Genetic Ascension

Chapter 1515 Fundamentals [Bonus]

[Bonus thanks to daoistpimpdaddy... listen, sir. I don't sell those services]

It was impossible that the Life and Death Seal were the same thing. The system wouldn't make such a mistake. Well, maybe the impotent system would, but Sylas was fairly certain that the Reaper Sealwright Profession originated from the Legendary System, and he was much more inclined to trust it—maybe because of the words of Arcane Madness, but also because of his own experiences.

Plus, there was the fact that the Sloth wanted it.

Sylas had little to no respect for the Sloth at all, but what he knew for sure was that anything that could make the Sloth get up and act so far from his original body was something more than worth having.

it was impossible to tell just how powerful the Sloth's clone Profession was, but what Sylas was certain of was that anything that could fool the eyes of the system for something so important and pivotal was certainly high level.

The system might be incompetent in some ways, but if the destruction of the Demi-God Thryskai Clan meant anything, it was that when it got serious, it could be extremely dangerous.

Yet, the Sloth's clone was easily treated like a real person. That could only mean one thing: heavy investment. Maybe all of Sylas' current wealth would be unable to match up to the value of that one clone, which probably also meant that Sloth had quite the headache now that he had lost it to the vastness of the universe.

Thankfully, Sylas had something that helped him.

Progenitor Saint.

His Progenitor Grandmaster Title had upgraded to Progenitor Saint. His ability to understand and feel out the future of his Professions had reached a completely new level.

Reaper Sealwright had instantly become his strongest Profession, even surpassing Vipermancy, which was the fusion of three Legendary Professions. However, unlike Vipermancy, which was still stuck at Bronze, Reaper Sealwright was already at Legendary... a true Legendary stage.

The growth potential it had was unfathomable, and it was a bit harder for Progenitor Saint to see through it completely.

But what Sylas needed wasn't for his Title to help him see through the entire thing, but instead a small portion of it, and when he caught onto the faintest edge, the division between the Life Seal and Death Seal, subtle as it was, opened up before him.

“The Life Seal is used against the living. The Death Seal is used against the dead. They both Seal, but what's special is in its usage and in the definition of Life and Death.

The Life and Death referred to by the Profession weren't speaking of personhood, but instead ancestry.

That was when it hit Sylas.

The Life Seal was designed to be used for bloodlines that still lived and thrived. The Death Seal was designed to be used for bloodlines that had long been lost to the annals of history.

This was what the little girl had been implying with her words earlier, and the growth potential of what a Sealwright Profession capable of such things could do was almost... unfathomable.

However, none of that seemed to help the current Sylas. What good to him was a Profession that could do such a thing?

The answer was in the word Seal.

What did it mean to Seal? What form of Rune Mastery was this? What was it about Gene Locks that stifled even a Profession as powerful as Sylas' Vipermancy? What sense did it make that he was actually so helpless against Gene Locks placed by Races that were impossibly weak?

Was the Seal in this description even referring to the very same Gene Locks he was thinking of? It didn't even make sense. Why would he want to Gene Lock a dead bloodline? How could you even begin to Seal one in the first place?

The obvious definition of Sealing was restraint—to chain and hide.

However... there was a subtler definition, one that this Profession seemed to imply it was capable of as well, something that Sylas was beginning to see was becoming a bit of a pattern.

To package... to store... to withhold.

As the Will of the Profession became clearer to Sylas, he was beginning to see a fuller picture—the picture of a Profession that could actually fold Genes, causing them to take up less space.

Could it be that if he used the Life Seal, he could actually allow his body to withstand stronger Genes? If he had had the Reaper Sealwright Profession, would he have been able to absorb Legendary Genes ahead of time?

He didn't even need to level the Profession up to be capable of this. It was such a powerful Profession that it was already capable of working on all F-Grade Genes.

But what about the Death Seal?

What did it even mean?

However, it didn't take long for Sylas to realize that it was precisely because it was so confusing that it was so shocking.

What did it mean to Seal the Gene of a dead bloodline?

The fact it was even possible meant something even more baffling than that.

Sylas could detect a dead bloodline.

When it came to Gogo, this was easy. It was why Sylas took it for granted. He was able to use his sixth sense for Serpentes to feel out the Gene Locks on Gogo's body and undo them one after another.

However, if he wasn't a Vipermancer, how would he have done it? Even further, was Gogo's bloodline truly considered dead?

No, it wasn't. At most, it was headed toward dormancy.

But the Death Seal allowed Sylas to sense truly dead bloodlines—ones with Genes long lost to time.

The obvious question was how. If the bloodline was truly dead, there were no descendants, nothing to grasp at and feel—how could he even trigger something that would awaken it?

This was a fundamental misunderstanding.

The bloodline itself didn't have to be completely dead.

Just aspects of it.

Kind of like a former Overlord Race wiped from existence after failing a Summoning.