Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 1497

Chapter 1497: Emotions

The sudden attack Sylas was expecting didn't come. Instead, he found himself in a hexagonal room of complete, pitch black.

'Oh?' Sylas raised an eyebrow.

The room was much smaller than the territories on the above floors.

Before, they were at least kilometers wide. But this room was small enough that Sylas could very clearly make out its shape.

That said, it was still about a hundred meters wide at its largest width, uniformly across all six sides. However, it had no obvious entrance or exit.

Sylas moved toward one of the walls and pressed a hand against it, but unexpectedly, his map didn't help him to pass through with ease like it normally did.

On top of that, even though his Visualization Range had extended far enough to see hundreds of kilometers, his map only showed him this singular room he was in.

There seemed to only be two possibilities. Either he was trapped, or there was a puzzle here.

Feeling the grooves in the rough wall with his palm and fingers, Sylas was pretty sure that it was the latter.

The walls felt like they had been forged out of cast iron, and looked the part as well. When you touched it, patterns hidden in the wall, not obvious usually, only became so.

'Hm...'

Sylas' eyes sharpened, and the restraints he put on his Tier Three Eyes lessened considerably. All of a sudden, he couldn't just feel the patterns, he could see them.

The moment he did, he saw a familiar notification that he hadn't experienced in all too long.

[Your Will has been influenced]

[-1 Will (Temporary)]

Sylas' eyes flashed.

[Your Will has resisted]

[+1 Will]

The last time Sylas had seen that notification... he had been in the Slithering Madness Dungeon, the very first Dungeon he had ever entered.

How long had it been since then? It truly felt like a lifetime ago.

Back then, he had gotten that notification because he was studying the patterns of the serpents on the barrier blocking his exit.

Now that he thought about it, that was probably also his first interaction with Runes.

'My first... interaction with... Runes?'

Sylas stood there in silence for a long while, his eyes completely lost.

There hadn't been a single Rune that day. He had watched those serpents, some of them dancing, some of them mating, some of them roaring to the skies with menace and fury.

But there hadn't been a single Rune.

So why had he said that that had been his first interaction with Runes?

Logically, it made sense. It was a barrier, and those barriers should be formed of Runes. There was no such thing as a barrier formed without one... Or was that truly the case?

Back in the last Dungeon Sylas entered in the Milky Way Galaxy, he had felt the life of Runes, their emotions. Nowadays, whenever he used Runes, he could feel how happy and obedient they were. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

They were always happy to see him, to be used by him, to be one with him.

The more he learned about Runes, the more that line between Runes and Life became.

They were one and the same.

Sylas pressed his palm against the wall and his Will poured into it.

Chi.

The wall began to spin and it was suddenly opened wide.

[Territory Cleared]

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