Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 1857

Chapter 1857: The Infinite--

What did all of these meandering thoughts have in common?

The fear of the unknown? Simulations and complexity?

Nothing on the surface. And yet everything in reality.

Why did humans go from one fear to the next, never learning from their mistakes and simply choosing as a whole to redirect their fear toward something new and unknown?

But why was it also the case that the simplest concepts to intuitively understand weren't always the most correct? What was the dividing line between what one could reliably use intuition for versus when you should rely on a more analytic, complicated approach?

Sylas wasn't thinking about these things literally. He was thinking about them in regard to how they applied to Rune Mastery, how they shaped his own thoughts about how he approached things.

It was true. The world, the star system, the galaxy, the Sector, the Horizon, the universe itself... When had it ever cared about the separation between Tiers? Weren't Tiers just a type of categorization created by the system in order to divide power into understandable, bite-sized pieces?

What was the difference between Tiers and humans deciding what their new thing to fear was? A new unknown horizon to be wary of?

But much the same way... when things reached a level that was complex enough, how could you continue to rely on the same intuition to understand things?

Maybe it made sense to take things step by step like this, to first understand the F-tier, and then the E-tier, before you could one day make it to the S-tier. And maybe it made sense to first comprehend Runes as their individual Strokes, and then as their Foundations, and then as their Runes, and then the meshes that connected them.

But at what point did this logic break down? At what point was intuition not enough?

And was that point the same for everyone?

Sylas had known immediately that the simulation theory was nonsense the moment he saw it. He knew intuitively there was something wrong with it.

But others didn't seem to.

And maybe that was why Sylas' intuition had brought him so much further than most others.

He made it to Spark Mastery on his own without relying on the legacy left by someone else. On the surface, that just seemed to be his own act of genius, and that much was true. But maybe his threshold of intuition was just higher than others... But that didn't mean that it was as high as it could ever possibly be or that there weren't things beyond it.

If there weren't things beyond it, he would never need to read or learn about Rune Mastery at all. Why would he need the library of the Weaver Guild in the first place?

No, even his own intuition had its limits, and that wasn't something Sylas had a problem with.

What he had had a problem with was why he didn't understand the Legendary Luck Gene.

But it had become all too obvious to him now.

One part of why he didn't understand it was, in a sense, intuition. He intuitively thought that all F-tier Runes had a limit of 100 Foundations, and any complex mesh of F-tier Runes had to be formed of Runes that were 100 Foundations or fewer. It also logically followed that any subsection of this mesh would be something he could break down and come to understand given enough time.

The Life and Death Seals were two of the most complex meshes that he had ever seen, but he could do the same. What about the Legendary Luck Gene made it so masterfully shocking? So impossible to grasp and comprehend? Why couldn't he understand it at all?

Fear.

It wasn't his own fear. It was the fear of the Rune Masters that came before him. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

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