The Mech Touch

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Unlike her, Ves did not possess an intuitive and extraordinary understanding of flaws.

If there were 999 ways to botch the correction and only one way to do it right, then Ves would definitely fail 99,9 percent of the time!

As for Gloriana, even if she faced the same situation, her intuition and her design philosophy would definitely force the failure rate downwards to 20 percent or even less!

This was one of the exceptional advantages of Gloriana, and she developed this intuitive understanding through both talent and a lot of effort!

Ves had learned a lot from the events that took place today.

At the very least, discovering a fourth form of synergy which he tentatively called Artificial Conception was enough to drive him wild!

It was the only form of synergy so far that explicitly involved resonance between him and his girlfriend!

Now that they resonated once, Ves believed that it wouldn ’t be so impossible to resonate again!

”Something like this should definitely be easier to accomplish with practice! ”

Though the difference it made in Bravo wasn ’t too drastic, Ves believed this was only the start.

In the future, he might be able to have the resonance ability to transform spiritual attributes to clean up Nyxie ’s spiritual fragment and reduce its pollution.

Ves believed that hardly any other entity in the galaxy could achieve what he and Gloriana had inadvertently accomplished!

”This is a true miracle! ”

It was as if their combined efforts actually accomplished the impossible feat of lying to reality!

He knew how difficult it was to change the nature of a spiritual attribute.
It was akin to transmuting lead to gold.
Without sufficiently advanced magic or technology, he could forget about performing something that bent reality so drastically!

While it was possible to achieve similar results through spiritual contamination, artificial conception was much more cleaner!

Ves inspected Bravo over and over again, paying special attention to its attributes.
Nothing suggested that its pollution level, defined as the proportion of undesirable attributes, had increased.

”This is extremely precious! ”

He always desired the ability to transform spiritual attributes.

From his observations and manipulations of mech pilots, he knew that changing their spiritual attributes was the key to facilitating their advancement into expert candidates or expert pilots!

Naturally, this only applied to potentates who already possessed spiritual potential.
If a mech pilot did not possess any spirituality, there was nothing to transform.

The question was, could he use this ability to turn a mech pilot into an expert candidate immediately?

”There are too many uncertainties. ” He grimaced.
”I also can ’t pull this ability off willy-nilly.
At the very least, I need Gloriana ’s help. ”

The state of resonance they achieved hadn ’t come about instantly.
It only appeared during a very important moment where the both of them concentrated on nearly the same ideas.

Such a state was very difficult to reproduce, especially if they weren ’t creating another spiritual product.

Even if they managed to perform this ability on command, it was not a given to transform an average potentate with spiritual potential into an expert candidate.

Ves noted that those who did so always seemed to adopt a single dominant value or principle.

Someone who was too muddle-headed would never be able to advance to expert candidate if they didn ’t possess any strong beliefs in something.

While this could be trained to an extent, Ves discovered that many people weren ’t actually good at focusing themselves to a single pursuit.

Humans were inherently complex and multifaceted.
Someone as single-minded as Venerable Foster was the exception rather than the rule.

Ves believed that this was the main reason why most mech pilots with spiritual potential never found the catalyst that allowed them to break through.
Their inclinations were too normal, dooming them to live out their lives as mortals.

”Perhaps it is not without a reason that expert pilots are called demigods. ” He muttered.

Each demigod was partly a god, and each god possessed at least one domain or sphere of power.

This was where his new ability came in.
As long as he used this ability to transform much of a mech pilot ’s spiritual attributes into a specific form, he could forcefully make them single-minded enough to enable their breakthroughs!

Of course, such a drastic attempt at spiritual surgery would definitely alter his patient ’s personality.
This meant that making another Silent William was definitely possible, though not as severe.

”I don ’t understand enough right now. ” He sighed.
”I need more test subjects so I can experiment more. ”

He wasn ’t in a hurry to turn someone into expert candidates or expert pilots anyway.
The Mech Corps would get their greedy hands on any mech pilot he uplifted, especially during these dire times.

Each additional expert pilot could save another planet from getting engulfed by the sandmen!

The only exception was Silent William himself.
Now that the MTA announced the invasion of the Red Ocean Dwarf Galaxy, getting closer to the Rim Guardians had become one of his main priorities.

He recalled the reports he read about his performance in recent battles.

”So far, William hasn ’t shown any signs of breaking through. ” He frowned.

If William showed no improvement by the time the first detachment of Avatars returned from the front, Ves might be willing to employ his new ability to operate on his spirituality again.

After all, he already messed with William once.
He might as well do it again to make sure he achieved his intended result!

Just as Ves was about to muse further, an alert suddenly rang throughout the entire Mech Nursery!

When Ves emerged from his private office, Miles Tovar ran up to him in panic!

”Ves! It ’s an emergency! We have to run to safety! ”

”Calm down! What is going on, Miles? ”

”It ’s the sandmen! ” The Apprentice replied breathlessly.
”They ’ve come to Cloudy Curtain! ”

”What?! ”

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