Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 251

Blue runes raced across the ground and in that moment, the soft soil cracked as though it had completely frosted over.

Over the course of this battle, Sylas had realized that the methods of this cobra weren’t truly like ice at all. Instead, it was like the ice had truly become a poison. The way it interacted with things was beyond just the use of cold, but rather more so like the cold had become a virus that could permeate through the body and even treasures alike.

In this way, it was more fearsome than the ice attribute that Sylas had faced after escaping the volcano, albeit also less flexible.

The pure attacks that the cobra had were lacking and were often only made potent by continuous, recurring Damage. However, its ability to control the area, defend itself, and break down attacks that came for it, was truly special.

And now, this seemed to be its strongest ability.

Sylas hurried to get out of the range of the blue runes approaching him. At the same time, he tried to digest what this Skill was capable of.

Until now, he was only reading stripped down versions of the Skills. He didn’t want their descriptions or any of their fancy lore, he just wanted their Damage and Defense, plus what they actually did.

But now, this one didn’t seem to be nearly so straightforward.

[Arctic King’s Domain (FFF-) (Skill)]

[The unfurling of a King’s hood should be the sign of great danger. However, in the case that these pitiful worms do not understand your might, show them what it truly means to be a King]

[Form a Domain of Ice Poison that Damages your enemy and strengthens yourself. For every additional meter of range, use 1 Aether Unit. Can be maintained for 60 seconds]

[Special Damage: 30/second]

[Special Buff: +50% to all Ice-Poison Skills used]

Sylas’ heart skipped a beat. Could be maintained for 60 seconds and it did 30 Damage a second? Didn’t that mean 1800 Damage from just a single cast? Worse than that, even if the cobra failed to trap him in its Domain, it still had a personal buff that it could use that would cancel out a lot of Sylas’ own debuff to it.

However, as Sylas accelerated backward, staying out of the range of the swarm of blue runes being etched across the ground, he realized that the cobra was quickly overdrawing itself.

By the time Sylas had left a 10-meter range, the cobra swayed and then collapsed. Its Domain flickered and then vanished slowly afterward.

Sylas’ eyes narrowed. ’It ran out of Aether…’

Indeed, he had pushed the cobra quite far and brought out several of its Skills. Even with such high Intelligence and Mental, it couldn’t possibly go on forever. Even the weakest Skills required at least 0.5 Aether Units to activate.

This cobra had around 300 Intelligence, and most of its Skills cost 1 Aether Unit. So that was only about 30 casts total.