Genetic Ascension

Chapter 1774: No Chance

Sylas knew none of what the Omnimous was thinking now. If he had, it would be hard to tell how he would react to the news. He wasn't aware that he was subconsciously suppressing himself, and he also would feel that the reasons the Omnimous had come up with couldn't possibly be the full scope of it all.

It would make sense to Sylas that he would do something like this. But he was also someone who didn't allow his arrogance to get in his way... or, rather, he believed so.

Subconsciously, he would feel like he wouldn't still be holding back at this point, not when so much was still at stake.

But often, what one saw of themselves was only a fraction of what others were able to see.

Sylas' limitations weren't something that he could see clearly precisely because it was himself...

Unfortunately for Sylas, though, the Omnimous' program caused it to make a very specific decision that day, a decision that would keep this matter a secret from Sylas for a much longer while.

The Omnimous was designed to help those it had chosen progress, and as far as it was concerned, a subconscious block like the one Sylas had wasn't something that could be mentioned outright.

This was the sort of matter that could destroy a genius, and if Sylas spent too much time trying to actively find a way to shatter the barrier he had put up himself, then it could lead to the opposite results.

So, while restrained by its own programming, the Omnimous decided to keep this matter a secret. It would keep pushing Sylas incrementally.

And then maybe, one day... it would finally see a version of Sylas that had no restraints at all.

Unfortunately, the Omnimous had been forced to wipe much of its memories in order to continue existing to this point. Otherwise, it would cross-reference across history to see if this had happened before.

Such a genius born on such a weak world really did seem like it could only end one of three ways...

The first was that this person would become the undisputed King like Rhykan Purvon.

The second was that this person would be killed in their crib long before they could grow.

And the third... well, the Omnimous hadn't thought the third was possible until it met Sylas.

In this case, this person would seal themselves away in a shell, cracking away at it slowly...

Until the day they broke free.

Sylas' Will flourished and his telekinesis descended onto Andromeda. He experienced through the Will that Old Brama had left holding it together, but he found it to be clumsy and malformed.

That made sense. Old Brama had never had access to the true inheritance. He could only nibble at the edges. It wouldn't have made sense if he had a full scope of things at all.

However, thanks to that, it made it easy for Sylas to target the weaknesses and break them down.

The system that formed Andromeda began to crumble, and as it did so, so too did an opening open up to allow the whole structure to be deconstructed.

Bolts unwound, wire disconnected, and large pools of the Golden Grove's wealth over several centuries began to be smelted down and returned to their original state.

Metals formed defined piles, separated by grade, kind, and ability. And then further separated by reinforcement, wires, and circuits.

But, by far the most complex of it was the software.

Mature Brama used Runes, not the usual methods of software development of the Omnimous. It was clear that when the Omnimous looked at it, it felt quite some disdain. Old Brama didn't call it an arrogant bastard for no

reason.

While the workmanship was shoddy compared to what was possible, Sylas had a small bit of praise for Old Brama. Figuring out how to meld the two was not easy.

Sylas, himself, hadn't thought of any easy method. He kept wanting to incorporate Runes, but he found that it would take too much time to figure out a path.

Old Brama's method definitely wasn't any good. But...

He had worked with what he had.

As Sylas deconstructed it, he still slotted away some of the improvements in his thoughts. It was difficult for him to understand D and C-tier Runes. But because Andromeda was designed to be used by all Tiers beneath Brama's own, it had many Runes of lesser quality as well.

However, soon, even it was completely deconstructed.

The methods of the Omnimous were quite simple. It took a software approach first, and then came a hardware approach. The trouble was that its "software" was the universe itself.

A software to most people was just a language that spoke to computers. But the foundation of any computer language would ultimately end up in some binary set of ones and zeroes that the computer could actually understand.

The foundation of Omnimous software programming were particles and their spins. It communicated with the world in a series of positives and negatives, lining them up, structuring them, and plotting out their interactions until you could force the interaction you wanted.

This was one of the easiest ways to surpass the second Omni Barrier, the Barrier of Coordination.

Particle spin could avoid the latency of the speed of light because any reaction to the spin of a pair of paired particles was instantaneous.

However, all of that was easier said than done.

This method of programming was actually better suited for those that had already mastered the third Omni Barrier... while Sylas had only just begun.

Technically speaking, the method he should be using, and the one most common for those overcoming the first and second Barriers, was the circuit programming method. This used electric pulses and complex circuitry and switches to program systems.

It essentially worked like ancient computers, ones that functioned with gears and could calculate the time and dates in the far-off future... except, obviously, far more complex.

Sylas didn't have time to mess around with this first method.

He jumped straight to the next step.

If he couldn't grasp this, he had no chance.