Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 2448

Chapter 2448: Unchanged (2)

Sylas looked up at the heart again as the Greed Seed pulsed within him, and the ridiculousness of what he had chosen became clearer rather than less so. Even so, the original Scorpion and Keyesen’s imperfect reconstruction had already shown him the only path that made sense.

He extended a hand and drew blood from the enormous heart, a river of crimson tearing free before his telekinesis compressed it into a dense stream. Rather than absorb any of it, Sylas wrapped the blood in Fathomless Runes and used the original Scorpion as a reference while the Greed Seed acted as a check against every structural change he tested.

If a new arrangement reproduced more of the heart’s complete Will while remaining compatible with the Greed Seed’s successful approximation, Sylas retained it. If the relationship drifted too far from either side, he discarded it, allowing thousands of potential configurations to form and collapse within his mind every few breaths.

The first architecture that survived his tests lasted less than a second before Sylas destroyed it himself.

It still treated him like a Spirit Beast.

That was unacceptable.

The Spirit Beast Race placed Race beneath Beast Will, creating a neutral substrate capable of supporting whichever inherited mode rose above it. Sylas couldn’t use the same arrangement, because placing Dragon and Phoenix directly above his Race would eventually allow one of them to become synonymous with what that Race was.

He needed another layer beneath both.

His own identity had to become the invariant state, the reference configuration every transformation returned to regardless of what happened above it. Not Pride, Greed, Lust, Human Simioid, or even Eternal Will treated as an isolated power, but Sylas Grimblade as the fixed answer around which everything else was allowed to change.

The moment that thought settled, his three Classes responded almost without prompting. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

Willborne Crown moved first, its Runes spreading through every Layer of Sylas’ body while establishing authority rather than changing anything directly. It marked every vessel, Gene, organ, and deeper Rune structure as something beneath Sylas’ control, creating the central reference point the Dragon and Phoenix modes would eventually be forced to acknowledge.

Selfwrought Emperor followed by mapping what existed now with merciless precision. Bone density, nerve pathways, blood vessels, organs, Genes, and every Rune hidden within them unfolded before Sylas until his entire body became a structure he could read at once rather than a collection of separate systems.

Normally, Selfwrought Emperor rebuilt him toward the best version of what he already was. This time, Sylas gave it permission to forget that answer.

Pain arrived almost immediately as Rune pathways along his arms split apart, blood lifting into the air beneath telekinetic control before it could fall. His bones cracked deeper within him when the structures dictating their current shape loosened, while Void Sovereign opened controlled gaps between what Sylas had been and what he intended to become.

Selfwrought Emperor rebuilt within those openings, and Willborne Crown decided what changes were permitted to survive.

Sylas coughed blood as the three processes began tearing through him in concert, but his attention remained on the relationship between the Greed Seed and the Scorpion heart. The source and approximation stayed overlaid in his Runeweaver Eyes, allowing him to measure exactly how much variation a Race could endure while still reproducing the Will it was meant to carry.

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