Starting a new expert mech design project was not an easy task. Fortunately, Ves already completed them before and knew what was needed in order to start them up. Finding compatible resonating materials was usually one of the first steps to designing expert mechs.
Every expert pilot depended on resonating materials to generate true resonance with their powerful machines.
An expert mech without suitable resonating exotics or alloys could not be called an expert mech at all! It would merely be regarded as an overpriced custom mech!
Ves therefore brought Commander Casella on a quick tour through several different material warehouses and marketplaces.
A lot of visitors — mostly mech designers — frequented them as these locations sometimes held the key to their advancements.
Ves decided to visit the marketplaces for another reason besides finding suitable resonating materials for the Larkinson Clan's latest expert pilot.
He wanted to see if he could discover new spiritually-reactive materials.
The Red Ocean was a dwarf galaxy that emerged under different circumstances than the Milky Way. It was filled with brand new satellites that generated a wealth of different substances that each possessed properties that were rare or nonexistent back in humany's home galaxy.
Not only that, the Red Ocean was also filled with brand new alien civilizations!
Ves was curious to see whether any interesting alien races managed to develop any materials and technology that interacted with spirituality in any way.
So far, it sounded as if only the mysterious phase whales might have developed applications in this direction, but the problem was that they were way too elusive.
During his tour of the marketplaces, he surprisingly failed to find any materials that responded to his spiritual probes.
This disappointed him a lot. He had a lot of expectations about the Red Ocean. He hoped that the resources available in the Red Ocean would be more spiritually sensitive than the resources back in the old galaxy.
Still, Ves consoled himself that these public marketplaces only held a sample of all of the diverse materials available in the Red Ocean.
"Meow~" Lucky excitedly gestured his paws at a shop that sold wreckage of alien starships.
"Not now. I'll promise I'll buy you a snack when we get out, but for now I need to save my wallet for business expenses."
"Meow!"
It was torture for Lucky to gaze upon all of these yummy new materials! Each of them looked and smelled delectable to his artificial senses. Why did Ves even bring him along if he wasn't allowed to snack whatever grabbed his fancy?!
It was too bad that Ves remained unsympathetic to his gem cat's plights. The main reason for taking Lucky along was to 'update' his database.
As long as Lucky encountered a specific material once, he should be able to find and recognize it more easily.
There was one special substance that Ves wanted to seek out the most.
"Let's head to the upper floor." He told Casella.
"Isn't that the…"
"Yes. We're not going to buy any of it, but it would be good to see it in person."
Ves, Casella, Lucky and their small entourage of guards floated up to the top floor of the market building.
Not everyone was allowed to enter this special place, but Ves easily made it through due to his pioneer status.
He entered a small chamber where dozens of other pioneers were standing or floating around a transparent cage which contained a highly remarkable material sample.
"Meow?!"
The cat twitched and acted as if he was in the presence of a furnace.
Ves looked curious at his pet's reaction. He found it strange that the special material was able to elicit such a weird reaction from Lucky while he felt nothing different.
It was only when he stepped a little closer that his body began to react in a strange way.
His flesh and bones seemed to shake as if they were being massaged by a faint pressure wave.
"You must be feeling it now." A pioneer remarked as the older woman glanced at the newcomers. "What you're experiencing at the moment is a sign that you're in the presence of a good that can change humanity."
Humanity already sang so many praises about this wonder material that people even began to refer to it as the gate of heaven or the instrument of conquest!
"Your body isn't actually shaking. What is actually happening is that the material dimensions around you are warping due to the activity of the precious exotic captured within this cage."
There was only one natural material that could achieve this effect.
"Phasewater."
A gravity cage suspended 10 mL of pure, unprocessed phasewater above a pedestal. If anything happened, a hard cage would instantly form around the floating drop to prevent it from threatening the lives of the people who visited this exhibit. freewёbnoνel.com
Phasewater was an extremely dangerous and toxic high-grade exotic that should never be handled without protection!
For this reason, no one was allowed to step within 20 meters of this tiny drop of phasewater!
Ves was a little disappointed at this excessive safety measure. Though there was plenty of documentation surrounding the dangers of phasewater, he still wanted to get closer because he felt a subtle connection to this material.
To be more precise, his Jutland organ and the strange high-level energy cycle it maintained in his body both began to react from the faint dimensional warping taking place around the phasewater sample!
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