The laboratory was so quiet that only the low hum of the ventilation system remained.
Sephiroth reached out, gathered hydrogen from the air, and turned it into deuterium and tritium.
The "it works because I reckon it does" nature of Paramecia powers had brought a significant change. The strong nuclear force could now be manipulated.
Phenomena that had originally required extensive engineering through the "electroweak force" were now beginning to have "practical combat value on a macroscopic scale."
Conventional deuterium-tritium fusion required extraordinarily high temperatures to overcome electromagnetic repulsion.
But through his control of the grand-unified "electronuclear force," Sephiroth directly "kneaded" nucleons together in his hand at room temperature.
He forcibly drew deuterium and tritium nuclei close enough for the strong interaction to take over.
He subjected the high-energy neutrons produced by fusion to "reverse decay" and absorbed the excess energy.
Through nonlinear quantum electrodynamic effects, he "redshifted" the energy of the high-energy radiation produced by fusion and confined it to an extremely narrow band of visible light, allowing it to be viewed safely with the naked eye.
Visually, it resembled a "liquid glass marble" emitting a cold, metallic glow.
"Is this... an energy construct?"
York tilted his head, staring at the "marble" hovering above Sephiroth's palm.
It was only the size of a cherry, a slightly translucent silver-blue, like the deep, cold light refracted through polar ice.
No heat. No fluctuations. No sound. It simply floated there quietly, its edges as "sharp" as if they had been drawn with a hard-edged brush.
York was unsure what it actually was.
Kizaru and Shining had been very cooperative with the experiments, allowing "Vegapunk" to advance a long way in "energy technology."
In "energy technology," Vegapunk could even create something as outrageous as an "all-purpose absorption and conversion reactor." It could absorb