Genetic Ascension - Chapter 1885: Code 000
Chapter 1885: Code 000
The elevator came to a stop and Sylas stepped out.
The world around them was quite odd. It was nothing but a huge cave opening and black rock all around. Howling winds came out from the center of the cave, but other than this, there was nothing else at all.
“What do you want me to do?” Fanelei asked.
If this was what she thought it was, she definitely wasn’t supposed to be able to make it here. While, as an A-tier and a Rune Master, she could easily obscure her presence in front of far weaker beings, fooling their eyes was one thing; fooling their formations and such was a completely different matter.
This was clearly a very important place for the Emperor Sanctum. The Weaver Guild had something similar.
In established territories, Dungeons didn’t randomly appear anymore. Instead, they usually became resources.
Though Dungeons would still randomly appear on the fringes just outside of an established territory and beyond, they weren’t predictable and were often quite dangerous.
At this level, people preferred the illusion of danger rather than true danger. It was why Sylas had surpassed so many of them so quickly.
Their hearts were weak, so how could their fists be hard?
That said… everything was a matter of relativity. Whether or not a controlled Dungeon was a danger or not was highly dependent on who was entering and how much information or how many advantages they had.
And in this case… the situation was very murky.
If Sylas wasn’t the first to enter this Dungeon, he would certainly be among the very first. It was just that if anyone else had been foolish enough to enter, they would have almost certainly died, used as experimental puppets by the Ancestors of the Sanctum.
Usually, Code 000 Dungeons were known as Core Dungeons. These were Dungeons born not entirely of the system.
One of the most valuable treasures of the Emperor Sanctum was known as the Mirror Dungeon. This was a Dungeon of unknown challenge because it reflected back what it was given.
Mirror Dungeons could be of any Level within certain parameters. It depended on the Level of the Mirror Dungeon itself. Basically, if a Mirror Dungeon was Level 300, then it could create any Dungeon at or below that level. Likewise, if a Dungeon was of the Fragmented Grade, no matter its Level, it could only create Dungeons at that Grade of quality.
The Emperor Sanctum’s Rule Book didn’t pinpoint the exact quality of its Mirror Dungeon. This was a closely guarded secret that even Gralith didn’t know.
However, if Sylas were to guess… it was a Silver Grade Level 200 Mirror Dungeon.
This meant that the strongest Dungeon it could create was a Dungeon of the Silver Grade with a Level 200 recommended Entry Level-basically, in layman’s terms, a Dungeon designed for a B-tier.
Though the Silver Grade was the truly troublesome part. Silver was very well known to be the pinnacle of Mortal difficulty, sometimes even capable of spilling over into Demi-God-level difficulty.
The Gold Grade very rarely appeared in the Mortal Realm, and when it did, it was under unique circumstances. Even the Weaver Guild’s Ancestral Profession was only Silver, and they were one of the strongest powers beneath the Thryskai in the Mortal Realm.
However, this wasn’t what made the Mirror Dungeon of the Emperor Sanctum so valuable…
Usually, Mirror Dungeons could only reflect a single Dungeon at a time. However, the Mirror Dungeon of the Emperor Sanctum was such that it was capable of splitting once for every one of the Lineages it had.
Essentially, every Code 000 Dungeon could be challenged at the same time.
The only real limitation of the Mirror Dungeon was that only one person could enter at a time. But this didn’t feel like a limitation. For such a powerful Dungeon, it made sense to train in it alone if you were truly trying to push yourself.
The problem was that it was so powerful that only Mountain Disciples used it…
These Mountain Disciples, by now, had an obvious origin. They were disciples powerful enough to call the Mountain of their Lineage their home-a place where the Peak housed the Ancestors of their Lineage.
So why did a location to enter the Mirror Dungeon exist here?
It was a challenge and a method of mitigating dissatisfaction.
Did you think you deserved to enter the Mountain of your Lineage?
Prove it.
By now, what Sylas wanted to do was all too obvious… but it likewise begged a question.
What did it mean to clear a Code 000 Dungeon if the Mountain in question was unhoused?
It had to be remembered that a Mirror Dungeon had a maximum level, not a minimum. What it reflected back was dependent on the one entering.
Usually, so long as you were at or below Level 200, the Dungeon would form a Dungeon at your level for you to attempt to clear. The grade would range usually from Common to Bronze. Only if your Spirit Beast was exceptional would it manifest a Silver Dungeon.
However, in order to be accepted as a Mountain Disciple, you had to clear at least a Bronze one. If you cleared a Silver one, you wouldn’t just become a Mountain Disciple-you would become one of the Chosen of the 713th Emperor in question.
What would it form when Sylas entered?
The obvious answer was that it would form a Silver Level 51 Dungeon.
There was one problem with this conclusion, though-one gap in the information.
Why was the Mirror Dungeon capable of splitting to the exact number of Lineages? What was the correlation?
This was a secret that Sylas had unearthed while reading the rule book. It was something so easily glossed over and accepted that no one seemed to care.
But the answer seemed quite obvious to Sylas.
The Mirror Dungeon was being mutated and improved by the Spirits of the Lineal Beasts. And if that was happening, that meant the system of the Emperor Sanctum was directly changing and tweaking the Heaven System. And if that was the case, then every time a new Lineage was added—especially a Core Lineage on the level of, and maybe even beyond, the Lion, Whale, Ape, and Serpent… The Mirror Dungeon evolved.
[Trial of the Monkey King (Gold)]
