Genetic Ascension

Chapter 1507: Disappointing

The entire Tower of Champions trembled.

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When Sylas appeared again, he was in a bit of a daze, staring out into empty space. The moon they had been on had been repopulated by more families and geniuses waiting for their turn to enter the Tower of Champions, and the original ship of a certain group of mutated humans was no longer there. Clearly, the old man had done his job well.

Even so, Sylas' mind was still elsewhere.

Madness Disciples...

That battle-it had been far too easy for what it was. And the reason it was so easy was precisely because of the Seeds.

The more powerful the Madness Disciple, the heavier the chains of their vices became.

The Sloth Disciple had no business losing to him. But he was so impossibly lazy that Sylas was easily able to claim a victory he shouldn't have had.

This should have made him proud, but it didn't.

The words of the little girl flashed in his mind again.

...The sooner you start treating them as chains, the better...

The words echoed again and again.

To be so powerful, and yet to be such a slave to the very thing that gave you so much power... What a horrible fate.

Sylas didn't want to end up like that. He absolutely refused to. His Pride Seed was nothing more than a tool.

All of the assumptions the Sloth had been making of him today were things he assumed Sylas would struggle with because he had seen other Pride Disciples struggle with them. In fact, the Sloth had probably lowered his guard even further than usual because he expected Sylas to be dealing with his own vices, allowing Sylas to deploy his countermeasures in relative peace.

Sylas didn't even have to use Gogo. It was...

Pathetic.

That was the one word he had for the Madness Disciples.

Disappointing.

This man was a True Sloth Disciple, amongst the strongest of the Madness Disciples, a man who had an entire Path to himself, and this was all he had to show for it.

Sylas looked down at his Madness Key.

"Is this what all of you are like?"

The little girl didn't reply.

"Disappointing."

If he ever reached a state where his Seed had that much control over him, he would rather rip it out of his body and restart from stage one.

To be a D-tier with such talent, such power, and to lose to an F-tier who hadn't even gone all out... A complete waste of a life.

Sylas looked up, pushing it out of his mind. The Sloth was him, and he certainly wasn't the Sloth.

As for where the clone of the Sloth had ended up, that had nothing to do with Sylas right now.

It was trivial to get rid of him. The Tower of Champions had already registered the Sloth as dead the moment Sylas killed his clone. Because of that, the Tower had no reason to teleport him back to the Milky Way Horizon.

The Sloth had planned to piggyback a ride back, using his Scorned Wraps to hitch this ride. All Sylas had to do was block his attempts and trigger a return.

Like this, the Sloth had entered a teleportation sequence without a destination. He could be anywhere in the universe right now.

And given the sheer size of the universe, the odds that he would be anywhere near the Milky Way Horizon might as well have been zero.

Even a Horizon wasn't large enough to be considered a small corner of the universe.

The universe had trillions of galaxies, and a Horizon might, at most, have a few dozen of them to a territory.

Sylas took a step and walked away from the group, heading toward his ship.

They were bombarded with one ping after another as the rewards for being the Horizon that came out on top poured down upon them.

Neyara could only look toward Sylas' back with reverence in her eyes, the others doing much the same. If they had let the Veil Humans lead them, how could their rewards be anywhere near as great?

As for Alex and Jala, they could only sigh.

It just felt like... Sylas had no limits.

But just what had left him so agitated before they entered the Tower?

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[Rewards]

[ > Genesis Forge][> Reaper Sealwright (3/3)][> Legendary Luck Gene][> Champion's Will] Sylas stared at this list of four rewards for a long while. The first two were exactly what he had been expecting. With this, the only reward left from his Milky Way Progeny Quest that still had yet to play out was the Wheel of Fortune.

However, the latter two... these were completely unexpected. He didn't know that there was such a thing as a Legendary Luck Gene to begin with. He had never even run into a Luck Gene alone.

He had Extricated enough people to know there was no such thing as a Luck Gene too. That didn't make any sense.

Was this a remnant of the Legendary System? But that wouldn't explain why no one in this iteration of the world had them.

The systems didn't create new things; they just allowed people to progress along systems of power that already existed. It wouldn't make sense for their bodies to erase a Gene that already existed, especially one as useful as this.

Sylas decided to pluck this reward out of the list first before any of the others.

When it appeared, a blinding golden radiance threatened to blind him. He had to squint just to look at it properly, the complex Runes unlike anything he had ever seen.

'This is...'

Potential.

Sylas found that he was looking at Potential formed and wrapped into a Rune right before him.

'Wait...'

This Rune-it was giving him a feeling that he had seen before.

'The Wheel of Fortune.'

Suddenly, an understanding dawned on Sylas. This was no Legendary Luck Gene, not in the sense the other Genes were. At best, it was a one-time major boost to one's Luck, but in a very peculiar, special sort of way.