Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 602

Chapter 602: Form [Bonus]

It wasn't just the new tag-along, ragtag group that was surprised by the next events. Even Alex, who had become quite stoic and absolutely silent since they entered the pyramid, was rendered speechless.

They began to move from puzzle to puzzle as though it was nothing more than a joke. They blazed through the dangers so quickly and suddenly that often they didn't even get a chance to observe before Sylas had already seen through the solutions and led them through.

By this point, even the black mirror world had become simple to navigate. None of them could tell how Sylas chose the next node to enter, but there was something about his method that seemed holistic and so sure that they didn't even have it in themselves to second guess it.

This latter half that should have taken substantially more time became like a game. They refueled their stamina and health far faster than they used it up, and not a single one of them ended up with new injuries or extra fatigue.

And that somehow included Sylas, who was taking on the brunt of the tasks moving ahead. But why would it burden Sylas at all? The difficulty of these puzzles wasn't beyond the Rune Enlightenment Realm, while he had Rune Essence, a tier of Rune Mastery that was an entire four levels above.

On top of that, any Wisdom he used up was so insignificant that his now passive <Maddened Enlightenment> Gene Skill covered for it.

In a shocking turn of events, the group of five reached the bottom of the black mirror world, finding themselves no longer standing on a node at all.

And...

There was nowhere forward.

It looked as though they had run into a dead end.

For a moment, Alex and the family even wondered if Sylas had been too random with his choices in the nodes to follow. Sylas was wearing a calm expression, but that was the expression he wore no matter the given situation. It was hard to look at it and use it as a reason to relax.

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Why were they at the bottom of the black mirror world? It felt logical that if there was a destination to reach, it should be at the very top. Had they been going in the wrong direction?

There was silence for a long while before Sylas nodded as though he had understood something.

Back when Sylas solved the puzzle, he used a pin board and yarn. He wrapped the yarn around the pins he stuck into the board to recreate the scribble pattern that had been on the sheet of white paper. Then, he cut it from two points, pulling the yarn until the shape of the string formed an eye and a pinecone.

This was the solution he had come up with as a youth.

It wasn't until much later, and after his meeting with Alex, that he redid the solution and pulled the yarn up instead of across, causing it to form the body of a pyramid instead.

A three-dimensional solution.