The Mech Touch novel Chapter 4203

Ves quickly handled the remaining fruits after he upgraded two of his expert pilots.

He handed over the weird Olthori Sacred Cleansing Ritual Manual Fruit to Lufa in the hopes that his design spirit was able to strengthen his specialty.

He wasn't certain on how to handle Imperial Thornix Salamander Breeding Manual Fruit, though.

The two most prominent names on his list was Director Ranya Wodin of the Larkinson Biotech Institute and Director Pesca Aduc of the T Institute.

The former was much more involved in biotechnology, which also included the rearing of mutated beasts. However, her personal specialty lay in researching and designing plant life. Her expertise in exobeasts wasn't all that great.

The latter also possessed a biotechnology background, but became increasingly more proficient in spiritual engineering. Pesca Aduc also possessed a lot more knowledge about exobeasts, though she had mostly worked in the context of ecology.

Neither of them were perfect candidates for him, but if he had to make a choice, he would have to lean towards Director Ranya.

"She's a Larkinson and she's also family in a way."

Though Ranya used to be a member of the Wodin Dynasty, she had fully assimilated into the Larkinson Clan. She also had kids with Tusa which cemented her place among the Larkinsons.

Ves called the director over and gave her a thorough explanation before feeding her the fruit.

"What do you think?" He asked after Ranya absorbed all of the new and specialized knowledge.

"Everything… makes a lot more sense now." She said. "I have learned more about qi and what this mysterious energy can do than I have in the years I've served in your clan. I understand a lot more about mutated beasts and I think I can do a much better job at breeding them and nurturing them into stronger specimens."

"You can do that even if you don't have a talent in this aspect?"

Ranya grinned. "Your suspicion that the manual possesses a lot of general knowledge is correct. Even though I don't have any Imperial Thornix Salambers to work with, much of the theory is general enough that I can apply to any exobeast. I can even apply some of what I learned on exoplants!"

"So can I expect better results from the LBI after today?"

Ranya's expression lowered a bit. "It will take time for me to adapt what I have learned to our current situation. It doesn't help that I don't have talent in this area."

As the Larkinson Clan started up the T Institute and became more involved in spiritual research, Director Ranya found that it was becoming increasingly more important to keep up with these developments.

Unfortunately for her, Ranya did not possess spiritual potential and was therefore incapable of getting started in this field!

Though the T Institute had already conducted several research projects on how to remedy this shortcoming, for now the results were either lacking or too risky to attempt on a key member of the clan.

As such, Ves was unable to help Ranya get started because her spirituality was too small and weak for him to implant her with a companion spirit.

Theoretically, it should be possible for him to implant her with a smaller and less intrusive companion spirit seed, but she was not as young and malleable as an unborn fetus.

Trying to change her spirituality to a large degree when she was already a grown adult was a recipe for disaster!

Ves still remembered the awful outcome of a relevant experiment at the T Intitute. When Ves attempted to implant a companion spirit seed into the tiny spirituality of a talentless pakklaton test subject, the cleaner bots had to do a lot of work to clean up the operating theater!

"We're still working on the issue." Ves told her. "Talent should never be a hindrance for people to pursue their dreams. Everyone should have a way to achieve success in any field they prefer. I strongly believe in this, or else I wouldn't have worked so much on projects that have succeeded in leveling the playing field. With the help of specialized knowledge that you have just obtained, I hope we can find a way for you to overcome your current limitations."

His words caused Ranya's eyes to light up.

"You've just given me an interesting idea, Ves. We exobiologists usually work on animals, but who says we can't use the same methods on humans? This Imperial Thornix Salamander Breeding Manual of yours is all about stimulating the potential of a specific kind of powerful lizard species, but maybe I can find a way to adapt some of its universal methods onto humans!"

"Really? How high are your chances of success?"

"Not high, but I think this is truly worth the attempt. Let me go back to my lab so that I can organize what I have learned and formulate a plan. I will probably need to work together with the T Institute to conduct an experiment."

Ves was glad to see Ranya becoming excited about this new research project. Even if it didn't yield any positive results in the end, they would at least be able to learn a lot throughout the process.

They exchanged a lot of ideas before Ranya finally departed in order to get started straight away.

This left Ves with no more fruits to hand out. He had used and gifted so many of them that he felt remorseful that he had run out of them so quickly. It took quite a bit of effort for him to readjust his mood.

"I have lived many years without relying on these advantages. I can't let it all go through my head and become addicted to these powerups."

Ves and his clan would still have been fine if the System did not wake up during this period. The enlightenment fruits were all icing on the cake as far as he was concerned.

All of the work that he and his fellow Larkinsons had done in the last decade had built up a clan that was powerful enough to compete with the big boys. Ves was most proud of being able to affect major changes in society by virtue of his innovations and daring decisions rather than relying on the handouts from the System.

That did not mean that Ves would stop making use of enlightenment fruits and other attractive goodies. He just wanted to make sure that they supplemented his existing activities as opposed to replacing them entirely.

The remaining object that Ves needed to handle was the Makian Tree Bark that he had wasted one of his radiant lottery tickets on. To say that he was dissatisfied with this prize was an understatement.

He spent a few hours in his lab in order to study and experiment on the bark. He even chiseled away tiny samples of the hard bark in order to conduct more destructive examinations and experiments on the unknown material.

Ves didn't really obtain any useful results. The material was organic, extremely hard and gave a weird feeling to people.

Other than that, Ves hadn't been able to make it do anything special. He even called out Blinky in an attempt to probe its spiritual properties, only for the spiritual cat to return in defeat.

"Damn."

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