Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 473

Chapter 473: Stele Ability

Sylas walked down the steps slowly until he eventually reached eye level with the City Stele.

[View City Status]

[Use Stele Ability]

[Enter Nexus]

'Stele Ability?' Sylas had seen Cassarae's City Stele before. Usually, that line was replaced with a prompt to conquer the City. But since he was the owner of the City Stele, technically, it wouldn't make sense for it to be here.

Now he was wondering if a Stele Ability was natural for all cities or if it was a rarity.

Since Bronze Genes were practically common currency to him now, he just directly asked the Madness Key and found out.

'I see...' It turned out that only Cities of the Common Grade and above had a chance to unlock a Stele Ability, and first it would have to become a City. That meant going through several Grades.

The higher Grade the city, the earlier it could awaken an ability, or even multiple of them. However, there wasn't some great reward waiting for Sylas... at least not on the surface. All System Cities came with the same default ability: Bird's Eye View.

It allowed a detailed map of a certain region. Since there were three System Cities in this Evergreen Territory, that meant that he was able to see an entire third of the Evergreen Territory unobstructed.

Every city, every demon village, every resource.

It seemed only limited by the Grade of the Stele and System Cities were, by default, a level beyond that of the world they were on. As such, it could only find resources at the Silver Grade and below.

There was also a limit of height and depth. It could find deposits nearer to the surface, but not very deep into the earth.

But this wasn't all.

It could also inform him ahead of time when there were fluctuations within this region that would likely lead to the appearance of a portal. And... it had some control over the portals that already existed.

Of course, he couldn't just open or close them at will. But he could use Orciulius' City's ability to take a peek into the other side, about a kilometer or so.

That kilometer radius was a far cry from how far he could see on this side. But it would become invaluable very soon.

'One step at a time.'

Right now, his focus was a perfect clearance of this Quicktime Event. The enemies that lay beyond that, he would deal with when the time came. Trying to account for everything was what led to his plan failing in the first place.

He slotted away the existence of this Stele Ability into the back of his mind and entered the Nexus.

[Merit Leaderboard]

- [1. Sylas Grimblade - ???]

- [2. Lauren Mitchell - *]