Genetic Ascension

Chapter 1946: Mirrored Space

Sylas’ eyes flashed in recognition. In an instant of time, his Will split countless ways, taking hold of the folds of space across various regions in a seemingly infinite stream. And then, in a single flash, he bent all of them.

The direction through which the yellow slit eyes were moving was suddenly diverted. As though it had tried to strike at something beneath the surface of churning currents of water, it completely missed, its body slipping past Sylas and Nosphaleen.

Nosphaleen was almost instantly on alert, but the beast Yamero had moved so fast that she was still far too slow to react. And how could she be anything other than slow compared to an A-tier? Sylas was only fast enough because he had known Yamero was here from the very beginning.

He hadn’t been reacting in the first place. He had been taking control of the situation.

Yamero was truly stunned. It hadn’t planned on killing Sylas outright, not until it could make certain that it could get what it wanted first. But even if it held back, it could kill a B-tier with a glance, let alone an E-tier like Sylas.

There were few who understood just how malleable the space of this fragment Mirror World was better than Yamero. But even so, that didn’t mean that it was so easy to manipulate, especially not in the face of a beast with Spatial affinity as strong as its own.

As Yamero was lost in shock, the space around it suddenly constricted. The illusory form of a serpent wrapped around the space. It bit its tail, completing the loop and the construct in a single go.

In that instant, Yamero found that it was simply impossible to use space like it once had.

BOOM. BOOM. BOOM.

Space shook and cracks appeared in the illusory serpent. With one more quake, Yamero would break free.

But just as it was going to, Sylas’ eyes flashed and his Grim Reaper Title flickered to life. Fueled by the Will of a Demi-God and slivers of the Hydra’s God Will, it practically formed into a spike that tore right into Yamero’s heart.

Sylas opened a palm and a scythe formed in it, expanding in both directions with his hand as the center. Runes danced into being, forming in complex chains and links that built the weapon until it stood tall and strong.

“I could kill you.” Sylas said calmly. “To me, you are the most vulnerable Construct there is here. Your entire foundation is built on space, but how can you control it better than I can?”

Space was but one aspect of Spacetime, of which Sylas controlled both.

Before he had Demi-God Will, he had said that it would take quite some effort to deal with an A-tier in this place, and he would need a lot of preparation ahead of time.

That was no longer the case the moment he got Demi-God Will, let alone the changes that followed after this.

When Sylas took the Hydra’s Will-or, rather, what was left of it-his own Will had benefited a great deal. The change wasn’t a simple matter of strength or stat total.

Actually, the Hydra’s Will was technically weaker than Sylas’ own. If one ignored the fact that the Hydra was a God, that is.

The Hydra was naturally born with Fragmented Infinite Will, but because of that, it never actually trained its Will. As such, its Will was only at the same level as Sylas’— False Infinite. But in action, it was functionally weaker. If not for the veneer of God Will, it would have been completely crushed.

Thanks to it, Sylas was already teetering on the edge of True Infinite Will right now. He could have broken through, but then his Will would have just been as hollow as the Hydra’s and that wasn’t something he wanted.

Even so, thanks to this, his Will functioned far more like Infinite Will now than ever before.

There was no one in the Mortal Realm that could compete with him in Will. And when he cast Runes, he didn’t even feel the strain and weight of it anymore.

Maybe that would change if he was casting Demi-God Runes, but…

He didn’t need that to deal with Yamero.

Sylas stretched out his scythe and the sound of scraping metal echoed as it hooked onto something, slowly pulling it out.

The head of a large serpent appeared, its expression marred with fury. But it was completely bound.

It, a mighty A-tier, was actually so easily restrained by an E-tier. This was the humiliation of a lifetime.

Yamero was a beautiful silver serpent, its yellow eyes being more of a burning amber color now that it wasn’t being filtered through countless layers of space.

While it was “large” in comparison to most serpents of Earth, it was only about 10 or so meters long and had a body width of about two to three times that of a human head.

Compared to what one might expect from an A-tier, it was actually quite small.

‘Interesting.’ Sylas thought to himself.

There weren’t any Legendary Serpentes with Spatial Affinities from Sylas’ understanding. There weren’t any Gold ones either. There were a few Bronze and Silver ones, but while they were powerful in their own individual tiers, they weren’t on a large scale.

Yamero was of a Silver Lineage of Serpentes, the Spark Weavers. They were quite well known for their stealth, but they weren’t capable of using their space for much other than that. They weren’t even really able to use it to help with movement speed.

Space and time were incredibly powerful and rare affinities. But it was also because of this that the universe rarely succeeded in forming powerful Races that made use of them.

That and the fact that the Races that did manage to make it to the peak… locked the entire Path they followed up after them.

The Demi-God Thryskai were certainly one kind. In fact, the Myrrakhael, the very Thryskai Clan Sylas had led to their death, had had the ability to freeze people in time in the middle of battle.

If the Thryskai commanded the paths of space and time, one could see why other Races-especially not the Serpentes who were constantly being punished for their past deeds—would not be capable of using these paths.

Seeing Yamero’s pitiful state, though, Sylas wondered if it would be worth it to spend the necessary time on it.

It wasn’t the fact Yamero had a space affinity that intrigued Sylas so much.

It was the fact that Yamero was actually on the verge of successfully forming its own body.

A body formed of Mirrored Space.