Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 1217

Chapter 1217: Extinct

"You..."

Ansla’s heart was beating out of her chest at this point, rippling waves flooding over her delicate skin and flushing it red. She could tell what Sylas was talking about immediately, and the moment Sylas saw her reaction, he knew that his guesses had been correct.

It was just as he expected. The pillar of light that came with Megean’s descent was a sign. But it was a sign that only the highest of Noble Demons would know of.

Clearly, by the reactions of the pig Demons to the pillar of light, they didn’t know the significance of it. As far as Sylas could tell, they knew nothing at all.

So, there were only two possibilities at that point. Either he had been going off on an incorrect tangent all along and there was nothing at all for him to gain here in relation to Megean. Or... the Demon World was no different from any other world in that the upper echelon hid things from the "little people."

The question was whether Ansla was high enough that she would be considered among this upper echelon. Or, at the very least, that her Barbed Chain Gang would be.

Given the way she reacted to Sylas’ appearance, she was borderline. She was confident enough not to bow and scrape at his every word, but she was also able to maintain an air of superiority and chippiness that came from someone who could get away with being a bit passive-aggressive to those of higher standing than herself without suffering for it.

Of course, this was almost certainly because of her beauty. Men tended to let beautiful women get away with a lot so long as she didn’t cross their bottom lines.

But beauty was also a double-edged sword. If you were too beautiful and didn’t have the power to back it, then you would just be pillaged like any other treasure. Ansla certainly didn’t look like someone who had been pillaged. At the very least, her confidence was too high to be such a woman.

Unfortunately, all these things—these observations, these probed insights that Sylas had been able to gain—all stopped at speculation. He couldn’t confirm.

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As far as he was concerned, this was perfect. The Barbed Chain Gang seemed just influential enough to know, but also weak enough that they didn’t seem to want to participate.

If they did want to participate, then why would they send Ansla out alone to scope out a region that very obviously wouldn’t have had Megean anymore? And more than an entire week after it as well?

If Sylas had to guess, the truly powerful Noble Demon Lineages had probably already commandeered the Barbed Chain Gang’s services to scout out the entire region. It was only after they were done and silence fell over the region that Ansla dared to go and check for herself.

"Which Lineage are you from?"

"Don’t ask stupid questions," Sylas replied.

Ansla’s jaw tightened.

It was obvious. If Sylas was here, choosing to use these means, after he had been out to sea as well just like her, it was obvious that he couldn’t use his own family and was here to use hers.

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