Genetic Ascension

Chapter 1429: Abyssal Echo

The Glyphspire Crucible was one of the rewards that Sylas received from his Quest in the Milky Way. Its abilities were still a bit vague to him, and though he had paid the little girl for an explanation, what he had gotten out of it wasnʼt as sharp and detailed as he would have liked.

According to the little girl, the Glyphspire Crucible was almost like a portal lab of sorts. Though it was called a Legacy Treasure, there wasnʼt an actual Legacy within it, because the point of its existence was to experiment and use it to craft a new Legacy.

Essentially, the Crucible, though it just seemed to be a small thimble, was actually like the clone of a body. You could map it onto the aspects and details of yourself, then play with the Layers of your body on it first to understand what paths would be best suited for you, what could work well, and what wouldnʼt work well.

Once things were perfected and everything was set in stone to your liking, or once the Glyphspire Crucible had run out of resources to change or be manipulated any more, then the Crucible could be absorbed into the body.

Once this happened, it could instantly graft what changes you caused to it onto your body, allowing the changes that took place to happen within yourself.

This way, you could skip all of the risks and problems associated with experimenting on your body. It was essentially Sylasʼ path toward having a Vipermancy Profession for himself, though with extra steps.

The trouble with the Crucible, though, was that it wasnʼt perfect—though nothing was.

The Crucible wasnʼt a perfect reflection of the body, and it wasnʼt easily able to account for things that made Sylas different. For example, if Sylas started creating a Legacy with the Serpent as a foundation, the Crucible would never be able to incorporate the Ape after the fact.

The Crucible could never account for the fact that Sylasʼ Will was broken compared to other F-tiers and that he could withstand the clashing of two different Beast Wills within himself.

This was just one example, but one could imagine that this could be repeated in all sorts of ways. The Crucible was also unable to replicate things like the Sin Seeds, or even Sylasʼ Spark Seed for that matter either.

It was highly limited and highly specialized in what it could do. It was useful, but Sylas really had no reason to use it until now.

Originally, Sylas thought of using it as a shortcut to comprehend his Archon Casting abilities and perfect his Spark Seed. Although to normal people, Time and Space didnʼt mix, that was obviously not the case in real life. The Crucible might be able to succeed because of that if Sylas manipulated some things.

But in the end, Sylas realized that if he relied on an external item for a comprehension like that, he would never be able to escape the system in the end.

So, the Crucible had sat there for a long while, collecting dust despite its shocking value until Sylas cleared the Abyssal Cathedral and gained a new treasure.

Sylas wanted to be able to use his Crucible to reforge the foundation of his body. If he could manage to find a worthy Legacy, then the weakness of his flesh especially could be turned around.

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But he had too many Wills within him, and trying to adjust for them all would never work.

He knew that it was possible to overcome such weaknesses, otherwise he would have never succeeded in fusing Time and Space like he had—at least at the F-Grade. But the path toward doing so wasnʼt obvious.

He wanted to use the Scorpion to elevate his Glassborn Cryst Emperor Gene Class, and the Ape to elevate his Chaotic Sovereign Gene Class, raising up both to completely change the foundation of his Physical and Mental Stats.

But how?

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[Abyssal Echo (Ungraded) (Void Class)]

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When Sylas saw this pop up as a reward, and his only reward for that matter, he was a bit taken aback, and then uncaring. Disappointment would probably be a pretty common emotion to feel at this point, but he had received a good Title from the Dungeon, so it wasnʼt a complete loss.

Obviously, he didnʼt have a third Class slot, and he wasnʼt about to give up two Legendary Gene Classes for a somewhat odd Void Class—whatever that was.

One might think that this changed after he learned what a Void Class was and what Abyssal Echo could do in specific, but actually, he grew even less interested after the fact—especially since he couldnʼt seem to pass this Void Class onto someone else.

A Void Class was more akin to a special Constitution than a Class. It didnʼt take up a Class Slot like other Classes did, and as such, Sylas didnʼt need to upgrade to a Tri Class Constitution to use it.

Abyssal Echo was a fascinating Void Class because what it could essentially do was split the body in two, transposing the two halves to exist in the exact same frame of time and space, but at a separate frequency or dimension.

Because of the way it worked, in exchange for halving the power of a Class, one could give each of these two halves a Class of their own, and essentially replicate a weaker version of the Dual Class Constitution.

Depending on your Time affinity, the nerfing of your two Classes could be mitigated, but according to the little girl, reflecting about 80% of the Classʼ original strength was about the peak of what you could do even with Sylasʼ talent in the matter.

If Abyssal Echo had been a Void Class with both Time and Space aspects, then with Sylasʼ talent, he would be able to replicate 100% of the two Classesʼ original strengths. But unfortunately, Abyssal Cathedral was a pure time-based Dungeon.

Plus… two Classes was the limit of Abyssal Echo, and Sylas already had a Dual Class Constitution, making the Void Class worthless to him…

Until he thought of the Crucible.