Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 166

Chapter 166 Dormant

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The software whirred to life and the professor looked at Sylas. Clearly, this was his wheelhouse now.

Sylas used his intention to will the Gene Sequence into the software once again.

The software he was using was known somewhat amusedly as CAD DNA. It had three simple functions.

The first was the most important, and that was its predictive model. It could take an input, feed it into a DNA sequence, and output the result. This was why Sylas was so familiar with it, because it was an invaluable tool in perfecting his venom vaccine.

The second was its compare and contrast. It had a database of species within it, and it was easy to upload a Gene Sequence into it and point out the odd, out-of-place mutations.

The third was splicing. It was a combination of the first two, and it could trigger mutations and changes in a DNA sequence and deduce the result.

Unfortunately, after a few promising seconds, the program crashed once again.

Sylas sighed. This was exactly what he was worried about. Did he make a wasted trip?

'No. The professor is correct. I've been too rigid in my thinking. If intention is enough to get the system to interact with real-world technology, who's to say that that's the limit?'

'What if I restrict what portions of the Gene Sequence I want to upload? Wait, how far can I take my intention in the first place? If I say I want just the important parts projected, would that be a loophole that forces the system to do some of the legwork for me?'

As Sylas thought, they booted up the program again.

For the next five minutes or so, they tried several things and Sylas learned quite a bit.

First, it was possible to upload the Gene Sequence in bits and pieces.

Second, it wasn't possible to force the system to do the legwork for him by tweaking his intention. For example, he couldn't just ask it to only send in the important parts because he needed an understanding of what those parts were, at least vaguely.

Third, the Basilisk was most similar to the Titanoboa in terms of Gene Sequence, a creature that was extinct on Earth, but that Sylas had seen once before in the Trial. This was mostly extrapolation, but it seemed about right.

Fourth, the Basilisk King had what looked like several knots in its Gene Sequence, and they were the root of the most complexity. When these knots were ignored, the upload went just fine. It seemed that whatever sequences were in these knots were in a permanent state of non-expression.

Fifth was the most surprising.

Sylas felt that, less than the program analyzing the data for him, he seemed to be naturally understanding things as he went.

And that was when it happened.

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[Path Quest <Document Contract Gene Sequence> Completed]

[+250 Experience]

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[One Kind For Me]

[Level: 2]

[Experience: 160/200]

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[Beast Totem (Path Talent)]

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