The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3406

Chapter 3406: Frightening Identity

A disaster occurred!

Ves just wanted to clean up one of the old skeletons in his closet. Who knew that his method of starving this ghost of all of her spiritual sustenance would result in such an illogical outcome?

When a mech no longer received energy from its power reactor, the machine demanding systems inevitably shut down. It didn't matter whether it was a bottom-tier third-class mech or a cutting-edge first-class multipurpose mech. Every single war weapon could only unleash its destructive potential when it was sustained with a sufficient amount of juice.

The same went for starships. It took an incredible amount of energy to propel millions if not billions of tons of metal and composites from one location to another. It also took even more energy to power their artificial gravity, life support systems, energy shielding and potentially warship-grade weapon systems.

Even organic beings sustained their lives by taking in energy from the environment. Whether they derived energy from solar radiation or digesting food, without any input they would assuredly shut down like any exhausted device!

Ves treated Cassandra Breyer the same way. There was no way that reconstructing an entire material form from energy was cheap!

The mass-energy equivalence should apply to any form of energy, including spiritual energy.

Einstein's famous formula, E = mc squared, simply described that it took a huge amount of energy just to convert it into solid matter.

The letter 'c' in the formula stood for the speed of light, which was a huge number. When this figure was multiplied with itself, that number grew stupendously greater!

As such, many laymen who learned that energy and mass could be exchanged with each other didn't always realize how disproportionate this relationship became due to the effect of multiplying mass with the square of the speed of light.

The entire reason why relatively small nuclear bombs and anti-matter bombs could easily possess the power to destroy entire cities, continents and even planets!

By converting a part or even all of their mass into energy in a small interval of time, a huge amount of energy in the form of heat and radiation blasted out all at once!

Of course, the transformation of mass to energy didn't have to be so violent. A lot of large power reactors relied on a much more gradual process to output a steady and more controllable amount of energy that could be used to power a lot of useful objects such as mechs and starships.

Naturally, if mass could be transformed into energy, the same could be done in reverse.

It was a lot more difficult to pull off in a controlled and deliberate manner. Materialization technology was partially or entirely capable of creating entire objects from nothing.

However, it wasn't always worth it. The cost to materialize a simple coffee cup was probably at least a million times more expensive than just producing it out of basic materials in a simple factory!

A mech was much more massive than a coffee cup, and the cost to materialize an entire war machine could bankrupt entire companies!

Forget about materializing a single mech, but materializing enough of them to equip an entire mech regiment was already insanely expensive!

This was why most materialization applications did not conjure up matter from thin air but instead derived them from existing stockpiles. It was a lot cheaper and more efficient to draw out individual atoms and molecules from a reservoir and individually arrange them together in order to produce a complete mech.

This was why Ves always harbored an incredible vigilance towards Cassandra Breyer.

The fact that she was able to rely on her own sophisticated spiritual techniques to materialize not just her body but also her hefty escape pod out of pure energy was incredibly scary!

Nothing had ever gone missing around Cassandra Breyer. The Breyer alloy that he obtained from melting down the escape pod didn't disappear to recreate the escape pod. Instead, the produced materials permanently remained in existence, which meant that Cassandra materialized her mummified body and escape pod through the most energy-intensive method possible!

Just thinking about the amount of energy it took to pull off this trick once was enough to make Ves sweat. If all of this energy wasn't used to materialize physical matter but instead exploded outwards all at once, then the effect would be no different from detonating an anti-matter bomb!

In other words, each time she materialized her form, she expended enough energy to destroy the entire expeditionary fleet!

This happened not once, not twice, but tens of thousands of times!

If all of that energy was released in the form of explosions, then they would have been enough to wipe out every planet and population center of a powerful second-rate state!

Was it any surprise that Ves feared how much Cassandra Breyer could do if she was unleashed?

The only strange part about this was that Blinky didn't perceive that her intake of spiritual energy was that exaggerated. Either she relied on a much more impressive internal power source to make up for the shortfall, or spiritual energy was much more energetic than other forms of energy.

Ves was initially inclined to believe in the latter. He always felt that spiritual energy was impressive and much higher quality than heat, light and other more conventional forms of energy.

Yet that didn't change the fact that he was in big trouble at the moment!

Although Ves was still certain that Cassandra Breyer's energy reserves had depleted over the course of repeated instances of materializating another copy of her body and escape pod, what just happened completely defied his expectations!

"My assumptions were wrong!"

Cassandra Breyer's state was a lot different than before. Her spiritual barrier that prevented Ves from inspecting her true state was gone. What he sensed instead was an unstable outpouring of violent spiritual energy that possessed a strange mix of attributes!

The spiritual pressure the revived mummified corpse emanated ramped up so quickly that Ves had trouble maintaining his focus.

"Meow!"

"Sir!"

Before Lucky and Nitaa could attack the dangerous corpse, they both dropped onto the deck. They couldn't withstand the increasingly more magnified pressure that Cassandra Breyer unleashed!

"I should have outfitted Lucky with his Misfortune Harness!" Ves lamented as he tried to stay on his feet.

He was able to withstand the pressure with the help of his Unending Regalia. After his experiences with the dark gods, he realized that he needed more defenses against hostile spiritual entities. This was why he designed a new suit of combat armor that protected him against both material as well as spiritual enemies!

Now, this layer of protection was enough to partially shield Ves from the escalating spiritual pressure unleashed by this difficult-to-extinguish woman!

"My B-stone layer is too thin, though!"

A significant amount of unleashed spiritual energy still passed through his suit and impacted his mind. Ves came directly in touch with the spiritual energy of a human who was even more adept at wielding it than himself!

Even as he tried to ready a countermeasure, his exposure to Cassandra's spiritual energy caused him to perceive a lot of new sensations, much of which he didn't understand!

There was one more observation that absolutely made him even more afraid of this resurrected ghost. _{freeweɓnovel.cѳm}

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