Strongest Superhuman System - Chapter 415

Chapter 415: Isotope
Mark said that she could be stronger, right? Doesn’t that mean there is a way for me to defeat this thing? Mark trusted me with this a second time. I’m not going to let him down!

‘How do I get stronger?’

Ratatatatatatata!

Luna dashed across the clearing as she avoided another rain of ice shards that almost skewered her! She used her blessing to form a blast of superheated water that she shot at the Eldritch, and the Eldritch formed an ice wall to stop it!

BOOM!

‘The main issue is that it can take control of my constructs. I need to find a way to prevent it from doing that. Wait… how do I even form constructs?’

It was an absolutely senseless question that suddenly passed through Luna’s mind, but for some reason, this question was like a reality check for Luna. When thinking about forming constructs, Luna had never really had to try anything special before. Usually, once Luna thinks about making something, anything at all, that thing easily forms itself in the way she wants it to be formed. It was as though the water in the environment just obeyed her without her ever needing to beat it into submission.

Luna immediately recognized this as a flaw.

Was that why it was so easy for the shark to take control of my constructs? Is it because I am making it in the most basic manner possible? That means the shark is also controlling water in the same way, so it’s easy for the shark to recognize and gain control of Luna’s constructs!

‘But what can I do about it? It’s not like there are different kinds of water. There is only one type, and the process of making the different phases and controlling it is set in stone. There’s nothing that I can do differently… no, I’m sure there’s something! There’s definitely something! Come on, Luna, think! Think! Think! What can you do differently!? You need to make sure you don’t disappoint Mark! Changing one or two things about the way you control water shouldn’t be that hard! Wait… Hard?’

Luna was screaming inside her own head while trying to avoid some of the shark’s attacks, but once she said that last word, her eyes widened as something crossed her mind. Luna remembered back in her early days of being a superhuman when she did more research and training! Back then, Luna was eager to improve because she thought it would make her more friends, so she learned many things about water and how to use it. Most of the things that Luna learned weren’t useful because of how easy it was for her to just bypass them, so Luna forgot most of them once she started her own guild. But there was one thing that Luna suddenly remembered.

Aren’t there three types of water?

BOOM!

A massive force slammed into the ground right beside Luna, and Luna put her hand up to her head to prevent any debris from hitting her! Luna glared at the shark and sent another blast of steam at it to stop it from distracting her! She was on a roll here! She was about to figure out something big!

Water was formed using molecules of hydrogen and oxygen. This was something that would never change. But there was something else that could change in that mixture. Hydrogen! Hydrogen has three states of existence: Protium, Deuterium, and Tritium! These three were called isotopes, and the main difference between them was the number of neutrons in their nucleus! Normal water was always formed from the Protium isotope of hydrogen, but that does not mean that Deuterium and Tritium couldn’t form water as well! The water formed from Deuterium and Tritium was heavy water and superheavy water! They don’t occur naturally, so if I am able to make them, doesn’t that mean the shark won’t be able to control it?

Luna felt her heartbeat increasing even more as adrenaline pumped through her veins. A crazy thought crossed her mind! Was it even possible? It wasn’t something that sounded possible at all, and there was a very high likelihood that Luna would not even be able to do it!

‘But what if I could do it? Isn’t it only because I never tried that I think I can’t do it? Mark said I could do more with my powers! What if this is what he meant by that!?’

Luna decided that she didn’t have anything to lose at all if she tried, so she decided to just push forward! She narrowed her eyes as she grabbed ahold of the moisture in the air and tried to do something that had never been tried before! Luna was going to try and manipulate the atomic structure of hydrogen!

Luna felt around for the hydrogen in the water! She went deeper than the molecules she had always been controlling, and she was shocked when she was able to feel it! She could see the bond of hydrogen and oxygen in her mind’s eye, and Luna grit her teeth and pushed even deeper to try and feel for the nucleus inside the atom of hydrogen! If she could manipulate that, then she would be able to change the hydrogen isotope that was present in the water!

“Come on, come on, come on. Where are you?”

Luna mumbled quietly while probing the molecules with her powers, trying desperately to find where the atomic nucleus was. If any other water manipulator saw what Luna was trying to do right now, they would think she was out of her mind. It was already difficult for anyone to try and control water at the molecular level using their powers, but to even attempt to look for the atomic nucleus and try to manipulate it was madness!

But those people didn’t have the potential that Luna had. Your potential is more than just a measure of how strong you can grow or how quickly you can gain strength; it is also a measure of how much you can manipulate your element using your blessing! And with the potential of ELITE Rank II, Luna was the strongest water manipulator on Earth!

“I found it!”

Luna shouted out in glee as she felt something in the hydrogen atom! It was small, and there were strange charges orbiting it! That had to be the nucleus with the electrons orbiting it! Luna didn’t waste any time and immediately tried to manipulate it! The center of the nucleus contained a single substance, and Luna deduced that this was the proton. It was positively charged, so in order to change this hydrogen atom to another isotope, Luna had to somehow add in a neutron that was neutrally charged! And thankfully, Luna had an abundance of neutrons in the oxygen that was also present in the molecules of water! Since she already knew how to access the nucleus of the molecules under her control, she only had to take some of the neutrons from the oxygen nucleus and fuse them to the nucleus of the hydrogen!

Luna immediately tried to do just that! She reached out with her mana to grab hold of a neutron from the oxygen nucleus and tried to add it to the hydrogen, but she was shocked when she felt her mana suddenly drop at an insane pace!

“Wha…?”

[A/N: For those of you wondering, I fucking hated chemistry in high school. My favourite subjet was physics.]