Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 964

Chapter 964 Coincidence? [Top Five in Golden Tickets Bonus Chapter]

[AN: I thought I uploaded this yesterday, but I guess not]

Sylas watched as they all died one after another. The blood fell in a rain, his gaze sweeping over them one after another.

'So… something like this is possible too…'

What Sylas had done wasn't actually all that complicated, at least not to him.

The Unique Gene of these humanoids was very firmly ingrained into their bodies. Every time it sensed something that it had to adapt to, it would trigger, and then holistic changes would occur to their entire being.

All Sylas had done was distill the Unravelling abilities of his Pupils into a series of Ancient Ithkuil syllables. He hardly had to think to deduce it at all. The ability to Unravel Runes came as naturally as breathing to him.

Obviously, the main issue was that while the Unique Genes weren't close to the 100 Foundation peak that came from F-Grade Runes, they were drawn by the system, and as such nearing the pinnacle of perfection.

This made them harder to Unravel than usual, to be sure. But the Rune itself only had 20 Foundations. As powerful as the system was, it wasn't to the point that it could make a 20 Foundation Rune bulletproof. If it could, even the likes of Extricate wouldn't work on them.

Once Sylas understood the principles of Unravelling the Rune, it was a simple matter of repeating what he had done with Gogo's true name, except orders of magnitude easier.

Rather than an entire textbook's worth of words and syllables to spill, it was a breeze by comparison.

When the humanoids repeated the words he said, they didn't know it, but they were essentially triggering the formation of a Rune that perfectly countered the core of their bodies themselves.

Ultimately… Runes were just another language, drawing them, speaking them, communicating them… it was all the same so long as the universe or the Mesh of Reality understood what you were trying to get at and you had enough Aether to trigger its formation.

It was all as simple as that.

'Can I replicate this…'

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[Wave Two Cleared]

[Time to Wave Three: 00:00:59:59]

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Sylas stood there for a while, knowing he had time. After a long while, he shook his head.

The first and most obvious reason this wouldn't work again was because how often would he fight against identical, replicated enemies?

Even amongst those of the same Race, especially if one had their Unique Gene passed down through birth and heredity, every Gene would have unique mutations and differences to them.

All Guiz might share the same Unique Gene, but they wouldn't be identical. It was hard to say if such a method would work on more than one. And if he had a Guiz Unique Gene to study, the person he wanted dead would, well… already be dead. After all, he couldn't use Extricate on living and unwilling subjects.

Though, to be fair, Sylas had already observed a Guiz Unique Gene before.

But there was a second issue… that because of the fact this Unique Gene was a special circumstance.

Because it was so broad in scope and abilities, adapting to anything thrown at it, it was distilled through the entire body. A change to it would mean death for the subject in question. But other Unique Genes might not be so easy to target.

Then there was the third reason…

Why would anyone but these stupid enemies repeat the words Sylas was saying of their own volition without understanding what he was saying?

'But… this is interesting… I wonder…'

Sylas' thoughts churned, but eventually he pressed them down.

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