Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 1773

Chapter 1773: Limits

The Omnimous wasn't just teaching. It could feel Sylas' thoughts. It was changing and adjusting what it was saying, shifting its forward path based on connections Sylas had made and failed to make.

At some point, it felt like its teaching style had become a sparring match with Sylas himself, and every arc and curriculum they passed through seemed to come with a leap it didn't expect.

It was forced to adjust again, and then again, quickly stepping up to explain things at a pace that was just ahead of Sylas. It realized quickly that this wouldn't have been possible if not for the fact it could read Sylas' mind. Otherwise, Sylas would have long become bored, cutting it off continuously.

However, the Omnimous didn't feel stretched thin. In fact, it had such a long runway before it that Sylas couldn't be considered to have taken up even a single fraction of its total capacity.

The problem was that the Omnimous was optimized for efficiency. Whenever it made a leap, it did so only as much as it thought necessary. And yet, every time, it was forced to adjust and reassess.

Sylas wasn't growing linearly, and even if it took into account an exponential increase caused by knowledge stacking atop knowledge, it still wasn't enough.

Saying that Sylas was growing exponentially was still doing his progress a disservice. No matter how the Omnimous adjusted, it found itself adjusting too soon.

It realized after the third time this happened that there was something that it was mis-assessing about Sylas. But much like during the testing event, it couldn't pinpoint exactly what that was.

But by the fourth, the fifth... the seventh, the ninth... the sixteenth, the twenty-first...

It began to slowly understand why it was that it couldn't logically pin down Sylas' progression.

It had yet to see Sylas' baseline even a single time.

Sylas wasn't improving... he was waking up.

The tests had stimulated something in Sylas, so he seemed to rise up to the occasion, his improvement not logical because he had never been displaying his true capacity in the first place.

However, even after waking up, the tests in the end seemed to bore him, so he shut back down, but only in part. It wasn't enough that he had completely reverted, but it was enough that it had made a difference.

Here, it was happening again. Every time the Omnimous accelerated, Sylas rushed to catch up as though he had felt something challenging him. But then he slowed down again as he realized he was surpassing the Omnimous too quickly... Then the Omnimous would adjust once again, and Sylas found himself racing once more.

The game of cat and mouse felt continuous, and the Omnimous-if it could have felt an emotion like solemnity- was quickly realizing that if Sylas did have a limit... It wasn't anywhere close to where they were now.

It wondered... if it randomly gave Sylas a concept of the Class 8 of the B-tier, would Sylas react like other F-tiers? Would he feel like it was a hopeless task he couldn't even begin to chip at?

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