Genetic Ascension novel Chapter 1674

Chapter 1674 Mistake

Sylas felt the aura of the white ring fall over him once again. It sank into his body much the same as the first one had, but it seemed less probing, as though it was looking at things from a macro perspective rather than being dialed in.

There was a shift in the air as a silence fell.

Many gazes were still on Sylas, many of them also carrying hints of skepticism. The results of the last round were far too exaggerated; it didn't make any sense to them.

Unfortunately, the results of this round were entirely opposite to the last. Rather than wanting to be among the first to finish, it was instead their desire to be among the very last.

The more perfect your Seed, the more embedded it was into your body, and the more difficult it was for the scan to parse out all of the details.

By comparison, the more immature and incomplete the formation of the Seed, the easier it was to find and parse.

If you were to compare that to the previous round, the younger a Seed was, the less mature it tended to be. Since most joined the instant they became Spark Masters, it was only natural that their Seed likewise not have much time to settle.

The irony of that was that even if Sylas hadn't been holding the scan back from leaving his body too soon, he still would have been amongst the few that took the longest because his Seed had long become Perfect. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

In fact, the time it took him to go from Spark Seed to Perfect Spark Seed was less time than these children had taken to reach Spark in the first place.

Since Sylas had already gotten what he wanted out of the scan, though, he felt no need to hold it back this time. If anything, he was speeding it up... That was, until he felt it trying to probe at things it shouldn't.

His gaze flickered, but he also didn't panic. Precisely because he had gained the insight he had from the first round, it was all too easy to obstruct the path forward.

With his Scorned Wraps, he could even hide from the system itself, let alone a mere scan. The question was, though... 'Why is it conflating my Seeds now but not during the first round?'

Soon, Sylas had an answer to that too. The first round was trying to sense not his Seed itself, but when it began to germinate. It was sensing when he had first established Rune Sight, and that was a very shallow probe.

This was different.

Unfortunately, Sylas still made a mistake.

This mistake wasn't in regard to revealing his Pride, Lust, or Greed Seed.

Even now... Sylas had not a single clue of the value of a Perfect Spark Seed. When he caused the commotion during the Sanctum gathering, he hadn't been there to see reactions. Others were watching him, not the other way around.

As for Gralith, his reactions were about as muted as Sylas' own. Even though he was there when Sylas perfected his Spark Seed, he hadn't said a single thing about it. Though... it didn't help that soon after, he almost lost his life climbing those stairs.

However, this was just the first layer of it all.

A Perfect Spark Seed was one matter...

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