Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 394

Chapter 394: Leave

Sylas finally settled his breathing and calmly gathered all the corpses.

The one thing that he hadn't had a chance to go over were all the treasures on their bodies. He hadn't even had the time to scan Sergan's daggers, and he certainly wouldn't have the time to go through all of this stuff.

The shame of it was that he was certain that there might at least be some stuff that was useful to him here. But the time crunch was too great.

Right now, he had secured the right to choose his opponent first during the next round. But if he was too slow, he wouldn't have that right again.

He had no idea where Vayu's strength ranked amongst the other teams, but what he did know was that the first to make it through the spirit wolf trials when they all went all out wasn't Vayu, but rather Aerwyna and her team.

Without Rune Soul, the teams had to rely on their raw combat strength to make it through that first trial. So, if he extrapolated that, Aerwyna Galesong's team was likely his greatest danger.

If he could avoid battling with her, that would be for the best. And in order to do that, he would need to capitalize on being first every step of the way. Otherwise, he wouldn't have the right to continue choosing IV and skipping the team battle any longer.

"Let's go."

Sylas put everything away into his Madness Key and turned to leave. He didn't have the time to care for Lolaleen's emotions. Even if she was a close friend, he wouldn't have the bandwidth to spare for her right now, let alone the fact she would certainly not be shedding these tears if he was the one to die.

Lolaleen instinctively wanted to refuse, but who would have thought that Sylas wouldn't say this casually but rather directly command her through the enslavement contract?

The feeling of not being able to control her body like she wanted to make her want to keel over and vomit, but ultimately even that didn't seem to be under her control.

"Focus on healing yourself." Sylas commanded again. Then, he stepped into the portal and appeared before a familiar set of four doors.

Once again, he was alone. This was the only chance he had to extend the distance.

After the stair challenge, he was forced to wait for all the groups to appear. But after the team battle, he could directly enter the next stair challenge. This was where he had to claim his advantage in time.

If he was fast enough, then maybe he would have time to look through his spoils of battle.

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The world swirled around Sylas again and he found a tall set of stairs before him again. The last stair challenge was related to Will, so this one should be combat again.

He already had his pauldrons summoned as he leapt up.

Sylas landed as Lolaleen was forced to follow after him.