Sylas left Gralith soon after, his mind still not certain of the path forward he wanted to take.
Going to the Weaver Guild sounded like the obvious choice, but now doing so wasn't so simple-not when one of their A-tiers wanted him dead.
Granted, the Analei were only one of the seven Clans that formed the Weaver Guild. But even so, that didn't mean the odds were in his favor. ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐๐ธ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ต.๐ฌ๐ค๐ข
He still had to consider the relationship between the Clans. What of the Clans with a good relationship with the Analei? What if they all had good relationships, as rare as that might be?
It was made worse by the fact that having a good relationship wasn't necessarily all that important either. They just had to not have a bad relationship to stand aside and let the Analei do as they pleased.
Sure, it was probably true that one of their powerhouses had a good impression of him, but setting aside the fact Sylas would never rely on someone else for his own safety, there was another matter to consider as well... What if that powerhouse was also an Analei?
Would they choose Sylas over one of their own who had already long proven they could become an A-tier?
The weight of that Tier to anyone but Sylas would be as heavy as a mountain and as vast as the skies. Even the heft of the Title of B-tier was so grand that prostration seemed to be the only path forward. That was yet another reason the Veil Humans were almost certainly scouring every bit of information they could to find who was responsible for the death of one of theirs.
But at this point, Sylas could only handle one problem at a time.
One might question why Sylas was giving so much thought to going to the Weaver Guild if he had so many reasons not to go. Unfortunately, the answer to that question was... Time.
He didn't have time.
Earth was about to fuse into the wider world, and he had raised the danger they were in substantially for the sake of saving Gralith. If he didn't grow a lot stronger quite quickly, how much he could help would be limited.
And the only way for him to get to the territory of the Seeing Eye quickly enough was this path.
The universe was too vast. Crossing a single Sector before Sylas got his new vessel took weeks. Though the new vessel that the Professor woman and Old Brama had made together would be faster, there was something else that needed to be accounted for: The strength variation between Sectors.
The stronger the Sector, the more difficult it was to travel at speeds that broke its laws.
This might be a world where surpassing the speed of light seemed as easy as flipping over a palm, but that wasn't the case. It took a great deal of energy to do that, and required physics-bending Runes.
The more powerful the territory, the more difficult it was to apply these forceful changes to the world, and thus the more time it took to travel from place to place.
This created the illusion that stronger territories were also vaster, when in reality there was no substantial size difference at all-though planets tended to be a bit larger.

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