Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 1175

Chapter 1175: Rewards (12)

Sylas almost felt like it was... too easy.

One of the first abilities he had ever gained from his Progenitor Flame Ability was slowing down his perception. Using it, he was able to think far faster than those around him.

Since the first few times he had relied on that, he hadn’t had to since. The problem now was that his brain was already too fast, but his reactions couldn’t keep up. Using that Progenitor Flame Ability now felt like he was wasting Will for no reason.

He was already too superior to his enemies, and his body was too weak by comparison, so it was a land of diminishing returns.

So, his first thought was just to apply that to his Runes instead.

Slowing his perception didn’t really help much with his Runes because everything else still needed to move. But his Progenitor Flame Abilities had evolved several times since the last. However, more importantly than that, Sylas understood the relationship between Runes and the Mesh of Reality far more now than he ever did in the past.

And then there was the elephant in the room...

He hadn’t reached Rune Spark back then.

Because of that, everything opened up to him in ways he didn’t expect.

It was almost too easy.

Time warped around his Runes, and suddenly Strokes seemed to pop into existence all on their own. The time manipulation was on such a small scale that it was easy.

The connection between Sylas’ mind and the Runes was so solid now that abilities that were once kept to his mind alone truly extended to his Runes.

Before, it was just a proxy change. Because his mind was working faster, he could thus draw Runes a little faster than usual. But now, he was actually influencing the Runes, forcing them into existence at a much faster pace.

All of a sudden, he was drawing Runes at double the speed, then triple. It wasn’t until he was nearing five times his usual speed that he actually began to feel the slightest hint of fatigue and then turned to something else.

It was just the slightest hint of fatigue. He knew that he could push harder, go further. It was just that he was bored of it. He wanted to save his stamina to experiment more, ignoring the pinging of his completed Destiny Quests.

When he turned to Spatial Casting, the first thing he did was actually something quite complex—far more complex than what he had done with Chrono Casting.

The idea of quantum mechanics was still in his mind, and then he recalled the first instant of Rune drawing he had ever done. Or rather, the first good Rune drawing he had done.

He remembered being in the Rune Visualization Secret Realm when he learned to ’stamp’ Runes. Instead of drawing out every little curve and line, he visualized the entire Rune, and then stamped it into place.

Sylas wondered, what would happen if he tied two locations in space together through a node of some sort? If he did that, and stamped down in one location, forcing another location to take on the exact same shape, would he be able to draw the same exact Rune twice with a single effort?

Of course, it would cost more Will, but the time saved...

As the thought was forming, Sylas was already acting.

He stamped once and found that he was a bit off, but he was already pinged for success as though the Destiny Quest felt that the effort to do something so complicated was already more than good enough to prove him.

But Sylas only measured himself by his own success, so he once again ignored it and tried again.

This time he was closer, but still a bit off.

’Success...’