Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 737

Philman’s eyes bulged from their sockets as he seemed to grasp Sylas’ meaning.

He opened his mouth and a mournful cry came out, his temper flaring to his head as he exploded.

But his path was blocked by Magnus.

"My grandson, um… doesn’t have the best way with words. Forgive him for my sake and let’s have that talk you wanted to have."

"Get out of my way!" Philman roared.

Blade Aura pulsed around Philman and a sword sheathed to his side rattled in its casing, seemingly about to erupt out on its own.

Magnus’ gaze darkened. "Let’s be clear about something here, elder brother. Don’t think that I’m unaware of the fact your son tried to kill my grandson. Although I haven’t said anything, don’t think that I’m ignorant.

"Drop the distraught father act. If you want to fight, pull out your weapon."

…

Sylas flashed forward, not looking back. He assumed that since a battle hadn’t already erupted between his grandfather and grand uncle, there must have been a reason for that. The most obvious one being that they were evenly matched.

He didn’t know much about the earlier generation. And quite frankly, he didn’t know much about his father’s generation either other than the fact Lucius needed to die. But this much should be a safe assumption.

It was also probably safe to assume that unlike the branch family members, the main members of the Grimblades had been preparing for the Summoning since they could walk.

His grandfather had always been extremely active, participating in half marathons even into his 70s. At first, Sylas just thought he was a health junky and he ended up picking up a lot of his grandfather’s habits as a result.

But now that he thought back… his grandfather was almost certainly preparing for something much larger than himself.

Sylas’ body flashed to a side and he suddenly caught something out of the air.

It was a neck.

A shadow had appeared near his home and was trying to find a method of making their way in. But obviously… they had found themselves blocked by barriers continuously.

Sylas didn’t have a functional understanding of large-scale formations and how they worked. His training in Rune Mastery could be said to be all over the place.

However, what he did have was a great ability to read and copy.

On his last visit here, he had seen the dome of protection around the Grimblade family compound and simply…

Copied it.

It was rudimentary, so simple he hardly needed to think about it. The number of Foundations wasn’t very impressive to begin with.

The only complicated part was figuring out how to turn it off and on without others noticing. So… he decided to not have it turn off at all.

The barrier was continuously active. It was just that he taught his little sister how to flip the Runes just like he had.

Of course, Elara didn’t have the same Rune control he had, so he had to weaken the barrier at certain points he just colloquially called "doors".

Technically speaking, if their enemies found these doors and just focused an attack on them, destroying the barrier would be exceptionally easy.

But how difficult was it to find an invisible door in an invisible barrier? To even begin you’d have to have some level of Rune Mastery to be able to interact with the barrier, and the shadows that were sent didn’t even have Wills of their own, so how could they?

As for where the power was coming from since Sylas had yet to reach Breath Mastery with these Runes, that was even simpler…