Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 2251

"I have thought a great deal about this, but all of the answers feel so very vapid and meaningless, not much unlike the void itself.

"I stumbled upon this third aspect of my Rune Mastery by accident. I was trapped within a world mimicking the void, ironically enough to allow for greater teleportation.

"When I think of things like this, it should be simple what the relationship is. The void exists as a punctuation mark, a rake to clear the leaves, a moving shadow to make way for the light.

"Even when one thinks of what Void Mastery is, it is in the name. From Spark Mastery, to Pure Spark Mastery, to Void Mastery, and then finally Rune Creation, the Void is more like a half-step. It empties your mind of the influences of the world around you, of the other Rune Paths, leaving room only for your own.

"Ever since comprehending my Void Path, I've never even needed to step into Void Mastery again. I've always gone straight from Spark Mastery to Rune Creation, whether that was in the E-tier or the D-tier. Emptying my mind has become easy.

"But to continue along at that state of simplicity, at the easiest method of application and use of the Void, is likewise what is handicapping me.

"The stronger this simplicity becomes, the more it will swallow my other paths, until I am nothing, bred from nothing, come from nothing. Maybe it isn't that no one else has followed the Void Path before, but maybe it is the case that all who've stumbled onto it have long been erased from mind and time."

The old man's pupils constricted.

Sylas only continued to speak.

"The Void has always meant to be a tool. To try to understand it is like attempting to comprehend what it meant to exist before the universe did. It exists outside the realm of influences, and to try to find complexity within its makeup, to truly take control of it, manifest it, wield it… "Feels impossible."

Sylas paused once again.

"I've seen the ceiling of the world. The intertwining red lightning, the careless disregard, the almost-sneer the writhing bolts hold within them.

"But even it is no Void. It is not all-encompassing. It has its limit, as does everything else.

"And that is what makes the void so very difficult to grasp. Even in its simplest form, it's so impossibly vast and endless. Without doing a single thing at all, it will grow to become my strongest Path until it does what it does best and consumes me as well. However…"

A wild grin spread across Sylas' face, and for some reason, the old man across from him was inundated with the strongest of winds.

His wispy hairs blew back, a dance of copper and red-gold filling the skies.

"… I also realized something else very interesting, something else I've also been thinking about for a very long time.

"In order to be as all-encompassing as it is, the void must exist in all places. When Spacetime cracks and its folds give way, there exists the Void. When Rune Masters breach the final threshold and cross the barrier from Sparker to Creator, there exists the Void… "Between Runes, the smallest unit of measurement the universe allows for…

"There exists the Void."

The blasts of wind hit against the old man's face all the more. His eyes remained sharp, but glowing. Almost as though he was hanging on Sylas' every word, waiting for what he would say next.

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