Genetic Ascension

Chapter 1317: Morvok Arothe [Bonus]

[Bonus Chapter thanks to TheAuthor137 <3 And no, I don’t believe you at all you vindictive bastard </3]

“Aaaaand, another one bites the dust. I’d say Raul got lucky, don’t you think? Well, there’s about 27 minutes left before your special little number one disciple is forever labeled as a coward. Hopefully, there’s at least someone in the Ape Lineage that can make Psycho Syl move. At least one inch, right? Aren’t you all supposed to be official disciples or something?”

Alex shook his head before a light of sympathy came to his eyes.

“Well, I guess this must just be the gap between disciples and True Disciples.”

He nodded as though it made sense.

There was currently no one in the F-tier that was a True Disciple, as in a disciple of one of the Lineage Heads. Neither Scarval nor Torin were, despite their power.

Sylas, on the other hand, was.

This seemed like an out for them, a reason to explain why they were being dominated, an excuse to get them out of it. However… Alex was more clever than that for two reasons.

First, the fact that something so obvious had to be pointed out to them wasn’t a point of relief—it was a point of embarrassment. True Disciples had always been on a level all to themselves. The idea they felt it was ridiculous for one to rank number one was just a product of the anomaly that was Scarval.

Even Gwenu hadn’t been able to take the number one spot when it was her turn, but that was also because she was impatient and wanted to hurry along to E-tier. Because she knew that she wouldn’t be able to make it to Spark Mastery, she settled for one stage below and progressed. The extra few percentage points weren’t worth the years wasted since no big leap was coming.

Plus, the gap between Scarval and the others wasn’t just due to his Armor. It was his base physical stats—stats that could be quickly overtaken by entering the E-tier with Gwenu’s talent.

And second…

With how arrogant these geniuses were, telling them that they were just inferior would never make them feel better. If anything, it would light a fire in them to prove you wrong. Very wrong.

Would the man known as the true number one of this generation, when the anomaly of Scarval was eliminated, well and truly be satisfied with such a result?

Pa. Pa. Pa.

The sound of clapping reverberated through the arena and a figure slowly appeared.

He could only be described as handsome beyond words—the sort of perfect entity that appeared in paintings and fantasy stories, but could never seem to exist in real life.

He had the pointed ears of an elf, though they were longer and more exaggerated than how they would be described even in the fairy tales.

Each of those ears was adorned with three simple golden earrings, small and low-profile, but glitteringly bright nonetheless.

His skin was a faint violet color that almost seemed to glow as he moved, and he had the look of a knight that had come dressed in partial armor to remind those at a dinner party ball what he did for a living without looking too informal.

However, his aura was not that of an Ape at all. He had the aura of a Serpent.

And he wasn’t in the F-tier at all. In fact, he was already level 100 and was currently building his Foundation to D-tier much like Gwenu.

This man was Morvok Arothe, the youngest disciple of the 713th Serpent Warlord and the current number one on the E-tier Leaderboards. As for number two?

That was Gwenu, Sylas’ unruly senior sister that he had yet to meet.

“You know, when the Scorpion Lineage got my beautiful Gwenu, I thought that would be the last bit of interest they would be able to give me. I didn’t expect that you would appear not long later and seemingly have even more potential than she did.

“Tell me, is that a Spark Mastery Armor?”

There was a light of almost greed in Morvok’s eyes, his beautiful lavender irises squeezing together to turn his rounded pupils into slits for just a moment before they popped back to normal.

One could practically see a slithering tongue come out of his lips, but that seemed to be more illusion than not. However, he embodied the aura of a serpent so much and so perfectly that his every movement seemed to elicit the memory of one.

Sylas could see it even more clearly than any one of them—the way that serpent coiled and wrapped around Morvok’s body.

It filled him with disgust.

Something in him practically snapped.

This wasn’t a true serpent either.

“Get up here.”

Morvok froze, and then he blinked.

“… What did you say to me?”

Sylas reached out a palm, and sparks of electricity seemed to jump from him. Every place a bolt landed, the ground and stone seemed to be corrupted, turning to crystal shards and then shattering.

“I said. Get up here. You worthless waste of space.”

Morvok’s eyes widened before he began to laugh. He laughed so uproariously the skies seemed to turn violet as well.

And then he flickered and vanished.

In an instant, he was on the platform, having moved so fast that even some D-tiers seemed to have lost track of him.

Alex couldn’t help but become a hint more serious, his gaze flickering. Old Brama was more than just serious—he was worried.

Something had definitely happened to Sylas, and it affected his mood all too obviously. The question was whether he still had real control of himself right now, or if he was letting everything be dictated by those emotions.

All Sylas could feel, though, was his disgust.

The Serpentes were meant to fly through the skies and command the clouds. To distill one down to a temptress, licking their lips with greed, and poisoning one with their words…

That was the antithesis of what being a Serpentes meant to him.

“I’m not sure what’s gotten into you,” Morvok said with a calm smile that hid daggers. “But it seems I’ll have to put you in your place in your master’s stead. The Scorpions have always been beneath our heel and will remain that way. I’ll show you what true poison is meant to look like.”

He didn’t say another word. He didn’t even summon his armor, as a fog of violet spread out from him slowly.

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