Genetic Ascension

Chapter 1967: A Bridge [Bonus]

[Everyone clap and smile, eeshoo is in the room again. Make sure to thank him and the others when you wonder why there are NO CHAPTERS TOMORROW] ʼA bridge.ʼ

Sylas could feel it now as though Earth was breathing the secret into him.

The Dino Race he had seen had been a bridge, a fusion of various concepts that he had seen before melded into one.

There was the feathered dinosaur, the one that Sylas felt was scientifically accurate.

There was the scaled dinosaur, one that sounded to have been in a transition toward evolving, and yet one that had been completely wiped from history as though it never existed at all. If you asked a scientist of Earth whether they ever existed in this form, they would certainly say no.

And yet... here it was.

And then there was the caveman. It was odd for it to be there at all. It was too early in Earthʼs time period, and they couldnʼt have appeared before the Great Apes.

Yet here it was. Not only was it there, it was an Overlord as well.

ʼI see...ʼ

Sylas slowly began to understand.

Maybe the most well-recognized extinction event of Earth was a scene of meteors falling from the skies, flaming through the atmosphere and destroying everything in their path.

Soot would rise into the air and cover the clouds until a chill swallowed everything for decades on end.

It was the most involved of the extinctions, the most... hands on. Almost like it was artificial.

All the other Extinctions were far more subtle. Shifts in climate that triggered ice ages that ravaged across the land and things of the like.

Now Sylas wondered if that was truly coincidental or not.

ʼThe Great Apes didnʼt appear by accident. Earth...ʼ

Sylasʼ eyes landed on the feathered dinosaur.

ʼ... It was trying to form a bestial Angel Race.ʼ

The feathered dinosaur could only be described as beautiful. The rainbow colored feathers that adorned its body on both its crown and its wings almost forced Sylas to come to that conclusion.

There was something almost holy about the creature.

Almost.

The wild teeth and air of blood radiating from it told a different tale.

Sylas couldnʼt help but wonder what would have happened if this Race was allowed to reach its full potential instead of what actually happened.

Their evolution was forcefully interrupted and they were forced to become the bridge to bring the humans back.

ʼNow I understand...ʼ Sylas thought to himself. ʼ... In that case...ʼ

”Bring me every bird race other than the dove and vulture.” Sylas said calmly.

He was going to give birth to a Race that had only ever appeared on Earth.

It seemed that with as talented as Earth was, the only broken Race they had formed wasnʼt just the First Race. They had had another spectacular Race in them that had been forgotten to the annals of history.

But no more.

The Sanctum truly didnʼt need so many Races. He had slashed away almost a dozen by fusing the big cats, and now he would do it again.

By the end of it all, The Sanctum would have fewer than ten Races and that was when their power would be the most consolidated and powerful.

The Life and Death Seals appeared around Sylas, swirling with the complex beauty of D-Grade Runes.

Sylas took a deep breath.

There would be no King Lineages and weak Lineages of The Sanctum any longer.

Under his rule... each and every one of them would be an untouchable mass of Will, crushing everything in their path.

The call of a phoenix pealed around the skies as Sylasʼ palm smashed one orb after another. Ravens and hawks, crows and eagles, the difference didnʼt mean a single thing to him.

Without hesitation, he shattered every single one of them before he shattered the Lizard Lineage.

Blood leaked from Sylasʼ lips. The number of birds was even larger than the number of big cats. But to make matters worse, he was trying to combine them with the Lizard Lineage which was entirely incompatible with them all.

The Spirits were already rampaging.

But Sylas had not a single intention of backing down.

There was no seamless Ancestor he could use to link them all. He had already established that the dinosaurs were not the original ancestor of the lizard. They were instead the Ancestor of the bird.

However, there had to be a reason the First Race had chosen to combine them with a lizard Race.

The obvious answer was suppression. It seemed as though the First Race didnʼt want their world to be taken over by a powerful Angel Beast Race, especially one that Humanoid Angels might not care enough to strike down due to the fact they wouldnʼt be humanoids.

Sylas, though... believed there was a deeper reason.

He had assumed that the Dino Race and the Great Ape Race were entirely unrelated, but that wasnʼt the case. Not after he saw the caveman within the split form.

That made his antennae shoot up. If the First Race could force cavemen to appear so early, why would they fuse them with the Dino Race first and then seemingly backtrack to create the Great Apes?

Unless.... There was something about the Dino Race that laid the foundation of the Great Apes far better, something that would allow the evolution of the Human Race to progress smoothly back toward the First Race they had originally been born from.

ʼAncestral reversion.ʼ

The moment Sylas started probing, he could feel it. Dinosaurs werenʼt the ancestors of lizards, however, both birds and lizards shared a common ancestor before they split down two paths.

Divergent evolution.

Sylas thought a lot about Convergent Evolution these days and just how much the powers he came across were sensitive to it. But Divergent Evolution, a process where a single Race becomes multiple unique ones, was too easily overlooked.

If you wanted to hide something in plain sight... what better way than Divergent Evolution?

And then, when you wanted the power of the original Race...

ʼYou worked backward.ʼ

Suddenly, everything clicked into place and the existence of the caveman made perfect sense to Sylas.

WHOOSH.

The Wills snapped into one beneath his own.