Genetic Ascension
chapter-478

Sylas stepped out of the Nexus, his mind returning. The waters below still clearly reflected everything above with utmost perfection, and he couldn't help but wonder once again just why all of this was here.

This place had to serve a function of some sort, but whether it was through his passive observation or the City Stele itself, he couldn't find it.

Shaking his head, Sylas chose to set these matters aside for now. He didn't have the time to consider why a City Stele would need what was apparently such a large cooling rig.

...

The City Lord's mansion was large. It had everything one could ever need, including a training

room.

The System City itself had many training rooms that provided simulated battles, but what Sylas hadn't known was that there were actually rooms designed to help increase Skill Mastery as well.

In fact, it turned out that once the peak Level of the City Lord reached Level 50, something that would be triggered by the best warriors of Earth reaching Level 40, they would even open up rooms that would help in speeding up Comprehension progression.

Of course, these were all things that could only be used in moderation.

They were definitely more effective for lower-level warriors. And with his Comprehension already at Silver Mastery, they were entirely useless to Sylas, as there were no rooms available, or would be available, that would help with a progression to Gold Mastery.

However, the Skill Mastery rooms were interesting.

As the City Lord, Sylas was able to enter for free and was pleasantly surprised to find that the room was able to analyze his skill and create an approximation of what it might look like at Silver Mastery.

Again, it couldn't show anything about that Mastery level, but considering Sylas was only at Fragmented Mastery right now without ever having used the skills, this was huge.

Sylas thought about whether he should check out the egg first. After purchasing it, his senses were far more capable of analyzing it, and the oddities of its Genes were clearer to him.

He was also pleasantly surprised to find that, likely because it was still in gestation, manipulating the Genes of this egg was far easier than doing so for an already birthed existence. That meant that he could likely avoid using the cancer Gene.

After some thought, Sylas made the sensible decision.

The egg was a gamble; the movement techniques were the foundation of everything. If he could have moved around the battlefield with real speed back then, General Song would already be dead, and he wouldn't even have to waste three million on a Treasure Set that would be nigh useless to him after this Quicktime Event was over.

So, he began analyzing his skills. If there was time, he would get to the egg.

...

Sylas took deep breaths, exhaling slowly. Beads of sweat fell down his brows, and his body felt a particular aching due to lack of Aether.

However, his eyes still shone bright.

'This is an amazing feeling.'

Even after all this time, he had still underestimated his Dual Class Constitution. Even his affinities just seemed to be worth more.

His Ice-Poison affinity was at Silver now. On an individual level, although not quite Gold, his Ice and Poison affinities were separately nearing that level.

That should already be more than good enough. Though Sylas didn't know it, a Bronze affinity was usually the minimum bar to study and use a Gene Skill. Silver was more than good enough.

What he hadn't expected was for things to go even more smoothly than he expected.

[Surfing Frost (FFF+) (Skill)] (Silver Mastery)

[At the cost of <0.1> Unit of Aether per minute, attaching Surfing Frost to your feet to glide across the land]

[At the cost of <1> Units of Aether per minute, attaching Surfing Frost to your feet to glide across the sea]

[At the cost of <5> Units of Aether per minute, attaching Surfing Frost to your feet to glide across the skies]

[Note: Pace of Surfing Frost production is limited to Average of Intelligence and Speed. To move faster, more Units of Aether must be used]

[Chilled Rise (FFF+) (Skill)] (Silver Mastery)

[<0.1> Unit of Aether per minute to lower body weight]

[<1> Units of Aether to increase jump height]

[<5> Units of Aether to perform a Double Jump]

[<10> Units of Aether to glide for <3> seconds]

[Cryobane Elevation (F-) (Gene Skill)] (Silver Mastery)

[<2> Units of Aether a minute per use in exchange for a <70% > increase to Speed and Dexterity Stat Limit]

Of them all, <Cryobane Elevation> ironically took the shortest time to reach Silver Mastery. In fact, he felt that he was just barely on the cusp of reaching Gold Mastery already.

The advantage of Extricate and Rune Soul was too high. He could feel the circulation of the Skill in ways that even this training room couldn't.

However, the changes to the stats on the Skill page weren't enough to describe his real talent with them. In fact, if his Rune Soul was incorporated, their status would look more like...

[Surfing Frost (FFF+) (Skill)] (Silver Mastery)

[At the cost of 0.1 Unit of Aether per ten minutes, attaching Surfing Frost to your feet to glide across the land]

[At the cost of <1> Units of Aether per ten minutes, attaching Surfing Frost to your feet to glide across the sea]

[At the cost of <5> Units of Aether per ten minutes, attaching Surfing Frost to your feet to glide across the skies]

[Note: Pace of Surfing Frost production is limited to Average of Intelligence and Speed. To move faster, more Units of Aether must be used]

[Chilled Rise (FFF+) (Skill)] (Silver Mastery)

[<0.1> Unit of Aether per ten minutes to lower body weight]

[<0.1> Units of Aether to increase jump height]

[<1> Units of Aether to perform a Double Jump]

[<5> Units of Aether to glide for <5> seconds]

[Cryobane Elevation (F-) (Gene Skill)] (Silver Mastery)

[<1> Units of Aether a minute per use in exchange for a <80%> increase to Speed and Dexterity

Stat Limit]