Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 838

When Gralith explained things like this, the jumbled mess in Sylas’ mind seemed to order itself.

He had been so confused for so long about what he was seeing, but now he understood.

The further you got into the tome, the more looking at the Runes made you feel as though you were staring at mirages—as though if you tilted your head at a certain angle, you would suddenly see a completely different image.

This much was enough for him to feel quite confused, but he had tried to push through, memorizing not just the immediate Rune he saw, but the flickers forward and backward. He tried to grasp it all at once, and his mind had certainly suffered for it.

When he tried to use his Progenitor Flame Ability, the situation only got worse. It was like he was facing off against Gralith again. The buffer against his mind hit like whiplash.

But now it only made sense.

He was trying to slow his perception down across several timelines at once. He was already in the time stream, and yet he was trying to grab several streams at once. He wasn’t using his perception-slowing ability one time over, but rather several.

By the time he got to the last few pages of what seemed to be exactly 36, he was trying to grab onto a dozen streams in both directions, redoubling his efforts 24 times over.

Luckily, he hadn’t been foolish enough to make that attempt before, but he had for the earlier streams, and it very quickly reminded him that his Progenitor Flame Ability was not yet that good—not even remotely.

However, once he got to this point in his thoughts, he hit another roadblock.

His ability was to slow perception of time, not peer into the past, and certainly not into the future. Gralith should know this, so why was it helpful?

And also, though the ability sounded cool—or the Lineage, rather—Sylas also didn’t understand how peering into the past of a Rune, or its future, could help.

They looked like tricks of the eye. Ultimately, a Rune was a Rune; it had a rigid state and couldn’t just be anything. Although it seemed to breathe like a living existence, and acted a lot like one too, it ultimately wasn’t one.

Even if it had a past or present, they were all locked into the same box. If you could draw a Rune one way, why did you need to be able to draw it another?

Angles, geometry, and things of the like were important when you were linking Runes together, like in the Scorpion Warlord Armor, but even then, after fitting it once, it was fine.

What was this about a past or present? It couldn’t be that a Rune could change that much through a change in time, right?

There was definitely something that he was missing here. Sylas wasn’t foolish enough to believe that his thought process was infallible.

"What does it mean to look at the past and future of a Rune?" Sylas finally asked.

Gralith had never pressed him, just sitting there and waiting for Sylas to comb through his own thoughts.

He knew this sort of disciple. Though Sylas had come here for guidance, he probably, most of all, wanted to learn the thought process so he wouldn’t have to rely on Gralith again in the future.

Understanding this, Gralith didn’t mind it. Wasn’t the purpose of any parent to allow their child to be independent in the future?

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"As in liquid, gas, and solids?"

Gralith’s gaze flickered for a moment, and he chose to take a different approach.