"But wait." Grey, after asking himself all these questions, eventually found an answer on his own.
It didn't need to be the markings themselves that were engraved. Instead, what he needed to focus on was not the surface manifestation of the markings, but their origin point, the way those markings were formed in the first place.
Transformation techniques.
Every transformation technique carried a unique circulation pattern. That pattern was not arbitrary. It was the structural outline of the race being transformed into, a biological blueprint translated into motion.
As vital essence circulated along that pattern, genetic markings naturally condensed in response, imprinting the structure into the DNA. In other words, the markings were not the cause. They were the result.
If that was the case, then the problem was no longer about merging markings. It was about merging the circulation blueprints that created them.
