Genetic Ascension

Chapter 2513 Yes, Ma'am!

Fanelei still remembered how Sylas had forced her to stretch her seven souls across the different Layers of her body, exposing foundations that had stayed buried under countless years of cultivation.

He had rebuilt her Genes, Gene Talents, Blood Essence and Bone Essence, using Rune Creation to connect parts of her existence that had always operated almost on their own.

Back then, his comprehension had only been enough to perfect parts of her lower-tier foundations. However, that had been enough.

Sylas had shown her which direction to go. In the years that followed, Fanelei had spent countless hours in the Creation Tower, slowly building up the Rune Mastery she needed to finish what he'd started.

Her seven lives weren't just a pile of accumulated experience anymore. They had become parts of a single foundation.

The Beast Heaven representative attacked again. This time. Fanelei didn' try to block his fist. Instead, she let the force of the blow flow into the network of Runes around her body.

The Drain stripped away the Aether reinforcing his muscles. At the same time, The Vessel reached for the Genes that produced all that strength.

She couldn't just steal an S-tier's Genes and make them her own. But, she didn't need to.

The Mirror let her reproduce part of the relationship between his human and beast foundations through her Will. Then, The Convert reorganized those relationships into something her own body could use.

The next time their fists mete the difference in strength was much smaller.

The man's human head frowned. His lion head sensed the danger immediately and forced his body to retreat.

Before Fanelei could follow, the crystal in the Mesmer Heaven S-tier representatives forehead flashed.

A strange fluctuation spread across the battlefield. Suddenly, Fanelei was standing in front of the Beast Heaven genius again.

The injuries she'd given him were gone. Even the Aether she had absorbed seemed to have gone right back where it came from.

Alex's pupils shrank. He had felt the change happen, but none of it made any sense. The woman smiled. "Did you really think you could defeat us so easily?"

The crystal in her forehead glowed again, and Fanelei felt an extraordinary pressure settle over her Will.

It wasn't an illusion. The woman wasn't just tampering with their perception of what had happened, either.

She was imposing her Will on the future. She set an outcome, then forced the events leading up to it to fit that result. In other words, she was rewriting what had already happened. No... what was going to happen.

It was an extraordinary ability, even by the standards of the Mesmer Heaven. The fact that she'd developed it all the way to S-tier made it far more dangerous.

The Beast Heaven representative attacked again, this time with the woman's Will fully backing him.

Every time Fanelei found an opening, the crystal flashed and the circumstances changed.

A clean strike turned into a missed chance. An injury vanished before it could pile up. Even the energy Fanelei absorbed seemed to flow back to its original owner.

However, after several exchanges. Fanelei started to smile. She had noticed something.

The woman's ability wasn't free.

Every time she rewrote an outcome, the crystal burned through an enormous amount of Will. The results of the fight could be changed, sure. But, the energy spent changing them still had to come from somewhere.

And that was something Fanelei understood better than almost anyone.

The next time the crystal flashed, she didn't resist the change.

Instead, The Drain followed the flow of Will that was rebuilding the outcome, and absorbed part of that energy before the process could finish.

The woman's expression changed, and her crystal flickered.

Fanelei smiled. "Found you."

The Mirror activated, reproducing part of the link between the woman's Will and the future she was trying to force onto the battlefield.

Fanelei couldn't copy the ability itself. However, she could understand enough of its structure to see where its power came from and how it was being spread around. Once she understood that, The Hollow could start starving that link of the energy it needed to survive.

The woman tried to compensate by pouring more Will into the crystal, but all that did was give The Drain more to eat.

The Beast Heaven representative danger and His heads worked together to unleash the most physical strength he'd shown since the fight began.

Unfortunately. Fanelei had already learned everything she needed from him.

Her palm hit his chest, and the Runes around her body changed once more. The Tyrant.

Every scrap of energy she'd absorbed during the fight gathered under her Will. Their individual characteristics disappeared as the foundation she'd spent seven lives building finally asserted its authority.

Fanelei had never managed to form the Virtue Seed of Gluttony. But that didn't mean her comprehension had stood still, though.

She had spent seven lives learning what it meant to consume. Now that the foundations from those lives had become one, she didn't need to force them to cooperate anymore.

They already belonged to her.

The Beast Heaven representative's face twisted as the Aether reinforcing his body started to vanish. Before either of his heads could react, Fanelei's hand went straight through his chest.

His human head opened its mouth while the lion head had already gone silent.

The enormous body collapsed. Fanelei turned to her last opponent without even bothering to watch it fall.

The Mesmer Heaven woman stumbled backward, her crystal flashing as she tried to force another future onto the battlefield. However, the energy she needed for it was already draining away.

Fanelei's Runes had followed the links between the woman's Will and the crystal. Every attempt to rebuild the future only exposed more of those links to The Hollow and The Drain.

The woman gritted her teeth and forced one last surge of Will into the crystal. For an instant, the battlefield seemed to change.

Then, Fanelei raised a hand, and the enormous network of Runes around her palm converged into a single point.

The crystal shattered. The woman's body collapsed before the fragments even hit the ground.

For several seconds, nobody said a word.

Alex stared at the five corpses. The longer he tried to make sense of what he'd just watched, the more complicated his expression got.

Fanelei had beaten two S-tiers and three A-tiers. She had taken a few injuries along the way, but none of them were serious. More importantly, Alex had a strong feeling she hadn't shown everything she could do.

Fanelei turned to him, with a trace of the arrogance that came from living far longer than most people could imagine.

i'Don't forget something, Alex."

Alex straightened up.

"I reached Legend in the Mortal Plane, a place where Legend was the absolute limit and countless geniuses spent their entire lives without ever touching it." She smiled. "And I didn't do it just once or twice, either. You'd better remember that. Hm not a convenient trump card, and the things I set my mind on, I get."

Alex raised a hand to his forehead and saluted with an expression of complete seriousness.

"Yes, ma'am!"