Multi-Gene

The cave entrance suddenly lit up in a bright light.

Making David squint his eyes, struggling to see clearly.

He quickly told his AI to adjust the intensity in which after, the surroundings lit up in a soft glow.

Not to bright for others to notice but also not too low that he himself would be unable to see clearly.

With slow but steady steps, David walked along the path of the cave.

Although the smell still disturbed him, he had gotten used to it.

After he had walked a few meters forwards, David squinted as he saw a broken piece of steel board laying in one corner of the floor.

Covered in sand and was already in ruins. Rust covered the steel board.

Picking it up, David picked it up, dusting the steel board.

It was only then he could make make out a little of what was written on it.

“Stonevoid.” That was the only word he could make out, he couldn’t make out the other words as they had been rusted beyond his comprehensive ability.

Blinking his eyes, David threw aside the steel and he continued forwards.

After a few steps, a large clearing immediately came into view.

The place was very large and three was a large building hall that was built at the center of the cave.

David could guess that it had been a dwelling place for a small organisation of some sort.

He could feel his heart pumping as he knew he had definitely stumbled into something good.

David observed his surroundings and saw that there were other paths in the cave which led to unknown places.

Three were at least 20 of those paths.

David didn’t wait, he rushed inside the large buildings with excitement visible on his face, intending to see what was inside but he was immediately disappointed.

The instant he set foot into the building, he realised that everything had been thoroughly searched through.

Still not believing he couldn’t find anything useful, he searched the entire building for more than an hour.

There wasn’t a single hint to show that anything of value still remained in the building. 𝒏𝗈𝑽𝔢𝑙𝑵𝚎xt.𝗰𝒐𝔪

He had even ignored the smell the Land Sharjs and other beast that had ever lived in here gave off to search the place for a whole hour.

He was depressed. But very soon, he regained his vigor.

There were still places he hadn’t checked yet.

It took David almost three hours to rampage through the entire underground cave but he found nothing of note.

It was to be expected though. They weren’t the first batch of students that had used this specific location as their competition ground.

He would be extremely lucky if he could even find a drop of serum in the entire underground cave.

The only things he could find are the dwellings of different Land Sharks, the details of thise dwellings, David didn’t wish to remember.

Then, there was a sudden flash of inspiration that fleeted through his mind but he couldn’t get a clear hold of it.

Rubbing his head, he tried recalling what it was. The dwellings of the Land Sharks.

His eyes instantly lit up, every cave dwelling he had searched were of the roughly of the same size which means the low level land sharks and the mid level land sharks had probably been staying there.

But he wasn’t able to find anything related to the high level dark haze Land Shark beast dwelling.

His eyes glinted with a sharp glow and he was visibly excited.

Since he couldn’t find the High level land shark’s dwelling, which means it had probably used its ability to dig a layer for itself underground.

The main reason he had tracked down the land sharks dwelling was because of the high level land shark.

It was practically impossible for a high level dark haze beast to develop an ability without a catalyst.

There had to be something here that had triggered the reaction.

He just had to find it.

But, David then frowned soon after. He couldn’t possibly dig out the whole ground jaut because he was searching for a single layer.

He would only tire himself out of he did that.

That optioned as automatically removed which remained only one option left.

To use the ability he had gained.

Earth Swim: Utilizes the muscles in the body to release a unique undulation that momentarily soften the structure of sands and rocks that comes into contact with the body.

Although david still didn’t know the full extent of the ability yet, as he hadn’t tried it on other things. He was sure it doesn’t work on woods.

He had tried it in the few trees he had encountered on the way and it was basically just a waste of time.

Every time he activated the ability and was near anything apart from sands or rocks, there woukd be a weird feedback he would always receive that makes his body uncomfortable every time he was near anything other than sand or rocks.

A soft hum was heard and his whole muscles shook from underneath the vest and immediately, the earth beneath his feet gave out.

David didn’t panic this time as he had experienced it before, controlling the intensity of the undulations, his descending speed dropped and he finally stablized his body to the ground.

Before the ground could solidify back, David resumed the undulations but this time, he limited them to his upper body left out the muscles below his ankles.

Normally, it was impossible to limit abilities or to fully control them.

That why they are called abilities not techniques.

You can only direct an ability to do as you wish, and in a few case scenario, reduce its output but it was practically impossible to limit or control an ability without a few years of training.

But this was absolutely no problem for David.. With his absolute body control, it was an extremely simple matter, to limit which part of his body would use the ability and which part shouldn’t.

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