Multi-Gene

David's heart thumped loudly. Beads of sweat began to form in his forehead as he tried his hardest to control his instincts to flee immediately.

But everything was hidden and couldn't be seen through the mask. The leader could only see David's dull eyes as though he wasn't surprised by the words he had spoken, which was unexpected, contrary to what he had thought would happen.

Underneath his clothes, a tiny black orb the size of an eyeball rolled out of it and rested in his palms as he held onto it.

With that, he immediately felt some sense of security. Gaining his confidence back, David opened his mouth to refute, the leader suddenly raised his hand to stop him. "There is no need for you to explain yourself. Your reward for wining the competition is that I won't pursue the matter any further. And as for the clip, I will take care of it, so it would not get into the wrong hands. It's the best I can do for you." 

David was immediately surprised. As he glanced at the leader in front of him. But he wasn't stupid to ask why as he had a vague idea the leader had a sudden change of mind. "Everyone has his or her own secrets. And moreover, I'm not going to fall out with a genius because of this matter. Alright, I should start going. Just make sure there isn't a Beast Phantom Master around when you fight next time or you wouldn't be alive to regret it." The leader waved his hands and turned to leave.

But before he left, he turned back and said. "Oh, the Black Market will open next week, be sure to keep an eye on the date." With that, he turned to leave, along with the others that were loitering in the surroundings under his command.

David remained silent all through and when it was a minute after they left his sight, a single droplet of sweat seeped out from his back and dropped to the ground.

David staggered backwards and almost fell on his butt.

He was exhausted. The leader was simply a monster. He had locked down all of David's movements with just his gaze alone.

David wasn't sure but there was a probability that he had wanted to make a move on him but changed his mind.

As for he reason, David glanced at the orb in his hands. He was really glad he had bought this stuff back then otherwise, there was a probability that he might have been captured.

The Black Orb. When broken, temporarily opens up an extremely unstable small black hole, sucking everything within a hundred meters radius within its hole.

A very dangerous piece of gadget to have. As it would also suck in the person who activated it inside the whole.

It was also very very expensive and David could only afford to one even if he wanted to purchase two.

Keeping the Blackhole Orb safely in his pocket. He stood up a bit unsteady and turned to leave. He didn't want to stay a single second in this place.

When he reached his dorm, he didn't immediately start practicing Formless Heat, he took out the book he had been scammed out of.

His face turned a shade of red as he recollected how madly he had been scammed. But there was nothing he could do about it.

Grabbing the technique from his pockets, "Unity Technique, sounds like a lovemaking technique." David muttered and he opened the first page.

"The Unity Technique can only be used to unite two techniques together, no more.

It helps stimulate, move and arrange the veins, blood vessels and muscles to the correct path so that one can successfully practice the two techniques at the same time.

When practicing the Unity Technique, one need to insert the faint traces of the techniques that one wants to merge with into it and circulate the blood vessels, oscillate the muscles accordingly.

The technique contains only 12 levels in it. And with the advancement of each level, the quality of techniques that can be merged increases.

The final level could even successfully merge two Legacies together."

David opened his eyes in disbelief. He couldn't believe he had stumbled into such a gem.

Then he paused as he remembered something. "If that was the case, why did those people say I was scammed?"

David furrowed his brows in confusion and then opened to the next page. Soon, he chucked drily with what he read.

The technique was incredibly hard to practice. The first stage alone requires 6 months of constant practice to achieve. Successfully merging the two techniques into a low level Black grade technique.

And the second stage requires double the amount of time for the first stage. Which means, it would take 1 more years of constant practice to successfully upgrade the technique to a mid level Black grade technique.

The third stage of the technique would require two more years of constant practice to successfully upgrade the technique to the high level Black grade technique .

The fourth stage would require another four more years of constant practice to successfully upgrade the technique to a low level Brown Grade technique, if the technique was of a higher level one

The years required would keep doubling up, until one reaches the twelfth level of the technique which would require More than Two thousand years and 6 months to reach the highest level, finally reaching the Legacy level.

The manual was only based on theoretical knowledge and hypothesis. No one in this institution would waste his or her time focusing on merging low level techniques.

Thwy would rather spend their time growing stronger, and afterwards, acquiring even more powerful Exercising Methods or combat skills.

And even if someone wanted to merge a high level Black grade technique, the person would spend more than 3 years of practice just to successfully merge two ordinary black grade techniques.

And even after the merging, who is to say the merged skill or technique would actually grow stronger. It might grow even weaker after all making the years spent on merging the techniques wasted. It was practically a lost cause, which was why it could be bought for a cheap price.