Genetic Ascension

Chapter 2094: Evolution (2)

Space and time bent and twisted around Sylas in endless ebbs and flows. The Dungeon was on the verge of collapsing in one moment, but in the next it seemed to have fallen into the quagmire that was Sylas Grimblade.

Sylas had spent months tuning himself to Will Manifestation. While he didnʼt actively try and grasp the intricacies of D-tier Rune Mastery, he had long approached Spark Mastery. He had the fundamentals down well enough.

And for someone like him, he didnʼt often need direct study. Something that was adjacent or nearby could slowly build up his thought processes in order to help him take the next step.

That was why switching to a new form of Rune Mastery was so difficult. Sylas wasnʼt thinking the way a Hell or Heaven Rune Creator would, so it was impossible for him to build up this passive knowledge over time.

But with this, he could.

And his fight with the puppet was that last step he needed.

Sylas could feel the energy around him, the energy that the system would have otherwise used to raise him to Level 101 after all the feats and enemies he had defeated.

Swirls of Potential, of Free Chaos, moved about in currents of invisibility and manifested intentions that were just beyond what they as people could touch.

It nestled away in concepts of progress and evolution, hiding away from the common man and left to the purview of the system and the system alone.

Sylas took it all.

All of the potential that should have been left to the A-tier Demi-God that cleared this place…

He took it for himself.

He forcefully raised the Grimblade Bloodline to the Demi-God Realms and the universe shook. It felt like the Skai Heaven would break apart at its seams, but then it slowly relaxed as though there wasnʼt a problem at all.

There should have only been seven slots for Demi-Godhood, but it was like Sylas didnʼt care… or maybe he had realized something others hadnʼt after he came to know that the Thryskai were, in fact, Demons.

It wasnʼt difficult. He already knew exactly where he wanted to take the Grimblade Bloodline.

They had stored the concepts of Will and Reaping within themselves already. He only wanted to do two things.

The first was rooting his scythe into the very core of the Grimblade Royal Hero Line.

He had casually crafted the scythe himself, the Grim Blade, after his battle with the Monkey King. But because he couldnʼt step into Demi-Godhood at the time, and there was little room else for changes due to how powerful the Grimblade bloodline had already become.

Now there was no need to hold back.

Not only would it become a true symbol, but the Reaper Seal used to form it would as well.

And it wouldnʼt have the slightest bit of choice in the matter.

The second thing he wanted to do was add the exact conduit they would need to make maximal use of the scythe.

Evolution.

It was the last piece he thought he was missing, the piece that would take the Grim Blade to the next level.

When it was fully incorporated, they would be able to take Levels, Genes, even more from their opponent with a single swing of their blade.

The restrictions that lay before them would no longer be there…

If they were bold enough to abandon the system, that is. If they still wanted to rely on Overlord status, on rewards given by the system, or other such things, they would only be able to use the scythe as Sylas had until this point.

But if they took that step, if they opened their hearts to battling with full confidence in themselves and only themselves… They would be able to unlock the Grim Blade System.

That was what it would effectively be. A system built by Sylasʼ own hands at the E-tier.

Yet, Sylas was far from finished, and he had yet to consume all the rewards from this Dungeon though that had taken up the vast majority of it.

That was fine by him, though. Compared to elevating an entire family, what Sylas had planned now was small comparatively.

Sylasʼ thoughts reflected the Glassborn Cryst Emperor and Chaotic Sovereign Classes.

One of them reflected his heart of an Emperor, his claim to a throne of Aether that stood beyond all other Aethers in his heart.

The other was partly a reflection of his Great Ape Lineage, a Lineage he now knew was forged by the hands of the First Race so that they would have vessels and decoys in their place.

His Chaotic Sovereign Gene Class originated from those underwater secret pathways left behind by the First Race, and even his Glassborn Cryst Emperor Gene Class was forged in similar ways.

Neither Class felt like they really embodied his current fighting style, but there was no template to fix them now. The sort of overhaul he would need would be massive.

But the difference was that now he could do that when the right opportunity presented itself.

Even though Sylas had grasped the very concept of evolution, much like the Zeus Puppet, he was limited.

Even if the Zeus Puppet embodied evolution, there was no reason it had to start so weak, so why did it? And on top of that, why was it so easy for Sylas to shatter?

Logically, if it was a puppet built to fight A-tiers initially, shouldnʼt it have an equivalent durability?

The concept of evolution as taken from the universe wasnʼt so simple. It wasnʼt evolution itself, but rather the journey. The universe had to decide who could evolve and who would die, and it did that by a single path everyone knew of all too well.

Natural selection.

You couldnʼt just take evolution from the universe, you had to prove you deserved it by surviving.

For the Zeus Puppet to be a blank slate that could react to anything, it had to start at the very bottom, having nothing at all. Cheating with powerful materials would only restrain its connection to evolution.

There was nothing special about the Zeus Puppets. They could have been built by mortal hands so long as a powerful enough Rune Master guided it.

That was part of what made them so fearsome.

The methods through which they dealt with this frailty in battle were long, winding, and complex. And also not relevant to the current Sylas.

The point was that he could only Reap if he proved his right to Reap.

And after clearing this Dungeon, he had done exactly that, but didnʼt have enough left over to completely change his Classes.

That said…

It was about time he stepped into the D-tier.