The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3366

Chapter 3366: Cat Collar

After laying out the most viable and attractive ideas for Gloriana's new companion spirit, Ves leaned back in his chair and waited for her to make up her mind. His wife wanted to perform a proper cost-benefit analysis on each of the options that he had given and had already started to perform calculations.

"Miaow." Clixie softly looked up at him. Her eyes looked especially big and pleading at the moment.

Ves slowly tickled her chin before rubbing the top of her furry head. "Hey, just give her some time. She can be rather… hyper-focused. You don't have to be afraid that she'll abandon you. There are things that you can do that a spiritual cat simply can't. She will continue to appreciate you once she has gotten over her fascination on her toy and finished giving birth to our daughter."

"Miaow…"

The Rubarthan Sentinel Cat didn't look convinced.

Ves petted her back in an effort to comfort her further. "I already told you that you will always be part of our family. I will never push you away, and our family is constantly expanding. Once our daughter and subsequent children grow old enough, you can always watch over them and play with them. Gloriana and I will have so many children that you will never run out of playmates."

"Miaow~"

The cat looked more reassured as she accepted his arguments. Though a cat like her was designed to remain loyal to a single companion for her entire life, taking care of children was also a part of her responsibilities.

Still, what if these kids became obsessed with their own companion spirits? Clixie could not compete against the likes of Lucky and Blinky in utility. The latter two weren't merely cats. They were helpers who could provide a lot of professional assistance. That was something an organic cat such as herself could never match.

"Miaow miaow miaow."

"I told you already. I can't help you grow stronger."

"Miaaoooow…"

"I really want to, but I can't. I've been trying hard to do the same to people, but so far I have no solution to your specific problem."

Clixie grew more desperate and clung to Ves' uniform as if she was a crying baby!

"Miaow miaow!"

"Well, maybe you're right. Maybe I do have a potential solution. It's based on unsubstantiated guesses, though. I don't expect it will work, but I've been thinking about experimenting with it just to satisfy my curiosity."

"…Miaow?"

"It might be dangerous." Ves reluctantly answered. "Most likely, it won't do anything, but if it is able to influence you in some way, the effect will either be good or bad."

"Miaow miaow miaow!"

"You're that desperate, huh?"

"Miaow!"

"Well, I can respect your determination. No one wants to be in a position like yours. I'll think about it further and whip something up after I am done with Gloriana. I promise you that I will do my best to find a way to make you special."

Trying to impart spiritual potential to someone that did not possess it had always been one of his goals. As long as an individual possessed this crucial starting quality, Ves could employ various means to activate it or make use of it in some way.

However, spiritual potential was rare for a reason. In this spiritually-deficient galaxy, there were far too many life forms that lacked the strength or opportunity to become extraordinary.

Ves had never been satisfied with this. His nature as a mech designer caused him to develop the urge to solve a need that had always remained unfilled as far as he was aware of. Perhaps others might have already come up with a solution to this problem, but if that was so, no one told him. That left him with little choice but to pull up his sleeves.

After messing with so many people's heads and engaging in so much spiritual engineering, he recently came up with two possible ideas that might overcome this intractable barrier.

"If someone is lacking something, why not take it from someone else?"

The concept sounded simple. Since Clixie lacked spiritual potential, was it possible to steal someone else's spirituality and implant it in her mind?

Ves immediately shook his head when he recalled this suggestion. It sounded logical on the surface but was deeply problematic when he actually thought about the nature of spirituality.

The idea basically amounted to harvesting someone's soul before transplanting it to someone else! Ves had already messed with it in his earlier experiments and the outcomes were never pretty.

"However, that was before I gained Blinky."

He was a lot more lacking in terms of theory, solutions and tools a few years ago. Whenever he thought about how he performed spiritual surgery on captives and on William Urbesh, he felt the urge to duck his head in shame.

It was no wonder most of his test subjects tended to suffer from exploding head syndrome!

Yet now that he gained Blinky, he was capable of performing much more precise manipulation on spiritual ingredients. He wouldn't have performed the risky operation of turning Vulcan into his incarnation if he still had to rely on himself to perform the surgery!

Theoretically, if Ves harvested the spirituality of one life form, trimmed it down so that it became as neutral as possible before subsequently implanting it in the mind of another life form, would he be able to empower someone who originally wasn't strong?

As Ves looked down at Clixie, he grew more confident in his solution.

"It's worth a try, but I still have to find a suitable substitute."

The risks were still great. Ves did not dare to subject someone as precious as Clixie to this experiment.

The safest course of action was to find two cats, one with spiritual potential and one that lacked it, and try out his experiment with them first.

The two test subjects in question had to be as similar as possible to minimize the chance of conflict and maximize the chances of success.

"If there is one thing our fleet isn't lacking, it's cats!"

So many Larkinsons had taken over the habit of keeping pets that ships like the Spirit of Bentheim probably hosted over ten-thousand cats!

If Ves needed some feline test subjects, he just needed to head over the 1st deck or the 8th deck and grab a couple of cats.

"Urgh, what am I thinking? They're family as well! I can't do that to our own cats."

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