As ready as Sylas felt he was, the process was even more complicated than he thought it would be.
Truthfully, he knew that nothing like this could possibly be simple. Even with his talent in Rune Mastery, the best thing he had ever done in regard to his body was form a Gene Talent for himself. However, even then, not only had he had a template to work with and references to draw from, but he had the foundation of a broken one in his body as well.
It could be said that Sylas had never formally created something worthy of being acknowledged by the system except for his Glassvolt Poison Rune.
However, even then, he had yet to draw his Glassvolt Poison Rune to 100% Mastery. He had just managed to form a Rune with 100 Foundations, which was just as impressive, of course—but not the same.
That said, Sylas was sure that he could draw it to 100% Mastery now. The problem then was that everything else would be so simple.
The good news was that Sylas didn’t believe he actually had to draw anything of the sort right now. He just had to guide the evolutions. The bits and pieces from his Raw Template and his new Gene Classes were already within him; he just had to arrange them properly.
Unfortunately, that was where all the good news ended. It felt like there were simply way too many things to balance.
For one, Gene Classes were great and powerful. But having two of them that weren’t necessarily compatible wasn’t nearly as great as it seemed.
Luckily, Chaotic Sovereign and Glassborn Crystal Emperor weren’t polar opposites. In fact, they had differing strengths.
Chaotic Sovereign was more rooted in the bone and muscle, while Glassborn Crystal Emperor was more Mental- and Will-based. They didn’t have reason to clash and negate one another.
However, the body wasn’t as simple as having such strict and well-thought-out divisions. All stats fed into one another, and there was always bound to be overlap—even if it wasn’t as much overlap as it might have otherwise been in a worst-case scenario.
The second issue was his Seeds. A lot like his Classes, his Seeds were spread throughout all the many Layers of his body, and each one seemed to want to interact with his Gene Classes.
His Gluttony Seed seemed especially enamored with Glassborn Crystal Emperor.
Sylas vaguely understood that this was because of the overlaps Gluttony had with Greed, and now, of the two Paths of Glass, he had taken the selfish path. Due to this, the synergy between Glassborn Crystal Emperor and his Gluttony Seed was actually quite high.
His True Pride Seed, however, was always attempting to latch onto both.
Whether it was his Simioid or Glass Gene Class, both of them had aspects of Sovereignty his True Pride Seed couldn’t get enough of.
The Lust Seed’s actions were a bit more subtle, but it seemed to pull on the Chaotic Sovereign Class more as well. There was something particularly feral and bestial about the Chaotic Sovereign Class that spoke to Lust in ways the others didn’t.
If it were just this, maybe there would be a balance, but his Seeds weren’t satisfied with this alone.
Gluttony might have liked Glassborn Crystal Emperor more, but Chaotic Simioid literally came fitted with [Primal Gut], a Gene Skill directly designed to help facilitate digestion and consumption. How could Gluttony not love such a thing?
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