Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 22

Chapter 22 Lost

They were even clearer now than they were before.

There were three distinct sections.

The battle section.

The mating section.

And the baring fangs section.

Each one exuded its own peculiarity. In the past, they had blurred into a single bundle of Madness. But now that Sylas had actually comprehended Madness, he could feel the subtleties.

Sylas became a bit lost.

It was odd. He could innately tell what the snakes were doing, but he didn't have an easy method of translating it to his own body. There was a barrier that lay between him and them. It was one part frustrating, but another part curious.

He was ultimately a scholar. He had spent more time than he knew with his head buried deep in his research or a paper of some sort. His discipline was often what carried him through those moments, but often it was fascination as well.

His doctoral thesis had been about moving the world of antivenom toward the world of vaccines, namely mRNA vaccines.

It was quite useless, honestly. A large part of why venom used antivenom as a counter—a more short-term solution—was because venomous creatures were rare and only a small segment of the population met them. No one would feel the need to immunize a large population of people against a snake they only had a one-in-a-billion chance of coming across.

Even so, he had been fascinated by the topic because of the mongoose. It was a small, almost adorable creature. And yet it was well known as the bane of venomous snakes due to its natural defenses against venom.

He had found it funny that a cute little creature could do what humans couldn't, so he had chosen this route for his doctorate. It was just pure curiosity.

Something about this felt so similar.

Sylas suddenly shook his head, feeling that he was getting sucked in deep. When he did, he found that his body had recovered from the Madness already.

'Has it been that long? Or was it something else?'

He wasn't sure, until he saw something new.

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[Skill: Maddened Meditation (F)]

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Sylas had been so engrossed that he hadn't noticed this change at all. He hadn't known that it was possible to miss notifications.

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