Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 1049

Chapter 1049 Children's Book [Top 10 in GT Bonus]

When it came to matters like this, Sylas had no ego. In reality, if you asked him outright, he might claim that he had no ego at all. Maybe others might think that it manifested in such a way, but to Sylas, he just felt that there were things that were and things that weren't.

The fact that he was better than most he came across, and his actions reflected that, had little to do with how arrogant he was. He just wasn't the sort that cared to waste his time equivocating and sugar-coating things.

So when he started building up the foundation of his knowledge, he didn't feel like he had a bias. There was nothing too level for him. Even if it was meant to be a children's book, he read it without prejudice.

One of the first things he read was precisely that, a picture book introducing the concept of Rune Master. It must have been created for toddlers, and most of what it wrote was obviously intuitive to Sylas by now. But as expected, there were some things that weren't.

The picture book had a huge emphasis on what it called the "language of the world." It broke down Rune Mastery in the same way you might teach a child the alphabet, talking about it like it was the universe's way of communicating with its people.

It was a fascinating concept, and it really entrenched for Sylas why learning Ancient Ithkuil had changed his Rune Mastery prowess so substantially.

Now he understood more intimately that the reason was rooted in him finding a language that was closer to the language of the universe than the one he was used to. That allowed him to communicate his Will to the Runes with greater ease.

But on a deeper level than that, it seemed to imply that a large part of the bottleneck in drawing, controlling, and understanding Runes was actually having a method of distilling those meanings into words that you could quickly and efficiently understand.

It was no wonder so much had changed for him when he first truly understood the essence of what it meant to be a Scorpion. When he did that, the Strokes came more naturally, and they fell into place as Foundations with greater ease, and thus built up into complete Runes more smoothly.

After discovering this, Sylas began to question his method in deploying Runes. Was he relying too much on his talent? Was he skipping steps in Rune deployment he shouldn't?

Sure, Rune Spark allowed him to casually cause Runes to form on their own. But how much should he rely on that versus the precision real, tangible thoughts could give him? Maybe it was only after he truly grasped and was able to convey the essence of those thoughts, that his Rune Spark Mastery would begin displaying its true might.

Or at least, greater might than it was already displaying.

It was a truly shocking conclusion to reach, and yet Sylas grasped all of that from one children's book that would have taken him half a minute to read at most with his current stats. In the UniForm Andromeda, it didn't even take him fractions of a second to scan through the entire thing.

No, not only did he scan it, but he digested it fully. This was the power of Andromeda… and it somewhat left Sylas feeling intoxicated.

So he continued.