Genetic Ascension

Chapter 1821: Roar [Bonus]

[A/N What the actual fuck]

Sylas appeared high above Meikai, his fist pulsing with a radiant might.

He didn't want to, nor did he need to explain why he wanted to be the one to fight Meikai. Could he have had the Duchess hold her off while he dealt with all the others, then they could have fought her together?

Sure, he could have.

But he didn't want to.

BOOM.

Meikai wasn't caught off guard in the slightest. In fact, her head slammed forward so speedy a dome of dense wind formed over it. Streaks of air currents gathered in such a dense substrate that it felt like a wall of steel.

Head and fist met and Sylas was forced to activate [Hollow Veil], his body turning incorporeal before his entire arm shattered to pieces.

Meikai lost the power she was leaning into and stumbled forward, her body over-extending itself.

Sylas used [Hollow Burst] once again, a Hibernation Halo pulsing with gold around him as he appeared beneath her chin, kicking straight up.

BOOM.

Meikai grunted, her sharp teeth being slammed into one another. Her eyes bulged with pain, but before she could respond, Sylas had already appeared above her once again.

His heel descended and a flaming dense cloud of emerald-gold Will pulsed with wild life around him.

Pulling on his telekinesis, Sylas' body weight multiplied several times over. At the same time, he regained some control over Spacetime forcefully, catching Meikai off guard.

BOOM.

This time, the Azurex D-tier genius was kicked downward with such force her jaw slammed into the ground below in the blink of an eye.

"DEMON!"

The furious voice of a woman echoed through the air as though it was omnipresent. It was laced in a powerful Will that shook the very Mesh of Reality itself.

Sylas didn't need to think to know that it was Meikai's voice, but he didn't react.

His Pride Seed pulsed and her Will was suppressed. In that moment, what control she had reined back in over Spacetime shattered and Sylas' body thrummed with life. It was like the universe itself was vibrating around him.

Sylas punched once, and yet ten fists layered over them, separated across time and space, but meeting together in the end.

Meikai was knocked to the side.

Sylas punched a second time. Twenty fists layered atop one another, expanding, growing, forming a giant emerald gold over the sky, and Meikai was knocked to the other side.

BOOM. BOOM. BOOM.

Sylas stood in the air, a string of combos followed by form more perfect than the eyes could detect and strength more potent than the body could feel descended.

Meikai was trapped in a maelstrom of violence and she barely seemed to realize that Sylas had allowed her to think she had ripped away his Spacetime control for a time for only one reason... So she would lead her people to death.

Sure, maybe at the start, Sylas had been caught off guard. But his ability to adapt in real time wasn't something a sheltered God would understand.

As though feeling Sylas' thoughts, Meikai unleashed a furious bellow and Sylas' pupils constricted as he felt the Demonic World Chains pulse as though they might break.

This was ultimately not the real Demon World. It was a Secret Realm formed by the Ancestors of the Golden Race. It was a heavily flawed system that Sylas, himself, had taken advantage of several times.

Even so, if Meikai could break free, not only would it be a truly shocking feat of power and strength, but Sylas would have no choice but to quit right here and now.

He couldn't defeat an F-tier Azurex if it wasn't suppressed, let alone a D-tier.

Meikai's tail swiped out and across and Sylas grunted as he withstood the blow. He lifted a leg and forearm, blocking with his knee and elbows up. But that didn't stop him from being sent across the skies like a streaking

star.

His clothing was instantly burnt through. It was like the surface of Meikai's scales had become the surface of a star, the temperature in the surroundings rising again.

"Foolish Demon!" her voice, still laced with fury, peeled across the clouds as though a thunderous cacophony. "| will tear you limb from limb!"

Meikai had not ever had the best temper, but right at this moment, she had truly never been so furious before.

Not only had this human killed her kind, not only was he a Beast Master who seemed to take the Serpentes as his own personal plaything, but he actually dared to collude with the Demons and rely on tricks of the Demon World.

Shameless to an extreme.

The only thing that would satiate the fury in her belly was quenching it with Sylas' blood.

BOOM.

A pair of wings that seemed formed of silvery-blue solar flares appeared on Meikai's back, a halo made of the same volatile material appearing above her head.

She flapped them once and she disappeared into a solar flare herself, her body decomposing and reforming with a speed that shouldn't have been possible for a creature her size.

She spun in the air, her tail coming down from above with such force the ground split and shattered long before it even connected.

Sylas was down below and he realized that this sort of power was too much. This time, she wasn't relying on Will to suppress his Spacetime abilities. She was relying on raw power alone.

Her tail was moving with such speed the laws of relativity whined and broke, its mass surpassing infinity and becoming a streaking black hole.

There was no using logic for this sort of power. She was completely on another level, suppressed or not.

Sylas took a breath and exhaled.

His silver scales vanished, replaced by scaled black ones that were etched with a radiant gold light.

BOOM.

The tail descended and Sylas was buried into the ground, but the shockwave of the power even wiped out several of the Azurex.

However, beneath it, Sylas stood on his feet, a forearm above his head as blood leaked from his body.

The Basilisk King's roar filled the skies.