Genetic Ascension

Chapter 1058 Changes

Sylas opened his eyes once again from his last session, feeling completely drained.

He dragged himself out and passed out again at some unknown point, only to wake up in bed once more.

After he finished eating like it was his last meal, he finally calmed himself—and the grumbling in his stomach—enough to think straight again.

[Name: Sylas Grimblade]

[Species: Human Simioid (F)]

[Affiliation: Legacy 7777; Progenitor of Earth; Golden Grove Elder]

[Class: Glassvolt Marquis (Silver)]

[Class: Primal Lord (Silver)]

[Profession: Vipermancer (FFF+)]

[Profession: Runeweave (FFF+)]

[Level: 50]

[Coins: 837,111,132,382 (F); 8,212,261 (E); 1,232 (D)]

[Titles: An Enlightening Will; Progenitor Grandmaster; Palms of Fate; Grade Slayer; System Rebel; Legendary Tamer; Skill Progenitor; Classic Dungeon Crawler; Woodland Warlord; Glass Desert Warlord; Glass Monkey Slayer; Woodland Spider Queen Slayer; Madness Conqueror (FF-); Common Arts Enthusiast (F-); A Patient Stalker (F-)]

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[Physical: ???]

>[Strength: ???]

>[Constitution: ???]

>[Dexterity: ???]

>[Speed: ???]

[Mental: ???]

>[Intelligence: ???]

>[Wisdom: ???]

>[Charisma: ???]

[Will: ???]

[Luck: ???]

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[Skills: … ]

[Gene Skills: Cryobane Elevation (F-); Suppressive Scouting (FFF+); Primal Step (FFF+); Primal Gut (FFF+)]

[Gene Class Form: Glassvolt Prism Arts (FFF+); Madness Control (F); Chaotic Menace (FFF+); Glassvolt Shift (FFF+)]

[Growth Skills: Primal Fury (F-); Glassvolt Throne (F-)]

[Comprehensions: Madness (FFF); Glassvolt (FFF-); Mixed Demonic Arts (???)]

[Gene State: Malleable]

[Fragmented Genes: Voice of a King (F)]

[Common Genes: (10,000) Strength (F); (10,000) Constitution (F); (10,000) Dexterity (F); (10,000) Speed (F); (10,000) Intelligence (F); (10,000) Wisdom (F); (10,000) Will (F)]

[Bronze Genes: Enchanted Scribe (F); (4,997) Strength (F); (4,997) Constitution (F); (4,997) Dexterity (F); (4,997) Speed (F); (4,997) Intelligence (F); (4,997) Wisdom (F); (4,997) Charisma (F); (4,997) Will (F)]

[Silver Genes: Aetherflow (F); Grimblade Lineage (F); Touch of Speed (F); (2,997) Strength (F); (2,997) Constitution (F); (2,997) Dexterity (F); (2,997) Speed (F); (2,997) Intelligence (F); (2,997) Wisdom (F); (2,997) Charisma (F); (2,997) Will (F)]

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[Gene Talents: Blade Aura (Unranked); Sudden Burst (F); Tail Whip (F-); Aetherflow (FF+)]

[Elevated Gene Talents: Arcane Storm (F-)]

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[Suppressive Scouting (FFF+) (Gene Skill)] (Fragmented Mastery)

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[Overwhelm your target with your Will, suppress them and cull their stats into obedience. Your feeling for their strength will become akin to an imprint in stone, a violation of their intent embroidered into the world for all to see.]

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[Primal Fury (F-) (Growth Skill)] (Fragmented Mastery)

[Your Rage is the carnage that drives you. You are a Lord, carrying dominion over others, and believe that they should act as such. The more disrespected you feel, the more Fury they pull out of you—the stronger this Skill grows. How far? Well, that depends on whether you have the Will to withstand it or not.]

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[Chaotic Menace (FFF+) (Gene Class Form)] (Fragmented Mastery)

[Your body is a lethal weapon of Chaos. Your hair, your claws, your teeth carry the lethals of weapons with them, and their strength reflects that. Control their growth with a thought, stoke their power with your Fury.]

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[Primal Step (FFF+) (Gene Skill)] (Fragmented Mastery)

[Your movements become wild and difficult to predict. Madness defines your movements. Synergizes with [Berserk].]

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[Primal Gut (FFF+) (Gene Skill)] (Silver Mastery)

[Suppress the raging Aether in your gut with your Will and display the digestive might of a true Primal Lord.]

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[Glassvolt Throne (F-) (Growth Skill)] (Fragmented Mastery)

[Stand in the skies and draw it into your command; increase the power of your Glassvolt Aether beyond the realms of what your body can handle… but its power will be dependent on your understanding of the world you stand in.]

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[Glassvolt Prism Arts (FFF+) (Gene Class Form)] (Progenitor Mastery)

[Freely form and control your Path of Glassvolt Mancy with Prism Arts. Shields, weapons, projectiles of any sort—they are all within your purview, only limited by the skill of your Prism Arts… But your intent also shapes them into what your Will desires, suppressing those it comes into contact with and shattering what it may come across.]

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[Glassvolt Shift (FFF+) (Gene Class Form)] (Progenitor Mastery)

[Freely shift your body from Glass to Will Lightning and back. Use it as a means of attack and defense—or assault and retreat. Absorb Glass or Lightning to heal yourself or power your next strike. Synergizes well with [Glassvolt] Comprehension.]

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Sylasʼ current list of Skills was so long that he didnʼt bother to allow the status screen to display them all. This wasnʼt just because of the ones he had accumulated over time, but also because of how many he had traded for.

Right now, Sylasʼ list of Skills was exceptionally long because he had taken advantage of the Golden Grove to exchange for more close-combat Skills.

He thought about exchanging for a large number of Gene Skills as well, but—as the name Gene Skill denoted—they often required being tied to special Classes or Unique Genes to trigger properly.

As for Gene Talents, it would be a waste. What he wanted wasnʼt something that directed his movement, but instead something that he could study to help improve his own movement.

That said… Sylas had a feeling that in the future, there would be a path here for him. The evolution of [Madness Control] seemed to be tending toward giving him a great deal of flexibility when it came to adapting to new stimuli.

Maybe in the future—especially once he began honing his unique Path of Rune Mastery—he would be able to start integrating Gene Skill close-combat methods into his arsenal.

But right now, even trading for all of these Skills was putting quite a lot on his plate…

Especially when he had all these new Gene Class changes to account for.

Growth Skills… these were the first he had seen of them, but they werenʼt necessarily stronger than Skills or Gene Skills. Instead, they were demarcated as Skills that could either grow in the midst of battle or grow with you over time.

The strongest Growth Skills had permanent increases over the course of their life. However, whether it was [Primal Fury] or [Glassvolt Throne], both were very obviously acute in nature.

Even so… Sylas got the feeling that their existence would have an enormous impact on his strength—especially the Glassvolt Skills that had already reached Progenitor Mastery due to his self-creation of his own personal Poison Rune.