Chapter 415: How Badly? [Bonus]

Chapter 415: How Badly? [Bonus]



Sylas stood and waited, circulating his Aether to try and recover from his injuries while keeping an eye on the woman before him. His gaze was sharp, and he didn't let his guard down for even a single moment.

There were ways to circumvent the system. For example, when he enslaved Lolaleen, he had effectively taken her from Vayu's team and put her onto his. So he knew that it was possible; it was just that the enslavement contract he used only had one use left, and obviously he had used it. If not, someone with Nosphaleen's stats would be more than worth it.

He almost regretted that he had wasted it on Lolaleen even though he knew it was thanks to that choice he had made it so far.

Unfortunately... he was watching as Nosphaleen's panic was becoming more and more obvious. Clearly, she didn't have a solution to all of this either.

Sylas slowly shook his head. It seemed that this could only end one way.

He was about to make a move when he paused.

'Maybe?'

When Sylas signed a contract with Brisa he had learned something new. Agreements could be made through the system, agreements where the system would become the arbitrator and witness.

He had thought that Brisa would bring out a contract, but instead he saw a system window instead.

The drawback to such methods was, obviously, the larger the gap in power between two individuals, the easier it was to break a contract. The system wouldn't be completely fair. Brisa had technically, by extension, been taking a risk by signing a pact with Sylas at all.

The strength gap wasn't decided by overall stats, but rather Mental stats in particular. In such a situation... Sylas was completely out-matched.

It wasn't like he could keep Madness activated all the time, and even if he did, the largest boost would be his Will, whereas Will was separate from Mental stats.

Sylas wondered if he should take such a risk at all. Maybe it would be easier to just kill this woman. Plus, the number of Genes she could provide to him should be astronomical.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

He hadn't counted up how many Genes he had gathered up until now, but other than the Sylph corpses, he had wasted all of the Clandestine Ape corpses by turning them into nutrition pills, so that left him with just these Clypsians to benefit from. Of course, there was also the beast Gene Core that Brisa had given him.

If he had Nosphaleen's corpse, he might be able to hit the quota he needed for his 200 Capacity Gene Crystal in just this one Dungeon.

Of course, there was also the chance she had Silver Genes, in which case her Genes would be "useless".

It was also possible that he already had enough. He had nine corpses from Vayu's team, four from Aerwyna's, and now eight Clypsian corpses, on top of the Level 35 Gene Core.

Logically, he should have enough now.

It was a matter of whether he valued the information she could give him more than the risk of bringing her along and having her escape from his control...

Holding up a hand, his telekinesis clashed with Nosphaleen's and the four disk-shaped blades froze in an all-out push and pull of tug-of-war.

Sylas blinked, his mind whirring.

"... How badly do you want to get out of here?" he suddenly said.

Nosphaleen, who had already entered a battle state, didn't even know what he was talking

about. In fact, she was pissed that he had suddenly attacked her like that.

"I would do anything." Her voice almost came out in a hiss.

"Are you willing to become a beast?"

Sylas' words caused Nosphaleen's eyes to open wide.

The moment Nosphaleen had transformed, Sylas had sensed her Serpentes characteristics,

even to the point he felt like his Beast Totem would be partially effective on her.

He thought this was good news. She thought she had gotten stronger, not knowing that he could easily suppress her to a state even worse than before because of this.

But then he had another idea.

If Nosphaleen was so close to his Beast Totem working on her completely... how close was she

to being a snake?

And if she was truly so eager to leave this place... would she be willing to become something other than a Clypsian?

Sylas couldn't help but wonder. If he used Extricate on enough of a person's Genes, or carefully selected them properly, could he change a person's entire Race?

Could he make this Clypsian a Serpentes and make her his second contracted beast?

The moment Sylas had this thought, he became eager to try it. At the same time, another world was opened up to him.

He didn't just have to find Legendary Serpentes... he could make them given the right

circumstances.