Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 2378

Chapter 2378: Tether

Sylas felt the Will of Sloth immediately, dense enough that there was no mistaking what had just rolled across the Beast Heaven. The yawn carried more than sound, its pressure spreading through the surrounding stars with an oppressive laziness that seemed intent on convincing everything it touched that movement itself was unnecessary. Yet that wasn’t what made Sylas’ eyes narrow.

There was a tether.

His perception had changed in ways that were becoming increasingly difficult to separate from Rune Mastery itself, and the line of Will stretching through the distance stood out to him almost as clearly as an exposed Rune.

Will Manifestation, Will Smithing, Will Mastery, and even Will Priming were all concepts Sylas had understood before, but understanding their existence and understanding how they fit together were two entirely different matters.

Only after grasping what the Seeds represented had the larger structure finally clicked into place.

Will Priming had always made the connection obvious in hindsight. Rune Mastery had never been a discipline of cold symbols and lifeless constructs, since every Rune carried intent, meaning, emotion, and the imprint of whoever had created or used it.

People were no different, and the more Sylas understood both sides of that equation, the more obvious it became that twisting a Rune and twisting a Will relied on many of the same principles.

His Rune Mastery had silently crossed another boundary.

There had been no obvious change to the tier of his mastery. Instead, it felt like the first time he had learned how to properly use Fathomless Rune Mastery all over again, only now the thing spreading out before him wasn’t merely the structure of Runes, but the invisible network of Wills connecting everything together.

Yamero forcing an S-tier Efivara into Gogo’s attack should have been impossible by ordinary spatial logic. Yet Sylas had understood the Wills involved, identified their relationships, then allowed Yamero to exploit the weakest points between them.

Once the hierarchy tying Nosphaleen to the Efivara, Nosphaleen to Sylas, Yamero to the Hibernation Realm, and Gogo to the same old web became visible, space itself had almost become secondary.

Runes had emotions and people had emotions. The best way to force either one toward Sylas’ desired result was to understand exactly what made them move.

That was why he knew where the yawn had come from without needing to follow the sound.

The Will attached to it stretched directly toward Rhykan.

Sylas’ gaze sharpened further as more of the structure unfolded before him, and the next conclusion came almost immediately. Rhykan wasn’t simply using the Virtue of Sloth as a technique or carrying some passing affinity toward it.

The deeper Will tangled around Rhykan carried another presence, ancient enough and strange enough that Sylas recognized its nature before he could identify its exact shape. The moment he compared it to the familiar pressure of Slithering Madness, the answer became obvious.

Slovenly Madness.

Rhykan had somehow gotten an Arcane Madness under his control.

Sylas thought of Slithering Madness and felt the first real weight of the situation settle into place.

The Arcane Madnesses should all exist within roughly the same range of power, and even if the Serpentes held some superiority over other Beast lineages, the difference couldn’t be wide enough at this level to make Slovenly Madness irrelevant. That was especially true after everything Sylas had learned about how deeply the Serpentes had already been suppressed.

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