Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 563

Chapter 563: 71

Sylas had only about 30% recovered from his earlier injuries. But now he didn't just revert; his situation was probably even worse.

A vine tried to skewer him from the back; however, it ran into his Scorpion Warlord tail, the dividing line between his life and death.

He coughed up a mouthful of blood, his mind swimming with darkness as though he might lose consciousness at any moment.

Another spike of pain sharply caught his mind as he bit his tongue, trying to recover. He had to be ready for another attack. Anything, something.

But when his visualization finally cleared enough to lock onto the heart, he realized that it was oddly not taking action either.

Sylas realized what the problem was immediately. It was struggling to reconnect itself with the world around it.

His punch hadn't been useless. It didn't kill the heart, but it had injured it. However, those injuries were minimal compared to everything else.

The rebounding force had caused many of the Aether tubes and connections it had formed to the world around it to snap and break loose. Now, it was struggling to reconnect them.

The reason it hadn't acted was because it couldn't. Its weakness was that it needed to form these connections to do anything. Otherwise, it was just a heart.

'A heart? No... It's a plant. A parasitic one that happens to have taken the form of a heart.'

Sylas coughed up another mouthful of blood. He pierced his scorpion tail into the wall of vines to stop himself from falling. From time to time, some vines would attack him, but they were greatly weakened, clearly unable to get the full array of Aether from its supplier.

Soon, however, the heart would successfully reform its connections. At that point, Sylas would truly be finished.

Sylas took deep heaving breaths, staring daggers at the heart. It wasn't a coincidence that it had 2999 Constitution and Intelligence. Those were almost certainly limits of some sort, which meant... it more than likely had the first Silver Genes that he would ever see.

There was no running from this. Not after everything he had given to reach this point. He needed a solution.

He thought for only a moment before he suddenly closed his eyes. When his vision cleared again, he was once more in a world of Ice-Poison. White-blue snowflakes fell from the skies around him.

Sylas only gave them a glance before dashing forward.

The pressure around him was only increasing, but he gritted his teeth.

The gap between 50 Foundations and 60 was enormous. But now, he had only walked into the 65 Foundation Range and was already finding himself breaking down.

However, he continued to trudge forward.

Since the last time he had come here, he had a great breakthrough in his Will, and most importantly, his Rune Soul had evolved to become Rune Essence.

Unfortunately, his time in the Rune Breath Secret Realm had told him that just the breakthrough alone wasn't nearly enough. Unless he knew how to make use of his

breakthrough, it wouldn't make the world of difference it should.

That said... the gap between Rune Enlightenment and Rune Breath was enormous, and yet not nearly as large as the gap between Rune Soul and Rune Essence.

Before, Sylas was at the edge of his limit even standing before the 60-plus Foundation Runes. But now, despite being in a heavily injured, greatly fatigued state, although he was slow, he was steadily walking toward the 70-plus Foundation Runes...

Until he burst right through.

His jaw set, and his senses flashed around, looking for what he needed.

He had already picked his path, that of Slow and Freeze. But now it wasn't just a matter of preference, but necessity. He didn't have the time to learn a completely new Rune from scratch. He needed one that was already very familiar with what he already knew.