Genetic Ascension

Chapter 2028: Inconsistencies

Sylas walked out of the City Lord Mansion almost aimlessly, his mind spinning with a continuous series of thoughts.

The Angels had always been such an anomaly to him, not because of their mystery itself or where they came from or what they represented, but instead because he didn't quite understand their connection with the Thryskai.

Logically, the Thryskai should be Angels. Their Demi-Gods had the patented wings that the Angel Race had put an entire lock on, a Gene Lock that supreceded even spacetime to stop other Races from forming them by coincidence.

The universe was so vast. The power one would need to do such a thing was unfathomable. So, obviously, anyone they could pass down this ability to would be equally as shocking.

It would either be because they were actually part of the Angel Race, powerful enough to be given an exemption, or powerful enough to ignore the rules entirely and do as they please one way or another.

However, if the Demi-God Thryskai were Angels, then what about their Mortal counterparts? They didn't have wings, so what were they, then?

Honestly, all of these were just little, minute inconsistencies that Sylas had picked up on. But none of them were a smoking gun that made him feel sure of anything.

Even when the Angels descended and seemed to be acting opposed to or differently from what he might expect from the Thryskai, he hadn't really thought much of it.

For example, the Milky Way already had the Thryskai. If the Thryskai were so tightly bound to the Angels, then why did the Angels need to have more representation here in the Celeste Clan?

One would think that if the Angels and the Thryskai were one in the same, then they would have just sent a member of them.

But the Angels somehow seemed to be a tier and cut above the Thryskai.

Then there was the final nail.

Sylas had thought long and hard about why it was the Thryskai were treating the Seeing Eye Guild the way they were. It seemed like they had known long ago that the Guild was an invading force, but they just left them be.

It didn't make sense for it to be because they feared backlash. After all, the God Thryskai Clans literally already had mortal versions of themselves here, and everyone knew the most powerful forces in the Skai Heaven's Mortal Realm were the Sona, Buri, and Purvon Clans.

The Seeing Eye Guild was firmly a tier beneath them in strength, on the same level as the Weaver Guild.

So if they knew, why not just send their Mortal Clans to do their bidding? It couldn't be that the Thryskai would be happy with another Heaven encroaching on theirs?

This was how Sylas had deduced that the Thryskai God Clans had to be dealing with something that occupied them so much they didn't have much attention to divert elsewhere, and that was how he also knew that the Sona, Buri, and Purvon Clans would almost certainly need his help in the upcoming war he had forced on them.

However, just because Sylas had deduced all of this, and even used it to pressure Riqo and Ziel, that didn't mean he had the full picture.

Ever since he clicked [Yes] on the tutorial that day, Sylas had practically been in a perpetual state of dealing with partial information for everything. He was just better at dealing with partial pictures than basically everyone else

was.

But Cassarae's simple words had blown something wide open for him.

What were the Thryskai after? Why would they go as far as to risk sending a Demi-God to the Mortal Plane to do something like pressuring a small like Golden Grove Guild?

Was that really just Rhykan acting on his own?

Legacy. It had such a large impact on Earth, and it felt like it was the wildest of all the organizations.

And yet, not only had Sylas not run into them a single time outside of Earth and the Milky Way, but it was like they weren't interested in trying to find a way to deal with him at all.

Didn't they want Earth? Did they want a piece of him and the Progenitor of the world they had put so much effort into trying to conquer, only to fail in the end?

How come it felt like Sylas hadn't felt their presence in a single other place? One would have thought that the preeminent information gathering power in the Milky Way was somehow the Petals of the Seeing Thorn rather than Legacy.

It was said that Legacy should have had a branch in every galaxy, across every planet. Their imprint should have been everywhere, and their boldness knew no bounds.

So why?

It was impossible that they actually had any sort of real fear of Sylas. Even if he caught one of their Professors and was present during the killing of another, it shouldn't have meant anything to them. They would have just kept going until they got what they craved.

There was one more thing constantly nagging at Sylas.

The Skai Heaven was supposedly the weakest of them all, a Heaven that represented Will, but suffered due to the system's inability to properly provide an advancement path for it.

Was it truly because the system was that impotent?

Or was it because it was forced to be this way after being thoroughly confused about which path it was the Skai Heaven was trying to follow?

And then came Cassarae's words.

How could a Race be of one Race, and yet so perfectly separate at the same time?

Sylas vanished, entering The Sanctum once again. But he spent so little time there it was practically like he wasn't there at all. In the next moment, he had stepped through the temple and appeared in the 001 Sanctum before taking a teleportation channel to a new world.

Anyone else would have been spinning from so many large scale teleportations in quick succession, but Sylas reacted as though he had done nothing but taken a short stroll.

But the moment he appeared, his eyes narrowed.

Alex lay on the ground, his blood seeping out from his chest.

The echoes of something sinister lay before him, but it seemed to have long gone.

As for Alex himself...

Gone.

Feeling the prickly, almost sticky discomfort hanging in the air, Sylas knew that he was right.

Maybe it should have been obvious from the horns, but who was he to stereotype?

The Thryskai were Demons.