Marvel: The Imposter Inventor

Chapter 350 Hellfire (No plot, lots of explanations, subscribe with caution)
Three 'Dark Goddess Gundams' took off simultaneously and dispersed.

As the three Gundams disappeared into the distance, their crimson particle trails of light left only faint streaks in the air before finally vanishing completely.

The reason why these three Gundam engines release crimson particles is because the 'Dark Goddess Gundam' does not use a 'Hextech GN Drive' like the 'Boxer Gundam' as its energy core.

A 'pseudo-solar furnace', or simply a 'fake furnace'.

This is a mass-produced "knock-off" product created in the original '00 Gundam' world view. Due to the villains' lack of technical capabilities and time constraints, they simplified the design based on the technology of the original solar reactor.

Compared to the original solar furnace, it has a series of drawbacks, such as insufficient battery life, the need for electricity to activate it, and the inability to enable the driver to evolve into an Innovator.

The most obvious characteristic of the 'pseudo-solar furnace' is that, during operation, it releases not the green 'GN particles' of the genuine solar furnace, but scarlet toxic particles.

However, although the three 'Dark Goddess Gundams' newly created by Luca have similar characteristics to the 'Pseudo-GN Drive' Gundam, they are actually fundamentally different.

As we mentioned before, the Hextech GN Drive that Luca modified himself, which is the core of the 'Boxer Gundam', is actually based on the original GN Drive technology. By using 'Hextech Crystals' to replace the ignition core, it can infinitely extract Hextech Dimensional energy to create a brand new GN Drive.

The advantages of this type of solar furnace are self-evident.

It retains most of the advantages of the original GN Drive, and additionally possesses a certain level of magic resistance and damage effect. At the same time, it allows Gundam pilots to gradually evolve into 'Hextech Physique' through long-term immersion in 'Hextech Particles'.

Furthermore, due to the inherent properties of 'Hextech Crystal', the manufacture of 'Hextech Solar Furnace' is not as complicated and time-consuming as the original Solar Furnace.

However, all of this is predicated on other energy cores such as 'Hextech Crystals'.

After Luca has used up all three of his Hextech Crystals, creating a new Hextech Solar Furnace will undoubtedly be extremely difficult.

In fact, Luca had considered finding new Hextech Crystals in the Hextech Dimension, or even using technology to artificially synthesize replicas of these crystals.

However, the former, the Hextech Dimension, as a newly created dimensional world, can be described as a single world composed purely of energy.

Let alone such a peculiar mineral as 'Hex Crystal', in the Hex Dimension at present, apart from basic energy, even the concept of 'matter' has not yet been born.

As for the latter, it is artificially synthesized Hextech crystal.

Luca has made many attempts in this regard, and it cannot be said that he has made no progress at all.

However, the seemingly plausible 'energy composites' that were ultimately produced were simply insufficient to replace Hextech Crystals and serve as the driving core of the Hextech Solar Furnace.

Or, to put it more simply, the sheer amount of energy required to synthesize matter using energy alone is far beyond Luca's current capabilities.

Of course, this does not mean that Luca's improved design of the 'Hextech Solar Furnace' technology has no practical value.

In fact, he was already certain when the blueprints were first completed that this modified solar furnace could actually adapt to the energy released in most dimensions.

Of all the dimensional worlds, the one Luca has had the most contact with and the deepest understanding of, aside from his own Hextech Dimension, is naturally the Hell Dimension belonging to demons. That's right, the Hell Dimension!
Don't underestimate the 'Hextech Crystal'. It's a mineral with high-energy properties and the ability to draw energy from Hextech dimensions. It seems unique and difficult to replicate in the Hextech dimension.

In reality, similar things are not uncommon in the Hell dimension.

Many rare minerals produced in Hell, or even the special materials within the bodies of high-ranking Hell demons, possess similar properties to varying degrees.

Otherwise, after those demons invaded other worlds, they wouldn't be able to maintain contact with Hell and unleash various hellish magic or other abilities.

However, having materials and technology does not mean that you can make the corresponding items, and even if you can make them, it does not mean that they can be used normally.

After all, the Hell Dimension is different from a 'masterless dimension' like the Hextech Dimension.

The consequences of arbitrarily extracting energy from the hell dimension for one's own use are beyond what ordinary people can bear.

Just like those sorcerers in Kamar-Taj.

Dormammu of the Dark Dimension and Mephisto of the Hell Dimension—these guys are never stingy with the energy that mages use in their dimensions.

In the end, apart from the Ancient One, who had the power to beat up her creditors, how many of the other users who dared to accept these evil energies actually met a good end?
In the past, Luca would have dared to use 'hell materials' instead of 'Hextech crystals' to build the solar furnace.

Even if Mephisto doesn't directly attack them through the energy transmission channel, they'll at least be marked by hell and face the tragic fate of being killed at any moment.

However, the situation has changed now.

First of all, Mephisto, the lord of the Hell dimension, is currently being suppressed by the Ancient One and has no time to spare for anything else.

Even Luca himself, in his capacity as the 'Lord of the Hextech Dimension,' remotely controls his subordinates to wage a true dimensional war against Hell.

Now that they are already in a hostile state, and the other side's own 'GM' is not online normally, he naturally has less scruples when it comes to exploiting the Hell Dimension.

Furthermore, the very act of drawing energy from the Hell Dimension to fight on the dimensional battlefield could make the Hextech Dimension completely invincible in this war.

Even if you don't use this extracted hellish energy to attack the demons on the dimensional battlefield, and it's just a simple 'waste' and 'consumption', it's still equivalent to continuously strengthening the Hextech Dimension.

This was also Luca's original purpose in starting to create the Demon Material Solar Furnace.

If there is any drawback to the 'Hellfire Solar Furnace', it might be that, like the 'Pseudo-Solar Furnace' in the original work, the red particles it releases are 'toxic'.

Prolonged immersion will cause the pilots of the 'Dark Goddess Gundam' to continuously transform and mutate into demonic creatures.

However, this minor flaw is really insignificant compared to the advantages of the 'Hellfire' itself.

(End of this chapter)