The Mech Touch novel Chapter 2874

Chapter 2874: Remarkable Implications

"DAMN YOU, LUCKY!" Ves grabbed Lucky's dormant body and lifted it into the air before shaking it a few times. "After so many months of lazying about and eating billions of hex credits worth of exotics, is this the best you can do?! Where are the gems that can double a mech's attack power? Where are the gems that can triple the speed of my mechs? Where are they, Lucky!?"

He was just venting his frustration now as his gem cat was hardly in a position to talk at the moment. Lucky expended so much effort to produce this gem that he was pretty much spent for the day.

Ves shook his head and dropped Lucky's body back onto the tabletop. He wouldn't find any answers here.

He examined the gem once again. He had to pinch it tight enough to prevent it from floating away. For some reason, the gem not only possessed a consciousness, but was able to move on its own. Ves had never seen anything like it before!

"Is this because of my intervention?"

That sounded far too simple. He did not believe that throwing in his own spiritual energy would lead to such drastic changes.

The gem was probably abnormal to begin with, but whatever Ves had done caused it to become more livelier than usual.

Whatever the case, Supreme Comprehension was by far the strangest and most unusual gem that Ves obtained.

He reread its description several times and probed it with his eyes and spiritual senses.

Just like his other gems, Ves was unable to perceive any spiritual activity from it. The gem's exterior tightly isolated whatever it contained.

Ves wanted to rub his chin. "There is definitely something unusual inside."

Thinking back on what happened, the vortex was definitely related to the final form of the gem. The unknown spiritual energy that the vortex absorbed might have come from the Supreme Sage, but this was an absurd conclusion!

According to the rebels, the Supreme Sage had already died more than a year ago. Even if he was a spiritually-developed researcher who was comparable to Master Mech Designer in mental strength, there was no way for the Supreme Sage's spiritual remnants to be sticking around for so long... right?

"Wait a minute."

Ves knew that certain strong individuals were able to keep their spirits together longer than usual.

While the spiritualities of ordinary people quickly faded into the imaginary realm where they would subsequently get eroded away, those who enjoyed much greater development might be able to resist the corrosive spiritual winds a lot longer!

Ves was reminded of the origin of the Illustrious One. When his mother plucked a spiritual fragment from the imaginary realm, the remnant was almost completely worn out. Yet despite floating in the imaginary realm for eons, it still managed to retain a portion of itself!

Perhaps some individuals had become so strong that it was hard for them to completely die out in a spiritual sense!

As long as at least one remnant of them survived, they could always resurrect back to life, if with a lot of missing parts.

If this was the case, then it became a lot more plausible that the red gem managed to absorb a remnant of the Supreme Sage.

There were a few oddities, though. Ves wasn't sure about the range of the vortex, but even if distances and dimensions were a bit whacky in the imaginary realm, it was extremely unlikely for him to believe that some portion of the deceased Supreme Sage just happened to be floating around nearby.

His eyes narrowed. "If it's not a coincidence, then..."

There were a couple of possible explanations why Lucky's vortex easily managed to absorb the Supreme Sage's remnant.

First, the founder of the LRA might have been so powerful back when he was alive that even his broken remnants were capable of moving and acting on their own!

Perhaps they might have found something interesting about Ves. Perhaps they saw something special in Lucky. Whatever the case, the active spiritual remnants may have foreseen that they would be able to find a way out of their predicament by entering Lucky's stomach!

"This sounds very unlikely, though."

Spiritual remnants of strong individuals were capable of acting on their own. However, without any support or guidance, it was difficult for him to believe that the great scientist chose to latch on to Ves of all people!

There were much more suitable candidates for the Supreme Sage to work with. The only shortcoming of these other candidates was that they lacked spiritual sensitivity.

Maybe the Supreme Sage possessed enough wits to reject this option and instead stay close to a foreigner.

However, Ves never recalled getting stalked by the spiritual remains of a great scientist. Such an impressive figure would have definitely made waves where he got close enough.

"I didn't sense anything during those times! My intuition didn't sound any alarms either!"

He trusted in his senses. He would have definitely felt it if a creepy, centuries-old geezer was stalking him all this time.

Compared to assuming that he was special enough to attract the Supreme Sage's attention, Ves was much more inclined to believe in his other theory.

"The Supreme Sage... may have perished somewhere close to this site."

Lucky's vortex easily managed to capture this legendary figure's spiritual remnants because they might not be that far away from one of the LRA's secret pinnacle labs!

Alternatively, this location might also be close to where his comatose body was being treated!

Ves quickly recalled what Master Brixton claimed about the Supreme Sage.

According to the opposition leader, the Supreme Sage engaged in a taboo experiment that was designed to extend his lifespan as he had exhausted all conventional options of prolonging it the regular way.

Unfortunately, Master Brixton was too short on details. Ves had very scant details of the experiment in question.

"He might not even be telling the truth."

Ves had too little information to go on, but in absence of anything better, his current theory sounded more plausible than other possible explanations.

Two important assumptions supported this theory.

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