Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 634

Chapter 634: Scorpion Warlord Language

The man didn't comment on anything in particular, instead beginning to speak about the Stroke, confusing Sylas somewhat.

"This Stroke is known as Kru."

Without missing a beat, he drew another line. This one was shorter than the first, and it was more vertical. Though, probably more accurately described as slanted.

"This Stroke is known as Zin... This is Vak... This is Tho... This is Gri... Shu... Dro... Mak... Tzu... Fen..."

Seemingly understanding what kind of student he was dealing with, the man's sleeve of darkness waved about faster as Sylas almost robotically copied his actions.

Every Stroke Sylas drew was the exact same as the man's, and they could have been perfect mirror images of one another if not for the fact they were even more perfect than that, being one to one comparisons.

After drawing the tenth and last Stroke, Sylas felt the characters on his page come alive. It was like they were whispering to him, and the man, who had been about to speak once more, stopped, watching Sylas in silence.

The man realized that Sylas could already feel it.

There were thousands upon thousands of Strokes. However, compared to the number of Runes in the world, this number was miniscule.

This seemed to make sense. After all, there were only a few dozen letters in an alphabet, but how many words could they form?

The trouble here, though, was that there still weren't a mere several thousand Strokes in existence. It could even be said that the number of Strokes was just as infinite as the number of Runes.

That was because even the same stroke could have a completely different meaning depending on the intent behind it. Much the same way an inflection could change the meaning of a word entirely in a complex language, so too could a flare of Will change the meaning of a Stroke.

In this language, these were known as the Scorpion Strokes. But if Sylas had been sitting across a projection of the Serpent Warlord instead, these Strokes would look exactly the same, but have completely different names.

They would be known as Siv, Sha, Zel, Ris, Siu, Ves, Skai, Syth, Sra, and Fiz.

The same strokes, completely different feel, completely different meanings.

The reason the Warlords all chose these ten Strokes was because it could be said that these...

were the true Inheritance. And Sylas seemed to have already realized that.

Every Rune Inheritance was built on a foundation of Strokes that built up the rest of the language. Only by understanding the Strokes could one then build the Foundations that came next, and the Runes that followed that.

Even so... this was the simplest it would be.

According to what the eye knew, without the beam of energy from earlier, even drawing the Strokes should be impossible. That was because a newbie to the Scorpion Warlord Inheritance wouldn't even know how to infuse the right type of Will into their Strokes and thus fail to grasp the fundamentals of the language. _{frёeweɓηovel.coɱ}