The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3696

Chapter 3696 Ves the Exterminator

The suggestion to utilize the Everchanger to expose the voribugs to different glows led to a ridiculous spectacle.

The Larkinsons carefully towed the crippled alien vessels in a spherical formation.

The Everchanger then proceeded to enter the sphere in preparation for the experiment.

In order to make sure that the expert mech did not do any further harm than necessary, the Larkinsons had to relocate all of the pakklaton prisoners and unhatched eggs from the ships.

For now, the Larkinsons decided to confine the prisoners to a couple of the larger biomes inside the Dragon's Den.

The bioresearch vessel was not meant to function as a prison, but she was designed to carry a myriad of alien exobeasts.

These creatures may be large and dangerous so the biomes had to be sturdy enough to prevent them from breaking out and wreaking havoc inside the rest of the Dragon's Den like an overdone space horror drama.

It was easy enough for the researchers to free up the necessary biomes and adjust their environmental conditions to make them livable for the pakklaton race.

The exobiologists tuned the air, temperature, humidity, radiation and other variables to keep the avian aliens comfortable.

The Larkinson Biotech Institute even dug out the plants and other flora inside the alien vessels and proceeded to transplant them into the specific biomes.

The goal was to give the pakklatons the illusion that they were residing on a location on their home planet. The only fault was that they were prisoners rather than guests. The Larkinsons could not possibly hand them back their freedom and tech.

The most difficult part of this logistical operation was to transport tens of thousands of pakklaton prisoners to the Dragon's Den without bringing in a single voribug!

This caused the operation to become a lot more laborious than normal, but once the subdued occupants of the alien vessels relocated to their temporary new accommodation, the Everchanger could finally begin.

"Good morning, Joshua." Ves said as he monitored the situation from the Spirit of Bentheim. "Today, we are attempting to study the effects of glows on the voribugs. To do this, we will be using your expert mech to cycle through all of the design spirits on the list. Do you understand?"

The expert pilot nodded. "I do. I hope we find a glow that can work."

"You don't have to amplify your glows just yet. Start by flying to the coordinates I'm giving you. There's a cluster of voribugs that is fairly close to the exterior that we can easily monitor."

When the Everchanger was in position, Ves instructed Joshua to alternate the design spirit of his expert mech.

He also issued an extra instruction.

"I think you have noticed that all of the design spirits on the top are supportive. We're not interested in making friends with the voribugs, so make sure you consider them hostile. Our goal here today is to find an effective countermeasure against this species. Do you understand?"

"Yes, sir."

"Don't worry. I have already briefed the design spirits. They all know what we are asking of them. Your Everchanger should be able to call upon them easily enough."

The session began at this point. The Everchanger did not possess a native design spirit on its own, so the expert mech could channel all of them with decent compatibility.

Ves found it fascinating to observe how switching the design spirits changed his overall impression of the Everchanger.

The physical mech remained the same, but its aura and demeanor fluctuated with every switch.

In one moment, it inspired duty and loyalty from any friendlies affected by the glow.

In the next moment, it exuded a sense of bravado and manliness that Ves did not traditionally fit with the masterwork mech.

Witnessing how effortlessly the Everchanger adjusted from design spirit to design spirit made Ves proud of his work. This living mech was truly the champion of his design philosophy! No other machine was as versatile and all-encompassing as the machine he specially designed for Joshua.

It was too bad that much of the results were relatively boring so far. The glows exuded from relatively harmless design spirits such as the Solemn Guardian and the Golden Cat did not affect the voribugs in any noticeable fashion.

The stupid insects still multiplied and fed on the pakklaton starship as usual.

"Their reaction is no different from that of other hostile humans." Ves noted. "So far, the results haven't defied my expectations."

That could be both good and bad depending on the circumstances.

To be honest, experiments where everything happened completely according to expectations were boring to him. He enjoyed a bit of excitement and wanted to elicit new and different reactions from the voribugs.

The experimental session finally started to get interesting once the Everchanger channeled the more interesting design spirits.

Ves leaned closer as he paid greater attention to a projected feed that displayed a cluster of voribugs.

The insects behaved a little more agitated than usual as they came under the influence of different glows. Even though the effects so far weren't all that great, the voribugs didn't appreciate getting messed around so many times.

"Switch to the Superior Mother in her death aspect."

The Superior Mother was a special design spirit. Having designed with the six phases of existence in mind, she essentially came in six different flavors.

Of them all, other phases didn't do so much against the creatures.

Sure, her life and godhood aspect made the voribugs a little more vigorous, but the other ones did not produce any significant changes.

It was impossible for the Superior Mother's death aspect to kill others when she was merely channeling her presence through the medium of a mech.

A glow was a passive power phenomenon while the attack launched by a battle formation was an active power phenomenon.

The latter could produce much more drastic effects, but the cost and effort required to make it possible was also greater!

As a result, when the Everchanger adopted this specific glow, the voribugs only became a bit more lethargic. They slowed down their actions by up to 10 percent, which was hardly meaningful.

"I see." Ves hummed.

He already formed a preliminary conclusion on the effects of different glows towards the voribugs.

A light shotgun should do the trick. The weapon didn't need to be large because most voribugs weren't all that tough. In fact, most mech weapons were actually overkill against these vermin. _{ƒreewebηoveℓ.com}

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