Gralith hadn't said much to Sylas after returning. In fact, Gwenu and Khan were nowhere to be seen even now. It was like they had disappeared for good.
But since Gralith hadn't said much about that either, Sylas didn't question it. He wasn't one to speak much anyway. Plus, he had already done his duties in saving Gralith.
Right now, he needed to press forward.
"Cryst Emperor..." Gralith's eyes narrowed, looking at Sylas deeply. "A dangerous question, indeed."
Sylas' expression didn't change. He already expected that a Cryst Emperor wouldn't be a simple figure if they were even remotely tied to his Gene Class, but it seed they were even larger than he knew.
"Do you know how Heavens work?" Gralith asked.
"I do not."
"It could be said that a Heaven is the first true division of territory that makes a aningful difference on a large scale. A Heaven isn't just a parse of land. The most aningful difference in territory there is happens to be the one between the Real World and the Demon World, and a Heaven is a much smaller reflection of the sa thing.
"We are under the Skai Heaven, ruled by the Thryskai Gods. We skew toward Will, and creatures born here tend to have stronger Wills than those born in other Heavens. Cryst Emperors are very rare here because they represent the path of elentalists.
"Although you can find them, they almost all co from the most powerful of Races, while those that don't are quite good at hiding them until they no longer have to."
Gralith didn't have to elaborate on this at all. It was obvious enough what he ant.
If they weren't hiding their secrets anymore, it ant they were powerful enough not to have to. In that case, even if they didn't co from their own powerful Race, they could make their own powerful Race.
Why would you need a powerful backer if you were your own powerful backer?
"That said, because Cryst Emperors also have strong Wills, we actually have a higher proportion of them than many of the other Heavens as well. Only the sr Heaven is comparable, as they tend to have very strong Charisma talent.
"However, the Heaven with the highest proportion of Cryst Emperors without a doubt is the Cryst Heaven. They have the strongest talent in Intelligence across the entire Real World. But..."
Gralith shook his head.
"Travelling between Heavens is a death sentence for you. Your flying vessel is impressive by the standards of this Sector, and even this Horizon, but it wouldn't even be able to touch the void between Heavens without being shredded to pieces.
"Even if you did have such a vessel, the punishnt for trying to leave a Heaven without the express permission of the Thryskai is a death sentence. Their system will unilaterally act on its own and wipe you from existence.
"And, even if you had a vessel and could escape punishnt, it would take you millennia to finish crossing the distance. It's entirely impractical unless you are an S-tier, and that could be considered to be the bare minimum requirent for most.
"Even the great powerhouses of a Heaven could go their entire lives without seeing another Heaven. The God Beasts of The Emperor Sanctum, for example, may go into the strata of the Gods, but that is only the Holy Land of the Skai Heaven. Even they won't attempt to cross."
Sylas slowly nodded. In that case, making it to another Heaven just for the sake of an F-tier Class Quest was really asking for too much. Then what other options did he have?
It wasn't like he could make it to the E-tier without upgrading his Classes.
Well... he technically could, but it would probably make him one of the weakest E-tiers—especially considering his starting point.
Plus, he would be forever stuck at Level 51, never able to make it to even Level 52.
"If you need a Cryst Emperor, then the place most likely to have them would be the Seeing Eye Guild."
"Seeing Eye?" Sylas' gaze flickered.
Normally, if he heard a na that just sounded sowhat familiar, he might brush it off. Back on Earth, plenty of things had similar nas.
But in this world, especially where Will was so important, and given how sensitive Sylas was to it, he knew it carried hints of the sa aura.
The origins were definitely the sa.
Petals of the Seeing Thorn.
The Seeing Eye Guild.
"Your intuition is good. They are related, but not in the way you might think. They are not allies in the usual sense. It's instead that the Seeing Eye Guild was once the Petals of the Seeing Thorn before they took another path."
Sylas raised an internal eyebrow. The Petals of the Seeing Thorn didn't exactly have a path. They were an information network. As far as their path went, it was maybe their reliance on the Seeing Thorn Seed to terraform and take control of territory.
"The Petals of the Seeing Thorn have lost their way sowhat, but you can consider them to have once been a path more in line with the Seeing Heaven, one whose talents lay with Wisdom. But the Seeing Eye deviated toward the Cryst Heaven's path."
"And there's no punishnt from the Skai Heaven in doing so?"
"No. If anything, the Thryskai encourage it. This way, there's a less likely chance that their own paths will be encroached upon."
Sylas nodded inwardly, coming to an understanding. If Convergence was sothing so frowned upon, you would end up in this contradictory tug of war where your talents might very well perfectly align with the Heaven you were born under, but you would have to deviate from it nonetheless in order not to step on the wrong feet.
"By this point, the ties between the Petals of the Seeing Thorn and the Seeing Eye are so thin they hardly exist in anything but na.
"The ties between the Seeing Eye and the Weavers, though... that is a different matter entirely.
"Or, rather than ties, it might be more accurate to say the bad blood."
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