The explanation that Analei had given him couldn't have been simpler.
Someone with their Aether bound to their Will. Or, in other words...
Willborne Intelligence.
When Sylas saw this, he realized that he had no such thing. Was he really a Cryst Emperor? Or did he just have a convenient Class that allowed him to cosplay as one?
Maybe to say that he was cosplaying as a Cryst Emperor was correct, because his reliance on his Aether could be said to be quite pitiful. His use of his Aether went as far as activating his Skills and no further.
But when he was reading about this Salivar's battle achievements, every one spoke about him using his Aether as though it was an extension of his limb. In fact, he used his Aether a lot like how Sylas used his Will and telekinesis. There was a world of difference between the two of them in how they performed, even though, technically speaking, because Sylas was capable of crafting his own Aether from his Runes, he should be a far more flexible Cryst Emperor than Salivar.
But he wasn't.
'Willborne Intelligence... is there Willborne Wisdom? And if there is, why should it stop at Mental Stats alone? Is there Willborne Strength? Constitution? Dexterity? Speed? And how do I get it?'
Sylas' gaze flickered, and he chose to ask the Virtue Madness Key. However, the response he received was completely out of his expectations.
[The answers you search for are not available in this Heaven]
Sylas had never received such a response before. Had he touched on Taboos before? Yes, he had. But he had never seen the Madness Key say that it simply didn't know.
And from what this answer implied, it seemed that he would have to travel to other Heavens first before he could even learn.
But this made little sense to Sylas.
Wasn't this Heaven the Heaven of Will? That was supposed to be their strongest stat, from his layman's understanding of the Heavens and how they worked.
Why would he need to travel to another Heaven to find out how to bind something to his Will? Shouldn't the Will Heaven have every one of these answers?
Why didn't the Skai Heaven have all of the answers?
Sylas paused for a moment. The Skai Heaven should want you to focus on your Will. It sounded like binding all of your other stats to your Will should do exactly that. So why... 'Dao.'
A sudden thought interrupted everything else Sylas was considering. Without the need for the Madness Key's answer, he felt like he had come to the most accurate conclusion.
Willborne Charisma was something that he had gained as a function of his Will progressing forward. Of all the stats, Will and Charisma were the most tightly bound to begin with. Naturally, Willborne Charisma was probably the easiest of them all to gain.
That was to say that even subconsciously, so long as Sylas reached a certain threshold, he was bound to gain Willborne Charisma.
However, the other stats would be far more complicated. He couldn't just stumble into them, he needed something to guide them.
What was interesting about this conclusion was the details behind what led him to gain Willborne Charisma in the first place. Yes, it was because his Will had progressed to a new level. A Marked Will, to be specific.


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