Hogwarts: From Selling White Peppers to Becoming a God

Chapter 399 Prosthetics

Murphy's tense nerves only relaxed a little at the moment the two megaton-class nuclear bombs exploded.

The epicenter of a nuclear explosion can generate temperatures of tens of millions of degrees, at which any substance would simply turn into a bowl of particle soup.

Even if a god is truly indestructible, as long as it still relies on a material basis for existence, it will still die.

More than ten minutes later, the radiation at the explosion site decreased to a level that did not affect magic detection.

The results were immediately analyzed: the nuclear explosion completely destroyed several nearby magical satellites, and dozens of innocent ordinary satellites were also within the electromagnetic pulse range of the explosion and were thus destroyed.

But there was no longer any magical signal response in the original location.

The power of a nuclear explosion in space is much smaller than that on Earth because there is no air in space, so it cannot generate a powerful shock wave. Relying solely on thermal radiation, the radius of its destructive force is very limited. However, Murphy's original intention was to strike individual targets, so a smaller impact range was more in line with his requirements.

This is also one of the reasons why he used the Avada Kedavra to confine the opponent in space.

He used Odin's Eye to sense and search again, and then used the remaining Starlink system to scan the globe dozens of times, but found no more high-energy magical reactions.

The nuclear explosion left almost no debris, but Murphy still personally searched the blast site but found nothing, which finally put him at ease.

That god must be dead.

That guy seems to call himself "Tyr"?

Is he the god of war in Norse mythology?

To be honest, it seems a bit unreasonable to bombard someone with questions before they can even finish a sentence, but that's because the other party's behavior has really triggered Murphy's vigilance.

He had long ago designated the gods as enemies in his mind, and terrifying enemies that were extremely dangerous and threatening.

When he lost signal from the lunar landing module, he immediately assumed the whole incident was an enemy invasion and attack, and his vigilance was instantly heightened.

If Tyr had shown himself openly and openly, demonstrating a willingness to engage in dialogue, Murphy might have considered a more lenient approach. However, his extremely cautious and secretive manner of doing things made him seem too much like a terrorist who had secretly infiltrated an enemy country to launch an attack.

This led Murphy to immediately assess the other party's hostility as being at the highest level.

This is equivalent to knowing from the beginning that the other side has a nuclear bomb, and now you are certain that the other side is full of hostility towards you and is preparing to detonate the nuclear bomb in your capital.

There's no need to think about how to handle it; just use every means possible to kill the other party first.

However, while a nuclear bomb at point-blank range is indeed a safe bet, it also brings enormous trouble.

Those two intercontinental ballistic missiles could be seen by any country with even a little detection capability, and the satellites destroyed by the electromagnetic pulse were also affected equally by all countries.

Almost simultaneously with the nuclear explosion, the world was in an uproar, especially since the missile was launched from Soviet territory. The Americans had most likely already taken the president to a shelter and were ready to press the nuclear button at any moment.

However, this is what will give Valery and his team a headache.

Murphy then turned his attention back to the moon, struggling with how to deal with the far side of the moon.

At first, he thought that if there were gods on the moon, he would just drop a few Tsar Bombs there, but this invasion made him realize something else.

Clearly, the gods on the moon are alive.

But strangely, they never made a move to return from the moon.

Judging from Tyr's eagerness, it's clear they don't find the moon too peaceful and are unwilling to return.

On the contrary, they are willing to go to any lengths to return to Earth, appearing extremely eager and determined.

In the battle just now, Tyr demonstrated his ability to withstand the extremely low temperatures of space. He survived being hit by Avada several times and riddled with satellite debris, showing an incredibly tenacious vitality, almost like immortality.

Moreover, he returned to Earth from the Moon in just two days, which shows that gods are capable of undertaking extremely long journeys across the distance between the Earth and the Moon.

Of course, this may be due to the presence of the landing module and the work module, but the fact that the landing module was out of fuel yet still managed to escape lunar orbit shows that the gods can escape the moon's gravity without external power.

If you can escape the moon's gravity, you can enter space; if you can withstand the space environment, you won't be afraid of dying during the journey.

The gods are fully capable of returning to Earth.

They wanted to come back, and they could have come back, but they never did.

There must be some external reason preventing them.

What was the reason?

Murphy thought of the structure at the center of the far side of the moon, which looked like a deep well. Could it be a device that trapped the gods?

If the gods are trapped in that "deep well" and unable to return, then rashly throwing a few nuclear bombs at them is probably not a good solution.

Murphy was eager to understand the situation on the far side of the moon. Only by fully understanding the situation could he know what the safest course of action was.

However, to understand the situation, he still needs to go to the moon. And this invasion might not have happened at all if he hadn't first explored the lunar surface.

Should we launch another probe?

Murphy hesitated.

In addition, this battle also made Murphy somewhat dissatisfied with his own strength and his ability to fight against gods.

There's not much to say about their ability to fight against the gods. Just keep launching satellites, build some ground fortifications as needed, and figure out how to make some arrangements in response to the information about the gods' abilities that we obtained from Tyr.

However, it is actually more difficult to improve one's personal skills.

He has now acquired enormous computing power, but this computing power has not directly translated into his personal combat ability.

Murphy understood the root cause: firstly, his overall magical power level was not yet at the level of a god, and secondly, his ability to perceive and control magical power had not yet improved significantly.

The improvement of his magic level is rather mysterious, so we won't go into that for now. But from the second point, his current magic can only control phenomena at the level of "objects". He has not yet delved into the more subtle aspects of matter, so he cannot control magic more accurately and fundamentally.

He once planned to solve this problem through metamorphosis, using it to enhance his cognitive and control abilities. However, now, until his genetic disorder is resolved, the metamorphosis pathway has been locked.

However, with the completion of both the Human Genome Project and the Wizard Genome Project, coupled with the data he unearthed through his comprehensive recollection recently, it's possible that resolving his own genetic disorder is not far off.

Perhaps in another year or two, he will be able to solve this problem through genetic means.

But besides the transformation approach, Murphy actually has another path to choose from to increase his level of cognition and control.

That is to add some "peripherals" to yourself.

After ascending to the "Pioneer" mechanical form, Murphy essentially possessed a mechanical body, allowing him to directly receive and understand electronic signals.

Therefore, using some technological products to improve oneself is certainly a viable option.

For example, if we connect the pioneers to an electronic tunneling microscope, wouldn't we have a way to observe matter at the molecular or even atomic level?

For example, by attaching a mechanical probe with nanoscale technology to the pioneer, wouldn't we have a way to manipulate matter at the nanoscale?

It's like in cyberpunk movies where the protagonist installs prosthetics to enhance their abilities.

However, he doesn't need to wear these "prosthetics" directly on his body; he only needs to connect them to the Pioneer Network.

In essence, it's the Internet of Things (IoT).

Hmm... this shouldn't be too difficult.

(End of this chapter)