Genetic Ascension

Chapter 1008  Your Death

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Sylas' arm exploded, and then the other one went. He lost a leg, a part of his head. His bones cracked and splintered, his inner organs vibrating so hard they turned to piles of mush and broken sinew.

A Will far greater than his own exploded in his mind, a relentless pressure forcing him down.

He could feel it more clearly now than ever before, the shadow of the true All-Seeing Eye. No… something that had come before it, something even more ancient, something even more unforgivable and callously indifferent.

It was this pressure that forced the Serpentes to their knees, this pressure that took their pride, stripped them of their wings, their claws—forced them to crawl on their bellies.

It was the sort of pressure that rended hearts and severed thoughts. You might be enraged after it had long passed, but while it was here, you had no choice but to bow to your own infuriation.

You had no sense of self, no sense of pride, no free will without its expressed consent. It could make you do as it pleased with a casual expression of its intent. What you wanted, what you desired, your own dreams and aspirations were entirely worthless.

It felt like being lost in the depths of the ocean, a realization of just how small and insignificant you were dawning on you as you fell into the darkness of the abyss. A trench kilometers wide and unfathomably deep lay out before you, the pressure from above sinking you in deeper and deeper until you could do nothing more than accept just one thing…