Chapter 2377 I Lost The Bet
That question was raised by Phoenix. “I’m not sure about this, but is it possible that the boss actually mastered our techniques? No, not just the regular mastering. I mean more than that. He might have seen through all the techniques to their core. He might be telling the truth.”
Everyone fell into silence, pondering about Phoenix’s question. The room was quiet for a long time, as everyone was trying to find an answer to that. But no matter how they tried, they couldn’t figure the riddle out.
Zoey said, “I think that’s just an excuse. He doesn’t want us to know he’s been practicing your techniques. He probably knows that we won’t believe him no matter what he said. I mean, who would believe that the techniques would kill us if we train them until the end? He’s saying that to let us know he dislikes our technique and that he won’t practice them.
“Eventually, we’d end up thinking he has nothing to do with our techniques.”
Zoey’s explanation was reasonable, at least in everyone’s eyes. They now assumed that Levi was lying to them so they’d think he wasn’t practicing, but in fact, that was just what he was doing all this time.
“If you don’t believe me, we can take a look at his solitary training spot.”
Zoey led everyone to Levi’s solitary training spot—the underground facility. The moment they came in, what greeted them was a table full of everyone’s technique analysis. It was filled with a mountain of papers where Levi wrote all his analysis.
Everyone’s jaw dropped when they saw that.
So he’s been researching our techniques all this time? And his insight is incredible. He has such a talent. He has fully mastered all the techniques. Even more than we do.
Levi mapped out all the techniques to their furthest ends. If it wasn’t for his body holding him back, he could have become the strongest fighter by now. His name would be among the top three in the Divine Leaderboard instead of just one thousand.
“Oh, I get it. Remember what boss told us? That all techniques actually come from the same origin? I think what he’s trying to say was that he wants to merge all our techniques to create his own stuff.
“Look here, boss analyzed all our techniques and wrote out all their possibilities. It’s obvious he wants to merge them up to create something new,” Kirin explained.
Everyone there had tried to come up with a rough idea about Levi’s training, and the most popular theory was that he would merge everyone’s technique and create his own thing. But before he could analyze the techniques, the Lopezes and Blacks took them away.
“Oh, you have a point. That’s why he wants to merge our stuff and make his own thing so quickly. That way, we won’t even have any evidence saying that he used our technique even if we find out about it. I mean, it’s already his own thing, so of course, he’s not using our technique. Well, technically speaking.”
After they ‘analyzed’ Levi’s training method and came to an answer they gleaned from nothing but pure conjecture and ignorance, everyone felt delighted.
Ignorance is bliss, I’d say.
But back to the point. Levi managed to create his own technique and make it into the Divine Leaderboard. Of course, they’d be the happiest group of people in the whole wide world. They managed to get what they wanted all this time after all.
“Hey, guys. Wanna bet? I’ll expose him later, but I bet he’ll say he’s still practicing his basic technique.” Zoey smiled.
“I ain’t betting. That’s really obvious. We all know that’s exactly what he will say.”
Everyone laughed.
“So, Azure Dragon. Are you going to keep this up and play along with boss?” someone asked.
“You don’t have to, bro! Everyone knows the truth now. You’re finally free!”
Most of them thought there was no need for Azure Dragon to sacrifice his time and future to play along with Levi, but Azure shook his head. “No, I won’t break his bubble. I want him to train in peace. I don’t mind sacrificing my time. I have you guys protecting me, right? Besides, if all it takes for boss to make his comeback is my time, I’d gladly pay the price.”
Everyone was touched by Azure Dragon willingness to sacrifice. It was a good thing he was the leader and the brains of the group instead of the brawn, so nobody paid it any mind.
When everyone came out of the underground facility, they ran into Levi, who had just come back.
Levi wasn’t surprised to see everyone gathered around his place, since it was the deadline of his bet with Zoey. They wanted to see who made the bigger progress over the last three months, and Levi would gladly ‘lose.’ After all, no adult would go full force fighting children.
“Oh, guess the deadline’s here. You got me, Zoey, I lost,” he said.
