The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3410

Chapter 3410: Selfish Witch

"It was good while it lasted." Ves tiredly said.

All of the metal energy that he managed to capture from Cassandra Breyer had fully dissipated after a long day of excitement and exploration.

Though Ves was grateful for the opportunity to deepen his familiarity with metal energy, he was only able to grasp the surface aspects of this new high-end spiritual attribute.

"I'm just a Journeyman. I'm three steps away from being qualified to harness this energy properly."

He suspected that his results wouldn't be much better if he was a Senior. Only when he became a Master and a strong one at that would he truly be able to peer into the essence of this primordial and multi-dimensional spiritual attribute!

That said, his meager harvest left Ves with plenty of food for thought. He didn't need to understand everything right away. It was enough for him to be able to obtain hints of greater truths.

As long as he continued to explore and progress his design philosophy, he would eventually reach a point where he could explore those hints further. There was no need for him to feel impatient and waste his limited time on matters above his competence.

There was one more observation that Ves had to think about.

"Spiritual attributes are derived from individual people. Even if they center around the same concepts, different sources develop different interpretations of them. Their perspectives are all colored in different ways."

It was similar to how every mech designer interpreted mechs in different ways.

Ves judged them by how much life they possessed while Ketis paid attention to whether they sang to her. Someone like Gloriana paid attention to fit and perfection while Professor Benedict mainly looked at efficiency.

They all agreed on the basic definition of mechs, but the way in which they judged how good they were and what criteria were important was all different!

Something similar applied to life domains.

Ves was biased towards the creation of new life as he dedicated his career towards creating mechs.

Joshua leaned more towards cooperating and synergising with life.

Cynthia emphasized the predatory side of life.

Each of them shared a common basis, but they all developed it in different directions.

The same should apply to Cassandra. Ves did not believe that she was a completely neutral and unbiased individual. The metal-attributed spiritual energy that she managed to form had to be colored by her personality, outlook, specialties and experiences.

Discovering the personal nuances of someone's spiritual attributes and domains was one of the most reliable ways for Ves to figure out a person's true character!

Although it was hard to distinguish anything personal about Cassandra's metal energy, after numerous hours of observation, he managed to form a couple of guesses.

"I don't know about her other elemental attributes, but as far as metal is concerned, she's highly personal and only believes in her own might."

The fundamental creed of mech designers was that they existed to serve others.

This was not a mere mantra that mech designers said to each other in order to market themselves better to humanity. This was a creed that every mech university hammered into the heads of orthodox mech designers.

The result of this was that mech designers became accustomed to dedicating their work to other people rather than themselves.

Even if Ves was designing a Larkinson-exclusive mech for his own benefit, he always had to take the humans that needed to pilot them into account.

This was why every successful mech designer's domain was inevitably oriented to service and cooperation. Mech designers learned early on that they belonged to a greater society and that they only needed to dedicate themselves towards designing mechs.

Others would take these mechs and use them to do the actual fighting.

When Ves slowly familiarized himself with Cassandra's metal energy, he did not get the impression that she was willing to work on behalf of others. There was not a single hint that suggested that Cassandra possessed the character of a service provider!

"She's selfish." He concluded. "The environment she grew up in and came into power is a lot more brutal than normal human society. There are fewer opportunities for cooperation and self-sufficiency is a stronger virtue than providing a service."

Cassandra Breyer obviously succeeded with this mentality, otherwise she wouldn't have been able to harness five different types of high-end elemental energies at once.

All of this indirectly proved that designing mechs wasn't the only method for extraordinary people to generate metal-attributed spiritual energy.

People like this spiritual witch must have dedicated herself towards a more personal pursuit related to metal.

This was not his path. Ves did not go through all of the trouble of forming a clan and building relationships with people like Gloriana and Venerable Joshua just so that he could become an all-powerful spiritual sorcerer like Cassandra Breyer.

Those Five Scrolls Compact maniacs obsessed so much over personal power that this was probably the root of their failure!

As someone whose design philosophy centered around synergy and forming greater power through cooperation, Ves looked down on a personal philosophy like that of Cassandra Breyer.

Despite her formidable power and sophisticated techniques, she ended up in a crippled state where she was forced to wander to the galactic rim on a wandering escape pod.

No friend or ally had ever sought her out and rescued her from her predicament. Ves even guessed that should Cassandra ever bump into her former Compact colleagues, they would definitely take advantage of her weakened state and exploit her until she was drained of all of her value!

Perhaps this was why someone as selfish and self-reliant as Cassandra Breyer sought out Ves of all people.

Maybe she figured out that he was a Holy Son yet simultaneously hostile towards the Five Scrolls Compact. Perhaps she wanted to take refuge under him, believing that a mech designer who regularly served other customers would help her recover.

A despicable grin appeared on his face. "Hehehe. It's too bad you picked the wrong mech designer!"

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