Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 256

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[Basilisk King]

[Status: Healthy; Subtle Mentality]

[Loyalty: 3/10]

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[King’s Bind (FFF-) (Skill)]

[The gaze of a Basilisk King is supreme. Freeze, mere mortal]

[Cost: 5 Aether Unit per second]

[Limit: Decided by every 10% gap in the average of Will and Charisma]

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[King’s Shift (FFF-) (Skill)]

[Laws of the world do not bind the Basilisk King. Bend to my whims, be suppressed beneath my Will]

[Cost: 5 Aether Unit]

[Limit: 1000 Physical]

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[King’s Shield (FFF-) (Skill)]

[You are unworthy to even touch the Basilisk King. My defenses are unmatched]

[Cost: 5 Aether Unit]

[Defense: 1000]

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The changes were quite shocking. It seemed that the Basilisk King’s Skills had changed along with its Grade, each one more than doubling in strength. But the cost was that each one of these Skills now cost five times more to cast just a single time.

The only one that hadn’t seemed to change at all was <King’s Bind>. Or, rather, it almost seemed to have regressed.

It gave in return the exact same limits, but now it cost five times more. However, Sylas didn’t dismiss it off-hand.

He had been in several battles now where his <Astral Bind> was dismissed by others. In fact, in his battle with Azrael, even <King’s Bind> had been outright dismissed.

If he was correct, then it should be the case that this higher Grade of Skill was more capable of outright ignoring binding Skill counters. Maybe, if he used this version of <King’s Bind> against Azrael, he wouldn’t be able to counter it.

Another shocking matter was that these Skills were considered to be at the Fragmented Mastery stage. That meant that they still had a lot of room to grow.

Sylas remembered that the FF+ version of <King’s Shield> only had 400 Defense, but after he increased his Mastery over it, it increased to 600. But now it started at 1000 for Fragmented Mastery. If he increased its Mastery now, it would be even more exaggerated.

Now this was definitely a life-saving trump card, but he was also aware that he likely couldn’t use it so freely in battle. The more Aether a Skill cost, and the lower the Mastery, the more time it would take to successfully cast. As such, Sylas’ best bet was to save a combination that he was comfortable with in the Stabilizing Bracelet.

’I hope that the Stabilizing Bracelet can handle it…’

The bracelet was only a Bronze item. Now that Sylas thought about it, that should mean that it had a limit to the kind of Skills that it could handle. It definitely wasn’t without limits.

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[Stabilizing Bracelet (Bronze)]

[Level: 8]

[Ability: Store; Evolve]

[Store three Skills to be deployed at any time to a Bronze Mastery plus a <1%> boost per Level]