Sylas sat in a Thryskai vessel, his mind still churning. The blood that had been on his hands had long been swallowed by the Scorned Wraps, and his gaze was focused on the sea of stars ahead.
He had never thought that he would have a time like this, riding through space as though driving his car down a highway, but amongst all the things he had done in the last few months, this felt like it was among the most mundane. free𝑤ebnovel.com
He had saved an entire world just a few weeks ago; this felt like chump change compared to that.
It was a beautiful scene nonetheless. It was just a shame that he couldn’t enjoy it because he was still trying to figure something out.
There were two possibilities for what had happened to him just now, one of which was alright and he could manage well enough, and the other of which was much more troublesome.
The first possibility was that the dissection ability was a root of the Greed Seed’s might. With the Greed Seed, Sylas was able to absorb Blood Essence to heal himself. He could see how, by extension, that could give him an ability to read and understand the body better than most would.
It had already been established for him that there were stages to being a Madness Disciple. The idea that Seeds could have more strength than he knew of right now would be the least of his surprises.
The other was more troublesome, and ironically more likely if just one of them had to be true, and that was that the Will of the Rat had hijacked his body.
There was a reason the Rat was going around leaving these Seeds in people, and it definitely wasn’t out of the kindness of his heart. There was a very good reason he had chosen this route. It seemed only natural that he had a failsafe in place to ensure that things didn’t go awry.
The most likely truth, though, was that it was a combination of the two. This ability had to come from somewhere, and it was unlikely that it came from the Thryskai alone.
Was it a Profession? An intuition of sorts that could manifest like a Profession, but wasn’t a true one? Something else?
If that was the case, what secrets was the Gluttony Seed hiding? This was the first thought Sylas had had, and he had tested it immediately.
The Gluttony Seed’s ability was quite straightforward to Sylas. He could use it to increase the efficacy of his telekinesis, increasing the amount of mass it could work effectively against.
But honestly speaking, he hadn’t used this ability in a while because it wasn’t all that useful to him. His telekinesis had grown to the point it could exert tens of thousands of kilograms of force, and the Gluttony Seed, by comparison, couldn’t boost it enough to make the Will drain worth it.
But this experience made Sylas wonder.
If he was upgrading his Madness Disciplehood, why wasn’t his Seed upgrading along with it? What was he missing?
And that voice that constantly came from the Madness Key as well. Sylas didn’t know what it was hiding, or why it was still so restricted, but he wanted to know more about it as well.
Was being a Tier 3 Madness Disciple not enough? How many Tiers were there, even?
Sylas looked down at the Madness Key and shook his head. One of the first questions he ever asked the thing was about other Madness Disciples and he immediately got hit with Taboo warnings.
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