The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4196

Chapter 4196 Steel

After dealing with the Detonation Code Manual Fruit, Ves drew out his next radiant lottery ticket and tossed it into the Wishing Fountain.

"I hope you can give me a fruit that is more relevant for me this time." Ves earnestly wished.

While he had little doubts about the power of his last prize, the most direct beneficiary was one of his expert pilots.

This did not particularly make him enthusiastic because he felt that he missed out to an extent.

"The System is ultimately about facilitating my growth. Using it to strengthen others is fine as long as I don't go overboard."

While Ves needed to rely on others in order to enable and facilitate his own ventures, he still knew that his own efforts were responsible for making his clan successful.

The reason why he was so eager about using the System again was because Ves desired ways to amplify his strengths and speed up his progression.

He deeply wished that he could finally obtain what he wanted from his next prize!

"C'mon, System! Give me a reward that can incentivize me to fabricate more masterwork mechs! This is what you want me to do, right? Make it worth my while!"

The Wishing Fountain grew just as colorful and spectacular as before. As the fountain pool released another large spout of iridescent water, Ves could see that it had produced another glowing enlightenment fruit!

This time, the fruit did not seem edible at first. Resembled a giant metallic strawberry that was flecked with dark spots. The soft silvery glow surrounding its form was the only obvious clue that it was more than just a metal ornament.

Ves grew a lot more hopeful about the possible benefits brought by the fruit. While it was sometimes true that appearances could be deceiving, he strongly suspected that this fruit was related to the metal element!

[Heart of Steel Mantra Fruit]

Imparts a complete understanding of a mantra that allows its practitioners to form a Heart of Steel. The Heart of Steel's primary advantage is that it can gradually increase its holder's compatibility and affinity towards metal and anything related to this element. The mantra is also capable of strengthening the willpower, mental fortitude and resistance against all attacks. However, the practitioners of this method are also prone to weakening their empathy and compassion.

Those who practice this mantra to the fullest will turn into gods that are able to transform, manipulate and clad themselves with the hardest and most powerful metals. The Heart of Steel Mantra can only be fully practiced by humans that possess specific genes, a specialized mechanical heart implant, an affinity towards metal and have not practiced any other cultivation techniques. This enlightenment fruit allows an individual to ignore these conditions.

Requirements: Strength must be 1.2 or higher. Endurance must be 2.0 or higher. Intelligence must be 1.0 or higher. Concentration must be 1.7 or higher.

"JACKPOT! I'VE THE JACKPOT THIS TIME!"

Ves didn't know whether his earlier pleas had any effect, but the enlightenment fruit that he received this time was definitely the kind of reward he was hoping to acquire from a radiant lottery ticket.

Of all of the possible enlightenment fruits that he could obtain, the ones that claimed to turn its practitioners into gods were definitely among the high-end ones that Ves could acquire!

While Ves wasn't able to determine whether the Heart of Steel Mantra was stronger than the Atmer Guardian Mantra that he had seen before, he suspected that this was likely the case since it came in the form of a shinier fruit.

Regardless of how much stronger it was, the Heart of Steel Mantra was definitely more relevant and useful to Ves than any of the other fruits that he had obtained up to this point!

Even if his remaining two radiant lottery tickets did not yield any helpful prizes, Ves still would have been happy with his haul for today.

As Ves read the extensive description once again, he already decided that there was no way he would give it to anyone else but himself.

Who would be able to make better use of it than Ves?

His wife? Nope.

Ketis? Nope.

Any other mech designer in his employ? Nope.

It made even less sense to give it to any expert pilots given that none of their domains had anything to do with metal.

Still, as much as he felt tempted to swallow the metallic enlightenment fruit right away, he did not hurry up to do so because of various misgivings.

"It's clear that the Heart of Steel Mantra is a cultivation technique developed to allow humans to ascend into True Gods."

There was nothing in the description that had any relations to mech design. While the System did not tell Ves the group or cult that developed it in the first place, he was certain that it had to be related to the Five Scrolls Compact!

"More precisely, this is probably one of the core cultivation methods of the worshippers of the Metal Scroll!"

Ves would not be surprised if the System pulled it out of its own internal database. The Heart of Mantra sounded exactly what the cultists devoted to the Metal Scroll would have practiced!

If this was the case, then it didn't make sense for Ves to ingest the fruit. He was a mech designer and followed his own development trajectory.

In order to become a Star Designer, Ves knew that he had to develop his design seed into something greater.

What would happen if he ate this enlightenment fruit?

If he was able to develop a new Divine Core that formed the Heart of Steel, then that didn't sound so bad.

If the new Heart of Steel went on to replace or transform his existing design seed, then he would definitely cry and regret his insanely stupid decision!

"I can't take the risk of compromising my career as a mech designer!"

Ves calmed down a bit when he realized that he didn't particularly need the Heart of Steel Mantra. His affinity for mechs would transform into an affinity for metal eventually as long as he kept advancing as a mech designer.

All of the vague powers associated with the Heart of Steel sounded as if they mostly enhanced the practitioner's combat capabilities as opposed to any productive capabilities.

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