Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 122

Chapter 122 Deterrence

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'Comprehend…' Sylas' eyes narrowed. Did this mean that he could read the Basilisk King's thoughts? But wasn't it an unintelligent creature? Or was it the case that, due to Aether, these beasts had already evolved beyond that point?

He turned toward the Basilisk King, who had remained curled up in a ball all this while. He realized that even in the darkness of the night, he could practically "feel" the Basilisk King's presence.

'Hm?'

Sylas didn't hear words when he moved his intention toward using Insight. Rather, he felt waves of emotions as though he were feeling them for himself.

Fear. Anxiety. Hunger.

Those were the three biggest ones, but there was another that was the undercurrent of them all. It was much more complex and harder to summarize in a single world, but Sylas felt that it was…

Embarrassment.

'I see… So it can't talk, but I can anthropomorphize it…'

After feeling around for a bit longer, Sylas felt that he had gotten the hang of it.

He called up the Basilisk King's Gene Sequence and almost immediately shut it close.

'…'

His mind was blank. He truly didn't know what to think for a moment. He hadn't known what he really expected, but he thought that it would be something simpler, at the very least.

Until now, Genes were all so straightforward and simple. You killed a beast and you plucked them out. But…

It was only now he realized just what the Madness Key had meant by the fact that the system simplified things, because in the one case it didn't, his mind was almost overloaded.

And he also understood why the system had called it by a term he had yet to see until now.

The Gene Sequence was almost blindingly literal. Just now, he had seen a spiralling staircase of DNA, strung out into what felt like infinity.

Sylas' doctorate had heavily relied on mRNA, so he was quite familiar with how complex these matters got. But breaking down a sequence based on somewhat known scientific methods, with the help of computers to process large amounts of data, was one matter… but this was an entirely different ballgame.

What was he supposed to do? Read it? How could you even begin to analyze a string of data this large?

Sylas shook his head. After he got past the overload of information, he didn't panic. In fact, he was quite certain that he would be able to find a solution.

This system was so impossibly beyond anything mankind had ever created. Wouldn't they have methods far beyond what he had grown used to? In that case, with these Paths in hand, and some background knowledge to rely on, what did he have to fear?

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[Path Talent: Extricate Lv1]