Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 1481

[Bonus thanks to Sithaari. You're all lucky the eagles won yesterday, otherwise I would have made you bastards wait for another day while I grieved] Sylas stood with his arms crossed. Down below, there was a desert plain with raging storms plowing across their surface, but Sylas wasn't paying much attention to it. Instead, he was looking at the complex Rune across from him.

100 Foundation Runes were much simpler than Genes, which were a complex mesh of Runes far more complex than even his Scorpion Warlord Armor. However, they were stil special in a way that was hard to describe.

Since this was his first time seeing one he didn't personally create, he found it fascinating.

Earlier, he had run into a 94 Foundation Aether as a reward that he—for obvious reasons —didn't end up using. This 100 Foundation Rune wasn't bound with Aether and didn't seem to be a reward meant to trigger a change in one's Aether quality. Though, there was no reason you couldn't use it like this.

“An Elemental Sand Rune..."

Sylas' eyes flashed and he saw tidbits of something else within, the very same progression path his Glass Runes had once had.

This Elemental Sand Rune carried aspects of time within. If it was used, the sand could be used to accelerate erosion. If used as an Aether, it could considerably weaken an enemy's attention or be used as an attack itself. It sucked away lifeforce and crushed enemies as though locking them away in quicksand.

Back in the Africor Continent, Sylas had come across a chance to deviate down this path, but he had then run into the Glass Monkey which made things redundant.

Running into it again like this was interesting.

Sylas, of course, had no pressing need for this Rune. But that didn't mean it was useless to him.

He had been slowly building up a profile of Runes of Time and Space that he could use in battle, and this one could be added to his abilities.

So long as it was a Rune he could draw, there was no reason for him not to use it.

After analyzing it for a long while, Sylas tossed it into the Madness Key and moved on. As powerful of a Rune Master as he was, he couldn't just pluck ideas out from thin air. The more powerful the Rune, the more life experience he needed to produce it. He didn't have a Sand Elemental affinity or anything of the sort to study, so he would never be able to recreate this Rune on his own.

But now that he had it to study, it was a different matter entirely.

Almost there. It should be here.

Sylas had been pressing forward toward Gogo's evolutionary chance all the while, and he had finally reached his destination.

He pressed a hand against the wall of invisible Aether and slipped right through.

The first thing he heard was the hissing. Almost like a choir, a symphony-like harmony of raging beasts.

But as quickly as they started was about as quickly as they came to a sudden and forceful stop.

Sylas had no need to even summon his Beast Totem. All of the Serpentes in the rainforest of carnivorous plants and creatures before him fell into complete silence. Through the foliage, countless eyes looked back at him, each one flickering with fear and subservience.

Sylas scanned them one by one and then walked forward.

These Serpentes were truly powerful. Even the weakest of them had stats averaging around a quarter of a million.

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