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Chapter 503: Chapter 503: Son?
In the next instant, he unleashed both his psychic force and thunder element together, the energy roaring violently through the space.
Yet the superior being remained untouched.
He waved his hand repeatedly, dismissing the attacks as though swatting away an impatient child.
His expression was almost indulgent, like someone tolerating an amateur’s futile performance.
He was utterly nonchalant.
Seeing this, Silas realized he was at a complete disadvantage.
But what terrified him most was not the gap in power.
It was the immeasurable, suffocating distance between them.
’A distance so vast... it does not even feel like we exist in the same dimension.’
’Was the true value of my power... really so low?’
The thought lingered in Silas’s mind like a bitter aftertaste as he staggered back, his breathing ragged.
Across from him, the superior being watched each of his attacks with growing interest, not anger, not irritation, but something far worse.
Approval.
Each strike, each desperate surge of energy, only seemed to impress him more.
Finally, when Silas’s stamina had nearly run dry and his limbs trembled from exhaustion, the superior being raised a hand, signaling an end.
He looked at Silas the same way a shepherd might look at a stubborn lamb.
"You have impressed me," he said calmly. "You have even made me... very happy today."
With that, he began walking toward Silas.
Silas instinctively tried to dodge, but before he could even shift his weight, an invisible force wrapped around him like iron chains.
The air thickened, pressing against his skin, suffocating him, and only then did he realize...
He could not move at all.
"You should stop fighting," the superior being continued, his voice unnervingly gentle.
"Even if you wish to grow stronger, you are still only a half-hybrid. Yet... you are my son."
The words fell like poison.
For two long minutes, the only sound was Silas’s strained breathing.
Vlad lifted his hand to attack, but the superior being used just one finger to deal with him.
Then, with a roar born of pure fury, Silas broke free and shoved the superior being away. Rage burned visibly in his eyes.
"Do not speak as if you are anything to me!" he shouted. "How dare you even say those words!"
The superior being glanced briefly at Vlad, then at Silas, shaking his head.
"You are far too impulsive," he said coldly. "If you continue behaving like this... who will inherit my throne?"
Before he could react further, Silas lunged again and slammed into him, throwing him to the ground. This time, the attack succeeded.
The superior being had been caught off guard.
For the first time, his expression changed.
When he rose, the air around him turned frigid, carrying a suffocating pressure that made everyone’s skin prickle. He looked at Silas with a murderous gaze.
"Until now, I have treated you with patience because I believed I was dealing with a child," he said slowly.
"But there is a limit to my tolerance. If you believe you can act like this repeatedly and escape consequences... forget it."
Silas stood his ground, staring back without fear.
"Whatever you are, whatever your motives are," he said, "I will never allow anyone to harm Ivy."
The superior being glanced at him, an unreadable look passing through his eyes.
"So obsessive," he murmured. "You would even throw away your own soulmate for her."
He let out a faint, mocking laugh, "You act like someone whose favorite possession had just been snatched away."
Silas narrowed his eyes. Even if he could not fully comprehend the superior being’s logic, he understood one thing clearly....
He could not continue living like a powerless bystander.
The superior being’s calm expression made it obvious.
He wanted the Ivy destroyed.
The reason remained unclear, but Silas’s fists tightened instinctively, his nails digging into his palms as a voice echoed inside his mind.
’Kill him.’
’Kill that superior being.’
Without warning, the superior being struck him.
A single blow landed against Silas’s chest with crushing force, and in the next second Silas collapsed to the ground, blood surging into his throat as he struggled to breathe.
The superior being walked forward leisurely and looked down at him.
"I have behaved gently," he said. "I have even guided you. Yet you think only of murdering me. How ungrateful."
He brushed dust off his hand as if touching Silas had soiled him.
"If it were not for your talent," he added coldly,
"I would never have acknowledged you. Even if you are superior to Ivy in potential... you are still a waste."
Silas lifted his head, struggling, his vision blurring.
"Who... are you?" he demanded.
The superior being nodded, almost pleased.
"At last, a useful question."
He sat down on a chair as though he had all the time in existence.
"I am a superior being," he declared. "A lifeform against which humanity cannot even be compared."
A strange light flickered in his eyes as he continued.
"Originally, I came here to investigate this world. I intended to establish a relationship with humans. But before that... I wished to test human nature."
He smiled faintly.
"And that is when I met a very beautiful woman named Helena."
The moment Silas heard his mother-in-law’s name, fury exploded inside him. His jaw clenched, and he glared at the clock-faced man.
But the superior being continued as if Silas did not exist at all.
He was lost in memory.
"She stole my heart," he said softly. "Clever. Intelligent. Exceptionally talented. I was captivated."
He looked at Silas.
"I already had a soulmate. Yet something about her called to me. I became... obsessed."
His expression darkened slightly.
"What angered me, however, was that after gaining my trust, she extracted my DNA."
Silas’s anger flared.
"That woman," the superior being went on, "was a researcher working for an institute."
Silas frowned.
Something did not match the records left behind by his mother-in-law.
According to her writings, it had been the government that captured a superior being and allowed Helena to experiment on it.