Chapter 565: Choice

Chapter 565: Choice



Sylas had originally come here with two purposes in mind.

The first was to get the last bits he needed to finish up the evolution of the Serpentes Contract he was creating to complete the Bronze leg of his Path of the Mancer Chain Quest.

The second was to hopefully find a treasure good enough to help Mancer's Blossom gain a Wood affinity that he could make use of to comprehend a Wood-Ice-Poison Rune.

However, there was a bit of a dilemma here now. Sort of.

The Violet Rose Heart itself seemed to qualify to clear his Quest, but only in part. He would still need to go and find an Ice affinity creature of Level 30 and above to finish it off.

This would be too much of a hassle, especially since his original goal was to complete this leg quickly. He was much too far away from any location he might be able to find such a beast in.

If he wasn't to find an Lv30 Ice Beast, he would have to either hope he stumbled across a portal that led him to a cold Territory or he would have to literally cross the Africor Continent, heading far north or south. It certainly didn't help that he was smack dab in the middle of the continent right now.

However, if he followed his original plan, he would be able to deal with it all right here. He already had the prepared Serpentes ready to go; he was just missing this final piece.

So the question was why was he hesitating?

The reason for that was because the quality of the Class he received was obviously dependent on just how good the target was.

All the Quest asked him to do was kill a Level 30 or above creature with the appropriate Paths of the Mancer. That was it.

However, as he had seen from his time with the Arctic King Cobras, the Classes the normal Level 10 Arctic King Cobras gave him, and the Class the Level 12 Arctic Emperor Cobra gave him were like night and day.

The Serpentes he created with his Legendary Path Talents would only be Quasi King creatures at best, and that was only if he went as far as sacrificing these invaluable pieces of True King creatures to them.

[Ground Boa (FFF+)]

[Level: 30]

It had grown eight Levels since Sylas first met it, and that had taken no small bit of effort. The amount of resources that Sylas had to collect to get it to this point dwarfed the tens of millions.

He didn't really feel it in his pockets because he had just used the City Stele's ability to feel out these locations, and then his Insight Path Talent to find the triggers for the boa's evolution. But that didn't change the fact this creature was a huge investment.

It had started with an Earth affinity, but that made it very compatible with wood. Allowing it to gain poison and ice after the fact was relatively easy as well.

The Ground Boa was like the perfect blank slate. It had a sturdy body, its Earth affinity wasn't overwhelming, and it didn't have any higher lineages tugging it in certain directions.

That was what made it perfect.

Sylas took out the Beast Core from the Violet Rose Heart and forced it into the boa's stomach. Then, he pressed a hand to its forehead and began to slowly guide things.

Groundbreaking changes shook the Ground Boa's body. It was incredibly docile, not daring to lift even a finger. Even if Sylas wanted it to kill itself right here and now, it would do so. There was an innate sort of respect that these creatures had for Sylas. And even though he had yet to spend the two million Free Experience he got from his other two System Cities, just his presence alone seemed to subdue Serpentes.

He even had a feeling that part of the reason Nosphaleen hadn't even considered betraying him yet was also because of this.

But no matter how much this Ground Boa respected him, it wouldn't stop him from doing what he needed to do.

The moment he sensed the Ground Boa break through a threshold, the palm he had placed on

its forehead trembled.

The head of the Ground Boa shattered.