The Mech Touch

cky here isn ’t mine.
He belongs to Ves! ”

”Truly? While I ’m not as good at understanding technology as you, this cat looks extraordinary! Even I know that any creature that is capable of eating exotics is just as valuable as Clixie, if not more! ”

”Don ’t bother asking me where you can find a cat like Lucky.
I ’ve already tried to search where I can buy one myself, but not even the Terrans and Rubarthans are offering a mechanical creature that is anywhere close to him.
He ’s unique as far as I know, and Ves upgraded him several times.
His tiger stripes weren ’t there before! ”

Brutus spent some time twinkling his eyes at the fascinating cat, but in the end he got back to listening to Gloriana ’s work.

An hour went by until he finally returned to the Serendipity.
The fleet was still in unfriendly space.
The Crecia Republic was no friend of the Hexadric Hegemony.
While unlikely, the chance the Fridaymen might launch an ambush on their fleet was still a possibility!

With the departure of Brutus, Ves felt a lot less tense.
Even when he was far away from Brutus, he still experienced the expert pilot ’s influence in the form of his force of will.

Expert pilots always influenced their surroundings with their expanding spiritual manifestations!

Even when Brutus decided to give Ves a chance, he still felt as if he was being scrutinized all the time! With such an expansive force of will, Ves had to go to the opposite side of the Stellar Chaser in order to escape its reach!

”What an overprotective brother! ” Ves muttered and shook his head.

He found it curious that all of the other expert pilots he met before did not interact with their surroundings as much as Brutus.
Why did the latter ’s force of will react more actively to the presence of people? Was it due to the nature of his force of will, or did the Hexers utilize some methods to grant their expert pilots more strength?

”Maybe the second-rate states truly grasped a method to enhance the strength of expert pilots! ”

Even if that was the case, it wasn ’t anything Ves could access for now.
His identity and power was wholly insufficient to access such secrets.

Besides, Ves didn ’t really have to worry about expert pilots for the moment.
For now, he should focus on strengthening the mundane mech pilots under his employ.
The foundation must be built up first before he could think about adding upper-level strength to his forces!

As the ships finished cycling their FTL drives and transitioned into the higher dimensions, they would soon be arriving back to the Ylvaine Protectorate.

Unlike before where Ves had to avoid enemy pursuit, the Wodins clearly weren ’t as concerned about any possible attacks.
They directly charted a fairly direct route back to the Ylvaine Protectorate in order to leave the Crecia Republic as soon as possible.

Ves looked forward to reuniting with his family and subordinates.
He still had a lot to do when he reached the Kesseling System.
Both the LMC and the new family needed to find some new directions to focus upon for the upcoming years.

Already, a lot of time had passed since he made the decision to leave the Komodo Star Sector.
With the Five Scrolls Compact ’s shadow starting to loom over this star sector, Ves felt more and more compelled to get away as fast as possible!

At the very least he had a very clear goal to work towards now.
With the opening of the Red Ocean Dwarf Galaxy, he could couch his decision as something other than a cowardly decision to avoid danger!

”I still have a long way to go before I ’m qualified to enter the Red Ocean. ”

Thinking about all of the MTA merits required to earn passage through a beyonder gate continued to be a thorny problem.

Even many mech designers from the first-rate states weren ’t capable of earning so many merits! Ves had to find ways to make extraordinary contributions to the MTA in order to accumulate so many merits in a short amount of time!

More and more, the thought of partnering up with others capable of earning MTA merits came to mind.
As long as he and Gloriana found eight more partners, they could split up the burden amongst each other!

Trying to earn with 10 million MTA merits sounded a lot more doable than trying to earn 100 million MTA merits!

Yet whenever he thought about sharing power and resources, Ves quickly rejected the option.

There was no way Ves was willing to put his trust in others! Only Gloriana deserved his trust! As for others, forget it! After Ghanso and the Bright Republic screwed him over, Ves vowed to never put his life in someone else ’s hands again!

”With my abilities and advantages, I can definitely find ways to earn lots of merits! ”

He needed to start with completing missions for the Rim Guardians right away.
The sooner he began to earn some merits, the sooner he was done!

”I ’ll have to put all of my efforts on promoting William Urbesh to expert candidate as fast as possible! ”

While there was still plenty of time left to complete this task for the Rim Guardians, Ves believed he already took far too much time.
If not for his kidnapping, he probably would have been able to move on already!

Ves gained a lot of inspiration and enjoyed a lot of time to think over his plans in recent times.
Along the way, he didn ’t neglect what he should do with Silent William.

As long as he succeeded with his experiment, then not only should he be able to elevate William to expert candidate, but also any other mech pilot with spiritual potential!

Of course, Ves couldn ’t make much use of this experimental method lest he draw the MTA ’s attention to himself.
Besides, Ves only formed some assumptions in his mind.
He still needed to test them thoroughly, and to do that he needed lots of test subjects!

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