Genetic Ascension

In order to trade for one of the Lineage’s legacies, Sylas needed 100,000 points. And these were just the lesser Lineages. If he wanted one of the top four—the Whale, the Serpent, the Ape, or the Lion—it would cost anywhere from one million to over four million.

These prices were practically arbitrary, and looking at them now, Sylas could tell that they were set based on the whims of the Warlords.

The cheapest was actually the one he wanted, the Whale Lineage, at “just” a million. The most expensive was the Lion at 4,500,000 War Points, and the second most expensive was the Serpent at 3,000,000 War Points.

You could practically scale all of this based on which Warlord hated him the most. He had no conflicts with the 713th Whale Warlord, but he had defeated the number one E-tier Serpent Lineage disciple, and he knew that his thwarting of the Bat Lineage had ruined the Lion Lineage’s hopes for supremacy.

This wasn’t even for the full Lineage either. That was just the price for the F-Grade access to the legacies. If he wanted the E-Grade access, he would have to do it all over again with the E-Grade challenges.

There was a 100x gap between the F-tier and E-tier. Exchanging for an E-Grade reward would require him to turn in 100x the War Points.

But one thing was very clear at a single glance. The War Point rewards for the E-tier were actually far more reasonable.

Since there was already a conversion between F- and E-Grade War Points, then the rewards should be about the same.

But the E-Grade Warlord Challenges offered more than 10x the rewards. Even the lowest offered six-figure rewards, and the highest offered eight figures.

If Sylas was given equivalent rewards in the F-tier, he would be able to complete just a single Warlord Challenge and be rewarded with all four of the top Lineages.

But that was clearly impossible.

This was a hidden pressure release valve. It was obvious they felt that Sylas’ odds of completing these tasks were too high, and they didn’t actually want to have to hand over their legacies, so they made it more difficult by lowering the rewards.

Sylas would need to run around like a headless chick, clearing the entire list of Challenges, from the simplest Soldier Grade ones all the way up to this so-called Champion Arena just to gather enough points to trade for everything he wanted.

However, there was an obvious solution to all of this.

Ignore the F-tier ones for now, and then clear E-tier challenges, then trade down. He would get more points that way, obviously.

But Sylas wouldn’t be nearly as smart as he thought he was if he couldn’t see that the Warlord Heads had clearly thought of this already.

Yes, he could do this. But then what?

If he used his E-tier points to trade for the F-tier rewards, then how much more difficult would it be for him to trade for the E-Grade legacies he wanted?

They had obviously seen his strength. They knew that while he could probably clear many of the Soldier and even General Grade challenges, it was impossible for Sylas to clear the Warlord Grade challenges.

Sylas had to agree with them. The scaling of the Warlord Grade challenges were also Astral and Empyrean Grade Dungeons. And there were actually many more of them on the list as though to taunt him.

He didn’t have the strength to clear such Dungeons right now. They had recommended stats in the six figures, power that would be approaching the ten figures on Earth.

It was too much.

He could see what they thought would happen. They believed he would get frustrated, then use his E-tier level strength to make things easier on himself. But by then he would run out of the points he would need to make getting the E-Grade legacies possible.

Sylas’ expression didn’t change much, though. He scanned down the list, his eyes barely flickering at all.

‘There are 73,372 F-tier Soldier Grade challenges. 513,604 War Points are available from them.

‘There are 21,114 F-tier General Grade challenges. 1,583,550 War Points are available from them.

‘Plus 1,389,100 War Points available from the Warlord Grade challenges. That makes a total of 3,486,254 War Points if I clear them all. That is enough to trade for both the Whale and Ape.

‘For the E-tier, if I were to clear all of the Soldier Grade challenges, there would be 633,827 War Points available. Of over 60 million F-Grade War Points upon conversion. But…’

Therein lay the problem. They had purposely lowered the rewards of the challenges it was clear Sylas could complete. But when it came to the E-tier Warlord challenges, their rewards were substantially greater.

Just over 600,000 War Points wasn’t enough to trade for even the cheapest Whale Lineage Sylas wanted.

This didn’t even address the elephant in the room. If Sylas used all his points on legacies, then he wouldn’t be able to trade for any other resources either.

However, it seemed that these days… the Sanctum wanted to test his bottom line again and again.

In truth, he wasn’t even remotely interested in the Lion Lineage. He had never had the intention to trade for it.

Now, though, he would for no other reason than to prove a point.

It had to be remembered that when the Whale Warlord was speaking, she had mentioned that there would be challenges, but there was something else that she had mentioned as well.

There was far more freedom in this phase that the Sanctum was entering than was being explained on this mission list.

What was it she had said again…?

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‘As for how you will accumulate these War Points, it will be up to you. Some of you maybe choose to Dungeon Hunt. Others might choose to challenge the Alpha Beasts of our territory. We do not stand opposed to any method you use—including if you choose to join the efforts of an external third party.’

Sylas’ eyes scanned to the bottom of the list.

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[War Points System]

[Cost: 10,000 War Points]

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The Sanctum didn’t have the time or resources to monitor the actions of every single disciple. So, instead, it had set up an acute system of its own, one that functioned like the Wheel of Fortune to measure the feats of its disciples and reward points accordingly.

Half of the reason Sylas barely reacted was that something like this couldn’t faze him, but the other half of the reason was because he understood the real reason these Dungeons appeared on this leaderboard was that they would have justifiable reason to exclude them from the War Points System.

Even if Sylas went and cleared these Dungeons on his own, the War Points System wouldn’t pick it up as a feat because it already had a designated War Point count to it.

What they didn’t know was that Sylas now had free and quick transportation to anywhere within the surrounding three Sectors.

However, just targeting an Astral Dungeon not on the list would be too easy. Far too easy.

“Let’s clear the entire list,” Sylas said. “Brama, use Andromeda to set the most efficient route through all of these locations.”

Old Brama’s lip twitched. “Even if you cleared every one of these Dungeons in a single second, the time it takes to travel between them would still make it take months to finish.”

“Three months,” Sylas said indifferently.

He had already memorized and calculated the ideal route through them all. He had memorized the Star Maps and hyper highways, after all.

He just wanted Old Brama to memorize them too, which was why he asked.

He had no intention of being the one driving, after all. He would be too busy recovering.