Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 941

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[1. Sylas Grimblade - 360]

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Sylas pulled back, leaping once, then twice before he was a great distance from the dead worm.

Looking down at his arm, he frowned. There was a sickening wiggle to his muscles right now that made it feel as though there were snakes writhing beneath his skin.

The pulse of his heart became wild, and his skin reddened. It felt like he might collapse at any time.

Immediately, he dismissed Berserk.

’… Troublesome…’

He knew it wouldn’t be so simple, but he had tried it anyway.

Berserk was a weak F+ Skill. Trying to scale it up with his overwhelming stats was like trying to squeeze a basketball through a baseball-sized hole.

The Skill wasn’t good enough, so a lot of what he was pumping into it was wasted. Logically, he should be able to gain tens of thousands of Physical stat points given his current Will.

But setting aside that he would never push it so far to avoid the backlash to the mind that came with abusing [Berserk], it seemed that he wouldn’t even be able to get close without ripping himself apart.

The pathways of the Skill weren’t nearly efficient enough. Unfortunately, Sylas didn’t have any references he could use to make it better.

’I’ll have to limit myself to a +0.1 increase to my Physical stats for now and work from there…’

The bright side was that in that case, he could practically use [Berserk] continuously. Although this Skill technically worked by "sacrificing" Will, because he had Forging Will and [Maddened Enlightenment], his Will recovered faster than he could even use it on [Berserk].

In this case, [Berserk] being such a weak Skill actually worked to his benefit.

The bad news was that a +0.1 boost wasn’t even enough to defeat this F- earthworm he had just come across, let alone more powerful creatures.

The good news was that he wouldn’t just have it alone to rely on.

Sylas’ telekinesis surged and the head of the earthworm split wider. The contents of its skull spilled out in a mush until there…

Plus… if improving his Physical was what he wanted, he had other methods to do that. Methods far more powerful than what he had here.

’It seems I’ll just have to use it, then. Let’s see just how powerful Forged Will is.’

Sylas bent forward, picking up the Gene Core.

’There really are Genes in here… but these are all Bronze. And so few at that. There seem to be only three Bronze Genes to gain out of this…’

Things had always been like this for beasts, though. For some reason, you could only get very specific Genes from them. Usually, killing a fellow human was far more cost-effective.

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Sylas was lost in thought when the notification triggered. His eyes narrowed…