Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 638

Chapter 638: A Path [Bonus]

Sylas opened his eyes to the bright rays of the sun, but the fatigue between his brows was clear and evident. He needed rest, real rest.

He allowed himself to drift off again and when he awoke, the rumbling of the carriage had stopped for the night and the moon beamed its silvery blue lights from on high.

Although he felt hunger, he didn't move immediately, recalling his experiences instead.

As Gralith had said, he had mastered the first layer of the Scorpion Warlord armor. But the problem with only grasping the first layer was that without the second layer, he couldn't link them.

It was the second layer where all the connections between the various bits and pieces of the armor could be formed. Without them, the armor could only work on the merits of its individual pieces, which obviously made it far weaker than when it was working as a cohesive whole.

Of course, even if he grasped the second layer, it wouldn't be until he grasped the third that the armor truly began to work as one unit.

The second layer were the linkages, but they could only connect adjacent pieces and try to smooth over the communication between them. It was only when the third layer, the mesh layer, came into the picture that every piece of the armor could communicate with every other piece, resulting in a substantial increase to power.

Sylas was a bit disappointed because he felt that he still had so far left to go. Sure, he had grasped the Runes to all of the pieces of the first layer, but the only part that he had grasped to 40% Breath Mastery was a single segment. The rest were all hovering between 20 and 30%.

What Sylas had learned was that he wouldn't have to tattoo the Scorpion Warlord Armor onto his body if he could just reach Breath Mastery. At that point, the armor would be self- sustaining and wouldn't be nearly as much of a drain on his body.

But of the 100 Runes, only a single one of them had reached that 40% threshold. And to make matters worse, it wasn't even complete.

There were 68 Runes for the limbs and 32 for the torso alone. Of those 32, there were eight Runes designated for the tail of the armor. Its segments needed four Runes, and its stinger alone had four more Runes to itself.

Sylas had only grasped one of the segment Runes.

Rarely did Sylas find himself struggling with things, but it was too much information in too little time.

If he could succeed, just the first layer would give him +1000 to all of his Physical stats, a +10 boost for every 40% Rune he managed to successfully draw.

And this was just the base of the armor. Even without the second layer, there were Skills that he could activate, namely ones revolving around the complexities of the stinger.

Every +10% jump in Rune Mastery would give double the effect. Theoretically, even if Sylas didn't learn anything about the other layers, and by some miracle managed to match the system and the universe in Rune drawing skill, he would have an illusory armor he could form whenever he wanted that came with +7000 Physical.

When the second layer was mastered, this effect would be double, for +14000 Physical.