What did all of these andering thoughts have in common?
The fear of the unknown? Simulations and complexity?
Nothing on the surface. And yet everything in reality.
Why did humans go from one fear to the next, never learning from their mistakes and simply choosing as a whole to redirect their fear toward sothing new and unknown?
But why was it also the case that the simplest concepts to intuitively understand weren't always the most correct? What was the dividing line between what one could reliably use intuition for versus when you should rely on a more analytic, complicated approach?
Sylas wasn't thinking about these things literally. He was thinking about them in regard to how they applied to Rune Mastery, how they shaped his own thoughts about how he approached things.
It was true. The world, the star system, the galaxy, the Sector, the Horizon, the universe itself... When had it ever cared about the separation between Tiers? Weren't Tiers just a type of categorization created by the system in order to divide power into understandable, bite-sized pieces?
What was the difference between Tiers and humans deciding what their new thing to fear was? A new unknown horizon to be wary of?
But much the sa way... when things reached a level that was complex enough, how could you continue to rely on the sa intuition to understand things?
Maybe it made sense to take things step by step like this, to first understand the F-tier, and then the E-tier, before you could one day make it to the S-tier. And maybe it made sense to first comprehend Runes as their individual Strokes, and then as their Foundations, and then as their Runes, and then the shes that connected them.
But at what point did this logic break down? At what point was intuition not enough?
And was that point the sa for everyone?
Sylas had known imdiately that the simulation theory was nonsense the mont he saw it. He knew intuitively there was sothing wrong with it.
But others didn't seem to.
And maybe that was why Sylas' intuition had brought him so much further than most others.
He made it to Spark Mastery on his own without relying on the legacy left by soone else. On the surface, that just seed to be his own act of genius, and that much was true. But maybe his threshold of intuition was just higher than others... But that didn't an that it was as high as it could ever possibly be or that there weren't things beyond it.
If there weren't things beyond it, he would never need to read or learn about Rune Mastery at all. Why would he need the library of the Weaver Guild in the first place?
No, even his own intuition had its limits, and that wasn't sothing Sylas had a problem with.
What he had had a problem with was why he didn't understand the Legendary Luck Gene.
But it had beco all too obvious to him now.
One part of why he didn't understand it was, in a sense, intuition. He intuitively thought that all F-tier Runes had a limit of 100 Foundations, and any complex sh of F-tier Runes had to be ford of Runes that were 100 Foundations or fewer. It also logically followed that any subsection of this sh would be sothing he could break down and co to understand given enough ti.
The Life and Death Seals were two of the most complex shes that he had ever seen, but he could do the sa. What about the Legendary Luck Gene made it so masterfully shocking? So impossible to grasp and comprehend? Why couldn't he understand it at all?
Fear.
It wasn't his own fear. It was the fear of the Rune Masters that ca before him.
When humans and humanoids didn't understand sothing, they started small. They deified and raised it up on a pedestal. And only when they finally did understand it did they move on.
Sotis that fear wasn't warranted at all, like in the creation of pantheons that didn't exist.
But sotis, that fear was warranted, though maybe not always for the right reasons.
It was logical to fear the Antarctic; it could reap lives in the silence of the cold and the blanket of the ice.
However, as one took one step, and then another, the lingering effects of that forr fear would remain and never be fully erased... Those mistakes would build, they would compile... unless soone went back and forcefully changed every single level themselves.
Maybe that was what a Rune Master was ant to do. Maybe you were ant to reach S-tier Rune Mastery first. And then, you would unhurriedly take one step back after another, returning to earlier and earlier levels until you used the scope of the world you had reached to elevate them all to a new tier.
And then one would use this new insight to improve their S-tier Rune Mastery once more, and then go back and repeat... Again...
And then again...
All in hopes of maybe one day reaching the true peak of Rune Mastery, a level where maybe you could break the fundantal laws of the universe and truly successfully Simulate your own universe... A level where you could form a system that blanketed all there was to teach others how to take one step after another just like you had... But he was Sylas Grimblade.
He was better than that.
He feared no god, no ocean, no endless depth of space.
There was only one thing he feared, one thing that he wasn't even subconsciously aware of just yet. But... the difference was that the F-tier could never bring himself close to that ceiling... So what need did he have to fear it now?
He could feel it. That infinity the universe was so comfortable with...
The perfection of Void Mastery...
The Infinite Void.
He didn't need to take it in steps, he didn't need to rely on his intuition, he had all the information he needed to complete the complex computation himself... To write the refutation of the proof himself...
To step into the Infinite Void Himself.
Sylas' eyes opened and a pulse radiated out with him as the center.
The water level of the entire ocean rose as a blanket vacuum appeared around him.
'This is it.'
Sylas thought calmly, opening his palm.
In a flashing instant... a perfect Legendary Luck Gene erged.
Drawn by his own hand.
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