Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 848

Sylas’ hair billowed back, his gaze sharp in its light.

His broken Blade Aura Gene Talent stood there, displayed before the world. But it was no longer being driven by the system, but rather Sylas’ own hands.

Since he wasn’t a good enough Grimblade to stand here, he would just have to be a good enough Rune Master to make up for it in spades.

At that moment, his intent had focused every fiber of its being on the Rune in front of him. It could even be said that the fact it was so broken and decrepit would only give him an advantage here. Otherwise, it just might have been too complicated for him to even begin to understand.

However, the Sylas of now wasn’t the Sylas of the past. Before, he didn’t even have the right to look at Genes, let alone the more complicated Gene Talents and beyond. Discover more stories at freewebnovel

But now, he stood at the pinnacle of Rune Mastery of the F-Grade. Even if it took time, effort, blood, even… he could do it. He would do it, no matter what.

The moment he felt the suppression of the Realm, Sylas had said he could feel just how much things relied on the system, but he had also said he understood just exactly what didn’t as well.

There were many aspects of his talents that were only possible because the system took the computational load of many of them. However, that didn’t mean that without the system, he would be helpless to ever use them at all.

Technically speaking, with enough training, he could do everything without the system at all.

Skills were the simplest example of this. Fragmented Mastery is what happened when one relied on the system alone to accomplish something, while Legendary Mastery meant you were already at the point where you didn’t need to rely on the system at all to cast a particular Skill.

Sylas’ Profession, though, especially, was something that was heavily reliant on the system. There was so much computation involved that Sylas didn’t even have a tenth the Mental he needed to do it all on his own.

And of his Profession Path Talents, Extricate was probably by far the most complicated.

However… his Blade Aura Gene Talent was something that Sylas had personally investigated many times. Ever since he realized his Grimblade Lineage was actually crippling him in a lot of ways, he had been angling to find a method of replacing it.

He knew that he couldn’t just take it out of himself because it was the foundation for everything he was. Even though he was a "cripple," if not for his Grimblade Lineage, his base Stat Limit would have never been 50, but rather likely to be less than 30. Taking it out would be like knocking out the bottom row of a house of cards.

Given the delicacy of the procedure, and how important it was for his future, Sylas had overturned this problem in his mind, and body, more times than he could count.

That was all to say that maybe for anything else he wouldn’t be able to so easily use Extricate without the system… but for Blade Aura and his Grimblade Lineage…?

He could do it blindfolded.

The expressions of Astrid and Malachi changed. They didn’t really understand what was happening at all. Well, Malachi seemed at a complete loss. But Astrid, who seemed to have caught the faint inkling of something, seemed just as stunned as he was.

Unfortunately, the second blade was already coming.