Genetic Ascension

Chapter 2006: Go [Bonus]

[Bonus thanks to Eeshoo. I hear heʼs promised to pay the college tuition of everyone who comments on this post AND their first born. What a generous man.] Veins popped across their necks, humiliation thick in their eyes, but they knew well that their lives were no longer in their hands. There was nothing that they could do.

Sylas was too strong.

Fighting against him when he was far weaker than you felt like you were facing the most elite of chess masters. When you fought against him and his strength was close enough... It felt like you were handing your life to him on a platter.

A telekinesis that strong at the mere E-tier... what sort of power would he have when he became a D-tier? Would there even be an A-tier capable of dealing with him?

But what was the point of all of this? Just to prove he could do it?

Sylas exhaled a breath and the domain around them collapsed. Beads of sweat covered his forehead, his breathing coming out just the slightest bit labored.

Using two Comprehensions at the same time was definitely taxing. He thought the only strain would be his Will, but he was highly wrong. His blood had to pump twice as fast, his muscles were pulled in twice as many directions, and even his Aether was a bit erratic and he had to turn his attention toward forcing it to stay calm.

In the world of Genes, even Comprehensions werenʼt just things you understood in the mind. They caused fundamental changes to your body.

To use a Comprehension meant aligning all of your bodyʼs biology to exert its influence.

To try and use two Comprehensions at the same time would quite literally stretch you thin.

Sylas strained so much with just two, how much time would he be able to sustain three?

ʼBut the concept is true. It works. Because the Virtue Seeds are just vessels of Will. They tune your Will to a specific frequency, anchoring it, thus allowing each one to represent any given Comprehension at one time.ʼ

Sylas had Infinite Will. Why couldnʼt he just assign each one of his splits to a different thought process and do it that way?

He had tried to do this already, but the problem with his Infinite Will was that every time he portioned it, it was still him. Even when he formed a clone, it had no independent thoughts. Its thoughts were his thoughts and its thoughts were his own.

Less than a ”clone”, it was more like Sylas was just copying and pasting himself. Even if his main body ”died”, he would continue living just the same.

However, what the Seeds allowed him to do was tweak the frequency of those thoughts, allowing them to focus on slightly different things at the same time.

When they came together, he was thus able to sustain more than one Comprehension at the same time.

The Seeds... they were snippets of Will. That was what Sylas had concluded.

Each one was the best representation of a living beingʼs attempt to recreate Will there was.

Sylas could perfectly craft a human corpse, but it would have no life or value to it, not without Will. But even with his Rune Mastery, he couldnʼt create Will, and thus he couldnʼt create Life.

But the Seeds... they were the closest thing there was.

As a result, with three of them in his body, it was like he could trick himself, the system, and the universe itself into thinking that there were actually three of him.

And because they were Virtues and not Sins, there would be no drawbacks to letting them take the reins and guide portions of his Will in this way. Of course with the Virtue of Pride at the helm.

The result?

Well, he was fairly sure that he could use three Comprehensions with ease now... and he didnʼt need to split his personality like Salivar had been forced to.

He had crafted the perfect method without drawbacks.

Who cared if it strained him more than usual? The ability to use Telekinetic Martial Arts and Mixed Chaotic Arts at the same time allowed him to tap into power that could fight toe to toe with some of the strongest existences beneath the B-tier... And that was before he used his third Comprehension.

What this method was lacking, though, was a more permanent existence.

Right now, Sylas could only use this for intangible things. He still couldnʼt gain a third Class.

If he wanted to do that, he would have to evolve the Lust and Greed Seeds until they burst and dispersed into his body, truly fusing with him like the Virtue Pride Seed had done.

When that day entered, Sylas wouldnʼt just be able to add a third Class... he would be able to add a fourth.

He already had two Classes. So why would he be limited to just three?

The day for the Lust Seed was likely very close already. It was the Greed Seed that would be the tricky one.

But Sylas would deal with those problems as they came.

What he really needed to decide right now was whether he should speed run a path to the Demi-God Realm or if there was something worth staying in the Mortal Realm for.

And his answer would be right before him.

”What do you want from us...” Riqo finally managed to wheeze out.

”If Iʼm correct, there will be war that breaks out.”

Riqoʼs gaze flickered with confusion. Sylas had just spent so long trying to convince them that war wasnʼt coming Novel Pub

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”However, it will be limited to the Mortal Realm. The thing is, thatʼs not good enough for me. I will need it to spill out onto the Demi-God Plane. So, the Buri and Sona will help me.”

”... What?” Riqo was speechless.

Was Sylas serious? What the hell was he saying?

”But just asking wonʼt allow things to work out. Instead, it will be you that comes to me. After the events of today, youʼll soon realize that I am the only one that can help you.”

The chains around Riqo and Ziel vanished.

Sylas let them go.