The Mech Touch

throw away these contaminated shards!

If Ves was creating an ordinary spiritual product, then he would have done so without another thought.

”I can ’t do that here.
I ’m not creating something new that begins from scratch.
I ’m trying to rebuild a human who already exists! ”

It was vitally important for Ves to retain as many shards as possible! Any loss, however minor, might have devastating effects on the new William Urbesh!

What if Ves discarded a spiritual shard that was related to his ability to pilot mechs? If William ’s mech piloting ability incurred damage, then how could he possibly advance to expert candidate?!

Cassandra ’s scheme went deep.
She made it so that Ves had no choice but to accept the tainted ingredients.
Regardless of the trap it represented, Ves had no choice but to dive head-in because any other alternative was worse!

Though Ves felt like changing his mind and giving up several times, William ’s importance to his future plans were far too great for him to quit while he was at this stage!

As Ves breathed more life to William ’s recomposing spirituality, he finally noticed something remarkable.

Each of his spiritual products always started off on a relatively strong footing compared to other young and underdeveloped spiritual entities.

This was mostly due to the vast amount of energy contained in either the ingredients or the catalyst that Ves provided with his spiritual energy.

The ordinary process of creating spiritual products already injected them with a significant amount of spiritual energy.

The special part about this was that at the moment of creation, there was no rejection.
The developing product absorbed any and all sources of spirituality, regardless of how much it conflicted with another source of spirituality!

This was why the shards originating from the cowardly side of William managed to merge seamlessly with the shards from Nyxie ’s aggressive and domineering side!

What Ves found notable was that aside from the fusion of these two elements, the contribution from both Ves and Cassandra also added into the mix! Aside from contributing some of their spiritual attributes, they mainly gifted the product with a huge amount of spiritual energy!

Both of them contributed in different ways.

Ves provided a large quantity of relatively low-quality spiritual energy.
He may not be as evolved as more developed spiritual entities such as Qilanxo and Cassandra, but he had a lot of excess spiritual energy at his disposal!

In contrast, Cassandra only had a tiny amount of spiritual energy at her disposal.
Yet the quality of her spiritual energy was so high that its addition soon caused the product ’s overall quality to grow!

The ultimate result of all of these factors was that William ’s reconstructed spirit was actually at least an order of magnitude stronger!

”There ’s more! ”

As long as the creation process was still underway, Ves had extensive access to the incomplete product!

He could alter or tamper with any details he wanted! The only problem was that he lacked the knowledge and expertise to know what he was doing most of the time.
He wasn ’t like Cassandra Breyer who was probably capable of making very targeted alterations.

That meant that it wasn ’t a good idea for him to attempt to reprogram the spiritual shards.
It was like trying to mess with the operating system of a mech when he wasn ’t familiar with the programming language.

”This doesn ’t apply to everything! There are still some areas that I ’m familiar with! I have to make the most out of this temporary period where I ’m in complete control! ”

Ves suddenly made a very sudden realization.
Right now, he was attempting to reforge William ’s spirituality so that it could support the formation of a force of will.

Why should he wait for the new William to form a force of will when Ves could do it himself? If he acted right away and manipulated William ’s spirituality to form an appropriate force of will, wouldn ’t he be able to complete the Rim Guardian Fraternity ’s mission right away?

His eyes lit up.
”This might be a reliable way to create expert candidates! ”

Of course, this wasn ’t quite what he was looking for.
Shattering someone ’s spiritual potential before trying to reconstruct it with an infusion of his spiritual energy would definitely warp someone ’s personality until they became an entirely different person.

Ves could never bring himself to subject the likes of Melkor Larkinson, Dietrich Krotz and other family or friends to such barbaric treatment!

Everything had a price, and in this case it was way too high.

”Fortunately, it ’s always someone else who has to pay the greatest price. ” He smirked.

This meant that this method was still acceptable to mech pilots he didn ’t particularly care about such as William Urbesh!

Ves focused on turning William into an expert candidate ahead of time.

He recalled the time where Qilanxo forcibly elevated Eloise Pelican from someone who was close to reaching expert candidate into a very potent expert pilot.
He replicated some of the methods he witnessed that time and employed his own amateur experiences in imitating a force of will.

It wasn ’t actually very complicated.
Ves just had to grab William ’s spiritual energy and try and fuse it with his strongest will, emotion or thought.

At this advanced stage in the process, the nearly-complete spiritual product was already starting to connect and affect William ’s unconscious mind and body.

Since Ves had distorted William ’s spirituality into developing an obsession for the pursuit of strength, his mind soon started to produce a long of thoughts related to this ambition.

”This is quite convenient! ”

His earlier preparation paid off.
Ves soon identified enough of William ’s new obsession and forcibly blended his spiritual energy in it! Though the method was extremely crude and very forced, the inherent compatibility between the two soon sparked a fusion.

William Urbesh finally achieved the goal he always dreamed of.
He became an expert candidate!

The only caveat was that Ves wasn ’t sure how much of the old William would be left by the time he next woke up…

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