Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 385

Chapter 385: Point System

Sylas looked around. "I'm being forced to wait? Interesting..."

He was starting to understand why his words had been so effective against Vayu. It seemed that he had stumbled into some good luck after all.

He looked around, hoping that there would be rewards of some sort. Usually, there would be more to gain from a Dungeon than just whatever the final rewards were. But unfortunately, though he had finally had some good luck, it wasn't that exaggerated.

There was nothing here at all. Well... other than the barrier.

"The barrier..."

Sylas looked at it, activating Enchanted Scholar. These days, it was too easy to use this Gene Talent. Usually, it would have some strain on his Wisdom, but between Rune Soul lowering the requirements, and Unyielding Scholar boosting his Wisdom to ridiculous levels, he didn't even feel it much.

He had kept it active all through those nine steps, actively using Rune Soul to disperse his targets, yet he didn't feel any fatigue at all.

"Another fascinating application of Rune Mastery..."

Sylas carefully touched the barrier. It looked ethereal, but it was as hard as aged ice compressed beneath millions of years worth of snowfall.

Clearly, this barrier was relying on Ice-Poison Runes, or rather, Frostbane Runes? But it was so much more powerful than what Sylas was capable of despite the fact it should have been the weaker Rune. After all, Sylas could control two Runes with 11 more Foundations than what was found here.

Then there were those spirit wolves. That was definitely another application of Ice-Poison Runes, but Sylas couldn't even fathom completing something so intricate. He didn't even understand how you could turn Runes into something that felt so... real.

Logically, it should be possible. After all, Runes were the foundation of the world, its fundamental laws. Since life sprung from the world, Runes should have the innate ability to grant life.

But he couldn't see how one could make the leap from one to the other nonetheless. It was too complicated for even him to wrap his head around.

If he had to guess, it was likely the system doing the heavy lifting again. It was more than likely that whoever created those wolves had a Class Skill that did it for them.

"Interesting. This sort of Rune configuration... if I deploy <Arctic Howl Mutant> like this, its Defense would increase probably by another 50%..."

<Arctic Howl Mutant> already had 1000 Defense, another 50% would be no joke at all.

"I focused too much on making each individual Rune powerful, but not enough on making each Rune play off against one another well. These Runes work like a circuit, and there's a flow of energy between them, and they're designed for better Aether control over the whole.

"If I take the circuit analogy to an extreme, some of the Runes are placed in series in order to rapidly increase strength, and some are placed in parallel in order to increase sustainability. The combination of the two finds a balance across the whole skill in order to create something more powerful..."

Of course, it was more complicated than this, and seemed to also be related to geometry, both in regard to the individual Runes and that of the overall Skill.

For example, triangles were still the strongest shape, but not every Rune would allow you to place three side by side like that. Plus, the skills would be in 3D, adding another layer of complexity.

Just as Sylas was about to check if his hypotheses were correct, his gaze flashed as another group appeared.