Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 542

Chapter 542: Mancer’s Blossom

[Mancer's Blossom (Silver) (Aether Treasure)]

[The Paths of the Mancer are long and complex. There is no one Path that is superior to another, but the distance one can travel depends greatly on your strength of heart. The Mancer's Blossom allows you to feel and sense your Path of the Mancer, how to progress it and how to improve it.]

[Feed the Mancer's Blossom Aether and it will bear fruit to enlighten your path.]

[Meditate beneath the Mancer's Blossom to improve Aether Recovery and gain a chance to Level up.]

Sylas stared at the tree for a long while. He could feel the fatigue of the Rune Breath Secret Realm slowly being peeled away under his circulation of <Maddened Enlightenment>. But he was also somewhat aware that unless he went to bed, he likely wouldn't get back to 100%.

It was a shame because he had already called another General in for his next round of grappling practice. It seemed he would have to send them back and hold off until he woke up from this coming nap.

But before he did that, he still had an urge to check the evolved Mancer's Wand.

It had to be remembered that this evolution of the Mancer's Wand was triggered because it saved him from being forcefully Leveled up to Level 50.

Since then, he hadn't had a chance to take advantage of it. But technically speaking, if he meditated beneath his Mancer's Blossom Aether Treasure, he should be able to sense Runes far more powerful than his current Slow and Freeze Ice-Poison Runes. Maybe he would find Runes approaching 100 Foundations.

But the problem with this was obvious.

His affinity was no longer just purely Ice and Poison. He had a third affinity now: wood.

Part of him wanted to hope that since Mancer's Blossom took the shape of a tree, it would have a natural affinity to the element that he could take advantage of. But a single glance told him that that wasn't going to happen.

When he asked the Madness Key how he would go about adding another affinity to it, it gave him two possibilities.

Either he would need to reach the same level in Wood Aether on his own, or he would need to find a source at the same level as what triggered the evolution in the first place.

While Mancer's Blossom was a far greater treasure than Mancer's Wand, by extension, it was also less flexible.

There was one thing he was right about, though...

'So Mancer's Blossom might not have a natural Wood Elemental Aether affinity to it, but it does have a natural proclivity for the element...'

Mancer's Wand was a wooden branch that grew into Mancer's Blossom, a tree at its root.

But there was still a subtle difference.

According to the Madness Key, Wood was actually a version or mutation of Earth Aether that incorporated a higher form of Aether that could nurture and give life.

Sylas wasn't able to learn what this special Aether was because the cost of Genes to learn it was too steep. It wasn't worthwhile to learn it now, not when he wouldn't be able to use it anyway.