Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 253

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Sylas didn't bother cutting the entire sack. If the effect was so potent now, who was to say what would happen when the rest of it came out to play? Instead, he felt around slowly, observing the Runes, watching how they interacted with others, and piecing together how it was that he might be able to help the Basilisk King.

He sat there in silence for hours. Every time his stamina ran out, he would run <Maddened Enlightenment> in perfect stillness for a few minutes before going back at it again.

The Ice-Poison Rune was extraordinarily complicated. In this particular case, it seemed to be formed of 12 parts.

The first part was cold, the second was rigidity, the third was piercing, the fourth was needling, the fifth was cancer, the sixth was fragmentation, the seventh was surrounding, the eighth was fearlessness, the ninth was sublimation, the tenth was suppression, the eleventh was separation, and the twelfth was oppression.

These 12 names were probably meaningless to everyone but Sylas. And even for Sylas, they barely had subtle differences that differentiated them.

For example, piercing and needling were two that he had thought were the same thing when he first started. So were fearlessness and oppression, and so was surrounding and cancer.

However, the more he observed, the more he felt that there were subtle differences that had to be outlined.

Piercing was deep and singular, while needling was numerous and shallow. Cancer fed on the energy of an item and used it to grow, while surrounding was a deployment of how that stolen energy was used. Fearlessness reversed an energy's tendency to go from areas of low concentration to high, instead forcing the Runes to do the opposite, while oppression was an act against that concentration of energy itself.

Because of this, Sylas had gone from thinking that there were just two or three runes that made up the Ice-Poison Rune, to thinking that it was five, then seven, all the way to his current estimates.

It wasn't until several hours passed without him deciphering any more that he fully comprehended it all.

Finally, he understood.

If he wanted to help extract the poison from the body of the mammoth, he needed to first decide which of the runes that he would need, then he would need to replicate them.

'I think I will need… suppression, separation, oppression, and sublimation…'

Suppression would stop the poison from fighting back, separation would allow him to break it down into pieces without it acting like a single whole, oppression would make that process easier, while sublimation would move it into the easiest phase to extricate it.

Now… he just needed a method of how…

After some thought, Sylas used <Maddened Enlightenment> again and returned to his peak strength. He wanted to attack this with the very best that he had.