Genetic Ascension

Chapter 1022  Back End

"… We do business across hundreds of galaxies and our clients are numbers in the trillions. We probably have millions of different business hubs, but it would be impossible to trust that many different managers. Even if we did manage to do that, and they were trustworthy, just the process of auditing mistakes, or the accumulated mistakes themselves, would be a nightmare to deal with."

"So your solution is… to put it all in the hands of fewer people?"

Sylas' skepticism was well within his tone. Delegating tasks well was something that any decent leader had to learn how to do. But the Golden Grove actually went in the opposite direction, and that was very odd.

It was against every common note of wisdom he had ever seen. It was more than a little bit odd.

"You'll have to use the UniForge before you can understand why that is."

"And what? Die?"

Megean blinked, seemingly not having expected this answer. She had already pegged Sylas as arrogant, so the thought that he would try to use this as leverage for some sort of other power play had already been thrown to the back of her mind.

"What do you mean by that?"

"Right now I'm a prisoner. I'm still in chains. And I've been told to not become too 'cocky' according to you. Now, before my trial, I'm supposed to jump into a death trap… why? Because you say so?"