Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 1187

Chapter 1187: Hollow

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[Fractal Marrow Root (???) (Consumable Treasure)]

[Sacrifice to trigger upgrade in Mount or Combat Mount, or turn beast into Mount or Combat Mount]

[Mutate or replace Aether affinity] freeweɓnovel.cøm

[Improve Grade to ???]

[Note: Function of Consumable Treasure will depend on the Gene Constitution of target beast. More control will be granted depending on Brand Grade]

[Uses Left: 1/1]

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Sylas’ eyes narrowed when he saw this. It looked as though the Symbiote portion of everything had been completely wiped out. It hadn’t survived the procedure.

However, Sylas didn’t feel like this was a huge loss. In fact, he had expected it to happen.

Messing around with a Treasure was one thing. Messing around with life, even if it was a parasite, was a completely different matter. There were too many changes being forced onto it. But the important part was that the aspects he was looking for were still there. Which meant...

Sylas opened a palm and a seed appeared.

"... You’re not going to use that, are you?"

"Why? Do you have some words of wisdom for me?" Sylas asked.

"... No," the little girl eventually said.

It was an interesting response. Not that he couldn’t afford it, but instead just... no.

"You know this seed is from a B-tier Race. They call it the Seeing Thorn. When I was in the maze, I didn’t see just one of these seeds, but almost countless. In fact, they were so numerous that this seed in particular was actually lodged in Gogo’s body."

Back then, Gogo had been skewered almost too many ways, the thorns of the Seeing Thorn ripping him to near shreds. The seeds were actually so numerous that this had popped up in Sylas’ Hibernation Realm.

Normally, this wouldn’t be a big deal. In fact, there was far more than just one seed that appeared there. But what was curious was...

Basically all of those seeds died.

By the time Sylas noticed what had happened—a bit distracted by all the people trying to take his head—this was the only seed left.

It must have been some sort of evolutionary mechanism. The Seeing Thorn pumped out a ton of seeds, maybe most of them being decoys, or maybe they just had a low chance of survival in general.

But this one managed to make it through the accelerated growth of the Hibernation Realm.

In the past, the Hibernation Realm definitely couldn’t allow other things to benefit from it. But even before reaching the E Grade, Sylas’ Hibernation Realm had evolved. Not only did it allow Gogo to freely step in and out as he pleased...

It was just a tiny bit more flexible with what it allowed to benefit from its accelerated healing.

Still, despite the fact this Seed had been in there and had experienced the equivalent of thousands upon thousands of years of nutrition and germination, nothing happened. Clearly, it needed another sort of trigger to be born.

But Sylas had exactly zero interest in growing a Seeing Thorn. What he wanted was a Mount, not a beast anchored to a single planet.

And given how many enemies he had, and how many were likely to come for him in the future, he didn’t really care about the Petals of the Seeing Thorn’s reaction to all of this either.

So, he pressed the Fractal Marrow Root and the seed together. As expected, they took to one another quickly, the Wood aspects of the Symbiote that remained lingering helping them to mesh into one, while the Seeing Thorn Seed’s devouring capabilities were just barely strong enough to allow this fusion—but not strong enough to overwhelm the Fractal Marrow Root.

Then, Sylas threw it at the peacock after doing just one more thing...

’Show me.’

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