Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 282

Chapter 282: Steal

[Path of the Mancer (Fragmented) (Quest)]

[You have displayed a tenacious Will and a sharp intent for battle, but you are missing the final piece to your power. Following the Path of another is easy, following your own is much more difficult.

[The word Mancer has a storied history, deeper than you know. There are many complex definitions, but it can be boiled down to a single word: Control.

[Open up the Path of the Mancer or die trying.]

[Fragmented Reward Requirements]

[>Kill a Level 10 creature with the Path of the Mancer.]

[Quest "Path of the Mancer (Fragmented)" Completed]

[Clearance Level: Fragmented]

[Rewards]

[>Fragmented Mancer Class.]

Sylas wasn't surprised to see this notification. This was what he was hunting the Arctic King Cobra for in the first place. What did surprise him, though, was that he saw not just one clearance notification, but six of them.

He was confused at first until he realized something. He hadn't just killed one Level 10, he had killed five of them plus a Level 12 that was of dubious origins. He still hadn't forgotten the oddity of the Level 12 Arctic Emperor Cobra's Grade. There had just been a dashed line, which was peculiar considering it was usually question marks. Question marks were what appeared when he couldn't read the Grade of an existence, but this time, that wasn't the case.

Of course, Sylas had known that he had completed the requirements of this Quest several times over, but usually you could only clear a Quest one time. So when he had noted that he had done so, it was only perfunctorily. But it seemed the system didn't feel that it was so perfunctory after all.

Looking at the list of rewards, Sylas realized that this Quest was like this so that he wouldn't be locked into one creature should he accidentally kill one that he wasn't a fan of. It gave him a wide array of choices. Essentially, he could kill as many Level 10 Mancer creatures as he wanted, and he would receive the same chance to use them as a foundation for his Class. In fact, they even let him preview his rewards before he picked them.

In the end, Sylas just started off with the first.

[Arctic Guardian (Fragmented)]

[The tundra is your calling and poison is your wine. Stoic as the endless white plane, and timeless as its bedrock of ice, nothing gets by you.]

[+30 Constitution]

[+30 Intelligence]

[Stat Limit Increase: +10 per Level]

[Free Stats: +5 per Level]

[Class Modifier: 0.1 Constitution; 0.1 Intelligence]

Sylas read through it carefully. It seemed like a defensive Class mostly. Would they all be the same?

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[Arctic Reaper (Fragmented)]