Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 1907

Chapter 1907: Petty

Sylas' foot pressed down, and a rush of might bombarded his Will.

His expression hardly changed at all. In fact, he hardly paused on the first step, leaving his foot on its golden foundation no longer than it took to raise his second foot to the next stair.

And then he took a third step.

Then a fourth.

A golden light rushed in all directions. The energy kept pouring into Sylas as though it was looking for a bottom, but it couldn't find one at all.

Every time Sylas seemed to reach his limit, the energy split off as it filled up a new foundation, and then another, and then another following it.

Sylas' Will seemed absolutely endless. The temple couldn't find purchase to target him at all. It was like it was constantly being parried away, and as it was, Sylas only continued to move.

Every one of the 713th Cycle of Emperors stood in silence. Their hearts stopped beating, their neurons failing to fire. It was like they were watching something that had completely short-circuited their brains.

Climbing the temple steps required two things regardless of where you were climbing them, whether it was the Branch or the main Sanctum.

You needed a powerful Will and a beast Will.

A beast Will needed to be formed in order to be acknowledged by the stairs. Otherwise, you would be faced with every one there was. Unless you forced the hand of the temple to choose one of the beasts, it would simply send everything it had at you without parsing it apart. This would essentially mean that you would have to face the Will of every Spirit Beast Lineage there was.

And second... you needed a strong Will to resist the bombarding waves. Only by doing so could you continue to move forward step by step.

Spirit Beasts had a great advantage when climbing the stairs because the Spirits of Beasts they were born with often had power beyond what their current Tiers suggested, carrying power within them that could grow all the way to the A-tier, and even in some cases beyond.

That wasn't to say that a Spirit Beast with the Spirit of a Beast capable of reaching that level of talent would ever reach that level. In fact, there had never been a single S-tier in the history of the Emperor Sanctum.

What it did mean, though, was that if they had a Spirit that powerful within them, they would be able to better force the temple to focus on a single type, and their Will would go a longer way. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

That was because when the temple was forced to specialize in a single type of Will, those who reflected that Will back at it could better resist it.

This was because this Will wasn't just an enemy, but also a tonic to such people.

However...

Sylas neither projected any one particular Will, nor was he a Spirit Beast.

He walked forward, facing all of the power the temple had to offer without even flinching. Even as he climbed higher, he didn't falter in the slightest. He neither got any faster nor any slower, as though he were proving a point.

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