Blinky was not a regular cat. He was the Star Cat, a spiritual entity split from Ves' own essence and given a life of his own. He was simultaneously an autonomous existence as well as an extension of his source.
All of this meant that Ves could choose to keep himself separated from his companion spirit or to embody Blinky so that the lines between them blurred.
Right now, Ves was only partially embodying his cat. Blinky was able to wield the powers of his own body the best.
If Ves took direct control, he wasn't sure if he was able to channel his companion spirit's various strengths effectively. There were still substantial differences between a spiritually-sensitive human and a spiritual existence that was literally designed to manipulate and digest energy!
He first instructed Blinky to leverage his abundant spiritual energy reserves to empower the Amaranto in some way.
Just as expected, this didn't work. If it did, Ves could have rode in the cockpit of any expert mech and just supplied it with a huge amount of spiritual energy to amplify its performance.
"Spiritual energy is not a good medium to empower an attack anyway."
The reason why high-ranking mech pilots were able to pair so well with powerful mechs was because of will and resonance. They leveraged a different power system that was much more suited for combat applications.
In contrast, the spiritual abilities that Ves and by extension Blinky were able to utilize were much more helpful in the design lab or mech workshop.
"It's a good thing that creation isn't Blinky's only strength." Ves smirked.
Since the companion spirit's birth, Ves only paid attention to Blinky's productive capabilities. Being able to supply a huge amount of spiritual energy that was compatible with him on demand along with being able to form a design network that connected different mech designers together provided a huge amount of utility to his mech design activities.
This was obviously not going to be relevant on this occasion. Ves wasn't directly capable of boosting the performance of an existing mech with his spiritual abilities. ƒreewebɳovel.com
So he turned to Blinky's other strength. Upon his silent urging, his companion spirit began to draw power to another facet of his abilities.
The shrunken Worclaw crystal embedded onto Blinky's forehead began to glow as he activated it. As best as Ves had learned and figured out, this mysterious alien crystal served as a resource and a focus for a different type of energy that was very rare in human civilization.
The Alshyr race took advantage of the energy their tyrannical bodies were able to channel and subsequently dominated a significant portion of the galaxy!
Now, Ves wanted to do something similar, though he and Blinky were obviously much clumsier when it came to harnessing Worclaw energy.
First, Blinky needed to draw the energy from an existing source. Though the Worclaw crystal possessed a reserve of it, Ves did not believe it was enough.
The most abundant source of Worclaw energy happened to be his own body! The volatile energy cycle generated and sustained by his Jutland organ had long been useless to Ves. In fact, it even posed a hazard to his health as excess Worclaw energy could lead to a dangerous buildup that might one day explode his own body!
Yet now that he was about to make an attempt to channel it into an expert mech, he was worried he didn't have enough to achieve a sufficient result!
"Well, it's not as if I can do anything about it. I am only able to make do with what I have." Ves shrugged.
Getting Blinky to siphon the Worclaw energy stored in his body when the cat was in a different location was difficult.
However, owing to the companion spirit's inseparable bond with Ves, the additional Worclaw energy eventually ended up in Blinky's crystal organ through an unexplainable method.
The huge injection of Worclaw energy caused Blinky to take on a different vibe. His purple starry body began to glow brighter and also gained a more mighty aura!
"Blinky! Don't keep all of that energy for yourself! You need to channel it into the Amaranto somehow!"
Mrow mrow!
How the hell was Blinky supposed to do that? He was an energy converter, not a magical cat that came straight out of a cartoon!
Ves knew this and tried to work together with his companion spirit to channel all of that Worclaw energy in the Amaranto without blowing it up. He had a hunch that the expert mech's rifle was the key.
Several different entities connected together and tried to work out a solution to channel Blinky's powerful energy into the crystalline rifle of the expert mech.
An unheard event took place where a mech designer, his companion spirit, a living expert mech and its expert pilot simultaneously bonded together to achieve a single goal!
Unfortunately, none of them knew how to channel Worclaw energy into an effective application! They lacked the expertise to know what to do with it. Even Blinky, who developed several crude applications on how to use it, was not able to direct it towards the Amaranto's weapon.
Ves realized he needed additional help.
"Illustrious One! Give us a hand!"
He drew over the luminar design spirit. The Amaranto bloomed in several different lights as the Illustrious One's presence grew more active and extended his influence to Blinky!
Under the Illustrious One's direction, Blinky was able to find the correct method to channel the Worclaw energy he accumulated to the luminar crystal rifle.
The weapon, which had always been glowing in different lights, suddenly grew brighter as a powerful sense of might emanated from its crystal construction!
The distraction was so great that the two dwarven expert mechs assaulting the Amaranto sensed the threat.
The naked threat exuded by Worclaw energy could not be hidden! Launching a surprise attack was out of the question for Venerable Stark.
Several seconds passed as she attempted to find a window of opportunity to shoot at the Amaranto's attackers, but the Slug Ranger expert pilots had become a lot more vigilant in response to the obvious power-up that the Amaranto was experiencing.
The dwarves expended a lot more effort into making sure that the Amaranto would not have any opportunity to fire its gun at them. As long as Venerable Stark attempted to snap a shot at one of her two attackers, the enemy would also have a clear shot at the fragile masterwork mech!
"I can't get a clear shot!"
The Amaranto's rifle was brimming with a different kind of power, but Stark did not experience any benefits from it. In fact, if the rifle kept bottling up all of the Worclaw energy, it might reach its limit soon!
Ves began to think quickly.
The best solution was to leverage other assets such as the Shield of Samar to act as a barrier, but the dwarven expert pilots already countered those attempts.
The fact that General Verle did not dispatch any further assets to free the Amaranto signified that the Larkinson Army really couldn't spare any further help.
The Amaranto had to save its own skin.
In desperation, Ves came up with a stupid idea.
He considered it stupid because it was not an efficient application of Worclaw energy.
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