[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-strongest-hammer-god":3,"chapter-strongest-hammer-god-strongest-hammer-god-chapter-497":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Strongest Hammer God",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},526429,779,"Chapter 497 New Ether","strongest-hammer-god-chapter-497",497,"\u003Cp>Kyle wasn't entirely sure how he should feel about seeing Selene with a child.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was definitely some attraction between them, but they had never really done anything with it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kyle had been pretty busy with his own stuff, and Selene had been busy hiding from the potential assassins when her Aristocrat's Body had been unveiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When she had told him that the Skysand Kingdom was done, there had still been some attraction between them, but Kyle had to get going.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had never made any promises to each other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had never said that they would wait for each other or something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were just friends.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And, well, even if Selene had wanted to wait, it had been several years since Kyle had vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kyle had come to this place to see how Selene was doing and to check if she was still available.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Apparently, she was no longer available.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Yeah, well, whatcha gonna do?' Kyle thought with a shrug. 'Can't have them all. At least, that gives me more time to train.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The atmosphere between Selene and Kyle was a bit awkward since they just looked at each other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Anyway,\" Kyle said after a bit. \"I just wanted to check up on all of you and tell you about the good news. I gotta get back to training.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Chief nodded without saying anything, but Kyle could see respect in his eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Selene just sighed. \"Thank you for telling us,\" she said. \"I'm glad that we can join civilization again.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No problem,\" Kyle said. \"That's what friends are for, right? Anyway, gotta go. Bye!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next moment, Kyle shot into the distance again, leaving the others behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kyle flew towards the peninsula and stopped above the huge hole he, or the birds, had dug where Theodor's Inheritance Crypt used to be.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since he could go wherever he wanted, he wanted to train in a familiar location.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, when he saw the huge group of people running an organized mining operation near his old place, he sighed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Yeah, well, the Skysand Kingdom collapsed. Would make sense that this now belongs to somebody else.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, Kyle decided not to forcefully take back his territory and went back to the Twilight Duchy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stopped near the eastern World Wall and decided to spend the next years of training here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Alright, time to focus. No idea how long it will take, but now is the time to work on my Law of the Meteor.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kyle remembered when he had come up with the idea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back then, he hadn't even created Methods yet. He had been so weak that the powers of a meteorite were far beyond him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, a meteorite seemed to be just appropriate in power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'According to Sebastian, meteorites move at speeds of something like ten to fifty kilometers per second. I can boost my speed to a bit more than 15 kps for a short moment, which puts me near the lower end of a meteorite.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Seems just right.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kyle thought about the three Laws he had comprehended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Law of Fire, the Law of Wind, and the Law of Metal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Power, speed, and mass. Exactly what I want.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kyle thought about how he could combine the three Laws, and he quickly ran into a couple of issues.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could combine all of them, which wasn't difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, he just needed to use his Wind Element to move a piece of metal, which would automatically create fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was already what meteors or meteorites were.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that couldn't just be it, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There had to be more to it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, what else was there?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was everything a meteorite was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a massive, often metallic, object that started to burn in the atmosphere and exploded when it hit the ground. The explosion occurred because all the kinetic force was converted into heat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I can already do all of that. That's what I've been doing with my Methods.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'What else is there?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kyle tried to come up with ways to combine the aspects in a way that was somehow deeper or stronger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But how?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was he supposed to do?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Learning a Pure Law wasn't hard. He just needed to look at it and find out how it worked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this was just… blindly guessing?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Brah, what the fuck am I supposed to do? What makes a Complex Law different from a Method, Spell, or technique?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'A meteorite's properties are mass, speed, and energy. That's the three parts.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I mean, technically, all three things are energy, but- wait a second!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Everything is energy, right? Mass is energy. Speed is energy. Heat is energy.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'By using my three Laws, I am essentially adding different kinds of energy to each other.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'What if I could just directly make a kind of energy that encompasses all three?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I know it sounds fucking batshit, but this is fantasy land! Everything works with Ether.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Wind Ether can create speed. Fire Ether can make heat. Metal Ether can make metal. I'm using can in all of these sentences because they can also make other stuff.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'What makes wind wind and fire fire? Both are just Ether, but they are also different from each other. '\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'The thing that makes them different is the kind of Ether they use.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'By using my Methods, I am using Wind Ether, Fire Ether, and Metal Ether.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'But that's not what a meteorite should be.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Pretty sure it's supposed to be its own thing.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'So, Meteor or Meteorite Ether?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I mean, possible, I guess?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Also, I should finally decide on a name. Is it meteor or meteorite? I don't even know the difference. Isn't that the same thing?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Well, who cares? I'm just going to call it Meteor Ether. Meteorite sounds smaller, and I like big things!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I don't care if I'm wrong! It's going to be Meteor Ether because it sounds cooler!'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'So, if I'm right with my suspicion, I need to create Meteor Ether to comprehend the Law of Meteor.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kyle summoned the three different kinds of Ether he had access to and looked at them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the three balls spun around each other, Kyle scratched the back of his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Just gotta make an entirely new kind of energy.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Can't be too hard, right?' he thought, not believing his own words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>tg:\u002F\u002Fresolv?domain=StrongestHammerGod\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The author's patreon. If he gets more than 1000€ per month, he will increase the number of words in the chapter.\u003C\u002Fp>",1079,"2026-05-30T13:30:43.673Z","2026-06-01T04:31:20.275Z",1,"novelbin.me","52b4828ebe35dc15d230e5bdf4ddcc61acee1f064c4f3b55f3e9748532ccdff3","strongest-hammer-god-chapter-498","strongest-hammer-god-chapter-496",902,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstrongest-hammer-god-cover.jpg"]