Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 278

Chapter 278: Some Doing...

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"Me?" Alex chuckled. "Because you're cool, do I need to have another reason?"

Sylas looked at Alex deeply. The answer was so ridiculous that it was almost impossible not to believe it. However, by the same token, it was hard to know if Alex was just playing a character or not.

Since Alex had caught the eye of Legacy, and had been denoted as a Bronze character in their eye, he was definitely an elite. His strength alone spoke for itself.

The fact that he was so carefree and didn't seem to care about anything else felt more like a red flag than anything else... because this sort of personality was precisely the kind that was the hardest to get a read on. It felt like Alex was both capable of nothing and yet everything at the same time.

If Sylas had been Alex's handler, and he watched him go through life like this... would it be possible for Alex to be as readable as Sylas was?

Sylas was, supposedly, a character his handler couldn't get a read on. But in the end, they had technically made the right decision.

If Sylas had been approached by Legacy back then, he wouldn't have hesitated to join, just like he hadn't hesitated to join the excursions of the Grimblade family.

However, his actions wouldn't be rooted in any sort of loyalty at all. If it benefited him, in this sort of new world order, he wouldn't hesitate to betray them when the time came, and he would certainly keep secrets of his own.

Of course, his Lawful Neutral morality type was also true. He would definitely follow their orders strictly when it was right to do so. But that was also what made him so dangerous. They wouldn't know that he opposed them until it was too late. If it wasn't for Bloom's unique Profession, allowing her to see Sylas's Favorability ahead of time, Lucius and his crew wouldn't even be aware that Sylas was a worry at all.

But then there was Alex...

To Sylas, he felt even more difficult to read.

Sylas had been exposed as someone who was difficult to control because he never knew of Legacy's existence and just continuously worked to return to his baseline. As such, he thwarted a lot of Legacy's plans before they even came to fruition.

Alex's disposition, however, was very much different. He was so bright and cheery, always seeming to go with the flow no matter what it was, and because of that, he probably easily swayed with the wind Legacy blew....

But that might have also been precisely why he was so difficult for them all to read.

Sylas had a feeling that Legacy might be aware of how special Alex was as well, at least in part. Or else would they really send a Bronze on a mission to support a Gold? That didn't particularly make much sense.

Maybe if it had been multiple Bronzes, Sylas could accept it. But just one? Something about that was fishy, and Alex had probably seen that as well. So he was ready to make a different sort of pivot.

Pulling the wool over the eyes of such an organization wasn't an easy task at all.