Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 532

Chapter 532: Rune Enlightenment [Bonus]

Despite his feelings, Sylas felt that he had grown a great deal after exiting the Secret Realm.

If he applied the rules of Rune construction, then he would be able to draw Runes twice as fast with half the effort. In addition, the struggles he had with dealing with higher Stroke and Foundation Runes would be greatly diminished.

Before, it took him a great deal of time and effort to master his slow and Freeze Runes, and they both only had 50 or so Foundations. But according to Nosphaleen, the limit of the F- Grade was 100 Foundations.

If you factored in the large leap in difficulty there was every 10 Foundations, Sylas had a hard time being confident in drawing a 60 Foundation Rune, even if he was given several days, let alone 70 and above.

But what he never realized was that there were rules to putting Runes together, almost like nomenclature for molecular formulas and atoms. There was an order to how things were supposed to go together.

A single Rune might have dozens of "technically" accurate ways to put it together, but only one most efficient way.

Sylas had missed this because he skipped steps in his Rune Mastery. He went right from constructing Runes slowly to stamping them out in whole. But because of that, he forgot the importance of individual Strokes and Foundations along the way.

There were certain Strokes that worked best when incorporated first and certain Foundations that were more like cherries on top, as opposed to the root of a Rune.

These rules would change depending on the Rune in question.

For example, his Ice-Poison Rune had a Foundation that he had named something akin to sovereignty in the past. He had named it as such because this Foundation was very overbearing and it was responsible for suppressing and oppressing other forms of Aether it came across, making it difficult for an opponent to expel the poison from their bodies.

This was a core and foundational Foundation of the Ice-Poison Rune on the surface. But in reality, it was actually secondary in character. It was more important to draw the Ice and Poison characteristics first. In the case of the Slow Ice-Poison Rune, the Poison Foundations were more important. In the case of the Freeze Ice-Poison Rune, the Ice Foundations were more important.

Every Rune had to be approached in this way, and only by finding the most efficient configurations would you find the easiest method of drawing them.

Sylas held out a hand and stamped it down.

A Freeze Ice-Poison Rune took shape in the blink of an eye. Despite the fact that Ice Aether wasn't prevalent in this dry and harsh climate, he hadn't even needed to use his <Woodland Frost Domain>.

The strain wasn't great at all, and he didn't rely on his Woodland Warlord Title to accomplish it either.

If he continued to draw Runes like this, his combat efficiency would reach an unconscious level. Skills would be like play putty in his hands.

After this, he would need to see if he could take the evolved Mana Path Wand for a spin again to see if he could incorporate the Wood Element into it.