Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 1232

Chapter 1232: Golden Battlefield

Sylas looked at the Duchess in silence for a long while.

Now, he was very curious—very curious about these secrets the Golden Grove seemed to be holding. However, he didn’t know how involved he wanted to get just yet.

There was definitely something odd here... that being the fact the Demons seemed to believe that this world was an opportunity for them too.

Why were they getting rewards for killing if this was a prison? And hadn’t she just said that they didn’t have the benefit of the system, so where were the rewards for them even coming from in the first place?

Something wasn’t adding up.

It made Sylas realize, especially with how the Unitar and Aurans had taken such a huge hit to their talent as well... that maybe things weren’t so cut and dry.

Maybe, just maybe, the line between the Demons and the Gold Lineage wasn’t as clear-cut as it seemed.

This was all just speculation on Sylas’ part, but he was rarely incorrect.

’It’s still possible that I’m overthinking things. If they had to seal these Demons away like this, it’s likely they were just too powerful to kill. But...’

Sylas wasn’t a fan of reading fiction. He found the things that some authors did for the sake of stoking conflict to be absolutely ridiculous, and it often felt like when you were following a main character, the writer would try to make you root for them while placing you in their shoes.

For someone like Sylas who chased after perfection, the idea of following someone imperfect and often foolish was too much for him. But what was worse than that was when the conflict driving the story didn’t make any sense either.

This felt like one of those tropes that made his skin crawl.

An enemy so powerful you couldn’t kill them... but you could seal them away? What sort of convoluted, ridiculous mess would allow such a thing?

If they were so powerful you couldn’t kill them, then how the hell did you trap them? And if you could trap them, then why couldn’t you kill them?

The part that was even worse than that was that these foolish authors writing these cliché stories rarely if ever actually explained it in terms that made any sense.

But that was exactly what was making Sylas’ warning bells go off.

This wasn’t a novel. It was real life.

And if it was real life, there had to be a reasonable explanation he could find for this.

By extension, if there was a reasonable explanation, then his feeling that the Gold Lineage and Demons were more tied than it seemed was more likely by the moment... and yet potentially unlikely...

’It could be a sacrifice of some sort...’

An equivalent exchange.

Sometimes, in order to accomplish something, something equally as grand had to be given up.

Sylas’ gaze flashed as he felt he suddenly understood something.

’The most obvious answer isn’t necessarily the case. It might not be that the Gold Lineage has traitors in them, but instead that their ancestors decided to chain themselves to these Demons...’

This world functioned on a curious set of laws, but the laws obviously benefited both the Demons and the Golden Champions that entered.

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