The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3314

Chapter 3314: Brute Force Surgery

What Ves had done was extremely risky!

Though Ves had never figured out how his mother turned the Superior Mother into her incarnation, he could make a couple of guesses.

The most likely theory he came up with was that Cynthia cut off a piece of her spiritual essence and transplanted it into the Superior Mother in a sophisticated manner.

This was different from donating a portion of her free spiritual energy.

Ves guessed that this technique was meant to establish a form of parasitism or mutualism between two different entities.

Whether one side gained more advantages than the other was not entirely certain. All he knew was that the bond between the Superior Mother and Cynthia was not constantly active. The two largely existed as separate identities.

"Maybe it takes a lot of effort for my mother to descend upon the Superior Mother." Ves speculated.

Regardless of what was going on, Ves believed this to be a flawed implementation of an incarnation.

When he tried to invent his own version of this technique, Ves set a couple of goals for himself.

First, Vulcan had to be completely under his control.

Second, Vulcan needed to retain enough autonomy to operate independently.

These goals largely contradicted each other.

If Ves gave Vulcan too much autonomy, then he risked a scenario where his own incarnation might rebel one day!

If Ves insisted on retaining too much control, then Vulcan would become a crippled design spirit that constantly needed someone to hold his hands.

Neither of these scenarios were desirable!

"The ideal relationship between myself and Vulcan should resemble my relationship with Blinky." Ves concluded.

He was highly satisfied with the way his companion spirit turned out. Although Blinky possessed an independent consciousness, the cat was also an inseparable part of himself because he originated from his own Spirituality!

To put it in simpler terms, Blinky was a split personality of Ves that had been injected with greater life!

Since Blinky turned out so well, Ves wanted to form a similar relationship with Vulcan.

"It's too bad my capacity is already spent on accommodating my companion spirit. I don't have any room left for another spirit!"

Ves had already used up as much real estate in his mind as he could get away with. If he gave up anything further, he would likely impair his own consciousness and personality in a detrimental fashion!

He needed to find a difficult solution to this problem. The model of a companion spirit was obviously not appropriate for someone who already possessed one. The incarnation that he had in mind must therefore be based on an independent, self-sustaining spiritual entity.

That was enough to make for someone like Ves. The hard part was to ensure that the Vulcan he intended to create became an inseparable part of himself!

He did not want to take any chances when it came to the loyalty of what would probably become a core part of his mech design capabilities. Ves was betting his future on the successful implementation of his Vulcan plan and he did not want to open up any opportunities for his incarnation to disagree with its own progenitor!

The only way that Ves came up with was to separate a core part of his Spirituality and consciousness and implant it onto his ambitious design spirit.

Only in this way would Ves be able to maintain solid control over Vulcan. The radical procedure was meant to give Ves an opportunity to assimilate the design spirit.

If everything worked well, Vulcan would become a more powerful and independent version of a companion spirit!

There was one huge flaw, though.

Ves needed to transplant something truly important of himself in order to turn Vulcan into another part of himself. No matter how many solutions he came up with, he did not think that this gamble would work unless he bet something of great value.

Much of the spiritual energy that Ves had injected into Vulcan so far was akin to his own blood. Blinky was an endless generator of this resource so it was not scarce.

Yet free-floating spiritual energy could not accomplish much by itself.

What Ves needed to implant into Vulcan was a part of his core Spirituality that formed the basis of his consciousness, identity, personality, design seed and so on. This was a much more sensitive and crucial part of himself that could easily cause irreparable harm to himself if it got damaged!

Cutting a portion of it away so that he could turn Vulcan into his incarnation sounded as crazy as slicing off a chunk of his brain matter only to graft it onto the brain of another human!

There was no proof that this crazy idea could possibly work!

However, Ves wasn't an average spiritual engineer. He created many design spirits and worked with all kinds of other spiritual phenomena. Even if his theoretical framework was still bare, he possessed a powerful intuition for life and could instinctively figure out whether an idea was viable.

There were several reasons why he believed that this crazy step would yield success.

He became so confident in his assumptions that he enacted his plan right away without even bothering to try it on other people.

Ves couldn't bear to waste the ingredients needed to create an incarnation on other people! Just the price of using up an entire vial of high-grade life-prolonging treatment serum was unbearable for any purpose other than empowering himself!

He could only afford to perform this extravagant and risky procedure once, so he proceeded to pull the trigger without any second thought!

"AAAGHHH! MY HEAD IS SPLITTING!"

He didn't expect this step to be so painful, though! When Blinky tore a chunk of his Spirituality from his mind, Ves felt as if he was dying!

It took at least a dozen seconds for him to regain enough concentration to inspect his current condition.

His mind and Spirituality was in an awful state at the moment! Now that he had done the equivalent of slicing away a portion of his brain, Ves felt as if he had become incomplete in a way that could turn into a permanent impairment.

This was the risk that Ves was afraid of. If he wasn't able to heal his spiritual injury, he would turn into a spiritual cripple.

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