance, as though the Beast Totem wouldn’t allow them to run even in this form.

And that was when the Frostbane Feather and the Symbiote both trembled, greedily sensing something.

They pounced.

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