Genetic Ascension

Chapter 1771: Omni Barriers

Circuits, electricity, chemistry, mechanical engineering...

Honestly speaking, Sylas felt like he was in an engineering program on Earth more than he was learning about shocking alien technology that could change the world. It sensed so... grounded.

One logical progression after another. It didn't feel as magical to him as it should...

Until he found himself building a fusion reactor in the palm of his hands.

It felt like it went from the simplest of concepts to a mind-boggling result. Such a thing on Earth would have made him a King. Not just of a small region, but of the entire world.

And yet, Sylas hadn't put much of his personal power into it at all. All he had done was follow instructions and craft something out of parts that would have been readily available even on a world that hadn't completed its Summoning.

Even so, if he threw out this fusion reactor and let it explode, there were probably very few F-tiers that could survive it. Certainly, there were no such F-tiers in the Milky Way other than himself. Even Cassarae wouldn't be able to do much of anything against it.

While it was true that her Class was shocking, and her Race had improved to the A-tier, she was still a Level O trying to eke out as much of her potential as she could. Her foundation was sturdy, but her actual power was extremely lacking.

If she were a Level 50, Sylas gave her probably 50/50 odds of surviving such a thing.

But this was something that any normal human who hadn't undergone an awakening could have made.

Well, that wasn't exactly true. It took a great amount of dexterity, not to mention the capacity of having a mind that was well-versed in a range of matters at a level far surpassing a simple PhD.

Even so, Sylas felt the only thing barring him from accomplishing this without having undergone a Summoning was time. It took him mere minutes to reach this level now. Had he been a normal human, he felt he could have done it in a month or two.

Of course, if others heard this assessment he had for himself, they would be baffled. Sylas had learned the equivalent of probably dozens of fields' decades of research in a few brief moments. However... He didn't see anything complicated about it.

According to the Omnimous, the fusion reactor was merely a Class 1 F-tier object. Well, more accurately, it was encroaching on Class 2, especially since Sylas had crafted it to fit in the size of his palm rather than a province- sized room. But there were still 8 levels of exponentially greater difficulty beyond that.

Sylas crushed the fusion reactor in his palms, and a nuclear explosion shook the air before dissipating. He looked at his hand, the scorched marks quickly healing.

"Continue," he said calmly.

"We have caught up with what Sir Sylas Grimblade might feel is quite grounded. As the saying of your world goes, any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Sylas nodded.

"The bottleneck for all technology is often separated into two facets. One is what you know as Moore's Law on your planet, and the other is energy. The fusion technology you've created is already good enough to be applied to any technology all the way up to Class 5, assuming higher states of refinement and various cascade and chain- reaction-like applications. But Moore's Law is more complex to deal with."

Sylas nodded again. The problem wasn't actually Moore's Law itself. All Moore's Law was, was an observation. It noted that transistor density doubled on average every two or so years.

Transistors were essentially the roads on microchips. They controlled the flow of electricity and energy. The more of them there were, the more Os and 1s a microchip could account for, and the more it could do. That was the short of it.

But as transistor density increased, you'd run into a pesky problem.

Quantum physics.

The laws of the world seemed to fundamentally change on the smallest scales, and it became more unpredictable.

In practice, there was no chance a cup would fall through the surface of a table. But according to physics, there was a chance though that chance was infinitely minute.

The smaller the scale you were working with, the more often those impossibilities might crop up.

When the density of transistors reached a certain level, setting aside matters like problems of heat control and dissipation, or quantum tunneling, or the issue of quality control, you would quite literally be fighting against the tendency of the universe to bend toward chaos.

That was a huge bottleneck that humanity had to overcome, and one that Earth had yet to even begin to cross. It was in such a far-off, distant future that only the highest-level theoretical classes talked about them with any real depth. Though, Sylas was sure that big-name companies and governments alike had already been pouring a great sum of money into handling this matter.

However, unsurprisingly, the Omnimous already had a solution.

"Bottlenecks like this are known as Omni Barriers. Your Moore's Law and energy problems are considered to be the lowest-level Omni Barriers. We call them as such because they are crossed using what we know as Omni Methods.

"While it is possible to cross these barriers with technological advances, beyond a certain point, there comes a limit to what individuals can accomplish. You would need teams of people and unfathomable amounts of space.

"For Sir Sylas Grimblade's current strength level, crossing the second Omni Barrier would require gathering power from about 20% of a star, and require as much space as the average continent of your world.

"In order to pass through these Omni Barriers while maintaining control and sustainability on an individual level, you will need your mind and your energy. This is where your individual ability will be needed-your Aether, your Will, and often your Charisma stats as well.

"This is where true Omni training begins."