Genetic Ascension

Chapter 989  Step One

It wasn't long before Sylas found his first target. There was something particularly nostalgic about it all. Watching the slumbering beast ahead slowly be baptized by the dense Aether in the air, it felt like he was right back to his first day in the Trial.

Since then, he had truly come a long way, longer than even he could imagine… and in a much shorter time than he could have ever imagined as well.

Sylas exhaled a breath and his focus almost became its own form of deadly.

He wasn't yet sure if the beast would wake up while he took action. It was unlikely, but an extra hint of caution wouldn't harm him.

This was the real outside world, it was no longer Earth, nor was it a Quest world where everyone's stats were reset. The beasts he would face here would have foundations deeper than anything he had ever faced, and their power would reflect that.

Here, being an F+ by the system's estimation already made you an elite. If you were an FF- existence, you'd probably be treated as a noble most places you went.

Sylas was used to almost anything of decent power being slapped with an FFF+. But now, things would be getting very real.

Soon, however, Sylas realized that his caution was unwarranted. These beasts wouldn't be getting up at all. It seemed that his plans to suck this place dry of all its resources could come to fruition.

'I see. I think I can speed up the Aether flow if I…'

Sylas could see the flaws in the Runes quite clearly. He took control of them, pressing his Will down and adjusting the mistakes he saw. Slowly, the speed at which the beast was absorbing the Aether increased.

First it was only a few percentage points, but then it accelerated faster and faster until it became exponential.

'Good enough.'

Sylas knew that if he continued beyond a certain point, the beast would wake up prepared to battle.