Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 946

Sylas stood on a mountain, his claws dripping with blood. Even after going on a killing spree, he still hadn’t crossed 400 Silver Genes. It was obvious to him from the start that the best method of gathering Silver Genes definitely wasn’t randomly killing beasts.

Even if he came across a beast with Silver Genes, it would likely be extremely powerful, and the return on investment wouldn’t be worth it. The battle would take a while and he could end up heavily injured. That also wouldn’t be in line with his plans for speed.

On the way here, Sylas had just conveniently killed several, but that only confirmed what he already knew.

What he was really looking for was one of two things. Either a target or the reason his enemies had been able to zoom right by his Gene quantity.

Given how things were going, he would probably be able to answer both questions at the same time.

He ended up finding the former first.

In the distance, there was a city with walls formed of square blocks of snow. Right at this moment, they were already building a second, larger wall, while a much smaller group worked on making the inner walls taller.

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[Ace (F)]

[Level: 3]

[Physical: 0.7]

[Mental: 0.92]

[Will: 1.2]

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At the helm, directing and protecting those building the outer wall, was a bearman with the head of a white-furred polar bear and the body of a burly man standing at over two meters tall.

Rather than being a brute, though, this bearman wielded the staff of a mage and was actually the one quickly forming and compressing the blocks of ice and snow that were building the walls.

The Runes this bearman was using were quite interesting as well. They seemed to pull in the Ice Aether from the air, strengthening the walls further over time.

’This is Frostbane.’

Sylas’ eyes narrowed as he looked back toward the Quest Leaderboard.

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[3. Aurion Stormveil - 31,110]

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Already an 8000 Silver Gene difference since the last time he checked, and steam only seemed to be picking up. But what was more important than that was the fact that Sylas had seen this name before.

This was the young man on the flying ship outside of the Frostbane Dungeon.

Was this his city? Had he chosen the City Stele, then? Could it be that he had made a mistake in choosing the Gene Elixir? Was the best path of this Quest to choose the city?

Thinking back, this was highly likely.

On the one hand, you needed a Gene Elixir; otherwise, trading the Silver Genes in exchange for unlocks would be impossible. It was because Sylas had his Soft Gene Elixir that he could do this.

Thanks to this, he only needed to use double the mentioned amount rather than not being able to unlock anything, or being forced to deal with even lower percentages.

Essentially, while he said he needed 50,000 Genes right now, he actually needed 100,000 to make things work properly.

But if everyone chose the City Stele… didn’t that also mean that he was the only one who had unlocked things until now?