Chapter 1516: Experiments Ning arrived back in his room where he quickly sat down by the bedside as he brought out the small vial of Spark again and quickly dipped his fingers into it. There was a somewhat smooth texture to the dust, like tiny shards of glass, which somewhat shined under different angles. Ning licked his finger, getting the still foreign metallic taste of the dust as he quickly swallowed it. The dust immediately gave him energy which Ning prepared to use to check what exactly he was. There were four things he could be, and so he began with the one he found easiest to check. A Cultivator. He created a small flower seed with his powers, placing it on a metal table before him. Then, he imagined using the power to help the plant grow. He wanted to increase its rate of growth, which didn't work at all. Ning stopped and used a different power. He decided to see if he was an Attractor. Regardless of the size of the seed before him, there would be gravity attracting him to the seed and the other way around. Ning used his power to increase the effect of his gravity on the seed by as much as he could. He focused the effects of the power on just the seed and nothing else. The power within him dwindled, but not for the fact that it was used. He had simply remained with the power for too long and it was dissipating inside of him. His body simply couldn't hold onto the energy. That was just how the energy of the Spark worked. To check if he was a Connector, Ning needed a human's help. Given that there was no one he could use that power on, he decided to skip it to the next one. He decided to check if he was a Converter. Ning licked another finger full of Spark and felt power grow inside of him once again. As the power filled him, he used the potential power of transmutation inside of him to turn the seed before him into a rock. The energy vanished inside of Ning in a sudden flash, and the small seed before him slowly petrified, turning into rock right before his eyes. 'So that's it,' Ning thought as an understanding settled within him. He was a Converter, meaning he had the power to transform objects from one thing to another. 'That's not a bad power,' he thought. 'I need to test the extent of my powers though.' The very first thing Ning tried to do was revert the stone seed back into a regular seed. He took a lick of more Spark and focused his complete attention on transmuting the matter in front of him. With a small flash of light, the seed began reverting from its petrified state, back into how it was with a husky light brown shell. "Good, that works!" Ning took the seed and was about to throw it away when he noticed something about the texture of the seed. It wasn't rough like he would expect from a seed's shell, and was instead quite smooth. He frowned for a moment and crushed the seed between his fingers. When he did, the entire thing fell apart, leaving some sort of very dry powder that could not have come from the seed at all. 'The hell?' Ning created another seed and crushed it. This seed was different from the first one he crushed. This one was an actual seed, and crushing it left a somewhat humid pulverized powder behind. "What went wrong?" he wondered. He did a couple of tests and realized that he had absolutely no idea what truly went into making a seed, or anything food for that matter. The overall composition was just too complex to turn something like a stone back into it. A seed has multiple parts, like the shell, the embryo, the food for the embryo, and what not. Converting something into that required him to have intricate knowledge of it, and Ning simply didn't know something that detailed. He could learn, but what was the fun in that? 'What can I turn it into then?' he wondered and began testing. Metals were the easiest thing to turn something into, followed by different types of crystals. Surprisingly, rocks were somewhat harder than those too. However, because he had so much experience with stones and rocks of all types, he could easily turn objects into them. After a bit more tests, Ning understood that the easiest thing to make were elements, followed by objects that only consisted of a single molecule, depending on how much he had experienced that very object. He also turned things into water and air. Water was regular water with nothing mixed in it, but the air was very much the vast mixture of different gases that he had come to be around. To Ning's somewhat confusion, he could not turn things into fire. When he tried to, they would just turn into air. After some more experiments, he came to understand that fire was in a sense nothing but super-hot gas. And since he could not create something at a temperature different from what it originally was, he was left with just the gas with no heat or light. Ning continued experimenting by converting things around into various things, learning how much Spark he needed for what size of the object. He also learned to be careful about converting something into different states as the molecules of those objects would need to quickly fill the space, causing an explosion. He had to be careful turning solid objects into air. That was the most dangerous of all around people. His Spark ran out sometime later, and Ning could no longer do any more tests. It was too late to go and buy some, so he decided to do so tomorrow morning after his military training was complete. As for now, he had nothing else to do but just sleep the night away.