Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 164

Chapter 164 Too Close

"It's practical. If you were someone else, I wouldn't have even brought it up. I would have only alluded to it and let you fall into the conclusion yourself."

The professor scoffed out a sob. "What is practical about choosing vigilantes?"

"You heard him," Sylas said. "There's an organization that's been recruiting people from elite schools. You're smart, what do you think that means?"

The professor froze. She looked up at Sylas as though she didn't want to admit the obvious conclusion.

This time, she couldn't hold back her tears at all.

They knew.

Those bastards knew.

And they still let her son die, and for what? To hold onto a little more power?

The professor practically folded herself into her chair, sinking in deep and burying her head into her legs. She didn't care that Sylas was here anymore. She just sat there, grieving out her soul.

Sylas didn't say a word, nor did he try to comfort her. The two of them didn't have that sort of relationship, and he knew enough about this woman to know that she was probably nursing grievances against him as well.

Several minutes passed by before she managed to calm herself, her shoulders shuddering beneath the strain.

The first thing she saw when she looked up was a tissue Sylas handed to her.

By this point, Sylas' nose had already stopped bleeding and he had taken the gauze out. Although there was a hint of swelling, even that seemed to be rapidly going down.

It was such a simple thing, but now she had seen Sylas throw something across a room and kill a man with his mind, and now he was healing from an injury that should have taken weeks of recovery right before her eyes.

Was the world really changing?

"What do you want me to do?" she asked, her voice having returned to an almost icy sort of calm.

"Well first, I need your help. I came here today for a specific reason. But I also want to know exactly what that man asked of you before your 'snarky' comment."

"He asked me to join their organization and he said something about becoming superhuman. What do you need help with?"

"I need to use the supercomputer to analyze some data. It would take too much time on my own, and my current stats are low enough that I likely wouldn't succeed for now no matter how hard I try.

"You don't know much about the Trial and the Aether Plane, but I will have to keep this brief. I have to go soon.

"I have what they call a Profession. It allows me to contract snakes as my partners and exchange benefits between the two of us. I need the supercomputer to analyze the genome of one of my snakes to help me better understand some things."

"Snakes?"

Sylas said snakes, but Professor Fembroise heard something very different.

She knew what Sylas studied. Could it be that they could translate their skills from this world to this so-called 'Aether Plane'?