Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 774

Chapter 774 Freeze and Slow [Ko-Fi Donation Bonus]

Sylas stood in silence.

It was hard to assess where to draw the line when you knew so little about the world. It was even more difficult when you had to make sure that you not only passed, but did so to a standard that would actually help you.

For a moment, Sylas wondered if he should simply fail on purpose and forget about helping the Bone-Tailed Lizard at all. Or, maybe he should pretend to join one of these factions with his Breath Master ranking as a lure.

Something told him, though, that it wouldn't be very easy to trick these Guilds. The moment you were bound to them, it would either be for life, or until you grew strong enough that you could wipe them out on your own—and even then they might have something in the cards that could hold you down for a while after.

Sylas made a decision.

There was a flash in his eyes and suddenly, the burden on his Mental went from a light breeze to a heavy mountain.

Rune Vitality was pushed to its extreme limits, and right then, from an expanse of cloudy white that looked plucked right out some dystopian depiction of heaven, Runes that Sylas shouldn't have even had the right to see began to dance before him.

These were the Runes of this world, or rather… the Runes that formed the body and foundation of the Secret Realm.

Veins popped across Sylas' forehead and cold sweat matted his brows.

It shouldn't have been so hard, but there were several things holding Sylas back.

The first was that Enchanted Scribe had long since stopped being able to keep up with his Rune Mastery. His Rune Mastery stood alone as a vague sort of unrooted extension of his mind, but without the supporting cast of his body to provide it a foundation, while it was still powerful, it wasn't able to reach its truest potential.

The reason Ulrik could seemingly form Runes with a breath of thought wasn't just because he was more experienced than Sylas, but also because he had the supporting structures within his body to manifest his Rune talent to shocking levels.

Whether that came from a Comprehension or a Gene.

The second and more potent reason here, though… was that these Secret Realms were designed to hide their Runes. If one could see through the Runes with their Rune Mastery, that would defeat the purpose. That would mean that one could easily cheat their way through.

Of course, Sylas wasn't trying to cheat. Even if he had the skill to do so, he would be caught for sure. What he was trying to do was to read the grading system of the Secret Realm, a task that was ironically even more difficult than cheating.

Cheating only required dealing with the surface level Runes that were already right before his eyes, just obscured by the clouds.

But reading the grading system meant going deeper, much deeper. It was like trying to reach the very kernel of this Secret Realm down to its root.