Chapter 65: Meteor Hammer.
With that, she turned and walked out, leaving Nioh buried under the sheer weight of his own gamble.
"What are you planning?" Ekoh asked as Nioh dragged the hammer into the work area.
"I was thinking of a meteor hammer," Nioh said, his gaze sweeping across the lab.
"Whoa... A fusion panel and a precision alloy cutter..." He was entranced, momentarily forgetting to breathe. The high-end equipment before him was leagues beyond what he had worked with before.
"The melting furnace is too small for such a massive hammer," Ekoh pointed out.
"I see that. We’ll have to disassemble it by hand," Nioh replied, settling beside the hammerhead. "I need your support."
His eyes began to glow, golden light flickering like embers in a forge. The temperature in the workspace surged. Ekoh, amplifying the heat waves, concentrated his energy on the hammer, gradually turning the cold metal red-hot. A sizzling hiss filled the air as the dense metal expanded, its bonds weakening under the relentless assault of heat. Steam billowed, thick and heavy, curling around them in ghostly tendrils.
Once the links were sufficiently loosened, Nioh shifted his stance and drove a powerful kick into the hammer’s neck, severing it into three distinct parts. Without hesitation, he tossed the handle into the melting furnace and turned his attention to the two hammerheads. He picked up a smaller hammer and began reshaping the molten parts, sculpting them into rectangular bricks—more compact, easier to manipulate, yet still carrying the immense weight of the original weapon.
The hollow cores of the hammerheads contained dark water, the heaviest known material. When in contact with biocore energy, the liquid would solidify, exponentially increasing the weapon’s weight. The trick wasn’t in making the hammer heavier—it was in making it wieldable.
With both bricks still glowing from the heat, Nioh turned to the next step. He retrieved ten meters of Silent Spider Web, his secret material. Flexible yet nearly unbreakable, it could support the weight of dark water with ease. Its only flaw? A vulnerability to fire. That, however, was a problem he intended to fix.
To counteract the web’s weakness, he planned to fuse it with deep-sea metal—fire-resistant and incredibly rigid. However, traditional heat fusion would destroy the web’s unique properties. He needed something more... unconventional.