Genetic Ascension

Chapter 1786: Life and Death Seal

Sylas had access to a full array of information about Reaper Sealwright. It felt like he was given the same scope of understanding he had about his Serpent Contracts, but instead about this very Profession... Except it was somehow far more complicated than that—even in comparison to Gogoʼs origins.

It was no wonder even he hadnʼt fully wrapped his head around Reaper Sealwright and its Life and Death Seals. Even after having it for so long, and using them in battle several times, it was still at Level O for a reason.

In the time Sylas had had Reaper Sealwright, he had used the Life Seal to shatter bodies and give birth to new talents in others. He knew that he could use them to both observe and undo Gene Locks, and he could use it to draw and form Gene Locks as well.

In fact, if he had mastered Reaper Sealwright, he probably would have taken action to seal away his Grimblade ClanʼsGenes as well. After all, they were now a valuable A-tier Race who was infinitely close to Demi-Godhood.

But he hadnʼt though not for the reasons one would think. It just wasnʼt worth the effort quite yet. No one capable of even seeing a Reaper Seal would be interested in the Grimbladeʼs lineage. They might be an A-tier Race, but they had no future path until Sylas laid it out first.

The ultimate truth of it all was that the Profession was far too complex, and that had probably made this whole process far more dangerous than if Sylas had picked another target... but it was also precisely because it would be so dangerous that Sylas picked it.

If it wasnʼt at least this complicated, why would he put himself in such a precarious situation to deal with it?

And now that he was looking at the information he gained, sorting it and truly making it his own... he realized that he had made the right decision.

The definition of the Life Seal and Death Seal was exactly as Faneleiʼs spirit had said back then. The Life Seal dealt with all things in the living world, and the Death Seal worked with all things in the dead.

The thing was that the ”dead” didnʼt just refer to corpses. It instead referred to fallen bloodlines and previous mutations and states.

Essentially, even if Sylas took out Salivarʼs corpse from his ring right this moment-or any of the other corpses he had collected out of interest—he would still need to use the Life Seal on the vast majority of them.

Why? Because the bloodlines that birthed them were very much still in existence today.

However, all of this was less important than the core truth-and probably the reason the Sloth wanted Reaper Sealwright in the first place.

Sealwright Professions were incredibly rare, but there were still massive divisions between them. Each SealwrightProfession had what was known as a Seal Legacy. But this Seal Legacy wasnʼt like any Rune Language.

A Seal Legacy was a single Seal, a very special sort of Mesh of Runes that was best thought of as a Key. And this Key-how superb it was at opening up and locking certain doors—was decided by how powerful the Seal Legacy

was.

Once you had a Sealwright Profession, unless you abandoned it to join the path of another, the power of this Key was always predetermined.

What level of Genes it could work with, how powerful its Gene Locks were, or what special auxiliary abilities it had, was all decided right from the highly beginning.

This was what made Sealwright Professions so incredibly powerful. Unlike other Professions that had steady progression through the levels, a Sealwright Professionʼs power was basically very stringent within tiers.

The reason Sylas had been able to use Life Seal to deal huge, near-death blows to Amende was because of this. In all honesty, during that battle, even he hadnʼt expected such a large effect. But just by applying Life Seal like a cancer, he had triggered the most ill effects of Amendeʼs wild bloodline.

What made that especially potent was the fact that Sylas had only been able to use the F-tier aspects of Life Seal... if he had been in the E-tier, maybe he could have made Amende explode on the spot.

The most basic Seal Legacies could only lock and unlock Genes. What happened afterward had nothing to do with the Profession, and it could be said that over 90% of Sealwright Professions fell into this category.

Within the top 10%, another 90% of them would have another powerful slate of abilities. Here, you might be able to use the Seal Legacies for faster comprehension of a Gene. In fact, most of the Creation Rune Masters the Ancestors of the Seeing Eye Guild knew of relied on methods like this one to learn how to draw Genes in the first place.

As one might imagine, such Professions were incredibly rare and well guarded.

But even then, there was still the top percentile of Sealwright Professions remaining.

This top percentile of Sealwright Professions didnʼt just lock and unlock, and they didnʼt just observe and boost comprehension of creation either...

They acted.

Some of these Professions could be insidious, cursing entire bloodlines. Some did the opposite, finding paths for them to improve and flourish, accelerating the pace with which people of a certain Clan could grow and evolve.

But then there were those like Reaper Sealwright.

This Profession wasnʼt just in the top percentile. It was in the 99th percentile of this 99th percentile, and this was just based on its Life Seal alone.

Its Death Seal... Sylas seemed to have underestimated far too much.

The Death Seal-it might very well be better called the Seal of Fallen Possibilities.

It didnʼt just see dead bloodlines, but also dead possibilities. It could force a Gene into a state of mutation it had once abandoned, forcing it onto another path. It could force two Genes that were entirely incompatible to fuse into one. It could erase the possibility of a Gene ever appearing elsewhere-essentially signing the death of a Gene to anyone but a singular family... a concept that sounded all too familiar. It could snatch the Luck of a bloodline and take it for your own.

But maybe the one ability Sylas couldnʼt seem to take his eyes off of was the first...

To be able to force a Gene into a path that had already fallen to death...

Didnʼt that mean that the Death Seal could reverse mistakes you had once made in your own bloodline and foundation?