Genetic Ascension

Chapter 566: Stack [Bonus]

[Bronze Beast Destiny Consumed]

[Gluttony Seed has strengthened]

[Quest Rewards changed]

[Woodland Frost Emperor (Bronze)]

[The tundra is your Domain and poison adorns your chalice, the trees are your friend and the

earth warms your bed]

[+75 Intelligence]

[+75 Constitution]

[Stat Limit Increase: +21 per Level]

[Free Stats: +10 per Level]

[Class Modifier: 0.3 Intelligence; 0.3 Constitution]

[Class: Woodland Frost Emperor]

[Level: 0]

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>[Basic Skills]

[Woodland Frost Domain (F-) (Gene Skill)]

[Special Damage: 100/second]

[Restrains and traps]

[Special Buff: +70% to all Wood, Ice, and Poison Skills used]

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[Woodland Spirit Summon (F-) (Gene Skill)]

[For Units of Aether, Summon a Woodland Spirit with 75% of your stats to fight on your behalf]

[Attribute: Wood-Poison]

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[Woodland Spirit Swallow (F-) (Gene Skill)]

[Swallow Summoned Woodland Spirit to accelerate Healing proportional to Constitution. For

every 20 points of Constitution, boost healing capacity by ]

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[Woodland Frost Spike (FFF+) (Skill)]

[Damage: 500]

[Special Damage: 100/sec for 10 seconds]

[Attribute: Wood-Ice-Poison]

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>[Basic Affinities]

[Poison (Gold)]

[Ice (Quasi Gold)]

[Ice-Poison (Silver)]

[Wood (Silver)]

[Wood-Poison (Quasi Silver)]

[Wood-Ice-Poison (Bronze)]

[Earth (Common)]

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>[Unlockables]

[Level 20]

[Name: Sylas Grimblade]

[Species: Human (F)]

[Physical: 555]

>[Strength: 520]

>[Constitution: 660]

>[Dexterity: 520]

>[Speed: 520]

[Mental: 739]

>[Intelligence: 881]

>[Wisdom: 1001]

>[Charisma: 335]

[Will: 1999]

[Luck: 101]

Indeed, the Class was much weaker.

His Common and Fragmented Classes both gave him a full Mental boost, but this Bronze Class only gave him an Intelligence boost. In addition, the Class Modifier likewise only targeted one-third of the Mental stats, and the modifier itself wasnʼt as high as expected.

However, Sylas took it in nonetheless.

He would be able to make this up in the future.

ʼI did lose the chance to stack more stats, but that will just have to be a necessary evil for now. Iʼll focus on clearing the Silver Grade Chain Quest as soon as possible.ʼ

Unlike with his Titles, when Sylas upgraded his Class, the stats granted from his previous upgrade remained. That meant that because he chose a weaker Bronze Class this time, he had missed out on stat increases that he would have otherwise been able to stack.

That was especially troubling because he could have really used the Charisma stats.

The good news was that his newly minted Gold Mastery Comprehension had somewhat fixed the imbalance between his Charisma and Will. The bad news was that that wasnʼt a viable long-term solution.

However, as with all things, there would have to be sacrifices and trade-offs made.

Sylas stood to his full height. When he made a decision, he wouldnʼt bother to regret it.

ʼThe Mancerʼs Blossom will take at least a week to finish absorbing the remaining bits of the Dynamic Field Dungeon. When it finishes, I will be able to gain the Wood-Ice-Poison Rune Iʼve been looking for.

ʼIn the meantime, itʼs about time I look at the rest of my rewards.ʼ

[Dynamic Field Dungeon Cleared]

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[Rewards]

[>Violet Rose Root (Symbiote)]

[>Violet Rose Whip (Treasure)]

Sylas remembered being surprised when he saw just two rewards. He had, after all, gone through a great deal of trouble. The Woodland Spider Queen had given him five rewards, all of which were shocking. This Dynamic Field Dungeon should have been even more difficult with the system putting its weight on the scale.

However, it was far more interesting than he thought it was.

He directly ignored the Violet Rose Whip. It was a Silver Grade treasure with stats even more shocking than the Basilisk Skin Armor had been, but he didnʼt care if he couldnʼt use it.

It was this Symbiote that intrigued him.

[What is a Symbiote?]

[A Symbiote is a special biological Treasure capable of either changing a landscape or parasiting a creature. This process causes this landscape or creature to gain the characteristics of the Symbiote and share in its strength. Whether this is a positive or negative matter depends on the Symbiote itself.]

Sylas of course knew what a Symbiote was in a vacuum, but he didnʼt understand what it meant for this world in particular.

Even after this explanation, he didnʼt quite get it. It was a bit vague. It was only after asking several more much more pointed questions that he got a vision of what he was working with.

In the most laymanʼs of terms, a Symbiote was almost like a Unique Gene. It could be stacked onto something and force said something to take on its characteristics.

But from another angle... it was like the Template of Rune Flesh. That was because if you were bold enough, you didnʼt have to pick a landscape or a creature. What the Madness Key hadnʼt made clear originally was that it considered all Races ”creatures.” Meaning...

Sylas could fuse with this Symbiote as well.

Of course, Sylas dismissed the idea. The trouble with fusing with a Symbiote was that it would make tangible changes to your body. It would be hard to tell what would happen to his Genes

as a result.

However, Sylas was thinking of something else entirely.

[Frostbane Feather (Silver) (Consumable Treasure)]

[Sacrifice to trigger an upgrade in Mount or Combat Mount, or turn beast into Mount or

Combat Mount]

[Mutate or replace Aether affinity]

[Improve Grade to FFF-]

[Note: Function of Consumable Treasure will depend on the Gene Constitution of target

beast. More control will be granted depending on Brand Grade]

[Uses Left: 1/1]

The Frostbane Feather had been rotting in his Madness Key for a long while, and he hadnʼt

been able to find a chance to make use of it just yet. None of the creatures he had come across

really suited him because he was highly focused on getting himself a flying beast. The use of them would be more than he could put into words right now.

However, the Frostbane Feather was also a great disappointment. That was because it could only raise the grade of a Mount or Combat Mount to FFF-, and it likely wouldnʼt work on a

creature that was already stronger than that.

But...

If the Symbiote was stacked with it...