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Geo constructs do not readily react with other elements.
This meant that no matter how easily reactive two elements were—such as Electro and Pyro—as long as a layer of Geo construct separated them, they could only coexist peacefully until the Geo construct was removed!
Moreover, this technique could be extended to all seven elements!
With this, there was no longer any need to expend extra effort carefully controlling the distance between elements. He could also easily grasp the timing of elemental reactions. Research into multi-element hybrid combat techniques was finally able to enter the next stage.
Victor Wang was eager to try. He immediately began constructing ideas using the Hyperbloom he had just studied.
Because the sequence had to strictly follow "Swirl → Bloom → Hyperbloom," the positioning of the elements was actually already determined:
Anemo needed to Swirl the Hydro particles produced by the [Portable Elemental Particle Generator], so Anemo could only be placed on the outermost layer.
Anemo and Dendro do not react. The Hydro Swirled by Anemo needed to react with Dendro immediately, so Anemo had to be adjacent to Dendro, with no barrier in between.
After Hydro–Dendro reacted and a Dendro Core appeared, it would finally be Electro's turn to act. Before that, Electro was not needed, so a barrier had to be placed between Dendro and Electro.
Following this line of thought, Victor Wang worked backward. He first created a mass of Electro, then wrapped it with a Geo construct, then wrapped the Geo construct with Dendro, and finally coated the outside of the Dendro with Anemo. A sphere that looked, on the surface, like a ball of Anemo naturally came into being.
The steps looked complicated, but in reality, it was nothing more than the simplest invocation of Electro, Geo, Dendro, and Anemo. The only mildly technical part was creating a hollow spherical Geo construct—and for Victor Wang, who had long since obtained Geo, this was hardly a challenge.
As a result, the process was extremely efficient.
He pressed the sword guard. A Hydro particle drifted out. The Anemo on the sphere's outer layer immediately triggered Swirl, and at the same time, the sphere was sent flying under his control. Very quickly, the Hydro–Dendro reaction produced a Dendro Core. The Geo construct used as a barrier shattered with a crash, the Electro inside burst outward, contacted the Dendro Core, and smoothly completed a Hyperbloom.
Three elements formed a single sphere flying in sync. There was no need to worry about spacing, no need to separately control speed, and the time cost on his end was almost nothing more than a single gadget-based Swirl.
Before mastering Hydro, this was the most perfect Hyperbloom technique possible for a lone fighter.
Once he obtained Hydro and eliminated the need for Swirl, the overall execution time would become even closer to instant.
This was already the most powerful elemental combat technique he had mastered so far. Having optimized it to this degree, Victor Wang was overjoyed. The desert immediately resounded with bursts of Dendro Core explosions.
Only after completely familiarizing himself with the technique did Victor Wang stop ravaging the desert and give this self-created move a name—[Hyperbloom Bomb].
Beyond Hyperbloom Bomb, the advent of Geo construct barriers could be applied in many other ways.
Victor Wang also tried using Electro as the core, surrounding it with thick layers of Pyro and Anemo separated by barriers. The result was pure Overloaded reaction—just a pure explosion—no real difference from throwing a ball of Pyro and then a ball of Electro. It felt a bit redundant… The only practical use was likely deceiving enemies into thinking it was just a fireball, only to be blasted by an Overloaded explosion far beyond expectations.
After all, the purpose of barriers was to provide conditions for harmonious reactions among multiple elements. With only two elements, this kind of setup really wasn't necessary…
Or was it?
Victor Wang spread his palm upward and began stacking in earnest.
The layered, spiraling wind blades of Erosion Blast achieved an "erosion" effect through cutting—this was indeed Anemo's own capability. But the explosion produced after releasing Erosion Blast came from compression.
This kind of explosion—caused by restricting an element's natural expansion after compression—was applicable to any element. Combining compression explosions with Overloaded explosions was exactly what Victor Wang wanted to do.
Once again using Electro as the core, he compressed it into a very small mass, then added a Geo barrier, then compressed Pyro–Anemo blades, then another barrier, then compressed Electro again, then another barrier, then compressed Pyro–Anemo again… repeating this cycle until he had stacked one hundred layers.
A basketball-sized, incomparably dense, fiery red sphere hovered quietly in Victor Wang's palm, radiating a sense of destruction that seeped out even before detonation.
Taking a deep breath, Victor Wang did not dare underestimate it. He carefully used the outermost Pyro–Anemo layer to move the sphere to a position some distance away, then cautiously released the compression on the elements from the inside outward.
The compressed Electro and Pyro, having lost mental control, naturally attempted to expand back to normal density and dissipate into the world—but they were trapped, firmly confined by a full one hundred layers of Geo constructs.
Only when Victor Wang also released, from the inside outward, the power sustaining the Geo constructs did the Electro and Pyro finally gain freedom.
The core Electro expanded first, uniformly expanding outward in a spherical shape. It broke through the Geo constructs no longer sustained by power and came into contact with the outer Pyro. The inner side of the Pyro triggered Overloaded with it, while the outer side continued expanding outward, colliding with the next layer of Electro…
Suddenly expanded force and the force of Overloaded stacked together, collapsing inward while expanding outward. Power accumulated again and again, finally transforming into heat, light, and a deafening roar.
Whether that roar was a "BOOM" or a "HMMMM", Victor Wang couldn't tell for the moment. As for the light—neither red nor purple but blinding white—he could at least describe it simply: for that instant, even the sun looked dim.
The shockwave from the explosion swept across a full ten-meter radius. After the flash and the thunderous blast came billowing sand and dust. When everything finally settled, a crater five to six meters wide had formed at the point where the basketball-sized sphere had exploded. Inside the crater, something glittered under the sunlight—the sand had melted into glass.
And the consumption of this terrifying attack—even counting the Geo constructs—was only equivalent to two uses of Erosion Blast. While Erosion Blast's wind-based explosion was nothing to scoff at in terms of area coverage, its core destructive power was completely incomparable.
There was no doubt that this was currently the most cost-effective attack method among all those he had mastered.
Unfortunately… unfortunately, every layer of Pyro still had to be produced through Swirl. The preparation time was far too long, making it almost unusable in real combat. Only after mastering Pyro could it truly replace Erosion Blast.
Still, there was no harm in giving it a name first. Explosion, high temperature, intense brightness, deafening sound, Electro, Pyro… and Geo as well. This was also a multi-element hybrid elemental burst, with Geo constructs as an indispensable condition.
So, what should it be called… Landmine? Earthfire? Planetary Devastation?
These names crossed Victor Wang's mind.
Naming was an art in itself. A good name needed to be catchy, smooth, and fitting.
Although Geo and Electro were involved, the final effect leaned more toward Pyro—and that brilliance that made even the sun pale…
"Let's call it [Sun Flare]."
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