Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 140

Chapter 140 Draft (2)

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However… if this was truly the case, why did he return to the call of the Browns?

This was what Astrid was betting on.

Alexander walked to Astrid's side and took his place. He seemed neither pleased nor disappointed by what had just happened. His baseline remained the same and his alertness didn't fade in the slightest.

Lucius stepped forward next. "Isabella."

A woman with her hair done up in a high bun and particularly large, brown eyes stepped forward. Her eyes made her look far more youthful than she was, when in reality she should have been in her forties.

She was a renowned surgeon and had become a Laureate in Medicine for her work in advancing the field of surgical enhancements, specifically in the field of athletic performance. She had managed to take a foundation of CRISPR treatments for blood-borne diseases like sickle cell anemia and turned them toward not just fixing ailments but creating superhumans as well.

Of course, it wasn't so exaggerated, and most of her methods were banned in official competition, but she had opened up much discussion in philosophy fields for what should be allowed in terms of "innovation" and what shouldn't be.

"Nathan."

Lucius spoke up right afterward, almost as though he was scared someone else would speak up before him.

Nathan Brown was the only other billionaire in the group aside from the three of them. However, he was extraordinarily unique because he wasn't the majority owner in any one of his businesses. Instead, he was known as an eccentric that liked to create and then abandon projects, keeping a small sliver of their profits.

But even so, having entered his fifties, he had successfully formed three companies with billion-dollar evaluations and almost four dozen others that were into the nine figures.

All of his success was supposedly based off of his self-created AI, one that he modified based on the business and research of the market.

He was a business genius few could compare to.

Like that, it was Astrid's choice once more, and she was wholly surprised… because her number two was still there.

On her list, Alexander was first, Nathan was third, and Isabella was fourth.

As for her second, it was…

"Elena."

Elena Brown was the second and final Laureate of the batch, a brilliant geneticist. It could be said that, at least in part, Isabella wouldn't even exist without Elena.

She was the oldest of them all, approaching her sixties. She would have been the last person any one of them expected to enter the Trial, but she had and she had come out stronger on the other side. In fact, she had managed to become a Level 5 and was an FFF+ level threat on top of that.

Astrid almost felt that it was unbelievable she wasn't chosen, but when she thought about it, she understood.