Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 1258

Chapter 1258: No Need [Bonus]

Megean breathed heavily. She had fallen to her knees again, her four legs crumbling beneath her weight. She tried to hold herself up with her tall bow, but her arms and back were screaming just as much as her fingers were.

Maybe that was because she had stripped so much flesh off of her fingers that they no longer seemed to send pain signals at all. Or maybe that was because she had pulled her back and arms taut so many times by now the muscles responsible for the actions had been shredded apart just as badly.

Her face could hardly be seen beneath the streams of blood, flickering ghostly arrows and blades sticking out of her body from all directions.

Somewhere deep inside, she realized that this was probably the end of the line. Her Will was still blazing strong, but her body had nothing left to give.

It was simply... impossible.

She had killed so much, made it so far, but even as she continued to trudge forward, there was no end in sight.

A flicker pulsed into existence before her, and she tried to stand again. Realizing she would fail, she pulled her bow up instead, pulling on the muscles that still remained in her torso to hold herself up just long enough so that she could aim and fire.

The figure sidestepped as though her arrow was shot from a string of cotton fluff, falling impotently to the ground in a destructive wave that harmed no one at all.

Megean sighed inwardly. It seemed this really was the end of the line. She hadn’t seen an echo until now that moved so sharply and with such anticipation. Maybe she had crossed so far into the Golden Battlefield that there was nothing left for her but these powerful opponents.

Even so, her arms seemed to move on their own, thoughts of her grandfather and pulling him out from underneath Sylas’ thumb filling her with conviction and a powerful urge.

However, the echo seemed to move again, and before she could react, a palm was on her hand.

She tried to lift her arm to fight back, but the strength was too much, as though the heft of an entire world was pressing down on her.

"It’s me."

Megean’s heart shook. She hadn’t known this voice for very long, but the impression it had left on her was as heavy as could be.

"You..."

For some reason, Megean relaxed at that moment, and her body crumpled.

’So tired... I can’t...’

Her last bit of strength and rationality seemed to hope to make things easier on her savior, her body morphing back into its human form and carrying much less of the heft her true Unitaur form held.

Sylas caught her, looking down in silence.

After he memorized the formation, this Golden Battlefield had truly become like his own backyard. It only took a thought to find Megean after that.

Given how much time he wasted—days, in fact—the Sanguara group should have found Megean first. But Megean had had quite the head start.

While the Sanguara were moving far faster, she had never stopped moving either. And because the Sanguara were in a group, there were more echoes attacking them at a given time.

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