The golden glow around Sylas slowly faded, his gaze becoming a bit dim. Then he stood there in silence, hanging in the air as though the wind beneath his feet was flat ground. Calm and almost gently, he breathed out.
Slowly, his gaze regained focus and his expression sharpened. The first thing he did was open his status screen to see that he hadn't imagined it. All of his Wisdom Genes were gone, swallowed whole by his Legendary Wisdom Gene.
it shouldn't have been a surprise that he had successfully absorbed it given he had an 80% chance of succeeding, but it was a relief nonetheless. If he had missed out on something so great, it would have been a shame.
He was in a situation too dangerous to pass up on opportunity because of such a small chance of failure. He had learned long ago only to maximize things as far as he could afford to.
Surrounded by enemies from such powerful Clans and organizations, he would be playing with fire if he held back now, especially since even failure would have come with great benefits.
Sylas was a Perfect Spark Master now. Even if he failed with Extricate, the insight into Wisdom that failure would give him wouldn't end there.
Sylas flipped a palm over and the world shook violently. It was as though something unacceptable was happening, and yet Sylas didn't care in the slightest.
His eyes flashed, his new and improved Wisdom pouring out one perfect Stroke after another.
He couldn't remember the last time he had spent so long on a Rune, but it took him an entire hour before he had completed just about 10% of it and stopped.
This wasn't because he felt he would fail, but instead because he had made it far enough to be confident that he would succeed.
He could draw a perfect Legendary Wisdom Gene.
In fact, Sylas had the ability to perfectly replicate any Gene he had in his body right this moment. The only reason he chose to buy them instead was because it was a better use of his time since he was so rich.
But there was no method of buying Legendary Genes...
There was almost certainly a method of selling them though.
it seemed that poverty wouldn't be something he'd experience. He couldn't absorb a second Legendary Wisdom Gene because it would be redundant, but he could sell it, and if he could help his subordinates improve enough.. He could create an unprecedented power.
It took more than a single generation to accumulate, was it? Wasn't that what that Scorpion Emperor Sanctum elder had said?
Sylas would see how long that opinion of his lasted for.
Taking a breath and exhaling once again, Sylas realized that the Browning Gold Elixir was no longer effective on him. Now, his baseline state was beyond his previous state with it in effect.
His mind was now fully making use of all 320 389 Wisdom stat points on his screen, and it made him feel... Alive.
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