Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 154

Chapter 154 State Your Purpose

Unless they adapted, there was no way their previous reliances would be useful. In another few months, the world would be unrecognizable and science would have to restart from square one.

Things began to click into place for Sylas one after another.

He had wondered ever since he learned that there was more of a connection between themselves and those that fell during the Sixth Extinction event. If the governments from back then could still organize themselves so well, and ancient families like the Browns managed to make it through…

Why was technology basically identical to what it had been in the 21st century? In fact, it seemed that they had only just finally been able to make up for the losses.

But this explained everything. If you had to restart from the very beginning every time a Summoning was failed, then it was impossible for science to progress quickly. In fact, if an entire civilization was wiped out, it would only be worse. The reason they still had this technology at all was because humans managed to survive the Sixth Summoning. If not, they would have been knocked back even further.

'If that's the case, it shouldn't just be that the Aether appears and changes the fundamental laws of the world and then everything goes back to normal afterward. It's more likely that there are subtle changes to technology every time, or else the Browns would have long since been ready to put out technology that would actually work in this new era…'

Sylas was entirely lost in his thoughts when he felt like he had suddenly stumbled into something big.

'No… that's just speculation, I can't say for certain. I need more information…' _{frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓}

Just now, Sylas' mind had wandered to the System Cities and the Judgment. His question was simple… if the Judgments that later cities faced were a barrier to suppress them, who was to say that this was the only way to suppress them?

His System Breaker Title was the perfect example that the system wasn't infallible. Who was to say that it couldn't be tweaked around the edges?

If after every failure, they were given time to adjust their technology to the new laws of the world and could continue advancing, what level of technology would they have now?

It had been less than 200 years since the last the Sixth Extinction, but according to what he understood about the 21st Century, technology back then was taking large leaps every decade. AI was just starting to become huge and it seemed that every moment that passed a new resounding breakthrough would be made.

Who was to say what they could have done if they kept up that pace for 200 years?

But what if instead of being allowed to keep up such a pace, they were thrust back to a state where they had to relearn all the fundamental laws of the world, a state where the shoulders they had once stood upon to progress became useless?

Sylas' gaze couldn't help but narrow.

He knew that he was speculating too much. He couldn't draw such overarching conclusions based on a few jammed guns.

'And maybe, they're not as helpless as I think they are…'