The Mech Touch

t its abilities.

This was because the F-stone only contained a finite amount of charged energy! Once he used that up, he had no way of recharging it! He already tried to insert his spiritual energy in the F-stone to see whether it replenished its energy, but nothing happened!

”This isn ’t time to be stingy! ” He admonished himself.
”Who cares about a unique F-stone when my very mind is at stake! ”

He no longer hesitated and drew deeply on his F-stone.
A strong charge entered his body and mind before fusing with his loose spiritual energy.
The external charge imparted his spiritual energy with a strong offensive attribute that became more and more pronounced as Ves drew out more of the F-stone reserves!

It pained Ves enormously to use up so much of his F-stone ’s charge.
He estimated that he drew around fifteen percent of its total charge by the time his spiritual energy became saturated.
He was unable to draw out anything more from his F-stone as his spiritual energy simply couldn ’t accommodate anything more!

”This is the time to strike! ”

Though his spiritual energy was depleting at a worrying rate, he decisively formed another spiritual projection in the shape of a sharp and deathly knife.
Due to the charge it acquired, its ’sharpness ’ and other offensive qualities had become a lot greater than Ves could ever manage to impart by himself!

Unlike the alien spiritual entity which mindlessly continued to press its attack through the dampening material of his B-stone lockbox, Ves directed his spiritual knife downwards from his head through his neck.
Only until his spiritual knife extended from the interior of his lockbox did he reorient his knife towards the Ancient Sarcophagus.

”Attack! ”

With as much force as he could muster, he propelled his spiritual knife forward! As soon as it reached the red crystal exterior, it began to encounter some hindrance.

However, the knife was not deterred! Its strong offensive quality allowed it to cut through the spiritual morass without bleeding too much energy!

Like a hot knife through butter, Ves pressed the sharp spiritual projection through the red crystal substance.
Within seconds, it arrived at the site where the alien entity captured his first spiritual projection!

”CUT! ”

Ves wielded his spiritual knife with haste and desperation.
As soon as his attack encountered the wakening spiritual presence, the spiritual blade managed to make a cut with some difficulty!

”AAH! ”

The injured spiritual entity roared with pain! It transmitted a barrage of spiritual messages, though Ves completely failed to understand their meaning!

”Shut up, you stupid relic of the past! ”

Seeing that his first attack had managed to damage the spiritual entity, he continued to make additional cuts.
Though the wounds were fairly shallow in comparison to the formidable spiritual entity ’s size, Ves was not attacking it at random!

Instead, he cut the portion of the alien entity that grabbed hold of his hijacked spiritual projection.

Cut followed after cut as Ves continued to damage the area of the spiritual entity which had captured a piece of himself!

The offensive attribute imparted to his spiritual knife grew weaker after every attack.
Each cut that followed after the last one began to inflict less and less damage.

However, Ves didn ’t worry about his weakening attacks because Ves managed to cut loose an entire portion of the alien spiritual entity!

WWOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!

A formless scream without any obvious meaning emanated from the Ancient Sarcophagus! This time, its outburst was so powerful that even Nitaa managed to perceive the cry!

The attacks raining down on Ves had paused as the alien spiritual entity convulsed in agony as it abruptly lost a fundamental piece of itself!

Ves took advantage of the reprieve by retrieving both his initial spiritual projection and his second spiritual projection in the form of a knife! Not only did he retrieve his spiritual projections, he also dragged his spoils from the wounded alien entity!

Before he returned his spiritual projections to his mind, he hastily processed the wiggling and resisting spiritual fragment he cut loose.

”There ’s no way I ’m going to host it in my own mind! ”

He pressed the fragment into his P-stone.
Ves had already drained it of all of the excess spiritual energy he previously stored inside.
Now that his spiritual piggy bank was empty of anything of value, he did not hesitate in forcing the violently-wiggling spiritual fragment inside!

Unfortunately, the spiritual fragment continued to resist its capture! Not only did it strain against his attempts to keep it in place, it also summoned up enough strength to overcome the suction force of the P-stone that attempted to keep the fragment in its embrace!

”I have no choice, then! ”

Ves quickly removed the B-stone lockbox from his head and quickly dumped his occupied P-stone inside.
Once he closed it up, he carefully studied the lockbox for a few seconds but sensed nothing leaking out.

Combining the strengths of his P-stone and B-stone was enough to keep this rebellious alien spiritual fragment in place!

Ves knew that spiritual fragments cut off from a greater whole still shared a connection between them.
The strength of this connection varied, but stronger entities generally maintained a stronger grip on their spiritual fragments.

However, the B-stone lockbox interfered with this connection! Though it hadn ’t disappeared entirely, the alien entity was unable to divert additional strength to its spiritual fragment!

As soon as Ves completed this maneuver, he took the lockbox and F-stone and rapidly escaped the lab.

”Nitaa! Let ’s go! It ’s too dangerous here right now! ”

Though she was confused at what was happening, she didn ’t object to the command.

As soon as they ran halfway across the interior of the Barracuda, Ves, finally slowed down.

”This should be far enough. ” He judged.
”We ’re out of the danger zone, I think. ”

Though the entity residing inside the Ancient Sarcophagus was incredibly formidable, Ves managed to discover something important while he cut loose a spiritual fragment.

For some reason, the alien spiritual entity was anchored to the center of the crystal coffin! It was unable to exert the majority of its spiritual strength!

Ves bet that the entity trapped within the coffin could only lash out in the immediate vicinity.
The further the entity exerted its strength, the more the Ancient Sarcophagus weakened its attempts!

”It ’s not a sarcophagus! ” He abruptly realized as he straightened his thoughts.
”It ’s a prison! ”

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