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Part Eleven

“The name of this method is called inner Yin and Yang; it can only be done with a person of the opposite sex. There are several steps you can take to increase your essence with this technique, but I'll only explain to you the simplest one.

Now you two, hold each other's hand with both hands. Good, just like that. Close your eyes and focus on your partner. Try to feel the essence within their body, once you have a good feel for it pull it towards you. Use your right arm as a channel to guide the essence into your own body.

Don’t worry if you can’t get it on your first try; it does take some time before the average person can utilize this technique.”

Sweat emerged on the foreheads of both the youths. One could see how hard they were concentrating.

Shortly after they both let go of each other's hands.

“This is a method I found when I was in Paris years ago. I slightly adjusted it to my own standards to get the same effect. The reason this is so special is because you can do it with anyone as long as they are the opposite gender.

In ancient China, they also had a method like this which allowed one to increase their inner chi up to five times the normal rate. That method is a little inappropriate for students, but it can also be applied now for the same growth rate. I would not recommend it unless you have a permanent partner because at that point you are no longer channeling each other's essence you are mixing them together and absorbing it. Due to that reason, you can only have one partner and if you try to do it with anyone else your essence will become chaotic.”

Darius went further into detail, explaining that finding a random person you’ll have an increase of at least two time your normal rate. However, if you find someone with the same attribute as yourself, you can obtain three times the effect.

He explained the type of each essence in a person's body.

Most EXO essence followed the same standard. Red essence in the body would mean that the person had a fire type EXO. Blue meant water, silver was ice, and the list went on and on.

“Mr. Hellbane, what happens if your partner's essence is much greater than your own? Will the benefits be the same?”

One of the females asked this question.

“No, it is ideal you find someone who has the same amount of essence as you as well. This will stimulate your own growth at a regulated speed allowing both parties to benefit.

If one person had a larger pool than the other, only one person would benefit. True, that person’s essence would increase at a much faster rate than usual because it is channeling essence from a much more prominent source. However, the quicker the increase, the higher the risk you would have as well. Your essence has a high chance to become unstable, meaning that at any time you’d have a chance to overflow.”

When she heard him say that you’d have a chance to overflow she knew how high the risk was then. As an EXO user, the last thing you wanted to do was have an overflow of essence.

Overflow was when your essence was greater than your body's capacity. A person’s body can only hold a certain amount of essence, this amount will increase over time, but it always increased slowly.

Think of it as a cup. A cup could only hold so much water, when it was full, it cannot hold any more water. Water can still go in the cup, but it will cause an overflow making the water inside leak out.

Where does that water go? You’d clean it up of course.

For EXO essence it is different, your body is the cup. You cannot clean it up if it overflows. When an EXO user overflowed one of two things happened. You either died because your body could not handle the amount you were trying to give it. Or your body mutated and you lost a vast majority of your reasoning becoming something else entirely.

People who mutated ended up becoming monsters who couldn’t help but feed off others for more essence. They became addicted to it. These mutants needed to be put down, and they had a specific force that handled such task.

“What would you say the percentage is for a person to succeed in that method and not overflow?”

“Give or take, around two percent. Under the right circumstances, that's only if everything about the two people were almost the same. Your rate would increase to five percent.”

Darius gave his honest answer.

“What do you believe the chances are for a person to survive an overflow?”

Nick asked him since they were currently on the topic of overflow, might as well ask.

“You mean their body mutates, but they keep all their reasoning and are still in control of their body?”

Nick nodded his head.

Darius tapped his chin with his index finger as he thought about such a case.

For a person to survive such an ordeal was highly unlikely, but that did not mean they couldn’t.

“I can’t give you an exact percentage, but if a hundred million people were to overflow. There is a chance one of them will keep their sanity.”

Nick asked Darius a follow-up question. How the difference in mutated beings and ordinary people there had to be a gap. He was curious as to how large of a difference did Darius think it was.

“Given a comparison, how would you rate them compared to the top EXO users? I mean, if they survived I'd imagine that the power they hold is immense. The gap between the two in my eyes should be huge.”

“Indeed, currently in the world, there are five such individuals on record who have survived an overflow and maintained all reasoning. If you want to a comparison, think of a D ranked EXO user going against an S ranked EXO user. I’d say it would be that wide of a gap if not more. But, each one of them are under surveillance and so far none of them have made any moves that caused the government to be concerned.”

Darius explained to the whole class. Not everyone knew about these type of people who survived an overflow. It was not like it was a national secret or anything, but not everyone knew they existed.

Just one of these people had the power to wipe out an entire country, so why didn’t they?

They were in a league of their own, and the government called them Xeno class EXO users.

“Alright, enough discussion for now. I want you all to partner up and try out the method you’ve just learned. If you can, try to find someone with the same flow as you. If you can’t, fear not and just partner up with someone random. I just want you all to test this method out and see if it is for you or not.”