Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 516

Chapter 516: Slight of Hand

The Sylphs braced themselves for an attack, only for the arm to suddenly change directions and touch the frozen corpse of the Woodland Spider Queen.

At the same time, Sylas' Beacon activated once again, agitating what remained of the spiders and calling in more. He couldn't give them any true commands, but they knew enough to know exactly who it was that he wanted to target.

The swarm of serpents rushed toward the Sylphs as the Woodland Spider Queen disappeared into Sylas' Madness Key.

As for Sylas himself, he had already turned to run, a burning pain in his chest.

There were only two possibilities as to why the others hadn't shown up yet.

The first was that they wanted to bait him and spring yet another trap.

The second was that they were setting up an area defense around him, trying to create an inescapable net that he would be hard-pressed to fight his way out of... especially in his current state.

He had already deduced that Lucius and Ragnar, though they seemed to have the same goal of killing him, weren't actually working together. That meant that this group wouldn't have known that he would be trapped in this Field Dungeon, which also meant that they would have had to set up a separate set of defenses to force him to keep fighting the spider queen. But by extension of that, thanks to his Beacon Path Talent, those defenses had more or less been shredded apart, so they would have no choice but to set up new ones or rely on another contingency plan.

If he was lucky, they had only just started now.

If he was unlucky... well, he really hoped that he had suffered enough for the system to leave him alone for a bit, or else he might well and truly be screwed.

His Speed was already cut in half by the Warrant placed on him, and his injuries only took another major cut out of it.

Luckily, while they had to be careful weaving in and out of these paths, he did not. After all, this entire web was a poisonous hell trap, while to him he was practically immune.

Well... he was immune for as long as his beaten and ragged body could hold up.

Beacon lit deep within his soul, and he called for more help on top of what he had already received. However, he was quickly running out of steam.

With a quick check to his status page, he realized that his Will was actually somehow still at 1999. However, he could feel a great fatigue coming from his mind as though its elasticity was really being pushed to the limit.

The use of Beacon was a huge weight on his mind, but it was something he could normally easily withstand. But if his continuous use of Rune Soul was stacked on top of that, it was a miracle that he hadn't passed out already.

Kalden and Rylen were hot on Sylas' tail. They were caught off guard by the sudden change, not expecting such a prompt decision from Sylas. But it was only a moment before they were a mere meter or so behind him, ready to reach out and grab him.

Sylas would have cursed if he had the mind to. At a time like this, one more use of his Planar Convergence Gate would have been a miracle sent from above. Unfortunately, he had already used them all up.