Genetic Ascension

Chapter 2095: That Way

In order to do what he wanted, Sylas would have to raise his Classes to the next level, allowing them to elevate his bodyʼs Layers until they were able to withstand the might of the D-tier.

His understanding of his own body and his Layers were to the point he could literally reconstruct it from the ground up. But the act of actually evolving had to be done through this bridge.

Sylas wasnʼt yet at the point that he had evolved beyond Classes, but once again, he felt like his current Classes simply didnʼt suit the current him. Often, he used his Classes more so for the convenience of their individual Skills at any given time, but the thing was that his Rune Mastery was so powerful at this point that it felt worthless to try and use Skills when he could probably think of a Rune on the spot that would be more effective.

The irony of all of this was that not long ago, he had been very worried about his Skill Mastery lagging behind, so much so he was actually about as happy as he ever could be about something like this when his Runeweaver Profession evolved, allowing him to see the Runes in everything.

But then not long afterward his Rune Mastery reached Fathomless and he could now see the Runes in everything anyway.

Granted, it was still less taxing to simply use the Runeweaver Eyes as the bridge and his Rune Mastery as the foundation upon which it increased its efficiency. But still. There was very little in the world that Sylas couldnʼt break down into its Rune components if he could already do the same for his body.

This was to say…

How could he improve his Classes to the D-tier in such a way that he didnʼt overhaul them, and yet still made them more conducive to his current strength and combat style?

That was an extremely difficult question to answer especially since he didnʼt have much momentum or evolutionary energy left to play with.

Glassborn Cryst Emperor was formed of the Skills: Glassvolt Throne, Glassvolt Prism Arts, and Glassvolt Shift.

For Chaotic Sovereign, it was: Primal Gut, Primal Step, Chaotic Menace, and Primal Fury.

For the former, the most useful ability to Sylas was definitely Glassvolt Throne. To use it to quickly comprehend a world, and thus allow him to impose his Will onto it with greater ease, was something with a value that didnʼt need to be explained.

But Glassvolt Prism Arts, which basically just gave him the ability to quickly form and control Glassvolt Aether, was… meh. He could hardly remember the last time he used it in battle.

He used a little bit of its principles when he shot lasers of lightning out of his eyes, but even that only used a very small segment of it.

To really maximize the Gene Class Form, you could imagine someone forging armors of Glassvolt, wielding or controlling sword formations formed of the Aether, and changing the landscape of entire battlefields into icy cold and stormy hell scapes.

Sylas could easily imagine doing something like that, and considering his Rune Mastery had allowed him to easily progress the Gene Class Form to Progenitor Mastery, he could easily execute it too.

It was just that it was a lot of wasted energy and time for something he never really needed to do.

Glassvolt Shift was even more useless. It was a movement Skill that allowed him to become Glassvolt. Technically speaking, at the highest levels, you could use it defensively, you could use it as a healing method, and you could use it for movement.

You could imagine forging a hell scape with Glassvolt Prism Arts, and then using Glassvolt Shift to randomly appear across your area of effect, creating an effect as instant as teleportation and just as random. In fact, it might be a small bit better than just teleportation itself because you could do well to hide the intention of where you planned to appear next. But… Sylas had spacetime. It was hard to imagine a better movement method.

In Sylasʼ opinion, Chaotic Sovereign was actually the far more useful Class to him. For one, the Chaos Aether he grasped from it was more in tune with his space and time abilities. Most of its Abilities were also things that he couldnʼt easily replicate with Runes.

Primal Gut, for example, was a huge help in aiding him to digest the food of Earth, and Primal Fury was quite unique in how well it tapped into the Sin of Wrath without actually doing it. But Sylas never used the latter because it was often more beneficial for him to keep a cool head than to give up his calm in favor of more strength.

If he was at the point in a battle where he needed to go berserk in order to win, the little bit of extra power Primal Fury would give him wasnʼt worth whatever genius plan he could concoct while he was calm.

On top of all the problems here, the two Classes didnʼt synergize well at all.

Sure, one of them was designed for more long ranged combat while the other was designed for more close ranged combat, but beyond that sort of weakness balancing aspect, there was no other way they complemented each other.

And if Sylas was going to add a third Class to the mix, he couldnʼt exactly continue like this.

He had been thinking about this problem for a long while, but he had thought that he would just have to deal with it. Even Extricate couldnʼt remove a Class, it was too well ingrained into every Layer of the body. That was why Classes were so important.

Sylas actually already had a plan for the direction he wanted to go, but funny enough, this time, he didnʼt have the energy to go all the way. So he actually needed a new plan for the short term.

ʼIn that case… letʼs do it that way…ʼ