Chapter 943: Chapter 788 Hope

“Is it really that heavy?”

Tony saw the burly man, whose entire body had turned purple, sitting on the ground gasping for breath.

Had his skin not turned purple, one might have suspected he was just acting, given his exaggerated demeanor.

The hammer rested on a compacted mound of earth. Although it looked compressed, the amount of weight it could actually support was limited.

There were cracks where the hammer touched the earth, but these didn’t correlate to its weight.

It was probably because of the mystique Tao Yu had bestowed upon the hammer that Tony naturally walked over and said,

“Let me see if you really are that heavy.”

Tony approached the hammer and pulled with all his might, indeed finding it immovable.

And this immobility was absolute; not a single tremble.

That led Tony to sneakily pull out a pair of experimental sensor gloves and put them on before he tried again.

Soon, Jarvis’s voice reached his ear,

“Sir, based on the current detection limit, the hammer has not moved at all. Its physical properties are nearly those of a rigid body.”

“A rigid body?”

Tony’s voice sounded a bit off.

Rigid bodies, zero friction, perfect seals, vacuums–these are common setups in physics problems, but in reality, many of them cannot exist.

Especially the concept of a rigid body, which has only existed in theoretical problems since the advent of quantum mechanics.

But now Jarvis’s response was that the hammer was a rigid body within the scope of current detection?

“Even Jack’s Vibranium Spear can be detected to be different, right??”

“Yes, sir, it’s a magical metal that doesn’t exist on Earth.”

It was only then that Tony truly began to take things seriously.

Meanwhile, the onlookers beside him, unaware of his mutterings, saw him fail to move the hammer and started to jeer,

“Hey, pretty boy, can’t do it, can you?”

“Hurry up and let your buddy try.”

“I’ll go get a forklift.”

These jeers didn’t bother Tony; instead, he turned to Tao Yu and said,

“Why don’t you give it a try? What’s going on here? I suspect this dirt pile can’t support it, right?”

Tony kicked the dirt beneath the Thunder God’s Hammer with his shoe.

“The divine power of the Thunder God’s Hammer makes it exist between the lightest and the heaviest. If the power on it cannot be broken, it will ‘fix’ in place.”

Tao Yu likewise kicked at the mound.

Boom~

The earth beneath the Thunder God’s Hammer instantly exploded, scattering dirt and stones and leaving only a thin column as thick as a chopstick.

However, even with just this chopstick-sized column, the Thunder God’s Hammer remained steadfastly in place!

There was absolutely no intention to topple the pillar of earth!

This left Tony somewhat astonished.

But Tony was already aware of Tao Yu’s strength, so his astonishment was still with the state of the hammer; by now, a regular hammer should have collapsed it.

The other villagers, on the other hand, had all widened their eyes at this moment.

“Cool! Is this kung fu?”

“That’s compressed earth there!”

“Impressive, one kick and it’s gone. I’m sure you can lift it up.”

“But how come the hammer doesn’t fall to the ground? It’s heavy, right?”

“…”

Basic education in big cities, mainly responsible for childcare, keeps kids from running around; the average level in such rural places is pretty bad.

They were more impressed by Tao Yu’s strength in shattering the earth mound than by the fact that the hammer hung over a tiny column, which although awkward, didn’t seem too problematic to them.

Meanwhile, Tao Yu seemed to have faint blue lightning flickering in his eyes as he looked at the Thunder God’s Hammer.

“Hey, my friend, something’s not right with you,” Tony said cautiously.

“Nothing much. I just want to resonate with the hammer.”

Tao Yu slowly reached out to grab the Thunder God’s Hammer’s handle, feeling the surging power within.

But that connection to the power was firmly locked by a tough Sealing Technique.

This was the resonance between himself [Giftsmith] and the Thunder God’s Hammer being obstructed by Odin’s Divine Power!

“I, as a model young man, shouldn’t be treated this way.”

With Tao Yu’s will slowly concentrating, tentacle-like entities seemed to appear from the Void, slowly reaching towards the seal on the Thunder God’s Hammer.

Tao Yu carefully operated because, apart from the World Will, it was very likely that Odin was also a powerful Immune Cell.

Even an unrestricted version of himself was no match for the King of Nine Realms.

But!

“Odin is too old now. If I remember correctly, after exiling Thor, he entered the Odin Sleep and is at his weakest now. An uncontrolled passive seal, I should be able to slip by…”

Tao Yu’s tendrils, like numerous tiny probes, followed Odin’s Sealing Techniques, wandering to find the weakest point.

“Though these Rune Inscriptions are somewhat different from what Scathach taught, they indeed come from the same origin. Structurally, it’s an almost perfect barrier. Unfortunately, in the end, it is inanimate…”

Following the barrier’s fluctuations, with his own experience with Sealing Techniques on the side, Tao Yu successfully found the spot.

Then, the transformation of the tendrils was akin to a virus outside a cell membrane, adapting to the barrier to undergo a harmonious change, before slowly infiltrating into it.

Even a slight penetration was enough.

Upon Tao Yu successfully making contact with the energy inside the Thunder God’s Hammer, the power burst forth from within the next moment!