Chapter 498: What Right?

Chapter 498: What Right?



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Of his new abilities, Blood Essence Extrication was the most enigmatic, but the others were easy enough for him to understand.

Beacon allowed him to call forth any Serpentes within a kilometer radius to his side. At its current level, it wouldn't allow him to control them all perfectly like he would his Contracts, but they would still have a certain fondness for him and would be unwilling to attack him.

Of course, it would take a very specific situation for him to benefit from such a thing, and it would also take time to activate. In its current state, the beasts would need to run to his location, so its use was limited and had to be prepared in advance.

His Insight Path Talent also got a change. "See" Gene Sequence became Comprehend. Before, when he went through all that trouble of seeing the Basilisk King's Gene Sequence, he had only been able to vaguely understand it. In fact, he couldn't even stare at it directly but had to feed it through a computer instead.

But now, it seemed that he wouldn't need to go through so much trouble again.

The most convenient change of them all, though, was Semi-Fusion, a change to his Fuse Path Talent.

Now, he could accommodate just one aspect of his beasts at a time, and that was supremely useful.

For example, with Nosphaleen. He didn't dare to fuse with her not because he wasn't sure what would happen if he fused with a woman like that he didn't really care so long as it made him stronger-but instead because of the cancer in her.

But if he could just copy one of her skills or one of her Gene Talents, that was huge.

No... knowing this master of its, if there was a benefit to be taken, he would take it. Sylas would be more likely to kill it and turn it into a pill than just let him go for nothing.

Maybe that was what it deserved. It had been pathetically captured, and then it had to wait for Sylas and Morgan to save it.

A little weakling like Morgan was actually able to do what it couldn't and protect its life. Otherwise, it might have already died at Grin's hands.

The Basilisk King lowered its head for a moment before raising it. It hissed again, but this time it was far more determined. If Sylas was going to try and kill it, it wasn't going to go down without a fight.

It made itself taller, and soon its head was a meter over Sylas'.

Its Loyalty numbers flickered wildly as though it too didn't know exactly what it wanted to do.

Sylas didn't make a single movement, just observing in silence. But when he saw the Basilisk King take this posture, his gaze flashed.

This was the first time he felt that this beast... was more of a "he" than an "it." He could feel its series of emotions clearly, and in the end, Sylas couldn't help but have flashbacks to those moments in the lava world, trapped with nowhere to go, and believing that his life was going to end at any time.

It was the most pathetic he had ever been, and it was a stain that left him feeling uncomfortable every time he thought of it.

And for the first time, he identified with the Basilisk King. The only difference between the two of them was that his own path to growing stronger was in his hands, while that of the Basilisk King was in Sylas'.

One of them had a choice, and the other didn't.

What right did he have to look down on the Basilisk King?