The Mech Touch novel Chapter 2228

Chapter 2228 Pity

As the Larkinson Clan catalogued the material goods of the Crona Lords and selectively brought them back to the fleet, Ves no longer cast his eyes in this direction.

Aside from picking up some interesting exotics, Ves mainly came for the B-stones. The three lightly-processed B-stones more than doubled his existing collection. This meant that he no longer needed to protect himself against spirituals by putting an open B-stone lockbox over his head!

Sadly, despite the abundant amount of minerals and metals the Crona Lords accumulated, Ves found no trace of P-stones and F-stones.

Neither exotics provided any utility to regular pirates. At the very least, the B-stone offered valuable protection from the discordant spiritual vortex raging in the imaginary realm.

At this time, Ves was unsure whether pirates or other factions in the Nyxian Gap recognized the true value of these three spiritually-reactive exotics.

He knew that the Five Scrolls Compact maintained a hidden base in the depths of the Nyxian Gap. Since the cult actively developed various applications of spirituality, Ves did not believe they were ignorant of the effects of spiritually-reactive exotics!

Perhaps the B-stones the Crona Lords obtained may have been mined by the 5 Scrolls Compact or one of their secret splinter organizations!

"Interesting."

It was useless to speculate any further. He knew too little about what went on in the Nyxian Gap. He also did not know whether he could obtain P-stones, F-stones and B-stones in any other part of space.

What he did know was that smashing pirate groups was an expedient and effective way to obtain more spiritually-reactive exotics. It was not as if the Larkinson Clan intended to settle down in the Nyxian Gap in order to erect its own mining operations!

"Heh. Robbing pirates is surprisingly convenient and fun."

The irony of the situation was not lost on him. Pirates usually raided other targets in order to steal their hard-earned valuables.

Now, Ves and the Larkinson Clan did the same to the pirates! The predators had become the prey.

That did not mean that the Larkinsons could keep raiding the pirates with impunity. Calabast wanted to speak to him about this topic later in the day.

First, though, Ves wanted to make some other stops.

He briefly visited a room next to the warehouse where the star of the previous battle enjoyed his rewards.

Having shaken off the Misfortune Harness, Lucky eagerly dove into the pile of yummy, higher-grade exotics that he reserved.

There was no telling what Lucky had already eaten, but fortunately Ves didn’t care too much about the materials that remained. Letting them end up in Lucky’s belly was not a bad outcome, especially when Ves was confident it would pay off later in the form of a powerful gem.

"Be sure to eat to your heart’s content." Ves lovingly said to his cat. "I expect you to produce great things in a month."

"Meow!"

"Don’t be like that. You have eaten so much other exotics in the past month and you still haven’t deposited anything from your other end."

"Meow meow."

Lucky swatted his tail at Ves and ignored the human in favor of resuming his consumption.

Seeing that his cat fully enjoyed his current spoils, Ves left his cat to his current feast and left.

He took his two students to the hidden base section which hosted the Omega Laser.

As soon as his little group passed the security checkpoint, they entered a cramped chamber which contained the huge bulk

"It’s as large as a corvette!" Maikel gasped at the sheer metal monstrosity squeezed into the chamber.

In order to transfer as much heat away as possible, the huge rod-like laser weapon had been squeezed into a hole. Everytime the weapon generated heat, it could rapidly dump its heat into the surrounding walls and asteroid rock.

The Crona Lords only a modest amount of space to allow people access and to offer enough room to perform external maintenance.

As his students admired the sheer bulk and power of the Omega Laser, Ves approached a chief engineer that had been tasked with studying the weapon.

"What have you learned about the Omega Laser?"

"It’s a ridiculously-sized laser cannon, sir, and I mean that literally. If you study the schematics, then core components are identical to the components of a conventional laser cannon, but scaled up by more than ten times. The sheer amount of bulk it adds and the huge amount of energy and other stresses the construction is subjected to necessitates additional components in order to keep this monstrosity functional."

That matched the conclusion that Ves initially formed after studying Lucky’s scans. The Omega Laser was not an example of high technology. It achieved its raw output through brute forcing low-level tech. It was an inelegant solution and enabled unworthy people such as pirates easy access to extreme firepower.

The Big Two hated it when unworthy people obtained destructive weapons that were beyond their ability to control. This was why even if the first-rate superstates were able to field weapons that were far more damaging, their opponents were usually able to cope with this level of destruction.

To be honest, the Larkinsons shouldn’t even be in the presence of this partially-intact superweapon. The Nyxian Gap might be labeled as lawless space, but the Big Two claimed that their jurisdiction extended to every corner of the Milky Way Galaxy!

The Omega Laser was very clearly a taboo weapon. One of the most obvious standards to judge this was to ask whether a mech was able to mount and use a weapon of this scale.

When Ves imagined what it would be like for a typical heavy mech to wield a weapon that was as large as a starship, the absurd mental image was enough to end this line of questioning.

"The Omega Laser is solely built to be mounted in fixed locations or purpose-built warships." The chief engineer remarked as he slapped his hand against the solid metal bulk of the weapon’s exterior. "Even then, the latter has to be really big in order to cope with this big gun’s demands."

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