Chapter 1189: Sacred (2)
Feeling it out, honestly... Sylas felt cheated.
He had been told that all Aether Paths were made equal. In fact, the one that had told him that they were made equal was none other than this little girl right here and her Madness Key.
Back then, Sylas wasn’t sure what Mancy Path he should be going for, so he had asked the Madness Key. But it had said that it didn’t matter because all Paths could be taken to the end.
Maybe that was still true, but the Madness Key’s habit of only answering exactly what you asked was rearing its ugly head again, and he was suffering for it.
A Sacred Mount wasn’t a rank, not technically. Legendary still stood on its own. The problem was that a Sacred Mount, or a Sacred Beast, carried with it a Path of Mancy that did stand above all others. It represented an Aether that was graded as Sacred.
The Madness Key hadn’t lied to Sylas. All Aethers were created equal in that they could all reach the very pinnacle. However... it was only when they were actually at that pinnacle that they were truly equal.
At almost every other point before then? They were very much not equal. In fact, the further from the peak they were at the start, the more unlikely it was that they would reach the pinnacle in the first place.
By comparison, Sacred Aether stood on a stage all its own. It was at a level where the number of Foundations that made it up almost didn’t matter. Even mediocre Sacred Aether suppressed all others, taking precedent as though it was of an elevated tier.
Facing off against a Sacred Aether felt a lot like facing off against an E-Grade as an F-Grade... and not everyone had the necessary Title to ignore that suppression.