The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3409

Chapter 3409: Unfriendly Energy

Ves looked exasperated at his gear. After performing dozens of hasty experiments, he failed to accomplish anything productive.

By now, the high-end elemental energy locked inside the Unending Regalia and the Hammer of Brilliance had dropped by more than 40 percent. The metal energy was as powerful if not more than universal life energy, but possessed much harsher properties.

Whereas universal life energy got along with anything and was extremely easy to merge with other forms of spiritual energy, metal energy was the opposite.

It was like a raging bull and could not be controlled at all. Whether it was because of Ves and Blinky's insufficient strength or lack of familiarity, the metal energy siphoned from Cassandra Breyer acted like a prisoner who would rather die than submit!

"How the hell can humans even harness this powerful and unruly energy?" Ves wondered.

He never took a good rest after confronting Cassandra Breyer, so his mental and spiritual condition had not yet restored to their peak. This limited his possible choices and forced him to perform rather tame experiments.

He first tried to prevent the metal energy from decaying. He put a portion of it into different containers such as P-stones, luminar crystals and even his own mind.

Nothing worked. The metal energy was so energetic that it required a powerful environment to support its existence. A highly evolved transcendent such as Cassandra Breyer was able to maintain not just one, but five different types of high-end energies at once, which spoke volumes about how powerful she was back when she was in her prime.

It was unfortunate that she had not only turned into a decrepit corpse, but also bumped into a thief like Ves. Who told her to harass him and put up such a spooky act? She got exactly what she deserved!

Now, she was completely dead and gone while Ves managed to salvage a portion of her bounty.

Although Ves still felt uncomfortable about skipping the opportunity to speak to her and decipher her mysterious and profound background, it would have been extremely stupid for him to take the chance.

Just the fact that Cassandra wielded the five elements so proficiently signified that she was definitely a bigshot from the Five Scrolls Compact! Given his hostile relations to this crazy cult, Ves simply couldn't take the risk of letting her regain her full strength.

He shook his head. "I've made the right choice. I enjoy a gamble every now and then, but it is the height of foolishness to play around with anyone who wields so much personal might."

Power was the foundation of survival. If Ves was the stronger party, he would have been more open to hearing what Cassandra had to say. Since he was the weaker party in this instance, he simply did not feel secure enough to maintain his own safety.

Given such a circumstance, it was far more prudent for him to set aside his curiosity and be happy that he managed to get away with his life intact.

The metal energy that he managed to steal from her was just a bonus, and a temporary one at that. There was no need for him to feel distressed about its passing.

As his mood stabilized a bit, he thought about what he could do to get at least something useful out of the metal energy before it dissipated.

He already tried to absorb it several times without yielding any useful results. Vulcan was in a similar position as he had already reached his limits after absorbing a trace amount of high-end energy at the start.

Blinky's special nature allowed him to endure and even digest the powerful metal energy, but he wasn't a storage container. Any metal energy stored inside his body continued to decay without interruption.

Seeing that Ves couldn't keep the metal energy anywhere, his thoughts went towards using it up in a useful fashion.

"I've already tried to merge it with my design spirits, but none of them can handle this powerful and exclusionary energy. It's too violent to absorb and no one else aside from Vulcan possesses a high compatibility with metal."

Surprisingly enough, Zeigra came fairly close. The former Crown Cat and the embodiment of anger among the design spirits used to be famed for crunching and devouring mechs.

As such, when he was exposed to metal energy, his tolerance was considerably greater.

Unfortunately, his foundation was too weak to contain even a pinch of high-end metal energy.

Ves even tried to feed it to Lucky.

"C'mon, you're a cat who likes eating metallic exotics, right? Try to take a nibble of this. It's like taking a sip of an energy drink!"

"Meow!"

The gem cat didn't want anything to do with metal spiritual energy. When Ves forced Lucky to try out a tiny sample, his pet exhibited the same violent rejection reaction!

"MEOWWWW!"

"Okay, okay, I'll stop it! Sheesh! How can your compatibility with metal energy be so poor when metal is practically your only diet?"

"Meow…" Lucky looked aggrieved as he floated away.

Out of desperation, Ves tried several ways to create a new spiritual product, but he simply couldn't come close to creating a new metal-based life form due to several hindrances.

First, he couldn't compact metal energy into a stable spiritual fragment. He lacked the strength to compress it and transform it into a more controllable state.

Second, metal energy attacked and destroyed other forms of spiritual energy, especially when they were weaker. This prevented Ves from using his own life-oriented spiritual energy to infuse life into Cassandra's elemental energy.

Third,

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