Chapter 4005 Tangled Family Tree
What would happen if a kid returned home one day and found out that mommy and daddy brought home an extra sister?
Ves was kind of feeling like he was that kid right now as he confronted the truth that an entirely new design spirit occupied his Valkyrie mech models.
"This isn't supposed to happen!"
Each of his Valkyrie mechs were based on his designs, which he developed with the Superior Mother as their sole design spirit.
While it was possible for his existing mech designs to exchange one design spirit for another, this was only supposed to happen under his conscious direction.
They were his creations and possessions, after all! Not even Gloriana should be able to do this as far as he knew.
The only other possibility was if his design spirits consciously pulled themselves away from a particular mech design. Ves wasn't able to keep them if they truly wanted to disassociate themselves with his work.
None of them had ever taken the initiative to pull out, though. The spiritual feedback they received from doing nothing but extending their presence to a mech design was immensely valuable to them! They hardly had to do anything in order to gain a lot of rewards that were capable of fueling their growth!
Of all of the Hexer mechs that Ves had designed for the Hex Army, the Valkyrie Redeemer and its official variants were by far the most popular and celebrated mechs in use by his clients.
They were pretty much the only offensive Hexer mechs that Ves and Gloriana designed for the Hexer people. The other designs were useful as well, but most of them possessed more auxiliary and supportive functions.
To many Hexers, particularly their militant female population, the Valkyrie line was their most loved collection of living mechs!
The Superior Mother benefited enormously from the Hexadric Hegemony's widespread embrace of the Valkyrie Redeemer and its variants. Its strength, utility and versatility all made for a good combination, but when combined with the Supreme's death phase glow, the mech model truly came together!
For years, the Hexers used it to good effect. If not for the fact that the Friday Coalition were actually competent at diplomacy, the Hexadric Hegemony would have likely been the state that enjoyed the last laugh in the Komodo Star Sector.
Logically speaking, there shouldn't be any reason for the Superior Mother to relinquish her links with the greatest sources of spiritual feedback she had access to! None of the other mech models such as the Blessed Squire, the Cherub, the Bright Boy, the Eternal Redemption and the Devious could provide as much spiritual sustenance to a design spirit.
The Superior Mother had not become the most powerful design spirit in his collection for nothing!
For her to cut herself off to the Valkyrie line was just as devastating as Ves turning his back on the mech market!
It would be a lot more difficult for the Superior Mother to maintain her upkeep in the future! This was dangerous as the Superior Mother was an important source of energy for Cynthia!
Ves needed to design a new Hexer mech in the near future in order to give the Superior Mother another strong source of spiritual feedback.
For now, he needed to address the more immediate changes.
There weren't many reasons why the Superior Mother would vacate a profitable mech design, but giving way to a daughter sounded like a plausible possibility!
As Ves slowly reached out his spiritual senses towards the gathered Valkyrie mechs, he slowly familiarized with the new design spirit in town.
He frowned as he confirmed without a shadow of a doubt that he had not taken part in the new design spirit's creation!
"This is strange!"
Every spiritual product of his own creation possessed certain unique characteristics. He doubted that others would be able to recognize them, but as the creator of many design spirits, he was incredibly familiar with the traces of his own work!
"How is this possible?"
He would know if he had done anything like this in the past! His schedule was fully accounted for. In no way did he ever had a period of time where he could have possibly spent time to create a brand-new design spirit.
"Did I make one in my sleep?" He wondered.
This shouldn't be the case. It required active, conscious manipulation in order to create something as complex as a design spirit.
Ves narrowed his eyes in suspicion.
"Gloriana?"
"Yes, Ves?"
"Earlier, you told me that the Superior Mother had given 'birth' to a new design spirit, right?"
Gloriana nodded. "I did. Helena is her first and only daughter so far! Congratulations, Ves! You've gained a sister!"
"How do you know all of that?!" Ves puzzled. "Did the new design spirit tell you all of this or did you get this information through another channel?"
He was still dubious about the identity of 'Helena'.
Was there another person aside from Ves who was capable of creating new spiritual products? This was not an entirely unreasonable assumption. Anyone with his particular life domain should be capable of accomplishing similar feats, at least in theory.
He suddenly made an astonishing guess!
What if… a future version of himself traveled in the past for the sole purpose of creating a new design spirit in the form of Helena?
Why would future-Ves do something like that? Had he and other humans fallen victim to a massive calamity in the next years that required a distinct spiritual entity like Helena to save their butts?
If this was the case… then future-Ves sure was a genius!
Not only that, future-Ves gave present-Ves a huge amount of convenience!
A hand suddenly slapped his face!
"Idiot brother!"
Ves backed off a bit. "Who did that?!"
"What is wrong with you, Ves?" Gloriana confusedly turned around. "This is your new sister, you know! Why don't you introduce yourself properly?"
"..Maybe you're onto something."
The tale sounded fantastical to the point where he wondered whether the Handmaidens of Death had imagined at least half of the story. Oblivion Empire? Abyssal Empire? New dark gods? The Dark Saint? freёwebnoѵel.com
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