Genetic Ascension

Chapter 1675 Typical

Sylas’ gaze flickered. He wasn’t entirely sure what was happening, but what he did know was that there was probably no going back now.

Ancestor Analei suddenly sat up from her seat.

“…Well, I’ll be damned…”

She blinked once and then directly stood up. In a flash, she vanished from her hidden underground practicing quarters. However, she hadn’t made it far before the skies were covered.

“Fucking hell, don’t you old bastards have something better to do?”

“I knew the moment you woke up nothing could go peacefully. What did you do this time, Fanelei?”

A man with huge, drooping earlobes appeared before her. His belly was as large and solid as a wok, his skin carrying hints of a bronzed color-enough to make one raise an eyebrow, but not quite enough to seem unnatural to a human of Earth.

His earlobes drooped like long hair, even swaying slightly in the wind. Large gauges were dug out of their tips, but rather than hollow circles, they were spikes that seemed formed of extraordinarily heavy weights despite their small stature.

“Mind your own business, how about that?” the old Analei snarled.

The large-bellied man’s eyes narrowed. If Fanelei was acting like this instead of just laughing and sneering at his face, this was bigger than he thought it was.

All cities had their problems. Who knew, a power outage of this scale might just be the mistake of a grunt somewhere. However, even with their stature, since they were awake, they should take action.

A power outage of this scale wasn’t just a matter of it being out; it was also a safety issue. If it was an enemy attack and they ignored it, things could get far worse before they got better, so they chose caution first.

This, though…

The large-bellied man wasn’t the only one who appeared in the skies like this. There were three others, all of them looking toward Fanelei with raised brows.

“Fuck,” Fanelei cursed under her breath, and then suddenly slapped her palms together.

BOOM.

A ripple spread out, but unlike the abrupt sound, it was incredibly gentle.

The land behind Fanelei lit up and ripples began to come from it as well. This result, though… even she wasn’t quite expecting.

For the second time in what felt like just as many seconds, she stood in shock and awe.

The Analei Founders were reacting.

“What is this?” The large-bellied man’s shock was written all over his face. “Fanelei, if you’re doing something that will harm the rest of our families, I will forget any previous connections we’ve had.”

Fanelei was too busy feeling out the changes to react. It was like she hadn’t heard the words spoken at all. In fact, she was still floored.

The Analei Founders reacting to an F-tier? What the hell was happening?

The trouble was…

Even Fanelei had no concept of what a Pure Spark Seed was.

The minor flickers of Sylas’ eyes were growing more substantial. That was because he realized something even more troubling.

This didn’t show any signs of stopping.

He wasn’t gaining any power. If anything, everything happening right now was putting a great amount of pressure on him.

The problem was that the Runes here were doing their best to unearth the truth of his Spark Seed, but they couldn’t come to an accurate assessment. Having never been outfitted for this sort of result, there were no failsafes for how much energy it could take, so it was continuing-purging more and more in an attempt to do so.

Sylas wasn’t even sure how to stop it.

Just when he thought he might very well explode, it all came to an abrupt stop, and he took a heavy single step backward.

The light around him slowly faded, and a blindness he had hardly registered he was experiencing before likewise faded. His eyes stung a bit, and it almost felt as though his chest cavity had been forcefully doubled in size before returning to its original state, making his entire torso incredibly sore.

Sylas took a breath, suppressing the pain he was experiencing. He looked up to find that several gazes were on him, but it was little different from what it usually was.

The problem was that very soon, that wouldn’t be the case.

He blinked only a single time, and yet in the next instant, Fanelei was standing before him.

Sylas had never seen her in person before, but somehow he knew exactly who it was.

The Rizen General’s pupils constricted, and he immediately fell to a knee. The children around seemed to take their cues from him, the first of them to follow being the other Rizen children. Then came the others.

The slowest to react was Malikhi. Unlike Leia, he had no familial relation to Fanelei—at least not any connection that wasn’t removed by three or more generations. However, he too took a knee.

As for Leia, she found a crease in the ground that was particularly interesting to stare right at. She never felt very comfortable when her grandmother was awake.

“You’ve caused a great deal of trouble,” Fanelei said indifferently.

Sylas didn’t reply. He didn’t think this was a sentence that could be replied to.

“Typical.” Fanelei shook her head. “Dammit. That was supposed to hold them for at least half a minute.”

BANG. BANG. BANG.

Three Ancestors appeared in quick succession, each one with auras infinitely close to the S-tier.

Sylas had never seen even one expert of this caliber, let alone four of them all in one area like this.

“What is this, Fanelei? A human boy?” The large-bellied Ancestor was even more confused. They had come here guns blazing, expecting to find something sinister, only to see the very last thing they could have expected.

“What happened to minding your own business? I saved the city, did I not?”

“After you probably had a huge part in nearly destroying our entire infrastructure.”

“I wasn’t the one who drew these faulty fucking Runes, now was I?”