Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 254

It took Sylas until the next day to finish. He believed that the reason it was so difficult was for two main reasons.

The first were his Runes. They were small and unimpressive compared to the vastness of the mammoth that he was dealing with. He believed that he could make them larger and carry a greater capacity if he were to use more Aether and more effort, but he felt that the return wasn’t worth it, especially since he was technically still in a dangerous situation.

It was in his best interest to stay as close to 100% as possible.

The second reason was the reference he used to make the Runes in the first place.

He had learned a lot about the fundamentals of runes, and one of those teachings was about the different categories and grades of them.

Runes weren’t as straightforward as Levels and had three main facets to them.

The first was Grade.

All Runes that Sylas could even think about using for now were F-grade. By the same token, all of the Runes that made up the Laws of Earth were likewise F Grade.

The second was Aether. Mature versus Immature Aether, as well as one’s Level, played a role in how powerful the Rune was. Sylas’ Aether was still Immature because he was still Level 0 and still in the process of trying to excavate all of the potential he could from within himself.

The third facet was a vague concept known as complexity.

All F-grade Runes were created equal, but they could be combined and used together. For example, the Ice-Poison Rune had 12 F-grade Runes combined to form it. The poison extraction Rune that Sylas had just created was made up of a third of the Ice-Poison Rune.

Sylas hadn’t learned if there was an upper limit or not, but he was sure that there was likely a limit at some point or another.

Regardless, 12 certainly wasn’t that limit.

All things considered, a Rune with 12 parts was still considered to be lower class. There was a reason that a Level 7 like the Arctic King Cobra could use it.

But then again, what the cobra was doing and what Sylas was doing were two different things entirely.

The cobra was relying on an innate ability that came as naturally as a Gene Talent. Sylas, on the other hand, was forming the Runes himself. The two weren’t even on the same planet.

While the Arctic King Cobra had a far easier time than Sylas did, Sylas could scale and had a far longer path to follow.

This was all to say that Sylas had small tools right now, but the poison he was trying to deal with came from a Level 18. Though he wasn’t quite aware of this just yet, he knew that the man he had fought was a true powerhouse.

Regardless, after so long, he had managed to succeed, and now he had not only to manage to cleanse all of the mammoth corpses, but...

Sylas looked toward the cobra’s corpse. Its venom pouch, which had been radiating an icy steel blue color, was now tainted by veins of green and purple.