Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 522

Chapter 522: Uneasy

Nosphaleen was in too much of a daze to answer properly. It was only after she felt Sylas' gaze on her that she responded.

"I..." she shook her head, stabilizing her mental state. "I can't say for certain, but... what I do know is that F-Grade Runes won't have more than 100 Foundations and E-Grade ones won't have more than 1000. To be approaching 10,000, it would have to be a nearly D-Grade Rune. But..."

"But?"

"The way you described it, it's hard to say if it's really a D-Grade Rune. As talented as you clearly are, analyzing a D-Grade Rune would cause your soul to burst apart, that I'm certain of."

"Hm..."

Sylas didn't disagree with her; he wasn't so arrogant. Maybe he had analyzed it wrongly? "It's possible..." Nosphaleen started somewhat hesitantly. "I can't say for certain, but there are many Rune disciplines. I've heard of connecting Runes like this; they call them Rune Networks. It's a method of using many weaker Runes to mimic the effects of a stronger Rune. The problem is that I've never heard of one being so complex."

Nosphaleen gritted her teeth, one part due to the frustration of her hesitancy when facing Sylas, and another part due to the fact that it was getting clearer by the second that the Dogons really had received outside help.

There was no way they had managed to create these themselves.

Sylas fell into silence before he spoke out a theory of his.

"Could it be simplified, then?"

"You want to weaken it?"

"No. I mean that maybe this statue is a simplified D-Grade Rune."

"If I was a higher existence and I wanted to help a lower existence accelerate their growth, I would need to use methods that gave immediate benefits and long-term benefits.

"With this statue here, on the one hand, it's very clearly beneficial in the short term. But what if it also helps lay a foundation that could help you comprehend higher Grade Runes?"

It dawned on Sylas that this just might be a more robust version of what he had already seen before.

The first time he analyzed a Rune without any sort of foundational understanding, hadn't he done exactly what this mesh, Rune Etching, armor-type, Rune Network was doing?

He had broken down the original Ice-Poison Rune into many pieces, designating what each piece did one by one.

It was only after that that he learned of Strokes, Foundations, and things of the like.

Here, it seemed to be the same thing, just on a completely different scale.

Nosphaleen's eyes widened. "Yes, yes. That's exactly how my elders taught me simpler Runes. But if that's true..."

"It would mean that the help the Dogons received had to come from someone with not just an understanding of D-Grade Runes, but a deep one."