Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 2461

Chapter 2461: Foreign

Sylas remained beneath the pillar of light for a long while after dismissing the Vipermancy screen, his attention shifting away from the Profession and back toward the larger problem surrounding him.

The Seven Thryskai God Clans weren’t going to disappear simply because the System had branded them enemies, and if anything, the announcement had probably made the situation more dangerous in the short term.

Powers that had spent generations hiding behind rules, politics, and distance would have fewer reasons to remain patient now, while the rest of the universe had just been handed both justification and incentive to tear them apart.

So how was he supposed to deal with that?

The answer came quickly enough that Sylas almost found the question unnecessary. He would deal with it the same way he always did, by understanding himself better than everyone else understood him, then using that difference to force open a path no one had prepared for.

His attention settled inward, eventually coming to rest on the change that had made the latter half of his battle against Judgment possible.

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[Voidborn Wisdom]

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Sylas’ brow furrowed as he looked at the words again, because the more he thought about them, the stranger the evolution became.

For a long time, he had believed that Willborn Wisdom was within reach, sometimes so close that one final realization felt like it should have been enough to push him over the threshold, only for something else to interrupt him before that happened.

A battle would pull his attention elsewhere, some new revelation about his Will or Classes would appear, or a larger problem would demand that he abandon the thought entirely.

He had treated those moments as coincidence. Now, that explanation felt increasingly weak.

If Willborn Wisdom had truly been within reach all this time, why had Judgment forced him into something completely different instead? Why, when his mind had been stripped down far enough that there was almost nothing left to rely on, had the result been Voidborn Wisdom rather than the evolution he had expected for so long?

There was only one answer Sylas could find, and he didn’t like it.

He had never been close to Willborn Wisdom at all.

The problem wasn’t that his Wisdom had failed to connect with his Will. It was that Sylas didn’t understand enough of his own Wisdom for such a connection to mean much in the first place, and Voidborn Wisdom might have been his own existence informing him of that fact in the most insulting way possible.

Sylas had always considered self-understanding one of his greatest advantages. Other people could hide their intentions, organizations could bury their goals beneath generations of structure, and even the System could conceal mechanisms behind layers of abstraction, but Sylas had always believed that if he turned that same attention inward, there was very little about himself that remained beyond his grasp.

Apparently, he had been wrong. Worse, he hadn’t been wrong by a small margin.

Voidborn Wisdom wasn’t telling him that he was missing a few pieces or that there were corners of his mind he had yet to explore. The existence of the evolution itself implied that the portion of his Wisdom he could consciously access was so incomplete that, compared to the whole, it might as well have been nothing.

That realization sat poorly with him. He had functionally become capable of understanding nothingness because he was incompetent at understanding himself.

The thought was almost absurd enough to be funny, but Sylas didn’t feel much humor in it.

Once he stopped bristling at the implication, though, the mechanics became easier to see. Voidborn Wisdom didn’t actually broaden his Wisdom in the way Willborn Wisdom should have. It didn’t place the entirety of that Stat beneath his Will or allow him to consciously push, shape, and extend it. Instead, it removed the gaps between the leaps his mind would otherwise have been forced to make.

If Sylas could understand point A and point C, but lacked the Wisdom necessary to naturally build every step between them, Voidborn Wisdom allowed that missing space to stop mattering. The absence itself became something his mind could cross, allowing him to accept a conclusion without requiring every intermediate piece to be present first.

That was exactly why Myriad Intuition had changed so much.

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