Chapter 86: Gravity and the Mystery of the Tesseract

　　Just as he finished complaining , Eric felt something wrong. The gravitonium inside his body, was like a giant snake rampaging through it's territory.

　　It didn't do anything to Eric's body, but rather acted like a dominant general, forcing out the magnetic field ability inside him.

　　It was not until a few seconds later that the magnetic field ability started to fight back, forcing the gravitonium back and forcing it back to its fingertips in a matter of breaths.

　　With a sigh of frustration, Eric tried to suppress the energy and even took the initiative to control it to make way for the gravitonium and help it integrate into his body.

　　With a lot of effort, the gravitonium finally took its place inside Eric's body and made its home in one of his arms, and further up, the powerful magnetic field was blocking its way in.

　　Eric smiled bitterly, the gravitonium was still too little and seemed to be a natural antagonist to the magnetic force, making it impossible for him, the master, to do anything about it.

　　"But this is a good start after all!" Eric lifted his arm, and understood the mystery.

　　From time to time, a silvery-grey light flashed through his arm, like a glowing worm running through it.

　　Eric closed his eyes and feel the gravitational field around him.

　　It was clear! Before, when he had sensed the gravitational field through the magnetic field, it had been like stopping an itch through a boot, a faint glimmer of light, but nothing real.

　　But now it was different. It was as if the gravitational field had been stripped of all its concealment and was standing naked in front of his face, with its endless secrets open to him.

　　"It's a pity that there is so little gravitonium. If there were more, I could control gravity directly, without wasting any more time on comprehension , just a little more, and I could unite gravity and electromagnetism together, and then enlighten the strong and weak forces to achieve the Great Unification. Enough to single-handedly defeat a weapon less titan!"

　　"from Future's Analysis the next Gravitoniums location, is underneath Washington, maybe I should dig out that one and then go for the rest."

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　　As Eric was practicing to get more used to gravitational field, the silvery grey glow on Eric's arm grew brighter and brighter, as his eyes suddenly grew crazier and crazier, and without the use of electromagnetic force, his body floated up strangely as more and more crazy thoughts appeared in his mind.

　　"No! This isn't right!" Eric woke up with a jolt, his brain arcing with electricity as the magnetic field energy was unleashed, creating a brilliant bolt of lightning around him.

　　The lightning struck his head from time to time, not causing him any damage, but making his mind clearer and clearer.

　　Eric looked at his arm in horror, or rather at the gravitonium in it.

　　This thing, it was weird!

　　It was as if it had a mind of its own, influencing its host, trying to get him to dig up the remaining gravitonium on the planet.

　　No wonder that guy in the alternate universe had gone mad and shattered the Earth! Eric warned himself that he must not fuse more gravitoniums.

　　After a brief encounter, Eric sensed the state of the gravitonium, an unknown substance filled with a strange energy that was influencing or controlling gravity and gravity, an unknown substance that was instead in a secondary position.

　　"Strange, this feeling, I've felt it there before!" The more he feels, the more Eric realised that he had seen that energy somewhere before.

　　Past experiences flashed up one by one, and the energies he had seen were checked one by one, and finally, Eric was able to pinpoint the result, "The Tesseract! Yes, that's right, this energy is in the Tesseract! No, it's not a tesseract, maybe it's the space stone!"

　　"Gravity, gravity, space ... gravitational waves!" Eric's eyes grew brighter, "Yes, according to relativity, gravity is a special force generated in space when the gravity of an object acts on space, and gravitational waves are the ripples of this force propagating like electromagnetic waves."

　　"That's right! If you look at space in four dimensions, it is like a piece of paper. If you put a small ball on top of the paper, the paper will naturally be depressed by the ball. Put a small ball next to it and it will roll down the depression.

　　With lightning striking his brain, Eric felt his mind was unusually clear. Gravitonium was really just a primer, but an extremely important one, and through this primer, coupled with his understanding of electromagnetic force over the years, the mystery of gravity was peeled away from Eric like an onion, layer by layer.

　　"No, my foundation is a bit poor, I need a bit more external force!" With a wave of his hand, the steel floor of the basement was peeled away, and a blue glittering cube was dragged up.

　　The Tesseract, which had been hidden in the metal floor of the basement since Erik had gotten it, now finally saw the light of day.

　　"The Tesseract is just a shell wrapped around the outer surface of the space stone , so why are there two different energies?" Having grasped a hint of the mystery of gravity, it was possible to look at the Tesseract again and finally get a glimpse of its secrets.

　　"Perhaps the outer casing is like a transmutation device, a filter that transforms pure space energy into a lower level of energy, and it's because of this degradation that ordinary people like Dr. Zola, Howard Stark, Anton Vanko and others can study it!"

　　"I don't need this downgraded energy, I need the rawest space energy, how about crushing it?"

　　After a moment of contemplation, Eric gave up on this idea, crushing the Tesseract was easy, with his current powers he could break it with a single electromagnetic blast, but it would be a waste.

　　The degraded space energy that the Tesseract transformed into could provide a great deal of material and fuel for current scientific research, Hydra's energy weapons, the Ark reactor, and the new elements that Howard had conceived, all derived from degraded space energy. The energy has been downgraded and the threshold for research has been lowered, so if he were to study space energy directly, these achievements might not be possible.

　　Since he don't intend to destroy it, he have to find another way.

　　The fact that the space stone is encased in a casing that does affect the user means that the casing does not stop all the space energy from escaping.

Eric activated the Tesseract again, and carefully realized the difference. After several attempts, he finally found the trick.

　　The electromagnetic and gravitational fields overlapped, forming a vortex-like force field that penetrated the Tesseract and sucked the purest space energy out of the space gem.

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